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. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.
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NORTHWEST SIDE CDC
NWSCDC will expand upon existing small business support programming to create catalytic impact in Belmont Cragin. We will work with local, Latinx consultants to create and own a cohort-based curriculum on various business topics. Additionally, we utilize consultants to facilitate this program, provide in house business clinics to assist program participants in setting up their required legal documents, and invest funding for newly formed businesses through our CRECER business incubator. These activities will help build community wealth in Belmont Cragin and support economic recovery.
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FAR SOUTH CDC
Far South Community Development Corporation (Far South CDC) is seeking to launch a Supplier Diversity and Procurement Pilot Program on Chicago's far south side and south suburban Cook County. The program seeks to reduce/eliminate the barriers between corporation and government supplier diversity and procurement programs and opportunities for BIPOC-led companies/organizations. Additionally, the pilot program will explore different self-sustaining business models and provide a match-making service between corporate/government to BIPOC-led companies/organizations.
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Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods welcomes The Chicago Community Trust’s partnership to support the initial phase of our comprehensive campaign, Activate: A Campaign for Investment in Community. The campaign honors the significant contributions of the Ryerson family to this site, and supports our goals for a vibrant Chicagoland where people of all backgrounds have a voice and a role in supporting the health of people and nature in their own communities. This investment will support planning and renovations to the historic Brushwood building and create a matching opportunity to leverage additional donor support toward the campaign’s $5 million goal.
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Green Era Educational NFP
Green Era (GE) is uniquely positioned to transform ILs’ clean energy economy. The Auburn-Gresham neighborhood needs a sustainable economic engine that can create jobs and serve as a hub for the new Green Economy. The GE Model closes the loop between organic waste, renewable energy, and local food production: a circular economy reduces waste and saves precious resources. Comprehensive and community based, GE’s solution connects local farmers and proven green technology to cultivate equitable access to fresh food, engage the community, and revitalize both the neighborhood and the greater economic outlook.
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Chicago Community Foundation
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Founders First Community Development Corporation Inc
Founders First CDC (FFCDC) is a community development organization and small business accelerator addressing the huge disparity in revenue and job growth by small businesses led by underrepresented owners. We work with community partners to help minorities, women and veteran-owned businesses grow their businesses and impact the economy through job growth. Seasoned professionals provide one-on-one mentoring, skills training, and an established curriculum to help participants build a customized growth and funding plan. FFCDC programs conclude with competitive pitch presentations with professional judges, allowing business owners to showcase their growth plans and advance to a higher level of support and resources.
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Small Business Advocacy Council
Thriving commercial corridors support local communities across Chicago and Cook County. However, many commercial corridors in disadvantaged communities continue to struggle and are often plagued by vacancies and a lack of economic activity. This application seeks funding to support efforts to formulate and advocate for policies that will revitalize and empower disadvantaged commercial corridors. This application seeks funding to support the efforts with a robust coalition of stakeholders focused on formulating and advocating for policies that will revitalize and, in some cases, reinvent corridors and neighborhood business districts. This application seeks funding to connect chambers and community organizations, expand the Neighborhood Revitalization Coalition and amplify the collective voice of chambers and community organizations focused on the enactment of policies and initiatives to revitalize and empower commercial corridors.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Elevated Chicago
Elevated Chicago is a collaboration that unlocks the potential of transit stations to connect people and attract development that is racially equitable in terms of climate resilience, and health and cultural indicators. In partnership with local community-based organizations, Elevated Chicago seeks to turn the 1/2-mile radius around transit stations into community-focused centers of commerce and culture by: removing barriers that hinder innovation near station areas; equipping residents with resources to make these areas a community and civic priority; and aligning, cultivating, and deploying capital for development near transit stations, to become areas where the built environment and programming converge to create nodes of connection and opportunity.