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. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.
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TREND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
TREND Community Development Corporation (“TREND CDC”) seeks funding for the Strengthening Communities through Inclusive Ownership of Commercial Property project (“Project”), which seeks to strengthen disinvested communities and foster wealth creation for BIPOC residents, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders. The Project complements and enhances the impact of Chicago TREND Corporation’s (“Chicago TREND”) inclusive ownership strategy, which seeks to co-own and manage often-neglected service-oriented community shopping centers to make them attractive destinations and hubs of economic activity.
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University of Rochester
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Chicago Architecture Foundation
The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) will serve as a key strategic partner for the Come Home Project, a City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development (DPD) and Department of Housing (DOH) initiative that seeks to create a community development model that will attract and welcome former Chicago residents “back home.” The CAC will organize four components to support this initiative: 1) Open Call for Entries: The CAC will create a request for qualifications (RFQ) for architects and developers with the goal of creating 7-10 architect/developer teams that will create housing solutions in line with DPD’s and DOH’s vision. 2) Design Sprint: The architect/developer teams that the CAC assembles, with regular guidance by the CAC and our partner organization MUSE, will participate in a 60-Day “Design Sprint” program that will yield the new housing designs to populate the Pattern Book and guide the production of future housing in selected neighborhoods. 3) Pattern Book. The CAC, with partner Studio J9, will create the pattern book of common housing typologies that will provide City workers and interested developers with a vital resource for getting timely project approvals and assurances of a quality product, when needed. 4) The New Housing Exhibition. Drawing from the materials produced thus far, the CAC will create and host a New Housing Exhibition to share Come Home Project concepts with the public.
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Law and Civics Reading and Writing Institute
The Law & Civics Reading and Writing Institute’s (LCRWI) Sustainable Communities Initiative has prioritized the creation of an Environmental Justice Initiative in South Chicago’s impoverished urban communities whereby environmental assessments of soil, water, and air quality will be performed at the community scale by community members for the ultimate purpose of providing real-time environmental health information to community members via a mobile platform (i.e., smartphone app) in real-time. Environmental health metrics such as nutrition accessibility, soil, water, and air quality are urgently needed to protect the physical health of these communities and undo the economic harms that a highly polluted environment has on community growth and investment.
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Chicago Rehabilitation Network
CRN with partner Chicago Community Loan Fund started the Center for Shared Ownership to provide leadership for the preservation and creation of shared ownership models (coops, affordable condos/townhomes). In addition to encouraging new coop development through training and education, many historically redlined communities are faced with troubled and aging shared ownership properties at risk of blight and speculation. These at-risk, collectively-owned properties need intense TA to strengthen governance, financial stability, and reconnections to community. Using collective impact frameworks, our approach is for community-wide engagement to improve overall housing options, create wealth, and to establish a foothold for shared ownership.
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THE NDIGO FOUNDATION
2022 is the fourth year for NDIGO STUDIO, a 30 minute TV talk show discussing, authentic contemporary issues affecting the African American community. Featured are topics on race, media, politics, culture, entertainment, personalities and authors who have insightful and valuable views that are often not seen on television or are suppressed. The program would take deep dive looks at topics and personalities with an eclectic approach with one-on-one interviews and panel discussions. The program would utilized multiple platforms for distribution to include, Traditional TV, streaming TV, Facebook and the shows would also appear as podcast. This year we would like to increase our show season from 12 to 24. NDIGO STUDIO WAS NOMINATED FOR AN EMMY AWARD FOR BEST DISCUSSION/INTERVIEW PROGRAM IN THE MIDWEST.
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The Beyond the Groove Foundation
The mission of the Beyond the Groove Foundation (“BTGF”) is to direct and empower Chicago youth and young adults through music, technology, educational, cultural and recreational activities. The BTGF was founded by the Chosen Few DJs - a Chicago-based crew of African American DJs who were instrumental in the founding, growth and development of Chicago House Music - as a vehicle to give back to the community and to assist in providing safe, fun and culturally enriching activities for youth and adults. This application seeks funding to help BTGF’s support of the 30th Anniversary Chosen Few Picnic & Festival (the "Picnic"), which after cancellation in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be held on July 2, 2022 in Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago. The Picnic is a beloved event in Chicago’s African American community that furthers the mission of the BTGF and has a significant social, cultural and economic impact on the South Side community where it is held. Through music, dance, communion, fellowship and peace, we engage in powerful civic storytelling concerning the origins of a now worldwide genre of music - and the culture that surrounds it - that was proudly born in Chicago's African American community.
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FamilyFarmed
Food:Land:Opportunity support will be used to grow and refine the Good Food Accelerator and its associated programs "Go to Market" and "Accelerate for Growth". These programs will serve the needs of entrepreneurs in underserved communities. Additional effort and capacity will be geared towards community engagement and outreach to better serve minority and women food business owners.