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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Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council NFP
The Metro Chicago Good Food Purchasing Initiative (GFPI) is seeking continued support to deepen our work with institutions to improve their procurement processes, provide support to growers to access these institutional opportunities, and ensure the consistent application of the good food goals of fair wages, sustainable practices, and equitable access.
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Greater Chatham Initiative Inc
The program will: 1) support Black-owned food-based businesses with access to capital via coaching and connections to service providers, and 2) support local South Side business incubators and entrepreneurial hubs and the businesses they serve by providing technical assistance to connect them to capital resources and to their surrounding ecosystem. Greater Chatham Initiative will also implement a technology platform to help local entrepreneurs access capital by creating a South Side small business resource online hub that improves upon and expands our existing funding webpage.
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HR&A Advisors, Inc.
Chicago, as a sanctuary city, is facing unprecedented challenges due to the recent influx of migrants following the lifting of Title 42. With over 42,000 New Arrivals, primarily from Venezuela, having arrived in Chicago as of May 29, 2024, the city is grappling with the logistical and humanitarian aspects of accommodating and supporting these individuals. The sudden and continuous arrival of migrants, often without advance notice, has overwhelmed city officials, forcing the rapid expansion of as many as 28 temporary emergency shelters over eight months without certainty of volume and frequency of incoming buses in the coming months. This influx, coupled with the lack of federal and limited state funding, has strained city resources, leading to tension among residents, particularly in historically underfunded low income Black and Latine communities. City Hall and the Mayor's Office of Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Rights are in urgent need of capacity for strategic planning and facilitation support to figure out how to sustain and grow emergency response infrastructure to meet the profound needs on the ground today while leveraging the power of this moment as a vehicle to build better and lasting systems for the future. This represents a crucial opportunity for Chicago, the third-largest city in the United States, to lead on immigration reform, build pathways for resettlement, and operationalize the necessary infrastructure to fulfill the promise of a Sanctuary City.
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The Experimental Station: 6100 Blackstone
Experimental Station is requesting $50,000 in general operating funds to support increased fundraising and administrative costs associated with the expansion of our 61st Street Farmers Market food education programming and increased government funding for our Link Up Illinois program.
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Northern Illinois Food Bank
Northern Illinois Food Bank is requesting funding to support their programs providing access to nutritious food for our neighbors facing food-insecurity in the collar counties of DuPage, Kane, Lake, Will and McHenry.
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Ecosystems of Care
Ecosystems of Care works to build stronger and more just systems of food, information, and resources, forge connections across neighbors, and generate community power. Our core project, Market Box, began as an emergency pandemic response in 2020, and takes a full-system approach to food insecurity. Our volunteer-led mutual aid project bulk-buys food from local farms and distributes it for free to Black, low-income neighbors across the South Side of Chicago. We seek to fill gaps left by existing food aid: because state benefits structures are often insufficient, we take a trust-based approach and do not require income verification. Because many in our network struggle with mobility, we deliver food directly. And because many existing pantries are best equipped to offer shelf-stable goods, we deliver fresh produce and protein. With every bag of food, we work toward three goals: to get fresh produce to our neighbors, to support small midwest farms, and to build a proven, replicable model of community-driven, locally sourced food-support.
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RESPOND NOW
Respond Now respectfully seeks the CCT's support for our ongoing Food Pantry and SNAP Outreach operations, both aimed at critical hunger relief in the 22 south suburban Chicago neighborhoods we serve and have served for over half a century. Open five days per week, Monday-Friday, Respond Now's Food Pantry offers the community a client-choice modeled pantry that allows them to choose how to best feed themselves and their families up to twice weekly. They are provided as many groceries as they can carry out (typically 2-3 full-sized paper bags). Our SNAP Outreach programming helps qualifying beneficiaries with navigating requirements to qualify for nutritional assistance. With the CCT's support, we can continue to strengthen and broaden the service reach of these two programs to meet community need wherever it may be. We consider this a priority effort because the socioeconomic conditions of our struggling communities is not poised to improve in the foreseeable future due to systemic socioeconomic disinvestment, including structuralized racism. While not included in the project budget, approximately $500,000 in food is received from the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
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Chicago Horticultural Society
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest (WCH) urban agriculture program requests support from the Chicago Community Trust Unity Fund for its food access and community health initiative, VeggieRx. During the grant period, VeggieRx will provide an estimated 120,000 pounds of fresh, primarily local produce to an estimated 2,000 direct participants, while benefiting an additional 4,000 family members. WCH will partner with medical staff at three Federally Qualified Health Centers—Lawndale Christian Health Center in North Lawndale and PCC Community Wellness Centers in Austin and Belmont-Cragin—to refer food insecure patients with diet-related illnesses into the program. Participants receive weekly boxes of fresh produce along with nutrition and cooking education, an intervention that is coordinated with their clinical care. Using this model, VeggieRx addresses immediate concerns of food access while advancing long term community health and resiliency and promoting health equity in Chicago. During the grant period, VeggieRx will also explore the potential for an additional choice-based nutrition incentive component through the indoor community market at WCH’s Farm on Ogden headquarters.