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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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Artists Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions Project
For the Chicago Arts Census.
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Prison+ Neighborhood Arts/Education Project
To help the organization plan a physical space for artists and families of incarcerated people to display art, create art, and hold community meetings.
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Enchanted Backpack
In support of general operations.
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CAST Water Safety Foundation
In support of general operations.
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FAR SOUTH CDC
Morgan Park Commons Housing Project is a 360-unit mixed-use housing project located at the northwest corner intersection at 115th Street and Halsted. The planned housing project will be 75 percent affordable and 25 percent market-rate rental units ranging from studio to 3-bedrooms. The project site is 12.06-acres former Jewel-Osco and Halsted In-door Mall commercial property and connects three (3) neighborhoods of Morgan Park, West Pullman, and Roseland. The project site is on a highly visible Halsted street with nearly 20,000 vehicular traffic, intermodal public transit bus lines including (CTA) and PACE, and four (4) blocks north of West Pullman Metra stop. The site is slated to incorporate the PACE pulse terminal.
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ENDELEO INSTITUTE INC
The purchase, rehab and new construction addition to a vacant commercial property on the 95th street corridor in Washington Heights is slated to become Cafe Du Bois, a combination coffee shop/laundromat. As Covid-19 festers, Endeleo is pivoting in the face of economic uncertainties by 1) leveraging dual purpose of the space, 2) creating economic synergy and 3) providing greater value to the community. Endeleo was a 2019 recipient of a City of Chicago Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant and this year, secured Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity funding for a laundromat. While the innovative use of space and additional no cost capital helps offset financing, the Pre-Development Fund initially keeps the project moving.
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CHICAGO CARES INC
Chicago Cares requests support for its civic pathway programming consisting of three complementary programs that will build the collective power of Chicagoans to advance equity in under-resourced and under-invested communities that have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn. Through volunteer text banking on community issues, virtual programmatic offerings combining education and service, and community-based leadership trainings, Chicago Cares will provide Chicagoans with strategic opportunities to connect across lines of difference and rebuild trust in one another and public institutions – which is even more necessary than ever after such a tumultuous year.
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Heartland Human Care Services Inc
In support of the Chicago Asset Building for Children initiative (Chicago ABC's).