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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The Aspen Institute
This Summit highlighted the Administration's commitment to advancing equity and economic empowerment and connect local Latino community members directly with federal leaders and resources.
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Chicago Foundation for Women
The Annual Luncheon is CFW’s signature fundraising event and plays a vital role in ensuring that CFW continues to lead, connect, and uplift individuals and organizations as we invest in the future of emerging organizations through leadership development a
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Honey Pot Performance
Honey Pot Performance (HPP) requests general operating funding to support staff time as we continue to root into our organizational structure, grow our capacity, and build out the three branches of our programming activities: long-form performance projects, public humanities works, and development and production support for Black artists.
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Girls Like Me Project
GLPMI’s Soul Power Healing Summer program is a multifaceted, multidimensional, holistic, collaborative group-mentoring summer program that focuses on digital storytelling as a tool of connectivity, critical thinking, and leadership for Black girls. Our program is structured around a “3E” methodology: Exposure, Examination, and Engagement. Participants are exposed to invaluable people, places, data, and opportunities through field trips to college campuses, museums, and Black cultural & social institutions, and innovative Black businesses. Participants will then examine and reflect on the Black historical experience in Chicago and beyond - through film screenings, workshops, curated thought leadership, lectures, group discussions, and customized leadership projects. (Topics to be covered include the Civil Rights Movement, Black Wall Street, Transnational Movements, Global Citizenry, and concepts of Black Diaspora and Black Excellence.) Finally, participants will engage in job-shadowing, mentorship, and career pathways trainings, with a particular emphasis placed on media literacy and digital storytelling. GLMPI is particularly keen on working with girls (ages 11-18), as this demographic is most disproportionately targeted and impacted by devaluing stereotypes and media messages of misogyny, self-hate, and destructive behavior that adversely normalizes circumstances of poverty and violence. GLMPI seeks to address this pressing challenge by providing media literacy and digital storytelling training to help Black girls resist stereotypes, critically analyze media, and use media to control the narrative of their experience. In 2019 GLMPI launched the D.I.V.A.S program, a structured media-focused mentoring program, which empowers Black girls to document their realities and share their experiences through film/photography/blogging/audio. Footage is subsequently used across trans-media platforms as social activism tools. Work will be showcased in culminating exhibits, during town halls and community forums. It will also be used for cultural exchange with international audiences, community gatherings and festivals. Our goal is to create viable pathways for our program participants to enter digital media careers. This will be facilitated through partnerships with corporations and businesses which offer internships and apprenticeships. We’d also usher girls into fields of study that support their career choices. Informed by the challenges of COVID-19, we have infused our D.I.V.A.S. program curriculum with mental health, wellness, and socio-emotional development and support. We have hosted 3 successful D.I.V.A.S in the City Summer programs – impacting # of girls. Over 1,000 underprivileged girls have been directly impacted through our free programs and events. We have built key partnerships with the University of Chicago Charter Network to supplement their academic instruction with social emotional programming. In October 2015, Congressman Danny K. Davis, Representative of Illinois District 7 recognized GLMPI with a Congressional record as a pioneer for its efforts hosting the annual Chicago Day of the Girl which connected more than 600 girls to the United Nation’s International Day of the Girl. Over the years, GLMPI has established strategic partnerships which has enhanced our organizational capacity to implement a Freedom Schools program. Most recently our leadership traveled to Ghana where we established a partnership with Bridge to Africa Connections for our Global Connections program. This travel opportunity was funded and supported by The Field Foundation. Prior to that trip, GLMPI sponsored global travel for two local girls groups to spend two weeks in Ecuador as a part of a community leadership travel program, with the goal of advancing our mission to foster a global sisterhood and global citizenry for our program participants. GLMPI has been widely recognized for our impact in the community. For example, in 2019, Girls Like Me Project was named Organization of the Year by Zeta Phi Beta, Sorority Inc. founded in 1920 during segregation of Black and White sororities and fraternities. These accolades and achievements attest to our effectiveness in attaining our organizational objectives and goals.
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African American Arts Alliance of Chicago
The 25-year-old African American Arts Alliance of Chicago respectfully seeks a $25,000 general operating grant in support of our Non-Profit art service organization. The mission of the African American Arts Alliance of Chicago is to increase interaction, communication, and development of African American arts organizations and artists while delivering programs that increase their visibility, marketability, stability, and sustainability. Our membership includes organizations and individual artists in the fields of theater, dance, music, literature, film, technology, and visual arts. We serve as an advocate on behalf of our membership to ensure that they are recognized as important economic contributors to the cultural fabric of our city and state while increasing their visibility and support within the local and national funding community. For nearly three decades, the Alliance has created and produced hundreds of capacity-building workshops that encourage, educate and support individual artists and arts organizations with professional resources and career-enhancing opportunities such as auditions, mentoring programs, and artist development. The Alliance is an active member of Arts Alliance Illinois’ Advocacy Leadership, where we advocate on behalf of the Black Arts community for increased funding and media representation. With the support of the African American Legacy Fund, the Alliance’s programs and workshops will continue to strengthen and enhance the capabilities and capacity of artists and leaders to serve the needs and interests of the arts & cultural community.
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Ladies of Virtue NFP
Ladies of Virtue (LOV), a mentoring and leadership development program for girls aged 9-24 on Chicago’s South and West Sides will provide workshops, small group and individual mental health counseling to 200 girls and workshops for their parents, staff and mentors in our program. Counseling will support emotional well-being and social-emotional learning. Adult workshops cover trauma-informed care, adolescent mental health, social-emotional development in young people, and other topics requested by parents. All counseling and workshops will be delivered via in-person or videoconference by a licensed mental health professional.
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EcoWomanist Institute
The EcoWomanist Institute (EWI), located in Chicago, Il is seeking $30,000 from CCT to continue to provide the mental, emotional and leadership support to Black women in leadership who are on the frontline of EJ communities working to dismantle the impact of decades of systemic racism and the toll it has taken on both them and their community. The EWI mental health model; Soulcare/Selfcare was created by a collaboration of African American women and women of African descent from a cross-section of Black women who represented urban communities in Chicago and other metropolitan cites. The EWI leadership team hosted what we affectionally call, "Kitchen table Talks", much like what we grow up seeing how the women in our families gathered to talk about things that mattered to them. We meet over the course of several months with Black women ranging in age from 19 to mid 70s, who represented a cross-section of occupations, college student, educators, community activists, social workers, entrepreneurs, block club leaders, environmentalist, lawyers, clergy public health workers and retirees. From the GED to the PhD, every voice at those tables was listen to and affirmed. Together we made the decision to create a mental health and leadership support model that we deemed "culturally relevant, deeply personal and unapologetically focused on what Black from all walks of life felt be needed to give ourselves. The late Audre Lorde reminded us that, " The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House". Therefore EWI is seeking funding to continue the work of "dismantling" the effects that systemic racism has had on Black women.
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Live Free Chicago
Live Free Chicago is requesting general operating support to strengthen and advance our organizing and advocacy efforts in Chicago and across Illinois. In 2016, the city of Chicago lost 762 lives due to gun violence. Over 80% of the victims were Black men and women. Church leaders in Chicago were deeply pained by the growing number of funerals of young people in their communities and were frustrated with the absolute absence of a coordinated strategy by city leaders and their own faith community. In addition to gun violence, black communities continue to suffer from divestment, over-policing, and criminalization of black bodies, and other forms of structural violence. This drove them to help found Live Free Chicago in March of 2017. Live Free’s goal is to end all forms of violence against black people, specifically mass incarceration, gun and police violence.