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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KAN-WIN
KAN-WIN’s mission is to eliminate gender-based violence by providing comprehensive, survivor-centered services, education, and outreach to Asian American communities and beyond. Following the success of the AGC’s first FY24 grant, we are respectfully requesting support from the Asian Giving Circle (AGC) to further strengthen our Economic Empowerment Program (EEP) for survivors of gender-based violence. This program is designed to and will continue to empower survivors by promoting financial literacy, removing barriers to stability, and building a foundation for sustainable career growth and economic independence. Through the EEP, survivors are guided in making informed financial decisions and receive support in their native languages. As a result, many have opened their first U.S. bank accounts and started building credit through microloans. With AGC’s FY24 grant, several survivors completed the financial literacy program and savings match program (emergency fund building). Furthermore, KAN-WIN's EEP has launched a Career Foundation Program with AGC’s FY24 funding which was a new development for EEP. This program was intentionally developed to reinforce survivors' core strengths and create a direct pipeline to workforce resources. In this way, the EEP helps survivors build a strong foundation for achieving long-term financial stability and safety. With the FY25 AGC grant, EEP will continue to incorporate culturally sensitive components into each financial literacy and career foundation program for the Korean, Mongolian, and Chinese communities of survivors.
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Heart Women & Girls Project
The nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC) is rooted in white supremacy and capitalism. In order to successfully advance one’s mission, often nonprofits participate in the NPIC, resulting in competition, a scarcity mindset, the tokenization of Black and brown staff, and toxic workplaces that replicate the same harm internally as they are trying to disrupt in the communities they serve. These challenges are further compounded by anti-blackness and white supremacy that is pervasive in AAPI communities and AAPI led organizations, often resulting in pitting Black and AAPI folks against each other and leveraging the model minority mindset to align with law enforcement to cultivate a false sense of security. Finally, the anti-blackness and internalized white supremacy within AAPI led organizations creates a toxic workplace and harmful practices, resulting in overworked, underpaid staff and frequent turnover. HEART is a national nonprofit headquartered in Chicago led by AAPI Muslim women that has been working to incorporate a racial justice lens to their internal work culture as well as its external programming for the last few years. The purpose of this request is to request $15,000 to document the ways in which the organization has to disrupted anti-blackness and white supremacy within its organization. The funding will support the development of a toolkit and training for AAPI-led organizations that are interested in strengthening their commitment to disrupting anti-blackness and white supremacy in their internal and external programming.
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SpaceShift Collective
Devon Night Market is the next phase of SpaceShift Collective’s five-year-long immersive creative placemaking project in Chicago’s South Asian neighborhood on Devon Avenue. Conceived and produced by SpaceShift Collective, Devon Night Market will bring together community members, artists, creatives, and local businesses in a public celebration of the neighborhood and as a way to connect and share resources. Devon Night Market will take place monthly between May 2025 - October 2025.
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Filipino American Council of Greater Chicago
“Lots of Love” (LOL@)” - a culturally sensitive and creative way of addressing the isolation and loneliness brought about by Covid-19 and the continuing anti-Asian hate crimes happening in the Filipino American community. This situation is the result of anxiety among the public, perpetuated by members of the media and some politicians, whose xenophobic references to the cause of COVID-19 stirred anti-Asian sentiments. The situation has escalated to hate crimes and violence against the Asian-American community, particularly elderly Filipino Americans. This project seeks to empower the Filipino-American elderly population, address the collective trauma they experienced due to the pandemic and its anti-Asian aftermath, and build up awareness and support among the younger generations towards an intergenerational effort to end anti-Asian injustices.