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 COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS
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AIDS Foundation of Chicago
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World Business Chicago
The City of Chicago (“The City”) is seeking separate Statements of Qualifications (“SOQs”) from Developers and Architects to begin redeveloping key areas of the West Garfield Park and Roseland neighborhoods. An Evaluation Jury will select developers and Designers and create Developer-Designer teams. Two firms will receive $75,000 (representing three "design excellence" stipends" and five firms will receive $25,000 (one 'design' excellence" stipend. The stipends will cover design related expenses using the funds from CCT. The goal is to support those designers who would not otherwise be financially able to fund a team to prepare a bid for the project.
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Calumet Collaborative
Local leaders in Chicago’s Riverdale community and their partners will continue to take steps to transform their local built environment and position the neighborhoods as a gateway to the Little Calumet River and Beaubien Woods. This project is part of ongoing, community-led placekeeping and economic development activities, where reinvestment will uplift living heritage, anchor existing community members, build community wealth and health, as well as lead to environmental restoration. Major funded activities would include Pre-development activities for community identified brick and mortar projects Creation of a development framework plan (working title is Reconnect Riverdale: A Living Heritage Framework for Community and Economic Development in the Riverdale Community Area) Site planning and some initial build-out of river bank community open spaces This grant would directly support Riverdale residents’ efforts to position themselves as the primary beneficiaries of upcoming Red Line expansion, riverbank investments, and redevelopment of vast amounts of publicly owned land.
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Greater Chicago Food Depository
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Center for Housing and Health
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E. G. Woode, L3C
The Englewood Hospitality Hub is a collaboration between the Tadros family and E.G. Woode, L3C to reimagine and redevelop the entire block from Morgan St to Carpenter St on the north side of 63rd St. The proposed project seeks to build off momentum E.G. Woode has generated with the opening of 1122 W 63rd Street by forming a new partnership with the T63 Development company, which is owned and operated by the Tadros family. By proposing to partner with E.G. Woode for the development of an entire block, the Tadros family are breaking years of precedent in Englewood where local property owners were not open to working with new community organizations on redeveloping neighborhood corridors and push the boundaries on how various community stakeholders can collaborate and work together in building better neighborhoods to live, work, and play. This application is for a planning and feasibility grant which will help cover expenses related to a legal review, financial feasibility study, activation plan, and property due diligence as part of Phase I of the project.
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Burst Into Books
n 2018, education professional, Jurema Gorham was in search of a book club for her 7 year old son who loved to read. Like many boys his age, Trey was into sports, but as a mother, Jurema was on the hunt for a program to stimulate his mind and engage in literacy outside of school hours. In addition she wanted the program to provide parental support. There was no luck. So Jurema did what any problem solving, thought leading parent and educator would do: she created a solution to bring impact to Chicago’s south side children, families and communities. And so Burst Into Books was born. Jurema recruited educated friends to join the team to support children ages 6 months to 18 years old. Jurema’s principal allowed her an opportunity to use her school as a space to host informational and book club meetings. Along with the team, over twenty people showed up at the informational. From there, they invited guest authors, formed groups based upon expertise, and researched book donations and grants. Art tables with crafts, games, chromebooks and online reading was made available. Jurema transformed the teacher lounge into a make-shift parent lounge so parents could use the time to read, relax or catch up on work emails. It was also important for the program to be free. As the program grew, the parents began to ask for support at home with their children’s academic studies. As a response, Burst Into Books introduced online workshops, Lit Talk. Through the online workshop initiative, reading specialists provided reading and writing tips for all ages and levels, once a month. Shortly afterwards, The Front Row was rolled out, an online Facebook Live show where literacy experts shared their stories on how they got into writing and answered questions in real time. Guests tuned in from all over. Philly, California, South Carolina, Vegas and more. Both Lit Talk and The Front Row promote literacy and provide powerful online workshops for the Burst Into Books community. Yoga was introduced to families while incorporating literacy. Story time and yoga with parents and children became a favorite. Then there were family Paint & Sip events in which Burst Into Books partnered with bookstores and introduced Family & Educator night. In order to fill the gap as it relates to the lack of diversity in book publicity, the organization spotlighted books by authors of color. By 2019, Burst Into Books has created a visible presence, providing diverse storytellers, and accessible reading programs that are culturally relevant in Roseland, Pullman, Englewood, Gresham, Auburn and Hyde Park, and by focusing on the unique needs of these individual Chicago communities.