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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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    The Chicago Community Trust

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $175,000

    This is a funding application for the Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance. The Chicago Community Trust is a Leadership Funder of the Funder Alliance, and this application maintains that role in FY24 and FY25. Being a Leadership Funder means that this funding (at least in part) pools with the other Leadership Funders, and that a CCT representative sits on the CWFA Management Committee to direct the funder collaborative's strategies, staff and grant-making. The application itself, as agreed to by Leadership Funders, is mainly cut and pasted from the latest version of the CWFA Leadership Funder Generic Proposal.

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    The Chicago Community Trust

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $200,000

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    FAMILY SERVICE & MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF CICERO

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

    An established community-based mental health agency primarily serving western Cook County, we are known for programs and services prioritizing low-income Latinx communities. We strive to ensure access and reduce barriers, whether linguistic, cultural, financial, or other, that prevent already underresourced, overlooked, or marginalized people from receiving services. As we extend our reach and deepen our impact with recently arrived populations, we seek funding that will help us strengthen our workforce and avert internal crises related to staffing shortages. The $50,000 we request will be allocated entirely toward our agency’s investment in clinical staff.

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    LIBERTY PRAIRIE FOUNDATION

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $100,000

    Funding will expand the Liberty Prairie Farm Store and share the stories of the farms, farmers, and food entrepreneurs that are strengthening our local food system.

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    University of Chicago Urban Labs

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

    Our organization is applying for additional funding to launch (In)Sights: PhotoVoice in the Chicago Resilient Communities, a PhotoVoice exhibition that captures the impact of the Chicago Resilient Communities Pilot through participants’ own photography and captions. The exhibition launch at the Harold Washington Public Library will aim for 200 guests and target elected officials who are not yet supporters of guaranteed income in order to shift the narrative around unconditional cash assistance. After a monthlong residency, the PhotoVoice exhibit will travel to other Chicago Public Library branches on the North, South, and West sides of Chicago in the fall of 2024 and will be permanently displayed through a microsite on the Inclusive Economy Lab website

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    Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council NFP

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $100,000

    The Metro Chicago Good Food Purchasing Initiative (GFPI) is seeking continued support to deepen our work with institutions to improve their procurement processes, provide support to growers to access these institutional opportunities, and ensure the consistent application of the good food goals of fair wages, sustainable practices, and equitable access.

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    Greater Chatham Initiative Inc

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $200,000

    The program will: 1) support Black-owned food-based businesses with access to capital via coaching and connections to service providers, and 2) support local South Side business incubators and entrepreneurial hubs and the businesses they serve by providing technical assistance to connect them to capital resources and to their surrounding ecosystem. Greater Chatham Initiative will also implement a technology platform to help local entrepreneurs access capital by creating a South Side small business resource online hub that improves upon and expands our existing funding webpage.

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    The Experimental Station: 6100 Blackstone

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

    Experimental Station is requesting $50,000 in general operating funds to support increased fundraising and administrative costs associated with the expansion of our 61st Street Farmers Market food education programming and increased government funding for our Link Up Illinois program.