Grassroots Collaborative

History/Overview

 Grassroots Collaborative builds power with working families through strategic community-labor organizing, grassroots leadership development, civic engagement, and training. GC started in Chicago –  11 member organizations and their 125,000 members, along with an effective and diverse set of ally organizations across movements, create transformative change to win fully funded resources for our public schools, social services, and affordable housing that working families depend on.

By convening coalitions in Chicago and Peoria, Grassroots Collaborative helps bring the power of strategic alignment and shared ideology to win transformative change in Illinois. Their aspirational campaigns link Black and Latinx displacement, criminalization and corporate greed within a Rights framework, raising up and activating those most affected by systemic oppression.