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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The Chicago Community Foundation/The Fund for Equitable Business Growth
Over the past three years, the Fund for Equitable Business Growth has focused on strengthening the small business ecosystem through funding individual business serving organization (BSO) partnerships, building those individual partnerships into a networked coalition of service provides, piloting approaches to enhancing data infrastructure, and addressing barriers to capital access. The BSO Collective is the foundation of the work of FEBG driving the other work of the fund. To date, FEBG funding – over $10 million since 2019 – has provided resources for BSOs to develop the capacity provide more robust services to entrepreneurs. For the first 3 years, FEBG has supported partnerships of BSOs on the theory that collectives of BSOs can provide better, more cohesive service to business owners than individual BSOs. In the current year, FEBG is focusing on the cross-collaboration of BSO partnerships to further build the social and knowledge capital, thus strengthening the broader network of entrepreneurial support. This grant will allow FEBG to advance the collaboration of BSO partnerships, particularly in the areas of capital access and educational resources sharing.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Scaling CVI
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Lambda Publications, Inc.
Windy City Times (WCT), Chicago’s legacy LGBTQ+ newspaper, respectfully requests funding to support additional staff capacity on our Newsletter and Audience Engagement team. During the two-year capacity-building period, two new part-time staff members will help WCT grow our recently launched “Chicago Social Butterflies” newsletter, launch three new newsletters that will serve Chicago’s diverse LGBTQ+ community, and grow our audience base. These new products, in turn, will lead to increased earned and contributed revenue streams that will ultimately support WCT’s other vital reporting on Chicago’s LGBTQ+ community.
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Cicero Independiente
Cicero Independiente requests $125,000 in grant funding over two years to increase our organizational capacity. Grant funds will partially support the salaries for a new position - an Operations Manager - and support for an existing role - an Audience and Digital Communications Director. During the two-year capacity-building period, these staff members will enable Cicero Independiente’s transition to a nonprofit organization, board development, the development of a corporate sponsorship program, and a significant increase in digital reach. These efforts in turn, will lead to increased earned and contributed revenue streams that will ultimately support Cicero Independietne’s vital reporting on Cicero and Berwyn.
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Chicago News Weekly, LLC
Chicago News Weekly is seeking support for capacity building to increase opportunities for BIPOC journalists and community members.
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Respair Production & Media
Respair Production & Media (RPM) is an ecosystem hub initiative creating and supporting the media needed to reshape culture toward liberation. Based in Chicago, Respair Production and Media builds new media projects in partnership with social movement participants and visionaries, enabling their work to reach new audiences and creating space for the ideological frameworks and material needs of those reimagining our world to be heard, shared, and supported. Respair contributes programming, production, publishing, development, and personal tools to emergent media makers, while encouraging the autonomy necessary to independently build transformative media. A resilient, sustainable media ecosystem is both a necessary tool for liberation and a difficult structure to build. Respair makes it possible for movement mediamakers in Chicago and beyond to have access to the resources and support they need to create without compromise.
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Lansing Journal LLC
The Lansing Journal is uniquely positioned to serve overlooked communities in southern Cook County, but we lack the financial capacity to sustain and grow our operations. We have seen incremental growth since launching in 2017, but we need outside investment to hire the revenue-generating staff we need to support the journalism our community deserves. We are working hard to diversify our income sources, and these efforts will pay off in the long term, but we need help in the short term to reach these long-term sustainability goals. The impact of the local news we provide is already growing. Our diverse community is increasingly engaged because of the information we provide and the trust we have earned. We now need financial investment to sustain our work.
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Invisible Institute
The Invisible Institute is planning to expand its practice of “immersive engagement” in support of our team’s groundbreaking investigative reporting. Our project is oriented toward a specific need: while long-form reporting on public issues is vital, these kinds of lengthy investigations do not always reach the communities most impacted by government failures and abusive structures. The primary aim of this project is to create space and resources for an ongoing practice of experimentation and innovation with strategies for reaching the people most impacted by police abuse and official neglect with our reporting.