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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Centro De Trabajadores Unidos United Workers Center
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos is excited about the potential to join a change-makers peer-learning cohort to focus their capacity building efforts into the South Suburbs of Chicago while also working to fortify the Latinx immigrant community on the southeast side. In particular, CTU plans to utilize this opportunity to foster relationships between CTU's existing base of Latinx immigrants and African-American residents of the southeast side and south suburbs.
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Urban Male Network
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Lowell Elementary School
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Third Unitarian Church of Chicago
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Harambee Community Garden
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Englewood Enterprise Gallery
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LUBC - The Let Us Breathe Collective
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago
Advancing Justice | Chicago seeks a three-year renewal grant to invest in community organizing, leadership development, and power-building training. This project aims to continue investing in I Speak Power (ISP), our grassroots base of first-generation, limited English proficient, and working-class Asian Americans, and ensuring the sustainability of our in-house power-building training series that was newly created in 2020 through the Chicago Community Trust's support.