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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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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LIBERTY PRAIRIE FOUNDATION
Through the activities and resources of our Northeast Illinois FarmLink project, we will continue to connect and equip diverse farmers and landowners to achieve land access successes even as we work to enhance our strategies and approaches. By acting as a land access gateway for the region, we will also make it easier for other organizations seeking to help farmers with long-term land access to find those farmer candidates, thereby reducing fragmentation. In addition, we selectively address systemic factors that shape the context of land access by creative engagement with both private and public landowners and by supporting the emerging statewide land access program.
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INHERENT L3C
Inherent West Humboldt Park is a development of a cluster of 23 single family homes in the area immediately adjacent to Laura Ward Elementary School. Each home is two-stories, 1,445 square feet, all-electric and high-performing, and built in a controlled indoor production facility. Our strategy of building these homes within an indoor production facility allows us to reduce construction time of each home considerably and thereby deliver the 23 single family homes rapidly to their respective parcels. The development will begin with 2 demonstration homes on land that we currently own that showcase our first single family home model and will continue over the next 2 years with the construction of 21 additional homes on land acquired from the City of Chicago. Currently, our application for this land has been preliminarily approved and is pending final approval by the City Council during their June 2022 meeting. Our choice of West Humboldt Park is motivated by the need to stabilize home prices in the area due to rapidly rising home prices in the north and east portions of Humboldt Park. In selecting a specific area to focus on, we chose an area anchored by a Chicago Public School, Laura S. Ward Elementary School, that is in close proximity to a significant block scale development at 3831 West Chicago (approx. $33 million dollar development) and 3601 West Chicago (approx. $ 25 million dollar development), both part of INVEST South/West. We hope that the effect of our work will be to transform the community in a far more rapid manner than possible with a traditional construction technique. Such a transformation will contribute to an enhanced tax base as well as families that may elect to send their children to the nearby elementary school - increasing overall funding of that school in the process. We are applying for this Pre-Development Grant to help cover the cost of environmental services required for land. For environmental services, we plan to engage Victoria Green of Naturally Urban Environmental, Inc, a local African American, women owned and operated business. We also plan to utilize the grant funds to cover architectural, community engagement and legal services related to the acquisition and revitalization of the Project neighborhoods.
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Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation
Chicago Mahogany, LLC mission is dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the rich history and culture of the city of Chicago. We aim to highlight Chicago’s people, architecture, and impact on the world. Our passion fuels our duty to deliver this history and educate current and future generations. We desire to plant a seed that will foster a sense of pride and community. "The Chicago Way”.
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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FAITH IN PLACE
Faith in Place's "Faith Action for Sustainable Food and Communities" project builds on work to sustain and expand the Congregation-Supported Agriculture (CSA) program and pilot a Community Incubator Kitchen (CIK) at Greater St. John Bible Church in Chicago's Austin neighborhood. Proposed grant period activities include 1) continue to provide technical assistance, mentoring, and access to resources for the 6 existing CSA program farms; 2) outreach to explore adding more faith-based farms into the CSA program; 3) work to advance the CIK pilot, including overcoming municipal regulatory barriers; and 4) education and advocacy engagement with policymakers to reduce and rectify policies detrimental to CIK formation and CSA operations.
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Chasing23 Youth Empowerment Group
Chasing23 Youth Empowerment Group is an emerging community-based non profit organization working to build respect and unity among young people in Chicago. We were founded in 2016 by Darius Ballinger, a Native Chicagoan who saw a need in his community and chose to fill the need. After three years of operation, impacting the lives of hundreds of young men of color, we are at an exciting inflection point whereby we are ready to systematize our work, build sustainable streams of funding, and ensure our impact can be replicated, scaled and thriving for generations to come.
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Southland Development Authority NFP
Southland Development Authority respectfully requests support for three initiatives designed to directly support the region’s entrepreneurs and small businesses: the Entrepreneurs in Residence program, the Connect 2 Capital program, and the Business Growth Services program.