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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Fathers Families Healthy Communities
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IL Muslim Civic Coalition
The promise of America is that all citizens have the same rights and opportunities to prosper, but that is simply not true. Asians in the U.S. are a diverse group of people from different countries of origin who speak different languages, represent different cultural and faith traditions and have a wide range of wealth and educational achievement. While many see Asians as the "good minority," there are groups and subgroups in the U.S. who are among the poorest, least educated and most likely to face issues of unemployment, hunger and poor health. There are many barriers to overcome for the voices of all Asian Americans to be heard, including racism, religious discrimination, language barriers and gaps in cultural understanding. The Muslim Civic Coalition (Coalition) is working to help people overcome those barriers and realize their full rights and opportunities. The work of the Coalition meets the overall goal of helping members of Chicago’s API communities achieve improvement across quality of life issues by empowering them to participate in civic structures in the U.S., in Illinois, and in Chicago. Understanding communities, collaboration with organizations that serve them and participating in elections, and town hall meetings and forums that set policies and elect candidates who represent their interests, helps ensure that API communities throughout Chicago can affect policies that benefit them.
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National Cambodian Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial
The National Cambodian Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial seek a general operating support from the Asian Giving Circle. The grant support help NCHM strengthen its organizational capacity and provide holistic and integrated programs to the Cambodian community, which facilitate the community to heal through art, language, memory, and history.
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Muslims for Just Futures
Muslims for Just Futures is requesting seed funding ($8,000) to support MJF’s 2023-2024 powerbuilding programming focused on Northside Chicago. MJF’s powerbuilding strategies will focus on organizing and movement-building. These funds will support Muslim Women’s Summer Powerbuilding Institute, networking mixers to connect organizers and community builders, as well as a year long movement-building project to examine the ways the War on Terror impacts Chicago communities and affirmative visions for Chicago’s just futures.
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Gilloury Institute
Silk Road Rising respectfully requests support from Asian Giving Circle to grow our storytelling capacities. We have served Chicago’s AAPI, immigrant, and refugee communities across Chicagoland for over twenty years. With your partnership, we will launch new artmaking projects, foster new community partnerships, and deepen our commitment to expanding the representation of Pan-Asian cultures.
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
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Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment
The Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment (AFIRE) requests support from Asian Giving Circle to host the Bayanihan Summit this December. The Bayanihan Summit will be a day-long conference to discuss and activate LGBTQ Filipinx/a/o organizing in Chicago. The Bayanihan Summit serves as the next stage of growth of the previous annual Bayanihan Show that focused on healing justice and connecting the Filipinx/a/o community to health resources available in the city.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance