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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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    The Chicago Community Trust

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $1,402,123

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    Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $83,350

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    Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

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    Corporation For Supportive Housing

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $50,000

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    Deeply Rooted Productions Inc

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $100,000

    The SSDC will be a collaborative cultural and commercial hub that will expand the power and generative vitality of Chicago’s South Side, assisting with the recovery from the pandemic and the effects of systemic racism and decades of disinvestment. The SSDC project will transform a vacant property into a premier training/presenting space that will serve as an international home for Black dance and a thriving network of dance partners. It will provide these artists and the community with 30,000 square feet of human-centered space. This will include six dance studios, a rehearsal/studio theater performance space, a costume/set design shop, reception lobby and box office, administrative offices, meeting rooms, concessions boutique, rooftop terrace, courtyard, off-street parking, kitchen, and spaces for community gatherings.

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    Chicagoland Streets Project/Streetsblog

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $75,000

    Streetsblog Chicago is applying for a $75,000 grant to help fund our next year of sustainable transportation reporting and advocacy.

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    ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $200,000

    A diverse project team who will support the City in shaping a stakeholder and community-driven process to inform new site standards that will guide private development to incorporate more extensive environmental mitigation and community benefit strategies in sites within industrial corridors, with a focus on the Calumet River Industrial Corridor.

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    DELTA INSTITUTE

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $150,000

    Delta Institute proposes a collaborative project to support the vision articulated by Chicago Community Trust and Great Rivers Chicago to foster our City’s rivers as inviting, productive, and living places where everyone benefits from a more resilient and equitable Chicago. We will do so—in partnership with the Illinois International Port District, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, and community stakeholders—by improving water quality along the Calumet River, utilizing the Port of Chicago as an anchor institution to drive local community engagement, site prioritization/selection, feasibility studies, and preliminary site designs for integrating Green Infrastructure across Chicago’s East Side over a 12-month period.