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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SOUTHEAST ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE
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ONE HOPE UNITED
OHU’s Joliet Early Learning Center offers program support to not only the children enrolled in our academic program, but to the families of our children by offering enrichment activities, mental health services, nutritional planning, and budgeting training that help improve the quality of life of our families. OHU is requesting $15,000 to support our family engagement program. The focus will be Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyles Education. These funds will elevate our existing program by providing supplies for activities, classroom materials, literature for families, food for meal planning, and take-home activities for the families. Increasing parent involvement will cause direct impact to the wellbeing of every child enrolled in our program.
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GREATER SOUTHWEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
The Greater Southwest Development Corporation’s (GSDC) primary goal is to improve the quality of life in southwest Chicago through economic development strategies designed to address the specific challenges of the neighborhoods and businesses we serve. Our commercial division supports local businesses and entrepreneurs and drives business investment into the area. GSDC also offers residents training and supports and builds and manages rental properties. Requested funds would enable us to help establish, stabilize, and expand more businesses, catalyze greater investments, and help the local economy recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and recent destruction resulting from civic unrest.
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Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative
The initial Flexible Funding grant helped Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative (Emerald South) begin building out a digital infrastructure by purchasing and customizing a Salesforce CRM platform. Our year two renewal grant funding from the Trust’s Flexible Funding program will help onboard more users, continue solution design & support, and maintain an innovative region-wide platform. This platform will assist Emerald South to amplify and coordinate initiatives and investment opportunities by working with local leaders, organizations, and businesses to better understand the local business community and their needs, expand communications, and scale program operations for the benefit of the mid-South Side of Chicago.
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GARFIELD PARK COMMUNITY COUNCIL
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EASTER SEALS JOLIET REGION INC
Easterseals Joliet Region is an ESSENTIAL provider of Health & Human Services to include Children's Allied Health Services. In response to the growing needs for Children's Mental Health interventions, the organization began a Behavioral Health Outpatient Counseling service pre-Pandemic to complement the Autism Diagnostic Program, physical, occupational, speech and developmental services for children. At the present time, the agency has two Licensed Clinical Social Workers providing Telehealth and In-person counseling. There is wait list of 200 children in-part because of the effects of the pandemic. This request is for seed funds to expand capacity and match a $10,000 grant opportunity through Easterseals National Mackenzie Scott Fund.
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LATINOS PROGRESANDO
Latinos Progresando requests renewed support for resident-driven, equitable community development planning in the Marshall Square community that leverages the strength of the Marshall Square Resource Network, a broad, bold, place-based coalition created to design solutions to neighborhood challenges. Development activities will be organized around a cluster of community assets: the Latinos Progresando Community Center (a redevelopment of a long-vacant Chicago Public Library branch); the CTA Pink Line California station; and the Cermak/California commercial corridors. Our broader vision also includes collaboration with neighboring communities of Pilsen and North Lawndale, focused on equitable transit-oriented development and local ownership.
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Endeleo Institute Inc
The purchase, rehab and a new construction addition to a vacant commercial property on the 95th street corridor in Washington Heights is slated to become Cafe Du Bois, a combination coffee shop/laundromat. As Covid-19 festers, Endeleo is pivoting in the face of economic uncertainties by 1) leveraging dual purpose of the space, 2) creating economic synergy and 3) providing greater value to the community. Endeleo was a 2019 recipient of a City of Chicago Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant and this year, secured Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity funding for a laundromat. While the innovative use of space and additional no cost capital helps offset financing, the Pre-Development Fund initially keeps the project moving.