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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Center for Independence Through Conductive Education Inc
Center for Independence is requesting a grant to support Motor Training and Workforce Development Programs for people with disabilities. Funding will support therapy and job placement programs for children and young adults with disabilities delivered throughout the Chicagoland area with a focus on underserved Latinx families. The objective is to reduce the significant disparities children and young adults with disabilities face in accessing inclusive education and employment by linking them to the services they need to grow up healthy, happy and able to reach their full potential.
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BEDS, Inc.
BEDS Plus Care is a leading homeless services agency in Southwest Suburban Cook County. Its mission is to help vulnerable individuals stabilize their lives through housing and supportive services. BEDS offers evidence-based Prevention and Stabilization, Emergency, and Supportive Housing Services; all clients partner with professional case managers and receive wraparound care to manage the causes and effects of homelessness. BEDS programs follow CDC recommendations to protect clients and communities from COVID-19. Last year, it served 1800 people, including veterans; domestic violence survivors; transition aged youth; and people with chronic health, behavioral health, and disabling conditions. Eighty percent exited with sustainable housing.
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CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT
CMP is requesting a grant from the Chicago Community Trust to support the BIPOC Impact Film Fund to support filmmakers of color working in the social impact documentary space to create powerful media with strong impact campaigns and foster a vibrant community of BIPOC filmmakers.
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THE HANA CENTER
HANA Center will implement its Healing in Action project, engaging a range of culturally relevant, trauma-informed practices to promote the well-being of Chicagoland Korean, Asian American, and multiethnic immigrant community members. Engaging participants from its wide base of service & organizing programs, HANA will develop multi-generational healing and community-building initiatives including youth and women’s Korean drumming groups, a racial justice support program, and storytelling opportunities. Through participation in these programs, community members will be rooted in their culture and lived experiences, and together develop community-led tools and solutions to heal from trauma and support each other to live strong, healthy lives.
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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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CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC
In a one-year pilot phase of the CASL client advocacy unit (CAU) a qualified mental health professional or licensed clinical social worker (QMHP/LCSW), will lead the CAU in delivering holistic, evidence-based, culturally competent interventions to households with high needs and challenges to help them achieve healthy living. A cross-functional team consisting of a case manager and existing CASL staff members will specifically address the unique barriers Chinese immigrants and Americans face while assimilating into life in the US—especially those living in poverty, experiencing the negative effects of rising health care and social service costs, and needing increased access to mental/behavioral health services.
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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.
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LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
LCDC requests a project grant to help close the racial wealth gap through creating Black homeownership. LCDC will do this with new construction, manufactured housing, rehabs for ownership, and homeownership counseling to ensure Black working families can access safe and affordable financing and are ready to purchase and retain their homes. North Lawndale is on the brink of extensive redevelopment and it is essential to increase homeownership now before prices are driven too high. In addition to other pending developments, Invest South West has two RFPs in the community for large scale development as well as a 606-type project near Homan Square. We are at the beginning of a tipping point that will determine the future of the community.