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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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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Englewood Connect LLC
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ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES
AAFS is a culturally grounded multi service agency promoting access to a range of supports to Arab American and other immigrant low income families in the southwestern suburbs. Our services include intensive case management, domestic violence, senior meals and services, immigrant legal services and citizenship, behavioral health and community health services. We have been a critical entity in COVID-19 response and recovery in the southwestern suburbs, leveraging more than $7 million in COVID-19 health resources and food, cash, and housing assistance. In addition to responding to the pandemic challenges, AAFS has been mobilized to provide services to the recent Afghan refugees arriving in the Chicago area. This is a new service line for AAFS and these individuals and families require a tremendous amount of support, from the basic food, health and shelter, to navigating U.S. education, health, legal, and employment systems, to the much more in-depth trauma counseling and overall support for integration. We are requesting overall general operating funding to support our expansion in this area.
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MAPSCORPS - Northwestern School of Education and Social Policy (SESP)
Building on 13 years of a successful implementation of evidence-based positive youth development, and robust training in STEM and data collection, MAPSCorps proposes to partner with the We Rise Together (WRT) partners. The MAPSCorps team will add meaning to quantitative data analysis to engage identified community members, listen and reflect community voice and to describe community perceptions of the WRT economic well-being impacts. MAPSCorps field staff will facilitate community conversations and surveys (tailored with community input) including questions re: economic well-being metrics, local program/service participation and satisfaction, entrepreneurial interest and attitudes, and contextual/support questions; and support Participatory Action Research (PAR), implementing surveys with a broad range of community constituents; and co-constructing and interpreting the findings.
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
This proposal supports the involvement of seven organizations, led by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), to participate in coalitions regarding transportation equity and mobility justice. These organizations - CNT, Active Transportation Alliance, Equiticity, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Metropolitan Planning Council, and one additional organization to be identified - make up the leadership of the Transportation Equity Network (TEN), a coalition formed in 2020 that includes over 40 community groups, civic organizations, equitable transportation advocates, academics, and other stakeholders. This grant will be used in large part to support the continued involvement and leadership of our organizations in this coalition, and will also support our involvement in other related coalitions.
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Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
We seek support for our work to advance the development of a Strategic Action Plan for Aging Equity for Illinois that builds on our partnership with the IDOA to develop their State Plan on Aging. We have been and will continue to engage and organize with communities to develop and support a comprehensive vision for an age-friendly city and state that focuses on policy and systems change emerging from lessons and gaps and responds to health inequities that were illuminated by COVID-19. We’re conducting outreach and building relationships with groups that often do not engage directly with the aging sector or aging organizations. We are conducting outreach and have hosted roundtables specifically to include Black-, Latinx-, and Asian-led organizations in Chicago, Cook County, and throughout the state to become engaged in this movement. Fueled by structural racism coupled with class and gender inequities, health inequities and a variety of injustices harm people of color and reduce quality of life and life expectancy. So, countering ageism includes the struggle against these other inequities concurrently.. This project seeks to build power for health and aging equity at a time when we are experiencing historic growth in the older adult population. Not only do racism and ageism combine with other structural inequities to cause health inequities, service gaps for seniors cost lives and reduce quality of life, especially in Black and Latinx communities.
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Southland Juvenile Justice Council
The Cook County Southland Juvenile Justice Council (SJJC) Violence Prevention, Reduction & Restorative Program’s sustainability plan, is designed to address the pressing need for better education, thriving community resources, and inclusive community support in South Suburban Cook County. The Cook County Southland Juvenile Justice Council (SJJC) deems youth that have experienced a series of traumas from violence, disinvestment, pandemic, economic crisis, etc.; are in dire need of early interventions which are imperative and critical components to intervene and prevent youth and their families from entering into a place where they act out their traumas. Referring youth and families into therapeutic programs will foster sustainable youth development programs which are imperative to break the cycle before it begins.
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Advocates for Urban Agriculture NFP
Advocates for Urban Agriculture is requesting continued support of its initiative to provide capacity-building grants to Chicago area growers, with particular emphasis on small, emerging, and BIPOC owned/operated growing operations, contributing to the expansion of grower’s ability to produce and distribute locally grown food.