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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YogaCare
Summer of Freedom and Healing The YogaCare Summer of Freedom and Healing Project aims to strengthen access to wellness and yoga for black and brown young people (ages 10 to 21 - number of youth 16 to 20). Black and brown indigenous people of color (BIPOC) communities by providing self-care sessions, resource sharing, and a space for action planning for wellness, breath work, yoga, and storytelling through a combination of in-person events, yoga sessions, wellness activities, and journaling.
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300 Block Club Lotus
Youth program for 300 N Lotus Block and partnership with the youth Homeless shelter at the Y. During Memorial Day weekend and 6/6/2023 - 6/26/2023 for youth ages 6-18. Continue to educate them on healthy eating fruits and vegetables. Trip to the Botanical Garden. Trip to White Sox game and Arts and Crafts. Safety and Non Violence activities for the youth during the down time of the end of school year and before the Chicago Park Dist program begin.We will provide meals for all program at this time.
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Pivot Arts Inc
To help fund "The Memory Place," a multi-arts performance amplifying stories that have too often been left out of the public narrative about our collective past. Audiences come together as a diverse and vibrant community through theater, dance, music and interactive experiences that highlight hidden histories.
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As One Chicago Inc
As One Chicago, a Chicago-based 501c3 nonprofit, founded and led by Roderick Williams, has served as a staple and pillar in Chicago offering a safe place of refuge for those who otherwise wouldn't have it. Our organization has successfully begun bridging the gap in various sectors and is already working with low-income residents within the community for trauma-informed care to ensure the physical and emotional safety of youth is addressed. With this funding, As One Chicago will expand its existing weekly out-of-school-time programming that incorporates mentorship and trauma-informed care while exposing economically disadvantaged youth to arts and culture during Memorial Day weekend and the gap in June. The weekly convenings will allow East Garfield Park youth to come together in an organized fashion to act in their self-interest while promoting peace and safety. This programming will support establishing an infrastructure for a community to draw attention to an issue, acknowledge individual trauma, offer catharsis after trauma and communicate across cultural and language barriers, ultimately promoting positive health and societal outcomes – serving as a vehicle for change.
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Wrap Your Beyouty Movement
The Wrap Your beYOUty Movement village of healers, leaders and community members is excited about the opportunity to work with more children during this very crucial part of the year. The Program Director has begun reaching out to youth organizations to offer healing and creative arts circles with youth ages 10 to 17 through mid July. Wrap Your beYOUty community partners such as La’Keisha Gray-Sewell (Girls Like Me Project), Akua Lanu (Black Beauty Cutie, Jacob Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies), and Aya Cook (Haji Healing Salon) are positioned to assist WYBM’s youth outreach, soliciting youth participation from neighborhoods across the south and west sides. The funds will be used to compensate healers, facilitators and many of the Artist’s that will participate in WYBM’s summer festival that will take place later this summer, Gele Day. The funds will also pay for food from local businesses, youth incentives, circle supplies and venue costs.
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300 North Pine Block Club
Summer program for youth from 100, 200, and 300 N Pine Ave Blocks. Providing safe and peaceful activities during Memorial Day weekend and June 6-26 2023 (for youth ages 6-18). Our program with include breakfast, lunch and a snack. Program focus is providing safe and peaceful activities during the gap time CPS year end and Chicago Park dist summer programming begins, Outline of our program we will engage youth in the following activities. 1) Community Awareness 2) Safety & Non Violence 3) How to fill out application for summer job A)Interviewing skills B) Resume writing C)Dress for Success. 4) Bike riding days. End of the program meet and greet safe and peaceful Celebration for Youth and there family to know there neighbors.
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Think Outside Da Block
Think Outside da Block (TODB) is a reputable organization established in the Greater Englewood community. We engage with nearly 3,000 children, youth and families each year, from over 26 zip codes across the Chicagoland area. TODB is proposing to host five additional events and six events total, three events during the Memorial Day weekend and three events between June 6th and June 26th. During the Memorial Day weekend TODB’s three Safe and Peaceful youth focused events will be an intergenerational game night on Friday, Saturday will include a block party style kickback event for youth 12-24 in the Chicago Lawn community and Sunday will include a block party style kickback event for youth 12-24 in the Greater Englewood community. Between June 6th and June 26th TODB will host three additional events in the Greater Englewood community including: community-wide learn to ride event, community-wide bike repair event and culminating Roll-N-Peace ride. Think Outside Da Block has adequate staff and has completed the planning. Safe and Peaceful funds will be used to increase marketing, rent/purchase equipment, provide food, games, prizes, disc jockey, security, permits, porta-potty, additional staff time etc.
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Rose of Light MBC
Camp 1302 is a summer day camp that was founded in 2012 as an outreach of the Rose of Light M.B.C. (ROL). located in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. Camp 1302 has become a vital resource for the families in the neighborhood. Since its founding, Camp 1302 has served more than 500 campers. We provide a safe environment for children during out-of-school times. We begin each day at 9:00 a.m. and end at 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Daily, we serve the campers breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks at no additional cost to their families. To ensure we are meeting the needs of families throughout the summer months, our program is in session for five to six weeks. Each day each camper will be sure to have the best day camp experience of their lives through activities that provide campers with academic enhancement and creativity through reading, visual, and performing arts, including martial arts, field trips, team building, and life skills through group play and recreation, including activities such as archery. The Soul Garden We are requesting funds for our community garden. In 2021, we implemented a community garden, which we have named The Soul Garden. The Soul Garden was created on a lot that sat empty and dormant for about nine of the 10 years we have been in operation. Finally, the Executive Director and one other volunteer, with a little elbow grease, determination, and plenty of salon pas, cultivated the land until the Soul Garden was created. We saw that there was a need for our campers' social and emotional health to be addressed, especially coming out of the COVID-19 lockdown and strict social limitations. The first year, the garden did not yield food, but it did yield a sanctuary and an open space for the campers to have a serene moment in the Serenity Garden and relax by the large fire pit that was built in just a few days by a community member, along with a field for archery and lots more space for playing, or sitting and chilling, as the campers would say, with friends. Camp 1302 is approaching youth and public safety by providing a place that is conducive to learning and is filled with people who care deeply for the youth and their ability to become change agents no matter where they stand in life. We give them a chance to be kids with agency. We give them structure and introduce them to things, people, and places that may have felt intimidating or threatening. Each year, our campers get to meet with the officers in the local community policing program so that they can prove to the youth that they are human and have their best interests at heart while debunking the myth that police are heartless individuals that only hunt our black and brown children.