by COFI Admin | Dec 21, 2017 | General
We are excited to share a new evaluation report Success Story: COFI Scales Parent Engagement Work highlighting the learnings from COFI’s expansion work the past four years. COFI expanded to new communities, reaching nearly 600 parents of young children across...
by COFI Admin | Nov 30, 2017 | General
COFI is a member group and serves as fiscal agent and lead agency for a new national network of parent leaders, United Parent Leaders Action Network (UPLAN), which held its inaugural national gathering in Albuquerque, New Mexico in November. Over 100 representatives...
by COFI Admin | Mar 20, 2017 | General
In March, the COFI Institute trained staff and leaders of community organizations in Phase 2: Train the Trainer: Community Outreach & Action. Participants were introduced to the COFI model of Family Focused Organizing and how to support community residents to lead...
by COFI Admin | Dec 19, 2016 | General
COFI is a proud member of United Parent Leaders Action Network, a new, national network of parent leaders and parent leadership and organizing initiatives from all over the country that have come together to have national impact on policies and programs that matter to...
by COFI Admin | Sep 29, 2016 | Early Learning Campaign, General, Stepping Out of Poverty
COFI-trained Parent Leaders from across the state of Illinois met on September 27 in Bloomington, Illinois to brainstorm ideas for building statewide parent voice on behalf of young children and their families. They also met with a representative of the Illinois State...
by COFI Admin | Dec 13, 2015 | General
Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate Twenty Years of Parents Leading Change! Click here to read more about COFI’s 20th Anniversary Celebration!