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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Growing Home, Inc.
This project will increase the profitability and sustainability of Growing Home’s social enterprise by improving its business model and facilities through new marketing efforts as well as earning a Good Agricultural Practices certification.
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Angelic Organics Learning Center Inc
This project facilitates collaboration between farmers and farmer training organizations to cultivate diverse farmer leadership and increase access to training, resources, connections and markets that beginning farmers need to grow their business.
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Urban Equities, Inc.
In support of the Space5815 development in Austin.
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Illinois Public Interest Research Group Education Fund
With the support of the Chicago Community Trust, Illinois PIRG Education Fund and allies made significant progress in strengthening consumer and wealth-building coalitions this year, and through that, winning results. The coming year presents exciting opportunities to defend and build upon our progress. We plan to continue to add value to shared efforts with a focus on strengthening partnerships for longer term success. Partnerships ground our work in the lived experience of those most impacted and are crucial to winning and defending reforms. Our current priorities include modernizing the EITC to reward valuable non-wage work, defending recent gains to end predatory lending in Illinois, and fighting for affordable utilities.
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CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION
Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings
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Chicago Urban League
The Chicago Urban League (the League) seeks $95,000 in renewal funding to support its continued advocacy work. The League remains an active member of the Transit Table, Illinois Asset Building Group, Payday Lending, Housing Policy Roundtable and CRA Coalition. Grant funds awarded will be used to (1) research and develop education and outreach messages and strategies relating to predatory lending, small business wealth preservation and community reparations; (2) Build the capacity of housing, income and small business coalitions to include impacted voices; (3) Elevate the power of collective action among impacted persons by supporting their advocacy efforts. Funds will be used to pay salaries, subscriptions, supplies and stipends.
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The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
In partnering with the William Allen Pusey Fund, UIC has been a sustaining partner in advancing the study and practice of dermatology at UIC for the past 30 years. The funds are used to purchase journals. The journals benefit the world through inter-Library loan as well as the immediate UIC community.
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Waukegan Public Library
in support of the African American Community Partnership Group and the Asociacion Comunitaria Latina’s grassroots efforts to register people for COVID-19 vaccines and provide education and outreach in communities that have been hardest hit by the pandemic.