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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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PLANT CHICAGO NFP
Plant Chicago is requesting support for our food access, markets, and indoor victory garden project. Collectively these activities support small food producers while at the same time ensure that low income residents have access to locally and sustainably produced food.
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Business Services Collective NFP
Business Services Collective was launched in 2019 as a shared ownership resource for the community of BIPOC construction firms in Chicagoland. We have aspired to be a cooperative since our ideation stage and to launch as a two-tiered coop co-owned by the businesses we serve and their workers. We successfully build a shared back office model using a 501c3 structure, now serving a network of more than 100 businesses. Based on our discussions with experts in the cooperative field, we now have the track record, model proof and community buy-in to advance a segment of our network into a tighter-knit community with a cooperative structure. We believe 2023 will be our preparatory year to launch our coop in 2024 and we are generating resources to get ready. We seek $20K towards hiring a cooperative expert who has set up a construction cooperative with a similar community in Houston, Texas and expressed interest in supporting us through early stage development of structure, governance, coop principles, membership design and member-owner rights and responsibilities.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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Resurrection Project
The Resurrection Project (TRP) requests support from The Chicago Community Trust to build out and launch SmartSimple for subgrantee grants management. TRP has significantly grown its role as an intermediary over the past few years to better meet the needs of the underserved Latino communities it serves. With SmartSimple, TRP will be able to deploy funds faster, helping subgrantees meet the urgent needs of the vulnerable individuals and families they serve.
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Two Five Three Two Corp NFP
Luv City is dedicated to partnering with innovators in digital media production to engage placed-at-risk youth in learning, experience, and mentorship for careers on and off camera, creating content that lifts the underrepresented and marginalized voices of our South and West side Chicago communities. We are committed to addressing systemic injustices that lead to violence in our communities through youth engagement, mentorship, advocacy, and workforce development. This grant will support us to empower youth to reshape their narratives and become the authors of their future through work-based learning, training, and apprenticeships in filmmaking, multimedia production, and the performing arts and help fund our summer institute programming.
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City of Refuge - Chicago
This application is for necessary resources required to hire additional staff and leaders for the Chicago Westside Police and Youth Sports collaborative initiative. The program was designed to provide wrap around services as well as a large network of local resources. These resources are made available to youth and their families that participate. As the program has grown in popularity, more adults have become involved and more investment in their development has been needed. Further, the amount of resources, such as furniture, household items, has increased and been distributed. With only the Executive Director and 1 staff person, the workload has become overwhelming and it is impossible to increase programming and deepen resource distribution. Having 3 staff will greatly increase capacity while developing the staff themselves. Investment in the current staff has resulted not only in their development, but also the youth they serve. Investing in these staff members and leaders through coach training, time management classes, trauma informed training, Peace Circle certified, helps the youth, their families, and the community. Also, as they become better equipped, they can then get positions that reflect the training they have received through their volunteering.
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ILLINOIS HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
The Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation, serving as a fiscal agent for the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, seeks support to strengthen the organizations' internal capacity to identify and apply for grant opportunities generated by the availability of American Recovery Act Plan (ARPA) funding at the federal, state and local level. Support from this grant will also enable the organizations' to hire a dedicated staff person to support the management, coordination and reporting responsibilities for the organizations' existing grant-funded programs. Building this capacity internally will enable the organizations to allocate resources and remain focused on the broader goal of ensuring that a bilingual, culturally-sensitive business technical assistance ecosystem is available and accessible to the growing number of Latino small businesses and entrepreneurs in Northeast Illinois.
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Black Oak Center
The Conservation Fund RCPP The Food Finance Institute, University of Wisconsin Savanna Institute USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service Compeer Financial