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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CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC
In support of general operations of the mission and programs for The Available City.
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LATIN WOMEN IN ACTION
Since our early days, Mujeres Latinas en Acción (Mujeres) saw how cultural, and systems of oppression can be challenged through community engagement, mobilization, and collective leadership. With our unique position as a place of healing within the Latina immigrant community, Mujeres’ early founders and staff saw how women became emboldened as they recognized their own strength, and together worked to lift the voices and power of other women. This request will allow a growth and reinforcement of our efforts to connect more Latina immigrants with grassroots organizing & leadership, both within Mujeres and with our external partners. And finally, Mujeres wants to be an effective institutional leader on key issues and grassroots movements that are most vital to the immigrant communities of Chicago, especially those that impact immigrant survivors of violence. Mujeres, in partnership with UIC’s Greater Cities Institute, will facilitate focus groups and interviews with immigrant community members to engage in deep conversations about key issues facing the Latina immigrant and survivor community. We will develop a Position Paper with policy and advocacy recommendations and through a community centered engagement process, select campaigns based on the recommendations.
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Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
In support of general operations.
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NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC
As a newly formed collaborative, Chicago Flats Initiative is seeking a consultant to assist in the development of an initial strategic plan and work plan to guide the collaborative as it seeks to define its goals and priorities to substantially impact Chicago neighborhoods over the next 3-5 years. The consultant first will work directly with the Steering Committee of the Chicago Flats Initiative (i.e. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, Communities United and Enterprise Community Partners) to design and facilitate an engaging and actionable retreat for the Initiative's members, focused on creating common understanding and moving toward alignment on the Initiative's priorities. Post-retreat the consultant will work with the Steering Committee and relevant stakeholders to undertake an environmental scan of the ecosystem of relevant related preservation efforts. With collaborative members they will also analyze the systems and forces that impact displacement prevention and wealth building through 2-4 flat preservation and define key barriers to and drivers of change. Impactful strategies will be identified resulting in a work plan with measurable goals.
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Illinois Partners for Human Service
In support of general operations.
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Elevate Energy
Elevate seeks funding for the community-led multimedia project "Help This Garden Grow," a documentary podcast series uplifting the story of how a community at the edge of Chicago fought to breathe, took the fight around the world, and birthed the modern Environmental Justice movement. Produced by AirGo Radio, "Help This Garden Grow" (HTGG) explores the story of Hazel Johnson, a resident of the Altgeld Gardens community on the far South Side, who founded the People for Community Recovery (PCR) to address the toxic industrial pollution that was killing the families of her community. Over the course of the multigenerational multipart documentary, we will talk with Hazel Johnson’s daughter and the current Executive Director of PCR, Cheryl Johnson. We will also interview organizers, policymakers, historians, and community members about how PCR emerged, the legacy of Ms. Johnson's work, and how this Chicago community built the lineage of today's vibrant, impactful, and necessary environmental justice movement. Project partners include People for Community Recovery, a non-profit environmental organization founded by Hazel Johnson that for over 40 years has enhanced the quality of life of residents living in communities affected by pollution and educating communities on Environmental Justice; AirGo Radio, a media firm that documents and contributes to liberatory cultural and political movements; Elevate, a national organization that seeks to create a just and equitable world in which everyone has clean and affordable heat, power, and water; and the HTGG Creative Cabinet, a cohort of Chicago-based environmental justice leaders. The HTGG cohort will guide the narrative of the show, help identify additional voices to include in the conversation, and lead community discussions centering how Hazel Johnson and PCR have shaped the world-changing work of which the Cabinet members are at the forefront. This project is also designed to be a new model for equitable media collaboration, building a payment and production infrastructure that centers both Cheryl Johnson and our Creative Cabinet’s lived experience and engages them as co-creators of the story we are shaping together.
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Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
In support of general operations.
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Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
In support of general operations.