Heartland Alliance works in partnership with other service providers, participants, and advocates to identify effective solutions and to achieve meaningful change. The following coalitions and networks include those where Heartland is providing unique leadership and guidance.

Chicago Rehab Network

The Chicago Rehab Network (CRN) is a citywide coalition of neighborhood and community based development organizations. Founded in 1977 by community groups seeking to pool expertise and share information, the coalition membership consists of over 40 housing organizations representing over 60 city neighborhoods. Over the years CRN’s members have created tens of thousands of affordable housing units and made a visible impact on some of Chicago’s most disinvested communities, while preserving affordable housing in some of its most rapidly gentrifying ones. 

From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign

The From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign: Realizing Human Rights in Illinois is a grassroots initiative to build both the public and political will and create substantive, measurable policies to make freedom from poverty a reality in Illinois. With hundreds of individuals, organizations, faith communities, and establishment of the Commission on the Elimination of Poverty and is working towards the goal of cutting extreme poverty by half by 2015.

Illinois Asset Building Group

The Illinois Asset Building Group (IABG) is a diverse statewide coalition invested in building the stability and strength of Illinois families and communities through increased asset ownership and asset protection. Made up of community leaders, service providers, researchers, advocates, financial institutions, and business leaders IABG efforts aim at policy and system change to expand asset-building opportunities in Illinois. Heartland serves as a founding co-chair of IABG.

Illinois Food and Nutrition Advocacy Partnership

The Illinois Food and Nutrition Advocacy Partnership (IFNAP) is a coalition focusing on issues of food, nutrition, and hunger and to increase policy makers' and government agencies' awareness of the plight of low-income and vulnerable persons who struggle daily with issues related to health, hunger, and nutrition.

Illinois Housing Council

The Illinois Housing Council was created to promote the stabilization of communities through the production and preservation of affordable housing. IHC advances its mission through education, information and constructive relationships with state, local and federal officials.

Illinois Partners for Human Service

Illinois Partners for Human Service (Illinois Partners) is a growing, broad-based coalition united in its mission to improve the collective well-being of Illinois residents, through advocacy for a strong community-based services system. Guided by the principles of quality service, adequate funding, and measurable results, Illinois Partners advocates for a strong statewide human services system that contributes to a vibrant state economy by supporting and enhancing the collective well-being of Illinois residents.

Make Work Pay Coalition

The Make Work Pay Coalition includes organizations committed to making work pay and enduring tax fairness for working families in Illinois. Current efforts are focused on expanding the level of the state Earned Income Tax Credit.

Midwest Coalition on Human Rights

The Midwest Coalition for Human Rights is a network of 44 advocacy organizations, service providers, and university-based human rights centers collaborating to promote and protect human rights in the Midwest region, in the U.S., and internationally. Working together we provide broader visibility for urgent human rights issues in the Heartland and project a strong Midwest advocacy voice in the national and international human rights debate.

Monsignor John Egan Campaign for Payday Loan Reform

The Monsignor John Egan Campaign for Payday Loan Reform convenes organizations working to create fair, equitable protections for consumers against the predatory practices of small dollar, short-term "payday" lenders. The most recent efforts focus on closing the loophole in the Payday Loan Reform Act that allowed lenders to evade necessary protections for consumers.

National Transitional Jobs Network

Heartland Alliance coordinates the National Transitional Jobs Network (NTJN), a coalition of Transitional Jobs (TJ) programs, policy organizations, and other employment field leaders. TJ is a workforce strategy designed to overcome employment obstacles by using time-limited, wage-paying jobs and combining real work, skill development, and supportive services to transition participants successfully into the labor market. To date, TJ programs exist in over 30 states and are an effective stepping stone to successful labor market entry for individuals with employment barriers.

Regional Roundtable on Homelessness

The Heartland Alliance Mid-America Institute on Poverty coordinates the Regional Roundtable on Homelessness (Regional Roundtable), a forum working to improve strategies for understanding and addressing homelessness throughout northeastern Illinois. Within this forum, leaders of each of the eight homeless Continuum of Care in the six-county Chicago region share the challenges of assessing and planning for the needs of people who are homeless within their communities. Specifically, the Regional Roundtable discusses best practices, funding opportunities, strategies, and undertakes projects to improve the Continuum of Care process within each jurisdiction and across the region

Supportive Housing Providers Association

The Supportive Housing Providers Association (SHPA) is a statewide association of non-profit organizations who provide supportive housing - affordable housing, enriched with supportive services - to individuals and families who are homeless and/or have special needs, such as mental illness, substance abuse issues, or other chronic illness, such as HIV/AIDS. SHPA's goal is to change policy so that financing and service streams are integrated and so that more resources are available for this cost-effective, lasting solution to homelessness.