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Chicago Initiative a Path to Restore Trust

Op-ed: COVID-19 should spark sustainable planning

Like many across our country and beyond, our hearts are heavy over the unequal and unjust consequences of racism for black people in the United States.

Is 2020 the year of mail-in election ballots? In Ohio, they now sprout from trees.

The Minnesota lawmaker was surprised. On a Zoom session with a hundred people listening, a student with eight siblings and only half that many computers at home had a question for her.

Text messages and grocery store receipts? That was not part of the expansive outreach campaign Joan Gustafson and her partners envisioned when they set out three years ago to persuade more Michiganders to participate in the national 2020 Census.

Veterans were at risk. Often a bellwether of issues in higher education, they needed help with access to GI Bill funds and other financial assistance during the COVID-19 crisis.

The challenge is getting through the door. When the COVID-19 crisis hit, it posed a unique problem for accelerating efforts to make household energy more efficient and affordable.

Information for nonprofits on emergency federal loan funding in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Pandemic creates opportunity for practical, achievable upgrades to our water systems.

The Joyce Foundation’s Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform Program pursues a mission of building safe and just communities, focused on preventing gun violence before it occurs with a holistic approach.

Rescuing our education systems demands a muscular response, especially if we aim to eradicate inequities.

The Joyce Foundation has a long history of funding research to understand what policies are most effective in reducing gun violence in our communities.

As we all continue to grapple with the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19, the Joyce team has been working to identify ways in which we can best support our grantees and our community during this difficult time.

Joyce supporting statewide census outreach efforts across the Great Lakes region, as well as the national Census Counts partnership. Having an accurate census count relates directly to the foundation’s promotion of fair representation and voting rights.

In recognition of the challenges you are facing now and those that will be posed to our region in the days and weeks ahead, many of us have joined together and with others to contribute to a fund as one way to support those impacted by the COVID-19 crisis