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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Court Theatre Fund
Court is committed to becoming an anti-racist organization by identifying its structures and policies that are remnants of systemic white supremacy. Court is working to create pipelines of access to education and career opportunities in theatre for the South Side community. Integral to this are mechanisms for accountability to stakeholders and the reporting of progress. Key strategies to enable this transformation include: Establishing equitable hiring practices, workday structures, and training; Expanding community engagement programs to more South Side communities; Engaging local educational institutions to build theatre industry pipelines. The unique location of Court, part of a university and on the South Side, both requires and enables it to shift from being a predominantly white institution to a truly equitable organization that reflects its multiple constituents and creates a model for other theaters.
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Lonely Entrepreneur Inc
The Lonely Entrepreneur is honored to partner with the Chicago Community Trust to empower 300 Black men and women with the skills to start or grow a business. Working together this partnership will lead to unprecedented cooperation among corporations, philanthropies and governments to fight against social and economic injustice.
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Chicagos Sunshine Enterprises Inc
Sunshine Enterprises (SE) and the South Shore Chamber of Commerce (SSCC) will offer two cohorts of SE’s "Community Business Academy" (CBA), a 12-week cohort based model of technical assistance for local entrepreneurs. These two cohorts for artists and artisans industries will serve 20-25 entrepreneurs each. SE will then offer Business Acceleration services including coaching, credit improvement, access to capital, and workshops. Concurrently SSCC will conduct “The Artisans Collective” (TAC) training program twice. TAC is a 5-week, cohort based model of technical assistance geared towards helping artisans become retail ready. It is then paired with low-rent access to space in TAC’s shared retail space in South Shore for qualified businesses with the long term goal of the clients being ready for retail space in South Shore’s retail corridors. Further, SSCC will offer supplemental workshops for continuing education. Together SSCC will serve 40 unduplicated clients in addition to those served in the SE CBA, totalling 80-90 entrepreneurs overall. Finally, the partnership will introduce several new interventions to improve the success of the entrepreneurs. Those include: supporting entrepreneurs at over a dozen pop ups (and sponsoring entrepreneurs to attend); developing an even clearer bridge from CBA to TAC curriculum; finding ways for artisans to improve their capital stacks, scale, and create pathways to brick and mortars; partnering with South Shore Works for recruitment, programming in TAC, and identifying grants for artisans; and growing South Shore Connect in its fifth year, including new reporting on increased foot traffic and revenue of businesses.
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Scholarship America, Inc.
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Chicago Community Foundation
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Indo American Center Inc
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Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
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Valley Immigrant Advocates