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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Illinois Stewardship Alliance
Illinois Stewardship Alliance will engage members, supporters, and allies in regional listening sessions to reflect on progress made in the Alliance's first 50 years and solicit grassroots input from directly-impacted farmers and eaters to establish a policy platform for a just transition to local regenerative ag in Illinois for the next 50 years. The platform will guide our organizing and advocacy to create a more favorable policy environment for local food and regenerative farm business.
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YEAR UP INC
Year Up respectfully requests $150,000 from Bridges to Brighter Futures to support Year Up’s workforce development program, which removes systemic barriers to opportunity in the tech field and moves young adults toward financial security and economic mobility. The program combines job skills training and education in Information Technology and Data Analytics, work-based experiences with local employers, and wraparound student support. In just one year, without accruing any student debt, graduates obtain jobs in major companies where there are vast possibilities for career advancement and increased earning potential. As a result, more young people from under-represented, low-income communities are finding viable employment pathways in high-growth fields. During the grant period, Year Up Chicago aims to train 96 young adults for careers in the tech sector.
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Seven Generations Ahead
The project drives policy, infrastructure and collaboration to reduce wasted food and build a market for food scrap composting to advance a local, sustainable food shed in Illinois and protect the health of Illinois residents and natural resources.
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Enlace Chicago
Enlace Chicago will continue to support and respond to the college and career needs of Little Village students. In response to the impact of the pandemic on students’ postsecondary and career trajectory, Enlace created and implemented a holistic strategy to strengthen the organization’s college and career support programs. In collaboration with Little Village Chicago Public Schools high schools and local colleges and universities, we are supporting the college enrollment and persistence of Little Village students. We worked with our partnering high schools to identify high needs students to provide them with wraparound services and support their transition and persistence in college (primarily focusing on three City Colleges: Malcolm X, Harold Washington, and Richard J. Daley College and three 4-year institutions: UIC, NLU, and NEIU, that have a high rate of Little Village high school students who attend their institution). Through the implementation of Equity Response Teams, the Peer Mentor Program and Future Forward, Enlace Chicago and its partners are working to build on the strengths and community cultural wealth of Little Village students and their families, and address the specific challenges they face in getting to and through college. As well as supporting gap year participants to enter the workforce, choose a postsecondary plan, and/or register for a trade or certificate program.
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Elawa Farm Foundation
To strengthen a network of Northern Illinois farmers to collaborate on market opportunities, build the local food supply in the Chicago region through aggregation and connection to a strong market base, and advocate for policy and resource access as a unified group by supporting the Northern Illinois Young Farmers chapter.
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University of Chicago Urban Labs
Since launching a learning agenda five years ago – CCC has made substantial progress using data to improve outcomes for students across the district. Data have informed new rigor around developmental education policies that incorporate GPA into course placement and led to an opt-out offer of the One Million Degrees program that will now be provided to all eligible new students at two campuses with the goal of reaching over 9,000 students annually. Over the same period, completion rates at CCC continue to increase, yet we are cognizant that more work remains, particularly as it relates to ensuring that CCC is providing an equitable education for all students. By pairing learnings from the implementation of the developmental education placement policy rollout with a plan for a new learning agenda, the Inclusive Economy Lab hopes to understand what changes to administrative procedures and policies would be necessary to address racial disparities in associates degree attainment and transfer rates to four-year institutions. With the support of the Lab’s External Affairs Director and its advocacy partners, this information will be disseminated publicly in 2025, with targeted outreach to elected officials in Springfield and Chicago who can raise the visibility of the work.
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Star Farm Chicago
Star Farm is applying to be considered for this opportunity as a non-profit urban farm, landscaping company, and retail farmers market co-op. As we enter our eighth year, we look forward to launching multiple projects that have been years in the making, including our three farm sites and Fresh Market and Shared Kitchen project, along with growing our capacity to grow, deliver, and distribute local produce while directly supporting local farmers through access to land, infrasctructure, tools, business support, and equitable market channels.
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McHenry County College
The Center for Agrarian Learning was launched almost four years ago, with the goal to support and educate two different audiences: farmers across northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, and MCC college students in the Entrepreneurial Agriculture program. Programs and opportunities for both groups will continue this year. Simultaneously, we will take an in-depth look at the Entrepreneurial Agriculture program, its strengths and weaknesses, and the relevance of the courses required to earn the degree and certificates. Our goal is to strengthen the program and ensure that it is serving the needs of our community.