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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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    Nonviolenceworks

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $10,000

    The goal of NonviolenceWorks in 2022 is to focus efforts at peacebuilding and nonviolence in a single Chicago community area, South Shore, a mixed-income African American community which is persistently high in violence. The means by which NonviolenceWorks will achieve this goal is to create a “Nonviolence Zone,” a system of thought and behavior that eschews violence as a problem-solving tool for ordinary life challenges. In this Zone, training will be conducted for leaders of the six principal institutions (schools, religious groups, families, medical and health groups, government officials, and businesses), to learn the principles and practices of nonviolence as taught by Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders to create positive social change. It is essential to address leaders because they are often the “influencers” in their arenas of work. This project will allow NonviolenceWorks to gain a foothold in the community which can then be used to expand training to more residents and contribute to fixing the widespread violence problem beginning at the family and community-level.

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    ABCD Institute

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    ABCDI is proposing to support the Safe and Peaceful Community Grantees by building their capacity/ providing technical assistance to grantees in a virtual learning community. The cohort will learn tools and theory behind asset-based community development, learn from each other's gifts and skills and learn how to engage their broader community in their efforts.

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    Goldin Institute

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $100,000

    In 2022, the Goldin Institute will continue to partner with the PSCP as we host a new cohort of Chicago Peace Fellows while continuing to support the Mutual Aid Collaborative as ongoing platform for shared learning and collaboration between the growing network of Alumni and Chicago Fund Grantees who lead peace building programs in the communities hardest hit by the epidemic of violence.

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    Katie Test Organization

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $20,000

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    OneChicagoFund

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    We are requesting $25K to help incentivize Chicago teens and young adults to download the My CHI. My Future. (MCMF) mobile app which will allow users to explore programs, events, resources and jobs based on their age and preference. The app will be available to teens/young adults across Chicago; however, we are focusing outreach in 15 communities based on data around crime, health indicators, and historic disinvestment.

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    University of Illinois at Chicago

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $300,000

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    Juneteenth Productions

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $75,000

    Juneteenth Productions requests funding support for Season 3 of Change Agents. This season’s primary programmatic goals include the following: 1. To cultivate the skills of our emerging journalists that enable them to tell unbiased stories, that give voice to the unheard and that can be used as a vital tool to help build a more just society. 2. To establish a pipeline of journalistic leaders who will direct the industry toward a more just and equitable brand of news gathering. 3. To tell compelling stories of community activists who are creating grassroots change. To accomplish this, we’re adding two new elements to the program: media anti-stereotyping & anti-bias training and inclusion of emerging white journalists. The training will run for 12 weeks and will continue to pair emerging journalists with community activists to tell stories of grassroots change in an authentic voice.

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    SPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $80,000

    Spanish Coalition for Housing (SCH) aims to provide bilingual (English and Spanish) HUD certified housing counseling to support affordable and sustainable homeownership for low to moderate income households (Latinx and Black) across Chicago and Cook County Illinois through its Comprehensive Housing Counseling Program, (includes Homebuyer Education/Pre-purchase Counseling, Post Purchase/Foreclosure Prevention to existing and new homeowners and owner occupied two to four unit small landlords, supported by ongoing Financial Education and Coaching). SCH serves as a regional market conduit preparing households on their path to affordable and sustainable homeownership and wealth creation that includes increased access to affordable capital.