Children’s & Women’s Health

All Chicago

All Chicago Making Homelessness History prevents and ends homelessness by leveraging data analytics and community partnerships to provide emergency and long-term housing solutions. Founded as The Emergency Fund in 1973 by Norman H. Stone, and merged in 2015 with The Chicago Alliance, today the organization is affectionately called “All Chicago.” Though steeped in this Chicago history, the organization is led today by a visionary new leader, Carolyn Ross. Under her leadership, All Chicago has earned its reputation as innovative field leader because of its unifying approach, bringing all homelessness services together for training, data sharing, and collaboration. As a result, it is dramatically reducing homelessness among veterans and other individuals and families throughout Chicago.

“We are working to prevent and end homelessness by using four key approaches: emergency financial assistance, community partnerships, managing the data for the homelessness system, and training and research. Working to prevent and end homelessness is more critical than ever now, as we continue to face COVID-19 and its economic repercussions. Together with our many partner organizations, the city of Chicago and the philanthropic community are making a difference by providing critical resources. The Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Foundation’s support is especially meaningful to us here at All Chicago, as Lisa’s grandfather, Norman H. Stone founded the Emergency Fund as a family charity in 1973 to help people in need quickly and without red tape. Mr. Stone’s son Allen was also a longtime chairman of the All Chicago board of directors. The Stone Family founders understood that homelessness will only be solved collaboratively through systems change with the support of public and private entities working together. We are proud to continue the work that was started by the Stone family in 1973 by serving over 10,000 individuals each year here in Chicago.”

—Carolyn Ross, CEO of All Chicago