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.
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RESPOND NOW
As a trusted, low-barrier, wraparound social service provider with many local CBO and healthcare connections, Respond Now is poised to expand community outreach, street outreach, and vaccination event services. Respond Now will expand these services and host culturally competent block-party style vaccination events in the community garden. These events will be promoted via community health workers, hyper-local health communication campaigns, and trusted messengers. Our target population and goal is to vaccinate the community’s most vulnerable including the literally homeless, substance abusers, immigrant population, and those who experience social stigma.
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South Suburban PADS
South Suburban PADS addresses racial inequality by empowering homeless and at-risk people, largely minority, to achieve greater self-sufficiency and ultimately escape homelessness. South Suburban PADS requests $75,000/year in general operating support to expand and improve our emergency shelter, affordable housing and supportive services. Increased support will enable South Suburban PADS to move an additional 50 households out of homelessness through Rapid Rehousing; provide a 60% increase in shelter nights and meals; and conduct predevelopment planning to secure a 10-unit apartment building to serve as a future family shelter.
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PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES
Phalanx Family Services in partnership with Roseland Community Hospital is proposing to provide vaccine information sessions and onsite vaccinations for approximately 2000 community residents on the far south side of Chicago. Through the "Know Your Status" project, individuals will become more knowledgeable about the covid vaccine and how they can protect themselves in both the long and short term. Our team is working to infuse public health into our all of our services, recognizing the role that health has in obtaining and maintaining employment that leads to self sufficiency. Roseland and West Pullman both are in the high category for the COVID community vulnerability index according to data from the City of Chicago.
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The Night Ministry
The Night Ministry is a Chicago-based organization whose mission is to provide housing, health care, and human connection to any and all community members struggling with poverty or homelessness. With an open heart and an open mind, we accept people as they are and work to address their immediate physical, emotional, and social needs while affirming their sense of humanity. If awarded, this funding will allow The Night Ministry to continue promoting the wellbeing of this targeted population and address the critical needs of those whom we support in order to work towards their stability.
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CHICAGO UNITED FOR EQUITY
Since initial seed investment from the Chicago Community Trust in 2017, Chicago United for Equity (CUE) has trained over 200 Chicagoans in the Racial Equity Impact Assessment process, which stopped the closure of National Teachers Academy, built support for 100% affordable housing in Logan Square, and inspired more participatory policymaking processes like the 2019 Vote Equity co-created voter guide, and the 2020 launch of the People's Budget Chicago, a participatory budget built by communities most impacted by inequitable city investment. We seek the Trust's support to continue to grow our impact on policy issues, in building a leadership pipeline, and fostering cross-sector mutual accountability to racial equity.
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CHICAGO DANCE CRASH NFP
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NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC
Addressing the growing needs of low-income residents in the wake of widespread class-based & racially motivated financial divestment has become a paramount challenge, especially when coupled with the unique barriers of the COVID-19 quarantine. NHS requests continued general operating funding of our comprehensive housing counseling programming. NHS, as a grassroots organization led and staffed from the communities of color we serve, seeks to empower prospective and current homebuyers with an aim of bringing back financial investment and homeownership across Chicago’s low-income neighborhoods. NHS will achieve this through pre-purchase counseling, financial education, foreclosure prevention, post-purchase counseling, & mission-based lending.
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CHICAGO FILMMAKERS