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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Community Leadership Fellows
Community Leadership Fellows is seeking funding in support of the Strategic Planning for Community Leaders initiative (SPCL). SPCL was established to support block club presidents and grassroots leaders with their work in communities. SPCL provides a space for gathering, learning, and information sharing. CLF believes that these individuals are the cornerstones to community empowerment. SPCL convenes monthly and serves 40 block clubs and grassroots organization members.
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Garfield Park Community Council
The Garfield Park Community Council (GPCC) requests a renewal grant for the Garfield Park Neighborhood Development Initiative, which will support increased community engagement around several catalyzing development projects in Garfield Park. GPCC will engage both new and ongoing developments that are along the Pulaski and Kedzie commercial corridors, including making connections to the Kinzie Industrial Corridor, and a housing development along Fifth Avenue—designated a “Resilient Corridor” by the City of Chicago. Other focus areas for GPCC include building its capacity to reach and communicate with residents and building local leadership in Garfield Park to engage new investments and cooperative ownership opportunities through new developments.
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Great Cities Institute (GCI)
Scope of Work Outline The Assessing Philanthropic Funding Support for Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving Organizations Landscape Scan and Analysis project has six goals, including the following: - Identify philanthropic entities that provide funding support to Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations in the Chicago region. - Examine levels of funding support for various programs and issue areas within Latinx communities. - Identify any trends or changes to funding support for Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations and communities within the past 5 years. - Gather community feedback on types of funding support most needed by Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations. - Document philanthropic priorities, successes, and challenges experienced in providing funding support for Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations To achieve these goals, the Landscape Scan and Analysis will include a mixed methods research approach using quantitative and qualitative data. A mixed methods approach will add breadth and depth to the study, ensuring a comprehensive, holistic picture of the current state of philanthropic funding support for Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations. Quantitative data collection and analysis will include US Census Bureau data, IRS 990 data of nonprofit organizations, and philanthropic data (from the Foundation Directory) for Cook County and surrounding counties. Preliminary quantitative findings, such as funding support for various programs and issue areas in Latinx communities, will be ground truthed in interviews and focus groups to gather additional insights into gaps and opportunities. Qualitative research will include interviews with philanthropic leaders (approximately 20) and focus groups (5) with leaders from Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations from Cook County and surrounding counties. In addition, a review of media and research will develop an understanding of funding support for various programs and issue areas within Latinx communities and identify any trends in funding support for Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations and communities over the past 5 years. The primary purpose of the interviews is to conduct deep, one-on-one interviews that provide rich information on philanthropic priorities, successes, and challenges experienced and opportunities in providing funding support for Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations. GCI will interview organizations of various sizes to ensure that the qualitative data reflect the experiences of organizations of all scales in the landscape. Interviews will be selected on the basis of various criteria determined in partnership with Nuestro Futuro and The Chicago Community Trust and may include geographic diversity and representation across the project region, history of and level of funding support for Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations, and funding support for various programs and issue areas within Latinx communities, among others. Five (5) focus groups will be conducted with approximately 5-10 people in each group (25-50 people total). Focus group participants will include Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizational nonprofit leaders and program staff. The primary purpose of the focus groups will be to have a participatory discussion and deliberation on the types of funding support most needed by Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations. Focus groups will hold polls to gather data on the participating organizations. They will also provide a space for Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizational nonprofit leaders to share experiences, learn from one another, and consider ways they might work together to strengthen their networks. This deliberative process unearths shared and disparate experiences and needs, which is critical for research findings. Recruitment and outreach for interviews and focus groups will be developed in partnership with Nuestro Futuro and The Chicago Community Trust to ensure wider participation as well as to maintain and build existing and new relationships with philanthropic and Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations. We will provide participant stipends for focus group participants. Quantitative and qualitative data will be analyzed and aligned to the priority areas of the Illinois Legislative Latino Caucus Foundation) including education, economic & business development, Latinx representation, immigration & language access, and health equity. A final report will detail the current state of philanthropic funding, including the following: - Identification of philanthropic entities that provide funding support to Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations in the Chicago region. - Levels of funding support across ILLCF priority areas, various programs and issue areas. - Five-year trends or changes to funding support for Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations and communities. - Philanthropic priorities, successes, and challenges experienced in providing funding support for Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations. - Funding support most needed by Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations. The report will also analyze gaps in funding and opportunities to enhance funding in order to improve outcomes for Latinx residents in the region. An appendix will identify the Latinx-led and/or Latinx-serving organizations engaged over the course of the project, with details on the organization budget size, organization age, geographic location, program/issue area and population sub-categories (e.g., undocumented immigrants, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities).
