Communities United

Voices of youth in chicago education ("voyce"): voyce is a citywide youth organizing collaboration that was formed to address the school to prison pipeline. Voyce defines its efforts as student-led, based on the core belief that the recipients of public education, the students themselves, need to be at the forefront of efforts to advance education equity. Voyce expenses include high school reform program activity.

Education organizing: the organization's education organizing is centered around the development of parent leadership to impact issues of school improvement and education justice such as resources for neighborhood schools, ensuring all students are on a path to college, overcrowding relief, and more.

Affordable housing: through renter's organizing ourselves to stay (roots), low-income renters have developed strategies to bring tenants, developers, and city officials to combine resources to create and preserve affordable housing, successfully putting over 400 units in the preservation pipeline to become long-term affordable units and keep low-income families from being displaced, developing a scalable model for the city.

Various programs including violence prevention and right on justice, an alliance of organizers working to advance restorative supports in schools and Communities and bikes n' roses, a youth-led bicycle cooperative that works to promote youth leadership, entrepreneurship, bike safety, and bike advocacy.