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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WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC
WTTW respectfully requests The Chicago Community Trust’s consideration of a renewed grant of $150,000 to support WTTW News, our local affairs and journalism platform that has been serving the greater Chicago region for more than 35 years.
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Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago
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Immigration Project Inc.
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Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation
The ILBCF is seeking general operating funding to support its overarching operations and programmatic efforts for this fiscal year. The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation (ILBCF) established in 2002 has been at the forefront of addressing the needs of the Illinois' African American population. The mission of the I LBCF is to provide a forum for non-partisan educational research, public policy development, and analysis of various issues of social and economic importance for Illinois African-American communities. and to provide students throughout Illinois with scholarships and internship opportunities to adv a nee their educational goa Is. Please note that in 2021 the ILBCF gave its MILLIONTH DOLLAR in scholarships. Funding is necessary to ensure the sustainability of the ILBCF's mission via general operations. programming. events. and tangible services for the community. Serving as 1 of 20 Black Caucus foundations throughout the United States of America; the ILBCF functions as the advocacy, research. and philanthropic nonprofit 501 (c )3 arm of the 111 i nois Legislative Black Caucus. The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus established in 1967 is one of the oldest and largest standing black caucuses in the United States even predating the foundation of the Congressional Black Caucus. The primary mission of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus is "to assure that the interests of African American citizens are given equitable representation in the General Assembly and that legislative action is directed to address those interests." The ILBCF seeks to continue with the current annual activities while strengthening its programmatic initiatives and projects: • Annual Black History Month Soiree • Education & Advocacy Town Halls • Annual Scholarship Golf Outing & Banquet (Awards $100,000 Annually) • Civic Youth Engagement Day • Internship & Fellowship Program • ILBCF Annual Legislative Conference/Summit • Restoration. Revitalization. & Representation Matters (Medical Field and more) • Pandemic Recovery & Equity Response • Education & Literacy • Social Justice & Public Policy Institute • Africa Programming • Juneteenth Freedom Brunch/Economic Parity • Food Access Disparities/Insecurities • HBCU Fellowship Program The above initiatives and programmatic objectives assist the ILBCF in achieving the mission.
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Inner-City Muslim Action Network
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Mitchell Museum of The American Indian Inc
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Puerto Rican Arts Alliance
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance
This is the re-funding application for the Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance. The Chicago Community Trust is a founding member of the Funder Alliance. This application will support the Funder Alliance in FY23 and FY24. It re-confirms The Chicago Community Trust as a "Leadership Funder" which means that funding (at least in part) pools with the other Leadership Funders, and that a Trust representative sits on the CWFA Management Committee to direct the funder collaborative's strategies, staff and grant-making. The application itself, as agreed to by Leadership Funders, is mainly cut and pasted from the latest version of the CWFA Leadership Funder Generic Proposal.