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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Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
We seek support for the development of a Strategic Action Plan on Aging for IL that builds on our partnership with the IDOA to develop their State Plan on Aging. We’ll engage and organize with communities to develop and support a comprehensive vision for an age-friendly city and state focusing on policy and systems change emerging from lessons, gaps, and health inequities illuminated by COVID-19. This project seeks to build power for health and aging justice at a time when we’re experiencing historic growth in the older adult population. Not only do racism and ageism combine with other structural inequities to cause health inequities, service gaps for seniors cost lives and reduce quality of life, especially in Black and Latinx communities.
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Southland Development Authority NFP
The Southland Development Authority (SDA) was launched in 2019 to drive inclusive economic growth in southern Cook County and re-establish it as a major hub of economic activity, revitalizing the area as a unique set of communities that celebrates and engages its rich history and diversity. Since its inception the SDA has well surpassed its goals including growing a nearly $2M budget, against its intended $800K budget, developing an influential and effective board and staff, establishing a model stimulus relief program, and serving as a valued partner in the Southland. Funds from the Trust will allow the SDA to continue to build organizational capacity and further its growth as a national model for inclusive economic growth organizations.
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Metropolitan Tenants Organization
The Metropolitan Tenants Organization (MTO) and UChicago Medicine (UCM) system will collaborate to advance housing policies aimed at high utilizers of Emergency Health Service (EMS). Unstable housing is a key social determinant of health that causes homelessness and a reliance on EMS for health care. The project will uplift that community members' voices in making recommendations and creating policies that makes greater positive impact for the entire community. In particular, the project will pilot intervention models that promote housing stability for high users of EMS and advance policies aimed at mitigating sudden displacement of renters such as just cause eviction, right to counsel in evictions and proactive rental inspections.
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IFF
Consistent with IFF’s strategic vision to implement equitable community development projects in low-income communities of color and IFF’s long-term commitment as Asset Manager and Development Partner with the Foundation for Homan Square (FHS), funding from this request will support critical predevelopment activities for the preservation of strong and stable affordable housing units provided on the Homan Square campus. IFF is requesting $100,000 to support legal, architectural, and physical needs assessment costs to advance the long-overdue recapitalization of 158 existing affordable housing units in the FHS real estate portfolio. The units require moderate rehab and an infusion of fresh capital to perform the full extent of repairs.
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FINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC
In support of participation in the Color of Wealth Advisory Committee.
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Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County
The Alliance leads a network of stakeholders dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness in suburban Cook County. We operate a housing system that provides a coordinated continuum of interventions for people experiencing housing instability. Interventions include preventing homelessness when possible, providing crisis housing when needed, and prioritizing permanent housing. Each of these housing interventions is informed by our systemwide approach that is rooted in cross-sector collaboration, data-driven decision making, and removing structural barriers to housing. The Alliance provides the infrastructure to advance systems and policy change to connect people experiencing homelessness with the housing and services that meet their needs.
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Mothers Trust Foundation
in support of the organization meeting the basic needs of vulnerable families in Lake County due to hardships suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Eldercare Lake County
in support of the organization’s partnership with a local limousine company to provide rides to particularly vulnerable senior citizens in need of safe transportation to essential doctor appointments during the COVID-19 crisis.