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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DLD For Youth NFP
DLD will connect with action oriented nonprofit organizations, churches, businesses along with municipalities. We will host a 3 day Back to School Festival/Educational Workshop for 4 hours a day, which will take place over the Labor Day weekend. The funds will be used to provide meals, school supplies, hygiene kits, daily incentives for students and parents such as raffles and entertainment to keep the youth and parents engaged with the program. DLD certified specialists, along with connecting with other certified specialists will teach on best practices through financial literacy and life skills workshops throughout the festival weekend.
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Faithful Few
We will implement the “Think It Make It Screen It” program on top of our ongoing summer programing. With the help of the University of Chicago Logan Center for Arts as an additional community partner. We will expand our participants contact by more than 40 hours and open additional slots for 15 -25 more participants. This will cover the August gap in-services between when the Park District’s programing ends, and CPS begins (August 6 – 21). This additional program engages participants in both the enjoyment of the creative process and the work involved in giving form to their ideas, feelings and observations about the world in which they live. THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD
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REBORN MINISTRIES
Reborn Ministries will expand its current programming to offer two children's field trips and a children’s camping trip in addition to weekly programming. For youth Reborn is expanding to offer a youth camping trip, a week of service projects, a Labor Day weekend youth event and a Next Gen event. For community adults, youth, children and families Reborn has a week of service projects, a women's event, a men's camping trip and the annual Picnic in the Park. Youth and adults registered for Handyman Training School will be notified that the start date will begin earlier in August this year to accommodate for the gap in August instead of beginning in September.
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TELPOCHCALLI COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROJECT INC
Ollin Programs are Telpochcalli Community Education Project’s youth focused programming. They provide a space for Little Village youth to gather and discuss issues affecting their community. The programs promote peaceful, nonviolent strategies; foster leadership development; and provide fun, educational activities that are planned by and for the youth. They encourage youth to seek peaceful pathways for themselves and their peers and to turn away from participating in violent behavior and joining gangs. The additional funding from Safe and Peaceful Communities Grants will be used for the activities listed in the answer to the next RFP question.
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Fuller Park Community Development Corporation
Fuller Park Community Development Corporation proposes to fill the gap between August 6th-21st with an expansion on our previous successful Safe Communities grant School's Out Youth Film Festival completed in June 2023. The August 6th-21st Gap will be filled with (4) weekly in-person workshops and 3 virtual training session with all participants. This Gap segments is titled GRAN HYPE an intergenerational event that will require the youth to create video interviews of their Grandparents. The youths video clips will be honed into a final film project that will be judged at the conclusion of the camp with a neighborhood all family attended Youth Film Festival similar to a Game show event with host, cameras and prizes for the best three film stories. Neighborhood children will be recruited prior to August 6th to enroll in our mini filmmaking day camp at Eden Place Nature Center and Eden Place Farm. These are our two community-focused family outdoor learning facilities, with a 20-year history of providing meaningful non-formal education on Chicago’s South Side, and where we will use our decades of experience working with neighborhood youth, teaching, and involving them in real-life projects in environmental education and stewardship, STEM education, animal husbandry, forestry, and land ethics, to make this gap time safe, productive, and enjoyable. We will draw upon our in-depth experience with media production to teach the youth to use iPads, camcorders and computer systems to write a simple film script. Campers will then create a 5-minute video about their Grandparents or other chosen subject. The mini film and technology camp will end with a neighborhood film festival screening the new films created by the camp film creators. The community will be invited to witness the work of our youth to see and hear the voices of our next generation of Chicago directors and filmmakers, who will be following in the footsteps of Melvin Van Peebles, Robert Townsend, Larenz Tate, Shonda Rhimes, and others. We will follow the Seven Field Principles model in this film festival program, to include our neighborhoods seniors to interact with youth from ages 11 – 18 who are eligible to participate. We also have been partnering with Comcast and other funders for several years to create a media production curriculum and center, and our state-of-the-art production studio will be available during the gap period, so this grant opportunity comes at a perfect time for us to help young people during this critical gap in services.
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Automotive Mentoring Group Inc
On Friday, August 11 and Saturday, August 12, 2023, AMG will provide a mobile barber shop truck at the Automotive Mentoring location where we will provide free haircuts to school age children ages 5 – 18 years old. The objective is to provide self-esteem to school age children for their first day of school and get them off to school with a fresh start. On Friday, August 18 and Saturday, August 19, 2023, AMG will provide a mobile barber shop truck at the Automotive Mentoring location where we will provide free haircuts to school age children ages 5 – 18 years old. The objective is to provide self esteem to school age children for their first day of school and get them off to school with a fresh start. On Saturday, September 2, 2023, AMG is going to give away a limited number of children’s bicycles until the inventory is depleted. This event will be held at the Alderman’s office in the 20th Ward. This event is contingent on an anticipated matching grant from a number of funders.
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Life Changing Family Services
Jesus Word Center Church was launched in 1986 in the Austin Community of Chicago, IL. The ministry started with seven members. Our congregation grows through our prison ministry to the Vienna Correctional Center of Ex-inmates, their families, and community members. After outgrowing our storefront location, we remained in the Austin community by sharing space with ST. Paul Lutheran Church. We have 325 members. Our congregation comprises 77 men, 127 women, 103 youth, and children. We have a mixture of college graduates, business owners, paraprofessionals, the health field, social workers, laborers, retirees, unemployed, and college students. Our Outreach ministries include a partnership with the Chicago Public School Safe Haven Program to keep our community students safe during the most violent hours of the day. A partnership with Playstreet and the city of Chicago, we block off the street 5 times during the summer months to allow children and their families to play and have social encounters with neighbors in a safe environment.
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Not Before My Parents
Over the past few years, Chicago has remained a comparison to a war zone and youth still must deal with the "normalcy" of attending the funerals of their friends. They are not senior citizens attending services for a friend of 50-60 years; rather, they are teenagers and elementary school youth attending sad and mournful "homegoing celebrations" of their own friends, siblings, and relatives. From children in daycare impacted by stray bullets to young pre-teens with AR-15s, NBMP is declaring a state of love to decrease these unconscionable acts of violence. Our summer bridge programs will provide emotional, behavioral, and social support to youth, individuals, and families. Witnessing these tragedies brings out feelings of fear, mistrust, frustration, anger, disappointment, and shock. To live in this type of environment is unbelievably disconcerting as an adult. When a child must worry about violence when undertaking simple, ordinary things like walking to school, catching a bus, playing at the playground, or merely going to the candy store, it is stealing the innocence of their childhood. Our vision is to instill personal excellence, assist in building self-esteem, advocate for the celebration of cultural diversity, and unite communities. We empower youth through our NBMP Chess Moves Against Violence Community Engagement, Kick For Your Goals Soccer, and Let's Talk Trauma in the Community (mental health workshop). With this grant, NBMP will introduce its Skateboard for Safety & Peace initiative. In an effort to quell mob action by errant teens and young people, along with quelling gun violence and criminal activity, we will host 6-10 events between August 6th and Labor Day Weekend. These events will occur in the Englewood community (primarily), downtown Chicago, and West Englewood neighborhoods. From peace circles to peer-led community activities, we want to keep all of Chicago safe during the remainder of the summer months.