Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
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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.
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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
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REBORN MINISTRIES
Reborn Ministries will expand its current programming to offer two children's field trips and a children’s camping trip in addition to weekly programming. For youth Reborn is expanding to offer a youth camping trip, a week of service projects, a Labor Day weekend youth event and a Next Gen event. For community adults, youth, children and families Reborn has a week of service projects, a women's event, a men's camping trip and the annual Picnic in the Park. Youth and adults registered for Handyman Training School will be notified that the start date will begin earlier in August this year to accommodate for the gap in August instead of beginning in September.
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TELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT INC
Ollin Programs are Telpochcalli Community Education Project’s youth focused programming. They provide a space for Little Village youth to gather and discuss issues affecting their community. The programs promote peaceful, nonviolent strategies; foster leadership development; and provide fun, educational activities that are planned by and for the youth. They encourage youth to seek peaceful pathways for themselves and their peers and to turn away from participating in violent behavior and joining gangs. The additional funding from Safe and Peaceful Communities Grants will be used for the activities listed in the answer to the next RFP question.
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Jehovah Jireh 1 Outreach Ministry
Jehovah Jireh (JJ1) will conduct weekly engagement activities in the month of August to occupy and build relationships with the community youth of Austin by creating safe spaces. During the August "break", JJ1 will hold a weekly game and cookout day for youth ages 10-18 serving a total average of 250 kids. JJ1 has experience running these types of events using it’s staff and expertise in running “Block Takeovers”. JJ1 will utilize street outreach, social media, and advertising at its current events to promote the activities to youth. JJ1 will use the funds to organize the events, recruit the youth, feed the youth and purchase any necessary food and games to execute the events.
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DLD For Youth NFP
DLD will connect with action oriented nonprofit organizations, churches, businesses along with municipalities. We will host a 3 day Back to School Festival/Educational Workshop for 4 hours a day, which will take place over the Labor Day weekend. The funds will be used to provide meals, school supplies, hygiene kits, daily incentives for students and parents such as raffles and entertainment to keep the youth and parents engaged with the program. DLD certified specialists, along with connecting with other certified specialists will teach on best practices through financial literacy and life skills workshops throughout the festival weekend.
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Automotive Mentoring Group Inc
On Friday, August 11 and Saturday, August 12, 2023, AMG will provide a mobile barber shop truck at the Automotive Mentoring location where we will provide free haircuts to school age children ages 5 – 18 years old. The objective is to provide self-esteem to school age children for their first day of school and get them off to school with a fresh start. On Friday, August 18 and Saturday, August 19, 2023, AMG will provide a mobile barber shop truck at the Automotive Mentoring location where we will provide free haircuts to school age children ages 5 – 18 years old. The objective is to provide self esteem to school age children for their first day of school and get them off to school with a fresh start. On Saturday, September 2, 2023, AMG is going to give away a limited number of children’s bicycles until the inventory is depleted. This event will be held at the Alderman’s office in the 20th Ward. This event is contingent on an anticipated matching grant from a number of funders.
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Life Changing Family Services
Jesus Word Center Church was launched in 1986 in the Austin Community of Chicago, IL. The ministry started with seven members. Our congregation grows through our prison ministry to the Vienna Correctional Center of Ex-inmates, their families, and community members. After outgrowing our storefront location, we remained in the Austin community by sharing space with ST. Paul Lutheran Church. We have 325 members. Our congregation comprises 77 men, 127 women, 103 youth, and children. We have a mixture of college graduates, business owners, paraprofessionals, the health field, social workers, laborers, retirees, unemployed, and college students. Our Outreach ministries include a partnership with the Chicago Public School Safe Haven Program to keep our community students safe during the most violent hours of the day. A partnership with Playstreet and the city of Chicago, we block off the street 5 times during the summer months to allow children and their families to play and have social encounters with neighbors in a safe environment.