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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Fathers Families Healthy Communities
FFHC requests $5,000 in grant support to host a Father’s Day Celebration Event in June.
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Life Changing Community Outreach Inc.
LCCO runs a 9 week youth summer camp program with the extra funding we will be able to extend our weeks longer and start earlier. It will also open the opportunity to extend summer camp to more youth. Proving youth with a safe place for the summer not just a safe place. But where they can have fun and be a kid.
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Pentecostal Church of Holiness
Pentecostal Church of HolinessAdvances the Kigdom of God by pursuing holiness and improving the quality of life for others. Located in the North Lawndale Community of Chicago, PCH has partnered with Operation Warm to provide coats, Chicago Food Depository to distribute 1500 meals, and Faith in Place and UIC to create a French Drain in our Veteran' Memorial Peace Garden. We seek $5000 to promote Healthy Living as an alternative to Youth and Community Violence thorugh programmatic activities and events.
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The 411 Movement for Pierre Loury
The 411 Movement for Pierre Loury is requesting funding to support our efforts during the CPS Gap from June 6th-June 26th. Our goal will be to do traveling African Drum Circles in neighborhoods that are most impacted by gun violence. The Initiative is "Beats not Bullets". We will also provide resources and connect youth to violence interrupters if needed. The reason we will travel to neighborhoods on the south and westsides is because due to the gang cultural some youth can not travel into certain areas, so for safety reasons it is most accessible for us to meet them where they are. Park Districts, on the blocks, in collaboration with other youth agencies in community.. In addition to teaching African Drum techniques we will provide Life skills and Decision Making info sessions as a hope to get them to critically think before making any decisions to harm or to be harmed. We will target 4-6 neighborhoods on Fridays between 3-6, Lawndale, Garfield, Austin, Washington Park, Bronzeville focusing on ages 10-18+, connecting with 10+ youth per drum circle.
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Elijah's House, NFP
Elijah's House, NFP is expanding its current youth programming to operate during the out of school gap from June 6 through 26th 2023 to serve more Chicago youth. Our summer scheduled is set to begin June 26th, serving teens age 14 through 18, however, we have the capacity to begin programs earlier and can start our summer schedule June 6th through this grant. If funded these dollars will help us serve more youth allowing us to engage ages 5 to 13 in daily Program activities. Our partnerships with Kelly Hall YMCA and Chicago District Police, are both available to help in the support of daily programming and activities for young people, and will help to keep them safe, promote inclusion and comradery and build cohesive community relationships in the Humboldt Park community.
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The James-Gail Foundation, Inc.
The James-Gail Foundation, Inc. will use the funds given to extend our To Be A Kid: The Experience program. We currently have over forty families that we serve with our many different events. With the additional funds, we will be able to allow for children to engage in even more activities this summer. We will be able to add more workshops during the week and more fun activities over the weekend from June 6th to June 26th. Our goal with this program is to give youth living in neighborhoods plagued by gun violence something to believe in by providing them with fun experiences. A kid’s job is to simply be a kid and we want to help change the narrative by way of fun excursions so that kids may see and believe in more than the violence that they are often hearing about.
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One For One Chicago
One For One will have 4 planned activities that will allow us to start our youth engagement work during the June gap. This will also give us time to get the youth ready for summer employment. This would include, securing state ID's and any other barrier that would get in the way of the youth opening up a back account before the start of the summer program. In addition, there would be three other activities that would involve exposure to community entrepreneurs. Ida Nelson from Ida's ice cream along with a visit to the Ice Cream Museum, Marshawn Feltus of Act Yoga and the last activity would be the youth's choice. This is important because they do not have a lot of choices about the violence they have witnessed, the loss they have had and they need to know they have a choice and something to look forward to. This funding will expand our youth engagement during the June gap. We will focus on youth engagement. Currently, we have a waiting list for youth for our program and this will help
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Root2Fruit Youth Foundation
Root2fruit Youth Foundation is proposing the expansion of our Austin Safety Action Plan with the Safe and Peaceful Communities Grant. We have seven weeks of summer activation planned for the youth and families in the Austin community. Each activation is curated and led by Austin youth with community engagement at the center. It is an intentional effort to use all funding to expand our reach in the community and plant the seeds of peace in all that take up space with us.