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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Respair Production & Media
Final development, launch, and impact strategy of Respair Production & Media, an ecosystem hub that supports the media needed to reshape Chicago and beyond toward liberation.
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Economic Architecture
Make homeownership more affordable, equitable, and sustainable by designing a product that provides liquidity to decrease the occurrence of delinquency, default and foreclosure.
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THE HARBOUR INC
Youth homelessness is not new, nor does it discriminate based on resources, location, or identity. It is a universally recognized crisis that has worsened through the pandemic years yet often goes unseen and unrecognized. The mission of The Harbour is to provide emergency housing and services to youth experiencing homelessness to promote safety, stability, and personal growth in our goal to end youth homelessness.
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Historic Chicago Bungalow Association
unBLOCKED educates about Chicago’s racist housing policy of Land Sale Contracts (LSC) & uses art & material resources to catalyze the transformation of an Englewood block with former LSC homes.
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The Silver Room Foundation, Inc.
The Silverroom Block Party Film Fest is a 2-to-3 day showcase that centers local BIPOC filmmakers, giving them the opportunity to share their art and connect with their community. The Block Party Film Fest prioritizes the novice and hobbyist filmmaker; artists who never, or rarely, have shown their work, and seats them next to experienced filmmakers. It takes on the form of a traditional film festival and injects the soul of the iconic Silver Room Block Party into it, making it accessible for a wide range of people. The Film Fest bridges the gap between the cinema enthusiast and the casual moviegoer by creating an organic space to commune and converse. All while driving commerce and foot-traffic to the 53rd street commercial corridor. The film fest models itself after the Block Party as a space for joy, culture, and community. Support: Our ask is for support with costs over the course of the multi-day Film Fest including: Venue rental costs Marketing efforts + publicity (social media, website features, etc.) Catering for opening and closing night Pay for panelists/facilitator Screening fees/artist stipends for filmmakers Licensing fee for acquiring Goodie bags for filmmakers Pay for staff Pay for band/musicians for live composition Photographers and videographers Pay for screening committee Photo set for patrons (to include film fest signage, perhaps a neon sign) Pop up Step and Repeat Pay for programmers/planners Asks for Sponsors: Funding Photo Booth set up Swag/goodie bags Snacks, beverages, etc.
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Land Connection Foundation
The Land Connection is requesting funding to support the development of Illinois FarmLink. This year, our team will increase the number of advising calls and in-person consultations offered to Illinois farmland owners and farmers, provide educational programs designed to address challenges surrounding farmland access and transfer, and gain a deeper understanding of farm viability in Illinois to better design programs and systems to support farmers and farmland owners.
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Reparations Media NFP
Reparations Media NFP requests increased and continuing support for the Change Agents Podcast and Production Lab season four. Reparations Media NFP is a recently designated 501c3 public charity created to extend the funding, training and educational programming opportunities to expand and sustain Change Agents season four and going forward. (Juneteenth Productions has assigned the intellectual property rights for the production lab and ensuing episodes to Reparations Media NFP.) Season four will include two sessions of an extended production lab (16 weeks instead of 12 weeks) in order to enhance training and production opportunities for up to 12 journalists and 12 CBO collaborators. Additional efforts have been budgeted to recruit and maintain a stable administrative staff and extend the outreach, marketing and promotional activities surrounding the episodes. We are targeting the following objectives to be met during a 50 week time period from June 2023 through June 2024: 1. To empower BIPOC journalists and community activists with the solution-based skills to develop and produce stories of positive social change that encourages safe and healthy communities. 2. To cultivate the skills of our emerging journalists to enable them to tell unbiased stories, that give voice to the unheard and allows them to shape their own narratives. 3. To provide our BIPOC journalists opportunities for professional networking to further their broadcast and journalism careers. 4. To establish a pipeline of journalistic leaders who will direct the industry toward a more just and equitable brand of news gathering. 5. To craft and present compelling media that dispel stereotypes of hopelessness and powerlessness in Chicago’s marginalized communities by sharing stories of community activists who are creating grassroots change and shaping their communities into healthier and safer spaces. 6. To disseminate our podcasts directly to the communities covered through community engagement events, digital marketing and traditional media publicity. 7. To disseminate our podcast to a broader audience via online streaming services and selectively on mainstream and alternative radio. 8. To promote the work of our CBOs through social media and traditional media publications. 9. To offer community based organizations a tool for organizing around and promoting work that helps lift up and empower Chicago’s underserved neighborhoods.
