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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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    Chicago Community Foundation

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $85,000

  • Grant Recipient

    Firebird Community Arts

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    Firebird is requesting $25,000 to build back office support by professionalizing and increasing hours to its part-time Administrative Assistant position; increasing Firebird’s capacity to both meet reporting requirements and apply for additional federal funds. Increasing the role of Administrative Assistant would free up the Development Director’s capacity to find and apply for additional funding opportunities.

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    Chicago Community Foundation

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $225,000

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    Workers Center for Racial Justice NFP

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

    Workers Center for Racial Justice’s policy work in 2023 will include advocacy around specific policies that serve to reduce the racial wealth gap, and will also include an intentional focus on preparing for other upcoming policy fights. This will include building out our issues committees, having conversations with community members and legislators to build public and political will, developing strategic narratives around the policies we are working to advance, and using multiple communications channels to build widespread awareness of our proposed policy solutions and the issues they address. Our grassroots leaders have conceptualized the LIFTUP Workers & Families campaign, a grassroots policy initiative aimed at creating high-quality, living wage jobs for formerly incarcerated workers, expanding childcare access for working families, improving working conditions for early education providers, eliminating the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers, and ending the permanent punishments that prevent formerly incarcerated persons from attaining financial stability after they have completed their sentences. The specific policies we will be working on this year include our SAFER Communities Act, a job-creation program for formerly incarcerated Illinoisans that will help them achieve stability and financial security through state-subsidized, living-wage jobs (while also benefiting BIPOC-owned small businesses); and the One Fair Wage campaign, which seeks to end the sub-minimum wage in Illinois, a relic of slavery that disproportionately impacts women of color and is a huge contributor to the racial wealth gap. In terms of capacity building and issues awareness, we will be focusing on building out our issues committees, focusing on our Childcare Committee and Dignity at Work Committee in particular. To successfully advance the various components of the LIFT UP campaign, WCRJ needs to grow each committee, provide in-depth training on the legislative process, and support them in leading the development and dissemination of transformative narratives around the issues, to build public support for their proposed solutions.

  • Grant Recipient

    The Chicago Community Trust

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $7,172

  • Grant Recipient

    The Chicago Community Trust

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $300,000

  • Grant Recipient

    The Chicago Community Trust

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $350,000

  • Grant Recipient

    Chicago Community Foundation

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $278,256