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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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  • Grant Recipient

    The Chicago Community Trust

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $200,000

  • Grant Recipient

    Resurrection Project

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $80,000

    TRP respectfully requests support for its comprehensive homeownership program, Full Circle Homes (FCH). FCH provides prospective homeowners the tools and support they need to qualify, find, and responsibly buy a home, while offering post-purchase services to ensure owners remain in their homes for the long-term. FCH leverages TRP’s decades of homebuyer preparation experience with lending and realty services. TRP is a trusted provider of bilingual, culturally inclusive services tailored to meet the needs of Chicago’s Latinx community and immigrant households. As a voice for increasing access to homeownership, TRP also advocates for systems and practice change, while bringing innovative housing models, including modular homes, to the market.

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    SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $130,000

    Small Business Majority (SBM) requests support to continue our ongoing partnership with Rogers Park Business Alliance (RPBA) and New Covenant Community Development Center (NCCDC), which increases access to business support, financial management training and capital for entrepreneurs of color. Partners co-offer SBM’s Business Bootcamps, RPBA’s GROW/PROGRESANDO program and NCCDC’s Financial Dashboard course, monitoring outcomes of and feedback from multi-program participants. Partners also identify adaptable best practices aimed at boosting cultural competence and humility in service delivery—key to increasing effective, fair service delivery for entrepreneurs disproportionately harmed by structural discrimination, public disinvestment and COVID-19.

  • Grant Recipient

    Carole Robertson Center for Learning

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    Funding will be used to further the Carole Robertson Center for Learning's work to implement the organization’s racial equity approach. We are looking to have a way to speak about and work toward racial equity and social justice through our policies and practices with children, families and each other. In order to do that we acknowledge that there is need for a consistent understanding of racial equity and social justice, absent this there is no concrete mechanism for advancing our goals beyond the discreet activities we have already achieved.

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    ExP Test Org Name

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $77,777

  • Grant Recipient

    Chicagos Sunshine Enterprises Inc

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $225,000

    Sunshine Enterprises (SE) and the South Shore Chamber of Commerce (SSCC) will offer two cohorts of SE’s "Community Business Academy" (CBA), a 12-week cohort based model of technical assistance for local entrepreneurs. These two cohorts for artists and artisans industries will serve 20-25 entrepreneurs each. SE will then offer Business Acceleration services including coaching, credit improvement, access to capital, and workshops. Concurrently SSCC will conduct “The Artisans Collective” (TAC) training program twice. TAC is a 5-week, cohort based model of technical assistance geared towards helping artisans become retail ready. It is then paired with low-rent access to space in TAC’s shared retail space in South Shore for qualified businesses with the long term goal of the clients being ready for retail space in South Shore’s retail corridors. Further, SSCC will offer supplemental workshops for continuing education. Together SSCC will serve 40 unduplicated clients in addition to those served in the SE CBA, totalling 80-90 entrepreneurs overall. Finally, the partnership will introduce several new interventions to improve the success of the entrepreneurs. Those include: supporting entrepreneurs at over a dozen pop ups (and sponsoring entrepreneurs to attend); developing an even clearer bridge from CBA to TAC curriculum; finding ways for artisans to improve their capital stacks, scale, and create pathways to brick and mortars; partnering with South Shore Works for recruitment, programming in TAC, and identifying grants for artisans; and growing South Shore Connect in its fifth year, including new reporting on increased foot traffic and revenue of businesses.

  • Grant Recipient

    Chicago Community Foundation

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $328,767

  • Grant Recipient

    Scholarship America, Inc.

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $1,455