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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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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The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
UIC School of Public Health is grateful for the opportunity to apply for support from The Chicago Community Trust to strengthen the capacity of the Population Health Analytics, Metrics, and Evaluation (PHAME) Center to address the lack of access to health data across Cook County. Specifically, we are requesting support to continue data collection for a Healthy Cook County Survey; expand, improve, and maintain the Cook County Health Atlas; and assess accuracy and biases associated with different approaches to estimating the prevalence of chronic health conditions throughout Cook County. Continuation of the survey would provide municipal-level data for the 100 plus indicators within the Atlas, including income, access to care, quality of care, chronic diseases, health behaviors, and diet and exercise. These indicators and measures would be available at various geospatial levels, for example, census tract, Suburban Cook County (SCC), the CCDPH district, and Commissioner districts. The data would be weighted so it could be combined with data for the City of Chicago as well. Through this effort, we will have comprehensive local level data for all six million Cook County residents. As part of our request to The Trust, we are asking for support to help sustain the work of the Cook County Health Atlas beyond the first year, as well as expand its functionality and identify and incorporate additional data. With these funds, the Cook County Health Atlas will include data from two years. This project is led by the PHAME Center, in partnership with the Cook County Department of Public Health; Metopio, a Chicago-based analytics and visualization software platform; and CAPriCORN, a patient-centered outcomes research network in Chicago. The core mission of the PHAME Center is to democratize data for population health through its four pillars of technology, data outreach, community engagement, and education & policy. One of the ways this mission is accomplished is through the PHAME Center’s management of the Chicago Health Atlas, a free community health data resource that residents, community organizations and public health stakeholders can use to easily search, analyze, and download neighborhood-level health data for Chicago’s 77 community areas. The PHAME Center is located within the UIC School of Public Health and is led by Dr. Sanjib Basu and Dr. Sage Kim, faculty members who have been leaders in democratizing data for public health, meaningful critical public health indicators, data analytics, and data visualization projects.
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Woodstock Institute
Woodstock seeks support to collaboratively: • Convene / lead the Community Reinvestment Act Coalition • Convene / lead the Illinois Predatory Loan Prevention Coalition • Steering Committee member of Financial Inclusion for All Illinois Coalition • Support policy and research agenda of Transit Table Coalition • Participate in the Housing Policy Roundtable and the Housing Task Force We play three primary roles in each: • Conduct applied research that helps stakeholders understand impediments to creating more equitable economic systems • Develop policy recommendations to address racial and economic disparities • Advocate for policy changes in collaboration with community partners that encourage investment and protect consumers in racially and economically segregated neighborhoods.
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Sarah's Inn
Sarah's Inn respectfully requests a $25,000 grant from the Chicago Community Trust to support our Intervention Program. Our Intervention Program provides Advocacy and Counseling to victims of domestic violence. These critical services work to help our clients heal from trauma, stabilize their families and help to create a non-violent future for them and their children. We provide emergency services and assistance, case management, supportive services, legal services and counseling, and our holistic approach means clients receive trauma-informed, best practice services throughout a variety of interventions. Intervention services are confidential, bilingual (English/Spanish) and offered free of charge to survivors and their children.
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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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Michael Reese Health Trust
Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness (CFTEH) seeks renewed funding from CCT to advance its cross-system and cross-sector goals in partnership with people most impacted by homelessness. CFTEH is a community of 30 funders in the Chicago region, including The Chicago Community Trust, working to prevent and end homelessness. The collaborative works closely with government partners, policymakers, system leads, and advocates to align funding and priorities, improve housing policies, and build public and political will to address homelessness.
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World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals
A $25,000 grant from the Chicago Community Trust (CCT) will help to provide vital trauma-informed services in family case management, mental health, and youth programming to Afghan evacuees and other refugees rebuilding their lives in the United States after trauma and displacement. Additionally, this grant will support growth in staff diversity to increase the effectiveness of World Relief Chicagoland’s (WRC’s) programs and the organization’s delivery of equitable and culturally-informed services to immigrant and refugee communities throughout Chicagoland.
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Northern Illinois Food Bank
We are requesting $150,000 to support our vision that our neighbors will have the food they need to thrive. In FY20, we met the meal gap in 99% of our service area, yet recognized that we were not yet reaching all neighbors in need, particularly with the increased food insecurity due to COVID-19. In FY21 we responded to this increased need by distributing 100 million meals across our service area, a 25% increase over the previous year. We could not have done this without the support of federal programs that provided food and funds and the generosity of our many donors. For FY22 we are faced the challenge of continuing to meet the increased need for food assistance without the government support that we saw last year and with rising food and gas costs and supply chain disruptions. Although we saw a slight decline in numbers of neighbors facing food-insecurity in the summer of 2021, since November the numbers have been rising again and we are serving at least 20% more individuals than we were pre-COVID. For the first six months of FY22 we distributed 38 million meals; 24% was purchased, a big increase from the 10% we were purchasing before the pandemic. As we continue to pursue the goals of our strategic plan UNITE we are focused on providing a better experience for our neighbors, with more choice, better access and less stigma.