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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Celestial Ministries Association
This grant will go to support and enhance CMA’s Drumline program for the month of June. The funds will be used to compensate each drummer for participating for the month with $125 each. Funds will also provide partial compensation for the program manager. The drummer stipend will serve as an incentive to keep students engaged throughout the entire month of June, including two practices per week and 1-2 performances each week. Funds will also allow this program to meet an additional day each week in June for movie night, which will be hosted in CMA’s Community Garden located in the North Lawndale community. Movie night will be open to all youth in the community (even those not in CMA Drumline Program) ages 12-18 with an anticipated headcount of 25-30 youth and children each movie night.
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Faithful Few
We intend to expand our services to include an additional 40-60 young ladies to Provide youth training in violence prevent with Strategies for Inner City Youth as Presented by the Memorial Center. This program coupled with a girls basketball will provide us with a new group of Peace Ambassadors for a safer community. This is in partnership with the Chicago Park District. This will cover the June gap in services of when CPS closes for the year and the Park District's summer programming begins (JUNE 6-26)
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Urban Explorers of Chicago
We’re "Soaring to New Heights" this summer with STEAM (Extended Explorer Camp and Weekend Kite Festival). Our programming will operate during the June gap (June 6th-26th—multiple days & locations).
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Colaj
Colaj will organize youth workshops and events during the week of June 12th, including two-day art workshops in drawing, digital illustration, and photography. These activities will foster creativity and artistic expression among participants. Additionally, we will host an end-of-school-year celebration on June 21st to commemorate children's achievements and provide a fun-filled experience for families at South Chicago Public Library. The funds will be used to supply necessary equipment, materials, and prizes for the activities. Our skilled staff members will facilitate the workshops and oversee the event to ensure its success.
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Fuller Park Community Development Corporation
School’s Out 2023 Youth Film Festival Fuller Park Community Development Corporation proposes to fill the gap between June 6th and June 26 for our neighborhood youth with a School's Out Youth Film Festival. Neighborhood children will be recruited prior to June 6th to enroll in our mini filmmaking day camp at Eden Place Nature Center and Eden Place Farm. These are our two community-focused family outdoor learning facilities, with a 20-year history of providing meaningful non-formal education on Chicago’s South Side, and where we will use our decades of experience working with neighborhood youth, teaching and involving them in real-life projects in environmental education and stewardship, STEM education, animal husbandry, forestry, and land ethics, to make this gap time safe, productive, and enjoyable. We will draw upon our in-depth experience with media production to teach the youth to use iPads, camcorders and computer systems to write a simple film script. Campers will then create a 5-minute video about their 2023 school year and what they want to achieve during the summer. The mini film and technology camp will end with a neighborhood film festival screening the new films created by the camp film creators. The community will be invited to witness the work of our youth to see and hear the voices of our next generation of Chicago directors and filmmakers, who will be following in the footsteps of Melvin Van Peebles, Robert Townsend, Larenz Tate, Shonda Rhimes, and others. We will follow the Seven Field Principles model in this film festival program, with youth from ages 11 – 18 eligible to participate. We also have been partnering with Comcast and other funders for several years to create a media production curriculum and center, and our state of the art production booth will be available during the gap period, so this grant opportunity comes at a perfect time for us to help young people during this critical gap in services.
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The Garden of Love
The Garden of Love has two community gardens that are open and accessible to the community. We host book clubs, garden days, movie nights and more events and activities throughout the year. During the course of the year the Garden of Love works with a number of families and individuals looking for ways to come together in a safe environment and we love to provide that for them. Over the June 6-26 period the Garden of Love will work with 25 youth ranging from ages 5-18. As we begin to incorporate our summer activities the hope is to be able to take our young people on field trips in and around the Chicago land area to provide exposure and education allowing our participants the opportunity to learn not just about their community but also the surrounding areas. The hope is that they will take the experience and find creative ways to bring what they have learned back to the garden thus incorporating new activities and starting new conversations during our RJ circles. Additionally, we will work with our young people to bring in new ideas and assist with the garden and our newest project the incorporation of the Nature Play Garden, giving them something to be proud of and talk to people for generations to come.
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Superior Block Club Association
Funday at Funway Family Park, youth will have the opportunity to have a fun-filled, activity-packed day. They can choose from over 8 activities which include bowling roller skating, laser tag, and so much more. Youth can use this time to build positive relationships with other youth in their community. Building a Better Community Bike Ride. Superior Blk club has partnered with faith-based organizations, to not only get the community out but to get them active. Divvy will provide bikes for adults, however, children are not able to ride Divvy. Superior would like to provide 25 children with bikes not only to ride in the event but to take home with them so they can ride in the community safely.
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Institute for Positive Living
The goal of the Institute for Positive Living is to provide programming for inner-city youth during out of school time. Our programming provides extracurricular and social-emotional programming that caters to the whole child. Our intentional goal for gap programming during the dates of June 6-26 has been intentionally created to provide a safe space for youth between the ages of 5-17. Through programming students will gain a better sense of identity and agency by way of being given the tools to form new passions and create positive relationships. It is our intention to serve as many as 40 youth....which we currently house in our afterschool programming. Our data reveals that youth flourish when they are given a safe space to be themselves and are surrounded by vested stakeholders who want to see youth grow socially and academically.