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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Community First Foundation Inc
Community First Foundation, Inc will create a Community Labor Day Block Club event for youths 5yrs-14yrs. old. We will provide free food and school supplies to school age children at this event. We will have music and celebration for the community members in the surrounding area. This event will serve as a connection medium in the community and foster interactions between people who would not otherwise communicate. More importantly, youths expressed how much they enjoyed the previously sponsored community activities and submitted a special request for another event that would allow them to play as well as eat delicious food whilst in the safety of their own neighborhood.
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Chicago Chess Foundation
We plan to engage youth in the West Humboldt Park community over Labor Day Weekend, on September 2nd or 3rd. We will use this funding to host a community chess, 3x3 basketball, and 5x5 soccer tournament for youth in the community at Kedvale Park. Partnering with local schools West Park Academy, Nobel Elementary, and Cameron Elementary as well as community organizations the Bloc and RCity we will host this day-long community competition. Breakfast snacks and lunch will be provided for all participants. Our organization works closely with each of the schools and community organizations during the school year, so this will be a great collaboration to get the year kicked off and bring the community together.
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Peace Runners 773 NFP CO
Peace Runners 773 is a health education and activation non-profit organization serving the Garfield Park community through fitness forums, youth outreach, and free community events. Our outcomes include transforming our community’s health and wellness, reducing health care costs and increasing the safe spaces in Chicago. During the month of August, Peace Runners 773 will run our youth program, We Run Too youth in the Garfield Park and Lawndale communities. We Run Too teaches youth ages 12-18 about their physical and mental health through the sport of running. Additionally, Peace Runners 773 will host a Community Run Block Party during the Labor Day weekend. This one day event will feature free community workouts, children activities, a DJ, and food. Our goal is to provide a safe space for the community to enjoy Chicago while receiving valuable health and wellness tips.
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ULON
ULON propose to host a remarkable Labor Day Weekend Art Extravaganza held in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on September 2nd, and 3rd. at the ULON Resource Center located at 7401 S Cottage Grove, Chicago Illinois 60619. As well as open our doors daily for community youth to engage in activities in a safe environment August 6th-21st (Basketball, art and craft, movies, literature, computer lab).
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Focus Fairies Mentoring
Darryca Brim-Mims and Kenya Conley established Focus Fairies Mentoring (FFM) in 2017 to provide young ladies from under-resourced neighborhoods on Chicago’s South and West Sides with the guidance and support they were not necessarily getting at home or in school. In their quests to become better servants, the two women began volunteering in their communities but observed the need to do more. In particular, they noticed an immense impact on pre-teen and teenage girls in the neighborhoods where they themselves spent most of their childhoods. Young ladies were exposed to domestic violence and sexual abuse at alarming rates. This was the turning point that would change their lives. Wanting to be the change they wished to see, Darryca and Kenya organized Focus Fairies Mentoring. Now, by sharing their own life experiences and how they overcame them, the co-founders teach young women that just because they were born into poverty does not mean they have to be a product of their environment. Focus Fairies Mentoring aims to provide a multi-phased mentoring experience that serves as a safe space to help increase the mentee's levels of self-confidence, spirituality, emotional health, and personal development. At-risk girls have countless challenges, such as abuse, anxiety, low self-esteem, teen pregnancy, teen parenting, gang membership, and trauma. FFM wants to reduce violence and increase economic opportunity among at-risk young women ages 7-21 living in North Lawndale, Englewood, Fuller Park, West Garfield Park, Bronzille, Near North, and Washington Park. Over the last five years, FFM has served more than 250 at-risk girls throughout the Chicagoland area.
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People Empowering People NFP
PEPChicago would like to use these funds to extend its We Got You Period program. This program provides youth mentorship, leadership, and civic engagement during the summer in partnership with One Summer Chicago and community organizations. We Got You Period youth participants train youth in supply chain management and provide mentorship and job training. Youth distribute feminine products to community members. These funds will allow the current youths to work an extension to distribute supplies to over 100 families. Youth will work from 8/8/23 end of One Summer Chicago, until September 4th. Youth will partner with CPD and other organizations to host an end-of-program celebration during the Labor Day weekend on Monday, September 4th, in the West Pullman/Morgan Park Community. The event will have youth activities and community resources. We plan to invite the entire family of all ages and partner with other organizations to host over 50 people at the event.
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THE BASE (BOSTON ASTROS BASEBALL CLUB INCORPORATED)
BASE Chicago will host a series of 6 youth and community events during the 2023 Summer Gap when students are not in school thru Labor Day. Events include a Community Block Party, a Pizza Party that will includes a Back to School theme; a visit to Chicago White Sox baseball game and a Baseball camp with WGCI Radio host Joe Soto that provides career planning. . All the events/activities planned will have student input, an opportunity for adult/seniors and community interaction to help foster relationship building, safe spaces, social and emotional skills. Most importantly the events will bring the community members to create a sense of concern and a chance to have a common goal to reduce community violence.
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Hands Around the Hundreds
Hands Around the Hundreds would like to request funds to extend the summer basketball tournaments to start Labor Day Weekend. We will host the tournament on Saturday, 9/2, and on Monday, 9/4, we will host final games and a community resource fair. This event will be the start of our Fall Basketball Program. We will recruit youth from previous programs to form six teams for the weekend. The program will continue with ten teams.