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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South Shore Chamber Community Development Corporation
The South Shore Chamber CDC NDI development project that includes the acquisition and renovation of a commercial property on 71st Street.
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ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY
All Chicago promotes systems-change and policy innovations in Chicago’s homelessness system. We seek to advance our capacity to help achieve racial equity in the housing space. We lead the Chicago Continuum of Care and maintain strong relationships with government entities, sector thought leaders, community-based organizations and partnerships, universities, and others. All Chicago monitors the Homeless Management Information System database to track people who touch the homeless system each year. We use comprehensive data to drive decision making. We promote system-wide improvements through public convenings, sector wide trainings and by incorporating the voices of adults and youth with the lived experience of homelessness.
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Chicago Urban League
The Chicago Urban League (the League) seeks $95,000 in renewal funding to support its ongoing policy/advocacy work. The League is an active member of the Transit Table, the Housing Policy Roundtable and CRA Coalition, and has joined new coalitions to further advance our wealth gap work. Grant funds will be used to (1) develop education and outreach messages and strategies relating to predatory lending, household wealth and asset-building, and community reparations; (2) build the capacity of housing, income, and wealth coalitions to include impacted voices; (3) elevate the power of collective action among impacted persons by supporting their advocacy efforts. Funds will pay salaries, subscriptions, supplies and participant stipends.
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NeighborSpace
The project, a partnership between NeighborSpace (NBSP) and Chicago Food Policy Action Council (CFPAC), will provide support to implement actionable land access strategies for growing local food on underutilized land in Chicago and Cook County using a community-based framework rooted in values of equity, sustainability, and collaboration.
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Chicago Cityscape
With generous support from the Chicago Community Trust CNI grant in 2021, Chicago Cityscape began a long transition. Before CCT’s support we were a real estate data platform focused primarily on private sector clients. The CNI funds helped us evolve into a more inclusive community information platform that serves mission minded and emerging real estate practitioners as well as nonprofit organizations working on economic, real estate, and community development. We refer to these folks as “Focus Organizations and Individuals” or (FOIs) many times throughout the course of this application. Through the CCT-funded Data Equity Cohort (DEC) we learned about the data sources and tech solutions FOIs need to meet their missions. We prototyped many solutions and rolled new features they now use regularly. Details of these developments are shared later in the application. To summarize what we’re requesting renewal funds for – Through DEC Chicago Cityscape uncovered FOIs need many more data sources and tech solutions than we had time and money to deliver on in the first year. Here’s an overview of their three requests we’d use renewal funds to work on: (1) Co-fund a Cityscape Sponsorship account, (2) Test the viability of and build new features requested by DEC that could not be built during year one, (3) Continue expanding relationships with DEC members and FOIs.
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Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation
CAASE seeks funding for its Policy department, which leads our pursuit of public policies and systems change that advance the power and safety of communities impacted by sexual harm in Chicago and IL (disproportionately Black and Latinx). CAASE has expertise in advocacy at the state and local level; we’ve led passage of 6 laws that transformed IL’s response to sex trafficking, and have improved local criminal justice and social responses to rape. In 2021, we achieved increased safety for student survivors of harm via state legislation, in addition to passing 4 more laws to increase survivor safety and justice. Chicago routinely underinvests in the safety of Black and Latinx survivors of sexual harm, but CAASE centers this population in our work, and is dedicated to helping them achieve justice.
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Chicago Refugee Coalition
The work of Chicago Refugee Coalition is well-aligned with Chicago Community Trust’s commitment to addressing the critical needs of individuals and families in order to close the racial and wealth gap that undergird economic inequity in our region. Our two core programs, Food Banking, and the Refugee Resource Center, fall under CCT’s strategic priorities of food insecurity, supporting immigrants and refugees, and youth exposed to trauma.
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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.