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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Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
We seek support for our work to advance the development of a Strategic Action Plan for Aging Equity for Illinois that builds on our partnership with the IDOA to develop their State Plan on Aging. We have been and will continue to engage and organize with communities to develop and support a comprehensive vision for an age-friendly city and state that focuses on policy and systems change emerging from lessons and gaps and responds to health inequities that were illuminated by COVID-19. We’re conducting outreach and building relationships with groups that often do not engage directly with the aging sector or aging organizations. We are conducting outreach and have hosted roundtables specifically to include Black-, Latinx-, and Asian-led organizations in Chicago, Cook County, and throughout the state to become engaged in this movement. Fueled by structural racism coupled with class and gender inequities, health inequities and a variety of injustices harm people of color and reduce quality of life and life expectancy. So, countering ageism includes the struggle against these other inequities concurrently.. This project seeks to build power for health and aging equity at a time when we are experiencing historic growth in the older adult population. Not only do racism and ageism combine with other structural inequities to cause health inequities, service gaps for seniors cost lives and reduce quality of life, especially in Black and Latinx communities.
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Southland Juvenile Justice Council
The Cook County Southland Juvenile Justice Council (SJJC) Violence Prevention, Reduction & Restorative Program’s sustainability plan, is designed to address the pressing need for better education, thriving community resources, and inclusive community support in South Suburban Cook County. The Cook County Southland Juvenile Justice Council (SJJC) deems youth that have experienced a series of traumas from violence, disinvestment, pandemic, economic crisis, etc.; are in dire need of early interventions which are imperative and critical components to intervene and prevent youth and their families from entering into a place where they act out their traumas. Referring youth and families into therapeutic programs will foster sustainable youth development programs which are imperative to break the cycle before it begins.
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Star Farm Chicago
This request is to support the construction, landscaping, and pre-development costs associated with rehabbing the Star Farm Fresh Market and Community Kitchen. We are requesting $180,000 to support architect and engineer fees ($15,000), installing black iron HVAC in the shared kitchen ($60,000), installing a set of metal rear exit stairs ($40,000), fencing and landscaping of the side lot ($40,000), and installation of a concrete slab driveway ($25,000).
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Fresh Taste
Austin Fresh is a collaborative grantmaking five-year program. started in 2020, to increase access to healthy affordable food, support community gardens and local food production, grow food enterprises, and protect and strengthen food assistance programs in the Austin neighborhood. The vision is an equitable Chicagoland region where all people have knowledge of and access to healthy food. The funders involved with Austin Fresh have committed to a minimum $1M for each of five years to support the neighborhood. This renewal request is for the third year of this successful neighborhood focused funder collaborative. This project aligns with the building supply-side skills and attracting capital strategies of Food:Land:Opportunity while also reducing fragmentation.
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Advocates for Urban Agriculture NFP
Advocates for Urban Agriculture is requesting continued support of its initiative to provide capacity-building grants to Chicago area growers, with particular emphasis on small, emerging, and BIPOC owned/operated growing operations, contributing to the expansion of grower’s ability to produce and distribute locally grown food.
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Forging Opportunities for Refugees in America Inc NFP
We are requesting $25,000 in funding to address the critical need for individualized, intensive after-school educational support for Chicago’s newly arrived refugee children, who have had limited/interrupted formal education as a result of genocide, war, and persecution. By expanding the scope and scale of our programs and increasing refugee parent participation in their children's academic progress, we want to empower Chicago’s newest neighbors to reach their full potential -- closing the significant achievement gap between refugee students and their peers, providing greater stability within refugee families, and preparing our students to become economically self-sufficient and robustly engaged in American civic life.
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HCP OF ILLINOIS INC
HCP will advocate for homeownership opportunities with the Housing Choice Voucher Working Group, led by CAFHA. HCP brings national expertise on public housing authority (PHA) best practices, key national partnerships, and co-facilitates committees of the Working Group. As a partner on CAFHA’s 2020 CCT Advancing Equitable Homeownership grant and a national advisor on PHA programs that promote equitable access and support for long-term wealth building, HCP will take program/policy recommendations and advocate for change. The aim is to scale up PHA homeownership programs to increase awareness and meet the desires of voucher holders, and create a means to repair past harms caused by federal and local housing policy and the real estate industry.
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FEATHERFIST
Over the past two years, Featherfist has weathered the most unique service environment that we have ever seen. We have consistently serviced people experiencing housing instability and homelessness. We have continued to work during and through the pandemic because our clients are vulnerable and had to be served, despite the crisis that the world was experiencing. Featherfist continues to be mission minded, addressing barriers to obtaining and maintaining permanent housing. Featherfist is requesting general operating support. Our needs are two fold, specifically, we have experienced increased program growth which has led to the need for increased accounting support. Secondly, we have identified the need for increased behavioral health services for our current clients. This funding will allow us the opportunity to hire clinical staff/consultants to increase our capacity to provide these services on an ongoing basis as well as begin the initial service provision. Featherfist will create and implement a behavioral health component that can provide internal referrals. We know that clients have better participation rates and this better outcomes when they can receive services within 1 system. It is our hope that this investment into our agency will set the stage for the development of increased unrestricted funding that can further support our programs within 2 fiscal years.