by Jacqui Guillen | Dec 28, 2020
What is a “Peace Center,” and why should parents and community members be “peace keepers”? Learn how to implement a Peace Center in your school or community with COF’s Parent Peace Center Model. Download "Parent Peace Center...
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...
by Gino Whitaker | Jan 30, 2018
POWER-PAC IL’s Stepping Out of Poverty Campaign presents research and recommendations to reduce poverty and the debt trap. Download "Stopping the Debt...
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