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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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LATINO UNION INC
Latino Union requests support from Nuestro Futuro in support of our work developing immigrant community leaders in Chicago among the day laborer and household worker populations that live and work in the city and surrounding suburbs.
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Mujeres Latinas En Accion, Inc.
Helping Chicago's Immigrant Community Heal & Thrive In this request, Mujeres Latina en Acción is asking for a total of $40,000. First, $20,000 will continue to support our Community Engagement & Mobilization Program, which continues to empower community-solutions to address health disparities in the Chicago's immigrant communities. Additionally, we are asking for $20K to increase the capacity of Mujeres’ advocacy by supporting the salary of a bilingual Advocacy Manager. This position will be responsible for building more leadership opportunities for Mujeres’ grassroots leaders.
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CHILDRENS CENTER OF CICERO-BERWYN INC
The Children’s Center of Cicero Berwyn is requesting for $20,000 to hire a part-time bilingual support staff as an additional adult in a classroom to support development aspects such as social, emotional, cognitive, physical, cultural and linguistic in a classroom with challenging behavior issues due to COVID impact. Additional person will lend a hand to teachers in a classroom of 20 children from 3 to 5 years of age, especially during the occurrences of challenging issues. Children are returning to classrooms from COVID aftereffects, there have been an increase in challenging behavior issues in classrooms. The Children’s Center of Cicero Berwyn serves about 950 families in the Chicago area communities, largely Latinx communities and service Latinx population. Over 80% birth to five children are Latinx; over 73% staff serving children re Latinx. The Children’s Center has nine locations in Cicero, Berwyn, and Stickney with the capacity to serve 950 birth to five.
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SPANISH COMMUNITY CENTER
Spanish Community Center is seeking $26,250 to partially cover the salaries of two key staff members working in our immigration programs, our Immigration Director of the New Americans Initiative (NAI), and our Immigration Attorney who oversees our Access to Justice program, as well as supervises all legal immigration activities across all of our programs. SCC's immigration programming would not be able to continue without these two positions funded, and your support will ensure that quality immigration legal services remain available in our community.
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Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project
The Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP) seeks a general operating grant to deliver a yearlong series of Latinx-led culturally-competent outreach and community legal education workshops to low-income Latinx immigrant workers, including undocumented workers, and their families who live in the City of Chicago. FLAP staff will link attendees needing free legal and social services to appropriate pro bono providers. To ensure it has a 24/7 presence in Chicago, FLAP will use a portion of the grant to hire Latinx immigrants living in Chicago neighborhoods to be its representatives. These community navigators will be FLAP’s eyes and ears in the community, providing education to fellow Latinxs in between formal FLAP visits and referring those with potential cases of workplace wrongdoing to FLAP staff for follow-up. In this way, FLAP will reach more immigrants more often and provide more low-income plaintiffs with access to the justice system.
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CHICAGO WORKERS COLLABORATIVE
Chicago Workers’ Collaborative (CWC) respectfully requests $20,000 in general operating support as a nonprofit working in the field of Immigration Services. We also would like to request $10,000 in support to build the leadership capacity of our Latinx staff.
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Logan Square Neighborhood Association
We are requesting $20,000 for our core general operating grant, along with $20,000 in capacity building support for Mental Health and $10,000 for Leadership Development. We are undertaking placekeeping efforts so that the land we live on is for joy, health, and sustainability and facilitates political power for targeted Latinx and immigrant communities and fosters indigenous autonomy over the built environment; we are investing in the leadership development of our Latinx staff to ensure our people and communities have the skills, knowledge, and power to build communities and institutions that represent them; we are supporting immigrants to apply for and renew applications for DACA, I-90s, and other legal services; and we are connecting our Latinx and immigrant communities to mental health resources.
