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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Anew: Building Beyond Violence & Abuse
South Suburban Family Shelter seeks a grant from the Chicago Community Trust to help us continue our work in providing comprehensive services to victims/survivors of domestic violence the emergency help they need to be safe and prevent homelessness. SSFS provides an array of services that includes 24-hour bilingual hotline, emergency shelter, crisis intervention, individual, group and family counseling for adult victims and child victims, as well as medical advocacy and court advocacy, and rapid rehousing. A renewal of this grant will help us continue to assist our organization with our core work of getting victims safe and working to continue to provide prevention and education programs regarding domestic violence in our communities.
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CHICAGO SURVIVORS INC
Chicago Survivors (CS) proposes to support youth impacted by violence with culturally competent survivor (family members who lose a loved one) support services. We offer 6 months of clinical counseling and a summer camp to grieving youth 17 and under, along with crisis intervention, case management, grief counseling, and survivor events for family members 18 and up. Children are often left to deal with their grief and trauma alone, as parents struggle to manage their own grief. As such, children can experience PTSD and need professional help. These families are overwhelmingly Black and Latinx (96%) and low income; we respond by ensuring our staff have similar lived experiences and reflect the demographics of the youth/young adults we serve.
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DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
DePaul University and the Institute for Housing Studies develop applied research products and deliver technical assistance to support the development, prioritization, and implementation of policies and programs that advance and protect equitable homeownership. With this funding, IHS will 1) continue to directly engage housing and community development stakeholders to understand key questions and policy applications, 2) identify and refine data needs around this issue, 3) develop new or update existing data indicators to best respond to these data needs and highlight challenges and opportunities in different neighborhood contexts, and 4) provide direct technical assistance to stakeholders supporting the use of this information in their work.
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RESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD
RAGE launched the Buy the Block Englewood Housing Program back in 2018, to organize a campaign targeting renters to become first time homebuyers. The goal is to engage & educate residents about the homeowner opportunities in Englewood and work to increase the number of owner-occupied homes. We collect and track data regarding their interest to invest in a home, financial capacity and follow up accordingly to ensure they are on a pathway to homeownership. We want to develop 10-15 new home owners and/or residents who enroll in financial literacy or a credit building program so that they will eventually become a homeowner soon in Englewood. Our goal is to expand this program to reach more renters and strengthen our partnerships.
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Community Television Network
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The Chicago Lighthouse
The Lighthouse provides Chicagoland’s most vulnerable populations and people with disabilities with evidence-based, family-centered services that increase independence and dignity. Our 40 programs address the critical needs of our community by providing at-risk clients with strategically-designed education, employment, and rehabilitation wraparound support. Our comprehensive services directly address the systemic and racial inequities and societal barriers our clients face. Through this inter-generational, targeted approach, we are creating a more equitable, inclusive Chicago, where all can prosper. We are respectfully requesting a CCT grant, so that we can partner together by further implementing these community-based solutions.
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Metropolitan Family Services
A renewal of general operating support is sought for Metropolitan Family Services and its Chicago Teen Food Literacy Program, one of the programs run by Altgeld Youth Leaders in the Altgeld Gardens Homes on Chicago’s far south side. Though some aspects of the program have slowed during the Covid-19 Pandemic, the program shifted successfully to a virtual basis and youth have been able to study food insecurity and food justice, issues that particularly intensified this past year, as planned. $30,000 is sought for each of the next two years to meet the increasing program demand and activities that are detailed in the narrative.
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Chicago Fund on Aging and Disability
Meals on Wheels Chicago (MOWC) envisions a community in which all basic needs are met and barriers to achieving independence are eliminated. Our mission is to ensure that both homebound seniors and individuals with disabilities benefit from programs that improve quality of life and maximize independence by reducing food insecurity. We raise both awareness and private funds to support home meal delivery and emergency shelf-stable meals. The number of people that need access to nutritionally balanced home-delivered meals will continue to grow, but public funding for these programs is increasingly challenged by demand and non profits are faced with growing pressure to support these programs that protect our most vulnerable homebound neighbors.