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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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METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL
MPC's application supports Our Great Rivers, with specific emphasis in 2021 on the Task Force. Working with DPD, MPC will ensure that Task Force priorities reflect the goals of its members and prioritize their presence and lived experience - to positively changes the way decisions are made. MPC will facilitate a Task Force structure that amplifies these perspectives, while simultaneously taking a systemic approach to planning, policy and development. MPC will also raise awareness of Our Great Rivers and its progress via focused communications. An essential role for MPC is to serve as a watchdog, advocating with and on behalf of partners ensuring that the actions and strategies put forward by the City align and adhere to the Rivers’ vision.
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NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
We are requesting $150,000 to support our vision that our neighbors will have the food they need to thrive. As of 2020, we met the meal gap in 99% of our service area, yet recognize that we are not yet reaching all neighbors in need, particularly with the increased food insecurity due to COVID-19. We acknowledge and embrace the opportunity to design a better experience for neighbors and prioritize solutions for populations disproportionately impacted by hunger. In launching a new strategic plan, we take responsibility to serve more neighbors, especially those we often miss, and pursue a refined mission to provide nutritious food and resources for all those in need, with dignity, equity and convenience, through partnerships and innovation.
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ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS
Despite our significant successes in policy advocacy at the local, state and federal levels, permanent immigration policy solutions are still needed. ICIRR’s evolving analysis and approach is now focused on developing innovative partnerships that support not only immigrants and refugees but all low-income Black and Brown communities. We believe an integrated strategy that lifts all boats is the way to create economic equity. We will: -Develop the capacity and leadership of our institutional members. -Conduct Intentional relational organizing with BIPOC-led organizations and people directly impacted by immigration policies and the racial/ethnic wealth gap. -Build integrated campaigns that support Black/Brown unity and economic justice.
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The Chicago Community Trust
To support the Office of Equity and Racial Justice, for Nneka Onwuzurike’s internship.
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The Network - Advocating Against Domestic Violence
The Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence (The Network) is a collaborative membership organization dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by domestic violence (DV) through education, public policy and advocacy, & the connection of community members to direct service providers. We also operate the IL DV Hotline, which received 28,940 calls in FY20. We work in collaboration with over 40 community-based DV service providers to advance the collective power of those experiencing gender-based violence. The Network advocates at the local, State, & Federal level to ensure that survivors have sufficient services and responsive systems and is applying to Chicago Community Trust to expand and develop this critical systems advocacy.
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Thrive Chicago NFP
My Brother’s Keeper, housed within Thrive Chicago, is driving a focused effort to engage and empower the next generation of male educators of color by leading the implementation of a targeted teacher pipeline, in partnership with the Obama Foundation and Chicago Public Schools. In 2021, we will move from planning to phase one of implementation. In collaboration with our partners, we will develop and implement purpose-oriented practices, embedded within the school day and a complimentary mentorship program. These efforts will be targeted at high school boys and youth of color with the aim of promoting high school graduation, pursuit of post-secondary education, as well as fostering an interest in teaching as a career pathway.
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AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Support from The Chicago Community Trust will support AIDS Foundation Chicago’s (AFC) work to protect and advance access to high-quality health care for people living with or vulnerable to HIV and other chronic conditions, particularly centering Black and Latinx communities who are disproportionately impacted by chronic conditions. AFC staff will: 1) monitor and respond to threats to health reform and access to care; 2) advocate for a state budget that ensures sufficient and equitable resources for HIV; 3) monitor discriminatory practices among health insurance plans and advocate as needed; and 4) advocate for policies within the Illinois Healthcare Feasibility Study that increase affordability and accessibility for AFC’s focus populations.
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Michael Reese Health Trust
Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness (CFTEH) seeks funding to advance its strategic, cross-system goals in deep partnership with people with lived expertise. CFTEH is an intersectional funder collaborative formally launched in May 2020 with goals to align resources and unlock new sources of funding to prevent and end homelessness in the Chicago region. CFTEH is in the process of setting its collective goals for the coming year along with an agenda for policy engagement and advocacy. CFTEH seeks to implement the strategic vision and the fostering of partnerships between philanthropy, government, service providers, advocates, and people with lived experience of homelessness.