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 6, 2020
Background and reflections on using Parent Ambassador model for Illinois Solar for All grassroots education. Download "IL Solar For All Grassroots Education...
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...
by Gino Whitaker | Dec 1, 2018
In seven communities across Illinois, from spring of 2014 through fall of 2017, Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI) recruited, trained and supported 591 low-income parents of color in becoming civic leaders. These communities were new to COFI, which had for...
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