AMPT: Advancing Nonprofits

Antiracist capacity building by and with Black and Latine nonprofits.

Our Mission:

AMPT: Advancing Nonprofits is committed to strengthening the organizational health and support long-term development of small nonprofits on Chicago’s west and south sides while prioritizing Black- and Latine-led community organizations.

Simultaneously, AMPT is working to transform philanthropy by addressing systemic racial inequities and serving as a model for anti-racist systems and processes.

Our Vision:

Significant, sustained investment in the capacity of Chicago’s Black and Latine community organizations leads to healthy, thriving organizations that can better advance their missions and serve their communities.

How?

• Building transformational relationships with nonprofit organizations
• Centering the needs and priorities of communities and nonprofit organizations
• Sustaining resources for Black- and Latine-led organizations on the west and south sides
• Building systems, processes and tools from an antiracist framework