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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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    Anew: Building Beyond Violence & Abuse

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

    South Suburban Family Shelter seeks a grant from the Chicago Community Trust to help us continue our work in providing comprehensive services to victims/survivors of domestic violence the emergency help they need to be safe and prevent homelessness. SSFS provides an array of services that includes 24-hour bilingual hotline, emergency shelter, crisis intervention, individual, group and family counseling for adult victims and child victims, as well as medical advocacy and court advocacy, and rapid rehousing. A renewal of this grant will help us continue to assist our organization with our core work of getting victims safe and working to continue to provide prevention and education programs regarding domestic violence in our communities.

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    ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

    The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) will expand on its current vaccine outreach work and continue to advocate for equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine to immigrant, uninsured, and underinsured populations. Specifically, ICIRR will work with our member organizations in Little Village, Cicero, Berwyn and North Lawndale to empower community leaders by educating and engaging them on immigrant health care rights and COVID-19 vaccine facts and accessibility. ICIRR will continue to connect its member organizations with the Illinois Alliance for Welcoming Healthcare, and help organizations strengthen their relationships with their local healthcare systems, including local health departments.

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    Community Television Network

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $35,000

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    Scholarship America, Inc.

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $8,000

    To support the distribution of the Eleanor L. Swartz scholarship fund.

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    SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $20,000

    Small Business Majority respectfully requests support from the Chicago Community Trust for the development and launch of an online learning community for business service organizations (BSOs) in Chicago. We will design a digital space dedicated to meeting BSOs’ workforce and operations needs and to fostering meaningful exchanges between peer organizations. BSOs will have access to resources to enhance their culturally relevant service provision for entrepreneurs in underserved areas, particularly those impacted by historic discrimination and disinvestment, and they can participate in ongoing discussions about their programs, policy implications and other influences on their work, boosting coordination and cohesion.

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    CHICAGO COMMUNITY LOAN FUND

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    The EPIC Fund Collaborative (the Collaborative) requests a grant of $25,000 to support planning, coordination, and start-up efforts required to structure and launch the EPIC Fund: Equity Products for Investing in Communities, projected to launch during the summer of 2021. The Collaborative is composed of Chicago Community Loan Fund (CCLF), LISC Chicago, IFF, and the Corporate Coalition. Collaborative members’ exists to deploy resources that provide the flexible, patient, and risk-tolerant equity and equity-like capital that is typically not available and whose absence is holding catalytic real estate projects back from becoming a reality.

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    P33

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $225,000

    P33 is requesting incremental funds for a Director of Drug Development for the IL Deep Tech Guild (iDTG), a program that P33 is building with partners to apprentice a purposefully diverse group of young PhDs/MAs/MDs, targeting 50% BiPOC participation, with experienced, full-time, supervising drug development professionals for a robust course of experiential learning. Apprentices will develop/de-risk targets sourced from local universities, form and strengthen their peer and expert network, and then be unleashed to develop new treatments that reduce incidence of disease and suffering . The primary product of the iDTG is the people who will enter Chicagoland’s innovation ecosystem with meaningful expertise, network, and social capital.