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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South Side Weekly NFP
With the merger with the Hyde Park Herald last year, South Side Weekly NFP is now a multi-newsroom operation reaching tens of thousands of South Siders every month in print and online. We are seeking general operating support to build shared editorial infrastructure to better support the direct involvement of community members in our newsrooms.
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Cicero Independiente
We are seeking project support for the development of a Youth and Schools reporting beat.
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Chicago Community Foundation
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Public Narrative
The overarching goal of this project is to maximize Public Narrative's impact throughout all 77 Chicago communities. 'PN77: Advancing Equity of Voice through Media and Community Literacy' will rehabilitate the frayed relationships among communities of color and journalists to facilitate authentic storytelling through communications and media literacy training starting with community safety service providers on the South and West Sides. We will build the capacity of journalists to understand Communities of Color (COC) and the impact of their stories on COC; We'll also build the capacity of communities to engage with media and establish a pipeline of storytellers for COC.
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True Star Foundation Inc
True Star respectfully requests $75,000 of renewed funding from the Chicago Community Trust to invest in its infrastructure and build capacity to take on its growth and invest in its long-term strategies, which include: 1) youth media; 2) Saturday workshop series; and 3) True Star's social enterprise in which advanced youth creators and marketers provide services to small business and other non-profits.
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True Star Foundation Inc
True Star is proposing to expand the scope and reach of its #ChangeChi violence prevention program by creating and disseminating additional youth-developed content and launching its Mood: A Guide to Managing Feelings workshops. #ChangeChi is a violence prevention, community safety and equity campaign founded by True Star’s Youth Violence Prevention Ambassadors (YVPA) in 2020 to ensure that schools, police and young people have the tools to de-escalate conflict within homes, classrooms and communities.
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Young Chicago Authors
Young Chicago Authors (YCA) respectfully requests a grant of $100,000 from the Chicago Community Trust to sustain Young Chicago Authors Rooted and Radical Youth Poetry Festival, public programs, and our cohort-based pathways model. YCA expects to serve 5,000 young people in 2023 with 500 young people qualifying for our pathways based program. YCA will deploy this grant responsibly, covering general operating support for said programs, teaching artist stipends, youth stipends, the evaluation mechanism and continued development of the pathways program.
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South Side Weekly NFP
The South Side Weekly and Hyde Park Herald will host three listening sessions in partnership with local community organizations. Each session will focus on a different aspect of community safety, covering topics such as gun violence, evictions, and urban design. These sessions will be used to produce 1-3 stories co-published by both outlets, as well as to create, maintain and disseminate an online resource list for community members.