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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Grow Greater Englewood
The Englewood Village Farms focuses on activating the farms near the Englewood Nature Trail also utilizing organizing, advocacy, business planning, and implementation strategies. By focusing on acquiring more land, for farmers, and technical support and supplies for farmers in the Englewood Village Farms
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Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation
CAASE seeks funding for its Policy department, which leads our pursuit of public policies and systems change that advance the power and safety of communities impacted by sexual harm in Chicago and IL (disproportionately Black and Latinx). CAASE has expertise in advocacy at the state and local level; we’ve led passage of 6 laws that transformed IL’s response to sex trafficking, and have improved local criminal justice and social responses to rape. In 2021, we achieved increased safety for student survivors of harm via state legislation, in addition to passing 4 more laws to increase survivor safety and justice. Chicago routinely underinvests in the safety of Black and Latinx survivors of sexual harm, but CAASE centers this population in our work, and is dedicated to helping them achieve justice.
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Chicago Refugee Coalition
The work of Chicago Refugee Coalition is well-aligned with Chicago Community Trust’s commitment to addressing the critical needs of individuals and families in order to close the racial and wealth gap that undergird economic inequity in our region. Our two core programs, Food Banking, and the Refugee Resource Center, fall under CCT’s strategic priorities of food insecurity, supporting immigrants and refugees, and youth exposed to trauma.
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World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals
A $25,000 grant from the Chicago Community Trust (CCT) will help to provide vital trauma-informed services in family case management, mental health, and youth programming to Afghan evacuees and other refugees rebuilding their lives in the United States after trauma and displacement. Additionally, this grant will support growth in staff diversity to increase the effectiveness of World Relief Chicagoland’s (WRC’s) programs and the organization’s delivery of equitable and culturally-informed services to immigrant and refugee communities throughout Chicagoland.
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Englewood Connect LLC
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ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES
AAFS is a culturally grounded multi service agency promoting access to a range of supports to Arab American and other immigrant low income families in the southwestern suburbs. Our services include intensive case management, domestic violence, senior meals and services, immigrant legal services and citizenship, behavioral health and community health services. We have been a critical entity in COVID-19 response and recovery in the southwestern suburbs, leveraging more than $7 million in COVID-19 health resources and food, cash, and housing assistance. In addition to responding to the pandemic challenges, AAFS has been mobilized to provide services to the recent Afghan refugees arriving in the Chicago area. This is a new service line for AAFS and these individuals and families require a tremendous amount of support, from the basic food, health and shelter, to navigating U.S. education, health, legal, and employment systems, to the much more in-depth trauma counseling and overall support for integration. We are requesting overall general operating funding to support our expansion in this area.
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MAPSCORPS - Northwestern School of Education and Social Policy (SESP)
Building on 13 years of a successful implementation of evidence-based positive youth development, and robust training in STEM and data collection, MAPSCorps proposes to partner with the We Rise Together (WRT) partners. The MAPSCorps team will add meaning to quantitative data analysis to engage identified community members, listen and reflect community voice and to describe community perceptions of the WRT economic well-being impacts. MAPSCorps field staff will facilitate community conversations and surveys (tailored with community input) including questions re: economic well-being metrics, local program/service participation and satisfaction, entrepreneurial interest and attitudes, and contextual/support questions; and support Participatory Action Research (PAR), implementing surveys with a broad range of community constituents; and co-constructing and interpreting the findings.
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
This proposal supports the involvement of seven organizations, led by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), to participate in coalitions regarding transportation equity and mobility justice. These organizations - CNT, Active Transportation Alliance, Equiticity, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Metropolitan Planning Council, and one additional organization to be identified - make up the leadership of the Transportation Equity Network (TEN), a coalition formed in 2020 that includes over 40 community groups, civic organizations, equitable transportation advocates, academics, and other stakeholders. This grant will be used in large part to support the continued involvement and leadership of our organizations in this coalition, and will also support our involvement in other related coalitions.