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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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.
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Womens Business Development Center (WBDC)
The Women's Business Development Center seeks continued support in addressing the pressing needs of underserved small businesses in the wake of COVID-19. In order to help these businesses recover and thrive, a collaborative group of organizations, including Chicago Urban League, the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, The Women’s Business Development Center, Allies for Community Business (formerly known as Accion), Chicago TREND, Next Street, and more, are coming together to deliver critical technical assistance / guidance to small businesses. The collaboration across these organizations will ensure we serve more small businesses with greater resources than any organization could on its own.
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WE ARE ABLE
The mission of the Chicago Youth Council For Police Accountability is to empower young people from across Chicago to engage in the work of the Chicago Police Board. By holding officers accountable for their conduct, increasing the accessibility of Board meetings and fostering a more positive relationship between CPD and young people in Chicago, this council will amplify young people’s voices that have been historically underrepresented and underutilized The roles of the council members will include: • Attend all police board meetings • Research, explore, draft, and present policy recommendations to the board • Facilitate community building events that bring together young people • Train and educate peers on policing policies and issues
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Partnership for College Completion
In 2018, the Partnership for College Completion (PCC) launched the Illinois Equity in Attainment (ILEA) Initiative to spur action on college and university campuses across the state to eliminate racial and socioeconomic degree completion disparities on their campuses by 2025. The PCC is building an expansive portfolio of tools and resources to support this diverse set of 28 institutions to achieve their goal. The PCC seeks support to deepen the work of the ILEA initiative through increased academy offerings, virtual convenings, and possibly in-person events.
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Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU Inc
The ACLU of Illinois (ACLU-IL) and our coalition partners seek to end unjust revenue-generation practices by government entities. Chicago and Illinois rely on aggressive ticketing, fines and fees, and vehicle impoundment to close budget gaps. These practices punish low-income people with crushing debt they cannot pay and the loss of their cars. Due to the racial wealth gap and over-policing of Black and Brown communities, people of color suffer disproportionately. ACLU-IL works independently and in coalition with the Transit Table and others to inform the public, decision-makers, and the media about the harmful impact of these policies; offer legal and policy analysis; advocate for policy reforms; and pursue litigation strategies.
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Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
We seek renewed support for our Research and Policy Division, which leads our policy work to close the racial wealth gap in Illinois, such as work on economic security, income supports, asset building, ending wealth stripping, consumer protections, and fines/fees reform. This has included retirement and Children’s Savings Account programs, EITC expansion, lending/debt reforms, and driver's license suspensions. Our priorities are developed in coalition and with an equity lens. We use data to understand racial disparities, and center and engage impacted people in our work. We seek support for leading the Illinois Asset Building Group and participating in leadership roles in the Illinois Cost-of-Living Refund Coalition and the Transit Table.
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YOUNG INVINCIBLES
In an effort to continue the momentum towards the implementation of the Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act (“Act”), NAMI Chicago & Young Invincibles propose to establish a Learning Collaborative (“Collaborative”) comprised of interested and engaged campuses to provide technical assistance in implementing the Act’s requirements. Our goal is to secure funding that supports building programs on campuses that can ultimately be sustained through state funding as originally intended in the Act.
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Chicago Jobs Council
The Chicago Jobs Council works with its member organizations (primarily community-based organizations that provide employment and training services to marginalized job seekers) and advocacy partners to advance policies that increase access to family-sustaining jobs and remove structural barriers to employment that disproportionately affect people of color. A renewed grant would support personnel to manage the Transit Table coalition, the Illinois Skills for Good Jobs Agenda, and provide resources to compensate directly impacted leaders who contribute to coalitional advocacy efforts.