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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La Villita Community Church
La Villita Community Church seeks funding for the August Gap period and for Labor Day weekend activities. During the August gap, we will expand our youth-led Arco Iris Summer Camp to allow 15-20 youth Camp Leaders (ages14-24) to spend two weeks following the camp, which ends on August 4th, to debrief about the camp, prepare best practices for next summer, engage camp participants and parents in a feedback gathering and needs assessment process, receive additional training in how and why to activate their blocks, and plan for community service, outreach, and engagement activities including the Healing the Hood Labor Day Block Party. During the August gap period from 8/6 through 8/20, 15-20 youth leaders will meet two days per week for three hours each day, on Mondays and Thursdays from 10:30am to 1:30pm. They will also participate in a team-building and educational excursion--taking the Chicago River Architecture Cruise by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. The youth Leaders will receive a stipend of $75 per week for their participation. Their work will culminate in planning and hosting the Healing the Hood Labor Day Block Party on September 1st from 12pm-5pm, which will be attended by 100 people, including camp participants, neighborhood residents of Little Village and North Lawndale, and the youth leaders.
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Men Making A Difference
Men Making a Difference (MMAD) will host an August youth Breakfast series. Each Saturday morning in the month of August from 9:00 am- 1:00 pm, we will bring together the youth of North Lawndale and their families for a free breakfast cooked by local community members with food obtained from community businesses. After breakfast and fellowship, we will engage youth in peace circles. Funds will be used for food and other supplies MMAD will host a labor day picnic for youth in North Lawndale from 11 am- 2:00 pm at our community garden. We will bring together the youth of North Lawndale and their families for a free picnic lunch cooked by local community members with food obtained from community businesses. Additionally, we will have games and activities for families to engage in. Funds will be used for food, water, and games.
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Alt Space Chicago
alt_ Chicago requests $5,000 to support the Redemptive Plastics Summer Cohort. The initiative seeks to make recycling more attractive to our youth, especially in the Austin community. Young men and women are encouraged to remain mindful of the plastic they discard by turning the into functional art pieces that can instead be made accessible to the community. This additional funding will support extending the program through the month of August and hosting a culminating event during Labor Day weekend.
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Music Box Foundation
Music Box Foundation is a family run 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established in 2011. Our mission is "To be a catalyst for building healthy communities and enriching lives through the power of music and the arts." We are seeking funding to support a Labor Day weekend Back to School event. This event will take place at the Music Box Foundation headquarters located 6843 S. Harper Ave. where we will invite community members and families to partake in music, food, fun and games, as well as a school supply giveaway.
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WHAT ABOUT US CHARITABLE ENTERPRISES INCORPORATED
Our plan is to expand our existing programming. We will add more dates to fill the proposed gap with fun-filled activities to our already established Community Connections and Culture in Lafollette park and add more family friendly games, face painting, peace circles and a Basketball tournament. We also plan to add more dates to our Rites of Passage summer programming to include the days between the last day of summer camp for the Chicago Park District and the 1st day of school including labor day weekend activities. We will also extend our Afterschool/Out of School programming to cover the dates between the gap. Finally, we will extend our weekly interactions of Community, Connections and Culture hosted each Thursday night in the park. We will utilize the funds to increase our reach to more youth of all ages, purchase more food, and family fun games. Funds will also be used to provide stipends and increase the capacity for staffing and the cost for bouncy house rental, DJ rental, truck rental, Basketball Tournament and other items to support all of our planned activities.
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Imani Community Development Corporation
We are currently a C.P.S. vendor that is participating in the Safe Haven Summer Camp. We will continue to stay open for the extra two weeks of programming convening,Aug. 7- 21st, 2023, Monday thru Friday from 10 am to 2 pm. The cost of those 10 days will be $3500. Then we will love to have two events for the Labor Day weekend. On Sunday evening, we will have a free movie night with concessions, and on the Monday, we will have a free Community Barbecue. The cost for both events will be $1500.
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Holy Breath Conglomerates NFP Inc
Justice-involved youth ages 14-18 will participate in a 10 hour workshop over the course of two weeks. Intro to Album Covers, Merchandise Design, Mascot Design, and Motion Design by way of our Art Life Pillar (Graphic Design). Art will be focused on mass incarceration, excessive sentencing, mental wellness, and music. We will conclude with a Know Your Rights Seminar from our Civic Life Pillar to teach youth how to invoke their Constitutional Rights when approached by Peace Officers. Funds will be used for art supplies, presenter stipends, and lunch for youth during August Gap as well as seminar materials, breakfast and lunch for all participants: parents, presenters, partners, and youth.
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Faithful Few
We will implement the “Think It Make It Screen It” program on top of our ongoing summer programing. With the help of the University of Chicago Logan Center for Arts as an additional community partner. We will expand our participants contact by more than 40 hours and open additional slots for 15 -25 more participants. This will cover the August gap in-services between when the Park District’s programing ends, and CPS begins (August 6 – 21). This additional program engages participants in both the enjoyment of the creative process and the work involved in giving form to their ideas, feelings and observations about the world in which they live. THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD