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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Alt Space Chicago
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Southwest Suburban Immigrant Project
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FINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC
Chicago Community Trust (CCT) wishes to create a drumbeat of analyses leveraging the rich data collected in the 2022 Chicago Pulse. To support our mutual aims of bringing disparities and potential solutions to light, FHN proposes to provide analytical and advisory guidance to support CCT with its publications.
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MANDALA ARTS
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SPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING
To achieve the goal of giving individuals and families the opportunity to become homeowners in Humboldt Park and East Garfield Park, the 3C Buyer Pipeline Collaborative comes together to do three main things: marketing and outreach to potential homebuyers, pair the potential homebuyers with a housing counselor to provide full housing counseling and financial coaching services, and work with the client through purchase and closing on their home. These efforts will target existing residents within these two target communities with household income falling between 80%-120% Area Median Income (AMI). At the end of this 12-month grant period, the Collaborative will have created a pipeline of 100 mortgage-ready households. The five partner organizations are Latin United Community Housing Association (LUCHA), Center for Changing Lives (CCL), Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago (NHS), Breakthrough Urban Ministry (Breakthrough), and Spanish Coalition for Housing (SCH) acting as fiscal sponsor. 3C Investment from the Chicago Community Trust and JPMC allows collaborative partners to augment service delivery to provide hyper-focused outreach and housing counseling services to key community areas of Humboldt Park and East Garfield; mitigate displacement from gentrification and allow opportunities for affordable, accessible and sustainable homeownership for existing residents while providing opportunity for generational wealth building.
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Urban Growers Collective Inc
UGC is requesting $240,000.00 over a 36 month grant term to support our general operations ($80,000 each year, for three years). Over the 36 month period, UGC will utilize funds to build upon its Food Access, Workforce Development, Education and Community Engagement programming to complete our first strategic plan. Thanks in part to the CCT's previous support through the ACN- Essential Needs funding, UGC has been able to successfully implement its Theory of Change through a Strategic Plan that spans 2021-2023. In this next grant period, UGC seeks to further refine our theory of change with learnings from the past 5 years and develop a new organizational strategic plan.
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Healthcare Alternative Systems Inc
The last few years have presented unprecedented challenges to Healthcare Alternative Systems (HAS). The pandemic caused not only a global health crisis, but an economic and social crisis that has rippling effects in the vulnerable communities we serve, straining the already limited resources of community-based counseling and treatment centers like HAS. As we emerge from the emergency phase of the pandemic, we face another epidemic throughout the Chicagoland area: the Opioid crisis. In Cook County, the opioid death rate is nearly double the national average. With the rise in opioid use, the number of people with mental health disorders requiring treatment has also increased significantly. Through nearly 5 decades of addressing social determinants of health negatively impacting health outcomes of underserved communities, HAS requests Chicago Community Trust’s support to address co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders in the Greater Chicago area, specifically focusing on the West Side of Chicago. According to the 2021 Chicago Mid-Year Opioid Report published by the Chicago Department of Public Health, Austin, West Garfield Park and Humboldt Park were the neighborhoods most affected by opioid-related overdose deaths. These neighborhoods are disproportionately affected by poverty, inadequate housing, exposure to environmental hazards, lack of education, and limited access to healthcare, resulting in higher risk of mental health disorders and overall negative health outcomes. On February 1, HAS is officially moving its headquarters and its methadone facility to the Austin neighborhood. HAS plans to increase its community outreach efforts in the West Side by staffing additional Community Health Workers. Our vision is that Community Health Workers are working on the front lines of the community canvassing at events and barbershops, knocking on doors to increase participation in our services, as well as distributing harm reduction kits. Their primary focus is community engagement efforts and connecting community members to our wide array of services as well as conducting referrals to partner organizations as needed. This model is critical to addressing not only mental health and substance use, but the root causes of it: economic insecurity, violence, and underinvestment. In the last 50 years, HAS has been responding to immediate needs of Chicago residents by promoting wellbeing of not only individuals, but families and communities. HAS seeks to empower individuals to achieve recovery, with a focus on advocating for communities of color, low-income individuals, the formerly incarcerated, and homeless populations. With this funding, HAS will provide behavioral health services and treatment for substance use disorders in high need areas through outreach, overdose response, counseling, and harm reduction activities.
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National Able Network, Inc.
National Able Network, Inc. (Able) seeks support to enroll 75 aspiring individuals residing on the West and South sides of the greater Chicagoland area into its IT Career Lab training and placement program which helps individuals build the skills needed to enter and progress along sustainable career pathways in the information technology industry. The IT Career Lab program is conducted over the course of 16‐weeks, with a blended learning approach that incorporates classroom‐based and hands-on training where students can earn industry-recognized, globally recognized certifications from both Microsoft and Cisco. To better foster a high-functioning information technology ecosystem across the Greater Chicagoland area, Able’s business development team curates employer partnerships and helps graduates make a seamless transition into IT careers.