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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Chinese Mutual Aid Association Inc
Endeavoring to always reflect the diversity of the community of low income refugees and immigrants that we serve, CMAA is requesting support to hold a series of facilitator-led workshops for our staff and home care aides on topics related to diversity, inclusion and racial equity. Additionally, we are seeking support to create an anti-discrimination webpage, as a part of of CMAA’s website, which will act as a navigation page for those pursuing resources on anti-discrimination. This funding will be allocated towards hiring a professional facilitator; staff time to organize the events and translation costs for our home care aides; compensation for staff agency wide to attend the workshops; as well as staff time in developing the webpage.
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L ARCHE CHICAGO
For far too long and in the vast majority of leadership conversations, advocacy for disability justice has failed to include and intersect with advocacy for racial equity. This is true among Illinois' disability service providers and it has been true of our organization. L'Arche Chicago, with full backing from its board of directors, staff and clients, seeks grant funding to partner with Crossroads Antiracism - CROAR. The project and partnership would enable L'Arche to embark on a journey of organizational introspection and evaluation, building language, awareness and tangible systems that positively affect racial equity within our organization. We envision leveraging our learnings to influence local disability service providers.
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FREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP
Free Spirit Media seeks funding to create and virtually screen films/videos and a collaborative PSA that confronts racism and explores potential solutions. The 3-5 hybrid screenings and round tables will showcase a multitude of independent media pieces meant to unite, build from shared experiences and dispel myths propagated to divide. The range of media produced will leverage historic knowledge and rich context from community members across Chicago, allowing for complex conversations, transparency, further understanding of intersectionality, healing and collective growth. Each event will be uniquely structured and moderated by media makers, collaborators, community members or subject matter experts, and broadcasted on multiple platforms.
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Court Theatre Fund
Court Theatre is committed to becoming a fully anti-racist organization by identifying structures and policies that are remnants of systemic white supremacy. Court recognizes three equal stakeholders in this work: the theatre, the UChicago community, and Chicago’s South Side residents. Internally, Court is working to create more equitable hiring practices, workday structures, racially sensitive conflict resolution, and training for all employees and partners of the theatre. Externally, Court is working to create deeper relationships with South Side community organizers and pipelines of access to education and career opportunities in theatre. Integral to this are mechanisms for accountability to stakeholders and the reporting of progress.
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BEVERLY ART CENTER
Beverly Arts Center (BAC) requests support for the performance of “Front Porch Society,” by Beverly-resident Melda Beaty, accompanied by three moderated discussions on racial injustice with community members, law enforcement and other leaders of the 19th Ward. With themes that appear cut out of today’s headlines, the play surrounds a family facing the generational trauma of racism and police brutality, juxtaposed against the backdrop of the evening on which America elected its first Black president. Through this project, we hope that all members of the community will have an understanding and agreement that systemic racism is a root cause to the racial inequity in our community, and can identify actions to combat racial inequity.
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Enlace Chicago
Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings
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Chicago Jobs Council
The Chicago Jobs Council seeks a grant to support the cost of an Executive Search consultant to assist the Jobs Council’s Board Transition Committee to hire the next Executive Director.
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Woodstock Institute
Woodstock seeks support to collaboratively: (1) Convene / lead the Community Reinvestment Act Coalition; (2) Convene / lead the IL Payday Lending Coalition; (3) Participate in the IL Asset Building Group; (4) Support the policy and research agenda of the Transit Table; and (5) Participate in the Housing Policy Roundtable. We play three primary roles in each: (1) Conduct applied research that helps stakeholders understand impediments to creating more equitable economic systems; (2) Develop policy recommendations to address racial and economic disparities; and (3) Advocate for policy changes in collaboration with community partners that encourage investment and protects consumers in racially and economically segregated neighborhoods.