Community Renewal Society (CRS) is committed to engaging and empowering people directly impacted by systemic and structural racism. CRS works with congregations and community leaders to build power and identify shared problems and solutions to those problems through public policy and advocacy.

Effective public engagement is intertwined with building knowledge, understanding, encouraging action and creating change.  CRS’ newsmagazine, The Chicago Reporter was founded on the heels of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The Reporter confronts racial and economic inequality, using the power of investigative journalism. The Reporter’s mission is national but grounded in Chicago, one of the most segregated cities in the nation and a bellwether for urban policies.