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…
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…
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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TGi Movement will be extending our summer programming to August 19. During the program's extension, young people will undergo lessons and workshops centered around community organizing. Young people will help plan TGi's boombox week of events from August 11 - August 18th. These events will include our annual back-to-school event, our annual block party, open mic, movie night, peace circle, and more.
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Host a Labor Day event on 09/04/23 at Renaissance Park at 1300 West 79th Street for 50 youths from 2 pm to 6 pm. We will invite the Senior citizens that live at/or around Renaissance Park and St. Sabina to join in for cardio drumming and for them to help tighten the circle on the Generational gap. Our children need the closeness of our elders to feel safe and our seniors need to feel safe with ease when engaging our youths. We will also host summer programming of teaching how to play the Art of Conga drumming along with an open Peace Drum Circle on Sunday 08/06, and every Thursday and Friday of 08/10, 08/11, 08/17, 08/18, and a final programming with youths of an open Peace Drum Circle on Saturday 08/19 with a total of 50 youths, ages from 5 to 17 years at Renaissance Park from 2 pm to 5 pm. We have the staff, as well as 2 youth service workers and the instruments (drums). We will teach the youths the Art of Conga hand drumming, along with other activities of Drum Hooping (hula hoop), basketball, bean bag toss, and face painting. We will provide food, fruit, and incentives for the youths.
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This grant will go to support and enhance CMA’s Drumline program for the month of August. The funds will be used to compensate each drummer for participating for the month with $125 each. Funds will also provide partial compensation for the program manager. The drummer stipend will serve as an incentive to keep students engaged throughout the gap period of August, including two practices per week and 1-2 performances each week. Funds will also allow this program to meet an additional day each week in August for movie night (Thursdays), which will be hosted in CMA’s Community Garden located in the North Lawndale community.
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The 1000 and 1100 blocks of N Monticello Ave respectfully request a $5,000 grant to create and execute Family Fun Weekends. Family Fun Weekends consist of four separate events over the span of three weekends. On Sunday, August 6, families from the 1000 and 1100 blocks of N Monticello Ave will travel to the Museum of Science and Industry for a field trip and the day will end with a movie night in the garden. The second event will take place on Sunday, August 20 with a trip to the Brookfield Zoo. The last event will take place on Saturday, August 26 for another family fun day at the trampoline park. These events are intended to create safe activities for the youth of the 1000 and 1100 blocks of N Monticello Ave while engaging with the parents and neighbors. Our hope is that these events will create beautiful childhood memories that will not be overshadowed by the violence and gang activities that interfere with the lives of our children a daily basis.
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We have organized and implemented a Summer Camp Outreach Program during the summer months of 2023. We would like to continue with our program during the August 6th-21st gap. We will continue utilizing our gymnasium (The William Kelly Gymnasium) for organized recreational opportunities for the all our youth in the Austin and surrounding areas. We plan to have a multi-day events/activities through the week engaging 50 or more youth throughout the week.
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This funding would allow us to continue our employment program with our Keeping Grounded garden project. We will continue to engage youth 3 days a week. This program will continue to run during the August gap and youth will continue to be on our payroll.
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ALL DAY COMMUNITY EVENT. At this event community members will be able to receive fresh produce with the help of our community member forty acres and Hope Community pantry. With the help of Windy City Dolphins youth football and Westside AAU, we will be providing 6 scholarships for Football and Basketball. This day will be filled with resources, as well as food, intellectual games, and prizes.
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We plan to execute our monthly movie night in the park where families and youth ages 0 through 24 come to enjoy food trucks, ice cream trucks, a movie and fireworks after the movie!! These families will be participants of our existing summer camp and after school program.