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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Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods welcomes The Chicago Community Trust’s partnership to support the initial phase of our comprehensive campaign. The campaign honors the significant historical contributions of the Ryerson and Smith families to the preservation of this site and supports our goals for a vibrant Chicagoland where people of all backgrounds have a voice and a role in supporting the health of people and nature in their own communities. This initial investment will support a campaign consultant to oversee the campaign launch and implementation as well as the first phase of immediate renovations to the historic Brushwood building.
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Housing Opportunities & Maintenance for the Elderly, Inc.
H.O.M.E., founded in 1982, pioneered an innovative intergenerational housing model for seniors with low incomes. H.O.M.E.’s affordable residences exemplify a normative goal of “aging in community” by intentionally bringing together seniors, younger adults living and working as Resident Assistants, and families with children under the same roof H.O.M.E. plans to expand its intergenerational model to Washington Park through a partnership with The Renaissance Collaborative for a new affordable building offering supportive services. In addition to housing, H.O.M.E. offers Community Programs for seniors with low incomes in disinvested neighborhoods across Chicago: an Upkeep and Repair program, a Shopping Bus program, and a Moving Program.
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RESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD
RAGE launched the Buy the Block Englewood Housing Program back in 2018, to organize a campaign targeting renters to become first time homebuyers. The goal is to engage & educate residents about the homeowner opportunities in Englewood and work to increase the number of owner-occupied homes. We collect and track data regarding their interest to invest in a home, financial capacity and follow up accordingly to ensure they are on a pathway to homeownership. We want to develop 10-15 new home owners and/or residents who enroll in financial literacy or a credit building program so that they will eventually become a homeowner soon in Englewood. Our goal is to expand this program to reach more renters and strengthen our partnerships.
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WOMEN EMPLOYED
Women Employed (WE) plays a unique role in increasing opportunities and security for women as policy advocates seeking systemic improvements that touch the lives of women in low-income jobs and women of color, particularly Black and Latinx/a women. In our new strategic plan, WE reaffirms our mission, with the goal of growing women’s economic power in order to close the wealth gap at the intersection of race and gender. When we think about economic power, the word Poder in Spanish is helpful. Poder both means power (n) and to be able to (v). To close the wealth gap and fulfill the goal of growing the economic power of women – their economic ability to make decisions that benefit them and improve their quality of life is essential.
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CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Since 1954, Casa Central has provided family-centered, cross-generational services that support and empower low-income individuals and families throughout the City of Chicago. With place-based programming that spans from early childhood to older age, Casa Central supports individuals throughout their lifespan with bilingual and culturally responsive services. Our programming, which includes clinical services for children impacted by violence and trauma, social-emotional learning for pre-school and school-age children, and home- and center-based care for aging adults, provides a robust infrastructure of care that serves the target populations and advances our shared objectives with the Addressing Critical Needs initiative.
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EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO
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LIBERTY PRAIRIE FOUNDATION
The Foundation will foster farmland access by helping farmers and landowners connect and build skills while supporting landowners in farmland stewardship. The Foundation will also help launch a collaborative statewide land access program.
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CHICAGO UNITED FOR EQUITY
Since initial seed investment from the Chicago Community Trust in 2017, Chicago United for Equity (CUE) has trained over 200 Chicagoans in the Racial Equity Impact Assessment process, which stopped the closure of National Teachers Academy, built support for 100% affordable housing in Logan Square, and inspired more participatory policymaking processes like the 2019 Vote Equity co-created voter guide, and the 2020 launch of the People's Budget Chicago, a participatory budget built by communities most impacted by inequitable city investment. We seek the Trust's support to continue to grow our impact on policy issues, in building a leadership pipeline, and fostering cross-sector mutual accountability to racial equity.