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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WE ARE ABLE
The mission of the Chicago Youth Council For Police Accountability is to empower young people from across Chicago to engage in the work of the Chicago Police Board. By holding officers accountable for their conduct, increasing the accessibility of Board meetings and fostering a more positive relationship between CPD and young people in Chicago, this council will amplify young people’s voices that have been historically underrepresented and underutilized The roles of the council members will include: • Attend all police board meetings • Research, explore, draft, and present policy recommendations to the board • Facilitate community building events that bring together young people • Train and educate peers on policing policies and issues
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Partnership for College Completion
In 2018, the Partnership for College Completion (PCC) launched the Illinois Equity in Attainment (ILEA) Initiative to spur action on college and university campuses across the state to eliminate racial and socioeconomic degree completion disparities on their campuses by 2025. The PCC is building an expansive portfolio of tools and resources to support this diverse set of 28 institutions to achieve their goal. The PCC seeks support to deepen the work of the ILEA initiative through increased academy offerings, virtual convenings, and possibly in-person events.
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Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
We seek renewed support for our Research and Policy Division, which leads our policy work to close the racial wealth gap in Illinois, such as work on economic security, income supports, asset building, ending wealth stripping, consumer protections, and fines/fees reform. This has included retirement and Children’s Savings Account programs, EITC expansion, lending/debt reforms, and driver's license suspensions. Our priorities are developed in coalition and with an equity lens. We use data to understand racial disparities, and center and engage impacted people in our work. We seek support for leading the Illinois Asset Building Group and participating in leadership roles in the Illinois Cost-of-Living Refund Coalition and the Transit Table.
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YOUNG INVINCIBLES
In an effort to continue the momentum towards the implementation of the Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act (“Act”), NAMI Chicago & Young Invincibles propose to establish a Learning Collaborative (“Collaborative”) comprised of interested and engaged campuses to provide technical assistance in implementing the Act’s requirements. Our goal is to secure funding that supports building programs on campuses that can ultimately be sustained through state funding as originally intended in the Act.
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Growing Home, Inc.
This project will increase the profitability and sustainability of Growing Home’s social enterprise by improving its business model and facilities through new marketing efforts as well as earning a Good Agricultural Practices certification.
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Angelic Organics Learning Center Inc
This project facilitates collaboration between farmers and farmer training organizations to cultivate diverse farmer leadership and increase access to training, resources, connections and markets that beginning farmers need to grow their business.
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Urban Equities, Inc.
In support of the Space5815 development in Austin.
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Illinois Public Interest Research Group Education Fund
With the support of the Chicago Community Trust, Illinois PIRG Education Fund and allies made significant progress in strengthening consumer and wealth-building coalitions this year, and through that, winning results. The coming year presents exciting opportunities to defend and build upon our progress. We plan to continue to add value to shared efforts with a focus on strengthening partnerships for longer term success. Partnerships ground our work in the lived experience of those most impacted and are crucial to winning and defending reforms. Our current priorities include modernizing the EITC to reward valuable non-wage work, defending recent gains to end predatory lending in Illinois, and fighting for affordable utilities.