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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Chicagoland Streets Project/Streetsblog
Chicagoland Streets Project (CSP) is applying for a $75,000 grant to help fund our sustainable transportation reporting and advocacy via our news website "Streetsblog Chicago".
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
CNT, along with technical assistance partners, are applying for funds to support the second year of Elevated Works, an Elevated Chicago program to advance publicly funded equitable transit-oriented development (ETOD) development and policy in Chicago. These funds will contribute to the continued administration and project management work done by CNT, and the provision of technical assistance and support to ETOD developers, predominantly first-time community-based developers in neighborhoods impacted by disinvestment on Chicago’s South and West sides. These funds will supplement a $1 million contract awarded to CNT by the City of Chicago to implement the Elevated Works program.
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Gary Comer Youth Center Inc.
Xchange Grand Crossing builds on two decades of community engagement and development that has realized an exceptional education corridor on South Chicago Avenue. Xchange aims to empower residents with the skills and opportunities needed to access high-earning jobs in thriving tech sectors. Xchange’s innovative and scalable model harnesses commercially driven revenue to drive workforce development and community revitalization. Located adjacent to the Comer Education Campus, a 28,000 square foot warehouse building at 7247 South Chicago Ave will be renovated into Xchange Grand Crossing, an innovation hub for training diverse talent at scale, creating jobs in IT and tech-adjacent fields, and providing anchor businesses in the community. The building is designed for commercial office space (with two committed anchor tenants), talent development, and new enterprises that include a retail café, commercial kitchen and IT HelpDesk service. There will be onsite parking. This stretch of South Chicago Avenue was identified by community stakeholders and partners as an ideal location for further development and innovative workforce solutions.
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Roseland Community Medical District
To implement the work outlined in the Roseland Community Medical District Master Plan, an executive director and limited staff needs to be hired. This funding request will cover the expenses associated with hiring and employing full time and part time staff, along with associated office expenses, necessary to implement the Master Plan as contemplated by the Roseland Medical District Commission.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Elevated Chicago
Elevated Chicago requests $300,000 to support the pre-development needs of three ETODs to advance projects towards completion.
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DEVCORP NORTH
DevCorp North dba Rogers Park Business Alliance (RPBA) continues to experience delayed State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity grant awards, contracts and payments. We have leveraged our organizational operating capital reserves to continue to provide services as planned. At risk of needing to make painful programming adjustments again in 2024, we respectfully request a renewal of the $50,000 in a bridge grant of working capital from Chicago Community Trust to fund our Business Accessibility Toolkit Program (BAT). Thanks to funding in 2023, BAT successfully served its target clients who are low-median income historically underserved people of color, especially Black, Latinx and other diverse business owners and entrepreneurs who own and operate existing businesses in our service area. Ongoing challenges with State of Illinois’ unreliable timelines, static funding levels, lack of clarity and minimal responsiveness to requests for guidance are resulting in our hesitation to apply for other government grants. For example, we received an intent to fund notification on 1/18/24 for the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) we host at RPBA for the same amount as we were granted in 2023. When we were awarded the designation in 2020, we were told that annual increases were the norm. Unfortunately, with COVID, things changed and last year was the first time that we were allowed to increase our funding request. Now, in 2024, we have again been informed that 2024 will be funded at the same level as 2023. In addition, we have an intent to fund but as of 4/1/24, we have not yet received a contract for 2024. This means that although our Q1 deliverables are complete, we cannot request reimbursement since we do not have a contract.
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CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION
City Colleges of Chicago is requesting support for the third year of its math redesign project in the total amount of $150,000. This funding will support advancing CCC’s developmental education strategies intended to improve student momentum into and through college-level mathematics. CCC seeks to maintain project management support to continue progress made during Year 1 of the project , all of which builds upon the recommendations of the Developmental Education Planning Committees, the math discipline, and the pilot instructors of the program. Continued progress will require project management support and funding for program design, delivery, and improvement. The project manager convenes faculty, develops project plans, monitors deliverables, and ensures progress toward full implementation of the math redesign. Additionally, the project manager serves as the knowledge manager of all efforts focused on improving early momentum into and through math gateway coursework. The improvement of outcomes through curriculum and course redesign sits at the intersection of the work initially undertaken by the Developmental Education Planning Committee and the Equity Champions initiative. Our curriculum redesign will add co-requisite opportunities, create a single developmental level course that can prepare students for either STEM or non-STEM math pathways, and create short continuation courses to prevent students from needing to take a step backward in their progression. CCC will develop and deliver robust faculty development for the new curriculum to ensure improved student outcomes and continue to provide non-credit Level Up workshops so that students can maximize their initial placement. The result of this work will be a pilot of a sequence of math courses and supports designed with student success and progression in mind, leading to more students taking and passing college-level math in their first year.
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Ladies of Virtue NFP
Ladies of Virtue (LOV) is a nationally recognized, award-winning, mentoring and leadership development program serving over 2,000 young women and girls in Chicago annually (600 girls enrolled in leadership programming and 1500+ served via community outreach). Additionally, LOV is founded and led by a Black woman, rooted in Black communities, and serves historically disinvested neighborhoods including those disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Unfortunately, LOV is at a disadvantage when it comes to applying for - and stewarding - essential federal and other government funding. This funding is needed to support the vital workforce and community development services LOV provides. Requested funds would build LOV's capacity to apply for and manage government funding by increasing our financial management capacity, further developing our Salesforce data management CRM and data integration tools, easing the process of data collection, storage, analysis, and reporting.