Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) is a comprehensive, nation-wide and community-based process to plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism. It seeks to unearth and jettison the deeply held, and often unconscious, beliefs created by racism – the main one being the belief in a hierarchy of human value.  January 21 is National Day of Racial Healing.  Healing Circles will be facilitated at various locations around the city January 21-23, with a capstone event on the evening of the 23rd at Chicago Teachers Union.

The 20th Anniversary ACE Mentor Program Luncheon brings together over 700 leaders in the fields of architecture, construction, and engineering and raises funds to provide renewable four-year college scholarships, helping to build a healthy workforce in these fields.  This special commemorative year means ACE is looking back at everything its accomplished and forward to everything that’s possible. 

Connections for Abused Women and their Children (CAWC) is one of the city’s first and largest domestic violence agencies, serving survivors of family violence for over 40 years.  CAWC’s annual gala, Sounds of Silence, celebrates success stories of the thousands of victims and their children that CAWC guides each year from crisis to confidence. 

Presented by the Chicago Media Project, Doc10 is Chicago’s only festival of its kind, featuring 10 supremely real stories on screen.  This year’s documentary gems promise to inspire, provoke, and transform.

Movement Voter Project (MVP) helps local community-based organizations, with a focus on youth and communities of color, develop progressive power at all levels of government.  Win the Midwest, its first nation-wide event, will focus energy and define strategies for 2020 elections.

Intonation works to give all Chicago children opportunities to learn, strum, sing, and perform music while they gain confidence to take charge of their direction.  This concert is their chance to showcase their success; to amplify the voices and instruments of their students and earn support.

Since 1982, the Ounce of Prevention Fund has persistently pursued a single goal: that all children living in America—particularly those born into poverty—have quality early childhood experiences in the crucial first five years of life.

Psychoanalysis is about what makes people people.  CPI studies what contributes to our emotional well-being and how psychoanalysis resonates in all our relationships, our work and our play, whether at home, work, or within our community.

Illinois Humanities works to build dialogue across all sectors of society to examine issues important to democracy in the focus areas of public policy, media & journalism, economy, and art. Using the humanities as a tool to stimulate discussion, IH creates experiences across Illinois through programming, events, and grantmaking to engage a diverse public on ideas and issues that matter.

Norwegian American Hospital in Humboldt Park is community-based, program-rich, and over 100 years old.  The Foundation’s annual benefit transforms community power into hospital advancements and expansion.

The “Lead On!” gala recognizes visionaries, individuals, or institutions who have reframed the understanding of people with disabilities and who have created positive chance in our communities.  This year will celebrate 40 years of Access Living’s activism and honor the life and legacy of Marca Bristo, Access Living’s late beloved Executive Director and founder.