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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Instituto del Progreso Latino
This proposal seeks funding to support Instituto College’s (IC) mission “to provide an enriched learning environment where students have the opportunity to earn practical credentials and degrees based on industry standards…IC values the training of bilingual and bi-culturally sensitive nursing professionals…” Additionally, the CCT ACN initiative grant would contribute to fulfilling the IC’s final nursing program accreditation goals and meeting its final phase of fulfilling sustainability goals in becoming a Title IV school offering Federal Student Financial Assistance Programs. Starting in 2019, IC matriculated 5 cohorts and graduated 4 cohorts. Among critical milestones achieved, we graduated the pilot, second, third, and fourth cohorts in Dec., 2021, March, 2022, Dec., 2022, and Dec., 2023 respectively. In summary, we are submitting this application to support nursing training for both our Basic Nursing Assistant (BNA) and Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) programs, nursing program accreditation for our ADN Program, and to attain Title IV eligibility through the Dept. of Education. The College finds itself at a critical juncture. While we have achieved significant completion and graduation outcomes, demonstrating that our ADN Program exceeds national norms and our BNA Program ranks in the top 20% of IL programs, we need this funding to support the ADN Program’s “bridge” expenses until the College becomes a Title IV school, becoming an institution that processes federal student aid. Our students then, if they demonstrate financial need, will be eligible to receive Federal grants (Pell), student loans, and enter work-study programs. Reaching Title IV status will fully remove barriers for continuing and future students to access our nursing degree program. While thus far, almost all of our students have been awarded a full-tuition scholarship, without Title IV, we cannot increase enrollments or enter financial sustainability. Finally, this funding will help in attaining nursing program accreditation which is a requirement for all nursing schools in the State, as mandated by the IL Board of Nursing (IDFPR). While IC was admitted as a “Candidate” for nursing by ACEN, the College must attain full accreditation by 2025.
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Borealis Philanthropy
Disability Inclusion Fund: DIF was launched in 2019 by a group of philanthropic leaders seeking to advance inclusion of people with disabilities both internally at their institutions and in their grantmaking. For the Fund's first 3-5 years, its priorities are: 1. Strengthen the disability movement by building the power of representative organizations and elevating the voices of people with disabilities within public life 2. Boost the capacity of disability justice groups to fundraise, communicate a more unified narrative, and other priorities as determined by the grantmaking committee and grantee partners 3. Build bridges between disability justice groups to learn from one another, complement and strengthen advocacy and mobilization approaches We meet these objectives through a disability-led strategy including grantmaking, relationship building, peer engagement and support, capacity building, and collaborative learning. The DIF is aligned with the legacy of disability rights and justice movement principles that understands the liberation of disabled people is interconnected with all social justice movement struggles. Disability justice is about justice for all people—it offers a better way forward; one which centers collective care and mutual aid, ensuring equitable access to all we need to experience and live into our joy, freedom, and humanity. To that end, we are continuing to expand grassroots infrastructure, and to strengthen relationships between disability communities and funders to achieve this.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Connecting Capital & Community
Through 3C, the Trust is convening and collaborating with a diverse network of partners to fund and test scalable models and strategies that challenge the deep, structural barriers Black and Latinx communities face in accessing homeownership and building wealth. 3C aims to support interventions that look beyond individual projects to systems-level change that will impact the structure of opportunity for Black and Latinx communities citywide. This grant will support the creation of a new, flexible lending product targeted to LMI homebuyers to increase their purchasing power. To make this work possible, we are collaborating with Transform Capital, Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, Northern Trust, and Krambo. Early in the 3C process, we conducted a scan of lending products targeted to LMI communities to better understand what products and services were being offered. This unearthed a long list of products, but it also illuminated how few were being intentionally targeted to the Black and Latinx families and the unique barriers they face across income tiers. The 3C partners began to develop a concept for a loan product that would be intentionally aimed at a segment of the population not being served by products available in the market- specifically families making at or near 80% AMI. We analyzed the affordability gap, identified the most impactful levers to increase purchasing power, and confirmed that the proposed lending solution will help address this gap most powerfully. Given that 3C is already funding a cohort of housing counseling partners to prepare a pipeline of 200 homebuyers and is supporting a cohort of mission-driven developers to develop affordable homes on 100 vacant lots in these 2 neighborhoods, the lending product will serve as a critical cornerstone to ensure that families who rent here, have the opportunities to become homeowners. We intend to pilot the product in East Garfield and Humboldt Park, for 25 families. This grant will support the funding needed to originate the loans and will be stewarded by NHS Chicago who will serve as the originator. We are in the process of finalizing our partnership structure with Krambo and Northern Trust who will securitize the loans and purchase them, respectively, allowing us to recycle the dollars into additional mortgages down the line.
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DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
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IFF
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Carole Robertson Center for Learning
For over 45 years, the mission of the Carole Robertson Center for Learning (the Center) has been to educate, enrich, and empower children and families. Our programs reach children at every stage of development – from prenatal to age 17 – and their families, and we focus on BIPOC communities that have suffered from a legacy of disinvestment and marginalization. Our vision is to help build a just and equitable society wherein the Center, in partnership with families, is a beacon of best practices, innovation, and impact. In September 2023, we launched our first-ever campaign – Invest Today, Empower Tomorrow – to ensure we can continue to provide enriching environments for the exceptional education that all children, youth, and families deserve. By ensuring working parents in some of Chicago’s most marginalized communities have access to high-quality early education and youth development programs for their children, the Center is playing a key role in the city’s economic recovery and long-term prosperity. The campaign is focused on increasing capital resources, promoting future program innovation, and guaranteeing the long-term stability of our organization so that we can continue to play this vital role for many decades to come. We are requesting funding from We Rise Together to support innovative, child-centered, and community-driven capital improvements at our flagship site located at 2929 West 19th Street in Little Village.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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The Chicago Community Trust