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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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    McHenry County College

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $200,000

    McHenry County College’s non-credit Center for Agrarian Learning and associate’s degree in Entrepreneurial Agriculture will help current and aspiring farmers envision new methods of business viability, leading to an improved local food system.

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    The Chicago Community Foundation/Illinois Immigration Funders Collaborative

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $225,000

    In support of the Illinois Immigration Funders Collaborative’s grantmaking efforts supporting immigrants and refugees in the Chicago region.

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    Basils Harvest

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $90,000

    Basil’s Harvest seeks a renewal grant to support the RAH initiative to build a procurement process in the Chicago Foodshed, expand soil health research, support communication along the supply chain system, and stabilize internal structure and ops.

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    The Chicago Community Trust

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $26,335

    In support of an internal transfer to the Cultural Arts Fund (T184), from T242 Goldstein Fund.

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    CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $159,000

    City Colleges of Chicago requests funding to advance its strategies in developmental-level mathematics and improve student momentum into and through college-level mathematics. Funding will provide for project management and evaluation for implementation of recommendations stemming from the Developmental Education Planning Committee. Full implementation will require project management support, funding for program design and delivery, and evaluation. A project manager will convene faculty, develop project plans, monitor deliverables, ensure progress toward full implementation of the recommendations, and serve as the knowledge manager of all efforts focused on improving early momentum into and through gateway coursework.

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    CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $66,000

    This application is translated from the Scope Memo agreed to in July 2021 and formalizes the request for funding of Civic Consulting Alliance to cover our staff investments in the 5/25 Move to Action impact metrics and implementation project. That Scope Memo is attached to this application as an “Additional Document”. This project endeavors to define a theory of change and implications for 5/25, including an associated system to track and report progress or 5/25 that is effective, accepted by participants and can be maintained over the course of the next 3-5 years, including: identification of metrics and indicators; cadence and process to update progress report; and roadmap for implementation.

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    Seven Generations Ahead

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $80,000

    The project drives policy, infrastructure and collaboration to reduce wasted food and build a market for food scrap composting to advance a local, sustainable food shed in Illinois and protect the health of Illinois residents and natural resources.

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    The Chicago Community Trust

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $15,859

    In support of an internal transfer to the Education for our Children Fund (T557), from T291 Herbert S. Irving Fund.