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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The Chicago Community Foundation/Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Greater Chicago
This event will be a celebration of the hard self-reflection work by the grantees, as well as an opportunity for them to share with the attendees what the SELFF care journey was like for them in their own words.
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Chicago Women in Philanthropy
Each year, Chicago Women in Philanthropy's "Making a Difference" Luncheon celebrates a woman who has made a significant impact in the field of philanthropy.
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Gift of Hope Community Foundation
The Gift of Hope Community Foundation mission is to support Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network (Gift of Hope) through community engagement, awareness, and charitable giving. Gift of Hope’s mission is to save and enhance as many lives as possible through organ and tissue donation. Our commitment to ensuring equal access to organ and tissue donation stems from our core diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives which drive our community outreach education programs. The Community Outreach team creates events to ensure our outreach supports all marginalized communities in our service area including African American, Latinx/Hispanic, and LBTQIA+. We need funding for specific education and well-being programs that support and serve communities of color on the South and West sides of Chicago. These black and brown communities disproportionately suffer from chronic illnesses that often lead to the need for lifesaving organ transplants. Communities of color represent the largest number of transplant patients on the waitlist yet remain the lowest number of communities on the donor registry. Through targeted outreach and education programs, our goal is to increase the number of donor registrations from these communities while reducing the number of transplant waitlist patients from communities of color through preventative health education.
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YOUTH CROSSROADS INC
Beginning in January 2024, Youth Crossroads will honor its 50th Anniversary with a yearlong celebration including a kickoff event in February, gala in April, alumni reunion in July and youth mental health conference in October.
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Chicago Cultural Performing Arts and Media Alliance
Honoring City of Chicago Violence Prevention Organizations
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Sisters in Cinema
The Sisters in Cinema Media Arts Center grand opening, March 10 - 17, 2024, includes a wide range of events over 5 days that will bring people to the South Shore neighborhood to celebrate cinema, culture, and community.
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Borderless Magazine NFP
Thanks to the support of the Chicago Community Trust and others, Borderless has made tangible -- and independently documented -- impacts in Chicago over the last four years. Borderless is reaching communities in Chicago that few other news outlets serve through our multilingual reporting. We provide critical information – from how to vote to where to find food and legal assistance – and hold those in power accountable through our investigations into toxic polluters, migrant shelters and more. The Trust's ongoing support has helped us make this impact by supporting our staff and operations. In the last grant period, we were able to become a more equitable and fair organization by offering more competitive salaries to our staff and a favorable benefits package, including a generous family leave policy. We also matured our operations to support our staff and larger fundraising efforts, such as an annual benefit. This year marks our fifth year as Borderless Magazine. The foundation we have built over the last few years will allow us to make some big changes in 2024, including hiring three new, early career reporters as part of our Pathways program. These full-time reporters will help us increase our publishing cadence to at least three original stories per week by the end of 2024 and publish at least one investigation per month. Immigrant communities deserve investigative journalism that holds the government and corporations accountable for how they interact with -- and sometimes abuse -- some of Chicago's most vulnerable residents. They deserve investigative journalism that not only centers their experiences but is accessible in the languages they speak. The Trust's ongoing support will help us fund these positions and essential operations needs for our expanded staff, such as laptops and a larger office in our coworking space. Report for America, Medill, Scripps Howard Fund, and Dreihaus Foundation have already committed support for these new reporting positions. The Trust's support will help us fill the gaps in funding.
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Hyde Park and Kenwood Interfaith Council
Our Third Annual Anti-Violence summit will focus on community violence prevention, with sessions on 1) education on root causes; 2) opportunities for advocacy and creative solutions; and 3) trauma-informed healing led by multimedia art practitioners.