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 RENAISSANCE COLLABORATIVE INC
Restorative and racial justice is of the utmost importance in an organization that has many black and brown faces. The people we serve go out into the world every day with burdens that can't easily be erased and so programming around how to heal are needed and The Renaissance Collaborative's (TRC) service staff are just the people to help them learn how to do that healing. TRC have a wealth of experience working with this specific population and come to know the residents intimately over time. This program will train the TRC service staff in the areas of racial and restorative justice and provide residents with the incentive to attend racial and restorative justice group sessions to begin this healing process.
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THE THRESHOLDS
Thresholds respectfully requests a $35,537 Healing Illinois grant to support the agency's DEI Initiative, which seeks to educate staff, clients, and policymakers on racial justice, diversity, equity and inclusion as it relates to Thresholds' mission. The grant will support racial and restorative justice trainings for staff, staff committee activities that promote diversity and racial justice advocacy, and the creation of the agency's DEI plan with the support of an external consultant.
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Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center's (SRBCC) 50-year history includes multiple examples of advocacy and social justice initiatives in the context of the arts. While most of SRBCC's recent education initiatives are focused on music apprenticeships for the youth, SRBCC's board and staff are actively seeking support to bring more resources to Hermosa in the form of panel discussions, conversations, and workshops centered on anti-racism and anti-bias, specifically made by and for our community. SRBCC wants to be an agent for change in this historic time of racial reckoning by creating a model for an ongoing educational program to be offered in our community for years to come.
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Annie B. Jones Civic Arts Center
Annie B. Jones Community Services, Inc. will expand its current community engagement
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DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
DePaul University’s Center for Community Health Equity (a collaboration with Rush Univ) requests $50,000 for The Healing Justice Dialogue Series and Resource Center, launched this September in response to the ongoing health and human rights crisis in the country and Chicago. A collaboration with The Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, and DePaul’s Center for Black Diaspora; Women’s Center; and the Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies program, this series of speakers and dialogues will engage the broader community. Funds will support honoraria for up to 10 speakers; the commissioning of 2-3 films; website, technological support and materials to make these films and dialogues accessible; and stipend support for student researchers.
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ANGEL OF GOD RESOURCE CENTER
Our effort will harness the transformative power of authentic relationships to find emotional healing and pragmatic solutions to discard the hierarchy of human value that has inflicted pain and suffering in communities of color for centuries. New neuroscience research reveals that individuals should seek healing for grief, pain, trauma and anger. Provide a solid roadmap for Roseland: Self-Determination is the process of knowing what is best for our communities and acting upon. Holistic Approaches mean that community are strengthened through addressing the whole person: mind, body, spirit and emotions.
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Deborah's Place
This grant will allow Deborah’s Place to make significant progress towards achieving our strategic plan outcome of developing a board and management staff that includes 75% people of color through structured review and revision of job descriptions and our salary administration plan. The agency will also use this opportunity to engage residents and staff in our Rebecca Johnson building in developing processes that better prepare our community to resolve conflicts before they escalate and without engaging the police. We will do this with the help of a group like Nonviolent Institute of Chicago that can provide training in conflict resolution and nonviolence as well as coach residents on restorative justice with their neighbors and community.
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KENNETH YOUNG CENTER
Kenneth Young Center aims to increase trust and relationship-building and build the foundation for long-term racial healing and anti-racism in Chicago’s Northwest suburbs in partnership with Trickster Cultural Center, a 501c3 Native American cultural center. The project will be youth-led, adult-supported and will engage all members of the community, through the Communities for Positive Youth Development Coalition, in discussions, activities and events about racial equity, diversity, and inclusion per COVID guidelines, and in accordance with positive youth development, restorative justice practices and traditional indigenous healing practices.