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Chicago Votes
Chicago Votes is a non-partisan, non-profit organization building a more inclusive democracy by putting power in the hands of young Chicagoans. We’re engaging and developing a new generation of leaders by opening the doors of government and politics to young people from all corners of the city. We’re changing laws to make Chicago and Illinois a better place to be young, and in the process, we’re making democracy FUN. Chicago Votes is in the fourth year of our five-year strategic plan that identifies three pillars of our mission as creating a new norm of youth participation in democracy, developing new civic leaders, and reforming existing institutions. The Unlock Civics initiative functions at the intersection of democracy and the United States Legal System. The Unlock Civics programs run inside Illinois jails, prisons, and juvenile detention facilities. Through Unlock Civics, Chicago Votes works to protect and restore voting rights to people while incarcerated and ensure they have access to civic education. Chicago Votes has also passed eight laws in the 10 years we have been an organization. We advocate for the passage of laws that are led by young people and will make Chicago a better place to live by removing barriers to the ballot box and prioritizing civic education. Our primary policy focus in 2023 is passing Voting in Prison. The passage of this landmark legislation would make Illinois the first state in the U.S. to restore the right to vote to people in prison! This law will add 35,000 new voters to the rolls and center this issue nationally as one of the most important voting rights issues of our generation.
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New Covenant Community Development
This is a partnership that was created based on similar visions for supporting small business owners through the development of their busi ness skills. We also specifically focus on development of their financial skills needed to successfully start, grow and manage their business. We plan to increase our impact in this grant year. Beyond our past offering, we also have come to understand there is a need for support of our business owners in dealing with trauma. We believe that it is now critical to be able to provide some level of support in this area to address some of the obstacles that our population encounters.
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South Shore Chamber Community Development Corporation
The South Shore Chamber Community Development Corporation “CDC” proposes building staffing, operations and grants management capacity by hiring a full-time Director of Finance and Grants Management. This role is instrumental in establishing policies and procedures to streamline grant reporting and compliance processes. As the organization expands programming and funding opportunities, we need an internally dedicated staff person to manage these important functions. The grant request will support salary ($80,000) and fringe benefits ($18,000/.765% fringe rate). Over the grant period, this role will review and establish policies, procedures and testing fiscal controls; create new financial analysis, cost allocation, and cost control templates and reconcile expenditures working in alignment with our external accountant and auditor.
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Beyond the Ball NFP
Beyond the Ball is requesting funding to create “Project Play – Little Village”, a community learning hub for local organizations to learn about the best practices in the field of violence prevention through public space work. The goal of this project is to provide support for organizations through site visits, program tours, regular workshops, and the creation of community connections. Ultimately, the long-term goal of this project is to ensure that intentional and effective violence prevention through public space work is taking place in all parts of Little Village.
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THE NDIGO FOUNDATION
2023 will be the fifth year for NDIGO STUDIO, a 30-minute TV talk show discussing, authentic contemporary issues affecting the African American community. Featured are topics on race, media, politics, culture, health, entertainment, and economics that have insightful and valuable views that are often overlooked on television or suppressed. We express and examine with one on one interviews the "chi-diaspora." NDIGO STUDIO SEEKS TO CHANGE THE Narrative by taking a deep dive into a discussion of topics and personalities with an eclectic approach with one-on-one interviews and panel discussions. The program utilizes multiple platforms for distribution to include, including Traditional TV, streaming TV, PBS, Facebook, and other social media, and the program also appears as a podcast on 26 digital service providers nationally. Among them are: Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, Deezer, Soundcloud, Amazon, Tune In, Heart, Player FM, Pandora, Jiosaavn, Gaana, Listen Notes, Podchaser, Podcast Index, Pocketcasets and cashbox, NDIGO.com. The season would include 12 episodes to broadcast from October to December. NDIGO STUDIO has received two NOMINATIONS FOR AN EMMY AWARD FOR the BEST DISCUSSION/INTERVIEW PROGRAM IN THE MIDWEST. This year we add Black History Month to our distribution with either original programs for that purpose or to use programs from the existing portfolio. This would be 4 programs. We are interested in the broadest possible distribution utilizing multiple platforms.