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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VIETNAMESE ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS
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Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
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Immigrant Solidarity Dupage
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Metropolis Strategies NFP
ILJP will support the Illinois Reentry Council to finish its strategic plan and implement it. The work will focus on creating a stable and effective reentry system which will permit the over 22,000 people leaving prisons and the tens of thousands leaving jails in Illinois to be successful in achieving their goals. The Justice 20/20 work will also focus on creating a strategic plan for the network of criminal legal reform advocates, stakeholders, and formerly incarcerated individuals so that there is cohesion among those aligning to create safer communities, reduce incarceration and punishment, and bring equity to the criminal legal system.
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Beyond Legal Aid
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Civic Nation
The Change Collective seeks support to launch a dynamic leadership initiative that will train, connect, and elevate rising and emerging leaders, empowering them with the skills, tools, and capacity to bring people together, bridge divides, strengthen civic participation, and solve problems at the community level. We will launch in three pilot cities at the beginning of 2023, with local cohorts of 25-30 changemakers. The cities we chose were based on our research where there was both need and existing community infrastructure and include Chicago, IL; Jackson, MS; and Detroit, MI. Chicago was chosen as our first launch due to the city’s demographics – a large population of young and emerging leaders from diverse communities – and the opportunity to deepen the city’s infrastructure to support local changemakers. In year one, our focus will be creating our pilot training program, including a strong, metric-driven curriculum that will support and accelerate the leadership of emerging leaders, while grounding them in principles like pluralism and innovative problem-solving. Because this is a pilot project, we will continue to refine our strategies, adjust based on evaluation, and share curriculum design learnings with the public beginning in year two. As we look ahead, we will also begin to build the strategy and framework for membership participation in the initiative beyond the inaugural six-month training program.
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago
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LATINO UNION INC