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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Investigative Project on Race and Equity
The Investigative Project on Race and Equity, through its data-driven journalism and collaborations with other newsrooms, trains and mentors the next generation of journalists on investigative reporting techniques. The Project bolsters the capacity of newsrooms to do more in-depth reporting through a lens on race and equity and helps emerging media organizations seeking to improve coverage of under-represented communities.
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Borderless Magazine NFP
Thanks to the support of Chicagoans, Borderless has made tangible – and independently documented – impacts in our region since our launch in 2020. Borderless is reaching communities in our region and filling gaps in news coverage through our multilingual reporting. We provide critical information to Chicagoans through our resource guides, by centering the voices of immigrants in our feature stories, and holding those in power accountable with our investigations into industry and local government. Every story we publish is available for free on our website in Spanish and English, with additional stories available in Dari/Persian, French and Arabic. Chicagoans have come to trust Borderless’ reporting over the last five years because of our journalists’ deep connections to the communities we serve and our commitment to fairness and accuracy. “Borderless Magazine is such an important publication for our community,” one reader recently shared on Instagram. “They fearlessly demand space for refugee and immigrant stories to be told and celebrated.” Our small team punches above our weight. In the last six months alone, we broke what became an international story when we published our investigation into the dangerous conditions at a city-funded migrant shelter where a five-year-old boy later got sick and died. We were highlighted as a leader in local immigration coverage in a University of Texas study on Chicago’s news ecosystem. Last year, we won the national Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism at the Online Journalism Awards for our innovative use of field canvassers to reach Spanish-speaking Chicagoans, who represent one-third of the city’s population. We are now asking for Press Forward’s support to make our community connections sustainable. We want to build on what we have learned over the last five years by expanding our capacity to serve our diverse audience and increase revenue from that audience by hiring a part-time Spanish engagement reporter and a part-time development associate. Our new Spanish Engagement Reporter will help decrease the turnaround time of our translations, making our work even more accessible, and will develop and produce our first Spanish-exclusive news product, an SMS service. Our new Development Associate will increase the capacity of our staff by taking over the development and production of donation drives, donor recruitment and engagement events and corporate sponsorships in our newsletter and for events. Press Forward’s support would catalyze Borderless’ growth and sustainability for years. By making our community connections more sustainable, we can better serve our city’s diverse and underserved populations and scale the strategies that have made our work impactful over the last five years.
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South Side Weekly NFP
As South Side Weekly prepares to significantly expand our community engagement efforts in FY25, we are applying to enhance our physical distribution infrastructure and serve as a multidimensional locus for resource and information exchange. Our model has always imagined the newsroom as a community resource, and we want to make a firm stride in that direction–in partnership with community stakeholders.
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Jardincito Nature Play Community Garden
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Art of Noyz Ministries, Incorporated
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Full Deliverance Outreach Incorporated
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IMPACT Family Center
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La Huerta Roots and Rays