Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
Since the mid-20th century, homeownership has been one of the most important vehicles for building wealth in the United States. According to research from the…
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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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CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC
In support of general operations of the mission and programs for The Available City.
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Greater Chicago Food Depository
In support of general operations.
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Become Inc
BECOME’s strategies and activities are centered on collaborating with communities to develop sustainable solutions, expanding community capacity to implement those solutions, and creating lasting movement toward a shared community vision. BECOME creates an environment for the community to transcend structural barriers and challenges. We co-create structures and practices to support the community in sustaining change and creating an environment for people to become their ACTUALIZED self by living in, out and through the grandest version of themselves. BECOME has developed Culturally Responsive Community Transformation (CRCT) as an innovative model for bringing residents together to identify their collective goals for social transformation within the boundaries of their neighborhood and collaboratively create pathways to turn their community insight into action. BECOME plans to expand our revolutionary community transformation in Auburn Gresham by piloting the development of our first Culturally Responsive Community Transformation Hub that serves to build community capacity and social transformation from the inside out with community-driven strategic planning, facilitation, and coalition building. Through this model, we concentrate all of our services in a neighborhood, working with community residents, facilitating and building their capacity to achieve their collective goals for transformation. We work with them for the long-term until their vision of a thriving community is realized.
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The Social Network
The Social Network is a vibrant, innovative, and culturally rich spaces designed to inspire, engage, and develop opportunities for overlooked and underserved communities. We aspire to empower, build, and grow black communities through engagement, food, technology and social impact. The Social Network will be a pop-up restaurant and E-gaming Space. Following the lead of our parent company The Woodlawn; The Social Network will be a licensed pop-up kitchen which will give local chefs, culinary artist, caters and restaurateurs the opportunity promote and sell their food options to the general public. The Social Network's E-Gaming Space will provided high speed internet technology to community partners to enjoy and be entertained via gaming.
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CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC
CNI and our team of community partners seek to equitably transform lives through development of housing, workforce, health and public safety infrastructure. Looking ahead, we intend to continue our strategy in Pullman and carry the results-backed progress CNI has spearheaded in Pullman into neighboring Roseland, applying targeted place-based investments in alignment with community goals. We have spent the last two years engaging with community stakeholders to understand their needs and goals. As a result of this ongoing engagement, we seek to address depopulation and corresponding challenges: declines in safety, reductions in property values, reduced access to retail and significant health disparities. We seek to build Black wealth through the creation of new assets and dispel the notion that improving lives means leaving a neighborhood. This request will specifically fund costs associated with planning and predevelopment activities related to the Roseland Rising initiative, which will drive investment to 4 specific districts within Roseland. Based on our experience as a community and economic development organization with a long-standing track record in Chicago, predevelopment funding is the most difficult to access but the most necessary in order to get a project off the ground. We appreciate your consideration of our proposal.
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Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
In support of general operations.
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Illinois Partners for Human Service
In support of general operations.
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METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL
MPC's application supports Our Great Rivers, with specific emphasis in 2022 on the Task Force. MPC will ensure that it is comprised of stakeholders most impacted by their rivers; and prioritize their presence and lived experience - to positively changes the way decisions are made. MPC will facilitate a Task Force structure that amplifies these perspectives, while simultaneously taking a systemic approach to planning, policy and development. MPC will also raise awareness of Our Great Rivers and its progress via focused engagement. An essential role for MPC is to serve as a watchdog, advocating with and on behalf of partners ensuring that the actions and strategies put forward by the City align and adhere to the Rivers’ vision.