October 21st - 23rd, 2019 | Chicago, IL
Day 1 | October 21st
Location: Polk Bros. Foundation, 20 Kinzie St, Suite 1110, Chicago, IL 60654
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 |
Day 2 | October 22nd
Location: Inspiration Corporation, 4554 N. Broadway, Suite 207, Chicago, IL 60640
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
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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
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Employment and Housing Strategies We will be exploring three strategies/programs that are being implemented in Chicago.
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12:00 – 1:00 |
Lunch |
1:00 – 2:30
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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
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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
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Dine Arounds |
Day 3 | October 23rd
Location: Heartland Alliance, 208 S. LaSalle Street, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60604
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:
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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 |
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