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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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Michael Reese Health Trust
Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness (CFTEH) seeks funding to advance its strategic, cross-system goals in deep partnership with people with lived expertise. CFTEH is an intersectional funder collaborative formally launched in May 2020 with goals to align resources and unlock new sources of funding to prevent and end homelessness in the Chicago region. CFTEH is in the process of setting its collective goals for the coming year along with an agenda for policy engagement and advocacy. CFTEH seeks to implement the strategic vision and the fostering of partnerships between philanthropy, government, service providers, advocates, and people with lived experience of homelessness.
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Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
We seek support for the development of a Strategic Action Plan on Aging for IL that builds on our partnership with the IDOA to develop their State Plan on Aging. We’ll engage and organize with communities to develop and support a comprehensive vision for an age-friendly city and state focusing on policy and systems change emerging from lessons, gaps, and health inequities illuminated by COVID-19. This project seeks to build power for health and aging justice at a time when we’re experiencing historic growth in the older adult population. Not only do racism and ageism combine with other structural inequities to cause health inequities, service gaps for seniors cost lives and reduce quality of life, especially in Black and Latinx communities.
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Metropolitan Tenants Organization
The Metropolitan Tenants Organization (MTO) and UChicago Medicine (UCM) system will collaborate to advance housing policies aimed at high utilizers of Emergency Health Service (EMS). Unstable housing is a key social determinant of health that causes homelessness and a reliance on EMS for health care. The project will uplift that community members' voices in making recommendations and creating policies that makes greater positive impact for the entire community. In particular, the project will pilot intervention models that promote housing stability for high users of EMS and advance policies aimed at mitigating sudden displacement of renters such as just cause eviction, right to counsel in evictions and proactive rental inspections.
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IFF
Consistent with IFF’s strategic vision to implement equitable community development projects in low-income communities of color and IFF’s long-term commitment as Asset Manager and Development Partner with the Foundation for Homan Square (FHS), funding from this request will support critical predevelopment activities for the preservation of strong and stable affordable housing units provided on the Homan Square campus. IFF is requesting $100,000 to support legal, architectural, and physical needs assessment costs to advance the long-overdue recapitalization of 158 existing affordable housing units in the FHS real estate portfolio. The units require moderate rehab and an infusion of fresh capital to perform the full extent of repairs.
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Mothers Trust Foundation
in support of the organization meeting the basic needs of vulnerable families in Lake County due to hardships suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Eldercare Lake County
in support of the organization’s partnership with a local limousine company to provide rides to particularly vulnerable senior citizens in need of safe transportation to essential doctor appointments during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Main Stay Therapeutic Farm, Inc.
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Bernie's Book Bank