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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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.
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Mothers Ona Mission28
Funding is needed for additional programs for youth during the memorial day weekend and also in the month of June 6th -26 we will we service more youth from our program hire additional staff get needed supplies and provide food
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REBORN MINISTRIES
Reborn is currently engaged in mentoring youth and children including events, camps, discipleship, baseball, peace circles, and fostering community activism through service. Reborn's work to raise up westside youth and children as leaders continues to expand as we work with Melody Elementary, Leif Erikson Elementary, Chicago Westside Sports, One on One, and youth hiring programs such as One Summer and ARPA. This grant will allow our youth to participate in the baseball program earlier through youth stipends. It will also allow for strategically timed events to engage youth and children throughout May and June. Light the Night meals will provide a visible space for our community families to gather peacefully in Garfield Park. Grant funding will provide a small stipend as a thank you to two amazing community youth mentors/coaches who pour out their lives serving our youth sacrificially year after year.
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All Family Active ALFA
We will be sharing with parents while their children do physical activity and will share resources for parents. All the information will be about how to recognize any symptoms of violence, bullying or harassment in children and especially places where they can receive the service or ask for help. All this will take place in a Chicago Park District on the field We have planned an activity for children from 8 to 10 years old and their families, on the Saturday of memorial day weekend with this fund we could open the activity for children from 12 to 14 years old and we could do it for two days in two different parks during memorial day weekend, on that weekend, our audience could be doubled thanks to the fund. It will take place in the Chicago CPD, ALFA has always believed that when parents get involved in physical activity with their children it allows them to make better decisions as they are less stressed. The children will engage in physical activity as well as be rewarded for their participation. With the fund we could share healthy snacks and water, and we would do it twice a week instead of once within the 3 weeks of June. With the fund, we would extend our activities more days and open to more ages.
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Kids Off The Block, Inc.
KIDS OFF THE BLOCK (KOB) has the capacity to provide support for children youth during Memorial Day weekend and the gap time between CPS ending and the Park District beginning (June 6-26). We will create positive events and activities to include recreation, academic/skill-building support, violence prevention sessions, computer training and arts/music programs. These events will occur during the grant period and beyond. Programs and services offerings will be offered by KOB Monday-Saturday from 9::30 am – 9:30 0 pm.
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The Black Star Project
This is an excellent opportunity to extend The Black Star Project's (TBSP) current Phillip Jackson Youth Mentorship Program (PJYMP) that is set to end May 26, 2023. PJYMP provides safe space for middle school and high school students who engage with University of Chicago and other Chicago-area college and university mentors. TBSP has several activities planned during the grant period (May-July, 2023), including neighborhood clean-up projects with community activist Sel Dunlap (May 20 and June 20); a pre-Memorial Day WNBA Chicago Home Opener-Closing Celebration for the Phillip Jackson Youth Mentorship Program (May 26); a Juneteenth Celebration (June 17); a tour of Bronzeville (June 20); a STEM project with staff and officers of the SC Johnson Company (Date TBD); essay and reading competitions; a visit with Citibank staff and volunteers (Date TBD) and more. PJYMP provides opportunities for young people from the South and West sides of Chicago to get to know and work together as one Chicago community in alignment with the Seven Field Principles (7FP). The Black Star Project is grateful for this opportunity.
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CHI-RISE
The CHI-RISE Love In Auburn Gresham Memorial Day Block Party will take place on Monday, May 29th at Foster Park District from 11am-3pm. There will be FREE BBQ, Bouncy Houses, Sip n Paint, Arts N Crafts, 3 vs. 3 Basketball Tourney, Gaming Stations and More! Teens and young adults will be hired to market and work the event.
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MPAACT
MPAACT is seeking general operating support funding to help maintain an ongoing effort to make our productions more accessible to audiences in the audio format.