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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La Raza Chicago, Inc.
A project to keep saving La Raza, the last major Spanish newspaper in Chicago, and to keep it as a quality and trusted source of local news to serve and empower the Hispanic community. This grant will help in part to support the cost of keeping the position of the Editor in Chief, opening a new position for a reporter to cover Latine communities in Chicago, and investing in the maintenance of our neighborhood distribution infrastructure. The recovery after the recent inflation and the COVID-19 emergency has been slow for media and local news outlets face big financial challenges, everything amid a steep decline in advertising revenue. La Raza is likely the last Spanish newspaper in Chicago producing original community-focused journalism. This grant will mitigate the current news deserts affecting the Chicago Hispanic communities, preserve La Raza’s content production capacity, enhance its online platforms, support its transformation, and keep active a local media outlet that for 54 years has been critical for the defense and empowerment of the Chicago Latine communities and for the preservation of democracy and free of speech.
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Just for You Girlfriend Organization
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Goodkids Madcity - Englewood
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Local Initiatives Support Corp.
The creation of a Community Centered Economic Inclusion Agenda in Back of the Yards will identify top line economic development priorities for the neighborhood and assemble the partners and resources to invest and move these priorities forward, ensuring equitable development in years to come.
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Old Fashioned Donuts, Inc.
Located on an INVEST South/West Corridor, Old Fashioned Donuts has been owned and operated by the Bulloch Family for over 50 years. Since its founding, Old Fashioned Donuts has operated non-stop serving and employing generations of individuals and families throughout Chicago. Developer wants to update and repair the store to continue to serve the community for another 50 years and provide an ownership opportunity for his daughters.
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TAPROOTS INC
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The Chicago Community Trust
TRHT seeks to plan, develop, and implement a series of healing and solidarity circles for key communities and civic leaders in Chicago. The intended short-term goal of this work is for program participants to gain a deeper understanding of how racism has impacted the health and economic vitality of Chicago communities and to feel a greater sense of solidarity with those who live there. From this heightened level of awareness and understanding, the intended long-term goal is for participants to leverage their political, financial, and institutional power to increase investments (both corporate and philanthropic) in impacted neighborhoods, thereby strengthening equity-driven policies, institutions, and opportunities.
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Better Future Forward
Better Future Forward (BFF) is dedicated to providing accessible, protective, and sustainable financial support to address the unmet financial needs of City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) students and alumni. The two-fold goals of this project are 1) to continue to innovate and improve BFF’s unique ISA model to best serve community college students and 2) to position BFF’s program to attract larger-scale sources of capital—both philanthropic and impact investing. By achieving both objectives, BFF will enable a much larger number of CCC students and alumni to have access to protective financial support through BFF’s program, as well as develop a blueprint for how best to equitably, accessibly, and sustainably address the financial challenges facing students across Chicago.