Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
Since the mid-20th century, homeownership has been one of the most important vehicles for building wealth in the United States. According to research from the…
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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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CAST Water Safety Foundation
In support of general operations.
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FAR SOUTH CDC
Morgan Park Commons Housing Project is a 360-unit mixed-use housing project located at the northwest corner intersection at 115th Street and Halsted. The planned housing project will be 75 percent affordable and 25 percent market-rate rental units ranging from studio to 3-bedrooms. The project site is 12.06-acres former Jewel-Osco and Halsted In-door Mall commercial property and connects three (3) neighborhoods of Morgan Park, West Pullman, and Roseland. The project site is on a highly visible Halsted street with nearly 20,000 vehicular traffic, intermodal public transit bus lines including (CTA) and PACE, and four (4) blocks north of West Pullman Metra stop. The site is slated to incorporate the PACE pulse terminal.
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Heartland Human Care Services Inc
In support of the Chicago Asset Building for Children initiative (Chicago ABC's).
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CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) respectfully requests funding for its advocacy work to prevent and end homelessness. Staffed by community organizers, policy specialists, and legal aid attorneys, CCH supports those coping with homelessness by championing affordable housing and protecting access to human services, public benefits, and education. Funding would support: -Bring Chicago Home: BCH advocates a progressive real estate transfer tax increase on high-end properties, with funds dedicated to permanent supportive housing and homeless services -Legislation: Advocate and/or implement 3 reentry bills and a college access bill for homeless students -State Budget: Advocate no cuts to homelessness and human services line items
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Corporation For Supportive Housing
CSH will advance our efforts to connect individuals to housing solutions that break the cycle of chronic homelessness. We will expand our work with the Chicago/Cook Co. Flexible Housing Pool—a coordinated body that is re-orienting the crisis response system by funding supportive housing for people with complex health needs and cycling through homelessness and costly health crisis services. We will also work to improve the IL Justice System’s process for reentry of returning citizens at risk of homelessness through a robust quality improvement effort surrounding housing placement, as well as improved standards for transitional housing—key steps in ensuring all returning citizens are connected to safe, stable housing upon exiting prison.
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LATINO POLICY FORUM
Building on the success of four years of the Multicultural Leadership Academy and six years before that offering the Illinois Latino Leadership Academy, we will create a network of up to 220 African American and Latino graduates of those academies, providing them with training that will develop their transformative leadership skills, particularly their ability to apply those skills to heal and unite in a multicultural society that is experiencing discord and distrust. We will also offer networking events to build lasting bonds among the participants, and the participants will have opportunities to engage in cross-cultural community-based civic improvement projects.
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CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE
This application is translated from the Scope and Approach attachment included in the “Additional Documents” section to formalize the request for funding of Civic Consulting Alliance to cover our staff investments in the Together We Rise strategy creation project. These investments include pre-planning in December 2020, followed by an eight-week project kicking off the week of January 11, 2021. The duration of our investments will be in partnership with BCG, and the project will involve close collaboration with those Chicago Community Trust team members most closely engaged in Together We Rise, as well as newly-hired Together We Rise director Gloria Castillo, and select external stakeholders / Together We Rise collaborators.
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Greater Chicago Food Depository
The prevalence of hunger in Cook County demands a need for a strong network of community partners working to distribute healthy food to individuals and families in need, as well as comprehensive public policies that address food insecurity and its root causes. With the support of the Chicago Community Trust, the Greater Chicago Food Depository will continue to advance our hunger relief policy agendas and provide capacity building and technical assistance to strengthen our network of 700 food access partners – especially those in communities of color – to ensure everyone in Cook County has access to the food needed to lead healthy, stable lives.