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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LATINOS PROGRESANDO
Latinos Progresando (LP) is requesting renewed support from the Chicago Community Trust to further equitable community development in the Marshall Square community, home to a largely Mexican, immigrant population located on the southwest side of Chicago. LP’s approach centers on developing Marshall Square’ commercial corridors, the intersecting Cermak and California Avenues that form the neighborhood’s commercial core, with development activities organized around a cluster of community assets: the locally owned small businesses that make up the heart of neighborhood commerce; the Latinos Progresando Community Center, a redevelopment of a long-vacant Chicago public library branch; and the CTA Pink Line California station. LP uses a number of tools to activate this work: equitable transit oriented development, public green space/green infrastructure design, placemaking, and robust community engagement. By driving economic development through investments in commercial corridor improvements, and facilitating opportunities for the small, immigrant-owned, entrepreneurial businesses that are the economic engine of Marshall Square to sustain and grow, LP envisions increasing community wealth in a neighborhood with historic disinvestment. Our broader vision also includes collaboration with the neighboring community of North Lawndale under the One Lawndale umbrella, leveraging investments across neighborhoods.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance
This is the funding request for the collaborative Fund: The Human Service Workforce Initiative
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Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council
For 85 years, the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council (BYNC) has been committed to community-driven economic development by the people and for the people. We represent a neighborhood of 44,000 people on Chicago’s Southwest side, 61% of whom identify as Hispanic or Latine. The stockyards used to be a huge economic driving force in the neighborhood, but now after decades of business closures and systematic disinvestment, our community is once again on the rise with new developments and a strong entrepreneurial spirit. BYNC is excited to be leading this community-driven economic development, but we need support to do so. The Neighborhood Development Champions grant will allow BYNC to focus on these five high-priority initiatives that move economic development plans forward, increase public participation, and ensure inclusive economic growth: 1. Make significant progress on large-scale economic development projects (4630 S. Ashland and United Yards) 2. Develop and maintain partnerships with neighborhood small businesses that drive economic opportunity and wealth creation 3. Implement priorities of the Economic Inclusion Agenda, including Quality of Life improvements 4. Invest in staff capacity to deliver on economic development priorities 5. Manage community engagement efforts to ensure equitable and sustainable economic development BYNC looks forward to partnering with the Chicago Community Trust to foster economic opportunity, build community wealth, and continue to transform the Back of the Yards neighborhood.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability
The Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability (GAPA) submits this proposal for continued funding to provide support to the elected District Councils, engage the public in the police accountability space, and take on related work needed to successfully implement the recently enacted Empowering Communities for Public Safety (ECPS) ordinance. The coalition will additionally undertake work alongside the ECPS coalition, philanthropy, and accountability partners within the City to increase the salary and expand the budget for district councilors to accurately reflect the workload necessary to execute the expectations of the office successfully.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Safe Chicago Network
Metropolitan Peace Initiatives (MPI), a division of Metropolitan Family Services, leads efforts to reduce community violence by convening local and citywide organizations through its Communities Partnering for Peace (CP4P) and READI Chicago. MPI serves individuals at the highest risk of violence by providing community-centered, trauma-informed interventions. Communities Partnering for Peace (CP4P) Founded in 2017, CP4P is an innovative coalition model for violence prevention that brings together 15 hyperlocal community-based organizations (CBOs) across 28 of Chicago’s most violence-impacted neighborhoods. CP4P’s team of credible messengers—street outreach workers with deep local knowledge and trust—provides essential services, including street outreach, case management, hospital response, and community engagement events. CP4P reaches those most at risk of gun violence with a restorative, trauma-informed approach to violence prevention and intervention. READI Chicago READI Chicago focuses on individuals at the highest risk of involvement in gun violence, providing transitional jobs and comprehensive community violence intervention services. The program aims to reduce participants' likelihood of being victims or perpetrators of gun violence, support pathways to positive opportunities, decrease criminal justice system involvement, and build community infrastructure for safety and opportunity. Together, CP4P and READI Chicago create a coordinated ecosystem of support and opportunities, addressing violence through prevention, intervention, and community empowerment. MPI’s work is essential to transforming Chicago’s communities and advancing public safety for all residents.
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UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
The Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities is a funder collaborative, made up of over 50 contributors, that awards grants up to $10,000 to grassroots organizations; to create safe and peaceful community programming within neighborhoods with high rates of gun violence during the summer and fall. The Chicago Fund is one part of the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities’ 5- pronged approach to reducing gun violence within Chicago. Since its inception in 2016, the fund has awarded $10.4M in support of over 1,500 projects that promote safe and peaceful activities in 24 communities. Using the homicide data reports through a partnership with the University of Chicago Crime Lab and the Illinois Office of Firearm Violence Prevention, communities on the south and west sides of the city were prioritized –they are: Auburn Gresham, Austin, Burnside, Chatham, Chicago Lawn, Englewood, West Englewood, Fuller Park, Gage Park, East Garfield Park, West Garfield Park, Greater Grand Crossing, Humboldt Park, Lower West Side (Pilsen), New City (Back of the Yards), North Lawndale, South Lawndale (Little Village), Riverdale, Roseland, South Chicago, South Shore, Washington Park, West Pullman and Woodlawn.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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Puerto Rican Cultural Center
For over 50 years, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PRCC) has developed a model for sustainable community development rooted in a socio-ecological framework inspired by Puerto Rican culture and the indigenous practices of Maroon societies—communities of resistance. Through this model, PRCC has established over 20 parallel institutions to address systemic injustices impacting our community’s intersectional identities. These efforts include founding an alternative school to combat high dropout rates, creating the first Latino HIV/AIDS prevention organization, establishing a Trans Empowerment Center, and supporting the creation of the National Puerto Rican Museum and Urban Theater Company to heal from colonialism through art. PRCC is focused on revitalizing neighborhoods in Chicago, particularly Humboldt Park, which has faced severe generational disinvestment, leading to significant job losses, high unemployment rates, and plummeting property values. While citywide efforts aim to address these challenges, they often overlook the unique needs of local communities. PRCC’s proposal for the Chicago Trust’s "Community Wealth - Neighborhood Development Champions" centers on empowering local stakeholders and ensuring development directly benefits residents. With our longstanding history of successful community engagement, PRCC is well-positioned to lead initiatives that promote equitable growth and build lasting wealth for our community.