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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The Bigs Media Ltd.
This grant proposal aims to address the pressing challenges facing independent newsrooms like ours by scaling proven strategies and innovations with a goal of building capacity and audience growth. We recognize the challenges of obtaining sustainability and the imperative nature of being able to navigate the complexities of the modern media landscape, including adapting to digital transformations, diversifying revenue streams, and building sustainable business models. Through this grant, we aspire to join the Chicago Community Trust’s community of esteemed newsroom leaders, fostering collaboration amongst local community members and our media colleagues, sharing best practices, and developing sustainable journalism and content creation strategies. Central to our proposal is a clear plan for strategy. measurement of progress and sustainability beyond the grant period, ensuring the lasting influence of our efforts. With this support, we aim to make significant strides in not only sustaining our operations but also in bolstering the integrity and inclusivity of media representation in Chicago.
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Chicago Urban League
The goal of the homeownership policy coalition project is to address the racial wealth gap by focusing on expanding access to housing and homeownership as a core wealth-generating strategy. The Chicago Urban League's Research and Policy Center will deepen its efforts with multiple overlapping policy, advocacy and high-impact organizations to expand the body of knowledge and tools available to engage key policy-makers and partners, as well as a resource for empowering and educating the public. This project leverages the unique resources of the Chicago League to address systemic barriers to homeownership as a wealth-building strategy and directly support members of our communities as they navigate the challenges of the system.
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Gyrls In The H O O D Foundation
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The Triibe, Inc.
The TRiiBE requests capacity-building funding to support THE SCENE web application and related web design and editorial work. Renewal funds will bring the app’s design to completion, while supporting community outreach initiatives and community investment reporting in Chicago’s most underserved neighborhoods. All of these elements will work interconnectedly in building a more informed and connected Chicago through tech innovation and journalism.
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Sacred Ground Ministries
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NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC
The NHS-led Housing Policy Task Force seeks to effect change, reform and a more equitable future for people of color through access to affordable homeownership and other wealth-building opportunities. This Task Force convenes over thirty of Chicago’s most prominent stakeholders, pulling in thought-leaders from a diverse selection of nonprofit, for-profit, academic, regulatory, and governmental sectors. Our activities unite advocacy with research, planning, coalition building, and more to achieve our wide aims of making owner-occupied housing more affordable, sustainable, and accessible. While we focus on that core mission, we will concentrate our activities this year on addressing equitable mortgage access, equitable homeownership, appraisal gap advocacy, and property tax repayment advocacy.
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La Raza Chicago, Inc.
A project to keep saving La Raza, the last major Spanish newspaper in Chicago, and to keep it as a quality and trusted source of local news to serve and empower the Hispanic community. This grant will help in part to support the cost of keeping the position of the Editor in Chief, opening a new position for a reporter to cover Latine communities in Chicago, and investing in the maintenance of our neighborhood distribution infrastructure. The recovery after the recent inflation and the COVID-19 emergency has been slow for media and local news outlets face big financial challenges, everything amid a steep decline in advertising revenue. La Raza is likely the last Spanish newspaper in Chicago producing original community-focused journalism. This grant will mitigate the current news deserts affecting the Chicago Hispanic communities, preserve La Raza’s content production capacity, enhance its online platforms, support its transformation, and keep active a local media outlet that for 54 years has been critical for the defense and empowerment of the Chicago Latine communities and for the preservation of democracy and free of speech.
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Just for You Girlfriend Organization