The Chicago Hospitality Accountability & Advocacy Database (CHAAD) Project is a BIPOC- and queer-led advocacy and mutual aid organization. With deep roots in worker-led organizing and a growing national and international profile, CHAAD is transforming Chicago's hospitality industry into a worker-centered ecosystem that values equity, sustainability, and care. We work at the intersections of labor justice, racial equity, gender justice, and public health to dismantle oppressive structures embedded in the restaurant and bar industry.

Give today to help us build a future where hospitality truly means care for all.

CHAAD provides a constellation of services and programs under two strategic pillars:

Harm Reduction

• Shift Change: Our digital platform for reporting labor violations connects workers to legal, mental health, and mutual aid resources.
• Legal Clinics: In partnership with Grassroots Legal Organizing for Workers (GLOW), we host free virtual and in-person clinics addressing wage theft, harassment, and discrimination.
• Know Your Rights Trainings: Offered in English and Spanish, these trainings cover labor law, immigrant rights, and safety planning.
• Workshops: Topics include mental health first aid, self-defense, ICE workplace response, de-escalation, and mutual aid strategies.

Future-Building

• Rad•ish Eats: A cooperative dinner series that models worker-centered hospitality and explores the future of food service through equity-driven collaboration.
• Popular Education: CHAAD distributes bilingual zines, worksheets, and digital content unpacking racism, sexism, and exploitation in hospitality.
• Consulting: We support local bars, venues, and organizations to implement equitable policies informed by worker experience.

In the next year CHAAD seeks to:

• Serve 250+ workers through Shift Change, offering real-time referrals and direct support.
• Host 10+ Know Your Rights trainings and 4 legal clinics.
• Convene 20 monthly in-person events to build worker power, mutual aid, and solidarity.
• Host 4 Rad•ish Eats dinners that prototype cooperative models. 
• Release a city-wide report on labor violations and worker well-being, informed by over 1,000 data points.

In the past year alone, we:

• Received 50+ labor abuse reports
• Provided 1:1 support to 75 workers
• Educated 200+ participants through trainings
• Partnered with 13 local, national, and international organizations.
• Reached over 1 million people via social media educational content

CHAAD is not just reforming hospitality—we are reimagining it. By centering the most impacted workers and building structures of care, safety, and justice, we are laying the groundwork for a radically different future. Your investment in CHAAD is an investment in a sector-wide transformation rooted in equity, power-sharing, and mutual aid.