Ellen Ray

Innovator, Facilitator, Consultant & Coach. Seeks mercy, justice, and humility. Escapes, when needed, into YA fiction and nerd TV. Cook, dancer, talker.

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As we kick off National Volunteer Month, we're honoring all of you -- the volunteers who demonstrate that service today is what service has always been: a way to bring the power of people to the work of change.
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Today begins the next leg of our journey. The new leadership team at @ChicagoCares is getting started. We’re ready and hope you are too.

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So thrilled to share the news! I am so grateful I had the opportunity to learn from and to co-lead with @MyersJenne over the last four years, and I am excited to lead @ChicagoCares and its extraordinary team as we enter this next chapter!

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Love these people (and a few more who could only be with us virtually) so much!

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I will be volunteering with the fierce team at @ImaginEnglewood for Greater Englewood Unity Day on Saturday. Hope you will join me and @ChicagoCares!

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Grateful for Nike Irving's (@Nikenik) call in to Renewal in a New Year: "I invite you to name the restless ghosts in your culture, your community, your history... Let us renew and transform." Yes, it’s got to be more than a bullish new year’s resolution! https://t.co/NMAVMvDVaR

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I'm with CTU. My vantage point: 2 CPS professionals in the family working in critical functions. Politicians are NOT the experts - educators, principals, support staff are. Some of us have a lot to lose if a return is not a safe return.

[Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice @endmoneybond]

The Illinois house has just voted in support of the Pretrial Fairness Act! Our bill to #EndMoneyBail is being sent to @GovPritzker’s desk!

This is only possible because of the incredible amount of work communities across the state have done to make this dream a reality.

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I’m excited to be a member of the #CivilSocietyFellowship Class of 2021! The Fellowship, a partnership of @ADL and @AspenAGLN, prepares and engages the next generation of community leaders, activists, and problem solvers from across the political spectrum. https://t.co/8QuRgiNKFc

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#forefrontsummit Sharon Bush just made visible a form of erasure we need to stop: there are black/brown people who have been working to change organizations long before white ppl's awakening. Acting like the work is just starting now erases their long & effective efforts.

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Grateful, stretched, encouraged by the real talk from @TheNapMinistry & @coyapaz at #forefrontsummit. The emergency of racism is all the time. How can rest, reimagination & creativity help us achieve the sustained, systemic change and radical reimagination of our efforts we need?

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

Lower the bridges & let people leave

[Woods Fund Chicago @WoodsFundChi]

WootWootWoot!!! Congratulations to @LSNAChicago and @SWOPorg for being awarded the Woods Fund Chicago Power of Community award for the Parent Engagement Institute/Parent Mentor Program. #SlowRevolutionaryForce #LoveIsTransformational #CommunityOrganizing #CNDA26 #CNDA2020

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My Aunt Joy is facing a serious financial hardship related to a long-time struggle with her teeth after a motorcycle accident 40 years ago. So this is Joy vs. the Motorcycle Accident: Implant Edition and I hope you will consider being part of the story. #teetharentcheap

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@LISC_FinOpp Always a pleasure to be with my @LISC_FinOpp family! We had 1.5 days of magic and learning together. It's always a joy!

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Looking to get involved in our city? Join @ChicagoCares on October 21 at Find Your Cause, the city’s top matching event with 50 social impact organizations offering hands-on, skills-based, and auxiliary board opportunities. Get your tix: https://t.co/rpuV2WJ2OQ

[Woods Fund Chicago @WoodsFundChi]

An assumption in philanthropy is that proximity to capital makes you smart. #itdoesnt @angelique1971 @FieldFoundation

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Lori Lightfoot just announced there will be a Chief Equity Officer at City Hall - a new position to strengthen and promote equitable outcomes throughout city government - and that person will be Candace Moore who of @cueChicago!!! This gives me some measure of hope!