Trust Talks

A podcast by The Chicago Community Trust, each episode of Trust Talks highlights a different strand of the Trust’s strategic priority to grow wealth and well-being in underinvested communities — and improve the region for all in Chicago.

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Episode 17: Leveraging the Power of Data (February 2025)

In this episode of Trust Talks, we discuss how data helps us understand the ways capital flows into communities and how our grant partners are using it to inform their work and drive investment into their neighborhoods.   

This episode is hosted by Jennifer Axelrod (Associate of Vice President of Learning & Impact for The Chicago Community Trust), and includes Brett Theodos (Senior Fellow and Director of the Community Economic Development Hub at Urban Institute), Luis Gutierrez, (Founder & CEO of Latinos Progresando), and Andraya Yousfi (Chief of Partnerships and Development for By The Hand Club For Kids).

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Episode 16: Working Collaboratively to Address Community Safety (September 2024)

In this episode of Trust Talks, Jai Jones, Program Specialist for the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities, is joined by Esther Franco-Payne (Executive Director, Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities), Robert Boik (Vice President of Public Safety, Civic Committee of the Commercial Club), Teny Gross (CEO, Institute for Nonviolence Chicago), and America Campos (Executive Director, U.N.I.O.N. Impact Center), to discuss PSPC’s priorities and accomplishments, its new Scaling Community Violence Intervention for a Safer Chicago fund, and the importance of multi-sector collaboration to make our neighborhoods safer and more vibrant.

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