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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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Lawndale Christian Health Center
LCHC is requesting funding from CCT to support the ongoing provision of primary care and specialty care services to patients on the West Side of Chicago. These continued services will allow for increased access to communities that experience higher rates of chronic conditions, poor social determinants of health, and face higher barriers to accessing high-quality medical care.
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Kids Off The Block, Inc.
Kids off the Block (KOB) was founded in 2003, and is a 501(c)(3) organization. As a community-based organization, KOB is dedicated to affecting positive change for young people and the areas where they live. Our programs serve some of Chicago’s most at-risk youth afterschool, and during the summer months. The organization provides youth services (to include violence prevention services) to those who are between the ages 10-24 with the major goals of helping them to avoid violence, succeed academically, become self-sufficient, and avoid self-defeating behaviors to include gang and gun violence. Last year, KOB served more than 1,850 young people and their families.
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Pullman Hotel Group, LLC
The majority Black-owned Pullman Hotel Group, LLC is planning a nationally branded, upper midscale limited services hotel with 95-100 guest rooms. The hotel will feature a lobby with seating and a check-in area, a business center, an exercise room, an indoor pool, a market store or gift shop and will offer complimentary breakfast service. The proposed hotel will provide adequate on-site surface parking to operate at full occupancy. The hotel design will comply with all brand standards and local building codes. The anticipated date for the start of hotel infrastructure development is the December of 2022 with construction to be completed and operational by the Spring of 2024. The subject site has adequate accessibility and excellent visibility from Interstate 94, which connects City of Chicago and south suburban communities in Illinois and Indiana via Interstate 80, Interstate 57 and Illinois Route 394. The site is located approximately 18 miles south of downtown Chicago, 15 miles southeast of Chicago Midway International Airport and approximately 15 miles south of McCormick Place Convention Center. The surrounding communities suffer from a limited presence of major nationally branded hotels. Adjacent to the Pullman Park industrial development, the hotel will be built on a four-plus acre site on the north end of the Historic Pullman neighborhood, recently designated as a National Park by the federal government. The Pullman National Park is expected to draw more than 300,000 visitors annually by 2023. The hotel site is also positioned less than one mile from a recently developed regional mall, new restaurants and other retail businesses and directly adjacent to the Pullman Park Industrial Park, a rapidly developing home to warehousing and distribution facilities, including: * a 140,000 square-foot regional distribution center for Whole Foods, * a LEED certified manufacturing plant for Method Home Products along with; * a rooftop greenhouse that sources lettuce for pre-packaged salads by Gotham Greens * a 150,000 square-foot Pullman Community Center, with an indoor amateur sports facility Other recent developments in the area include Harborside Golf Center, a new world-class indoor track and field center, a new state-if-the-art job training center for transportation and logistics career opportunities at the City Colleges of Chicago's Olive Harvey College and a new bicycling park at Big Marsh, amid an outdoor conservation area less than two miles from the proposed hotel site. Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives, a non-profit community development organization based in the Pullman area, has played a leading role in much of the commercial retail and industrial development in the area and will serve as the fiscal agent for PHG if a Pre-Development Fund Grant is awarded for this project. In the event of a funding award, PHG would use the grant to prioritize: (a) complete the process of securing a major hotel brand franchise (b) completing engineering, environmental and architectural work (c) engage professional services necessary to procure the necessary zoning and building approvals
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Little Black Pearl Workshop
LBP is requesting support for a finish line ready project to upgrade our dated operating systems, build catering/culinary training kitchen, work lounge and customization facilities. We anticipate completion and groundbreaking for the entire project within 12 months.
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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.
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Center for Housing and Health
Funding from the Chicago Community Trust will support the Center for Housing and Health’s (CHH) work to bridge the housing and health care systems to improve the lives of Chicagoans experiencing homelessness. CHH understands that solutions to the pervasive and systemic problem of homelessness can be achieved by working through community coalitions to advocate for structural change and by working in partnerships to advance innovative and unique programmatic approaches. CHH is the administrator of the Chicago and Cook County Flexible Housing Pool (FHP) as well as an active participant in other system-level initiatives designed to improve housing and healthcare access for individuals experiencing homelessness.
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Esperanza Health Centers
Esperanza Health Centers respectfully request a $50,000 general operating grant. Esperanza is a Federally Qualified Health Center with five sites across Chicago's Southwest side. We serve over 45,000 patients annually through the provision of primary care, behavioral health services, and a variety of wellness programs. A general operating grant from Chicago Community Trust will support our ability to remain nimble in our response to emerging needs in the communities we serve.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Arts Work Fund
The Arts Work Fund is a funder collaborative focused on developing the organizational capacity of small arts and cultural organizations in Chicago and Cook County. Our grantmaking helps arts organizations leverage the creativity and unconventional thinking that arose during the pandemic to address the immediate challenges and devise more effective ways for arts organizations to meet their desired outcomes. Grantees are asked to SHARE their learnings broadly with the arts sector to generate dialogue. Our peer learning strategies include a listserv, monthly podcasts and videos, webinars, and grantee articles.