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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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    Youth Services of Glenview-Northbrook

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $40,000

    The Pride Youth Program provides social, support, and leadership programming to more than 250 LGBTQ+ youth ages 4-24 and their families. The funds from this grant will help us provide programming that meets the unique needs of LGBTQ+ youth and their families, with a focus on (1) providing additional supports and resources for Spanish-speaking families, (2) supporting other community organizations in creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth and families, and (3) creating paid leadership opportunities for LGBTQ+ high school youth.

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    AIDS Foundation of Chicago

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $35,000

    Support from The Chicago Community Trust will support AIDS Foundation Chicago’s (AFC) work to advance access to high-quality employment opportunities for transgender women, particularly Black and Latinx women in Chicago. AFC staff will: 1) Expediate participants access to employment services and workforce development opportunities; 2) Identify and reduce burdens, barriers, and competing priorities that threaten their retention in meaningful employment; and 3) Increase employers’ awareness of the assets and benefits of employing trans women and establishing culturally competent and trauma-informed work environments.

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    AFFINITY COMMUNITY SERVICES

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $45,000

    Our project request funding to support the cost of maintaining and expanding our south-side based intergenerational safe space that centers the needs of Black lesbian, bisexual, transgender women, and Black trans/nonbinary people assigned female at birth. The project will recruit and train eleven additional peer leaders to facilitate monthly support groups at our location. Funding is also requested to support the training of peer leaders and transportation and supplies for participants of peer-led programming.

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    Immigrant Solidarity Dupage

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $15,000

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    SIT Hub

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $40,000

    We are thrilled to apply to the Chicago Community Trust’s LGBTQ Fund for a second time. We are grateful to have been awarded our first-ever organizational grant from the trust in 2020 for HireTransNow and are now ready to request funding for its partner initaitive, GetTrained. The Trust LGBTQ Fund’s mission, vision, values, and aims align closely with our own and we cannot imagine a more fitting partner as we take the next steps with GetTrained and offer educational support. As our Collective embarks upon our next wave of recruitment for HireTransNow, we are seeking funds to enhance our educational offerings to trans-affirming employers in Chicago. We want to ensure that organizations of all staff and budget sizes have access to Trans-Inclusive Diversity Equity and Inclusion DEI training in Chicago. Specifically, we want all employers committed to HireTransNow to have adequate access to educational resources that prepare them to successfully recruit, interview, and hire transgender and non-binary job candidates. While our participating employers currently receive free one-on-one consultation and open community trainings through HireTransNow, employers do not have acces to staff training that is individualized to their industry, business, and unique needs. and make their workplaces as affirming as possible to their new transgender and non-binary staff.

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    Equality Illinois Institute

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    Equality Illinois Institute, a 501c3 nonprofit which conducts education and outreach on behalf of the state's LGBTQ+ community, seeks $50,000 in general operating support with a particular eye on helping us grow the capacity of LGBTQ+ individuals from under-represented communities in the Chicagoland area.

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    About Face Theatre Collective

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    About Face Theatre respectfully requests general operating support for its ongoing initiatives focused on community safety and sustainable employment in the nonprofit arts and education.

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    Center on Halsted

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $30,000

    The LGBTQ+ Older Adult Employment Program will be a year-long multi-faceted employment program designed to address the unique challenges and barriers faced by LGBTQ+ older adults in securing employment and obtaining financial security. The program is for LGBTQ+ people aged 45+ and involves three components: --An intensive ten-day Employment Bootcamp Program designed to build skills and connect older adults to employment in a highly focused time frame. --Individualized employment counseling --Career development workshops for those 45+