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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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    CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    The Chinese American Service League (CASL) and South Asian American Policy & Research Institute (SAAPRI) will continue to build and lead a coalition of partner organizations focused on assisting hate crime survivors and educating and empowering our Chicagoland AANHPI community on how to report hate crimes and hate incidents. The goal is to strengthen a network of trusted allies that the AANHPI community can rely on. CASL’s Anti-Hate Action Center and SAAPRI have been working to fight and prevent hate in different ways. With a renewed grant we will continue to expand the foundation and infrastructure we have built around rapid response and data gathering with a coalition to reach more members of the AANHPI community. We will plan on reaching out to organizations serving different members of the AANHPI community to invite them to join the coalition; CASL and SAAPRI will convene the group every other month to educate and empower the AANHPI community to prevent and respond to hate incidents.

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    Chinese Mutual Aid Association Inc

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    Chinese Mutual Aid Association, along with partners Indo-American Center and Apna Ghar, seek $25,000 to continue development of a Pan Asian American Center (PAAC) and refine its architectural design plans. The PAAC will be a space for transformative collaboration where members of the AAPI community can access social, educational, and wellness services, engage in cultural exchange, and develop entrepreneurial skills. Through a series of cross-organization conversations, we collectively recognize the significance of our proposed project and believe a PAAC would be a unique asset to the Midwest and beyond. Our coalition, with a rich history of aiding immigrants and refugees, envisions the PAAC as a broader community resource, with verbal commitments from 15 diverse AAPI organizations. Our Year 1 funding support from the Asian Giving Circle’s AACDF grant facilitated a community engagement process that gleaned important insights. This Year 2 grant will propel our early core development and incorporate the community engagement findings into the foundation of our building’s design to ensure that accessibility, inclusivity, and cultural relevance are integrated at the core of the PAAC. The PAAC will be a community-driven project whose architecture, services, and programming work in harmony to build a truly unique resource for AAPI and community members.

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    Filipino American Council of Greater Chicago

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    “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.

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    Disability Lead

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $5,000

    An annual conference to support the leadership and advancement of disabled professionals in the workplace