Executive Committee
Chairman
Bennett Applegate
Business Leader Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen, P.C.
Vice Chairman
Larry Smith
Lived Experience Commission
Treasurer
Richard Rowe
Lived Experience Commission
Kenneth Burnett
Service Provider
Christian Community Health Center
Debbie Reznick
Private Funder
Polk Bros. Foundation
Carmelo Barbaro
At Large
Poverty Lab at University of Chicago
Fred Friedman
Lived Experience Commission
2020 Board
Commissioner Alison Arwady
At Large
Chicago Dept. of Public Health
Michael Banghart
Service Provider
Renaissance Social Services
Steve Brown
At Large
UI Health
Regina Freeman-Hodges
At Large
Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
Todd Fuller
At Large
IL Dept. of Human Services
Christine Haley
At Large
Cook County Health
Mary Howard
CHA
Chicago Housing Authority
Sybil Madison
Mayor’s Office
Deputy Mayor of Education & Human Services
Commissioner Lisa Morrison Butler
ESG
Chicago Dept. of Family & Support Services
Commissioner Marisa Novara
At Large
Chicago Dept. of Housing
Christy Prahl
Private Funder
Crown Family Philanthropies
Amanda Pyron
At Large
The Network
Rev. Saeed Richardson
Faith-Based
Community Renewal Society
Audrey Thomas
Service Provider
Deborah’s Place
Pete Toepfer
Service Provider
AIDS Foundation of Chicago/Center for Housing & Health
Amber Westbrooks
YAB
Youth Action Board
Dorothy Yancy
Lived Experience Commission
- 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.
