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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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    Hacia Scholarship Foundation

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $500,000

    HACIA proposes a strategic expansion of existing programming to create a business accelerator cohort designed to support and help Black and Latinx business owners scale their construction related businesses. The cohort, known as HACIA Executive Fellows in Construction, will provide both executive coaching and customized technical assistance in the following four core areas: finance, operations, business development, and legal. The aim is to give small to medium size M/W/V/DBE firms the opportunity to grow their professional networks within the construction industry in a targeted way, assist with scaling from subs to primes, where applicable, and/or help to facilitate joint ventures.

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    FOLDED MAP PROJECT

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

    This application creates a series of conversations that combine Tonika Johnson's arts-based projects (Folded Map and Inequity for Sale) with accessible social science research, on-the-ground insights from community organizations, and interactive experiences to encourage knowledge acquisition and to inspire innovative solutions and repairs to the wealth and economic inequities associated with homeownership in a segregated Chicago.

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    Chicago Votes

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $35,000

    Chicago Votes has been working for 10 years to bring young people into the political process through civic education, leadership development, voting, and advocacy efforts. We have a track record of success that points to hundreds of leaders being developed, legislative victories, increased youth voter turnout, and much more. Central to our mission is passing laws that make Illinois and Chicago a better place, and an area of focus for us has been, and continues to be, giving people who are incarcerated their civic rights. We have passed legislation that turned the Cook County Jail into a polling location and another that requires civics to be taught in prison by peer educators. Now, we are working on our working to restore the right to vote to people in prison. This application is focused on continuing to bolster the policy landscape around voting rights for people who are incarcerated. With the support of the Chicago Community Trust, we will inch closer to passing Senate Bill 828 and make Illinois the first state to restore voting rights to people while they are incarcerated.

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    Harriet's Daughters, NFP

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $200,000

    Inspired by the great abolitionist and humanitarian, Harriet Tubman, Harriet’s Daughters was initially formed in 2013 as a kitchen cabinet of Chicago area African American Professional Women leaders singularly focused on pinpointing strategic pathways for economic and employment opportunities in the African-American community. Now as a 501(c)(3), Harriet’s Daughters works collectively with peer organizations to advocate for, create and support policies and processes that secure employment and wealth creation opportunities for African-American communities. We are seeking a capacity building grant from the CCT to support our mission and work relating to increasing Black wealth and employment opportunities in the Chicagoland area.

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    Push for Excellence Inc

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $100,000

    This application for grant funds is designed to provide students ages 5-17 with exposure and training in STEAM, financial literacy, sports, performing arts, critical thinking, creative writing and story telling.

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    Advocates for Illinois Children

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $75,000

    Children's Advocates for Change seeks a grant for general operational support to fund its activities to close the racial and ethnic wealth gap in the Chicago region, as well as statewide, by instituting measures that not only provide for an equitable recovery from the pandemic but moving forward provides a more progressive tax system that provides greater economic relief for low and moderate-income households, more stable housing for renters, greater access to early education opportunities, and a more robust public health system. This also means securing state funding to promote greater collection of data illustrating the use of state services by race and ethnicity and building in further budgetary mechanism that apply a race equity lens to the state budgeting process.

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    CHICAGO CARES INC

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $300,000

    AMPT: Advancing Nonprofits supports South and Westside community organizations in building organizational health and sustainability through capacity building. Programming includes the full range of organizational development support services including: assessments to determine organizational needs, navigation to help nonprofits access consultants and other resources, grants that support capacity building priorities as well as opportunities for training, peer learning, connection and collaboration

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    Reform for Illinois

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

    General operating funds request for Reform for Illinois, August 2022 grant cycle.