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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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.
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OPEN Center for the Arts
Expanding youth summer programming – the children/youth will explore the history of the pinewood derby cars, the components, how to make, design, and paint a derby car, and learn the value of how to compete. Everyone will have an opportunity to create and race their derby car with a set of rules and limited tools to level out the playing field. Funds will be used for the coordination, supplies, teaching artists, community engagement, documentation, and admin of this course. This is a 5-day course that will be presented between June 8-23 at OPEN Center for the Arts by the OPEN Team.
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Excel Community Development Corporation
Excel Community Development Corporation has been running the Hope Excel youth development program of a summer camp and after school program since its inception. This year we will offer an early start to our program and begin programming earlier this year to cover the CPS end of school year from June 6th to June 26th. In order to run our program successfully we will need staffing, food and activities to keep youth engaged and safe during the critical summer months. All young people will be introduced to Black History. During the summer months youth participants will be able to learn about the contributions of black historical figures across the world and also in Chicago. They will walk away having learned more about their history, a history that is not necessarily taught in schools.
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Center of Higher Development
1. The Center of Higher Development operates as an after-school and summer camp program within the Bronzeville and Englewood Communities. 2. We will continue our work by providing a safe place for children and youth during the June 6th-26th school gap. 3. Our present enrollment is 15 to 25 children and youth Monday through Friday. 4. Our agency will continue providing activities, small group discussions, snacks, tumbling, arts and crafts, and mentoring for all youth participating in our program. 5. During June 6th-26th, we anticipate our attendance will increase by 10 to 25 students. 6. We will also adjust our schedule to accommodate working parents looking for a safe place for their children.
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200 N Lorel Ave Block Club
-A Day Off The Block- Some kids from the Westside of Chicago have never been downtown; a Major League Baseball game Cubs or Sox, and an amusement park. My neighbor, Mr. Larry Gardner is the Dean of Students at Laura Ward Stem School located at 636 N Lawndale Ave. We plan on renting a school buses and taking a group students to Cubs game, Sox game, and Great America Amusement Park. We will ask a few parents to chaperone and show the kids more of what Chicago has to offer when you leave your block. We want these events to be a full day of fun that does not burden families with any additional expenses. We are hoping to provide transportation, tickets, and meals for these outings.
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South Side Jazz Coalition
The South Side Jazz Coalition is a live music production and community service organization, and we request funding to present a live performance concert featuring young performers between the ages of 10 to 25. We believe music heals and that presenting a free program featuring the youth of our communities will help to alleviate the stigma of criminality that is being attributed to all young people of color. The concert will be held at Compassion Baptist Church located in southeast Chicago on Saturday June 10 or Saturday June 17. This evening will feature spoken word, dance and live music performance by performers from collaborating grassroots organizations.
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Chicago Chess Foundation
Every June, the Chicago Chess Foundation hosts an All-Girls Chess Tournament for girls from kindergarten through 8th grade. This tournament draws 75-100 girls and their families from across Chicago to participate in a full-day-long chess tournament. On June 10th we will host this All-Girls tournament in the Albany Park neighborhood so that our female youth have empowering and safe activities to do on the weekend between school getting out and Park District camps starting. This will be our 5th year hosting this event, but this year we will be engaging high school-aged girls through our partners at Queens United Chess, a youth-run organization focused on girls' empowerment through chess, who will help us run the event for the day. The event will feature free food (breakfast and lunch) for participants and their families, 5 rounds of competitive chess, a creative activities room, an art and dance room, an auction, a visit from female chess masters, and an awards ceremony. We are expecting participants from partner schools of ours in Humboldt Park, Englewood, Gage Park, East Side, Garfield Park, Marquette Park, and other neighborhoods and will be partnering with fellow Safe and Peaceful grantees, A Step Ahead Chess, to engage even more girls this year than ever.
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GAP Community Center
Application Summary: Summer Fun- In a celebration of community, GAPCC, will provide a “Summer Fun” event that will take place in the North Austin Community REVIVE Center. We will celebrate the end of the school year CPS by providing Bouncy houses, food, music and sports. GAPCC had planned a Fun Summer Event in July. Due to the opportunity, we changed the date to June. WE at the GAPCC have the staff, capacity, and space allowings.