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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CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION
City Colleges of Chicago is requesting support for the third year of its math redesign project in the total amount of $150,000. This funding will support advancing CCC’s developmental education strategies intended to improve student momentum into and through college-level mathematics. CCC seeks to maintain project management support to continue progress made during Year 1 of the project , all of which builds upon the recommendations of the Developmental Education Planning Committees, the math discipline, and the pilot instructors of the program. Continued progress will require project management support and funding for program design, delivery, and improvement. The project manager convenes faculty, develops project plans, monitors deliverables, and ensures progress toward full implementation of the math redesign. Additionally, the project manager serves as the knowledge manager of all efforts focused on improving early momentum into and through math gateway coursework. The improvement of outcomes through curriculum and course redesign sits at the intersection of the work initially undertaken by the Developmental Education Planning Committee and the Equity Champions initiative. Our curriculum redesign will add co-requisite opportunities, create a single developmental level course that can prepare students for either STEM or non-STEM math pathways, and create short continuation courses to prevent students from needing to take a step backward in their progression. CCC will develop and deliver robust faculty development for the new curriculum to ensure improved student outcomes and continue to provide non-credit Level Up workshops so that students can maximize their initial placement. The result of this work will be a pilot of a sequence of math courses and supports designed with student success and progression in mind, leading to more students taking and passing college-level math in their first year.
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Ladies of Virtue NFP
Ladies of Virtue (LOV) is a nationally recognized, award-winning, mentoring and leadership development program serving over 2,000 young women and girls in Chicago annually (600 girls enrolled in leadership programming and 1500+ served via community outreach). Additionally, LOV is founded and led by a Black woman, rooted in Black communities, and serves historically disinvested neighborhoods including those disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Unfortunately, LOV is at a disadvantage when it comes to applying for - and stewarding - essential federal and other government funding. This funding is needed to support the vital workforce and community development services LOV provides. Requested funds would build LOV's capacity to apply for and manage government funding by increasing our financial management capacity, further developing our Salesforce data management CRM and data integration tools, easing the process of data collection, storage, analysis, and reporting.
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P33
P33 is requesting funds for General Operations to support our efforts to increase the representation of Black and Latinx individuals in the tech sector and to fulfill our mission of making Chicago a top-tier tech hub driving inclusive economic growth.
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ILLINOIS HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
The Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation, serving as a fiscal agent for the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, seeks support to strengthen the organizations' internal capacity to identify and apply for grant opportunities generated by the availability of American Recovery Act Plan (ARPA) funding at the federal, state and local level. Support from this grant will also enable the organizations' to hire a dedicated staff person to support the management, coordination and reporting responsibilities for the organizations' existing grant-funded programs. Building this capacity internally will enable the organizations to allocate resources and remain focused on the broader goal of ensuring that a bilingual, culturally-sensitive business technical assistance ecosystem is available and accessible to the growing number of Latino small businesses and entrepreneurs in Northeast Illinois.
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LiftUp Communities
LiftUp Communities, LUC, the c3 arm of an employment social enterprise, accelerates the stability and mobility of low-wage workers, their family and friends, by addressing generational poverty head-on, expediting trusted social services referral, and concurrently finding and swiftly addressing gaps in resource access and delivery. LiftUp Communities’ works symbiotically with a growing portfolio of employment social enterprises and MBEs where our primary client pipeline works, as well as their social fabric: household, extended family, and self-identified support networks. In this grant period, LUC’s gap-filling priorities include incorporating human-centered program design to scale pilots; Concierge Services, potentially adding Health-Medical billing and Education-FAFSA to current Financial Wellness and Immigration and Legal Services tracks; Confidence Program, language and digital literacy; Barrier Reduction Fund and Program; Baby Bonds-529 Savings Program; Stability Skills Workshops; Youth Internship, and; our initiatives to formalize the Side Hustle. Clients are supported with 1:1 family-centered case management combined with stability coaching to navigate and access wraparound services addressing their specific needs. Additional goals this grant period include implementing use of Apricot case management software, fortifying program evaluation and analysis for faster iteration and innovation, and a keen focus on guiding clients in their progressively increasing use of services, as well as expanding our reach within our clients’ social fabric. We plan to socialize our insights and learning, both progress and failures, within the nonprofit and social impact sectors.
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E. G. Woode, L3C
E.G. Woode L3C, with guidance from Upside Collaboration Company (UPSIDE) and numerous community partners, is looking for better ways to leverage our real estate development to support the Englewood community. We are doing that through the establishment of a community benefit trust (CBT) that will take the profits from our developments and put it directly into use by the community. This grant application is to provide funds to seed and administer the CBT while the underlying properties are completed and become profitable.
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CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND ELDER LAW INC
Over the past three years, CDEL’s funding has grown, thanks to additional government funds from the CARES Act and American Rescue Plan funds from the state, county, and city. In 2022, CDEL received more than $500,000 from various government funders. Each new grant brought additional compliance issues and more intensive reporting, stretching the time and capabilities of the executive director and legal director. Meanwhile, CDEL's staff has doubled in size, and the additional human resource needs have also strained organization leadership. CDEL hired an operations manager in December 2022 to provide more support to the leadership team, but this role requires additional funding. A capacity building grant from CCT will enable CDEL to 1. configure its case management system (LegalServer) to better support compliance with government grants; 2. stay on top of changes in human resources with a membership to the Society for Human Resource Management; 3. train leadership staff on human resources and federal grant compliance; 4. cover grant writing costs associated with preparation and submission of large grant applications; 5. enable CDEL's outside bookkeeper to keep up with the number of vouchers CDEL must submit monthly or quarterly; and 6. cover a portion of the salary of the new operations manager.
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Forefront
Forefront, Illinois’ statewide association representing both grantmakers and nonprofits, as well as their advisors and allies, is respectfully submitting a request for funding in the amount of $150,000 from The Chicago Community Trust. The request includes $50,000 in funding for the Mission Sustainability Initiative, or MSI, $50,000 for our policy and advocacy work, $30,000 in Forefront Grantmaker Member dues, $15,000 in support of Forefront’s 2024 Annual Summit and 50th anniversary via sponsorship, and $5,000 to cover the cost of six Trust staff members to participate in Forefront’s 2024 Grantmakers Institute. The proposal will provide information about Forefront as an organization, and then will primarily focus on the MSI and policy and advocacy work, with topline information provided about the Grantmakers Institute.