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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Economic Architecture
Make homeownership more affordable, equitable, and sustainable by designing a product that provides liquidity to decrease the occurrence of delinquency, default and foreclosure.
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Respair Production & Media
Final development, launch, and impact strategy of Respair Production & Media, an ecosystem hub that supports the media needed to reshape Chicago and beyond toward liberation.
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The Silver Room Foundation, Inc.
The Silverroom Block Party Film Fest is a 2-to-3 day showcase that centers local BIPOC filmmakers, giving them the opportunity to share their art and connect with their community. The Block Party Film Fest prioritizes the novice and hobbyist filmmaker; artists who never, or rarely, have shown their work, and seats them next to experienced filmmakers. It takes on the form of a traditional film festival and injects the soul of the iconic Silver Room Block Party into it, making it accessible for a wide range of people. The Film Fest bridges the gap between the cinema enthusiast and the casual moviegoer by creating an organic space to commune and converse. All while driving commerce and foot-traffic to the 53rd street commercial corridor. The film fest models itself after the Block Party as a space for joy, culture, and community. Support: Our ask is for support with costs over the course of the multi-day Film Fest including: Venue rental costs Marketing efforts + publicity (social media, website features, etc.) Catering for opening and closing night Pay for panelists/facilitator Screening fees/artist stipends for filmmakers Licensing fee for acquiring Goodie bags for filmmakers Pay for staff Pay for band/musicians for live composition Photographers and videographers Pay for screening committee Photo set for patrons (to include film fest signage, perhaps a neon sign) Pop up Step and Repeat Pay for programmers/planners Asks for Sponsors: Funding Photo Booth set up Swag/goodie bags Snacks, beverages, etc.
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THE HARBOUR INC
Youth homelessness is not new, nor does it discriminate based on resources, location, or identity. It is a universally recognized crisis that has worsened through the pandemic years yet often goes unseen and unrecognized. The mission of The Harbour is to provide emergency housing and services to youth experiencing homelessness to promote safety, stability, and personal growth in our goal to end youth homelessness.
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Historic Chicago Bungalow Association
unBLOCKED educates about Chicago’s racist housing policy of Land Sale Contracts (LSC) & uses art & material resources to catalyze the transformation of an Englewood block with former LSC homes.
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Land Connection Foundation
The Land Connection is requesting funding to support the development of Illinois FarmLink. This year, our team will increase the number of advising calls and in-person consultations offered to Illinois farmland owners and farmers, provide educational programs designed to address challenges surrounding farmland access and transfer, and gain a deeper understanding of farm viability in Illinois to better design programs and systems to support farmers and farmland owners.
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Reparations Media NFP
Reparations Media NFP requests increased and continuing support for the Change Agents Podcast and Production Lab season four. Reparations Media NFP is a recently designated 501c3 public charity created to extend the funding, training and educational programming opportunities to expand and sustain Change Agents season four and going forward. (Juneteenth Productions has assigned the intellectual property rights for the production lab and ensuing episodes to Reparations Media NFP.) Season four will include two sessions of an extended production lab (16 weeks instead of 12 weeks) in order to enhance training and production opportunities for up to 12 journalists and 12 CBO collaborators. Additional efforts have been budgeted to recruit and maintain a stable administrative staff and extend the outreach, marketing and promotional activities surrounding the episodes. We are targeting the following objectives to be met during a 50 week time period from June 2023 through June 2024: 1. To empower BIPOC journalists and community activists with the solution-based skills to develop and produce stories of positive social change that encourages safe and healthy communities. 2. To cultivate the skills of our emerging journalists to enable them to tell unbiased stories, that give voice to the unheard and allows them to shape their own narratives. 3. To provide our BIPOC journalists opportunities for professional networking to further their broadcast and journalism careers. 4. To establish a pipeline of journalistic leaders who will direct the industry toward a more just and equitable brand of news gathering. 5. To craft and present compelling media that dispel stereotypes of hopelessness and powerlessness in Chicago’s marginalized communities by sharing stories of community activists who are creating grassroots change and shaping their communities into healthier and safer spaces. 6. To disseminate our podcasts directly to the communities covered through community engagement events, digital marketing and traditional media publicity. 7. To disseminate our podcast to a broader audience via online streaming services and selectively on mainstream and alternative radio. 8. To promote the work of our CBOs through social media and traditional media publications. 9. To offer community based organizations a tool for organizing around and promoting work that helps lift up and empower Chicago’s underserved neighborhoods.
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TRUDelta LLC
The K, a social innovation hub whose name is an homage to the physical location in the community. The K will act as a business accelerator, incubator and experiential business learning space for entrepreneurs at various stages. A space that seeks to bring corporations, community anchors, and neighborhood scale entrepreneurs together to solve community challenges, share ideas and learn from each other. Creativity and innovation will be cultivated at the K, with intentionality and through the lense of Black Culture Wellness. In understanding the challenges of the underserved and under-resourced Black entrepreneurial landscape on the westside of Chicago, the K seeks to prevent the dreaded outcome projected at 2053: Black Wealth at 0. With the innovation hub, business accelerators and incubators offer customized curriculum, content experts, and mentorship that is industry-specific and in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal. Our goal is to support scale for entrepreneurs who are building equitable and inclusive ventures that will positively contribute to the quality of life within the Garfield Park communities; contribute to all elements of Black Culture Wellness including: sustainability and smart cities; health and wellness; education; and, civic engagement and policy. Revenue will be generated from multi use leases (office, retail, cafe); event fees, and program sponsorships. Program Description The K’s operations are supported by Project Forward, a boutique management consulting firm focused on developing the ecosystems needed for commercial corridor development in under-resourced areas. The programming focuses on four data driven components to economic mobility of entrepreneurs, what Project Forward calls the FWD 4 ™ Procurement Patient and flexible access to capital Equitable real estate development Back office support, with an emphasis on mentor/protege partnerships Within the Village, The K seeks to have explicit linkages to the Wellness Center and MAC to support these areas and is working with Westside United to recruit and support westside based entrepreneurs. Outside of the village, additional support agreements support the development of the ecosystem that will eventually lead to change along the Madison Corridor. See Appendix Programming is delivered via incubator and accelerator model with cohorts, classes, workshops, office hours, conferences, networking events, meetups, hackathons and drop in sessions. Programming will be available remotely, via our online digital resource network. Accelerator will accept up to 40 cohort participants annually Incubator will serve at least 200 participants annually, with 60 of those receiving continued services that will improve their business viability (See Appendix) The K will host an annual conference, called the Urban Real Estate Conference that will reach at least 200 participants (doubling original conference attendee participation) 2) Physical description The K restores a chronically vacant 13,000 square foot space, at the intersection of Madison and Kostner. This investment leverages and enhances the built environment by reactivation of an important location within a currently disinvested commercial corridor. The development will utilize most of the current exterior, with new modernizations to the frontage of the building, creating a new feel for the built environment and supporting the wave of catalytic development along the corridor. One of the book ends, or community gateway points to the Madison Commercial Corridor, it's an important ntgersetion to revitalize, as a signal of development for the community, and those who may consider Garfield Park as their next home. Property Details The site is 4400 W. Madison and currently owned by the Cook County Land Bank Authority (CCLBA). The building was built in 1970 and renovated in 2007. Building size 13,000 sf on a 17,500 sf parcel. Building class C, lot size 1.01 acres; 11 ft ceilings. Zoned B3-2 TRU Delta, the developer of the project, has applied for acquisition of the site from CCLBA and has been awarded conditional approval as of July 2022. Closing on the property and financing should occur by 5/30/23