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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Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
We seek renewed support for our Impact Division, which leads our policy work to close the racial and ethnic wealth divide in Illinois, such as work on economic security, income supports, asset building, ending wealth stripping, consumer protections, and fines/fees reform. This has included retirement and Children’s Savings Account programs, earned income credit and child tax credit expansion, lending/debt reforms, and driver's license suspensions. Our priorities are developed in coalition and with an equity lens. We use data to understand racial disparities, and center and engage impacted people in our work. We seek support for leading the coalition Financial Inclusion for All Illinois, and providing advocacy and subject matter leadership in other coalitions connected to these issues.
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AUSTIN COMING TOGETHER
• Project Name Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation • Application Summary Located at the corner of Madison St. and Central Avenue (5500 W. Madison), the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation is a multi-use facility development project to renovate and repurpose the (87,000 square feet) former Robert Emmet Public Elementary School into a coordinated community hub with industry sector training center that will service youth and out-of-work individuals with in-demand skill sets and small business supports. The Aspire Center (meaning, place of directing the hopes of the people) will be composed of several workforce training, career development and entrepreneurial skills providers all housed within the re-purposed and renovated Emmet School. The development will offer: * a high tech manufacturing training center for working age youth and adults * a business incubator for start ups * a restaurant with indoor/outdoor dining and social events * a bank and other neighborhood building businesses • Total Project Budget $27,995,000
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Woodstock Institute
Woodstock seeks support to collaboratively: • Convene / lead the Community Reinvestment Act Coalition • Convene / lead the Illinois Predatory Loan Prevention Coalition • Steering Committee member of Financial Inclusion for All Illinois Coalition • Support policy and research agenda of Transit Table Coalition • Participate in the Housing Policy Roundtable and the Housing Task Force We play three primary roles in each: • Conduct applied research that helps stakeholders understand impediments to creating more equitable economic systems • Develop policy recommendations to address racial and economic disparities • Advocate for policy changes in collaboration with community partners that encourage investment and protect consumers in racially and economically segregated neighborhoods.
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Sarah's Inn
Sarah's Inn respectfully requests a $25,000 grant from the Chicago Community Trust to support our Intervention Program. Our Intervention Program provides Advocacy and Counseling to victims of domestic violence. These critical services work to help our clients heal from trauma, stabilize their families and help to create a non-violent future for them and their children. We provide emergency services and assistance, case management, supportive services, legal services and counseling, and our holistic approach means clients receive trauma-informed, best practice services throughout a variety of interventions. Intervention services are confidential, bilingual (English/Spanish) and offered free of charge to survivors and their children.
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES
COFI exists to build the power and voice of parents, primarily mothers and grandmothers from Black and Brown communities, to shape the public decisions that affect their lives and the lives of their families. Through COFI, over 5,000 low-income parents of color have been trained as civic leaders in communities and, with POWER-PAC IL, in policy advocacy at city/state/federal levels. Closing the racial wealth/income gaps are top priorities of POWER-PAC IL, with particular focus on reducing debt burdens and increasing wages/savings opportunities – especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This grant will help us continue to ensure that low-income parents are full, participating members of coalitions fighting the racial wealth gap.
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APNA GHAR INC OUR HOME
Apna Ghar’s mission is to provide critical, comprehensive, culturally competent services, and conduct outreach and advocacy across communities to end gender violence. Intervention services (crisis and long term) at Apna Ghar are the focus of this proposal and have a framework that brings together community-driven strategies and local partners to empower our program teams to intervene with those at the highest risk of experiencing violence, while also working with the broader community to transform their understanding of gender-based violence. Our work through this grant will continue our increased efforts of pandemic response and ensure services to prevent violence, case management and counseling, access to legal services, street outreach, training and technical assistance and shelter, and housing programs can continue to meet the needs of our local communities.
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Michael Reese Health Trust
Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness (CFTEH) seeks renewed funding from CCT to advance its cross-system and cross-sector goals in partnership with people most impacted by homelessness. CFTEH is a community of 30 funders in the Chicago region, including The Chicago Community Trust, working to prevent and end homelessness. The collaborative works closely with government partners, policymakers, system leads, and advocates to align funding and priorities, improve housing policies, and build public and political will to address homelessness.
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WOMEN EMPLOYED
Women Employed (WE) plays a unique role in increasing opportunities and security for women as policy advocates seeking systemic improvements that touch the lives of women in low-income jobs and women of color, particularly Black and Latina/x women. In our new strategic plan, WE reaffirms our mission, with the goal of growing women’s economic power in order to close the wealth gap at the intersection of race and gender. When we think about economic power, the word Poder in Spanish is helpful. Poder both means power (n) and to be able to (v). To close the wealth gap and fulfill the goal of growing the economic power of women – their economic ability to make decisions that benefit them and improve their quality of life is essential.