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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Chicago Architecture Foundation
The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) will serve as a key strategic partner for the Come Home Project, a City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development (DPD) and Department of Housing (DOH) initiative that seeks to create a community development model that will attract and welcome former Chicago residents “back home.” The CAC will organize four components to support this initiative: 1) Open Call for Entries: The CAC will create a request for qualifications (RFQ) for architects and developers with the goal of creating 7-10 architect/developer teams that will create housing solutions in line with DPD’s and DOH’s vision. 2) Design Sprint: The architect/developer teams that the CAC assembles, with regular guidance by the CAC and our partner organization MUSE, will participate in a 60-Day “Design Sprint” program that will yield the new housing designs to populate the Pattern Book and guide the production of future housing in selected neighborhoods. 3) Pattern Book. The CAC, with partner Studio J9, will create the pattern book of common housing typologies that will provide City workers and interested developers with a vital resource for getting timely project approvals and assurances of a quality product, when needed. 4) The New Housing Exhibition. Drawing from the materials produced thus far, the CAC will create and host a New Housing Exhibition to share Come Home Project concepts with the public.
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Community Foundation of Will County
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Greater Chatham Initiative Inc
Planning for the fourth cohort of the FoodLab Chicago, the proposed program will expand to include the Englewood and Bronzeville communities. Program expansion will include formation of new partnerships to achieve community expansion. Under the proposed programming, local restaurateurs will continue to receive education and technical assistance to drive their overall profitability, create quality work environments, and support the development of dining districts that are culturally distinct to local Chicago communities.
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Greenwood Archer Capital, Inc.
In 2021, Greenwood Archer Capital (GAC) f/k/a Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Micro Finance Group and Business Services Collective joined forces to create a pilot to deliver an eco-system of support to contractors. Our partnership offers back-office services readiness for accessing capital leading to access to construction projects with the financial readiness and the ability to bid and successfully complete the projects. Through the pilot we support businesses within our collective portfolios and a network of 400+ businesses. Chicago’s real estate market could witness billions of dollars of investment over the next decade. Our partnership aims to create the pathway for subcontractors of color to be poised for these opportunities in the future.
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Law and Civics Reading and Writing Institute
The Law & Civics Reading and Writing Institute’s (LCRWI) Sustainable Communities Initiative has prioritized the creation of an Environmental Justice Initiative in South Chicago’s impoverished urban communities whereby environmental assessments of soil, water, and air quality will be performed at the community scale by community members for the ultimate purpose of providing real-time environmental health information to community members via a mobile platform (i.e., smartphone app) in real-time. Environmental health metrics such as nutrition accessibility, soil, water, and air quality are urgently needed to protect the physical health of these communities and undo the economic harms that a highly polluted environment has on community growth and investment.
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President and Fellows of Harvard College
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The Beyond the Groove Foundation
The mission of the Beyond the Groove Foundation (“BTGF”) is to direct and empower Chicago youth and young adults through music, technology, educational, cultural and recreational activities. The BTGF was founded by the Chosen Few DJs - a Chicago-based crew of African American DJs who were instrumental in the founding, growth and development of Chicago House Music - as a vehicle to give back to the community and to assist in providing safe, fun and culturally enriching activities for youth and adults. This application seeks funding to help BTGF’s support of the 30th Anniversary Chosen Few Picnic & Festival (the "Picnic"), which after cancellation in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be held on July 2, 2022 in Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago. The Picnic is a beloved event in Chicago’s African American community that furthers the mission of the BTGF and has a significant social, cultural and economic impact on the South Side community where it is held. Through music, dance, communion, fellowship and peace, we engage in powerful civic storytelling concerning the origins of a now worldwide genre of music - and the culture that surrounds it - that was proudly born in Chicago's African American community.