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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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SOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE
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ONE HOPE UNITED
OHU’s Joliet Early Learning Center offers program support to not only the children enrolled in our academic program, but to the families of our children by offering enrichment activities, mental health services, nutritional planning, and budgeting training that help improve the quality of life of our families. OHU is requesting $15,000 to support our family engagement program. The focus will be Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyles Education. These funds will elevate our existing program by providing supplies for activities, classroom materials, literature for families, food for meal planning, and take-home activities for the families. Increasing parent involvement will cause direct impact to the wellbeing of every child enrolled in our program.
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Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation
Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation (GAGDC) is on a journey with the community to build an equitable connected neighborhood, where everyone of all ages and race are welcome and thrive. GAGDC is a comprehensive community development organization and is leading the effort to redevelop a long vacant, office building on a key commercial corridor in the Auburn Gresham community. The 839 Healthy Lifestyle Hub redevelopment project plan and mission is to bring jobs, access to healthcare, build collective power and sustain strong partnerships with neighborhood network partners while closing the racial wealth equity gap among the residents in Auburn Gresham.
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Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative
The initial Flexible Funding grant helped Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative (Emerald South) begin building out a digital infrastructure by purchasing and customizing a Salesforce CRM platform. Our year two renewal grant funding from the Trust’s Flexible Funding program will help onboard more users, continue solution design & support, and maintain an innovative region-wide platform. This platform will assist Emerald South to amplify and coordinate initiatives and investment opportunities by working with local leaders, organizations, and businesses to better understand the local business community and their needs, expand communications, and scale program operations for the benefit of the mid-South Side of Chicago.
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GARFIELD PARK COMMUNITY COUNCIL
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EASTER SEALS JOLIET REGION INC
Easterseals Joliet Region is an ESSENTIAL provider of Health & Human Services to include Children's Allied Health Services. In response to the growing needs for Children's Mental Health interventions, the organization began a Behavioral Health Outpatient Counseling service pre-Pandemic to complement the Autism Diagnostic Program, physical, occupational, speech and developmental services for children. At the present time, the agency has two Licensed Clinical Social Workers providing Telehealth and In-person counseling. There is wait list of 200 children in-part because of the effects of the pandemic. This request is for seed funds to expand capacity and match a $10,000 grant opportunity through Easterseals National Mackenzie Scott Fund.
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Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce
The Grant will support the addition of one position: a FT development manager to: continue to build relationships with owners of assets in Englewood (property owners and business owners). survey and catalog, map properties and ownership status for commercial listings and zoning data and bring this information to larger real estate development conversations in Englewood to support the GECC’s vision for development. Identifying and hiring a development manager for the Chamber will allow the Chamber: to be seen as the repository of everything real estate for small businesses and developers, increase Chamber membership and the perceived value of the price of membership and Increase operational efficiency.
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Endeleo Institute Inc
The purchase, rehab and a 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.