3C Community Profile: Humboldt Park
Take a stroll down the Paseo Boricua corridor on Division Street and it’s easy to see why Humboldt Park is one of Chicago’s most vibrant…
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For more than 100 years, The Chicago Community Trust has convened, supported, funded, and accelerated the work of community members and changemakers committed to strengthening the Chicago region. From building up our civic infrastructure to spearheading our response to the Great Recession, the Trust has brought our community together to face pressing challenges and seize our greatest opportunities. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.
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MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION INC
Mikva Challenge kindly requests general operating funding to support our youth voice and civic engagement work in Chicago, IL - especially our Issues to Action program as we seek to increase the depth and breadth of our impact in Chicago.
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IL Muslim Civic Coalition
Request for Funding for a Collaborative of Allies towards the goal to deepen understanding, engagement, and inclusion in all areas - of diverse intersectional identities; MENA, AAPI, African American, African Immigrant, Latino communities issues and agendas. As well as closing the Financial Gap for Underrepresented Communities During 2024 National Political Conventions.
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Chicagoland Streets Project/Streetsblog
Chicagoland Streets Project (CSP) is applying for a $75,000 grant to help fund our sustainable transportation reporting and advocacy via our news website "Streetsblog Chicago".
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
CNT, along with technical assistance partners, are applying for funds to support the second year of Elevated Works, an Elevated Chicago program to advance publicly funded equitable transit-oriented development (ETOD) development and policy in Chicago. These funds will contribute to the continued administration and project management work done by CNT, and the provision of technical assistance and support to ETOD developers, predominantly first-time community-based developers in neighborhoods impacted by disinvestment on Chicago’s South and West sides. These funds will supplement a $1 million contract awarded to CNT by the City of Chicago to implement the Elevated Works program.
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Gary Comer Youth Center Inc.
Xchange Grand Crossing builds on two decades of community engagement and development that has realized an exceptional education corridor on South Chicago Avenue. Xchange aims to empower residents with the skills and opportunities needed to access high-earning jobs in thriving tech sectors. Xchange’s innovative and scalable model harnesses commercially driven revenue to drive workforce development and community revitalization. Located adjacent to the Comer Education Campus, a 28,000 square foot warehouse building at 7247 South Chicago Ave will be renovated into Xchange Grand Crossing, an innovation hub for training diverse talent at scale, creating jobs in IT and tech-adjacent fields, and providing anchor businesses in the community. The building is designed for commercial office space (with two committed anchor tenants), talent development, and new enterprises that include a retail café, commercial kitchen and IT HelpDesk service. There will be onsite parking. This stretch of South Chicago Avenue was identified by community stakeholders and partners as an ideal location for further development and innovative workforce solutions.
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Roseland Community Medical District
To implement the work outlined in the Roseland Community Medical District Master Plan, an executive director and limited staff needs to be hired. This funding request will cover the expenses associated with hiring and employing full time and part time staff, along with associated office expenses, necessary to implement the Master Plan as contemplated by the Roseland Medical District Commission.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Elevated Chicago
Elevated Chicago requests $300,000 to support the pre-development needs of three ETODs to advance projects towards completion.
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DEVCORP NORTH
DevCorp North dba Rogers Park Business Alliance (RPBA) continues to experience delayed State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity grant awards, contracts and payments. We have leveraged our organizational operating capital reserves to continue to provide services as planned. At risk of needing to make painful programming adjustments again in 2024, we respectfully request a renewal of the $50,000 in a bridge grant of working capital from Chicago Community Trust to fund our Business Accessibility Toolkit Program (BAT). Thanks to funding in 2023, BAT successfully served its target clients who are low-median income historically underserved people of color, especially Black, Latinx and other diverse business owners and entrepreneurs who own and operate existing businesses in our service area. Ongoing challenges with State of Illinois’ unreliable timelines, static funding levels, lack of clarity and minimal responsiveness to requests for guidance are resulting in our hesitation to apply for other government grants. For example, we received an intent to fund notification on 1/18/24 for the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) we host at RPBA for the same amount as we were granted in 2023. When we were awarded the designation in 2020, we were told that annual increases were the norm. Unfortunately, with COVID, things changed and last year was the first time that we were allowed to increase our funding request. Now, in 2024, we have again been informed that 2024 will be funded at the same level as 2023. In addition, we have an intent to fund but as of 4/1/24, we have not yet received a contract for 2024. This means that although our Q1 deliverables are complete, we cannot request reimbursement since we do not have a contract.