Woodstock Institute
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Grants
25
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Total Awarded
$4,613,650
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Years
1983 - 2023
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Categories
Grants
2023 (3 years)
$300,000
Founded in 1973, Woodstock Institute is a nonprofit research and policy organization focusing on fair lending, wealth creation, and reforming financial systems. Woodstock Institute works locally in Chicago and nationally to create a monetary system where lower-wealth persons and communities of color can safely borrow, save, and build wealth to achieve economic security and community prosperity. Woodstock accomplishes its mission by researching trends in lending patterns within communities and informing community residents, lenders, and policymakers of its research outcomes. It produces an annual Fact Book to provide home and small business lending data on Chicago and the metropolitan region. Now under the leadership of Horacio Mendez, the organization's first Latino leader, Woodstock seeks to increase its capacity to support community organizations and advocates by engaging them to design community-centered processes to attain and shape data for advocacy. This award provides general operating support to Woodstock.
2022 ( 6 months)
$50,000
The Woodstock Institute was established in 1973 to conduct research, training, and education about public and private policy alternatives that would diminish discriminatory housing and investment patterns in the Chicago metropolitan area. It is a recognized national expert on issues of fair lending and financial system reform. With this award, the Woodstock Institute convenes leaders of community-based organizations and residents of low- and moderate-income neighborhoods to seek their input as it redesigns the Community Lending Fact Book and Data Portal, a resource providing information on foreclosures, mortgage and small business lending, housing trends, and other economic variables in Chicago communities.
2012 (2 years)
$400,000
The Woodstock Institute, a Chicago-based research and advocacy organization, is a national expert on issues of fair lending and financial system reform. This grant funds research on issues of ongoing concern to the community development field--post-recession lending and foreclosure practices, access to financial services, and retirement savings and asset building--and the development of a web-based data platform that will simplify the sharing of its database and research, and increase public access to its data. Woodstock also will produce a series of briefs and briefings to present its research to a broad audience of policymakers, practitioners, and researchers.
2012 ( 9 months)
$85,000
The Woodstock Institute is a Chicago-based nonprofit that uses applied research, policy analysis, technical assistance and public education to promote fair lending practices and financial system reform on behalf of low-income people and communities. This grant will enable Woodstock to acquire and preserve a large catalog of historical data about Chicago and its neighborhoods and to maintain it for public access. Securing and maintaining access to this database is essential to serving the ongoing data needs of Foundation grantees and other foundations and organizations working in or concerned about Chicago neighborhoods.
2010 (1 year 11 months)
$250,000
To collect and analyze data and to provide technical assistance as part of the Foreclosure Prevention and Mitigation Project (over two years).
2008 (2 years)
$200,000
To develop an expanded database on foreclosure filings and completions in Chicago neighborhoods (over two years).
2007 (1 year)
$350,000
In support of three institutional initiatives that will enhance the organization's long-term effectiveness and sustainability: upgrade technological capacity, develop and implement a comprehensive strategic plan, and establish a cash reserve.
2006 (1 year)
$100,000
In support of general operations.
2000 (2 years)
$260,000
To support research and public policy work on fair access to financial services for low-income and minority populations (over two years).
1999 (2 years)
$150,000
To support community reinvestment in low-income communities (over two years).
1998 (1 year)
$75,250
To map home ownership trends and job growth patterns in low-income communities in Chicago.
1996 (2 years)
$150,000
In support of general operations (over two years).
1994 (2 years)
$170,000
In support of general operations, and for the study "Building on the Strengths of Low- and Moderate-Income Neighborhoods" (over two years).
1992 (1 year)
$130,000
In support of general operations (over two years).
1990 (1 year)
$30,000
To support The Invisible Lenders, a collaborative research project with the Urban Institute.
1990 (1 year)
$20,000
To assess the issues and concerns of community development corporations about long-term financial viability in light of giving policies among Chicago-based funders and corporations.
1989 (2 years)
$120,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1989 (1 year 1 month)
$30,000
To enable Chicago credit unions to serve as tools for community development.
1988 (1 year 1 month)
$3,400
To publish "Midwest Guide to Social Investment."
1986 (2 years 1 month)
$90,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1983 (1 year)
$75,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
