About the Community Programs Accelerator

The Community Programs Accelerator, a program of the University of Chicago’s Office of Civic Engagement, helps equip nonprofits that serve the South Side with tools and resources to fulfill their unique missions. The Accelerator provides customized support to address the critical needs of small-to mid-size nonprofits, including training, coaching, and technical assistance in areas such as program design and evaluation, data systems and data-informed decision making, community partnership development, financial management, fundraising and grant writing, human resource systems and staff development, and strategic and succession planning. Since it was established in 2014, the Accelerator has served more than 175 South Side community-based organizations, contributed more than $725K in direct funding, and helped participating organizations leverage an additional $800K from other funders.

Visit our full website at https://communityprograms.uchicago.edu/.