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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SGA Youth & Family Services
SGA Youth & Family Services seeks support to strengthen the programs of its Cycle of Opportunity provided to children, adolescents, and adults from Chicago neighborhoods with the fewest resources. Services related to the Promoting Wellbeing category include trauma-informed counseling, early childhood development, supporting youth impacted by violence, and youth employment. By design, the Cycle of Opportunity uses a family-centered approach because it is inclusive of extended family members across multiple stages of life and across multiple generations. We know that the effects of systemic violence which have challenged families for generations can be overcome through preventions and interventions at critical phases of one’s life.
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OPERATION WARM INC
Operation Warm's Chicago Area Virtual Coat Closet (VCC) provides heavily subsidized new winter coats to scores of Chicago area organizations serving low-income families. Grant funding provides most of the funding for this program, and the beneficiary organizations fund $10 or $5 per coat, depending on the time of year and their resources. CCT has been a crucial funding partner for this program since it began in 2012 and our 2020-21 Closet supported 37 organizations and nearly 10,000 coats for children and adults living in need. We are seeking continued and expanded support for our Virtual Coat Closet for 2022. The proposed expansion, described in our application, will be to include our brand-new athletic style shoes in addition to coats.
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Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council NFP
With FLO’s support, the project team will deepen and expand Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP) implementation, support equitable local food supply chain development, and increase engagement of public stakeholders.
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Scholarship America, Inc.
To support the distribution of the Eleanor L. Swartz scholarship fund.
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Unity Parenting and Counseling Inc
Unity is requesting funds to implement and enhance its homeless youth housing programs . All youth programs serve homeless 18-24 years olds . Ujima Village is an overnight shelter for youth , serving dinner and breakfast. Harmony Village and Project Ignite serve individuals and youth headed families including intact young families in transitional housing . Ignite serves homeless youth living with HIV/AIDS, Ujima STARS provides shorter term project based transitional housing for young singles and families and then moves them into Rapid Rehousing with intensive services and tenant based housing subsidies . Umoja Village provides permanent housing for disabled youth. Funds will support program enhancement through targeted fund development.
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Growing Home, Inc.
Growing Home respectfully requests a grant of $40,000 in renewed support of our Food Access Program. This award would allow us to donate more boxes of food to the community through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) system. These CSA boxes are delivered door-to-door at no costs to residents. In addition, we have extended our growing season by adjusting our methods to be able to grow during the winter. With this change, we intend to grow and donate more food than ever before to the Englewood community.
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OPTIONS FOR YOUTH
For 20 years, OFY has worked to expand life opportunities for Chicago’s most vulnerable teens on the South and West Sides. Since 2017, our What’s Up with Manhood program has worked with LatinX and African American boys in Little Village to overcome the trauma of violence and toxic gender norms they encounter on the streets, at home, and in school. Through a long-term commitment, our Mentors work with over 100 high school boys each year to help them develop social emotional and life skills leading to healthy masculinity, responsible behavior and academic success. Ultimately, over 95% of our teens finish high school (the majority accepted to college) and demonstrate a greater appreciation for peaceful conflict resolution and gender equality.
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CHICAGO PERIOD PROJECT
Chicago Period Project is a 501c3 organization established in 2016 by Ashley Novoa and a group of moms she met online. Harnessed by frustration towards the election and defunding talks of Planned Parenthood, Ashley and team launched Chicago Period Project to help and support Chicago's marganized menstruators. Chicago Period Project is a community based organization whose mission is to help every menstruating person in Chicago experience their periods with dignity. Menstrual hygiene products for a period lifetime cost about $1700, our mission is to aid those living below the poverty line to experience healthy periods. In our almost 5 years of existence, we have donated over 600,000 period products throughout our most needed communities.