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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THRIVE SCHOLARS
Economic mobility is our North Star. Thrive Scholars' mission is to help high-achieving students of color from economically disadvantaged communities get into and graduate from top colleges equipped to reach their full career potential. Thrive Scholars addresses the racial wealth gap disparities with our signature Summer Academy program and our Career Development Program. We respectfully request a grant of $200,000 to continue scaling our local program by increasing the number of Chicago Thrive Scholars who can participate in our Summer Academy and Career Development Programs–the first steps to achieving economic mobility.
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WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC
WTTW respectfully requests $50,000 from The Chicago Community Trust to launch a new reporting initiative examining disparities in homeownership for Chicago’s Black and Latino communities. Specifically, funding of this initiative will enable WTTW News to produce and present 4-6 stories on-air and online focused on homeownership challenges and successes for Black and Latino Chicagoans, a digital animated short for broadcast and social media, as well as an in-person community engagement event as part of our WTTW News Community Conversation series.
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Borderless Magazine NFP
We are requesting support from the Trust to produce a bilingual reporting package that will include English and Spanish first-person narratives, photos, resource guides and explainers about housing and homeownership in the Latinx community. The funds will be used to pay for a reporter, photographer, field canvassers and supporting staff.
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Chicago State University Foundation
Approximately two-thirds of all jobs require postsecondary education. However, Illinois public universities and colleges have experienced a significant decline in college enrollment of African American students by 26% in recent years. Designated by the U.S. Department of Education as Illinois’ only four-year Predominantly Black Institution (PBI), Chicago State University (CSU) is actively working to reverse this trend and increase college enrollment and graduation rates of traditionally underrepresented black students in Chicago. Well aligned with the Chicago Community Trust’s commitment to programs demonstrating connections to post secondary success with limited debt burden, CSU’s Rise Academy is a first-year, tuition free student success program. Designed to provide students new to CSU with an early and supportive introduction to college, Rise begins with a five-week summer orientation. During the academic year, students receive ongoing academic, cognitive, and social-emotional support in the form of one-on-one check-ins, embedded tutoring, and cohort-based monthly workshops and social events. The scholarship covers tuition, fees, and textbook costs after accounting for grants and scholarships; students also receive a laptop and internet access. With the support of leaders across the city and the state, CSU is taking swift action to dismantle barriers to education equity for Black and Latinx communities. Rise Academy, is a part of a suite of data-driven strategies for increasing CSU’s student enrollment, retention, and graduation rates; it is an initiative that will drive measurable - and sustainable - results to close the Black and Latinx education and wealth gap in Chicago and the State of Illinois.
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Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council
The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council is pleased to be invited and submit this request for the Catalyzing Neighborhood Investment - Build the Foundation Opportunity. Gathering the fiscal resources to support our ongoing operation is a consistent issue that nearly all non-profit organizations face. However, every opportunity and every dollar raised is considered only as a potential solution to problems that our community faces. Oftentimes, sustaining our mission and work has been made more difficult by the need to demonstrate specific programmatic outcomes that only seek to quantify what is being done without concern for the experiences and sentiments of those we serve. The needs of the community we serve are greater than ever, and while we are happy to institute and measure both new and existing programs, our work is ongoing and general operating support will undoubtedly help us to achieve positive results that may not be measured for months or even years to come. This is a part of our larger neighborhood investment strategy which seeks to braid a large mixed use development - the Back of the Yards Rooted and Rising - with community planning and social service to place local residents on a path to economic opportunity, while bringing in large outside investment. We will continue to strive towards our mission goal of enhancing the welfare of all our residents and our development strategy.
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Immigration Project Inc.
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North Lawndale Employment Network
NLEN is working to close the racial wealth gap in the Chicago region through increasing the share of economic prosperity for Black individuals and families through innovative employment initiatives, working directly with employers, and participating in the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council (NLCCC) coalition as its Workforce Committee Chair. NLEN proposes to expand efforts to identify quality employment opportunities, help expand access to these jobs for the hardest-to-employ jobseekers – those with criminal backgrounds – and improve their retention in these jobs. We will do this by working directly with large employers to convince them to change their hiring and employment policies towards second chance hiring, opening new opportunities for employment for residents with a criminal background.
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Brown Sugar Bakery DBA I Hart Corporation
Brown Sugar Bakery is the only black woman owned chocolate confection manufacturing company in America, and we are in the process of finalizing a modern manufacturing factory that will help grow the national brand and create new employment opportunities. The Brown Sugar Bakery Factory is an urban manufacturing project that is transforming the former Cupid Candies factory into a state of the art chocolate manufacturing facility, and developing an epicenter for workforce development on the southwest side through creation of 50+ new jobs.