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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TREND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Led by a group of established Chicago real estate professionals committed to equitable development and inclusive growth, CEMDI aims to source and build a pipeline of community-focused developers from African American, Latinx and other minority communities to participate in commercial real estate development projects city-wide. Following a year of exploratory research, planning and organizing and an initial year of conceptualizing and beginning to pilot its initial programs, CEMDI will use the requested grant funds to expand and deliver a 2nd year of programming. The three-pronged approach includes: 1. CEMDI Accelerator incorporates all six of CEMDI’s strategies by leveraging the relationships and expertise of the CEMDI principals. The CEMDI Accelerator is not a cohort-based program, but instead offers one-on-one advice and coaching to five emerging developers selected each year. Chicago TREND will work closely with each emerging developer to understand their business and identify a customized path to success. CEMDI principals will help emerging developers advance a new deal, structure a joint venture partnership, secure patient capital, grow their development and professional services team, etc. By meeting high-potential emerging developers where they are and providing resources, connections and expertise, CEMDI will help them grow their business to the next level. Due to historic disinvestment and restrictions over generations in minority communities, fewer emerging entrepreneurs have access to mentors with strong industry relationships, experience and generational wealth. 2. Developer Roundtable will foster relationship-building and establish a "voice" for minority developers. The CEMDI principals will engage up to ten veteran, non-minority developers and up to ten minority, emerging developers to participate in the Developer Roundtable. One strategic way for an emerging firm to grow is to enter into a joint venture partnership with an experienced firm. This allows the emerging developer to bring their skills and experience to the project as a partner, gain additional capacity and expertise, and share responsibility for both the profits and losses that a project generates. By securing a seat at the table, building credit, reputation and track record, emerging developers gain access and the experience needed to take on larger projects. The Developer Roundtable advances the strategy of connecting emerging developers to potential joint venture partners to provide access to development opportunities and mentorship. The roundtable will create a venue for C-suite development professionals to build a sense of community and to establish relationships between veteran and emerging developers -- setting the stage for future partnerships, informal mentorship opportunities and mutually beneficial business relationships. 3. CEMDI Connects will strengthen the broader commercial real estate ecosystem by hosting up to four events/workshops each year, including the annual CEMDI Summit. For developers to scale and grow, they need relationships, connections and access to professional service firms to grow their development team. Having strong relationships provides opportunities for both formal and informal mentorship and provides a launch pad for business relationships to grow over time. CEMDI Connects will expand the professional networks of commercial real estate professionals of color. CEMDI Connects primarily advances two strategies: (a) connecting emerging developers to professional service firms to build their capacity with their development teams and back-office infrastructure and (b) connecting emerging developers to financial resources for formal educational and other professional development programs. CEMDI Connects will do this by engaging, supporting and adding capacity to the commercial real estate ecosystem for minority developers in Chicago. Specific programs are anticipated to include a series of networking, firm showcases and community workshop events, and online resources. This programming will provide opportunities for minority professionals in real estate-related fields (e.g., architecture, accounting, engineering, finance, construction, etc.) to build their networks, put together development teams and broaden their professional experience.
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Metropolitan Family Services
The fellowship will allow MFS to deepen its commitment to fully recognize its goal of racial equity, inclusion and justice by supporting our implementation of the action plan. By MFS being able to participate in individual coaching, receiving technical support, grant funding to further implement our project, and the chance to connect with other organizations to learn and build collaborations will enable us to reach our goals. With the knowledge gain from the fellowship, it will be able to further support MFS’s established REIJ work.
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Elevate Energy
The Lightbulb team - Elevate, in partnership with Business Services Collective (BSC), and Sustainable Options for Urban Living (S.O.U.L.) - provides a tailored approach to serving diverse construction businesses in order to increase their participation in the growing clean energy economy in Chicago and Illinois.
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Urban Growers Collective Inc
This project builds on our partners’ past work to support UGC’s updated emerging grower training program to more adequately meet the needs of emerging growers who are interested in starting their own farm businesses. UGC’s Grower Apprenticeship Program will prepare emerging growers with the fast pace needed to meet commercial demands, while emphasizing learning and community building. Apprentices develop their farm technical and farm business management basics across the 3 year curriculum, until they ultimately graduate from the program with a solid network and foundation of skills to launch their own businesses. Meanwhile, UGC and our project partners are developing sustainable pathways for future procurement and larger scale commercial distribution as accessible next steps after program completion.
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THE NDIGO FOUNDATION
2022 is the fourth year for NDIGO STUDIO, a 30 minute TV talk show discussing, authentic contemporary issues affecting the African American community. Featured are topics on race, media, politics, culture, entertainment, personalities and authors who have insightful and valuable views that are often not seen on television or are suppressed. The program would take deep dive looks at topics and personalities with an eclectic approach with one-on-one interviews and panel discussions. The program would utilized multiple platforms for distribution to include, Traditional TV, streaming TV, Facebook and the shows would also appear as podcast. This year we would like to increase our show season from 12 to 24. NDIGO STUDIO WAS NOMINATED FOR AN EMMY AWARD FOR BEST DISCUSSION/INTERVIEW PROGRAM IN THE MIDWEST.
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Johns Hopkins University
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Fresh Taste
Fresh Taste, a collaborative funder initiative, is conceived as a catalytic process that systemically changes the way food is produced and consumed in the Chicago region to promote healthy land, healthy people, and healthy communities.
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Big NFP
BIG, NFP (Blacks in Green) is requesting a $240,000 Building Collective Power funding investment ($80,000 for 36 months) in general operating support for our signature community-centered program, the Sustainable Square Mile™, designed to engage, educate and empower neighbors in closing America’s racial health/wealth gap via the new green economy opportunities.