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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Borderless Magazine NFP
Thanks to the support of Chicagoans, Borderless has made tangible – and independently documented – impacts in our region since our launch in 2020. Borderless is reaching communities in our region and filling gaps in news coverage through our multilingual reporting. We provide critical information to Chicagoans through our resource guides, by centering the voices of immigrants in our feature stories, and holding those in power accountable with our investigations into industry and local government. Every story we publish is available for free on our website in Spanish and English, with additional stories available in Dari/Persian, French and Arabic. Chicagoans have come to trust Borderless’ reporting over the last five years because of our journalists’ deep connections to the communities we serve and our commitment to fairness and accuracy. “Borderless Magazine is such an important publication for our community,” one reader recently shared on Instagram. “They fearlessly demand space for refugee and immigrant stories to be told and celebrated.” Our small team punches above our weight. In the last six months alone, we broke what became an international story when we published our investigation into the dangerous conditions at a city-funded migrant shelter where a five-year-old boy later got sick and died. We were highlighted as a leader in local immigration coverage in a University of Texas study on Chicago’s news ecosystem. Last year, we won the national Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism at the Online Journalism Awards for our innovative use of field canvassers to reach Spanish-speaking Chicagoans, who represent one-third of the city’s population. We are now asking for Press Forward’s support to make our community connections sustainable. We want to build on what we have learned over the last five years by expanding our capacity to serve our diverse audience and increase revenue from that audience by hiring a part-time Spanish engagement reporter and a part-time development associate. Our new Spanish Engagement Reporter will help decrease the turnaround time of our translations, making our work even more accessible, and will develop and produce our first Spanish-exclusive news product, an SMS service. Our new Development Associate will increase the capacity of our staff by taking over the development and production of donation drives, donor recruitment and engagement events and corporate sponsorships in our newsletter and for events. Press Forward’s support would catalyze Borderless’ growth and sustainability for years. By making our community connections more sustainable, we can better serve our city’s diverse and underserved populations and scale the strategies that have made our work impactful over the last five years.
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South Side Weekly NFP
As South Side Weekly prepares to significantly expand our community engagement efforts in FY25, we are applying to enhance our physical distribution infrastructure and serve as a multidimensional locus for resource and information exchange. Our model has always imagined the newsroom as a community resource, and we want to make a firm stride in that direction–in partnership with community stakeholders.
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La Raza Chicago, Inc.
The Latino community faces growing attacks, frequently from the very top of presidential campaigns and other groups, that exacerbate xenophobia, racism, stigmatization and present threats to the community wellbeing, its cultural identity, and to the American democracy and society in general too. Hateful narratives and disinformation, that include threats of mass deportation and community dislocation, produce fear, hurt the Latino community, and make Latinos vulnerable facing distorted communications, unfair representation and marginalization, and even aggressive behavior from individuals permeated by confrontational, polarized, and misleading discourses. In that context, La Raza's Latino Community Intelligence and Media Engine is a transformative and narrative-changing initiative aimed to empower the Chicago Latino community, with its large component of Spanish speakers, immigrants, and mixed-status families, with two major goals. One, with solidarity, to engage the Chicago Latino community to cultivate cohorts of thinkers, writers, and citizen reporters that, during study and discussion sessions with support from La Raza’s journalists, will release their collective intelligence, leverage the power of journalism and storytelling, and apply new digital technologies -especially Artificial Intelligence tools- to create a corpus of community knowledge, analysis, testimonials, proposals, stories, and statements to describe and analyze the current realities affecting Latinos, to change narratives by expressing their true community values, and to help to counteract the xenophobia, racism, stigmatization, misinformation, and harmful political rhetoric that is growing in our society. This is particularly acute considering the real possibility of this dangerous rhetoric becoming actual government policy after the 2024 election. Two, to provide the community cohorts with access to La Raza’s know-how and media platforms to disseminate their stories, research, statements, and other contents, and to train and motivate them to use and use more digital technologies and AI tools to catalyze their thinking and messages, raise their voices, and reduce the digital gap. Through study circles, capacity building and community-focused journalism, we aim to generate a corpus of community intelligence, stories, and collective knowledge that will allow our people to better understand the issues affecting Latinos and immigrants in Chicago and the USA and will motivate them to work collectively to craft and disseminate narratives that are fact-based and reflect their truth and values, their relevance for the American society overall, and the magnificence of their cultural heritage, fostering a more democratic, inclusive and equitable society. In the context of the present crisis of media, this solidarity project will be also key to La Raza’s goals of transforming itself to better adapt to our audience needs, to produce innovative, engaging, and relevant content, to experiment and thrive in the digital technology realms, and to increase our sustainability and community engagement options. The success of this project will allow it to consolidate, gain additional funding, and become a permanent institute, a core activity of La Raza’s, with the possibility of expanding and replicating to include more participants, tackle new issues, and serve more communities in Chicago and beyond.
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Reparations Media NFP
Build the capacity of the Change Agents lab to build upon the proven success in our audio series and our collaborative relationships with community organizations to amplify community-driven grassroot solutions to society’s most pressing issues – including reentry after incarceration, homeownership disparities, anti-Blackness, and violence in Chicago’s marginalized communities and across the Midwest.
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Stick Talk
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Rock of Our Salvation Evangelical Free Church
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300 North Pine Block Club
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From A Caterpillar To A Butterfly