Woods Fund of Chicago

Woods Fund of Chicago "is a grantmaking foundation whose goal is to increase opportunities for less advantaged people and communities in the metropolitan area, including the opportunity to shape decisions affecting them. The foundation works primarily as a funding partner with nonprofit organizations. Woods supports nonprofits in their important roles of engaging people in civic life, addressing the causes of poverty and other challenges facing the region, promoting more effective public policies, reducing racism and other barriers to equal opportunity, and building a sense of community and common ground."

2006 Annual Report

People (2010)
Accessed March 2010:

Staff
 * Laura S. Washington* - President
 * Suzanne R. Boyle* - Treasurer
 * Consuella L. Brown - Program Director
 * Deborah D. Clark - Grants and Operations Manager & Corporate Secretary
 * Jeffrey T. Pinzino - Program Officer

Board of Directors and Officers
 * Jesus G. Garcia, Board Chair* - Executive Director, Little Village Community Development Corporation
 * Doris Salomon Chagin, Vice Chair* - President, Salomón Strategic Solutions, LLC
 * Lee Bey - Director of Media and Governmental Affairs, Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP
 * Beth E. Richie - Professor and Head of the Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
 * Patrick M. Sheahan - Executive Director, Public Affairs, UBS Investment Bank
 * Charles N. Wheatley - President, Sahara Enterprises, Inc.
 * Lucia Woods Lindley - Board Member Emeritus

People (2008)
Accessed April 2008:

Staff
 * Deborah Harrington* - President
 * Suzanne R. Boyle* - Treasurer
 * Consuella L. Brown - Program Director
 * Deborah D. Clark - Grants and Operations Manager
 * Jeffrey T. Pinzino - Program Officer

Board of Directors and Officers
 * Laura S. Washington, Board Chair* - Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor and Fellow of the DePaul Humanities Center
 * Jesus G. Garcia, Vice Chair* - Executive Director, Little Village Community Development Corporation
 * William C. Ayers - Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
 * Lee Bey - Director of Media and Governmental Affairs, Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP
 * Doris Salomon Chagin - Category Manager - Ethnic Markets, BP Products North America
 * Beth E. Richie - Professor and Head of the Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
 * Patrick M. Sheahan - Executive Director, Public Affairs, UBS Investment Bank
 * Charles N. Wheatley - President, Sahara Enterprises, Inc.
 * Lucia Woods Lindley - Board Member Emeritus

Other Officers
 * Kristin Patton* - Secretary

People (2001)
Staff


 * Ricardo A. Millett - President
 * Todd Dietterle - Vice President - Program Director, Community Organizing Program
 * Deborah Harrington - Program Director, Enabling Work and Reducing Poverty
 * Phillip Thomas - Program Officer
 * Sally E. Gonzelez - Grants and Operations Manager

Board of Directors
 * Howard J. Stanback - Board Chair - Manager, New Kenwood, LLC
 * Maria G. Valdez - Board Vice Chair - Attorney-at-Law Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
 * William C. Ayers - Distinguished Professor Of Education, University Of Illinois At Chicago
 * Cynthia M. Campbell - President, Mccormick Theological Seminary
 * R. Eden Martin - President, Civic Committee And The Commercial Club
 * Barack Obama - State Senator And University Of Chicago School Of Law
 * Charles N. Wheatley - President, Sahara Enterprises, Inc.
 * Suzanne Boyle, Board Treasurer
 * Kristin Patton, Board Secretary

Contact

 * Web: http://www.woodsfund.org

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