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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Life Is Work
LIW standing together with a community focus and gender lens.
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UNITED AFRICAN ORGANIZATION INC
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DISABILITY LEAD
Supported by generous ongoing funding from The Chicago Community Trust, Disability Lead has firmly established itself as the nation’s first and only leadership program for people with disabilities. After building a solid foundation for Chicago-based programs over the past eight years, Disability Lead is eager to grow and expand its innovative programs to other geographies in the United States, starting with an initial pilot expansion in Pittsburgh. Funding from the Trust will allow Disability Lead to maintain and scale its programs and impact in the Chicago region, while implementing strategies to further long-term growth and sustainability.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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The Chicago Community Trust
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Mujeres Latinas En Accion, Inc.
Since our early days, Mujeres Latinas en Acción saw how cultural, and systems of oppression can be challenged through community engagement, mobilization, and collective leadership. With our unique position as a place of healing within the Latina immigrant community, Mujeres’ early founders and staff saw how women became emboldened as they recognized their own strength, and together worked to lift the voices and power of other women. This request will allow a growth and reinforcement of our efforts to connect more Latina immigrants with grassroots organizing & leadership, both within Mujeres and with our external partners. And finally, Mujeres wants to be an effective institutional leader on key issues and grassroots movements that are most vital to the immigrant communities of Chicago, especially those that impact immigrant survivors of violence. Mujeres, in partnership with UIC’s Greater Cities Institute, will facilitate focus groups and interviews with immigrant community members to engage in deep conversations about key issues facing the Latina immigrant and survivor community. We will develop a Position Paper with policy and advocacy recommendations and through a community centered engagement process, select campaigns based on the recommendations. In late Spring 2022, Mujeres understood that the our unique position that we occupy could address the deepening concern about national legislative and cultural pressure to limit contraceptive and reproductive access, and the disproportionate impact it has on Latina/x/e bodies. In 2018, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice (NLIRJ) commissioned PerryUndem and worked with the University of Chicago to better gauge Latina views and experiences regarding reproductive health. Here are some key findings: •Four in ten Latina/o voters under age 45 (41%) have gone without the birth control method they wanted in the past two years because of access issues. •One in three respondents (37%) says the political environment around immigration and race is having a negative impact on their health or wellbeing. •One in four respondents (24%) says they have a close family member or friend who has put off getting health care because of fear around immigration issues, and one in five (19%) says the same about reproductive health care. Mujeres will educate our communities on their reproductive rights options and will empower Latina leader who want to support grassroots support for body autonomy.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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CROSSROADS FUND
Cultivate: Women of Color Leadership, organized in cooperation with The Chicago Community Trust, Chicago Foundation for Women, Walder Foundation, & Woods Fund Chicago, is designed for women of color in social justice advocacy organizations to strengthen their individual leadership, their organizations, and the fields in which they work. Cultivate brings together women working on women’s rights, labor rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, gender-based violence, & more. The program was initiated to equip women leaders of local social justice groups with the tools to consider their work through a gender lens. The collaborative nature encourages participants to learn & grow from each others professional and personal experience.