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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 COMMUNITY LOAN FUND

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $25,000

    The EPIC Fund Collaborative (the Collaborative) requests a grant of $25,000 to support planning, coordination, and start-up efforts required to structure and launch the EPIC Fund: Equity Products for Investing in Communities, projected to launch during the summer of 2021. The Collaborative is composed of Chicago Community Loan Fund (CCLF), LISC Chicago, IFF, and the Corporate Coalition. Collaborative members’ exists to deploy resources that provide the flexible, patient, and risk-tolerant equity and equity-like capital that is typically not available and whose absence is holding catalytic real estate projects back from becoming a reality.

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    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $150,000

    GTP will examine resources available to academic researchers in the Chicago-area biomedical innovation ecosystem. It will assess how well positioned those entities are to advancing individuals currently under-represented in translational research initiatives and to collaborating to build a stronger, better integrated, and more inclusive Chicago biomedical innovation ecosystem. GTP will examine the extent to which individuals in under-represented groups engage in the biomedical innovation ecosystem and the hurdles that may impede their full participation. The assessment will include both qualitative and quantitative information and will develop insights to improve the Chicago biomedical innovation ecosystem inclusivity, and collaboration.

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    CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INC

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $175,000

    The Pandemic Response Commons (PRC) has found its place in the intersection of data driven research and community engagement. The PRC was launched to establish a secure, regionally-distributed ecosystem for research involving COVID-19 health data In Phase 2, we aim to expand the involvement of Chicagoland communities to address their concerns and provide answers to the questions they have regarding COVID-19. These concerns, and the relevant data, change over time, as we deal with different phases of the pandemic and impacts of new variants and vaccinations. The consortium aims to engage underrepresented communities, involve trusted stakeholders, and provide practical, easy to understand deliverables back to the community.

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    P33

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $225,000

    P33 is requesting incremental funds for a Director of Drug Development for the IL Deep Tech Guild (iDTG), a program that P33 is building with partners to apprentice a purposefully diverse group of young PhDs/MAs/MDs, targeting 50% BiPOC participation, with experienced, full-time, supervising drug development professionals for a robust course of experiential learning. Apprentices will develop/de-risk targets sourced from local universities, form and strengthen their peer and expert network, and then be unleashed to develop new treatments that reduce incidence of disease and suffering . The primary product of the iDTG is the people who will enter Chicagoland’s innovation ecosystem with meaningful expertise, network, and social capital.

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    ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $47,500

    To support the organization’s Care Connection Program, a free mobile health program increasing access to healthcare, COVID-19 health literacy, vaccine literacy and COVID-19 vaccines for people in need throughout Lake County.

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    Iowa State University

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $1,000

    In support of a scholarship for Mikayla Borrowdale (Student ID: 367786488).

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    University of Illinois at Chicago

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $1,000

    In support of a scholarship for Maitri Shah (Student ID 665382411).

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    REFUGE FOR WOMEN

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $9,802