Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
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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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CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT
Shifting Voices is, first and foremost, designed to shift power and resources to filmmakers historically excluded from access to viable, sustainable careers in the industry, specifically early and mid-career documentary filmmakers who draw from Black, Indigenous and POC communities. Documentary filmmaking has its roots in progressive politics, with acclaimed films that have played roles in exposing injustices in communities and institutions. BIPOC communities have long been featured in documentaries as subjects, but the artists behind the camera, shaping how stories are told, have been predominantly white – from Flaherty’s Nanook of the North to James’ Hoop Dreams to more recent, and controversial, films like Meg Smaker’s 2022 Jihad Rehab. The field finds itself reckoning with what has been lost over decades of centering white voices telling BIPOC stories. Today’s BIPOC makers have invaluable assets to transform nonfiction storytelling – proximity to featured communities that lends itself to more nuanced observation and storytelling; personal relationships with and accountability to communities that can engender deeper trust with participants; and new, intersectional perspectives on themes commonly engaged in documentaries from white supremacy to classism to patriarchy. This rising generation of new storytellers has the potential to shift and transform the stories being told and the way they are brought to audiences – and it is this belief in the need to shift power that has shaped the Shifting Voices Film Fund. In turn, we aim for their funded projects to connect with broader, more diverse audiences who see their communities’ stories told powerfully, ethically and with accountability.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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CHICAGO VIDEO PROJECT
Shame of Chicago is a 5-part documentary film series that tells the story of how Chicago became one of the most racially segregated cities in the world, and how that history illuminates our divided present. This largely unexamined story will challenge viewers understanding of our city as it explains the origins of black poverty and the roots of Chicago’s racial wealth gap. It will take aim at timeworn racist tropes and abet organizations seeking racial healing and repair. WTTW will air the 5-part documentary, now in production, in September and October of 2023. Partnerships with WVON and WBEZ, an aggressive 2-year outreach plan and an educational website will make a groundbreaking contribution to civic storytelling that strengthens our collective understanding of the structures of racism in our city.
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Michael Reese Health Trust
Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness (CFTEH) respectfully requests $100,000, for one year, from The Chicago Community Trust to support the Housing Justice Fund (HJF). The goal of this fund is to distribute $2 million over two years to support policy, advocacy, community organizing, and narrative change initiatives to advance housing justice. The fund will provide unrestricted grants to coalitions, alliances, partnerships, and other collaborative tables for at least two years, recognizing that policy change, narrative change, and political will-building take time and significant resources.
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Chicago Learning Exchange
The Chicago Learning Exchange (CLX) will serve as the backbone intermediary for Chicago’s youth mentorship network in order to develop and coordinate strategies to better serve youth in Chicago. More specifically, through multiple programs and events, CLX will improve the quality, connections, and capacity of OST mentors and organizations to provide experiential, culturally relevant, asset-oriented, and meaningful youth learning and work opportunities. With the guiding belief that those closest to the problems should lead the solutions, we aim to revamp the current strategy for youth development programming at a community level to one that allows the city’s opportunities to permeate our most underserved areas and populations.
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Disability Lead
Supported by generous ongoing funding from The Chicago Community Trust, Disability Lead has firmly established itself as the nation’s first and only leadership program for people with disabilities. After building a solid foundation for Chicago-based programs over the past eight years, Disability Lead is eager to grow and expand its innovative programs to other geographies in the United States, starting with an initial pilot expansion in Pittsburgh. Funding from the Trust will allow Disability Lead to maintain and scale its programs and impact in the Chicago region, while implementing strategies to further long-term growth and sustainability.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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The Chicago Community Trust