Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
Since the mid-20th century, homeownership has been one of the most important vehicles for building wealth in the United States. According to research from the…
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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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The Conservation Fund
This application seeks operational funding to launch the Working Farms Fund program in metro Chicago. The Working Farms Fund program is an innovative model to support a resilient regional food system by addressing farmland as a critical piece of supply chain infrastructure. Specifically designed to enable talented and diverse growers to scale production to meet institutional demand for good food, the Working Farms Fund protects critical at-risk farmland and offers a patient pathway to landownership as the basis for business resiliency and intergenerational wealth creation.
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LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES
Lincoln Park Community Services respectfully submits this application for general operating support to support our expansion of Drop-in services for people experiencing street based homelessness at our Sedgwick location in Old Town based upon the need that has been identified since our move to our new location. Specifically, we are seeking to increase the operation of our drop-in center to five days a week and facilitate expanded services to individuals who are in need, even if we are unable to provide them with an interim housing (shelter) bed. LPCS seeks to transition from a drop-in model that serves clients one time or intermittently to a more comprehensive, outcomes-focused model offering regular, weekly case management and support to clients until they are placed into more stable housing. With our current model we are limited to one day a week for just three hours in a single location. Our expanded drop-in center model will offer showers, laundry, meals, hygiene supplies, access to clothing items, access to on-site primary care, access to computers and wi-fi, transportation support/bus passes, and intensive case management focused on linkage to services. We are seeking support to hire additional staff, purchase additional resources, such as hygiene supplies, food, and clothing, CTA passes, and provide case management services to street-based individuals. LPCS serves adult individuals aged 18 and over who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness and works with them to overcome their barriers to housing. LPCS serves individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, gender identity, and educational attainment. Guests and clients come to LPCS from throughout Chicago. The LPCS drop-in center has a particular emphasis on people who are unsheltered and experiencing street-based homelessness.
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Ageoptions Inc
Avisery by AgeOptions helps older adults and adults with disabilities access affordable healthcare and effectively utilize their health benefits by leveraging its 1,795-member network of health insurance counseling professionals to advocate for a responsive health benefits delivery system. With Chicago Community Trust funding, Avisery will expand its advocacy work so older adults and those with disabilities can access benefits that reduce health and wealth disparities. Avisery will use its network of professional benefits counselors, coalition partners, and relationships with insurance plans, and state and federal agencies to advocate for beneficiaries on an individual level and to address systemic barriers to access and affordability.
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Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
The Alliance leads a network of stakeholders dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness in suburban Cook County. We operate a housing system that provides a coordinated continuum of interventions for people experiencing housing instability. Interventions include preventing homelessness when possible, providing crisis housing when needed, and prioritizing permanent housing. Each of these housing interventions is informed by our systemwide approach that is rooted in cross-sector collaboration, data-driven decision making, and removing structural barriers to housing. The Alliance provides the infrastructure to advance systems and policy change to connect people experiencing homelessness with the housing and services that meet their needs.
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Shriver Center on Poverty Law
The Shriver Center on Poverty Law (Shriver Center) requests a renewal $150,000 general operating grant from the Chicago Community Trust to support its leadership and meaningful work across multiple coalitions, including the Transit Table, Cost of Living Refund Coalition, Housing Policy Roundtable, Illinois Domestic Workers Coalition, and Responsible Budget Coalition. We will leverage these networks throughout the grant period as they strive to promote economic and racial justice, strengthen families and communities, and advance policies and reforms that address the racial wealth gap. Our advocates generally serve as the primary legal and policy experts of these tables, increasing the strength and ultimate success of each coalition.
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AUSTIN COMING TOGETHER
• Project Name Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation • Application Summary Located at the corner of Madison St. and Central Avenue (5500 W. Madison), the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation is a multi-use facility development project to renovate and repurpose the (87,000 square feet) former Robert Emmet Public Elementary School into a coordinated community hub with industry sector training center that will service youth and out-of-work individuals with in-demand skill sets and small business supports. The Aspire Center (meaning, place of directing the hopes of the people) will be composed of several workforce training, career development and entrepreneurial skills providers all housed within the re-purposed and renovated Emmet School. The development will offer: * a high tech manufacturing training center for working age youth and adults * a business incubator for start ups * a restaurant with indoor/outdoor dining and social events * a bank and other neighborhood building businesses • Total Project Budget $27,995,000
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Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
We seek renewed support for our Impact Division, which leads our policy work to close the racial and ethnic wealth divide in Illinois, such as work on economic security, income supports, asset building, ending wealth stripping, consumer protections, and fines/fees reform. This has included retirement and Children’s Savings Account programs, earned income credit and child tax credit expansion, lending/debt reforms, and driver's license suspensions. Our priorities are developed in coalition and with an equity lens. We use data to understand racial disparities, and center and engage impacted people in our work. We seek support for leading the coalition Financial Inclusion for All Illinois, and providing advocacy and subject matter leadership in other coalitions connected to these issues.
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APNA GHAR INC OUR HOME
Apna Ghar’s mission is to provide critical, comprehensive, culturally competent services, and conduct outreach and advocacy across communities to end gender violence. Intervention services (crisis and long term) at Apna Ghar are the focus of this proposal and have a framework that brings together community-driven strategies and local partners to empower our program teams to intervene with those at the highest risk of experiencing violence, while also working with the broader community to transform their understanding of gender-based violence. Our work through this grant will continue our increased efforts of pandemic response and ensure services to prevent violence, case management and counseling, access to legal services, street outreach, training and technical assistance and shelter, and housing programs can continue to meet the needs of our local communities.