Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
Since the mid-20th century, homeownership has been one of the most important vehicles for building wealth in the United States. According to research from the…
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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.
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Garfield Park Community Council
The City of Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development (DPD) launched “We Will Chicago,” the City’s first citywide planning initiative in more than 50 years. Garfield Park Community Council is among the groups selected to assist with the citywide planning process and contribute to one of the plan’s seven pillar research reports or the initiative’s Advisory Committee. MUSE and Rudd Resources are part of the consulting team supporting DPD in developing research reports on seven pillars. As part of its role, MUSE and Rudd Resources are tracking the Community Partner’s involvement and making stipends available to selected organizations to participate on a pillar research team or the Advisory Committee.
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One Million Degrees
One Million Degrees is deeply honored to be a core evidence-based program working in Chicago advancing outcomes in the priority areas outlined by the Kinship Foundation, Searle Funds and The Chicago Community Trust’s multi-year collaboration, Bridges to Brighter Futures. OMD is proud to have demonstrated measurable results aligned with the core strategies and outcomes of Bridges to Brighter Futures. Like Bridges, OMD recognizing historic barriers and system inequities for Black, indigenous people of color (BIPOC). OMD serves nearly 90% BIPOC in Chicago and nearly 60% of first-generation college students. OMD’s innovative approach connects our scholars to career paths and a professional network enabling them to access a more inclusive economy.
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The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
The University of Chicago Center for Effective Government is grateful to be considered for the Chicago Community Trust’s support of $200,000 over two years for the Civic Leadership Academy (CLA). This support will sustain the annual leadership development program for 30 Chicago civic leaders, focusing on training for individual leaders, bridging communities, and harnessing their collective power to advance meaningful institutional reform across the city of Chicago.
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Partnership for College Completion
The Partnership for College Completion (PCC) champions policies, practices, and systems that increase college completion and eliminate degree completion disparities for low-income, first generation, and students of color in Illinois – particularly Black and Latinx students. Since its launch five years ago, the PCC has successfully deployed its unique, three-part approach in service of its mission, to lay the groundwork to improve college graduation outcomes and eliminate inequities in college access, persistence, and completion for these target student populations in Illinois. This proposed grant would support PCC’s work in the area of College & University Partnerships, supporting the Illinois Equity in Attainment Initiative and our efforts to accelerate institutional changes that will advance racial and socioeconomic equity in student outcomes.
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NORTH RIVER COMMISSION
The City of Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development (DPD) launched “We Will Chicago,” the City’s first citywide planning initiative in more than 50 years. North River Commission is among the groups selected to assist with the citywide planning process and contribute to one of the plan’s seven pillar research reports or the initiative’s Advisory Committee. The We Will Chicago Phase II timeline has been extended to June 2022 and includes five (5) additional pillar research team meetings and three (3) additional Advisory Committee meetings, two (2) reconvenings in the fall of 2022 and two (2) Community Partner-led engagement events. More details are included below.
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Southeast Environmental Task Force
We Will Chicago facilitator for the 10th Ward
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Chicago Community Foundation
The funding request is to support predevelopment efforts of participants of the NDI program. As part of the program, each agency will develop a real estate project. The funding will cover the cost of due diligence efforts.
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CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION
CCC seeks funding to continue movement and momentum for the “Championing Equity Initiative,” an ambitious effort to achieve a universal 4-Year Outcomes Measure success rate of 55% by 2032. By FY25, we plan to be a third of the way to this universal goal, by focusing on the significant equity gaps in outcomes for Black and Brown students. With an investment of $750,000 over 12 months, CCC will complete the infrastructure, strategies, and tools to achieve unprecedented and equitable student outcomes, putting CCC on-track to close its equity gaps by 2032. Specific activities include improving existing and developing new dashboards to harness equity data and student voice, an aggressive approach to improving first-year success rates of the fall 2022 Black student cohort, a plan to expand the Equity Partners and continuous improvement program across CCC, and the launch of an Anti-Racism Taskforce will create the framework necessary to institutionalize practices, policies and procedures that affirm our goals for an anti-racist culture at CCC.