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…
Grants
Featured
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.
Explore Our Discretionary Grants
Showing 2531–2538 of 4056 results
-
Grant Recipient
TWISTED EGGROLL, LLC
Twisted Egg Roll will facilitate an expansion from The Hatchery Chicago 135 N. Kedzie to 657 E. 87th Street within the historic Grand Crossing community. Due to the consumer demand for our delectable egg rolls, it is incumbent upon us to acquire and renovate the 6,500 sq f commercial property near 75th Langley. The new Twisted Egg Roll commercial/production kitchen will allow us to increase our distribution capacity for local Chicago based groceries Foxtrot and Green Grocer Chicago. We believe that we will bring new life to this remarkable building and we will be a welcome addition to the renown 75th Street business corridor known as Restaurant Row. Twisted Egg roll is a frozen packaged product that approaches the traditional egg roll with an infused spin. Our current packaged product flavors include Buffalo Chicken, Veggie Southwestern and Cheese steak. We do currently offer a fresh made to order catering service in the Chicago area that delivers our extended menu featuring additional flavors: chicken fajita, pizza, mac and cheese and dessert cheesecake and sweet potato egg rolls.
-
Grant Recipient
OBSIDIAN COLLECTION ARCHIVES
The Obsidian Collection Archives creates access to factual accounts of Black life curated from an infinite collection of personal, institutional and Black legacy press archives. We are essentially a tech-nonprofit organization creating modern-day solutions for Black journalism. If the Chicago Community Trust grants us this additional funding, we will be able to continue telling meaningful stories, preserving important Black history and bring true assistance to Black media. For example, few people know that Bronzeville had more economic wealth than Harlem during its Renaissance. The April 1938 issue of Time Magazine noted that Bronzeville had over $100,000 per capita than the residents of Harlem, NY. Telling the factual stories of the SUCCESSES of Black Chicago will help the future generations understand the steps and directions towards increase Black wealth in Chicago.
-
Grant Recipient
The Chicago Community Trust
-
Grant Recipient
Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
-
Grant Recipient
The Conservation Fund
This application seeks operational funding to expand capacity of the Working Farms Fund program in metro Chicago. The Working Farms Fund program is an innovative model to support a resilient regional food system by addressing farmland as a critical piece of supply chain infrastructure. Specifically designed to enable talented and diverse growers to scale production to meet institutional demand for local food, the Working Farms Fund protects critical at-risk farmland and offers a path to farmland ownership as the basis for business resiliency and intergenerational wealth creation.
-
Grant Recipient
Alt Space Chicago
alt_ is an artist-led non-profit organization, based in Chicago, Illinois, dedicated to revitalizing communities through art and culture. alt_ strives to spark dialogue and pioneer tangible acts of service using art and faith as tools that galvanize impassioned, self-sufficient communities. Founded as a collaboration between Jon Veal and Jordan Campbell, alt_ was a response to the trauma they witnessed in their community and their belief that art could be used as a resource for healing. The debut alt_ program, “Project Stamp”, was a free family photo day which attracted over 100 Austin residents. Project Stamp provided an opportunity for alt_ to collect powerful images of residents, learn about their experiences, and develop a deeper understanding of their individual and collective stories. Youth in the community were then recruited to assist in using the photographs for community beautification by “stamping” larger than life images on abandoned and boarded up buildings. Stamping the neighborhood with their own narrative and their own legacy led to continued dialogue, increased engagement and a rich archive of community history which alt_ has begun to use for continued planning and collective action. The initiative, funded by a grant through the Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities, became the model for future projects geared toward preparing youth and young adults to become leaders and advocates in their community. For example, alt_ Academy utilizes a creative placemaking pedagogy for youth entitled “Creating Live Art for the Youth (C.L.A.Y.)”. Through this initiative, alt_ guides youth in understanding how social and cultural environments impact the health, education, and vocational prospects of the community, while challenging them to develop their individual aspirations into concrete action. alt_ has also embarked on an ambitious initiative to serve as an incubator for workforce development. With a focus on young adults, projects like alt_ [b.i.n.] and Redemptive Plastics create job and training opportunities for the next generation of artists, visionaries and leaders seeking to positively disrupt their communities. This committment to the Austin community has resulted in over 100 youth receiving training using the C.L.A.Y. curriculum since 2019 and those youth reporting a change in their perceptions of how their own actions can create and sustain changes in the community. Many of those youth have gone on to serve as volunteers, advocates and create their own projects and initiatives aimed at community change.
-
Grant Recipient
CARA PROGRAM
-
Grant Recipient
Chicagos Sunshine Enterprises Inc
Next Level Exchange’s (NLE) vision is to be the central Chicago Area intersection of a growing community of diverse entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations offering entrepreneur support programs, and the established business community. Through these relationships, NLE will accelerate efforts to create an inclusive and growing business community that supports opportunity and wealth creation in often overlooked and under-resourced communities. Next Level Exchange’s mission is to support BSOs and their client/entrepreneurs through high-quality, meaningful, and long-term mentor relationships with established business owners, executives, and professionals; networking opportunities; and ongoing business education. Sunshine Enterprises is applying on behalf of the Next Level Exchange collaborative for $75,000 to grow the NLE program and prepare for it to scale over the next 3-5 years. The NLE collaborative also includes the Chicago Urban League (CUL), the Women’s Business Development Center (WBDC), and Bruce Taylor (NLE co-founder and volunteer). During the grant period NLE plans to run 3 cohorts of the year-long NLE mentoring program, serving 45 unique entrepreneurs; host 7-8 events (workshops, town halls, networking events, mentor huddles, and a graduation) for current and past NLE participants; refine and operationalize an NLE Playbook; fundraise a budget of $245K; bring on a full-time NLE staff member to coordinate and lead the NLE program; and after that staff is onboarded, explore options for adding a fourth BSO partner. Within five years NLE seeks to: - Grow the collaborative program to include 5 BSO's - Annually match 75 diverse entrepreneurs who have successfully completed an entrepreneurship training program at one of the NLE partner organizations with an experienced business professional - Provide ongoing support to all past and present participants in the program by delivering at least four workshops per year on topics of importance to business owners, a minimum of three networking events where meaningful connections can be made, and the opportunity to be matched with new mentors.