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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Start Early
Every Child Ready Chicago (ECRC) launched in 2020 as a public-private partnership led by the Mayor’s Office in partnership with Start Early. Together with a diverse group of stakeholders, we are working to ensure that all children in Chicago, particularly those who live in historically under-resourced communities, have access to the opportunities they need to enter kindergarten ready to succeed in school and life. This multi-year collective effort works to align the various prenatal-to-5 systems and supports serving Chicago’s children and families under a shared vision of success. Building a strong early childhood systems infrastructure in Chicago will ensure that our youngest residents have the opportunity to reach their full potential, will provide families the resources they need to support their children’s well-being, and will ultimately help close the racial and ethnic wealth gap.
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Metropolitan Planning Council
MPC's application supports the overall work of Great Rivers Chicago, with specific emphasis on: - Ensuring that the Task Force can continue beyond 2023 through working with the Department of Planning and Development and Friends of the Chicago River to help it become self-sustaining. - Advancing and strengthening current policies and practices around river development and land use to better align with Task Force principles. - Developing resources to augment the existing guidelines and documents that currently guide development. - Integrating the Our Great Rivers grantees more formally into the Task Force meeting structure to ensure they are getting the support they need from civic and government stakeholders and partners.
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Design Trust Chicago
Design Trust Chicago requests a grant of $46,000 from The Chicago Community Trust to develop a Sustainable Business and Revenue Plan during the year ahead. The Plan will build on the work completed and formalized document created in 2022, when DTC collaborated with Daylight, a systemic design studio offering strategy consulting to the social impact sector, to develop a two-year Strategic Action Plan to guide the organization during 2022-23, as the organization builds non-profit operational capacity and organizational systems. The Strategic Action Plan, supported, in part, by a grant from The Trust, includes an operational framework for providing the organization’s core services: affordable, community-based design services in historically under-resourced and disinvested communities in Chicago and developing tools for advancing equity in the built environment; with a focus on moving past traditional philanthropic models, toward a more sustainable model of relying on design services revenue to support community design work. The process of developing a Sustainable Business and Revenue Plan will provide an opportunity for DTC founders and staff, board members and advisors, to collaborate with qualified professional planners, who have knowledge of community-based design services and not-for-profit revenue models, to explore and identify sources of earned and contributed revenue that will support DTC’s growth and ensure its longevity, while remaining an affordable, accessible resource for community groups. The proposed plan will also explore options for an expanded DTC staffing structure that will be required to implement the new plan. The planning and development process will be conducted from April through September; culminating in a final Sustainable Business and Revenue Plan produced in December, with implementation beginning in January 2024.
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Michael Reese Health Trust
The Chicagoland Vaccine Partnership (CVP) mobilizes and educates trusted community leaders to share quality information about COVID, Monkeypox, RSV, flu and specific community health challenges in an effort to grow public health infrastructure and skills and elevate coordination between community, government, health care and philanthropy.
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Become Inc
BECOME’s strategies and activities are centered on collaborating with communities to develop sustainable solutions, expanding community capacity to implement those solutions, and creating lasting movement toward a shared community vision. BECOME creates an environment for the community to transcend structural barriers and challenges. We co-create structures and practices to support the community in sustaining change and creating an environment for people to become their ACTUALIZED self by living in, out and through the grandest version of themselves. BECOME has developed Culturally Responsive Community Transformation (CRCT) as an innovative model for bringing residents together to identify their collective goals for social transformation within the boundaries of their neighborhood and collaboratively create pathways to turn their community insight into action. BECOME is expanding our revolutionary community transformation in Auburn Gresham by piloting the development of our first Culturally Responsive Community Transformation Hub that serves to build community capacity and social transformation from the inside out with community-driven strategic planning, facilitation, and coalition building. Through this model, we concentrate all of our services in a neighborhood, working with community residents, facilitating and building their capacity to achieve their collective goals for transformation. We work with them for the long-term until their vision of a thriving community is realized.
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Trust For Public Land
To strengthen the Chicago Infrastructure Reuse network ("the Network") of organizations working to reimagine underused public infrastructure for social, environmental, health and economic benefit for Chicagoans. Established in 2021 with support from The Chicago Community Trust, the Network convenes community leaders, elected officials and city planners to learn from one another, identify areas of need and opportunity, and complete projects led by the individuals who will benefit from the resulting improved infrastructure.
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South Shore Chamber Community Development Corporation
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Borderless Magazine NFP
Borderless has experienced rapid growth in the last three years. Thanks to the support of the Chicago Community Trust and others, we have made tangible impacts in the immigration news ecosystem in Chicago. Through our multilingual reporting, Borderless is reaching communities in Chicago that few other news outlets are serving. We are providing critical information – from how to vote to where to find food and legal assistance – and holding those in power accountable through investigations into toxic polluters, immigrant detention centers and more. Through the resources, the Trust provided, we were also able to build up our capacities. We now have a small staff of five full-time employees. We have prioritized providing them with competitive salaries and favorable benefits packages. With your ongoing support, we will be able to continue providing our staff with competitive wages and equitable employee benefits such as health insurance and a retirement fund, as well as add new benefits such as life insurance and short-term disability. As a growing organization, our capacity is often challenged by our success. In order to keep up with our organization’s growth this year, we need to expand our accounting services. This is an important part of our day-to-day operations. The Trust’s support would also cover the cost of offloading those services from our staff to our accounting firm. In order to be sustainable, we need to be equipped with the essential capabilities needed to secure financial capital and grow and sustain it. Lastly, this meaningful investment from the Trust would help us increase the rates of our freelancers, making it possible for us to provide a fair wage based on their responsibilities and experience. We also need to consider the rising cost of living.