Crossroads Fund
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The Crossroads Fund is a Chicago-based group founded in 1979 that emphasizes community development. The Crossroads Fund explicitly rejects charity in favor of an organization in which "community members would have control of the money and of grantmaking decisions" [1]. It's Seed Fund targets small groups working for social change, while its Emergency Fund offers assistance to groups faced by sudden and unexpected problems.
The Crossroads Fund is a left-liberal-progressive organization that gives money to many different kinds of projects in Chicago. Community service, advocacy, art, education, and public health are some of the areas. Many of its grantees have been groups working with the poor or with ethnic and sexual minorities. It has been a frequent supporter of immigrant-rights groups in Chicago and also of LGBT groups. For example, in 2007, it co-sponsored the Tubeho Project Exhibit on the Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide at Northwestern University [2]. But Crossroads has also supported other kinds of projects, for example ones aiding senior citizens at Jane Addams Hull House. In international affairs, the group has sponsored Chicago Palestine Film Festival and Committee for a Just Peace in Israel & Palestine.
