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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MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION INC
Although young people care deeply about the problems in their communities, many feel powerless to solve them. Being left out of the conversation exacerbates the inequalities that youth experience, especially in the education system. Colleges across the country have failed to ensure that their students, particularly their low-income and students of color, do not fall through the cracks or become victims of the vastly unequal achievement gap. With the help of Mikva Challenge’s expertise in empowering youth voice, the City Colleges of Chicago aim to combat these inequalities in their system by bringing youth perspectives to the forefront of equity conversations, ensuring youth have a say in the development of a more equitable education system.
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Chicago Dancemakers Forum
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CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY
This proposal supports the involvement of three organizations – the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), the Active Transportation Alliance, and Equiticity – to participate in coalitions regarding transportation equity and mobility justice. Our three groups are the co-chairs of the Transportation Equity Network (TEN), a recently-formed coalition that includes 30 community groups, civic organizations, equitable transportation advocates, academics, and other stakeholders. This grant will be used in large part to support the continued involvement and leadership of our three organizations in this coalition, and will also support our involvement in other related coalitions.
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OPERATION WARM INC
Operation Warm's Chicago Area Virtual Coat Closet (VCC) provides heavily subsidized new winter coats to scores of Chicago area organizations serving low-income families. Grant funding provides most of the funding for this program, and the beneficiary organizations fund $10 or $5 per coat, depending on the time of year and their resources. CCT has been a crucial funding partner for this program since it began in 2012 and our 2020-21 Closet supported 37 organizations and nearly 10,000 coats for children and adults living in need. We are seeking continued and expanded support for our Virtual Coat Closet for 2022. The proposed expansion, described in our application, will be to include our brand-new athletic style shoes in addition to coats.
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Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council NFP
With FLO’s support, the project team will deepen and expand Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP) implementation, support equitable local food supply chain development, and increase engagement of public stakeholders.
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OPTIONS FOR YOUTH
For 20 years, OFY has worked to expand life opportunities for Chicago’s most vulnerable teens on the South and West Sides. Since 2017, our What’s Up with Manhood program has worked with LatinX and African American boys in Little Village to overcome the trauma of violence and toxic gender norms they encounter on the streets, at home, and in school. Through a long-term commitment, our Mentors work with over 100 high school boys each year to help them develop social emotional and life skills leading to healthy masculinity, responsible behavior and academic success. Ultimately, over 95% of our teens finish high school (the majority accepted to college) and demonstrate a greater appreciation for peaceful conflict resolution and gender equality.
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Chicago Rehabilitation Network
CRN with partner Chicago Community Loan Fund started the Center for Shared Ownership to provide leadership for the preservation and creation of shared ownership models (coops, affordable condos/townhomes). In addition to encouraging new coop development through training and education, many historically redlined communities are faced with troubled and aging shared ownership properties at risk of blight and speculation. These at-risk, collectively-owned properties need intense TA to strengthen governance, financial stability, and reconnections to community. Using collective impact frameworks, our approach is for community-wide engagement to improve overall housing options, create wealth, and to establish a foothold for shared ownership.
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Growing Home, Inc.
Growing Home respectfully requests a grant of $40,000 in renewed support of our Food Access Program. This award would allow us to donate more boxes of food to the community through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) system. These CSA boxes are delivered door-to-door at no costs to residents. In addition, we have extended our growing season by adjusting our methods to be able to grow during the winter. With this change, we intend to grow and donate more food than ever before to the Englewood community.