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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YOUNG INVINCIBLES
Young Invincibles (YI) co-leads the Illinois Higher Education Network (IHEN) to create a more equitable higher education system. We address the impacts of institutionalized racism and classism on the success of Black and Latinx students, and students from low-income households. The coalition consists of advocacy organizations, college access and success organizations, college and university faculty and staff, and students. Working with these stakeholders, YI builds momentum for policies to create fair institutional funding models, meet students’ basic needs, increase financial aid, and address student mental health in a culturally competent manner. YI also leads the Student Advocacy Board, IHEN’s student committee.
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LYTE COLLECTIVE
LYTE Collective supports youth impacted by poverty and homelessness in Chicago with a focus on young adults between the ages of 18 and 30. We invest deeply in young people through an approach that is research driven where basic needs are met while we also provide the opportunities and relationships young people deserve to heal, to dream, and to explore themselves and the world around them. Through this grant request, LYTE Collective seeks general operating support to help us continue this work through our three core programs: our Mobile Support program, where we go directly to youth wherever they need us; Lytehouse Apartments, our transitional housing program; and the LYTE Lounge youth community center, located in Greater Grand Crossing.
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Rush University Medical Center
Just as many neighborhoods on the city’s South and West Sides were considered “testing deserts” during the spring and fall 2020 surges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the roll-out of vaccines has been disparate. To support efforts to get these communities at or above the Citywide vaccination rate, West Side United will create hyperlocal campaigns and increase local COVID-19 vaccination efforts in five targeted neighborhoods on the West Side. These campaigns will build off existing efforts of WSU and support those of community-based organizations to raise awareness, counter myths and provide vaccine access through door-to-door outreach, community town halls and vaccine distribution events.
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BEDS, Inc.
BEDS Plus Care is a leading homeless services agency in Southwest Suburban Cook County. Its mission is to help vulnerable individuals stabilize their lives through housing and supportive services. BEDS offers evidence-based Prevention and Stabilization, Emergency, and Supportive Housing Services; all clients partner with professional case managers and receive wraparound care to manage the causes and effects of homelessness. BEDS programs follow CDC recommendations to protect clients and communities from COVID-19. Last year, it served 1800 people, including veterans; domestic violence survivors; transition aged youth; and people with chronic health, behavioral health, and disabling conditions. Eighty percent exited with sustainable housing.
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CENTRO ROMERO
Centro Romero, deeply committed to serving its community for 37 years, requests funding to enhance its after-school Youth Learning and Leadership Program for 75 youth ages 6 to 18 from low-income Latinx immigrant and refugee families, mostly undocumented. Founded by Salvadoran refugees fleeing a ten-year civil war, two are its leaders and advocates: the executive director and the legal services director. The organization honors the martyr-saint Bishop Oscar Romero and is governed by a board of directors that reflect the community served. Its mostly bicultural staff operate an inter-generational family-centered inter-related network of programs that the community learns about by word-of-mouth referrals that annually generate 10,000 clients.
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RESPOND NOW
As a trusted, low-barrier, wraparound social service provider with many local CBO and healthcare connections, Respond Now is poised to expand community outreach, street outreach, and vaccination event services. Respond Now will expand these services and host culturally competent block-party style vaccination events in the community garden. These events will be promoted via community health workers, hyper-local health communication campaigns, and trusted messengers. Our target population and goal is to vaccinate the community’s most vulnerable including the literally homeless, substance abusers, immigrant population, and those who experience social stigma.
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CHICAGO TAP THEATRE NFP
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Chicago Community Foundation
Internal transfer grant from We Rise Together (FK64) to the Illinois Covid Response Fund (FK19) in support of grant commitments from the ICRF.