The Muslim Women Resource Center provides assistance to women immigrants and refugees, helping them integrate into U.S. society and the job market. It is based in Chicago.

Bible League is an organization designed to train and equip faith leaders and ministries with the tools and resources they need to provide communities with a religious education and understanding of the Christian faith.

Rabbi Cindy Enger is the rabbi at Congregation Or Chadash, an LGBT-specific synagogue in Chicago.

Café Pride is a social coffeehouse for LGBT youth sponsored by a group of area churches in suburban Chicago. Contact Alex Wirth, a pastoral resident for Lake View Presbyterian Church, one of the sponsor churches.

The Fund for Theological Education (FTE), described as “a nonprofit advocate for improving faculty diversity in theological schools and cultivating the next generation of leaders for the church, academy and society,” held a June 11-13, 2010 conference in Chicago on the future of African-American Religious leadership. Read the group’s press release.

Mark Courtney is a faculty association of the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago and since 1999 has analyzed Wisconsin’s innovative program for putting welfare applicants to work. He said in a July 24, 2006, Washington Post editorial that today’s welfare applicants are extremely needy and will need help to work their way out of poverty, which could […]

Jeffrey Grogger is a co-author of Welfare Reform: Effects of a Decade of Change (Harvard University Press, 2005), which looks at multiple studies of welfare reform to explain why reform has been successful. He teaches urban policy at the University of Chicago.

July 11, 2013, Progress Illinois article about a report which found that LGBT youth face higher levels of cyberbullying than straight youth.

Cristina Traina is a religion professor at Northwestern University in Chicago whose work in Christian theology and ethics includes an emphasis on Roman Catholic and feminist thought.  She has written about her experiences as a married Catholic woman dealing with church teachings on artificial contraception.