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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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Fresh Taste
North Lawndale Fresh is a collaborative grantmaking program to increase access to healthy affordable food, support community gardens and local food production, grow food enterprises, and protect and strengthen food assistance programs in the North Lawndale neighborhood. The vision is an equitable Chicagoland region where all people have knowledge of and access to healthy food. The funders involved with North Lawndale Fresh have committed to a minimum $1M for each of five years to support the neighborhood. This is the first year of that five-year commitment to North Lawndale Fresh. This project aligns with the building supply-side skills and attracting capital strategies of Food:Land:Opportunity while also reducing fragmentation.
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MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER
Mano a Mano is requesting general operations funds in support of overall agency goals to empower our immigrant community to reach their best immigantion status, to have access to health call and education leading them to pursue opportunities and success within an integrated community.
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ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY
All Chicago respectfully requests $150,000 in support of a reconstituted, flexible, Chicago COVID-19 Homeless System Agency Emergency Fund. All Chicago is partnering with Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness to reactivate this fund, which in 2020 provided $768,292 in emergency assistance to thirty-seven of All Chicago’s partner agencies. Support will focus on immediate and unanticipated needs brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of the Omicron wave and its impact on people experiencing homelessness—and the staff and systems that support them—All Chicago seeks support to offer a second round of flexible, unrestricted funds to agencies in 2022. Flexible funding via the Agency Emergency Fund can support costs related to staff retention, recruitment, well-being needs for staff, temporary housing, outreach, transportation, food, supplies, facility modification or expansion, technology, staffing, or other demonstrated costs related to the pandemic. Anticipated awards will range between $10,000 to $15,000, from a pool expected to be in excess of $800,000.00 Applicant organizations for Agency Emergency Fund support will initially include approximately forty core service providers who receive funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, under the Continuum of Care (CoC) program. With sufficient support, All Chicago will extend this invitation to shelter providers and other homelessness service agencies that are closely connected with these core service providers. Agencies will be invited to complete a brief online application with a few questions to minimize barriers to accessing dollars. The timeframe for spending the collective funding received will be determined by the amounts awarded by private philanthropy and the number of applications submitted. All Chicago will issue an initial round of provider payments within three weeks of the invitation to providers and will make additional rolling payments as additional funding is received and the invitation network is broadened. Rolling payments will continue until all funds are exhausted. All Chicago's partners have been extraordinarily responsive and resilient in their support of people experiencing homelessness during the last two years, and they are continually faced with unanticipated challenges. In the early days of the pandemic, the Agency Emergency Fund provided crucial support for agencies. Leading the reactivation of the Agency Emergency Fund are Northern Trust and several other members of Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness (CFTEH), a local philanthropic collaborative incubated at Michael Reese Health Trust. In a matter of weeks, foundation members of CFTEH which have mobilized resources include: Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, the Chicago Community COVID-19 Response Fund, Crown Family Philanthropies, Cuore e Mani Foundation, Northern Trust, The Owens Foundation, Pierce Family Foundation and Denis Pierce, Polk Bros. Foundation, Waterton Philanthropic Fund, and an anonymous foundation funder.
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Center for Housing and Health
Funding from the Chicago Community Trust will support the Center for Housing and Health’s (CHH) work to bridge the housing and health care systems to improve the lives of Chicagoans experiencing homelessness. CHH understands that solutions to the pervasive and systemic problem of homelessness can be achieved by working through community coalitions to advocate for structural change and by working in partnerships to advance innovative and unique programmatic approaches. CHH is the administrator of the Chicago and Cook County Flexible Housing Pool (FHP) as well as an active participant in other system-level initiatives designed to improve housing and healthcare access for individuals experiencing homelessness.
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Lawndale Christian Health Center
LCHC is requesting funding from CCT to support the ongoing provision of primary care and specialty care services to patients on the West Side of Chicago. These continued services will allow for increased access to communities that experience higher rates of chronic conditions, poor social determinants of health, and face higher barriers to accessing high-quality medical care.
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Kids Off The Block, Inc.
Kids off the Block (KOB) was founded in 2003, and is a 501(c)(3) organization. As a community-based organization, KOB is dedicated to affecting positive change for young people and the areas where they live. Our programs serve some of Chicago’s most at-risk youth afterschool, and during the summer months. The organization provides youth services (to include violence prevention services) to those who are between the ages 10-24 with the major goals of helping them to avoid violence, succeed academically, become self-sufficient, and avoid self-defeating behaviors to include gang and gun violence. Last year, KOB served more than 1,850 young people and their families.
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Pullman Hotel Group, LLC
The majority Black-owned Pullman Hotel Group, LLC is planning a nationally branded, upper midscale limited services hotel with 95-100 guest rooms. The hotel will feature a lobby with seating and a check-in area, a business center, an exercise room, an indoor pool, a market store or gift shop and will offer complimentary breakfast service. The proposed hotel will provide adequate on-site surface parking to operate at full occupancy. The hotel design will comply with all brand standards and local building codes. The anticipated date for the start of hotel infrastructure development is the December of 2022 with construction to be completed and operational by the Spring of 2024. The subject site has adequate accessibility and excellent visibility from Interstate 94, which connects City of Chicago and south suburban communities in Illinois and Indiana via Interstate 80, Interstate 57 and Illinois Route 394. The site is located approximately 18 miles south of downtown Chicago, 15 miles southeast of Chicago Midway International Airport and approximately 15 miles south of McCormick Place Convention Center. The surrounding communities suffer from a limited presence of major nationally branded hotels. Adjacent to the Pullman Park industrial development, the hotel will be built on a four-plus acre site on the north end of the Historic Pullman neighborhood, recently designated as a National Park by the federal government. The Pullman National Park is expected to draw more than 300,000 visitors annually by 2023. The hotel site is also positioned less than one mile from a recently developed regional mall, new restaurants and other retail businesses and directly adjacent to the Pullman Park Industrial Park, a rapidly developing home to warehousing and distribution facilities, including: * a 140,000 square-foot regional distribution center for Whole Foods, * a LEED certified manufacturing plant for Method Home Products along with; * a rooftop greenhouse that sources lettuce for pre-packaged salads by Gotham Greens * a 150,000 square-foot Pullman Community Center, with an indoor amateur sports facility Other recent developments in the area include Harborside Golf Center, a new world-class indoor track and field center, a new state-if-the-art job training center for transportation and logistics career opportunities at the City Colleges of Chicago's Olive Harvey College and a new bicycling park at Big Marsh, amid an outdoor conservation area less than two miles from the proposed hotel site. Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives, a non-profit community development organization based in the Pullman area, has played a leading role in much of the commercial retail and industrial development in the area and will serve as the fiscal agent for PHG if a Pre-Development Fund Grant is awarded for this project. In the event of a funding award, PHG would use the grant to prioritize: (a) complete the process of securing a major hotel brand franchise (b) completing engineering, environmental and architectural work (c) engage professional services necessary to procure the necessary zoning and building approvals
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Little Black Pearl Workshop
LBP is requesting support for a finish line ready project to upgrade our dated operating systems, build catering/culinary training kitchen, work lounge and customization facilities. We anticipate completion and groundbreaking for the entire project within 12 months.