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 Chicago Community Foundation/Arts Work Fund
AWF provides capacity-building grants and peer knowledge sharing opportunities to small arts and cultural organizations. In September, we launched Think • Explore • Share. These grants enable arts organizations to develop and test solutions to challenges posed by COVID-19 or challenges that hampered arts nonprofits before the pandemic. Challenges can relate to management, production, technology, fiscal planning, or artistic mission. The AWF Connect a listserv has grown in vitality as grantees are now asked to post lessons learned from their grants on the listserv so that the field can benefit from the knowledge gained and lessons learned.
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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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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.
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METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL
MPC's application supports Our Great Rivers, with specific emphasis in 2021 on the Task Force. Working with DPD, MPC will ensure that Task Force priorities reflect the goals of its members and prioritize their presence and lived experience - to positively changes the way decisions are made. MPC will facilitate a Task Force structure that amplifies these perspectives, while simultaneously taking a systemic approach to planning, policy and development. MPC will also raise awareness of Our Great Rivers and its progress via focused communications. An essential role for MPC is to serve as a watchdog, advocating with and on behalf of partners ensuring that the actions and strategies put forward by the City align and adhere to the Rivers’ vision.
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NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
We are requesting $150,000 to support our vision that our neighbors will have the food they need to thrive. As of 2020, we met the meal gap in 99% of our service area, yet recognize that we are not yet reaching all neighbors in need, particularly with the increased food insecurity due to COVID-19. We acknowledge and embrace the opportunity to design a better experience for neighbors and prioritize solutions for populations disproportionately impacted by hunger. In launching a new strategic plan, we take responsibility to serve more neighbors, especially those we often miss, and pursue a refined mission to provide nutritious food and resources for all those in need, with dignity, equity and convenience, through partnerships and innovation.
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The Chicago Community Trust
To support the Office of Equity and Racial Justice, for Nneka Onwuzurike’s internship.
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ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS
Despite our significant successes in policy advocacy at the local, state and federal levels, permanent immigration policy solutions are still needed. ICIRR’s evolving analysis and approach is now focused on developing innovative partnerships that support not only immigrants and refugees but all low-income Black and Brown communities. We believe an integrated strategy that lifts all boats is the way to create economic equity. We will: -Develop the capacity and leadership of our institutional members. -Conduct Intentional relational organizing with BIPOC-led organizations and people directly impacted by immigration policies and the racial/ethnic wealth gap. -Build integrated campaigns that support Black/Brown unity and economic justice.