Open Communities

Thank you for walking with us! Your donation supports Open Communities' work for housing justice in N/NW suburban Chicago.

Walk Participant

This free ticket is for neighbors along our walk route in the 5th ward. Thank you for welcoming us into your neighborhood and joining us on the walk!

5th Ward Neighbor Participant

With your Impact Sponsorship, you will receive: 30 walk registrations, your large logo* on our event sign, logo* with link on our website acknowledging your sponsorship, logo* in one issue or our newsletter, logo* included on our invitation and event program, inclusion in up to 5 posts about the event, newsletter article on your commitment to Fair Housing. (*Logo due by August 15)

Impact Sponsor

With your Advocate Sponsorship, you will receive: 20 walk registrations, your medium logo* on our event sign, logo* with link on our website acknowledging your sponsorship, logo* in one issue or our newsletter, logo* included on our invitation and event program, inclusion in up to 5 posts about the event. (*Logo due by August 15)

Advocate Sponsor

Thank you for supporting Open Communities' work for housing justice! With your Partner Sponsorship, you will receive: 15 walk registrations, your small logo* on our event sign, logo* with a link on our website acknowledging sponsorship, logo* in one issue or our newsletter, your logo* included on our invitation and event program, individual inclusion in up to 5 posts about the event. (*Logo due by August 15)

Partner Sponsor

With your Supporter Sponsorship, you will receive: 10 walk registrations, your name with list of sponsors on our event sign, name on our website acknowledging sponsorship, name on our invitation and event program, inclusion in one post about the event with other sponsors.

Supporter Sponsor

With your Friend Sponsorship, you will receive: 8 walk registrations and your name in list of sponsors on our event sign.

Friend Sponsor

With your Associate Sponsorship, you will receive: 6 walk registrations, your name in list of sponsors on our event sign.

Associate Sponsor

Thank you for supporting Open Communities&#39; Walk/Roll the Redline this year!&nbsp;On Saturday, September 13th, 2025, from 10am-1pm, our community will gather at the Evanston Ecology Center then walk the loop around the channel to raise funds, awareness, and activation for fair housing in our communities. 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This discriminatory practice caused segregation and disinvestment in Evanston&rsquo;s 5th ward that still impacts us today, decades after redlining was made illegal with the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968.<span fr-original-style="border: none; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" style="border: none; outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit;"> At our community event, participants will walk, roll, or stroll along a 1 or 2-mile educational loop to learn the impact discriminatory housing policies had on our community and how they continue to show up in harmful new ways. Educational displays along the route will also celebrate ways to support welcoming communities today. Your generosity supports our mission to: - Stand up for people experiencing housing discrimination</div></div>- Increase housing accessibility and affordability- Help neighbors keep stable homes and prevent homelessness- Advocate for welcoming neighborhoods and housing rights- Create communities we can all call home You can create your own fundraising page and gather sponsors for your walk or form a team to r<span fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;">aise more funds and awareness about the need for fair housing in our communities. Our mission:&nbsp;<span fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;">Open Communities works to eradicate housing discrimination and unjust practices that perpetuate segregation and inequity. We foster thriving, inclusive communities through fair housing enforcement, housing counseling, education, outreach, and advocacy. <span fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;">Together, we can create communities where we can all live and thrive. <span fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;">Thank you for your support!! <span fr-original-style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;">- The Open Communities Team<span fr-original-style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201); font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;"><a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.open-communities.org" style="text-decoration-color: initial; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit;">www.open-communities.org</a>

Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{lastname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " fr-original-style style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">Last name, Thank you for your generosity! Your donation greatly supports our mission for housing justice in Chicago's north/northwestern suburbs. We will now be able to: - Challenge housing discrimination - Help neighbors keep their homes - Advocate for more affordable, accessible housing- Create inclusive communities we can all call home Please reach out if you would like to contribute further, become a volunteer, or talk to your friends about housing justice in your community! With Gratitude,Sarah Petersen Development AssociateOpen Communities<a href="http://www.open-communities.org">www.open-communities.org</a> spetersen@open-communities.org 224-341-6087

Thank you for supporting Open Communities' Walk/Roll the Redline this year! On Saturday, September 13th, 2025, from 10am-1pm, our community will gather at the Evanston Ecology Center then walk the loop around the channel to raise funds, awareness, and activation for fair housing in our communities. Background on redlining and info on the event:<div><div>Redlining was a historical practice where officials drew maps in red around neighborhoods of color and denied housing investment there. This discriminatory practice caused segregation and disinvestment in Evanston’s 5th ward that still impacts us today, decades after redlining was made illegal with the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968. At our community event, participants will walk, roll, or stroll along a 1 or 2-mile educational loop to learn the impact discriminatory housing policies had on our community and how they continue to show up in harmful new ways. Educational displays along the route will also celebrate ways to support welcoming communities today. Your generosity supports our mission to: - Stand up for people experiencing housing discrimination</div></div>- Increase housing accessibility and affordability- Help neighbors keep stable homes and prevent homelessness- Advocate for welcoming neighborhoods and housing rights- Create communities we can all call home You can create your own fundraising page and gather sponsors for your walk or form a team to raise more funds and awareness about the need for fair housing in our communities. Our mission: Open Communities works to eradicate housing discrimination and unjust practices that perpetuate segregation and inequity. We foster thriving, inclusive communities through fair housing enforcement, housing counseling, education, outreach, and advocacy. Together, we can create communities where we can all live and thrive. Thank you for your support!! - The Open Communities Team<a href="http://www.open-communities.org">www.open-communities.org</a>