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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Thrive Chicago NFP
My Brother’s Keeper, housed within Thrive Chicago, is driving a focused effort to engage and empower the next generation of male educators of color by leading the implementation of a targeted teacher pipeline, in partnership with the Obama Foundation and Chicago Public Schools. In 2021, we will move from planning to phase one of implementation. In collaboration with our partners, we will develop and implement purpose-oriented practices, embedded within the school day and a complimentary mentorship program. These efforts will be targeted at high school boys and youth of color with the aim of promoting high school graduation, pursuit of post-secondary education, as well as fostering an interest in teaching as a career pathway.
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Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
In support of participation in the Color of Wealth Advisory Committee.
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AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Support from The Chicago Community Trust will support AIDS Foundation Chicago’s (AFC) work to protect and advance access to high-quality health care for people living with or vulnerable to HIV and other chronic conditions, particularly centering Black and Latinx communities who are disproportionately impacted by chronic conditions. AFC staff will: 1) monitor and respond to threats to health reform and access to care; 2) advocate for a state budget that ensures sufficient and equitable resources for HIV; 3) monitor discriminatory practices among health insurance plans and advocate as needed; and 4) advocate for policies within the Illinois Healthcare Feasibility Study that increase affordability and accessibility for AFC’s focus populations.
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ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY
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Michael Reese Health Trust
Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness (CFTEH) seeks funding to advance its strategic, cross-system goals in deep partnership with people with lived expertise. CFTEH is an intersectional funder collaborative formally launched in May 2020 with goals to align resources and unlock new sources of funding to prevent and end homelessness in the Chicago region. CFTEH is in the process of setting its collective goals for the coming year along with an agenda for policy engagement and advocacy. CFTEH seeks to implement the strategic vision and the fostering of partnerships between philanthropy, government, service providers, advocates, and people with lived experience of homelessness.
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CFLEADS
2020 support: It is thanks to your generous financial investment that CFLeads is able to support peer connection and field leadership for community foundations of all sizes all across the country. Investments from community foundations like yours are invaluable in helping both your foundation and the entire field develop and strengthen its community leadership capacity.
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Leadership Greater Chicago
Leadership Greater Chicago is seeking funding in the amount of $25,000 to support the participation of Karen Tamley -- former Commissioner for the Chicago Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities who was named the new president and CEO of Access Living in January 2020 -- in the 2021 cohort of The Daniel Burnham Fellowship. The 2021 Cohort, which begins in mid-February, will consist of 20-25 C-level and senior executives from major corporations across various industries, with 3-5 of the allocations reserved for the participation of nonprofit executives. The Fellowship is designed for senior leaders to urgently impact Chicago’s workforce and the region’s economic progress to benefit all of us, which makes Karen's participation critical.
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Latino Policy Forum
In support of participation in the Color of Wealth Advisory Committee.