Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
Since the mid-20th century, homeownership has been one of the most important vehicles for building wealth in the United States. According to research from the…
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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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Michael Reese Health Trust
Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness (CFTEH) seeks funding to advance its strategic, cross-system goals in deep partnership with people with lived expertise. CFTEH is an intersectional funder collaborative formally launched in May 2020 with goals to align resources and unlock new sources of funding to prevent and end homelessness in the Chicago region. CFTEH is in the process of setting its collective goals for the coming year along with an agenda for policy engagement and advocacy. CFTEH seeks to implement the strategic vision and the fostering of partnerships between philanthropy, government, service providers, advocates, and people with lived experience of homelessness.
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES
In support of participation in the Color of Wealth Advisory Committee.
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CFLEADS
2020 support: It is thanks to your generous financial investment that CFLeads is able to support peer connection and field leadership for community foundations of all sizes all across the country. Investments from community foundations like yours are invaluable in helping both your foundation and the entire field develop and strengthen its community leadership capacity.
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Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
We seek support for the development of a Strategic Action Plan on Aging for IL that builds on our partnership with the IDOA to develop their State Plan on Aging. We’ll engage and organize with communities to develop and support a comprehensive vision for an age-friendly city and state focusing on policy and systems change emerging from lessons, gaps, and health inequities illuminated by COVID-19. This project seeks to build power for health and aging justice at a time when we’re experiencing historic growth in the older adult population. Not only do racism and ageism combine with other structural inequities to cause health inequities, service gaps for seniors cost lives and reduce quality of life, especially in Black and Latinx communities.
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IFF
Consistent with IFF’s strategic vision to implement equitable community development projects in low-income communities of color and IFF’s long-term commitment as Asset Manager and Development Partner with the Foundation for Homan Square (FHS), funding from this request will support critical predevelopment activities for the preservation of strong and stable affordable housing units provided on the Homan Square campus. IFF is requesting $100,000 to support legal, architectural, and physical needs assessment costs to advance the long-overdue recapitalization of 158 existing affordable housing units in the FHS real estate portfolio. The units require moderate rehab and an infusion of fresh capital to perform the full extent of repairs.
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Family Independence Initiative
In support of participation in the Color of Wealth Advisory Committee.
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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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ENDELEO INSTITUTE INC
The purchase, rehab and new construction addition to a vacant commercial property on the 95th street corridor in Washington Heights is slated to become Cafe Du Bois, a combination coffee shop/laundromat. As Covid-19 festers, Endeleo is pivoting in the face of economic uncertainties by 1) leveraging dual purpose of the space, 2) creating economic synergy and 3) providing greater value to the community. Endeleo was a 2019 recipient of a City of Chicago Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant and this year, secured Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity funding for a laundromat. While the innovative use of space and additional no cost capital helps offset financing, the Pre-Development Fund initially keeps the project moving.