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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Urban Explorers of Chicago
We’re "Soaring to New Heights" this summer with STEAM (Extended Explorer Camp and Weekend Kite Festival). Our programming will operate during the June gap (June 6th-26th—multiple days & locations).
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La Villita Community Church
La Villita Community Church will expand our Arco Iris Summer Camp to allow the youth Camp Leaders (ages 14-21) to gain community leadership, outreach, and engagement experience. Specifically, the Camp Leaders will plan and host Arco Iris Pop Up on the Block events on their own blocks for their neighbors in Little Village and North Lawndale. The pop up events will take place two evenings per week for three weeks between June 6th and June 26th. There will be a total of six youth-led Arco Iris Pop Up on the Block events, with each one lasting three hours and engaging 100 children and families, for a total of 600 people being engaged in positive summer programming on their own block. The Arco Iris Pop Up on the Block gives youth additional leadership experience, allows them to showcase their leadership talents on their block among their neighbors, and creates community engagement between youth leaders and families. Arco Iris Pop Up on the Block also allows us to concentrate our Arco Iris activities in outdoor spaces in the neighborhood during June. This activity will supplement the Arco Iris pre-camp leadership development programming two days per week which has already been supported by the Chicago Fund.
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900 - 800 Block of Latrobe
Between June 6 - June 26 I will host career events for younger adults. These events will be held a an secure event space and a food truck will be by daily to bring lunch for the kids. This will consist of different professionals coming out to speak with the kids about their different professions where the kids will get to ask multiple questions.
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Celestial Ministries Association
This grant will go to support and enhance CMA’s Drumline program for the month of June. The funds will be used to compensate each drummer for participating for the month with $125 each. Funds will also provide partial compensation for the program manager. The drummer stipend will serve as an incentive to keep students engaged throughout the entire month of June, including two practices per week and 1-2 performances each week. Funds will also allow this program to meet an additional day each week in June for movie night, which will be hosted in CMA’s Community Garden located in the North Lawndale community. Movie night will be open to all youth in the community (even those not in CMA Drumline Program) ages 12-18 with an anticipated headcount of 25-30 youth and children each movie night.
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Colaj
Colaj will organize youth workshops and events during the week of June 12th, including two-day art workshops in drawing, digital illustration, and photography. These activities will foster creativity and artistic expression among participants. Additionally, we will host an end-of-school-year celebration on June 21st to commemorate children's achievements and provide a fun-filled experience for families at South Chicago Public Library. The funds will be used to supply necessary equipment, materials, and prizes for the activities. Our skilled staff members will facilitate the workshops and oversee the event to ensure its success.
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Fuller Park Community Development Corporation
School’s Out 2023 Youth Film Festival Fuller Park Community Development Corporation proposes to fill the gap between June 6th and June 26 for our neighborhood youth with a School's Out Youth Film Festival. Neighborhood children will be recruited prior to June 6th to enroll in our mini filmmaking day camp at Eden Place Nature Center and Eden Place Farm. These are our two community-focused family outdoor learning facilities, with a 20-year history of providing meaningful non-formal education on Chicago’s South Side, and where we will use our decades of experience working with neighborhood youth, teaching and involving them in real-life projects in environmental education and stewardship, STEM education, animal husbandry, forestry, and land ethics, to make this gap time safe, productive, and enjoyable. We will draw upon our in-depth experience with media production to teach the youth to use iPads, camcorders and computer systems to write a simple film script. Campers will then create a 5-minute video about their 2023 school year and what they want to achieve during the summer. The mini film and technology camp will end with a neighborhood film festival screening the new films created by the camp film creators. The community will be invited to witness the work of our youth to see and hear the voices of our next generation of Chicago directors and filmmakers, who will be following in the footsteps of Melvin Van Peebles, Robert Townsend, Larenz Tate, Shonda Rhimes, and others. We will follow the Seven Field Principles model in this film festival program, with youth from ages 11 – 18 eligible to participate. We also have been partnering with Comcast and other funders for several years to create a media production curriculum and center, and our state of the art production booth will be available during the gap period, so this grant opportunity comes at a perfect time for us to help young people during this critical gap in services.
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Chicago Juneteenth Planning Coalition
The Chicago Juneteenth Planning Coalition, in partnership with the Black Remembrance Project and Adelmarieproduction, is coordinating two dance labs/auditions and a Juneteenth dance competition for African American youth in June. The dance competition will include two styles of dance that have cultural significance to Black Chicagoans: Footworking and Hip Hop dance. The Chicago Juneteenth dance competition will have two regional battles on Saturday, June 17, 2023: a Westside battle in Garfield Park and a Southside battle in Bronzeville. Winners of the regional battles will compete in a final battle by June 24th. A small dance coordinating team of four will engage in outreach and lead dance labs for youth between June 6th - June 10th (the week before regional battles). During the dance labs, youth will take part in free dance workshops, build comradery with other dancers, and receive feedback on their performances.
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The Garden of Love
The Garden of Love has two community gardens that are open and accessible to the community. We host book clubs, garden days, movie nights and more events and activities throughout the year. During the course of the year the Garden of Love works with a number of families and individuals looking for ways to come together in a safe environment and we love to provide that for them. Over the June 6-26 period the Garden of Love will work with 25 youth ranging from ages 5-18. As we begin to incorporate our summer activities the hope is to be able to take our young people on field trips in and around the Chicago land area to provide exposure and education allowing our participants the opportunity to learn not just about their community but also the surrounding areas. The hope is that they will take the experience and find creative ways to bring what they have learned back to the garden thus incorporating new activities and starting new conversations during our RJ circles. Additionally, we will work with our young people to bring in new ideas and assist with the garden and our newest project the incorporation of the Nature Play Garden, giving them something to be proud of and talk to people for generations to come.