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Needmor Fund News
2025
In the first two months of 2025, Needmor approved the following Response Fund Grants:
The Lugenia Burns Hope Center in Chicago, IL received $6,000 to expand their fight for rent control into Champaign.
Missouri Jobs with Justice, based in St. Louis, received $10,000 for leadership development training for their staff.
Arise Chicago received $10,000 for strategic planning around their executive transition.
NEO Philanthropy received $8,000 for the Illinois Power Fund to increase their capacity building and funder and donor organizing.
2024
Forging Ahead in the Midwest | December 2024
Building Power for Transformative Democracy | July 2024
People Power in the Midwest | January 2024
Grantee Partner News
2025
Chicago Tribune | Arise Chicago: Chicago restaurant workers prepare as ICE arrests cast fear, uncertainty over industry | February 10, 2025
Fox 6 Milwaukee | Common Ground: Milwaukee housing authority misused $2.8M from feds, leaders say | January 31, 2025
In These Times | Arise Chicago: “Don’t Open the Door”: How Chicago Is Frustrating ICE’s Campaign of Fear | January 30, 2025
Fox 4 Kansas City | Missouri Workers Center: Union calls for more suburban funding to KCATA | January 22, 2025
NPR | Arise Chicago: Chicago's immigrant communities brace for immigration crackdowns | January 21, 2025
Cleveland.com | Greater Cleveland Congregations: Faith leaders urge honest recounting of American history and attention to MLK’s words on national holiday | January 21, 2025
The St. Louis America | Missouri Jobs with Justice: Minimum wage increase now law | January 7, 2025
2024
Labor Tribune | Missouri Workers Center: Amazon ‘knowingly puts its workers at risk of injury’ to maximize profits, Senate report finds | December 30, 2024
Chicago Tribune | Arab American Action Network: ‘All you’ve done is ignite a bigger fight’: Arab American groups protest dismissal of charges against Oak Lawn cop | December 19, 2024
Church & Main Podcast | Michigan Faith in Action: The Culture War, the Working Class and Donald Trump with Luke Allen | December 19, 2024
Spectrum 1 News | Common Ground: Tenants and Common Ground react to HUD report of HACM mismanagement | December 13, 2024
The TRiiBE | ONE Northside: Chicago activists push for universities to pay for city services to ease budget woes | December 12, 2024
The Daily Iowan | Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa: Lost in the noise: The struggle of Iowa City’s Sudanese community amid a neglected crisis | December 3, 2024
Chicago Tribune | ONE Northside: Uptown at risk of losing big chunk of affordable housing in wake of Heartland Housing’s collapse | November 29, 2024
Labor Tribune | Missouri Jobs with Justice: Missouri workers win minimum wage hike, paid sick leave with passage of Proposition A | November 18, 2024
Capital B News | Southside Together Organizing for Power: In the Shadow of the Obama Center, Chicago Residents Fight Displacement | November 13, 2024
Crain's Chicago Business | Lugenia Burns Hope Center: Chicago faces out-migration crisis as Black families seek better opportunities and safety elsewhere | November 12, 2024
NBC KSHB 41 | Missouri Workers Center: 'We used an important tool in our toolbox': Workers react to approval of Missouri Proposition A | November 6, 2024
South Side Weekly | Arise Chicago: Specter of Trump’s Return Sparks Deep Anxiety Among Chicago Immigrants | November 4, 2024
Signal Cleveland | Greater Cleveland Congregations: ‘Ready to make our own decisions’: CMSD’s first-time voters cast their ballots | October 30, 2024
Planet Detroit | Detroit Action Education Fund: Detroit Action director Anthony Baber on why voting and housing matter | October 29, 2024
Illinois Times | Faith Coalition for the Common Good: Citizens want a voice in CWLP | October 17, 2024
The DePaulia | ONE Northside: ‘Housing is a human right’: Pending affordable housing closures threaten North Side residents’ homes | October 14, 2024
Detroit Metro Times | Michigan Faith in Action: MSU study – Michigan voter-roll purging could be biased | October 7, 2024
The UWM Post | Citizen Action Wisconsin: Citizens March to Protest Proposed WE Energies Price Hikes | October 4, 2024
WTTW Chicago | Southside Together Organizing for Power: Advocates on the Need to Improve Mental Health Care Access on the South, West Sides | October 2, 2024
ABC WICS 20 | The Faith Coalition for the Common Good: The Faith Coalition for the Common Good calls on Congress to repeal 1994 crime bill | September 13, 2024
Michigan Public Radio | Detroit Action Education Fund: New research reveals more about political diversity, engagement among Black voters | September 5, 2024
NBC WTMJ Milwaukee | Common Ground: Tenants sue Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee over 'uninhabitable' living conditions | August 28, 2024
NBC KSHB 41 | Missouri Workers Center: Missouri workers' fight for paid sick leave, increased minimum wage continues | August 21, 2024
The Labor Tribune | Missouri Jobs with Justice: Missouri Jobs with Justice takes over Missouri Health Care for All | July 29, 2024
The Gazette | Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa: Union leaders, activists sound alarm on child labor in Iowa | July 16, 2024
Block Club Chicago | Arise Chicago: Foxtrot Workers Demand Back Pay After Company’s Sudden Closure | April 26, 2024
Minnesota Star Tribune | Tending the Soil: YWCA Minneapolis sells Uptown fitness facility to nonprofit planning to create a workforce development hub | March 29, 2024
ABC 5 Cleveland | Greater Cleveland Congregations: Local advocacy groups call for probe on how attorneys are assigned in Cuyahoga Co. juvenile cases | March 29, 2024
Cincinnati Magazine | Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center: Restaurant and Bar Workers Reach a Tipping Point | March 8, 2024
Fox 59 Indianapolis | Faith in Indiana: Despite changes, mental health responses still fall to IMPD | February 8, 2024