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Chapin Hall at The University of Chicago (2022)

Maximizing Impact of Direct Cash Transfers to Young People: Navigating interactions with tax obligations, public benefits, and other financial assistance

Chapin Hall collaborated with national policy experts, practitioners, and young adults with lived experience of homelessness to create a policy toolkit where tax, public benefits, and educational aid implications for young people participating in Direct Cash Transfer programs are laid out in one place.

Fund for Guaranteed Income (2023)

Implementing the Compton Pledge

The Fund for Guaranteed Income (F4GI) sent out the last payments for the Compton Pledge – a two year guaranteed income pilot that sent $9.3 million to 800 families. Our new 2023 Implementation Report shares the results and implementation strategy of the community-designed effort.

Economic Security Project (2023)

Public Charge Webinar

The issue of public charge, a legal rule regarding immigration and public assistance, creates barriers for immigrant communities much less those participating in guaranteed income pilots. In this webinar learn what defines public charge, and ways to mitigate the risk of public charge in GI programs.

Change Consulting (2023)

Giving Great Media Interviews (For Participants) GICP Training

When you hear someone deliver a great interview, you may think their poise, presence and delivery comes naturally. But this is rarely the case. Great media spokespeople typically get that way through dedicated practice. This session will help unleash the confident, brilliant spokesperson living inside you.

Economic Security Project (2023)

Cash Policy Talking Points

The following is intended as general guidance when communicating with the public.

Change Consulting (2023)

Rapid Crisis Communications GICP Training

Learn how to better prepare for rapid response and crisis communications, including identifying scenarios in advance, preparing the response team, and establishing processes.

Change Consulting (2022)

Using Your Story to Drive Change

A 75-minute video training led by Change Consulting to learn to tell a story about yourself, the community you organize with, and motivate others to join in creating the change we seek. You will learn the basics of story structure and how stories are used as an organizing tool; how to use the public narrative model -- a framework developed by Marshall Ganz; develop your own “story of self” that connects you to this work and practice sharing it with others; collaborate on the “story of us” and the “story of now”; and have the opportunity to practice with the group.

Change Consulting (2022)

Communication 101

A 75-minute video training led by Change Consulting on how to build a communications strategy including identifying goals and audiences, and mapping out strategies to accomplish the goals of your communications plan.

Economic Security Project (2023)

Storytelling Guide for Guaranteed Income Advocates

Through telling your story at a community event, in media coverage, or at a legislative hearing, you have the power to shape the narrative.

Inclusive Economy Lab (2023)

A FIRST LOOK: Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot

The Inclusive Economy Lab team released its First Look at the Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot which presents a snapshot of study participants’ demographic characteristics, their needs and priorities at baseline, and their mental and physical health for the month prior to application (which was April 2022). Sprinkled throughout the report are also snippets from baseline qualitative interviews.

Economic Security Project (2022)

An Examination of Cash Transfers in the U.S. and Canada

This literature shows the promise of bold, permanent cash transfer policy in fighting economic precarity and creating a more just economy.

Benefits Protections Fact Sheet (2022)

Benefits Protections Fact Sheet

This factsheet assesses the current state of benefits waivers and exemptions based on advocacy and learnings from the Guaranteed Income Community of Practice