Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
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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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ANGEL OF GOD RESOURCE CENTER
Our effort will harness the transformative power of authentic relationships to find emotional healing and pragmatic solutions to discard the hierarchy of human value that has inflicted pain and suffering in communities of color for centuries. New neuroscience research reveals that individuals should seek healing for grief, pain, trauma and anger. Provide a solid roadmap for Roseland: Self-Determination is the process of knowing what is best for our communities and acting upon. Holistic Approaches mean that community are strengthened through addressing the whole person: mind, body, spirit and emotions.
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APNA GHAR INC OUR HOME
Through this project we will reflect deeply on the legacy of systemic inequities and the generational impact, and recommit ourselves to a just and fair society informed by the experiences of the most marginalized. Our work will: Build understanding of racial healing/equity on the North and South sides & within Cook County. Increase trust/collaboration through the survivors of Apna Ghar, along with community leaders, faith-based organizations & non-profits. Create opportunities for healing. promote dialogue and facilitate learning through podcasts/workshops. Build long-term healing through a tool kit to uncover ongoing power imbalances/dynamics of racial inequities, and encourage a train the trainer approach across organizations.
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Public Narrative
Public Narrative and Thrive Chicago request funding to provide racial healing practitioner and communications training to male educators of color to build their capacity to influence policies across Chicago Public Schools (CPS) that foster greater equity for BYMOC and increased retention rates for male educators of color. Research shows that male educators of color have a profound impact on student achievement, particularly for BYMOC. This project will better enable male educators of color to serve students, model the role boys and young men can and must play as healers in their communities, and how to leverage communications skills to facilitate narrative change and advance racial equity for BYMOC across all sectors.
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Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
This initiative will seek to promote racial healing by organizing a series of community meetings with parents and youth. We will examine the systemic racism that is perpetrated through an over reliance on policing in communities and in schools. We will host 4 community dialogue events, two youth-focused and two adult-focused. Participants will be invited to take part in recorded interviews that to explore their personal experiences. All footage would be used to create a montage video to be shared publicly to help foster public dialogue on racial healing and systemic change. Community leaders will apply the skills learned to BPNC’s policy change campaign addressing policies that have caused systemic harm to Black and Brown communities.
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GUILD COMPLEX
The Guild requests $10,000 in support from the Healing Illinois initiative to help us fund our upcoming Press Room initiatives. Press Room is a one-year-old series of live events that asks what literary voices can add to important contemporary conversations in politics and current events. We invite participants to tell a story or read a piece of writing that relates to the given topic from a first-person perspective. These opportunities for dialogue and connection will be held in conjunction with the Guild’s ongoing commitment to offer diverse spaces and opportunities for writers, both established and new, throughout the city of Chicago. We believe that these discussions are integral in fostering new connections and driving action.
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FULL SPECTRUM FEATURES NFP
This application proposes a project consisting of three activities that center racial healing and the implementation of equity initiatives. Full Spectrum’s Executive Director and Director of Operations have participated in racial healing circles and believe in the importance of healing through honest conversation and self reflection. First and foremost, we want to invite our staff, board and artist network into a healing space because we believe that every human should be given the opportunity to engage and experience healing.
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THE IMMIGRATION PROJECT INC
TIP will collaborate with trained facilitators on two series of racial and restorative justice workshops for the Latinx and AAPI communities and host a book club for local non-profits. These series and book clubs will focus on racial healing and equity-informed practices so that attendees are given resources on how best to affirm BIPOC identities and serve the BIPOC immigrant community. We will also partner with local counselors to offer free mental health sessions to the local Latinx community in need of a safe space to talk through the hurt and discrimination they have faced. Additionally, children’s books on racial identity and affirmation will be purchased for the YWCA daycare and our office waiting area where children visit.
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Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center's (SRBCC) 50-year history includes multiple examples of advocacy and social justice initiatives in the context of the arts. While most of SRBCC's recent education initiatives are focused on music apprenticeships for the youth, SRBCC's board and staff are actively seeking support to bring more resources to Hermosa in the form of panel discussions, conversations, and workshops centered on anti-racism and anti-bias, specifically made by and for our community. SRBCC wants to be an agent for change in this historic time of racial reckoning by creating a model for an ongoing educational program to be offered in our community for years to come.