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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. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.

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    ARISE CHICAGO

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $240,000

    Arise Chicago continues to organize to improve public policy for low-wage workers. We continue to organize to optimize the actions of key government agencies that are charged with protecting workers’ rights. This includes holding agencies accountable to use their maximum enforcement capacities, improving administrative actions, establishing inter-agency coordination, and more. Arise celebrates the momentum we’ve built over the last grant period, including progress from the Chicago Mayor’s Protecting Workers Working Group,the passage of the Chi Biz Strong ordinance, and a burgeoning partnership with the Cook County Commission on Human Rights. Continuing this trajectory, Arise Chicago seeks to ensure low-wage worker voices are driving the decision-making regarding policies that impact their lives. Action at each level of government will decrease COVID’s impact on low-wage immigrants and communities of color in the short term, and improve the agencies’ practices for building the collective power of workers in the long term.

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    Voices of West Englewood

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $2,500

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    103rd Place Garden

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $4,500

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    The Rock Enterprises and Development Corporation

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $5,000

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    Real Men Charities, Inc.

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $10,000

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    Goodkids Madcity - Englewood

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $90,000

    In a community where young people normalize the effects of trauma and become numb to everyday violence, Good Kids Mad City Englewood (GKMC-E) develops young people into leaders to create long-term sustainable change. Community organizing builds community power, and this community power will create the opportunities necessary to connect young people to much needed leadership development and the sense of urgency to advocate for a better quality of life.

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    OPEN Center for the Arts

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

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    Kusanya Cafe Inc

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $7,000