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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Resurrection Project
The Resurrection Project (TRP) requests $100,000 for its work within the Here to Work Campaign to obtain work permits for roughly 500,000 Illinois undocumented individuals and 11 million immigrants nationwide. Since February 2023, ABIC Action CASA, TRP, and American Families United have rallied businesses and political leaders to urge the Biden Administration to allow state governments to request work permits for long-term undocumented immigrants. This administrative, non-legislative solution is allowable under current law. In 2024, TRP will utilize funding from The Chicago Community Trust to organize local and national actions to build momentum and urgency for the campaign. On the State level, the Here to Work coalition will advocate for a state bill creating the conditions for the State of Illinois to establish a program with the federal government to grant employees parole and work permits. Through the campaign, TRP will cultivate community leadership and amplify voices of those directly impacted by work permit policy. These work permits have the potential to fill 9.8 million open jobs, which will address America’s crushing labor shortages, help bring down inflation, protect immigrants who have long worked without protection, and help stabilize the undocumented community who are underemployed and underpaid. More broadly, this campaign helps to shift the narrative to recognize that immigrants generate billions of dollars in taxes and spending power, fill critical jobs, and are essential to a thriving, competitive economy.
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Art Works Projects
A series of public newsrooms, panel discussions, and workshops leveraging visual storytelling raising awareness, empathy and action for migrants in Chicago.
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Heartland Alliance Health
The Road Map Initiative, convened by Heartland Alliance Health (HAH) and Smart Policy Works (SPW), aims to disrupt cycling across crisis services with interventions like stabilization housing, outreach, engagement, and case management support to address the social determinants of health. In 2022, the Road Map Initiative (RMI) launched a Flexible Services Pilot to provide outreach and engagement services to the nearly 3,000 individuals cycling across emergency systems in Chicago and Cook County. The RMI Flexible Services Pilot successfully stabilized 31 individuals who are experiencing homelessness and are pre-treatment and pre-diagnosis. Our official pilot period ended on 9/30/23 and we seek support for rental assistance for participants who have been on the Coordinated Entry System, Chicago’s housing waitlist, for as long as 16 months but have not been matched to permanent housing. We are currently spending approximately $12,000.00 a month on rental assistance for Master Leasing Arrangements with a private landlord, Mercy Housing Lakefront, and a private SRO operator for 17 participants. We are working with Continuum of Care (CoC) to find permanent housing solutions for our participants but are facing a gap in funding for supporting rent. We respectfully seek support from the Chicago Community Trust for rental assistance through January, 2024 while we work with the CoC and others to resolve their housing crisis.
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Black Girls Dance
Mary, A Holiday Dansical is a modern twist on the traditional Black Nativity told through ballet, hip hop, tap, and contemporary dance.
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Uplifting Health
Health for the Homeless is a health/wellness event that aims to break down financial barriers to health by providing the underprivileged with basic healthcare services.
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IL Muslim Civic Coalition
Rooted in Illinois, Impacting the Nation ! We celebrate 2023 accomplishments and share strategic goals for Community Building toward Civic Justice in 2024
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University of Illinois Foundation
The School of Theatre and Music at University of Illinois at Chicago will present a three day Latin American Music Festival from April 11-13, 2024 with days devoted to mariachi and choral music and culminating in a DJ block party.
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Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago
TOTAL Cost for cooking class for the CCT executive team (includes chef fee, assistant fee, room rental, and food cost)