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Instituto ANCLA
I am applying for this opportunity to embark on a process that will help me heal from my vicarious trauma of 30+ years of continued work with an underserved community. By documenting the history of CALOR, the organization I founded in 1993, I will begin a healing process that will reinvigorate me as I continue working on a new challenge I have taken to establish a new community-based organization to respond to the needs of Long-Term Survivors of HIV, a neglected part of our community. Under my leadership, CALOR became the premier Latine HIV/AIDS service organization in Chicago. Thirty years later, after experiencing unmeasurable human loss and despite personal and professional challenges, I welcome this opportunity to turn all these past experiences, good and bad, into concrete lessons through a publication that will serve as a historical document as well as a testament of what is achievable when we come together to redress a situation in our communities. As a newly arrived immigrant from Puerto Rico, only four years out of high school and with limited knowledge of the English language, I was invited to a training session about women and HIV. At the training, I was appalled to learn that in the early 90s, minimal assistance and resources were available for women at risk of HIV infection. The lack of resources was an even more severe issue for Latina women with limited English language proficiency - there was no assistance or materials in Spanish. I knew I had to do something about this; I needed to get involved. Through a friend, I connected with a weekly support group held in Spanish. I became part of the group and, within a short period, became one of its leaders, advancing it from a volunteer-based group to a full-fledged organization, incorporated in the State of Illinois, and recognized as a non-profit corporation exempt under IRS Code Section 501(c)(3). Within a few years, CALOR became the premier organization for Latines with HIV infection and their family members. From case management, housing, employment services, and prevention and education services, we grew into an organization that was client-centered from its inception, always making sure that there was constituent representation in the decision-making processes, as well as educating participants about their rights and responsibilities as partners in their health care. Since then, CALOR has continued growing. Now, 30 years later, despite many challenges, it continues providing community-based services to those in most need and most at risk for HIV infection: our BIPOC communities. Being in a leadership position in a small organization and all that it entails – seeking grants to bring in new programs to respond to the needs of our participants, competing for funding with larger, more established organizations – as well as trying to maintain a work/life balance while being married, raising two beautiful daughters, and going back to school to obtain my undergrad and graduate degrees, eventually took a toll on me. I was experiencing severe burnout, and my capacity to keep up with new challenges was affected. Clearly, I needed a break, and I decided to leave CALOR to rest and pursue new ventures. A great project came my way: I received the opportunity to implement a mental health services program in Puerto Rico. This presented a new field of work in a new environment, and I eagerly took on this challenge and moved to Puerto Rico for one year. The project was a total success, and as a result, Instituto ANCLA was born. As I started working on establishing ANCLA, the old, deep-seated trauma emerged. Not only was I dealing once again with the challenges of starting a new organization and obtaining funding to support its programs, but I was also reconnecting with Long-Term Survivors of HIV, dear friends and colleagues who, like me, went through the rough days of the HIV pandemic, before the advent of life-saving medications, when we spent a good amount of time moving from hospitals to funeral homes. In some aspects, we were back in the old days, with people experiencing isolation and not having a community to support them as they grew older, experienced survivor's guilt, as well as co-morbidities related to their HIV infection and medications. It occurred to me that their history and that of the organization that I founded needed to be told. Who would remember the efforts, challenges, battles, and successes that CALOR, its founders, and members undertook during those early days of the HIV pandemic if no documentation was available? How would new generations of leaders within the field use our experiences to claim this history as theirs and help them move our communities forward? As I looked through my files, photos, and documents, I knew that writing this history would be a healing process for me, allowing me to come to terms with the vicarious trauma I have experienced, having lived in the thick of the HIV pandemic.