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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AFFINITY COMMUNITY SERVICES
Our project request funding to support the cost of maintaining and expanding our south-side based intergenerational safe space that centers the needs of Black lesbian, bisexual, transgender women, and Black trans/nonbinary people assigned female at birth. The project will recruit and train eleven additional peer leaders to facilitate monthly support groups at our location. Funding is also requested to support the training of peer leaders and transportation and supplies for participants of peer-led programming.
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SIT Hub
We are thrilled to apply to the Chicago Community Trust’s LGBTQ Fund for a second time. We are grateful to have been awarded our first-ever organizational grant from the trust in 2020 for HireTransNow and are now ready to request funding for its partner initaitive, GetTrained. The Trust LGBTQ Fund’s mission, vision, values, and aims align closely with our own and we cannot imagine a more fitting partner as we take the next steps with GetTrained and offer educational support. As our Collective embarks upon our next wave of recruitment for HireTransNow, we are seeking funds to enhance our educational offerings to trans-affirming employers in Chicago. We want to ensure that organizations of all staff and budget sizes have access to Trans-Inclusive Diversity Equity and Inclusion DEI training in Chicago. Specifically, we want all employers committed to HireTransNow to have adequate access to educational resources that prepare them to successfully recruit, interview, and hire transgender and non-binary job candidates. While our participating employers currently receive free one-on-one consultation and open community trainings through HireTransNow, employers do not have acces to staff training that is individualized to their industry, business, and unique needs. and make their workplaces as affirming as possible to their new transgender and non-binary staff.
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Center on Halsted
The LGBTQ+ Older Adult Employment Program will be a year-long multi-faceted employment program designed to address the unique challenges and barriers faced by LGBTQ+ older adults in securing employment and obtaining financial security. The program is for LGBTQ+ people aged 45+ and involves three components: --An intensive ten-day Employment Bootcamp Program designed to build skills and connect older adults to employment in a highly focused time frame. --Individualized employment counseling --Career development workshops for those 45+
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Equality Illinois Institute
Equality Illinois Institute, a 501c3 nonprofit which conducts education and outreach on behalf of the state's LGBTQ+ community, seeks $50,000 in general operating support with a particular eye on helping us grow the capacity of LGBTQ+ individuals from under-represented communities in the Chicagoland area.
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UNITED AFRICAN ORGANIZATION INC
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About Face Theatre Collective
About Face Theatre respectfully requests general operating support for its ongoing initiatives focused on community safety and sustainable employment in the nonprofit arts and education.
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Life Is Work
LIW standing together with a community focus and gender lens.
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SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT