by Jacqui Guillen | Sep 26, 2024
A new report by COFI and its statewide parent-led membership organization, POWER-PAC IL (Parents Organized to Win, Educate and Renew), launches a parent-led campaign to tackle five solutions that COFI parents identified and prioritized through their grassroots...
by Gino Whitaker | Feb 21, 2024
There has been a surge of interest in parent leadership and organizing, not just at COFI but across the country. We’ve heard from many people like you who work in government, organizations, schools, foundations, and advocacy groups and want to know how to work better...
by Gino Whitaker | Apr 2, 2020
COFI trains and organizes parents, and those parents become leaders at decision-making tables. We work with parents, most of them mothers, in some of the toughest neighborhoods anywhere. They become engaged and connected in their community and then come together to...