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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Hickman and Harrison Group LLC dba ReveNewCycle Management and Consulting LLC
ReveNewCycle Management and Consulting LLC (ReveNewCycle) is a black woman-owned revenue cycle management and consulting firm that offers healthcare providers cost-effective solutions to billing issues. ReveNewCycle’s target market is healthcare providers who deliver services to disadvantaged communities. Central to ReveNewCycle’s mission is the training and employment of community residents. The development project location will serve as the operational headquarters for ReveNewCycle Management and Consulting, as well as a business incubator/co-working space for the small business owners within the Roseland community.
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES
COFI exists to build the power and voice of parents, primarily mothers and grandmothers from Black and Brown communities, to shape the public decisions that affect their lives and the lives of their families. Through COFI, over 5,000 low-income parents of color have been trained as civic leaders in communities and, with POWER-PAC IL, in policy advocacy at city/state/federal levels. Closing the racial wealth/income gaps are top priorities of POWER-PAC IL, with particular focus on reducing debt burdens and increasing wages/savings opportunities – especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This grant will help us continue to ensure that low-income parents are full, participating members of coalitions fighting the racial wealth gap.
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Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
We seek support for our work to advance the development of a Strategic Action Plan for Aging Equity for Illinois that builds on our partnership with the IDOA to develop their State Plan on Aging. We have been and will continue to engage and organize with communities to develop and support a comprehensive vision for an age-friendly city and state that focuses on policy and systems change emerging from lessons and gaps and responds to health inequities that were illuminated by COVID-19. We’re conducting outreach and building relationships with groups that often do not engage directly with the aging sector or aging organizations. We are conducting outreach and have hosted roundtables specifically to include Black-, Latinx-, and Asian-led organizations in Chicago, Cook County, and throughout the state to become engaged in this movement. Fueled by structural racism coupled with class and gender inequities, health inequities and a variety of injustices harm people of color and reduce quality of life and life expectancy. So, countering ageism includes the struggle against these other inequities concurrently.. This project seeks to build power for health and aging equity at a time when we are experiencing historic growth in the older adult population. Not only do racism and ageism combine with other structural inequities to cause health inequities, service gaps for seniors cost lives and reduce quality of life, especially in Black and Latinx communities.
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Southland Juvenile Justice Council
The Cook County Southland Juvenile Justice Council (SJJC) Violence Prevention, Reduction & Restorative Program’s sustainability plan, is designed to address the pressing need for better education, thriving community resources, and inclusive community support in South Suburban Cook County. The Cook County Southland Juvenile Justice Council (SJJC) deems youth that have experienced a series of traumas from violence, disinvestment, pandemic, economic crisis, etc.; are in dire need of early interventions which are imperative and critical components to intervene and prevent youth and their families from entering into a place where they act out their traumas. Referring youth and families into therapeutic programs will foster sustainable youth development programs which are imperative to break the cycle before it begins.
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WOMEN EMPLOYED
Women Employed (WE) plays a unique role in increasing opportunities and security for women as policy advocates seeking systemic improvements that touch the lives of women in low-income jobs and women of color, particularly Black and Latina/x women. In our new strategic plan, WE reaffirms our mission, with the goal of growing women’s economic power in order to close the wealth gap at the intersection of race and gender. When we think about economic power, the word Poder in Spanish is helpful. Poder both means power (n) and to be able to (v). To close the wealth gap and fulfill the goal of growing the economic power of women – their economic ability to make decisions that benefit them and improve their quality of life is essential.
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Ladies of Virtue NFP
Ladies of Virtue (LOV), is a mentoring and leadership program for girls, ages 9-18, living in Chicago's under-resourced communities. We prepare our girls for leadership through character development, career readiness and civic engagement. In addition, we offer our LOV for Life alumni program for our graduates ages 18 to 24. In the wake of the pandemic, the girls we serve need more empathy, nurturing, and social-emotional learning than ever. During the isolation of remote learning, many of our parents reported that their girls seemed depressed or withdrawn. Parents were also under enormous stress. When surveyed, over 70 percent of parents said they wanted mental health supports for themselves or their children. Furthermore, recent research shows that the suicide rate of Black females ages 15 - 24 increased by 59 percent (Black males ages 15 to 24 years old rose by 47 percent) but it decreased in white youth. As such, we realized that girls and their parents needed and will continue to need even more intensive and ongoing support to further their healthy development and cope with the challenges of parenting in underserved communities. Ladies of Virtue is requesting funding to provide mental health workshops, small group and individual mental health counseling to girls as well as workshops to their parents. In addition, we will provide mental health training to the 75 leaders and mentors in our program. Mental health supports would support emotional well-being and social-emotional learning. Adult workshops will cover trauma-informed care, adolescent mental health, social-emotional development in young people, and other topics requested by parents. All counseling and mental health workshops would be delivered either in person or via videoconference by a licensed mental health professional.
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Angelic Organics Learning Center Inc
This project facilitates collaboration between farmer training organizations and supports high impact educational resources which increase access to training, connections and markets that beginning farmers need to grow their business.
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Advocates for Urban Agriculture NFP
Advocates for Urban Agriculture is requesting continuing support of its technical assistance initiatives that is producing a series of deliverables to help Chicago area growers expand their capacity to produce and distribute locally grown food to impact and strengthen our local food system.