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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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    OTV OPEN TELEVISION INC

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $150,000

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    Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $75,000

    CAFHA will work with its Public Housing Authority Homeownership Program Coalition, made up of housing choice voucher holders, housing advocates and attorneys, real estate professionals, and other housing industry experts to promote recommendations developed through CCT-funded research under its 2020 Advancing Equitable Homeownership grant. CAFHA leads this coalition, resourced by our current CCT Growing Household Wealth grant, and promotes public housing authority homeownership program best practices, and advocates for policy and programmatic changes among housing authorities, HUD, and the lending and real estate industry. The aim of this effort is to scale up PHA homeownership programs to meet the desires of voucher holders and create a means to begin to repair the racial homeownership gap caused by public policy and actions of the real estate industry.

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    Definition Theatre Company

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $150,000

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    Era Footwork Foundation Inc

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $120,000

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    Firebird Community Arts

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $165,000

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    AUSTIN COMING TOGETHER

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $175,000

    Support will be used to expand the Austin Workforce Collaborative (AWC), a group of Austin-focused organizations who have a shared goal to see more Austin residents connected to jobs with wages that can support a family. Chicago’s Austin community is majority Black with a growing LatinX population. The pandemic has affected Austin more than other areas and has worsened challenges like access to living wage careers. Currently, the unemployment rate in Austin is 13% compared to 8% for the city of Chicago (according to cmap.illinois.gov). The AWC envisions a career-ready Austin workforce and is instrumental in connecting residents to resources and opportunities for job training and employment. This directly responds to the community’s “Austin Forward. Together.” quality-of-life plan and its goal to support revitalization in and by Austin.

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    AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER INC

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $150,000

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    South Chicago Dance Theatre

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $150,000