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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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LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
LCDC requests a project grant to help close the racial wealth gap through creating Black homeownership. LCDC will do this with new construction, manufactured housing, rehabs for ownership, and homeownership counseling to ensure Black working families can access safe and affordable financing and are ready to purchase and retain their homes. North Lawndale is on the brink of extensive redevelopment and it is essential to increase homeownership now before prices are driven too high. In addition to other pending developments, Invest South West has two RFPs in the community for large scale development as well as a 606-type project near Homan Square. We are at the beginning of a tipping point that will determine the future of the community.
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Chicago Horticultural Society
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest (WCH) program requests support for its community health initiative, VeggieRx, which will provide nutrition education and 60,000 pounds of fresh produce to an estimated 1,000 unique individuals in 2021. WCH will coordinate with medical staff at four healthcare organizations—the Lawndale Christian Health Center in North Lawndale, PCC Community Wellness Center in Austin and Belmont-Cragin, Proviso Partners for Health in Maywood, and Esperanza Health Centers in Brighton Park—to refer patients with diet-related illnesses into VeggieRx. Reduced-price produce sales at WCH’s North Lawndale headquarters, the Farm on Ogden, will create food access for an additional 30,000 community residents.
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LATINO POLICY FORUM
A project of the Forum, Illinois Unidos seeks to eliminate the disproportionate impact of COVID in the Latino community by developing strategies to address the health, education, and economic consequences of COVID. Latinos have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In Illinois, more than 10% of the Latino community has/had COVID. This rate is 50% higher than it is for both the Black and White population, whose rates are each 6.9%. .
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NEW MOMS, INC.
New Moms continues to partner with young moms (aged 24 & under) and their young children, as they take control of their goals and futures—coaching families through our integrated housing, job training, and family support programs. Serving 850+ young moms & children annually, our programs intervene at a critical time in families’ development—helping youth to stabilize, set goals, and work toward lifelong self-sufficiency. Our intersectional programs blend experience, community collaboration, and best practices with emerging brain science, serving families in a way that is empowering and yields long-term stability. During COVID-19, we have continued all services and added supports to ensure families have all they need.
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Noble Network of Charter Schools
The Noble Network of Charter Schools’ Two-year Pathway Support will be staffed by a Career Pathways Manager and five near-peer mentors. They will be tasked with supporting our alumni with college matriculation and persistence and will receive continuous training dedicated to proactive outreach and advising approaches. The first cohort will consist of graduates from the Class of 2021 who will be attending City Colleges of Chicago (CCC). This Career Pathways Manager and near-peer mentors will work in partnership with the community colleges to provide students with sufficient support focused on financial aid, course enrollment, academic coaching, social-emotional wellbeing, and targeted career coaching.
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GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
GAGDC, is working to address the impact of the Covid-19 virus and long term health disparities residents are facing in the Auburn Gresham community. The primary objective includes utilizing community engagement task forces (housing, education, seniors, health and wellness and faith-based institutions), block clubs, and GAGDC school staff working with parent councils that make up our neighborhood network partners infrastructure. We will use already trusted staff and partners by hosting virtual community conversations, campaigns, and other organized events where we can share the value and importance to our community, as well as providing vaccination location resources, and available technology and transportation to those with limited access.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Elevated Chicago
Elevated Chicago (EC) requests Project-Specific Support for a coalition of public, private & nonprofit organizations co-convened by the Office of Mayor Lightfoot & EC as the Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Working Group (ETOD WG). The coalition includes 30+ government agencies, BIPOC-led community & art organizations, developers, & policy experts. Its goal is to implement the 36 policies of Chicago’s first ETOD Policy Plan & advance several ETOD demonstration projects. This work seeks to prevent future TOD from displacing residents, small businesses, cultural institutions, and community organizations; encourage investment and build community wealth in BIPOC and low-income communities; & position Chicago as a national leader in ETOD.
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Academy for Global Citizenship Charter School
Working hand-in-hand with our community, our Sustainability & Wellness Hub and urban farm will contribute to a resilient local food economy, conserve three acres of land and increase access to fresh, healthy and local food production in SW Chicago.