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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Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation
The Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation (ILLCF) seeks funding to support its public policy work. Each year ILLCF produces a comprehensive report, “Raices,” that informs the policy priorities of the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation across five issue areas that affect the Latino community. Staying true to its core belief that policy priorities must be informed and produced in collaboration with the community, each year ILLCF hosts a large-scale conference that brings community members, policy makers, academics, and coalition-based organizations together to collectively inform and design Raices.
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Hope Chicago Inc
Hope Chicago requests a $200,000 grant from the Chicago Community Trust in support of our work to address growing concerns around the lack of social mobility, economic development, and education access for students and parents on the South and West sides of Chicago. Hope Chicago is uniquely designed to uplift families and the local economy through a two-generation scholarship model, for which we are primarily seeking support. In early 2022, we were able to announce that every student who earned a diploma from our five partner Chicago high schools would receive last-dollar scholarship funds, including financial support for room and board, books, additional fees and stipends to cover necessary expenses, toward their chosen postsecondary pathway. However, we firmly believe that addressing intergenerational inequities requires multigenerational action, which is why we are investing in both the students and their parents. The Parent Scholar Program is an opportunity available to one parent or guardian of a Hope Scholar that has graduated from one of our five partner schools, and that has received their own high school diploma or GED. The Parent Scholar Program allows parents or guardians to choose from the following postsecondary pathways: complete a 2-year or Associate’s Degree, complete a 4-year or Bachelor’s degree, complete a vocational degree or certificate, or complete a workforce or job training program. We are currently establishing many formal partnerships with a variety of colleges, universities, non-profit organizations and corporations in working to creatively and holistically support Parent Scholars. We have already formally partnered with the Chicago Urban League and Instituto del Progreso Latino, two organizations recognized for their work in serving families and communities, to provide direct case management support to Parent Scholars. We refer to these organizations as our community-based anchor partners because they are rooted in the communities we serve. If we were to gain The Trust’s support, we would utilize the resources to bring this work to scale and ensure that household wealth is increasing in the communities that need it the most, through equitable skill and educational attainment for parents and students alike.
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South Side Weekly NFP
With the merger with the Hyde Park Herald last year, South Side Weekly NFP is now a multi-newsroom operation reaching tens of thousands of South Siders every month in print and online. We are seeking general operating support to build shared editorial infrastructure to better support the direct involvement of community members in our newsrooms.
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Cicero Independiente
We are seeking project support for the development of a Youth and Schools reporting beat.
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Chicago Community Foundation
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Public Narrative
The overarching goal of this project is to maximize Public Narrative's impact throughout all 77 Chicago communities. 'PN77: Advancing Equity of Voice through Media and Community Literacy' will rehabilitate the frayed relationships among communities of color and journalists to facilitate authentic storytelling through communications and media literacy training starting with community safety service providers on the South and West Sides. We will build the capacity of journalists to understand Communities of Color (COC) and the impact of their stories on COC; We'll also build the capacity of communities to engage with media and establish a pipeline of storytellers for COC.
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True Star Foundation Inc
True Star respectfully requests $75,000 of renewed funding from the Chicago Community Trust to invest in its infrastructure and build capacity to take on its growth and invest in its long-term strategies, which include: 1) youth media; 2) Saturday workshop series; and 3) True Star's social enterprise in which advanced youth creators and marketers provide services to small business and other non-profits.
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True Star Foundation Inc
True Star is proposing to expand the scope and reach of its #ChangeChi violence prevention program by creating and disseminating additional youth-developed content and launching its Mood: A Guide to Managing Feelings workshops. #ChangeChi is a violence prevention, community safety and equity campaign founded by True Star’s Youth Violence Prevention Ambassadors (YVPA) in 2020 to ensure that schools, police and young people have the tools to de-escalate conflict within homes, classrooms and communities.