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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CHICAGO CARES INC
Chicago Cares requests support for its civic pathway programming consisting of three complementary programs that will build the collective power of Chicagoans to advance equity in under-resourced and under-invested communities that have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn. Through volunteer text banking on community issues, virtual programmatic offerings combining education and service, and community-based leadership trainings, Chicago Cares will provide Chicagoans with strategic opportunities to connect across lines of difference and rebuild trust in one another and public institutions – which is even more necessary than ever after such a tumultuous year.
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FAR SOUTH CDC
Morgan Park Commons Housing Project is a 360-unit mixed-use housing project located at the northwest corner intersection at 115th Street and Halsted. The planned housing project will be 75 percent affordable and 25 percent market-rate rental units ranging from studio to 3-bedrooms. The project site is 12.06-acres former Jewel-Osco and Halsted In-door Mall commercial property and connects three (3) neighborhoods of Morgan Park, West Pullman, and Roseland. The project site is on a highly visible Halsted street with nearly 20,000 vehicular traffic, intermodal public transit bus lines including (CTA) and PACE, and four (4) blocks north of West Pullman Metra stop. The site is slated to incorporate the PACE pulse terminal.
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ENDELEO INSTITUTE INC
The purchase, rehab and new construction addition to a vacant commercial property on the 95th street corridor in Washington Heights is slated to become Cafe Du Bois, a combination coffee shop/laundromat. As Covid-19 festers, Endeleo is pivoting in the face of economic uncertainties by 1) leveraging dual purpose of the space, 2) creating economic synergy and 3) providing greater value to the community. Endeleo was a 2019 recipient of a City of Chicago Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant and this year, secured Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity funding for a laundromat. While the innovative use of space and additional no cost capital helps offset financing, the Pre-Development Fund initially keeps the project moving.
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Heartland Human Care Services Inc
In support of the Chicago Asset Building for Children initiative (Chicago ABC's).
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Ageoptions Inc
Avisery by AgeOptions helps older adults and adults with disabilities access affordable healthcare and effectively utilize their health benefits by leveraging its 1,795-member network of health insurance counseling professionals to advocate for a responsive health benefits delivery system. With Chicago Community Trust funding, Avisery will expand its advocacy work so older adults and those with disabilities can access benefits that reduce health and wealth disparities. Avisery will use its network of professional benefits counselors, coalition partners, and relationships with insurance plans, and state and federal agencies to advocate for beneficiaries on an individual level and to address systemic barriers to access and affordability.
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Illinois Collaboration On Youth
For more than 45 years, the Illinois Collaboration on Youth has advocated on behalf of children, youth, and families, and the community-based organizations that serve them. Our mission is to promote the safety, health, and success of Illinois’ children, youth, and families by acting as a collective voice for policy and practice, and by connecting and strengthening the organizations that serve them. Over the past two fiscal years, we have worked intentionally to make our coalition and advocacy agenda more inclusive of the communities that our members serve by establishing the Equity and Access Fund, in which our members subsidize memberships for BIPOC-led CBOs that otherwise would not have the resources to join a membership association.
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The Chicago Community Trust
To support community engagement activities of New America.
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DISABILITY LEAD
With generous support from The Chicago Community Trust as our founding sponsor, ADA 25 Advancing Leadership (AL) has established itself in the last year as an independent nonprofit organization running the nation’s first and only leadership development and civic engagement program for leaders with disabilities. This successful nonprofit start-up grew from a program in incubation at the Trust to a growing regional network of nearly 170 diverse positive disruptors with disabilities leading and serving with power and influence in their communities. A three-year grant from the Trust – now in its second year of general operating support – will allow AL to continue to scale its programs and impact while centering racial and disability justice.