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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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 BASE (BOSTON ASTROS BASEBALL CLUB INCORPORATED)
The funding of $5,000 will help expand Friday and Saturday hours for youth programming to expand hours from 4pm to 9pm for activities (Fri. and Sat.) to expanded hours of noon to 9pm.In June for over 100 teenagers in West Garfield Park. BASE Chicago will also host an end of the year celebration highlighting our 8th grade and High School graduates. In addition, youth will help organize a Community Peace Day -- both events will take place during June. The "Community Peace Day" will be a day of neighbors meeting each other for food, fun, and music. The goal is to help build strong community relationships with youth, adults, family members and community seniors.
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Nehemiah Trinity Rising
The funding received under this application will allow us to enhance the summer experience already planned for youth and young adults under our original application. Specifically, as part of our summer initiative we are providing a camping experience in Tower Hill Michigan for approximately 30 youth and young adults from June 22-26, 2023. This additional funding would allow us to provide a preliminary period of activities (Operation Get on the Bus) earlier in June which assists the participants in getting to know each other and provides space for a larger number of community young people to participate in activities around learning about our city, career opportunities and exploring their own creativity. It would also allow us to expand upon the number of participants we could include in the camping experience or provide a small stipend to youth or young adults who will serve as leaders.
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Educare Community Outreach Network
Our Mission is to create and maintain an effective environment by establishing behavioral supports and social culture needed for all youth and stack holders in our community to achieve social, emotional, and academic success. To instill the lifelong values of teamwork and individual responsibility in daily tasks in a healthy environment.To build individual character, confidence and skills through a wide range of sports, workshops and cultural activities. We have organized and implemented a Summer Camp Outreach Program during the summer months, utilizing our gymnasium (The William Kelly Gymnasium) for organized recreational opportunities for the youth of our community.We would like to be able to utilized and expand our gymnasium for our older youth - to provide them with extended hours in a safe environment during the evening hours.
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N Y A Cafe
During the month of June, we intend to extend our programming to include a free weekly media arts series that allows youth ages 13-17 opportunities to engage and experiment within the digital, cinematic, and audio media arts space as a way for youth to socialize and engage positively within their peer group; experiment with various media arts technologies (audio/visual, music studio, audio engineering, cinema, 3d printing); utilize trending media arts technologies at no cost; allow youth to step into the traditions of creative place making and entrepreneurship to maintain and promote South Shore's identity as a hub of creative culture in Chicago.
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Alt Space Chicago
With the over usage of plastic disabling environmental ecosystems Alt Space Chicago has partnered with Happy Returns to address the situation head-on. Our response is simple, redemption. Taking single-use plastics and converting them into art and public art installations is a symbol that speaks to humanity. In the community of Austin, so many neighbors are overlooked and labeled due to economic status, race, or simply being from this community. To receive support from Chicago Community Trust will allow us to continue our cohort, educating them about community and environmental stewardship. Our current Cohort will activate three locations in the Austin community on June 3rd, 2023 with the public art installations they created from the redeemed plastic collected in Austin. There will be a culminating event to celebrate this amazing breakthrough. We understand that the problem with plastic isn't going to end soon, only 9% of plastic produced has been recycled, so this allows us to continue educating the community and addressing the global issue of plastic in a tangible way. Through this grant, we will be able to hire 5 -10 more Austin residents of all ages and backgrounds for a 1-2 month program.
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Earth's Remedies
Earth's Remedies is connecting Westside youth to technical skills and professional development resources which amplifies the youth's access to career opportunities within a field of choice. Youth researchers are paid to work with Earth's Remedies to collect valuable information and data about businesses, organizations, and vacant properties in their communities. The youth work as a team to research the community issue, analyze the data to make recommendations for improvement, and leverage the data for policies, plans, and programs to improve the quality of their lives. At the end of the summer program, the scholars present their research and recommendations to community members, researchers, policy-makers, elected officials, and other professionals at events such as the August Scientific Symposium. Scholars connecting to developmental resources ultimately place the youth as a pillar within their community, thus being a resource for their families and peers.
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No Matter What
No Matter What has a lot of plans with our youth during the summer months. Over the last 2 months we have been creating spaces for youth to leave the City of Chicago to travel abroad. This summer we built a cohort of youth between the ages of 14-19 and we are taking them to Ireland. Apart of them getting the opportunity to travel abroad, the students have to complete a 6-week weekly workshop from mid-may to the end of June.