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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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    Youth Job Center Inc.

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $1,000

    Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings

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    Chicago Urban League

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $95,000

    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

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    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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    Chicagos Sunshine Enterprises Inc

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $100,000

    Sunshine Enterprises (SE) seeks to build a catalytic facility at the critical intersection of 63rd and Martin Luther King Dr with the best in eTOD design and deeply intentional community engagement. Truly multi-use, it would serve as a(n): entrepreneur training center for SE programming; business incubator space, including small business store-fronts; community youth and family programs center; safe space for violence intervention work; and a home to other community serving orgs. This project would capitalize on close proximity to the CTA green line and several other area assets. It would stimulate the reversal of decades of disinvestment and abandonment, and build opportunity and inspiration for community residents and stakeholders.

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    Waukegan Public Library

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $40,000

    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.

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    Harvard Community Senior Center

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $72,000

    In support of Reducing Health Disparities through Cultivating Health Ministries.

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    City of Woodstock

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $75,000

    Support for Community Dot - Connecting with Age - Friendly Woodstock.

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    Kids in Need of Mchenry County

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $75,000

    In support of Family Visitation and Resource Home.