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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Latino Policy Forum
Working with our very broad range of more than 150 multi-sectoral membership relationships, partnerships, and coalitions, we will apply our core skills of analysis, advocacy, leadership, and collaboration to the goals of ensuring that governmental policies are fully responsive to the needs of Latinos, that the underlying systems and practices that affect policies are shifted toward greater responsiveness and inclusivity, and that an increased capacity to effect policy and systems change is developed within Latino-serving nonprofits. We plan to address systemic inequality that has been exacerbated by COVID for Latinos and immigrants in the areas of housing, social services, and economic redevelopment.
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Change Illinois
CHANGE Illinois hopes to execute and support the creation of an independent commission of Chicagoans to draw a ward map for Chicago that doesn’t splinter communities. The goal is to create a map that could be considered as an alternative to one produced by a majority of aldermen. CHANGE Illinois intends to engage people throughout Chicago about the redistricting process that will occur in 2021. In partnership with the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and Representable, we will engage Chicagoans, and Illinoisans, in discussions about remapping and their communities of interest, and help them map their own communities so they can use those maps to advocate for themselves in front of mapmakers.
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Metropolitan Tenants Organization
The Metropolitan Tenants Organization (MTO) and UChicago Medicine (UCM) system will collaborate to advance housing policies aimed at high utilizers of Emergency Health Service (EMS). Unstable housing is a key social determinant of health that causes homelessness and a reliance on EMS for health care. The project will uplift that community members' voices in making recommendations and creating policies that makes greater positive impact for the entire community. In particular, the project will pilot intervention models that promote housing stability for high users of EMS and advance policies aimed at mitigating sudden displacement of renters such as just cause eviction, right to counsel in evictions and proactive rental inspections.
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NAMI Chicago
NAMI Chicago seeks funding to bring coordination and networking to Chicago’s fragmented mental health crisis system, diverting people with significant mental health needs away from arrest and hospitalization towards mental health recovery. We will organize and coordinate acute mental health care providers like hospitals, living rooms and triage centers, and build the necessary capacity, infrastructure and policy solutions to make them an effective alternative. Within this approach, we will use our Helpline as a tool to increase proactive recovery work and intensive case management within the mental health crisis and acute care system.
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Ageoptions Inc
Avisery by AgeOptions helps older adults and adults with disabilities access affordable healthcare and effectively utilize their health benefits by leveraging its 1,795-member network of health insurance counseling professionals to advocate for a responsive health benefits delivery system. With Chicago Community Trust funding, Avisery will expand its advocacy work so older adults and those with disabilities can access benefits that reduce health and wealth disparities. Avisery will use its network of professional benefits counselors, coalition partners, and relationships with insurance plans, and state and federal agencies to advocate for beneficiaries on an individual level and to address systemic barriers to access and affordability.
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The Chicago Community Trust
To support community engagement activities of New America.
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Mothers Trust Foundation
in support of the organization meeting the basic needs of vulnerable families in Lake County due to hardships suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Eldercare Lake County
in support of the organization’s partnership with a local limousine company to provide rides to particularly vulnerable senior citizens in need of safe transportation to essential doctor appointments during the COVID-19 crisis.