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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Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America Inc NFP
We are requesting $25,000 in funding to address the critical need for individualized, intensive after-school educational support for Chicago’s newly arrived refugee children, who have had limited/interrupted formal education as a result of genocide, war, and persecution. By expanding the scope and scale of our programs and increasing refugee parent participation in their children's academic progress, we want to empower Chicago’s newest neighbors to reach their full potential -- closing the significant achievement gap between refugee students and their peers, providing greater stability within refugee families, and preparing our students to become economically self-sufficient and robustly engaged in American civic life.
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Association House of Chicago
Association House of Chicago respectfully requests $50,000 in general operating funding from The Chicago Community Trust to support essential services offered at the agency. Services are designed to address unemployment and lack of income, food insecurity, lack of health insurance, health/mental health needs, and youth trauma. Throughout a 123-year history in the city of Chicago, Association House has remained dedicated to providing high-quality services in areas of high economic hardship. Using a trauma-informed, culturally responsive service model, we fill the gaps that leave low-income individuals and families struggling. Association House serves thousands of community members each year through direct services in four divisions that work collaboratively to meet the varied needs of those we serve: Association House High School, Child Welfare, Behavioral Health, and Community Health & Workforce Development.
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Chicago Southland Economic Development Corporation
Chicago Southland Economic Development Corporation (CSEDC) is applying for $400,000 We Rise Grant funding to complete the acquisition and construction of the 4343 Ascending House (https://4343ascendinghouse.org/), the Chicago Southland Business Incubator. The vision of the 4343 Ascending House is to increase the representation of minority and female small business founders related to Manufacturing and Transportation, Distribution and Logistics (TDL) by providing shared working space, high-speed internet, advanced start-up software, mentorship, and funding opportunities to increase access to networks and expertise that these entrepreneurs need to build their businesses. Located at 4343 Lincoln Hwy, Matteson, IL 60443, the incubator will serve 44 municipalities, over 200 businesses, and over 650,000 residents in the region of southern Cook County bordered by Chicago to the north, Will County to the south, and Indiana to the east. During the Covid crisis, the 4343 Ascending House has started a pilot proposed digital program, which aims to support business development and help existing business and prospective small enterprises transform into digital business to harness the power of e-commerce. Critical partners include Supply Chain Innovation Center and Business Incubator (SCICBI) of Governors State University, Ecommerce Management, and Village of Matteson.
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FEATHERFIST
Over the past two years, Featherfist has weathered the most unique service environment that we have ever seen. We have consistently serviced people experiencing housing instability and homelessness. We have continued to work during and through the pandemic because our clients are vulnerable and had to be served, despite the crisis that the world was experiencing. Featherfist continues to be mission minded, addressing barriers to obtaining and maintaining permanent housing. Featherfist is requesting general operating support. Our needs are two fold, specifically, we have experienced increased program growth which has led to the need for increased accounting support. Secondly, we have identified the need for increased behavioral health services for our current clients. This funding will allow us the opportunity to hire clinical staff/consultants to increase our capacity to provide these services on an ongoing basis as well as begin the initial service provision. Featherfist will create and implement a behavioral health component that can provide internal referrals. We know that clients have better participation rates and this better outcomes when they can receive services within 1 system. It is our hope that this investment into our agency will set the stage for the development of increased unrestricted funding that can further support our programs within 2 fiscal years.
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Economic Security for Illinois
In response to the worsening economic climate, there is growing public and political support for using cash to help Americans make ends meet. Research has shown that when given unconditional cash, the financially vulnerable take care of their needs and focus their energy on climbing up the economic ladder. As the leading organization in Chicago/Illinois focused on cash, Economic Security for Illinois is leveraging its IL Cost-of-Living Refund Coalition and IL Guaranteed Income Community of Practice to put more cash in the pockets of low- and middle-income Chicagoans by expanding the Illinois Earned Income Credit (EIC) as the Cost-of-Living Refund and securing other forms of cash-based support.
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Fresh Taste
North Lawndale Fresh is a collaborative grantmaking program to increase access to healthy affordable food, support community gardens and local food production, grow food enterprises, and protect and strengthen food assistance programs in the North Lawndale neighborhood. The vision is an equitable Chicagoland region where all people have knowledge of and access to healthy food. The funders involved with North Lawndale Fresh have committed to a minimum $1M for each of five years to support the neighborhood. This is the first year of that five-year commitment to North Lawndale Fresh. This project aligns with the building supply-side skills and attracting capital strategies of Food:Land:Opportunity while also reducing fragmentation.
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Annie B. Jones Civic Arts Center
Annie B. Jones Civic Arts Center (ABJ) requests funds to offer mental, physical, and emotional health, and wellness, as well as recreational activities through its Project LIFT↑ program. This unique and highly specialized Youth Development Program, which crosses three (3) Chicago Police Districts, addresses the unprecedented and extreme incidents of violence in Chicago that stem directly from unfair systems and oppressive policies. The Project LIFT↑ program is developed to provide love and care for community youth while de-programming and detoxing them from trauma and violent acts that they may have experienced or are at serious risk of experiencing. This program uses prevention and intervention measures to focus on peace, safety, healing, and wholeness. The program is designed to LIFT↑ these youth out of harmful conditions. It is a self-actualizing program that is rooted in love of self, love of others, and love of the community. The love of self, addresses biological or psychological behaviors; the love of peers/family focuses on the interactions between youth and two or more closely related people; and love of the community which addresses the health and safety of the greater community. The program is designed to help youth develop inner tranquility and replace emotional hurt and trauma leading to street and domestic violence with healing and self-acceptance which lead to paths of peace. This then, will enable them to project and express that same state of wholeness and peace through behavioral shifts. Through the proposed grant we will expand the program to include workshops in yoga, peace-breathing, healthy eating, psychology of music; a community music/dance ensemble; peace and healing circles, recreation, field trips; and social media challenges that promote positive/healthy attitudes toward one self, family/friends, and the community.
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Artisan Grain Collaborative
AGC is a network of 170+ farmers, processors, end-users, and advocates working to cultivate and elevate a regenerative grainshed in the Upper Midwest. FLO funds will support AGC's core operations and expanding programmatic work.