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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Southland Human Services Leadership Council
The Southland Human Services Leadership Council has been in existence for 10 years and incorporated for the last 4. The Council has achieved enormous successes for the region, networking 70+ human services agencies, coordinating a news and advocacy resource for members and the populations they serve, and getting people to think regionally about the South Suburbs. But in 2019, the SHSLC hit a plateau - and COVID-19 has been a near-death experience for service coordination in the region. The organizations directed by Board leaders have been in survival mode, and this application describes discovering a path to greater sustainability and impact. This funding proposal is being submitted because since its inception, the capacity has not existed for the SHSLC to define needs more comprehensively with the participation of those who are being served.
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Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
Access Living respectfully requests $150,000 in support of our policy and advocacy work advancing the rights and promoting equity for people with disabilities in Chicago. Our efforts embody our philosophy of “nothing about us without us,” prioritizing the participation and leadership of people with disabilities in all aspects of our campaigns (i.e. strategy and tactics, circulating petitions, involvement in demonstrations, meetings with government officials, offering testimony etc.). Our goal is to build the collective power of the disability community to create systems changes that positively impact the well-being of Chicagoan’s with disabilities.
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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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International Neighborhood Collaborative
From Spring 2022 to Spring 2023, The Dovetail Project will focus on revamping our fatherhood programming and increasing our recruitment efforts to safely return to pre-pandemic application, enrollment, and graduation levels. As a family-centered organization that takes a place-based, people-of-color-led, intergenerational approach to fatherhood services -- impacting two generations of youth at once (young fathers ages 17-24 and their children ages 0-5) -- we would be honored to receive general operating support from the Chicago Community Trust to support us in re-scaling our programming to impact more students. Among the pandemic's many long-term effects is increased stress for young parents, and this summer we are amplifying our recruitment efforts to get more young men back in the classroom and back to work to strengthen themselves, their children, their families, and their communities.
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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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ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS
Despite our significant successes in policy advocacy at the local, state, and federal levels, permanent immigration policy solutions are still needed. ICIRR’s evolving analysis and approach is now focused on developing innovative partnerships that support not only immigrants and refugees but all low-income BIPOC communities. We believe an integrated strategy that lifts all boats is the way to create economic equity. We will: 1. Develop the capacity and leadership of our institutional members; 2. Conduct intentional relational organizing with BIPOC-led organizations and people directly impacted by immigration policies and the racial/ethnic wealth gap; and 3. Build integrated campaigns that support Black/Brown unity and economic justice.
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FARM Illinois
To empower the Illinois Agri-Food Alliance, a consortium of leaders driving implementation of the Food & Agriculture RoadMap for Illinois, to pursue roadmap-related activities as they relate to climate, conservation, and land-use, and advance its role as a connector and convener across Illinois’ agri-food system and catalyst and champion for forward-looking and systemic dialogue, ideation, and action.
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Upwardly Global
Upwardly Global requests funding in the amount of $25,000 to support efforts to empower our community of unemployed and underemployed immigrant and refugee job seekers (82% of whom identify as BIPOC) with the skills, networks and credentials needed to rebuild their lives and careers in the U.S., contributing to a thriving and more inclusive Chicago workforce and economy. Those served will emerge from our program having secured gainful, "thriving-wage" professional employment in sustainable industries like tech and healthcare, earning an average starting salary of $55,000 and experiencing an income increase of $45,000 on average. As a result, we will put mobility within reach and contribute to a reduction in income inequality among Chicago's immigrant families.