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RDLF News: Issue 32
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Open Call for Ellsberg Award
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This award honors courageous whistleblowers and aims to stimulate public discourse around the vital issues they expose – in the spirit of transparency, accountability, and the protection of human rights.
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Those eligible for the €10,000 award include individuals and organizations worldwide whose efforts have helped disclose information that significantly enhances free public or scientific debate to strengthen the public’s right to know.
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School Supply Giveaway Success
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This back-to-school season, several of our partners hosted successful supply giveaways throughout the city, ensuring young people across Chicago started the year prepared and confident.
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Through an in-kind donation from the Foundation, partners distributed more than 2,400 backpacks filled with essentials like notebooks, binders, pencils, crayons, calculators, and more. These supplies help students engage fully in their learning—fostering both joy and dignity in the classroom.
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Still, the need far exceeds what one donation can cover. If you are interested in supporting this work, please reach out. Together, we can make a lasting impact on Chicago’s students.
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IL Pride Connect
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As LGBTQIA+ communities in Illinois and across the country face an alarming rise in discriminatory policies, legal uncertainty, and attacks on bodily autonomy, the need for reliable, community-rooted resources has never been greater.
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Grantee Legal Council for Health Justice recently launched IL Pride Connect, a new Statewide LGBTQIA+ Legal Hotline and Resource Hub dedicated to connecting our communities with trusted legal resources, affirming services, and timely advocacy tools.
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IL Pride Connect includes a digital resource hub with legal FAQs, know-your-rights information, referrals to affirming legal and community services, and advocacy tools. It also includes a first of its kind legal hotline that provides real-time information and referrals on name and gender marker changes, housing and education rights, and access to healthcare and public benefits.
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IL Pride Connect Legal Hotline
Call: 855-805-9200
Hours: Monday – Thursday, 9 AM to 4 PM
Languages: English and Spanish
Free and confidential
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Open Applications
- Kimball Arts Center Artists in Residence: This program is a platform for both emerging and established Chicago artists to exhibit and sell their work within their multidisciplinary building. AIR fosters collaboration, resource sharing and accessible art collecting amongst the creative community of Chicago. The application deadline for the Fall/Winter 2025 residency is September 28th.
- Terra Foundation Convening Grants: These grants support programs that stimulate interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange through conferences, workshops, and gatherings worldwide. This program is open to organizations within and outside of the United States. Convenings held in person, virtually, or in hybrid formats are eligible for support. The deadline to submit an inquiry for programs taking place after May 1, 2026 is September 29th.
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: "Last month, a California jury found that Meta had illegally collected reproductive health information from millions of women who use the fertility tracking app Flo Health. The data had been passed on to the tech giant without the users’ knowledge or consent – and despite repeated promises that it was private."
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Invisible Institute, MindSite News: “While involuntary commitment is supposed to be a last resort, patients’ advocates, policy researchers and many clinicians say its increasing use by police officers with minimal mental health training and little oversight frequently leads to bad outcomes — especially when employed after a rough encounter with law enforcement."
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The Buckeye Flame: On this week’s episode of This News is So Gay, guest speakers talk about whether the LGBTQ+ community should be worried about threats to marriage equality, another report from the Trump administration that appears to scrub LGBTQ+ data, Native leaders pushing back on gender-affirming care restrictions for tribal citizens, and queer joy.
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Reveal: "Abe Ajrami, a Palestinian who now lives in the US and helps coordinate the organization’s food aid ... talks about the kitchen’s extraordinary efforts to help prevent famine in Gaza, the debate over whether the Israeli government is committing genocide against Palestinians, and whether a two-state solution is still achievable."
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Take a look at these events coming up from our grantees and partners:
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What did you think?
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We craft this newsletter for you. If you have any comments or suggestions, please reply to this email and you might see your ideas implemented in our next issue.
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We have an open call for content from our partners to highlight the brilliant work they're doing in the community. If you are a current grantee or partner with The Reva and David Logan Foundation, please send your content to Sabrina Boggs, Communications Coordinator at sabrina(at)loganfdn(dot)org. Please note that we will not share fundraising campaigns.
Thanks for reading, and see you next time!
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