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The Chicago Community Trust
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The Chicago Community Trust
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University of Chicago
In this project, we propose to continue our ongoing studies to fully characterize in situ immune cell heterogeneity and spatial relationships in human lupus nephritis biopsies. We will do this by combining high-dimensional (60 analytes) with customized deep machine learning analytical pipelines. As described in the following application, knowledge of in situ immunity will help in the development of new prognostic markers and also identify new therapeutic opportunities. Our patient population is predominantly young African-American women. Among patient groups, African Americans get the worse, most treatment resistant lupus nephritis. They are also relatively underrepresented in most studies of lupus nephritis.
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Duo Development
We request that you please begin by reviewing the attachment titled “Starling – Project and Concept Plan_WRT.pdf” in the attachments. This document has an overview of everything that is outlined in this application. Starling, located at 1600 S Sawyer Avenue in North Lawndale, just a few blocks away from Douglass Park, is a beautiful new state-of-the-art construction project that will break ground in Spring 2024 and open to the public before October of 2024. This building will feature a café service by award winning coffee company, Monday Coffee Co., and offer flexible areas for residents and organizations to lease on a short-term, flexible basis. Residents and guests will be able to enjoy the building free of charge and without having to purchase coffee. Occupying 2,500 square feet of the 6,000 square-foot site, Starling will provide spaces and programming for residents to gather, replenish, learn, and create. Starling is an initiative to preserve and improve the built environment and a space for art and culture, economic development and workforce development, transportation, infrastructure & technology, and green & open space. Most importantly, Starling will be a space for liberation – it will breathe new life to a commercial corridor, celebrate local culture, and uplift over 30,000 neighbors each year. As a development project, Starling will set a new precedent for ethical practices in the real estate industry. Most notably, the building will share profits with neighbors and foster collective ownership. What also sets Starling apart is its genuine commitment to community engagement. Over the past six years, the project has actively sought and incorporated input from more than 350 residents, ensuring that their voices and perspectives shape the project's vision. Additionally, the development team reviewed insights from over 30 secondary sources about the North Lawndale area to inform their decision-making. Starling is a community collaboration led by our team, Duo (a 501c3 non-profit organization in Illinois), and we’ve partnered with Canopy Architecture, McKay Landscape Architects, and will feature Monday Coffee Co. With an estimated cost of $1.7M, Starling has already received awards from the Chicago Community Trust, City of Chicago Neighborhood Opportunity Fund, City of Chicago Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD).
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The Chicago Community Trust
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Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Inc
The Pullman Hotel Group, LLC (PHG) is planning to develop a Hampton Inn by Hilton near 111th Street and Doty Avenue, providing high-quality lodging for this burgeoning tourism area of our city. The project will bring the first nationally branded hotel to Chicago’s Historic Pullman community. In addition to providing 105 much-needed hotel rooms to an area of Chicago bereft of viable lodging options, the Pullman Hotel Project will bring much-needed jobs and community pride to area residents, while furthering the economic development momentum growing in the area. Positioned less than one mile from a recently developed regional mall, new restaurants, and other retail businesses, the hotel site is directly adjacent to the Pullman Park Industrial Park, a rapidly developing home to a number of recently developed warehousing and distribution facilities including a regional distribution center for Whole Foods, a regional hub facility for Amazon, operations for SC Johnson, Method, and Gotham Greens.
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Carole Robertson Center for Learning
For over 45 years, the mission of the Carole Robertson Center for Learning (the Center) has been to educate, enrich, and empower children and families. Our programs reach children at every stage of development – from prenatal to age 17 – and their families, and we focus on BIPOC communities that have suffered from a legacy of disinvestment and marginalization. Our vision is to help build a just and equitable society wherein the Center, in partnership with families, is a beacon of best practices, innovation, and impact. In September 2023, we launched our first-ever campaign – Invest Today, Empower Tomorrow – to ensure we can continue to provide enriching environments for the exceptional education that all children, youth, and families deserve. By ensuring working parents in some of Chicago’s most marginalized communities have access to high-quality early education and youth development programs for their children, the Center is playing a key role in the city’s economic recovery and long-term prosperity. The campaign is focused on increasing capital resources, promoting future program innovation, and guaranteeing the long-term stability of our organization so that we can continue to play this vital role for many decades to come. We are requesting funding from We Rise Together to support innovative, child-centered, and community-driven capital improvements at our flagship site located at 2929 West 19th Street in Little Village.
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The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
This proposal addresses the unique socio-medical needs of high-risk Black birthing people. We propose to develop and pilot an innovative integrative model of maternity care for Black mothers with high-risk pregnancies. Melanated Group Midwifery Care Plus (MGMC+) will build upon our current PCORI-funded pregnancy and postpartum care model for low-risk women, Melanated Group Midwifery Care (MGMC), and adapt it to our high-risk Black population. MGMC+ merges five evidence-based interventions to foster greater trust and engagement and improve pregnancy and postpartum experiences: 1) Racial concordance between patients, maternal fetal medicine (MFM) physicians and certified nurse-midwives (CNM) fosters trust and communication; 2) Group prenatal care sessions with women who share a high-risk diagnosis (i.e., hypertension, diabetes, risk of pre-term birth) tailored to address health literacy, self-advocacy, and peer support reduces power hierarchies; 3) Complex care coordination, including nurse navigation and social work, minimizes the burden of multiple appointments and also facilitates access to mental health and other supportive services; 4) Provider training for all OBGYN physicians, nurses and midwives ensures patient interactions across the healthcare system are patient-centered and supports shared decision making; 5) Community-based doula support throughout pregnancy, birth and postpartum improves birth outcomes and experiences, as well as increases breastfeeding and decreases postpartum depression. Integrative and concordant obstetric care for Chicago’s Black birthing community is an innovative concept whose time has come. We are currently in our third year of successfully implementing MGMC for low-risk Black mothers at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Based on our implementation data, we realize there is much need to adapt this model to high-risk pregnancy as well as to train providers to function as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver evidence based respectful care. Funding from the Chicago Community Trust will allow us to adapt our highly successful low risk model to meet the needs of a growing population of Black mothers with high-risk pregnancies.