Daniel Loftus

CEO, Poder

Daniel Loftus founded immigrant-integration center Poder, which offers Spanish-speaking adults comprehensive and tuition-free English-as-a-second-language instruction as well as industry-specific job training and placement programs. Since 1997, it has helped 14,500 immigrants establish themselves in the U.S. by placing 83% of graduates with employers, including 12 banks and the three largest insurance providers. Poder has seen a 349% increase in geographic reach since 2019 due to a pivot to virtual delivery of training. Loftus serves with The Resurrection Project, the Chicago Nonprofit CEO Forum, UnidosUS (formerly NCLR) Workforce Development Committee, the Illinois Business Immigration Coalition, Metropolitan Family Services and the city of Chicago’s Community Development Advisory Committee.