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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Gads Hill Center
Gads Hill Center humbly requests a grant sum of $25,000 to support the implementation of our agency-wide solidarity campaign. This grant will directly fund civic engagement and professional development efforts to foster cohesiveness within our organization while providing a path toward racial healing, solidarity, and transformation.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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WE ARE ABLE
We Are Able, a 501c3, in partnership with the Chicago Police Board, launched the Chicago Youth Council for Police Accountability (CYCPA) in 2021. Our mission is to spark a dialogue about policing issues in Chicago, empower young people from across the City to engage in the work of the Chicago Police Board, and amplify young people’s voices that have been historically underrepresented and underutilized. The CYCPA is comprised of 11 young people ages 16-25. Their work includes: • Attending and providing input into police board meetings • Researching and drafting policy recommendations that are presented to the board • Performing outreach and awareness-building to increase engagement with the police board, and • Facilitating community-building events that foster inclusive communities
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Vanderbilt University
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Urban Growers Collective Inc
Urban Growers Collective is requesting $100,000.00 for the development and implementation of the cooperative model for farm business development via UGC's Grower Apprenticeship Program. The Grower Apprenticeship Program is a 3 year farming and farm business-training program that will allow participants to learn the hands-on fundamentals of farming, while working towards commercially viable farm operations via cooperative growing, aggregation and profit sharing. This practical adult education-training program is structured to introduce participants to farm foundations, through workshops, mentoring and repetitive practice, so that the basic hands-on skill are understood, while also providing scaffolded opportunities for apprentices to refine core values; build business aptitude and work toward financially, environmentally and socially sustainable farming operations.
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TREND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
TREND Community Development Corporation (“TREND CDC”) seeks funding for the Strengthening Communities through Inclusive Ownership of Commercial Property project (“Project”), which seeks to strengthen disinvested communities and foster wealth creation for BIPOC residents, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders. The Project complements and enhances the impact of Chicago TREND Corporation’s (“Chicago TREND”) inclusive ownership strategy, which seeks to co-own and manage often-neglected service-oriented community shopping centers to make them attractive destinations and hubs of economic activity.
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Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative
Vacancy to Vibrancy will develop a neighborhood scale Community Investment Vehicle (CIV) in the mid-South Side of Chicago that centers the equity participation of local and Black residents and businesses through ownership, governance, and engagement at all stages of planning. The development process of the CIV will include a neighborhood real estate assessment, a socio-cultural-economic neighborhood assessment, financial modeling, neighbor and investor engagement, and an inclusive economic development and impact assessment. The process will include the examination of the vacant land and underutilized civic assets for repurposing. The engagement, planning, and execution processes developed through this initiative will be documented to serve as a model that is scalable and transferable to similar communities within Chicago and beyond.
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Annie B. Jones Civic Arts Center
Over the 3-year grant period, ABJ will provide civic leadership development and training to 120 emerging adults and leaders between the ages of 19-35 years old from Chicago's South Side. The ABJ Civic Arts Circle is an intensive practice-based program that engages members in understanding the tenets of leadership and the power of the collective voice. The program promotes experiential learning and the use of creative processes to help members self-reflect, translate inner thoughts to external action while building a strong sense of community connectedness. The program will be expanded to provide current alumni of the Circle Training the opportunity to shadow ABJ's President/CEO and gain hands-on skills in community organizing, grant writing, and cross-community collaboration. Also, current graduates that started their businesses will assist with organizational marketing and civic education.