PARTNERS

COLLABORATION IS CENTRAL TO OUR WORK

Through all our programs, we strive to provide authentic partnership and leadership to strengthen HFF's priority communities. Co-creating and sustaining social change is a team effort that requires partners across multiple sectors. It should build directly from the voices and experiences of the community members who face the most pressing challenges.

A few ways we are currently collaborating include:

Strategic Alignment

Deploy resources in concert with other private & public funders toward the achievement of mutual goals.

Working Groups

Engage with leaders and community members to develop, plan, and implement collective solutions to entrenched social problems.

Learning Communities

Share information and experiences – emphasizing community voices - to identify assets, needs, and opportunities for collective action.

Co-Investments

Contribute grants to & support strategy development & implementation of pooled funds

Collective Impact

Collaborate across sectors to advance equity and drive sustainable systems-level change.

LEARN

Early Childhood

Illinois EC Funders Collaborative
Illinois EC Policy/Advocacy Group
Early Childhood Workforce Partnership (Chicago Workforce Funders Alliance)
Lake County Early Childhood Systems Group

Literacy & Social Emotional Learning

Illinois EdFunders
Educator Pipeline Group
Lake County Regional Office of Education

Post-Secondary Pathways

ProPath (Chicago Workforce Funders Alliance)
To & Through Project
College and Career Access, Persistence, and Success (CCAPS)

PLAY

Environmental Stewardship

Chi-Cal Rivers Fund (NFWF)
Lake County Environment Funders
The Funder's Network
The Daybreak Fund

Access To Nature

America the Beautiful (NFWF)

GROW

Access to Care

Live Well Lake County
Community Health Improvement Plan
Illinois Reproductive Health, Rights, & Justice Funders
Lake County CHW Network Pilot
Illinois BEGIN
Lake County Funders Behavioral Health Working Group

Food Security

Illinois Commission To End Hunger
Chicago Region Food Systems Fund

COMMUNITY

Urgent Action & Special Initiatives

Pressing Community Needs

Legacy and Family Initiatives

AMPT Funders Council
BIPoC Foundation Leaders Group
Foundation CEO Roundtable
Lake County Funders Collaborative
Look North

Chicagoland Workforce Funders Alliance (CWFA)
Comprehensive Econ. Dev. Survey Groups
Partnership for Safe & Peaceful Communities