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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The Workshop Arts Collaborative
I am requesting pre-development grant funds to support the acquisition closing costs, due diligence, and early stage design work for what will be a transformative, mixed-purpose community arts and culture space in Albany Park.
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Giving Others Dreams God Inc
We would like your support attending the 6th annual FreeHer Conference will bring together formerly incarcerated women, directly affected people, activists, advocates, experts, and policymakers from across the country to connect, share ideas and resources, work collectively toward ending incarceration of women and girls and create systems to empower our communities. This year's conference will also focus on healing, self -care .clemency, racial, and gender justice and will feature armchair conversations, panel discussions, abolition and social justice organizations, networking opportunities, speakers, breakout rooms, and more. "Without the voices of formerly incarcerated women, we're not creating the best policies and practices to help women heal and develop their lives outside of prison." – Andrea C. James, Founder and Executive Director of The National Council All are welcome. Join us! Grant Request Amount : 13,000 Please select the grant term: How does your organization meet the needs and opportunities defined in the RFP or as discussed with your program contact? (required) Do not use the following symbols ( ) % # " % : Yes, We are formerly incarcerated leaders and meet all requirements as defined in the RFP. Measures of Progress (if applicable) If applicable for the funding program, complete the Measures of Progress for the proposed grant. Increase Coalition, Constituent and Organizational Power
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ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES
AAFS requests $80,000 to support its efforts in addressing the critical needs of Arab Americans and other immigrant persons living in the Southwestern Suburbs of Cook County. AAFS is a culturally and linguistically responsive multi service agency designed to work holistically with the growing immigrant population in the Chicago suburbs that has been chronically underserved by the limited support infrastructure in the region. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, AAFS emerged as a trusted source of information, education, and support, assisting immigrant residents in precarious living situations to resolve their healthcare, food, and housing needs by bringing more than $12 million dollars in cash, utility, rental/mortgage, and food assistance, as well as COVID-19 prevention, mitigation, and vaccines to the area. This was accomplished despite not having any race/ethnicity data for Arab Americans and the group not being considered members of the Black and Brown communities targeted for disproportionate impact of the pandemic. AAFS continued its advocacy to include the Middle Eastern/North African classification and the Illinois Department of Public Health agreed to add the category to its data collection. As we move into this COVID-19 response transition phase, with what Crain's Chicago has called the imminent "Medicaid enrollment cliff" for Illinois, AAFS will assist immigrants in the suburban area maintain their health coverage or access the Medicaid expansion available to individuals 42+ who are undocumented. COVID-19 also impacted mental health so that need has skyrocketed, especially for young people, without a concurrent expansion of behavioral health capacity, with services even more scarce for racial/ethnic minorities and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) individuals. With CCT ACN funding, AAFS will be able to expand its current capacity to provide responsive bilingual intake/assessments and behavioral health treatment to Arab Americans in the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Fresh Taste
Fresh Taste, a collaborative funder initiative, is conceived as a catalytic process that systemically changes the way food is produced and consumed in the Chicago region to promote healthy land, healthy people, and healthy communities. Fresh Taste also managed the Chicago Region Food System Fund, Austin Fresh, North Lawndale Fresh and I-Regen.
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Southland Development Authority NFP
The Southland Development Authority (SDA) respectfully requests a $100,000 grant to complete Phase 1 of an 18-month project specifically to design and develop the legal and governance, financial, and operational backbone of a new SDA Finance Arm. Phase 1 of this project would unfold over 6 months and undertake the key business planning, legal research, and operational foundation-laying work necessary to position the SDA to establish and capitalize the SDA Finance Arm.
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APNA GHAR INC OUR HOME
Apna Ghar provides critical, comprehensive, culturally competent services, and conducts outreach and advocacy across communities to end gender violence. Our services include a 24 hour crisis line, an emergency shelter (safe home), offsite shelter via hotels, transitional housing apartments, connection to permanent supportive housing, counseling and medical advocacy, legal advocacy and supervised visitation and safe exchange services, economic empowerment and employment readiness, outreach, education, training and public advocacy. Apna Ghar’s services are based on an evidence-based model developed in partnership with the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) a Loyola University, Chicago that shows the importance of a framework that takes macro and micro issues into account. In the last year, Apna Ghar reached more than 10,000 community members through our outreach and community advocacy efforts. We stay connected with these community members via a monthly newsletter and would be able to utilize it to reach survivors in the community to provide mobile advocacy services. Since we already have a robust outreach, education and training program, we will creating a dedicated neighborhood-based program to help us be more intentional with training opportunities as well as group services for survivors and community members. We will begin mobile support services in needed neighborhoods across the Chicago metropolitan region and have received initial funding to purchase a van where mobile services can be offered. Mobile services are highly needed to support our region's vulnerable populations, and this program will allow us to meet more survivors, their families, networks, and the larger community, while providing essential services. Apna Ghar’s mobile services will include providing connections to needed housing, medical, legal, public benefits, and other community-based resources and services. we expect to increase our impact in the first year itself, by reaching more people where they are in community. This program is designed to be culturally specific and support adults, youth, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQIA+ community. It will also allow Apna Ghar to expand the scope, and scale of services across the Chicago metropolitan region to meet a greater level of community needs. We will also work closely with expanding partnership opportunities across the grant period to deepen and expand cross-organizational connections and increase access to resources.
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UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
Funding is requested to support the general operations of the Corporate Coalition of Chicago, an alliance of companies working to reduce racial and economic inequities through the power of their business practices. Members of the Corporate Coalition challenge business as usual and identify and implement new ways to deploy their capital, capabilities, and employee enthusiasm to help build a thriving Chicago region where assets and opportunities are more equitably shared. Members of the Corporate Coalition share a vision of a corporate culture in Chicago where leaders understand that reducing inequities is essential to their business success and to a thriving regional economy, leading them to challenge business as usual in the way they invest, operate, and govern. Funding will support the Corporate Coalition in its three main areas of work: 1. Developing and supporting joint initiatives (e.g., the Corporate Connector, EPIC Fund, Fair Chance Hiring) where companies work together to change business practices 2. Public communications and convenings, to catalyze a conversation about challenging business as usual to create a more equitable region 3. Sharing of innovative practices across firms Funding will also support the impact assessment work on the Corporate Coalition’s activities by our learning partner, an important step in the Coalition’s maturation.
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The Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest