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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KENNETH YOUNG CENTER
Kenneth Young Center aims to increase trust and relationship-building and build the foundation for long-term racial healing and anti-racism in Chicago’s Northwest suburbs in partnership with Trickster Cultural Center, a 501c3 Native American cultural center. The project will be youth-led, adult-supported and will engage all members of the community, through the Communities for Positive Youth Development Coalition, in discussions, activities and events about racial equity, diversity, and inclusion per COVID guidelines, and in accordance with positive youth development, restorative justice practices and traditional indigenous healing practices.
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ERIKSON INSTITUTE
Erikson Institute’s work in the early childhood field improves the lives of young children, lifting up families and the communities where they live. We approach all of our work with a racial equity lens so we may best serve the children and families in our care. With this in mind, Erikson understands that the work of restructuring inequitable systems begins with ourselves. Therefore, this fall, Erikson’s full-time faculty and staff have begun to participate in race equity trainings with Chicago ROAR. A grant from Healing Illinois will allow us to continue this work, expand training more widely across Erikson, and equip our community with the skills to create antiracist and anti-oppressive structures both outside and within our own walls.
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Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
This initiative will seek to promote racial healing by organizing a series of community meetings with parents and youth. We will examine the systemic racism that is perpetrated through an over reliance on policing in communities and in schools. We will host 4 community dialogue events, two youth-focused and two adult-focused. Participants will be invited to take part in recorded interviews that to explore their personal experiences. All footage would be used to create a montage video to be shared publicly to help foster public dialogue on racial healing and systemic change. Community leaders will apply the skills learned to BPNC’s policy change campaign addressing policies that have caused systemic harm to Black and Brown communities.
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Public Narrative
Public Narrative and Thrive Chicago request funding to provide racial healing practitioner and communications training to male educators of color to build their capacity to influence policies across Chicago Public Schools (CPS) that foster greater equity for BYMOC and increased retention rates for male educators of color. Research shows that male educators of color have a profound impact on student achievement, particularly for BYMOC. This project will better enable male educators of color to serve students, model the role boys and young men can and must play as healers in their communities, and how to leverage communications skills to facilitate narrative change and advance racial equity for BYMOC across all sectors.
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FULL SPECTRUM FEATURES NFP
This application proposes a project consisting of three activities that center racial healing and the implementation of equity initiatives. Full Spectrum’s Executive Director and Director of Operations have participated in racial healing circles and believe in the importance of healing through honest conversation and self reflection. First and foremost, we want to invite our staff, board and artist network into a healing space because we believe that every human should be given the opportunity to engage and experience healing.
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Court Theatre Fund
Court Theatre is committed to becoming a fully anti-racist organization by identifying structures and policies that are remnants of systemic white supremacy. Court recognizes three equal stakeholders in this work: the theatre, the UChicago community, and Chicago’s South Side residents. Internally, Court is working to create more equitable hiring practices, workday structures, racially sensitive conflict resolution, and training for all employees and partners of the theatre. Externally, Court is working to create deeper relationships with South Side community organizers and pipelines of access to education and career opportunities in theatre. Integral to this are mechanisms for accountability to stakeholders and the reporting of progress.
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Enlace Chicago
Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings
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Chicago Foundation for Women
In 2017, CFW launched the Englewood Women’s Initiative (EWI), a place-based, community-centered and holistic approach to women’s economic security. Through the EWI, CFW leads, convenes and supports a strategic alliance of agencies who work together to support women in the Englewood community seeking to increase their and their families’ economic security. The overarching 5-year goal is to ensure that at least 60 women achieve a stable income of $40,000 or more per year. It is our broader vision that the EWI serves as a scale-able model for supporting women’s journey to economic security by meeting them where they are and addressing systemic barriers that prevent their achievement.