Thanks for Attending Reframing Aging: Advocacy Through Storytelling

Thank you to all who joined our latest training, Reframing Aging: Advocacy Through Storytelling. This training highlighted the basics of advocacy, ways to incorporate reframing aging messaging in our advocacy and storytelling, and shared real-life examples of older...

Coming Soon: Building Power in Human Services: Advocacy in Action!

Join us this fall for our next training on Building Power in Human Services: Advocacy in Action. This 4-part training series will share an introduction to advocacy, strategies and tips for developing your advocacy plan, and lessons from experienced Illinois Advocates....

Centering Blackness in the Fight for Liberation: Juneteenth Reflection

In observance of Juneteenth, we are lifting up reflections from Glenn Harris, President of Race Forward, on what it means to center Blackness as a framework for understanding racial justice and building collective power. Harris reminds us that centering Blackness...

Reclaiming Our Love Conference: Pay Equity as Collective Care

In May, Illinois Partners was honored to join the Reclaiming Our Love Conference, hosted by The Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence, to share our Living Wages, Thriving Communities Campaign and engage in a powerful conversation about collective care,...

Community Partner Fair Contracting Package

The Community Partner Fair Contracting Package took a major step forward last week. All three bills were combined into an omnibus package under HB4340 Senate Amendment 5, which passed unanimously out of the Senate Executive Committee on the agreed bills list. A huge...