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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Goldin Institute
Founded in 2019 by the Goldin Institute, the Chicago Peace Fellows is a unique 9-month leadership program for Black and Brown grassroots leaders which uses collaborative inquiry, strategy and action to catalyze neighborhood-level initiatives to build safer, more peaceful communities on the South and West sides. Designed with past grantees of the Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities and a wide range of civic leaders, the curriculum utilizes GATHER, an online learning hub built by the Goldin Institute to empower grassroots leaders. The GATHER course provides a series of social change concepts and tools for authentic community engagement. It is supplemented with in-person workshops and collaborative action projects.
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PRO Publica, Inc.
ProPublica respectfully requests a grant of $150,000 over two years to support accountability journalism that makes a meaningful difference for the people of Chicago and the region. Our award-winning team of Midwest journalists, based out of a newsroom in Chicago, are dedicated to exposing the systems that fuel injustice and inequality in the city and across our region, and to holding accountable those in power to enact meaningful change.
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Skills for Chicagoland's Future
Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings
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HOUSING ACTION ILLINOIS
Housing Action Illinois seeks support for our co-leadership of the CRA Coalition, which works toward policies to increase the availability of credit and institutional investments in low- and moderate-income communities, particularly communities of color. The coalition will also work to hold banks accountable to community needs. Coalition partners focus on various needs and constituencies, including banking, lending, and the financial sector; small business; community development; financial wellness education; and racial equity. Housing Action’s knowledge and expertise relates to housing issues, such as residential mortgage lending, housing counseling, and the needs of homebuyers, homeowners, renters, and people experiencing homelessness.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance
This is the re-funding application for the Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance. The Chicago Community Trust is a founding member and the host to the Funder Alliance. This application will support the Funder Alliance in FY21 and FY22. It re-confirms CCT as a "Leadership Funder" which means that funding (at least in part) pools with the other Leadership Funders, and that a CCT representative sits on the CWFA Management Committee to direct the funder collaborative's strategies, staff and grant-making. The application itself, as agreed to by Leadership Funders, is mainly cut and pasted from the latest version of the CWFA Leadership Funder Generic Proposal.
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Urban Growers Collective Inc
Urban Growers Collective requests $200,000 to support its general operations as it expands to support beginning Black, Indigenous and People of Color farmers and the developing urban farming campus in Auburn-Gresham in partnership with Green Era.
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University of Chicago Urban Labs
Each college at the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) has created a tailored yet unified equity plan to improve outcomes for BIPOC students through microgrants. With a dedication to ongoing learning, CCC’s Racial Equity team seeks research services from the Inclusive Economy Lab to measure long-term impact. Given our strong research-practice partnership with CCC and data partnerships with key government partners, we are well positioned to co-develop an approach for learning from each microgrant and identify opportunities for rigorous evaluation, working collaboratively to draft customized evaluation plans, assess feasibility of the proposed research designs, leverage existing assets, and summarize our findings to inform future equity plans.
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Economic Security for Illinois
In response to the worsening economic climate, there is growing public and political support for using cash to help Americans make ends meet. Research has shown that when given unconditional cash, the financially vulnerable take care of their needs and focus their energy on climbing up the economic ladder. As the leading organization in Chicago/Illinois focused on cash, Economic Security for Illinois is leveraging its IL Cost-of-Living Refund Coalition to put more cash in the pockets of low- and middle-income Chicagoans by securing cash-based relief for those facing acute economic hardship due to the pandemic and expanding the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) as the Cost-of-Living Refund.