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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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As One Chicago Inc
As One Chicago, a Chicago-based 501c3 nonprofit, founded and led by Roderick Williams, has served as a staple and pillar in Chicago offering a safe place of refuge for those who otherwise wouldn't have it. Our organization has successfully begun bridging the gap in various sectors and is already working with low-income residents within the community for trauma-informed care to ensure the physical and emotional safety of youth is addressed. With this funding, As One Chicago will expand its existing weekly out-of-school-time programming that incorporates mentorship and trauma-informed care while exposing economically disadvantaged youth to arts and culture during Memorial Day weekend and the gap in June. The weekly convenings will allow East Garfield Park youth to come together in an organized fashion to act in their self-interest while promoting peace and safety. This programming will support establishing an infrastructure for a community to draw attention to an issue, acknowledge individual trauma, offer catharsis after trauma and communicate across cultural and language barriers, ultimately promoting positive health and societal outcomes – serving as a vehicle for change.
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Wrap Your Beyouty Movement
The Wrap Your beYOUty Movement village of healers, leaders and community members is excited about the opportunity to work with more children during this very crucial part of the year. The Program Director has begun reaching out to youth organizations to offer healing and creative arts circles with youth ages 10 to 17 through mid July. Wrap Your beYOUty community partners such as La’Keisha Gray-Sewell (Girls Like Me Project), Akua Lanu (Black Beauty Cutie, Jacob Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies), and Aya Cook (Haji Healing Salon) are positioned to assist WYBM’s youth outreach, soliciting youth participation from neighborhoods across the south and west sides. The funds will be used to compensate healers, facilitators and many of the Artist’s that will participate in WYBM’s summer festival that will take place later this summer, Gele Day. The funds will also pay for food from local businesses, youth incentives, circle supplies and venue costs.
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300 North Pine Block Club
Summer program for youth from 100, 200, and 300 N Pine Ave Blocks. Providing safe and peaceful activities during Memorial Day weekend and June 6-26 2023 (for youth ages 6-18). Our program with include breakfast, lunch and a snack. Program focus is providing safe and peaceful activities during the gap time CPS year end and Chicago Park dist summer programming begins, Outline of our program we will engage youth in the following activities. 1) Community Awareness 2) Safety & Non Violence 3) How to fill out application for summer job A)Interviewing skills B) Resume writing C)Dress for Success. 4) Bike riding days. End of the program meet and greet safe and peaceful Celebration for Youth and there family to know there neighbors.
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Think Outside Da Block
Think Outside da Block (TODB) is a reputable organization established in the Greater Englewood community. We engage with nearly 3,000 children, youth and families each year, from over 26 zip codes across the Chicagoland area. TODB is proposing to host five additional events and six events total, three events during the Memorial Day weekend and three events between June 6th and June 26th. During the Memorial Day weekend TODB’s three Safe and Peaceful youth focused events will be an intergenerational game night on Friday, Saturday will include a block party style kickback event for youth 12-24 in the Chicago Lawn community and Sunday will include a block party style kickback event for youth 12-24 in the Greater Englewood community. Between June 6th and June 26th TODB will host three additional events in the Greater Englewood community including: community-wide learn to ride event, community-wide bike repair event and culminating Roll-N-Peace ride. Think Outside Da Block has adequate staff and has completed the planning. Safe and Peaceful funds will be used to increase marketing, rent/purchase equipment, provide food, games, prizes, disc jockey, security, permits, porta-potty, additional staff time etc.
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Rose of Light MBC
Camp 1302 is a summer day camp that was founded in 2012 as an outreach of the Rose of Light M.B.C. (ROL). located in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. Camp 1302 has become a vital resource for the families in the neighborhood. Since its founding, Camp 1302 has served more than 500 campers. We provide a safe environment for children during out-of-school times. We begin each day at 9:00 a.m. and end at 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Daily, we serve the campers breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks at no additional cost to their families. To ensure we are meeting the needs of families throughout the summer months, our program is in session for five to six weeks. Each day each camper will be sure to have the best day camp experience of their lives through activities that provide campers with academic enhancement and creativity through reading, visual, and performing arts, including martial arts, field trips, team building, and life skills through group play and recreation, including activities such as archery. The Soul Garden We are requesting funds for our community garden. In 2021, we implemented a community garden, which we have named The Soul Garden. The Soul Garden was created on a lot that sat empty and dormant for about nine of the 10 years we have been in operation. Finally, the Executive Director and one other volunteer, with a little elbow grease, determination, and plenty of salon pas, cultivated the land until the Soul Garden was created. We saw that there was a need for our campers' social and emotional health to be addressed, especially coming out of the COVID-19 lockdown and strict social limitations. The first year, the garden did not yield food, but it did yield a sanctuary and an open space for the campers to have a serene moment in the Serenity Garden and relax by the large fire pit that was built in just a few days by a community member, along with a field for archery and lots more space for playing, or sitting and chilling, as the campers would say, with friends. Camp 1302 is approaching youth and public safety by providing a place that is conducive to learning and is filled with people who care deeply for the youth and their ability to become change agents no matter where they stand in life. We give them a chance to be kids with agency. We give them structure and introduce them to things, people, and places that may have felt intimidating or threatening. Each year, our campers get to meet with the officers in the local community policing program so that they can prove to the youth that they are human and have their best interests at heart while debunking the myth that police are heartless individuals that only hunt our black and brown children.
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Mothers Ona Mission28
Funding is needed for additional programs for youth during the memorial day weekend and also in the month of June 6th -26 we will we service more youth from our program hire additional staff get needed supplies and provide food
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REBORN MINISTRIES
Reborn is currently engaged in mentoring youth and children including events, camps, discipleship, baseball, peace circles, and fostering community activism through service. Reborn's work to raise up westside youth and children as leaders continues to expand as we work with Melody Elementary, Leif Erikson Elementary, Chicago Westside Sports, One on One, and youth hiring programs such as One Summer and ARPA. This grant will allow our youth to participate in the baseball program earlier through youth stipends. It will also allow for strategically timed events to engage youth and children throughout May and June. Light the Night meals will provide a visible space for our community families to gather peacefully in Garfield Park. Grant funding will provide a small stipend as a thank you to two amazing community youth mentors/coaches who pour out their lives serving our youth sacrificially year after year.
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All Family Active ALFA
We will be sharing with parents while their children do physical activity and will share resources for parents. All the information will be about how to recognize any symptoms of violence, bullying or harassment in children and especially places where they can receive the service or ask for help. All this will take place in a Chicago Park District on the field We have planned an activity for children from 8 to 10 years old and their families, on the Saturday of memorial day weekend with this fund we could open the activity for children from 12 to 14 years old and we could do it for two days in two different parks during memorial day weekend, on that weekend, our audience could be doubled thanks to the fund. It will take place in the Chicago CPD, ALFA has always believed that when parents get involved in physical activity with their children it allows them to make better decisions as they are less stressed. The children will engage in physical activity as well as be rewarded for their participation. With the fund we could share healthy snacks and water, and we would do it twice a week instead of once within the 3 weeks of June. With the fund, we would extend our activities more days and open to more ages.