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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Two Five Three Two Corp NFP
Luv City is dedicated to partnering with innovators in digital media production to engage placed-at-risk youth in learning, experience, and mentorship for careers on and off camera, creating content that lifts the underrepresented and marginalized voices of our South and West side Chicago communities. We are committed to addressing systemic injustices that lead to violence in our communities through youth engagement, mentorship, advocacy, and workforce development. This grant will support us to empower youth to reshape their narratives and become the authors of their future through work-based learning, training, and apprenticeships in filmmaking, multimedia production, and the performing arts and help fund our summer institute programming.
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City of Refuge - Chicago
This application is for necessary resources required to hire additional staff and leaders for the Chicago Westside Police and Youth Sports collaborative initiative. The program was designed to provide wrap around services as well as a large network of local resources. These resources are made available to youth and their families that participate. As the program has grown in popularity, more adults have become involved and more investment in their development has been needed. Further, the amount of resources, such as furniture, household items, has increased and been distributed. With only the Executive Director and 1 staff person, the workload has become overwhelming and it is impossible to increase programming and deepen resource distribution. Having 3 staff will greatly increase capacity while developing the staff themselves. Investment in the current staff has resulted not only in their development, but also the youth they serve. Investing in these staff members and leaders through coach training, time management classes, trauma informed training, Peace Circle certified, helps the youth, their families, and the community. Also, as they become better equipped, they can then get positions that reflect the training they have received through their volunteering.
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ILLINOIS HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
The Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation, serving as a fiscal agent for the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, seeks support to strengthen the organizations' internal capacity to identify and apply for grant opportunities generated by the availability of American Recovery Act Plan (ARPA) funding at the federal, state and local level. Support from this grant will also enable the organizations' to hire a dedicated staff person to support the management, coordination and reporting responsibilities for the organizations' existing grant-funded programs. Building this capacity internally will enable the organizations to allocate resources and remain focused on the broader goal of ensuring that a bilingual, culturally-sensitive business technical assistance ecosystem is available and accessible to the growing number of Latino small businesses and entrepreneurs in Northeast Illinois.
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Black Oak Center
The Conservation Fund RCPP The Food Finance Institute, University of Wisconsin Savanna Institute USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service Compeer Financial
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CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE
Civic Consulting Alliance requests general operating support from the Chicago Community Trust to advance our mission – to make the Chicago region a great place for everyone to live in and work.
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City of Evanston - Department of Public Works
In August of 2019, the Evanston City Council passed a resolution allocating ten million dollars of the City's Municipal Cannabis Retailer's Occupation Tax for local reparations. The Restorative Housing Program is the first initiative developed by the Reparations Committee that acknowledges the historical harm caused to Black/African-American Evanston residents due to discriminatory housing policies and practices and inaction by the City. The goals of the program are to preserve, stabilize, and increase homeownership, which builds intergenerational wealth among Evanston’s Black residents. Eligible individuals may receive up to $25,000 to use towards homeownership, home improvement, or mortgage assistance. To administer the program, the City contracted with Community Partners for Affordable Housing (CPAH), a HUD-certified nonprofit organization in Illinois that develops affordable housing and provides housing-related services. Though CPAH's involvement in the Reparations Program is significant, the organization only has the capacity to manage ONLY one home improvement project per month due to having other contracting opportunities and not enough capacity. Most Reparations recipients thus far are electing to apply their reparations funds toward improving their homes and are choosing to have the construction managed by CPAH. Therefore to increase the pace of funding distribution, the City is seeking to hire additional support to assist with the construction project management. The additional staff support would be providing construction management services directly to the reparations recipients who have chosen to improve their homes as their reparations benefit. The staff support will oversee the process for both homeowner-managed construction projects and City-managed construction projects. In addition to the homeowner, the staff support will oversee the procurement and work of the prime contractor, subcontractors, as well as architectural services as needed to improve the residences of the beneficiaries of the Local Reparations Restorative Housing program.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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Revolution Institute
The vision of Revolution Institute (“RI”) is to advance social and economic equity and peaceful communities for ALL people. The mission of RI is to liberate the creative potential of African American and Latinx communities through sustainable, future-oriented work, entrepreneurship, and value-aligned collaboration. RI’s proof-of-concept is its affiliate organization, Revolution Workshop, which is a sector-driven construction job training program and correlated social enterprise. Since its founding in 2018, Revolution Workshop’s job training program has graduated and credentialed 145 community members in the construction trades. Revolution Workshop’s social enterprise produces custom woodworking and carpentry pieces. In 2023 and beyond, RI aims to launch additional affiliate organizations, each of which will consist of a new vocational training program and associated social enterprise. Affiliates will operate in the field of advanced manufacturing. Our objective is to do this in a manner that furthers our value of worker-owned cooperatives, the ethic of sharing, human-centered design, and shared work and responsibility. Upon maturation, RI will launch, Revolution Green (“RG”), an independent worker cooperative. We anticipate that affiliates will incubate as cooperatives for one year or less before transitioning into worker-ownership. We seek funding to enhance our capacity and expand our team. Specifically, the $25,000 delivered through this Grant would be put towards recruitment of a Co-op Developer and Manager. This role will align the human, intellectual, and financial resources required to launch small-scale manufacturing facility that operates as a worker-owned cooperative. We specifically seek a professional who is versed in the cooperative ethos, and who has direct experience working in the manufacturing sector.