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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Become Inc
BECOME’s strategies and activities are centered on collaborating with communities to develop sustainable solutions, expanding community capacity to implement those solutions, and creating lasting movement toward a shared community vision. BECOME creates an environment for the community to transcend structural barriers and challenges. We co-create structures and practices to support the community in sustaining change and creating an environment for people to become their ACTUALIZED self by living in, out and through the grandest version of themselves. BECOME has developed Culturally Responsive Community Transformation (CRCT) as an innovative model for bringing residents together to identify their collective goals for social transformation within the boundaries of their neighborhood and collaboratively create pathways to turn their community insight into action. BECOME plans to expand our revolutionary community transformation in Auburn Gresham by piloting the development of our first Culturally Responsive Community Transformation Hub that serves to build community capacity and social transformation from the inside out with community-driven strategic planning, facilitation, and coalition building. Through this model, we concentrate all of our services in a neighborhood, working with community residents, facilitating and building their capacity to achieve their collective goals for transformation. We work with them for the long-term until their vision of a thriving community is realized.
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DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
The Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) at DePaul will create a set of resources that demystifies and explains the process of acquiring properties through the Cook County Scavenger Sale. This project aims to address information gaps within Cook County communities by developing a set of resources that clearly explains the Scavenger Sale process. The audience for this project includes 1) potential small-scale investors or developers interested in acquiring properties through the Cook County Scavenger Sale, 2) community members and groups interested in understanding the process of acquiring properties through the Cook County Scavenger Sale, and 3) policymakers interested in understanding the process of acquiring properties through the Cook County Scavenger Sale to develop legislative reform strategies. Project deliverables include 1) a fact sheet that summarizes the process of acquiring a property via the Scavenger Sale, 2) a web-based guide that further explains the Scavenger Sale process with additional contextual information, and 3) a microsite that hosts these resources and additional work relevant to this topic.
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CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
In support of general operations.
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CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC
CNI and our team of community partners seek to equitably transform lives through development of housing, workforce, health and public safety infrastructure. Looking ahead, we intend to continue our strategy in Pullman and carry the results-backed progress CNI has spearheaded in Pullman into neighboring Roseland, applying targeted place-based investments in alignment with community goals. We have spent the last two years engaging with community stakeholders to understand their needs and goals. As a result of this ongoing engagement, we seek to address depopulation and corresponding challenges: declines in safety, reductions in property values, reduced access to retail and significant health disparities. We seek to build Black wealth through the creation of new assets and dispel the notion that improving lives means leaving a neighborhood. This request will specifically fund costs associated with planning and predevelopment activities related to the Roseland Rising initiative, which will drive investment to 4 specific districts within Roseland. Based on our experience as a community and economic development organization with a long-standing track record in Chicago, predevelopment funding is the most difficult to access but the most necessary in order to get a project off the ground. We appreciate your consideration of our proposal.
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Forefront
In support of general operations.
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METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL
MPC's application supports Our Great Rivers, with specific emphasis in 2022 on the Task Force. MPC will ensure that it is comprised of stakeholders most impacted by their rivers; and prioritize their presence and lived experience - to positively changes the way decisions are made. MPC will facilitate a Task Force structure that amplifies these perspectives, while simultaneously taking a systemic approach to planning, policy and development. MPC will also raise awareness of Our Great Rivers and its progress via focused engagement. An essential role for MPC is to serve as a watchdog, advocating with and on behalf of partners ensuring that the actions and strategies put forward by the City align and adhere to the Rivers’ vision.
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Institute for Community Empowerment
The Institute for Community Empowerment, working with its partner organization, the Coalition to Save Our Mental Health Centers, seeks to engage and train volunteer leaders to create three new Expanded Mental Health Services Programs (EMHSPs) in 2022 and 2023 in three broad and diverse Chicago communities with 440,000 residents on the South and West Sides. To be successful, residents will first learn the skills to educate their neighbors about the importance of mental health services, then win a binding referendum to raise their property taxes to pay for them, and finally steer and oversee their new mental health center. Through their efforts, they will build collective power to take ownership of vital services tailored to local needs.
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FINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC
Leveraging the unique research methodology pioneered by the U.S. Financial Health Pulse, FHN will launch this “Chicago Financial Health Pulse” to understand how the financial lives of diverse communities in Chicago are changing over time. This project would be one pillar of the Trust’s broader strategy to close the racial wealth gap in Chicago over the next decade. By understanding how Chicago residents are spending, saving, borrowing, and planning, researchers could identify policy and industry solutions that would help close the racial wealth gap. Findings from the study could be used to galvanize conversations across an array of stakeholders committed to investing in solutions to close the racial wealth gap over the next ten years.