Get Involved

By being a part of Raising Illinois, you will be engaging with advocates and professionals committed to investing in the development of young children and their families throughout the state. There are multiple levels of engagement available to you - see below. Questions? Email us.

Advocate: Any individual, organization and/or business that has a passion for closing the opportunity gap for Illinois’ infants and toddlers.

• Receive emails, event invitations and newsletter from Raising Illinois

Champion: Any individual, organization and/or business that can help advance our work through communications channels and among personal and professional networks.

• Receive emails, event invitations and newsletter from Raising Illinois
• Participate and amplify advocacy efforts
• Support storytelling and story collection efforts
• Share communications resources, such as social media posts, emails and newsletters with network(s)
• If committing as a Champion supporter on behalf of an organization or business, we also ask you to encourage colleagues to share communications and contribute to storytelling and advocacy efforts.

Contributing Member: Any individual, organization and/or business that can help advance our work through collaboration and direct input on the implementation of policy objectives and action steps.

• Participate in at least one policy work group that is of particular interest or expertise of you and/or your organization; attend monthly work group meetings (estimated at 1 hour/month)
• Engage with other contributing members via internal communications platform by sharing relevant news, field updates, etc.
• Text listing of individual or organization name on Raising Illinois website
• Benefits of Champion level

* All policy work groups are managed by a lead facilitating organization, who is responsible for guiding the group and driving its work forward through collaboration and engagement.