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MANO A MANO FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER
Mano a Mano’s Successful Children Program’s main initiative is the Kindergarten Readiness. KRI’s objectives are to build skills of children ages 3-5, build parent’s capacity to be their child’s first teacher; and identify learning disabilities/special needs to make appropriate referrals ensuring early intervention. The goals are parents will learn to engage with their children to foster early childhood learning and school readiness, and that children will develop skills to successfully transition to kindergarten and benefit from formal education. The program offers 1:1 session for a parent and child with a staff or volunteer tutor who provides information, instruction, and support to immigrant parents to enable them to better prepare their children to enter kindergarten. Program staff teach children basic skills needed to succeed during their first year of formal education. Services can be delivered virtually and/or face to face. In FY23 KRI will serve 400 participants with 80% improvement in each of the following: Child participants will increase the number of things they can count after participating in KR sessions. Child participants will increase the letters of the alphabet. Parent/guardian participants will increase daily reading activities with their child. Add-On Capacity Building Opportunities: Proyecto de Salud Emocional / Mental Health Project: The pandemic altered all aspects of life generating significant stress, impacting the ability of some people to cope with the situation in a healthy and balanced way, generating fear, anguish, and unhealthy reactions. Adding to the fear of contracting the COVID is the impact of significant changes in daily life caused by efforts to contain and slow the spread of the virus, working from home, temporary unemployment, homeschooling, and lack of knowledge and misinformation Stigma, service cost, lack of insurance coverage and systemic social inequities and discrimination are the most frequently cited reason for not using mental health services. To meet identified needs MaM provides a weekly Facebook mental health-oriented livestream that included self-care strategies, healthy relationships, stress, and anxiety management, as well as communication networks, via zoom; promotion of self-care messages; design of infographics with self-care messages and preventive actions; and dissemination of referrals on the emotional and mental health. The project includes weekly support groups that included self-care strategies, healthy relationships, stress, and anxiety management, as well as communication networks, via zoom; promotion of self-care messages; design of infographics with self-care messages and preventive actions; and dissemination of resources focused on the emotional and mental health. In addition to continuing our Proyecto de Salud Emocional with this grant, it is also our plan to incorporate Primeros Auxilios de Salud Mental / Mental Health First Aid Training (MHFAT) for our CHW staff and volunteers equipping them with skills and knowledge to help community members deal with mental health issues/crises. BIPOC community members suffering from mental health issues are victims of public policies that perpetuate the criminalization of people with mental illness. Mental Health First Aid is an international education program proven to be effective in teaching adults how to recognize and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges. The goal is empowering the community with knowledge and information to get them the help they and/or a loved one needs. Peer-reviewed studies show that individuals trained in the program. Grow their knowledge of signs, symptoms and risk factors of mental illnesses and addictions. Can identify multiple types of professional and self-help resources for individuals with a mental health or substance use challenge. Increase their confidence in and likelihood to help an individual in distress. Show increased mental wellness themselves. The course teaches how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. The training gives the skills needed to reach out and provide initial help and support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem or experiencing a crisis. Our bilingual/bicultural CHWs will be prepared and able to assist community members in identifying a mental health crisis, reduce/eliminate mental health stigma in Latinx community, and provide information/resources for treatment. We will achieve this by doing the following: Train four CHW staff and 17 CHW volunteers in MHFAT. Assist 250 community members in identifying a mental health issue/crisis. Attend 10 Community Outreach Events to help reduce/eliminate mental health stigma in Latinx community and provide information/resources for treatment. Mental health equity will be achieved when all people can attain their full health potential, and no one is impeded from doing so because of socially determined circumstances. Our Proyecto de Salud Emocional will provide early intervention and comprehensive community mental health resources which are essential to help improve the lives and circumstances of our Latinx community. Leadership Development: MaM seeks to provide professional development options to our leadership team to ensure their continued growth and support as individual professionals and as a team. Building their skills will not only impact them but will also have positive ramifications throughout their teams and the organization. Focusing on five Latinx women and one Latinx male being relatively new to management, the executive director will perform individualized assessments for each and with each leader make recommendations for professional development options in FY23. Some training options include project management, coaching and leadership skills, leadership of hybrid teams, promoting health and wellness in teams, and other more technical/program-specific training. To provide access to trainings that will empower leadership team members to be strong, stable managers within the organization and leaders within the sector and the field, each leadership team member will participate in at least 2 professional development activities/trainings in FY23 that advance their individualized professional development plan leadership style, executive priorities. The past two years have been a testament to MaM’s resilience as an organization adapting methodologies with rapid shifts of conditions to provide support and services needed within the community. MaM was a local and regional leader in terms of access to health care, fiscal support, and prevention education early in the pandemic and continued to lead the way in education about and access to vaccines as the pandemic progressed, while meeting CDC safety requirements as well most core programing goals. As we are moving into the endemic phase, leadership continues to enhance the skills, processes, and resources within the organization to maintain internal organizational health needed to sustain the quality of services delivered to the immigrant community. As funders like Nuestro Furturo are demonstrating their awareness of the need for capacity building/re-building and offering funds in support of capacity building activities, MaM is enhancing professional development, potential new positions, a more adaptive database all of which will enhance MaM agility and adaptability and the services delivered to the community. FY23 Nuestro Futuro grant funds will sustain MaM’s Successful Children programming, providing mental health information and resources for immigrant community members, as well as coaching for agency leadership which will enhance the quality and scope of services in our organization.