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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The Chicago Community Trust
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Network for Young Adult Success
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Federacion De Clubes Michoacanos En Illinois
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South Shore Chamber Community Development Corporation
The South Shore Chamber of Commerce (SSCC) is seeking a $150,000 planning grant to structure a Community Investment Vehicle - "We the People" (WTP). The funds will be used to build-out the infrastructure of our steering committee, further explore the design and impact of various wealth building models and hire an experienced consultant with technical resources and expertise in structuring community wealth building models to assist our steering committee with designing and testing the feasibility of our conceptual framework. The framework will include the design, implementation and management of our CIV. As an attachment to the application, we outlined our initial thinking related to property types, target areas, community investor profiles, and other key elements identified in the research lead by Community Desk Chicago. Our goal is to leverage the resources from the Chicago Community Trust to test our assumptions and answer our questions with the support of a team of experts. We believe through targeted real estate development, we can provide local community ownership of assets while enhancing the corridor experience for residents. Through the design of our CIV, we hope to create an equity model that provides residents ownership and wealth creation opportunities. We are approaching our design efforts in a democratic way to allow local area residents, entrepreneurs and institutional leaders to all have a voice and control over their community. In partnership with local non-profit organizations, this model supports educating resident owners on the financial impact of investing in their neighborhood. We are designing our CIV to create jobs and increase financial stability of households across South Shore "uniting" its residents through a shared mission. Through the help of our team, our model will also serve as a catalytic investment model that will recapitalize over time creating ongoing economic impact that can be deployed across other South Shore retail corridors.
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Policy Kings LLC
Located at 51st Street and Martin Luther King Drive, Policy Kings is aiming to be a revolutionary, African American owned, mixed-use commercial and residential development project drawing community together in the name of art, culture, culinary experience and retail therapy. The space will fill the void of affordable housing options for those African American professionals who are currently not able to afford to live on Chicago's south side. This leaves a great need for market rate housing in a space that is currently dominated by only low income and luxury housing. This absence of living space for working African American class, often referred to the missing middle, is due to the fact that programming and initiatives have been designated for low income populations while unfair advantage and access to capital for other non minority populations have dominated all other housing options. Designed by long time Chicago pacemaker and Entrepreneur, owner of Leaders and one of the founding creatives behind Boxville Marketplace, Corey Gilkey and renowned social impact real estate developer James Daughrity, owner of Daughrity Real Estate, the space With the help of other African American Artists and Designers such as Norman Teague of Norman Teague Studios, Dwamina Drew of Enstrumental Design and many more, will transform a shuttered city block into an art-forward experience that combines affordable housing options with opportunity and space for emerging black entrepreneurs. The project is 17,7220 sq ft, and will include six eco-sustainable affordable apartments, indoor and outdoor dining, an elevated gym, health and wellness experience, Chicago's first elevated women's boutique, sharing and healing space, Queenz, and a brand new extension of Chicago's favorite local streetwear brand, Leaders 1354 as well as a frame and printmaking workshop teaching young minority artist who to frame and print their own art. We are working with local architectural firm, Silvestro Design Operations, African American general contractor James Webb, local business development firm the Nascent Group, and Minority owned local Environmental Strategy firm Sesenergi Eco Solutions Enterprise. A local gym and juice shop with add a much needed space for health and wellness to the neighborhood, healthy food options will create space for a vibrant restaurant operated by long time Chicago restaurateurs, Nikki Hayes of 63rd St Beach and Oreal James also revitalize the Lorraine Hansbury Mural to bring to life a corridor that has long needed invigorating. Spaces such as these transform neighborhoods and creates a healthy, safe and walkable space. The mission of this project is to transform the corridor with inclusivity at the top of mind by creating opportunity for up and coming black entrepreneurs with early, but proven track records.
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CENTRO ROMERO
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CHICAGO CARES INC
Chicago Cares respectfully requests support to expand our signature community collaboration initiative, co-design. A unique approach to volunteer engagement, co-design is a facilitated process by which multiple stakeholders from diverse sectors create or evolve a service initiative together, building transformational relationships at the same time. The result of this bridge-building process is that service and learning opportunities come to center community voice and grassroots collective action – highlighting what service can make possible for our community and our relationships over the long-term, rather than just what service can accomplish in a single instance. Co-design has proven to be an effective strategy for deepening relationships, shifting resources to Black and brown led and serving organizations, and building multi-stakeholder buy-in for service. Co-design is how we democratize the design and development of service opportunities, ensuring that they are as diverse, creative, and unique as our communities. At Chicago Cares, we believe that service can help us build the city we all deserve. By equipping and engaging volunteers, community leaders, nonprofit organizations, and corporations in the hard, sometimes uncomfortable, work to dismantle and challenge the things that divide us, we can reimagine what it truly means to serve one another and build community power. Through innovative strategies like co-design, Chicago Cares is building the empathetic and connected community that is required for an inclusive and healthy city and democracy.
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Brighton Park Neighborhood Council