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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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    The Galley Chicago LLC

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $71,000

    Request for pre-development funds for project to convert vacant bank building into a culinary studio offering Chef-led instruction, Hands on Cooking/Baking Workshops and Bootcamps, Cooking Demonstrations, Health and Wellness Workshops - Food is Medicine among others, event space rental and private dining services.

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    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $300,000

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    FAR SOUTH CDC

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $100,000

    Pace Pulse Mixed-Use Transit Supportive Development (Pace Pulse MTSD) is a subset of Far South CDC’s “Bringing Communities Back Initiative” (“BCBI”). BCBI goal is to repurpose blighted-high impact community areas into thriving community anchors that will spur economic growth and repopulate communities on Chicago’s far south side that have experienced decades of chronic disinvestment. In collaboration with Pace’s Pulse South Halsted Business Corridor Enhancement Project – which seeks to improve new energy-efficient buses, new and improved bus stations, faster and more frequent Pace and CTA services, roadway and traffic improvements to help keep buses on schedule, and connections to other transit services – Far South CDC is proposing mixed-use residential and commercial developments near Pace bus stations and other neighborhood amenities that will complement the City’s Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (“eTOD”). The goal of this grant is to provide pre-development services for three sites totaling 30.4-acres (1.3 million square feet) along South Halsted Corridor between 1) 116th Street to 117th Place – AgroHousing @ Taylor Trail; 2) 120th Street to 122nd Street – West Pullman Park Residences; 3) 127th Street to 129th Street – Calumet River Suites (Please see attached maps). Project deliverables will include (without limitation) 1) existing conditions analysis, 2) concept design alternatives, 3) community engagements, 4) final concept designs, and 5) a final funding proposal for development.

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    The University of Chicago - Office of Civic Engagement

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $125,000

    The University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement will continue to partner with the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice and other academic units, the Chicago Community Trust and additional philanthropic partners to advance a shared vision to incubate promising place-based strategies that result from joint goal setting and decision making between neighborhood, civic, and University partners. In the third year of the South Side Neighborhood Capacity Partnership an ongoing focus will be to continue to strengthen university and community infrastructure and to build the organizational capacity of South Side CBOs, operating in under-invested Black communities, to be ready-partners for CCT, the City, and other University initiatives that support collaborative community investment. With renewed support from the CCT OCE will sustain and enhance core Accelerator program offerings for South Side community based organizations, such as the Nonprofit Certificate Program in partnership with Crown Family School of Social Work. In 2022-2023, OCE will also maintain a special focus on providing intensive capacity building support to four individual organizations that are leading neighborhood development work in South Shore through a place based collaborative cohort exchange. The following set of participating organizations are also receiving direct grants from CCT and other aligned private and public investments: Neighborhood Network Alliance, South Shore Chamber, South Shore Works, and Sisters in Cinema.

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    Per Scholas, Inc.

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $200,000

    Per Scholas advances economic equity through rigorous tech training and connections to local employers. We prepare individuals traditionally underrepresented in tech—women, people of color, and those with at most a high school diploma—for high-growth careers in the industry, and place them on a path to achieving a thriving wage salary. We respectfully request a $200,000 Bridges to Brighter Futures grant in support of our work to provide technology training to individuals from the City of Chicago and surrounding counties over a 12-month period, leading to middle-skills employment and thriving-wage careers in tech.

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    Urban Juncture Foundation

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $175,000

    The lack of locally-owned restaurants in Black communities is a key barrier to the revitalization in Black Chicago. Good food builds good community: the absence of quality restaurants results in an absence of jobs and social and financial capital creation opportunities. By bringing together key industry, community, and resource partners in a proven model to facilitate the launch and growth of Black culinary businesses in Chicago, our project is addressing this problem head on. We are creating an enterprise - the Bronzeville Culinary Connection - that identifies and nurtures Black culinary professionals and entrepreneurs and, by delivering targeted and coordinated support to them, helps them create lasting culinary enterprises. We’ve made great progress in our first FEBG project year, establishing the BCC, engaging key BSO partners, and advancing a substantial number of Black culinary enterprises. If we are chosen to proceed in this second year, we will double down on building relationships with a small set of key partners and on focusing our collective effort on establishing a powerful culinary hub at 51st Street and the El. By substantially expanding culinary spaces at Boxville and creating a restaurant incubator in our building next door, while continuing to invest in deepening the pipeline of Black culinary entrepreneurs, we will create the foundation necessary to catalyze the creation of Black culinary enterprises in Bronzeville and beyond.

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    Chicago Public Media Inc

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

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    The Chicago Community Foundation/Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

    The Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance seeks additional resources for the Progressive Pathways for Post-Secondary Success Fund (Pro Path Fund). The mission of the Fund is to expand the universe of transparent and accessible Progressive Pathways to Post-Secondary Success. Progressive Pathways allow individuals to alternate between and combine periods of education/training and employment, and thereby progressively build toward college and career success over an extended period of time. Building on the selected accomplishments of the past year, and the financial support of 20+ workforce development and education funders, the Pro Path Fund looks forward to advancing the work of the Fund and progressive pathways ecosystem. Additionally, support is requested for an upcoming Career Readiness Framework cohort of funders and workforce development organizations to advance the workforce development field and increase coordination and standardization of career readiness. More information about the framework can be found here: https://cjc.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Career-Readiness-Framework.pdf