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/Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance
The Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance seeks additional resources for the Progressive Pathways for Post-Secondary Success Fund (Pro Path Fund). The mission of the Fund is to expand the universe of transparent and accessible Progressive Pathways to Post-Secondary Success. Progressive Pathways allow individuals to alternate between and combine periods of education/training and employment, and thereby progressively build toward college and career success over an extended period of time. Building on the selected accomplishments of the past year, and the financial support of 20+ workforce development and education funders, the Pro Path Fund looks forward to advancing the work of the Fund and progressive pathways ecosystem.
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Green City Market
Green City Market (GCM) requests a $100,000 grant to increase the visibility of the local food sector in Chicago while improving the efficiency of the local food businesses run by GCM farmers and food producers.
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FRANCISCAN OUTREACH
As the leading, homeless services organization on the west side of Chicago, Franciscan outreach provides, safe shelter, three warm meals, and access to essential resources to our most vulnerable neighbors. Continued support from The Chicago Community Trust will help us to reach Chicago's most marginalized people and empower them to gain the stability needed to move towards self-sufficiency. In addition to shelter services, all guests are linked to a case manager who through a trauma-informed lens link guests to vital housing resources, immediate needs, and specialized services such as access to critical resources for those who need specialized services such as health care, mental health counseling, and substance use disorder treatment.
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CENTRO ROMERO
Centro Romero, deeply committed to serving its community for 37 years, requests funding to enhance its after-school Youth Learning and Leadership Program for 75 youth ages 6 to 18 from low-income Latinx immigrant and refugee families, mostly undocumented. Founded by Salvadoran refugees fleeing a ten-year civil war, two are its leaders and advocates: the executive director and the legal services director. The organization honors the martyr-saint Bishop Oscar Romero and is governed by a board of directors that reflect the community served. Its mostly bicultural staff operate an inter-generational family-centered inter-related network of programs that the community learns about by word-of-mouth referrals that annually generate 10,000 clients.
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EQUAL HOPE
Equal Hope (EH) is proposing a multi-pronged approach to address the critical needs of Chicago communities heavily impacted by COVID-19. Equal Hope Community Health Workers (CHWs), as trusted messengers in collaboration with other trusted messengers such as faith based leaders, will address vaccine hesitancy and misinformation about the COVID vaccine to increase vaccine confidence and uptake in Chicago's most vulnerable communities. The project's goal is to improve knowledge and attitudes around the COVID-19 vaccine so as to increase access and uptake of COVID-19 vaccine and eliminate COVID-19 disparities in areas of high COVID 19 incidence/mortality.
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Enlace Chicago
Through Enlace Chicago’s Community Health Worker (CHW)-led Health Equity Initiative, CHWs address critical needs, including access to healthcare, social services, public benefits, food, housing and clothing/household supplies. They do this by supporting community members in navigating the healthcare and social service systems; increasing access to fresh locally grown food, health information and wellness activities through community gardens; and managing emergency funding.
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PRIMO CENTER
The Primo Center is requesting a renewed and increased grant of $150,000 in general operating funds to support the agency’s growing role providing client-centered trauma-based housing and services to homeless families. As a minority-led community-based agency, the Primo Center uses its unique perspective to truly “meet clients where they are,” applying a racial equity lens that addresses current and generational trauma and achieving some of the nation’s most outstanding outcomes in placing 90% of families in permanent housing with under 5% returning to homelessness. A trusted city partner, the Primo Center has once again doubled its bed count, putting the Primo Center at the forefront of the leadership of Chicago’s homeless system.
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826CHI, Inc. NFP