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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Kinship Foundation
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Foundation for Homan Square
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Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
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Latin United Community Housing Association (LUCHA)
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Garfield Park Community Council
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Logan Square Neighborhood Association
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Emerald South Economic Development Collaborative
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Northern Illinois Justice for Our Neighbors
NIJFON's vision is a world where all immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees are welcomed, supported and able to live without fear. NIJFON works towards its vision everyday through its mission of providing free immigration legal services to low income immigrants throughout Northern Illinois, providing education and advocacy on immigrant rights and building cross cultural communities. Racist systems perpetuate the advancement of immigrants by keeping them in poverty, silent and vulnerable. NIJFON works on uplifting immigrants and integrating them into society by providing them their day in court and building a quality of life through just policy and challenging and dismantling racist systems. NIJFON fights against harmful legislation that threatens to permanently separate immigrant families, educates and trains on the challenges faced with the immigration system, and advocates to increase political will to make needed reforms. NIJFON's respectfully requests operating funds of $20,000 to support its operating costs for legal immigration services and $10,000 of capacity building support for the leadership development of its senior staff and legal staff. Support will help us fund our current legal staff and will also support the addition of a third attorney to our team. Over the last 2 years NIJFON has increased its capacity by adding legal staff, specifically a legal administrative assistant that helped the legal team triage cases and lower our caseload significantly. With this request, NIJFON will continue to lower its caseload and continue allowing our legal team to provide free consultations and respond to immigration emergencies like those seen with Afghanistan refugees, Black immigrants that are discriminated against in the immigration courts and other emergencies that experienced by various immigrant groups.