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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ENRICH CHICAGO
The support of the Chicago Community Trust will be integral to ensuring that we can continue to invest in producing high-quality training and capacity-building experiences. Both through the skill and expertise of Enrich Chicago staff and through partnerships with other leaders in the field, we have succeeded at engaging our stakeholders through multiple modalities and contexts so that they may acquire the skills and perspective needed to continue the change process. In the next year, we will continue to evolve our practices to radically transform institutional life and leadership practices in the arts and culture sector. The multiple affinity spaces that have emerged in the past year have emerged as a result of Enrich training of cohort and community members. Beyond operating as spaces for networking and support, they have emerged as some of our most important organizing spaces for collective action. In the next 24 months, support from the foundation will be integral to ensuring our ability to capitalize on the movement for change and catalyze sector-wide change and accountability structures.
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Provident Foundation
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PROJECT I AM NFP
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Historic Pullman Foundation Inc
The Historic Pullman Foundation (HPF) seeks funding to build the capacity of our organization to deliver on our expanded role as the official non-profit partner of Pullman National Monument (PNM), Chicago’s only national park. Throughout its history, HPF has been led and operated by volunteers, who have worked to preserve, revitalize and make accessible to the public one of Chicago’s greatest concentrations of historic properties. This operating model is no longer sufficient. To fulfill our expanded mission and leverage PNM for community benefit, HPF must hire an executive director and other key staff to operate the organization effectively, efficiently and strategically.
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THE DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION
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ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY
The Expedited Housing Initiative was launched in 2020 to mitigate the effects of COVID-19, and house people faster than ever before. EHI is a collaborative effort between the Chicago Dept. of Family & Support Services (DFSS), Chicago Dept. of Public Health (CDPH), All Chicago, the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), and the Chicago Continuum of Care (CoC). EHI is testing innovative approaches, such as centralizing landlord outreach and engagement, to speed access to housing. To date, EHI has housed more than 1100 households and is on track to house more than 1800 households before September 30, 2022. The total project period runs from July 2020 through September 2022. Our CCT request is for a 12 month term.
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RESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD
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Chicago Latino Theater Alliance
CLATA is searching for land to acquire and build upon and/or for a building to purchase and renovate to serve as a permanent performance space for local and international Latino theater groups in Chicago. This type of cultural amenity does not exist for Chicago’s Latino community.. The development of the CLATA Theater Complex will expand workforce and educational opportunities, promote cross-cultural exchange, serve as incubator and produce hundreds of profitable theater performances. The CLATA Theater Complex will infuse and be an economic engine in the neighborhood and area businesses. Our goal is to create economically stable revenue streams: production, rentals, bar/ concessionary sales, to reinvest into multidisciplinary programs.