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Our Grantmaking Strategy

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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    Elastic Arts Foundation

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

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    Simple Good

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $20,000

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    OPEN Center for the Arts

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

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    Sisters in Cinema

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $30,000

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    Metropolitan Planning Council

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $183,000

    We Rise 2.0 will engage up to 5 project leads, all of whom will be in the construction phase of project development. The project team will identify firms focused on real estate development, engineering, construction, and related industries for cultivation and onboarding as corporate partners or reasonable cost service providers. This new working group will troubleshoot and navigate problems associated with City and utility hookup processes.

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    Chicago Community Foundation

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $200,000

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    Business Services Collective NFP

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $45,000

    BSC anticipates significant federal, state and local funding opportunities over the next 24 months specifically within the DEI/ MWBE spend category in construction as well as in the solar, energy efficiency, weatherization, smart grid and green infrastructure space. To be ready for these opportunities through our conversations with our partners, we have identified audit, accounting capacity, conducting thorough audit prep, audit management and improve our internal controls as well as hiring a govt grant writer / consultant to advise on data collection and reporting, to a state of readiness for pre-application of federal grants as well as to advise us on negotiating “indirect rate” for federal contracts. Through these investments in our systems, we believe that BSC will be ready to capture and deliver on federal funding opportunities.

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    One Fair Wage Inc

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

    One Fair Wage is a national movement building organization dedicated to raising wages and improving working conditions in the service sector (including restaurant, other tipped occupations, and gig workers), building worker power across the service sector, and ending all subminimum wages in the United States. One Fair Wage engages in policy shift, organizing service workers and ‘high road’ employers for policy to raise wages and end subminimum wages; industry shift, to support ‘high road’ restaurant owners and pressure ‘low road’ corporations to raise wages and equity for their own employees; and narrative shift, to change public perception of who service workers are and what they deserve. We seek support to organize workers, employers and allies to advance policy and system changes to end the subminimum wage for tipped workers in Illinois and simultaneously support employers through the process.