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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NEW LIFE CENTERS OF CHICAGOLAND NFP
NLC requests CCT support for our effective, evidence-based violence prevention and intervention work, mentoring, educational programming, and holistic family support services. We engage at least 900 gang-affiliated, disconnected, or high-risk youth in Little Village, Pilsen, Humboldt Park, and Brighton Park each year. We provide mentoring to over 300 youth annually to increase protective factors through connections to caring adults. We also offer 4 weekly sessions of group and sports programming, and 5 days per week of after-school programing. Wraparound family support includes food distribution, court advocacy, support groups, and referrals to immigration and legal support, housing, employment, and mental health services.
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ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS
As the undocumented population continues to be left out of federal relief legislation, our directly impacted leaders continue to speak out about the need for state and local governments to provide permanent direct cash assistance. ICIRR, as a member of the IL Cost of Living Refund Coalition, partners with Economic Security for Illinois (ESIL) and provides strategy, organizing, and legislative support around ESIL’s campaign to expand inclusion of the state Earned Income Credit to ITIN filers and other historically excluded persons, ICIRR will engage its broad membership in 2021 to make Illinois one of the few states to include these groups, and will also advocate and organize around direct cash assistance in the context of COVID relief.
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CHICAGO COMMONS ASSOCIATION
Chicago Commons provides intergenerational, trauma-informed, and asset-based early childhood and older adults services to communities through a public health lens. The universal, targeted, and selective approach addresses well-being through holistic group, family, and individual services and through peer-to-peer offerings that recognizes and values the cultural and linguistic capacity of communities in which we serve. A family-centered paradigm undergirds the services and bestows the belief that families are resilient, adaptable, and have capacity to build strong connections inside and outside the family to achieve their goals and build economic wealth.
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NORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER
The Northwest Side Housing Center’s (NWSHC's) holistic financial wealth program focuses on building household wealth by improving the economic well-being of our community through an anti-racist, intergenerational, and community-led lens. We have learned, to best serve our community, we need comprehensive, integrated approaches that align resources to support households. Our current programmatic work serves over 5,000 families annually and has four established tenets: (1) holistic financial coaching for program participants, (2) leadership development opportunities for program participants, (3) inclusive workforce development services for participants, and (4) comprehensive income support services.
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DEEPLY ROOTED PRODUCTIONS
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Fresh Taste
Fresh Taste, a collaborative funder initiative, is conceived as a catalytic process that systemically changes the way food is produced and consumed in the Chicago region to promote healthy land, healthy people, and healthy communities.
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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%. .