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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Sunshine Gospel Ministries
The Housing Equity Initiative (HEI), a program of Sunshine Gospel Ministries, serves families through home retention, home ownership, and home revitalization. For families that own their homes but owe back taxes, HEI’s tax benevolence program seeks to empower them through financial assistance towards alleviating their current back taxes and financial literacy training to support staying on time with future property tax bills. Since launching HEI in August 2021, the initiative has assisted 12 families with another 10-12 families being supported through the current tax sale season. Due to the positive, timely growth, HEI is now in a place to hire its first dedicated staff member to lead the day to day management of the tax benevolence program as well as targeted involvement with the other facets of HEI. The presence of this staff member will allow HEI to grow its capacity to serve 25 families over the next 12 months through this program. This Chicago Community Trust grant opportunity, and associated $50,000, would allow for the growth of a variety of areas of HEI, including the hiring of this staff member. In addition to the tax benevolence program, HEI seeks to train and position Woodlawn residents to become homeowners through a focused training curriculum and down payment assistance program. Thirdly, HEI is working to revitalize the Woodlawn community one block at a time through purchasing, renovating, and selling homes at a redefined affordability. To this end, HEI has recently acquired a single family home through the Cook County Land Bank in the 6400 block of Eberhart Street which will be the first project under this aspect of HEI.
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The Triibe, Inc.
The TRiiBE requests operational funding to invest in web/mobile technology and coders to build and maintain a web application and community directory that maps community businesses, resources and public health information. We believe that this app, along with The TRiiBE's community outreach, will drive dollars to local businesses, make civic engagement more accessible, grow our community presence and become a new stream of sustainable revenue for thetriibe.com.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The Sun-Times, Illinois' second-largest newspaper, is seeking continued financial support to fund salaries and benefits for two reporters. One journalists, Elvia Malagón, will continue rigorous reporting on social justice issues, with a focus on the economic disparities between Black and Brown residents and white people in our city and region. The second reporter, Brett Chase, will continue covering environmental, planning, and development issues, with a focus on environmental racism. In the coming year, the Sun-Times' reporting will shine a spotlight on these issues, which have traditionally lacked coverage. The reporters' work will be free to access for online readers and will note that the content is made possible through a grant from the Chicago Community Trust.
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Raise the Floor Alliance
Raise the Floor Alliance seeks support to develop digital outreach strategies and systems to support the campaign to transform at-will employment in Illinois
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Chicago Community Foundation
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REVOLUTION WORKSHOP
Revolution Workshop (RW) is seeking a grant of $150,000 to deliver our Alumni Services programming focused on supporting graduates of our Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Job Training Program as they advance in their careers. Trainees in our program receive middle-skills certifications and are placed into entry-level, union and non-union jobs, with an average starting wage of $18. Our Alumni Services initiative provides multi-pronged programming aimed at engaging graduates in ongoing educational and network-building opportunities that will help them not only grow in the construction field but also build wealth and break cycles of poverty.
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DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
DePaul University and the Institute for Housing Studies develop applied research products and deliver technical assistance to support the development, prioritization, and implementation of policies and programs that advance and protect equitable homeownership. With this funding, IHS will 1) continue to directly engage housing and community development stakeholders to understand key questions and policy applications, 2) identify and refine data needs around this issue, 3) develop new or update existing data indicators to best respond to these data needs and highlight challenges and opportunities in different neighborhood contexts, and 4) provide direct technical assistance to stakeholders supporting the use of this information in their work.
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Growing Home, Inc.
This grant application is to support the early stage development of the Wood Street North lot. These funds will be used to conduct the activities necessary to fulfill the vision of Growing Home for the expansion of facilities that will support further growing and availability of local food and social enterprise opportunities in Englewood.