Executive Committee
Chairman
Richard Rowe
Lived Experience Comission
Vice Chairman
Ken Burnett
Christian Community Health Center
Treasurer
Michael Banghart
Renaissance Social Services
Debbie Reznick
Secretary
Private Funder
Polk Bros. Foundation
Commissioner Lisa Morrison Butler
Chicago Department of Family & Support Services
Carmelo Barbaro
Urban Labs
Rev. Saeed Richardson
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc.
Fred Friedman
Lived Experience Commission
2021 Board
Amanda Pyron
At Large
The Network
Amber Westbrooks
YAB
Youth Action Board
Bennett Applegate
Business Leader
Applegate, Thorne & Thomsen
Carolyn Ross
Non-Voting Collaborate Applicant
All Chicago Making Homelessness History
Christine Haley
At Large
Cook County Health
Christy Prahl
Private Funder
Crown Family Philanthropies
Dorothy Yancy
Lived Experience Commission
Commissioner Marisa Novara
At Large
Chicago Department of Housing
Mary Howard
At Large
Chicago Housing Authority
Megan Cunningham
At Large
Chicago Department of Public Health
Pete Toepfer
Service Provider
Center for Housing & Health
Regina Freeman-Hodges
At Large
Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
Robert Cunningham
Lived Experience Commission
Sanja Stinson
Service Provider
Matthew House
Steve Brown
At Large
UIC Health
Sybil Madison
Mayor’s Office
Deputy Mayor of Education & Human Services
Todd Fuller
At Large
Illinois Department of Human Services
- View the 2020 Board of Directors, the alternates, and their terms here.
- View the 2020 Executive Committee here.
Supporting Change
This line of work, made up mainly of the CoC Board of Directors, supports the infrastructure to drive strategic implementation. It maximizes the capacity of the people power within Chicago’s homeless response system. Activities include working with the Lived Experience Commission to maximize their impact, refining the CoC governance and committee structure, capacity building, training, and bridging to other systems.
This group has also been charged with implementing the Action Agenda refinement plan through community input. Along with this, this group has provided updates to the refinement plan to ensure consistency and transparency. See below for details:
- Action Agenda Leadership Group Structure – The document was developed to provide clarification and transparency around the purpose, activities,and composition of the Leadership Groups within the Lines of Work implementation structure.
- Action Agenda Leadership Workgroups – Workgroup structures vary across lines of work based on specific needs of each group and the norms that the leadership groups have worked through together to meet their primary goals.
Contact Nicole Bahena with questions about this line of work.
Stay informed on what’s happening with the lines of work
Unified Funding Agency (UFA) Committee Documents
A Unified Funding Agency (UFA) is a designation that allows a Collaborative Applicant (CA) to receive and distribute funds for all Continuum of Care (CoC) projects under a single entity. Once recognized as the UFA, the CA becomes the direct recipient for all funding from HUD to the CoC and takes upon itself the responsibility to fulfill all commitments stated in the CoC consolidated application.
In April 2019, the CoC Board approved the formation of a UFA Committee to assess whether the CoC should support All Chicago’s application for the UFA designation. The UFA Committee was formed with 16 members with broad community representation and the responsibilities of the committee were divided among three workgroups described in the draft business plan.
Business Plan
The draft UFA business plan is now available for your review.
