12:00 – 1:00 

Optional Lunch  

1:00 – 2:30 

Welcome and Community Update 

2:30 – 2:45 

Welcome to Chicago 

2:45 – 3:00 

Break 

3:00 – 4:00 

Snapshot of Chicago 

Jennifer Miller Rehfeldt (Inspiration Corporation) and Carrie Thomas (Chicago Job Coalition) will provide some background on the intersection of employment and housing and what looks like in Chicago. 

4:00 – 4:30 

Context Setting for our Wednesday Session and After

Melissa and Tabitha will review where we are in our process l

4:30  

Reflection and Closing 

6:00 -7:30

Group Dinner 

Taste 222 (confirmed) 

222 N Canal St, Chicago, IL 60606 

Contact: Kristina Fetter, [email protected], 312.383.6616 

7:00 – 8:45 

Breakfast 

Breakfast is available at the hotel. Just mention Funders Together to End Homelessness and you will be taken to our section and provided a special menu to purchase from.  

8:45 – 9:00 

Travel to Inspiration Corporation

Meet Amanda and/or Stephanie in the lobby for a rideshare over to Inspiration Corporation. 

9:00 – 9:30 

Reflection and Set Up for the day 

Reflect on the previous day and review some of the things we have seen in previous convenings about working cross-agencies 

9:30 – 10:30 

Working Across Systems: Data Matching Agreement 

Jennifer Miller Rehfeldt (Inspiration Corporation) and Carrie Thomas (Chicago Job Coalition) will provide a brief history of the process. They will discuss how it looks on the group.  

10:30 – 12:00 

Employment and Housing Strategies 

We will be exploring three strategies/programs that are being implemented in Chicago.  

• Inspiration Corporation Interview Projects 
• Individual Placement and Support Model 
• Connecting youth experiencing homelessness to employment: Opportunity Youth, Reconnection Hubs, and Paid Peer Mentors 
• READI Chicago 

12:00 – 1:00 

Lunch 

1:00 – 2:30 

Advocacy in Chicago 

We will be delving into some of the advocacy and policy initiatives working to help individuals with criminal records gain employment and housing. We will also be discussing a new citywide initiative working to house the most marginalized in Chicago.   

2:30 – 2:45 

Break 

2:45 – 4:00 

Funders Role in Chicago 

What role has and will philanthropy play in the homelessness and employment sector? How is philanthropy centering and prioritizing people with lived experience? 

4:00 – 4:30 

Reflection and Close 

• What would you like to learn more about?  
• What are you taking back to your community?  
• Logistics for Wednesday 

Dine Arounds 

7:00 – 8:45 

Breakfast 

Breakfast is available at the hotel. Just mention Funders Together to End Homelessness and you will be taken to our section and provided a special menu to purchase from.  

8:45 – 9:00 

Walk over to Heartland Alliance

9:00 – 10:15 

Next Steps for the Foundation of Employment and Housing Community of Practice

10:15 – 10:30 

Break 

10:30 – 11:00 

Context and framing for time together  

Stephanie and Tabitha will discuss the purpose of our time together and do a round robin of introductions

11:00 – 11:15  

Deeper Introductions: Images 

11:15 – 12:00 

Case Study: Field Foundation's Heat Maps 

Hear an example of how one foundation has operationalized racial equity in their grantmaking work and to set the stage for deeper conversation in the afternoon. 

Mark Murray, Vice President of Programs and Administration, Field Foundation  

12:00 – 12:45 

Lunch 

12:45 - 1:30

Micro Talks: Strategies for Operationalizing Racial Equity

In this session, we will be exploring strategies and lessons learned around operationalizing racial equity in different parts of the system. We will be exploring the following topics: 

• Operationalizing the use of disaggregated data in distributing resources: Carrie Thomas, Chicago Jobs Council
• Process of operationalizing RE in your foundation strategy: Anna Lee, Chicago Community Trust
• Partnering with other funders on racial equity: Caronina Grimble from Woods Fund
• Operationalizing RE in policy and advocacy: Candace Moore
• TRHT work: Jose Rico, Director, Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Greater Chicago

1:30 – 2:10 

Small Group Breakouts  

You will be able to connect and learn from each other and dive deeper on the topics from the micro talks 

2:10 – 2:20 

Full Group Q&A and Reflections with Speakers 

Opportunity for participants to ask questions from other micro talk speakers and participants 

2:20 - 2:45

Reflection and Close Out from Joint Convening

2:45 - 3:00

Break

3:00 - 4:00

Next Steps for this Community of Practice and Closing