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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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    Woodstock Institute

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $150,000

    Woodstock seeks support to collaboratively: (1) Convene / lead the Community Reinvestment Act Coalition; (2) Convene / lead the IL Payday Lending Coalition; (3) Participate in the IL Asset Building Group; (4) Support the policy and research agenda of the Transit Table; and (5) Participate in the Housing Policy Roundtable. We play three primary roles in each: (1) Conduct applied research that helps stakeholders understand impediments to creating more equitable economic systems; (2) Develop policy recommendations to address racial and economic disparities; and (3) Advocate for policy changes in collaboration with community partners that encourage investment and protects consumers in racially and economically segregated neighborhoods.

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    University of Chicago Urban Labs

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $1,000

    Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings

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    One Million Degrees

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $1,000

    Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings

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    SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $75,000

    Small Business Majority will continue our work in the Community Reinvestment Act Coalition and the IL Economic Security Project’s IL Cash Coalition and IL Cost of Living Refund Coalition; we also will support the IL Asset Building Group in restructuring. We share the small business perspective in these coalitions, collaborating on policymaker and public education to promote policies that support equitable entrepreneurship and advance economic justice in low- to moderate-income communities, particularly those with a legacy of disinvestment. We empower entrepreneurs as subject matter experts in these movements and propose to create a new Small Business Equity Council, amplifying the small business voice to build broad support for reforms.

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    Interfaith America

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $225,000

    One of the most pressing challenges of the vaccination process is the lack of trust for and access to the vaccine among certain subsets of the American population. While Black, Native American, and Latino/a/x communities are particularly ravaged by the pandemic, they are also less likely to trust the vaccine and have disproportionately lower vaccination rates due to a variety of factors, including the prevalence of historical wrongdoings. Chicago faith-based and faith-inspired organizations have considerable social capital to combat these issues on a regional level. IFYC proposes a partnership to equip leaders of these grassroots organizations with the information and skillset needed to serve as effective vaccine advocates and ambassadors.

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    Allies for Community Business

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $150,000

    Allies for Community Business (A4CB) will provide intensive support for entrepreneurs on Chicago’s South and West Sides to help them grow businesses that create jobs and wealth in their communities.

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    Youth Job Center Inc.

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $1,000

    Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings

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    The Chicago Community Trust/Community Desk Chicago - Admin

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $200,000

    Community Desk Chicago is seeking general operating support to continue to provide technical assistance, coaching and consulting services to nonprofits, nonprofit developers, entrepreneurs and community developers working in communities of color as they attempt to secure the necessary capital for community development projects. General operating support will also allow the Desk to continue to serve as a technical assistance provider for the CNI pre-development fund and lead the Trust's recent efforts to explore the use of REITs and related ownership models as an avenue for supporting community wealth building, neighborhood stabilization and homeownership opportunities.