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. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.
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THE RENAISSANCE COLLABORATIVE INC
Restorative and racial justice is of the utmost importance in an organization that has many black and brown faces. The people we serve go out into the world every day with burdens that can't easily be erased and so programming around how to heal are needed and The Renaissance Collaborative's (TRC) service staff are just the people to help them learn how to do that healing. TRC have a wealth of experience working with this specific population and come to know the residents intimately over time. This program will train the TRC service staff in the areas of racial and restorative justice and provide residents with the incentive to attend racial and restorative justice group sessions to begin this healing process.
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THE THRESHOLDS
Thresholds respectfully requests a $35,537 Healing Illinois grant to support the agency's DEI Initiative, which seeks to educate staff, clients, and policymakers on racial justice, diversity, equity and inclusion as it relates to Thresholds' mission. The grant will support racial and restorative justice trainings for staff, staff committee activities that promote diversity and racial justice advocacy, and the creation of the agency's DEI plan with the support of an external consultant.
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Inner-City Computer Stars Foundation
Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings
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Chicago Foundation for Women
In 2017, CFW launched the Englewood Women’s Initiative (EWI), a place-based, community-centered and holistic approach to women’s economic security. Through the EWI, CFW leads, convenes and supports a strategic alliance of agencies who work together to support women in the Englewood community seeking to increase their and their families’ economic security. The overarching 5-year goal is to ensure that at least 60 women achieve a stable income of $40,000 or more per year. It is our broader vision that the EWI serves as a scale-able model for supporting women’s journey to economic security by meeting them where they are and addressing systemic barriers that prevent their achievement.
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SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC
Small Business Majority will continue our work in the Community Reinvestment Act Coalition and the IL Economic Security Project’s IL Cash Coalition and IL Cost of Living Refund Coalition; we also will support the IL Asset Building Group in restructuring. We share the small business perspective in these coalitions, collaborating on policymaker and public education to promote policies that support equitable entrepreneurship and advance economic justice in low- to moderate-income communities, particularly those with a legacy of disinvestment. We empower entrepreneurs as subject matter experts in these movements and propose to create a new Small Business Equity Council, amplifying the small business voice to build broad support for reforms.
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Artisan Grain Collaborative
AGC is a network of 130+ farmers, processors, end-users, and advocates working to cultivate and elevate a regenerative grainshed in the Upper Midwest. FLO funds will support AGC's core operations and expanding programmatic work.
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Allies for Community Business
Allies for Community Business (A4CB) will provide intensive support for entrepreneurs on Chicago’s South and West Sides to help them grow businesses that create jobs and wealth in their communities.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance
This is the re-funding application for the Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance. The Chicago Community Trust is a founding member and the host to the Funder Alliance. This application will support the Funder Alliance in FY21 and FY22. It re-confirms CCT as a "Leadership Funder" which means that funding (at least in part) pools with the other Leadership Funders, and that a CCT representative sits on the CWFA Management Committee to direct the funder collaborative's strategies, staff and grant-making. The application itself, as agreed to by Leadership Funders, is mainly cut and pasted from the latest version of the CWFA Leadership Funder Generic Proposal.