Paving the Path to Homeownership for Housing Choice Voucher Holders
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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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LATINO POLICY FORUM
Building on the success of four years of the Multicultural Leadership Academy and six years before that offering the Illinois Latino Leadership Academy, we will create a network of up to 220 African American and Latino graduates of those academies, providing them with training that will develop their transformative leadership skills, particularly their ability to apply those skills to heal and unite in a multicultural society that is experiencing discord and distrust. We will also offer networking events to build lasting bonds among the participants, and the participants will have opportunities to engage in cross-cultural community-based civic improvement projects.
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CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE
This application is translated from the Scope and Approach attachment included in the “Additional Documents” section to formalize the request for funding of Civic Consulting Alliance to cover our staff investments in the Together We Rise strategy creation project. These investments include pre-planning in December 2020, followed by an eight-week project kicking off the week of January 11, 2021. The duration of our investments will be in partnership with BCG, and the project will involve close collaboration with those Chicago Community Trust team members most closely engaged in Together We Rise, as well as newly-hired Together We Rise director Gloria Castillo, and select external stakeholders / Together We Rise collaborators.
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Greater Chicago Food Depository
The prevalence of hunger in Cook County demands a need for a strong network of community partners working to distribute healthy food to individuals and families in need, as well as comprehensive public policies that address food insecurity and its root causes. With the support of the Chicago Community Trust, the Greater Chicago Food Depository will continue to advance our hunger relief policy agendas and provide capacity building and technical assistance to strengthen our network of 700 food access partners – especially those in communities of color – to ensure everyone in Cook County has access to the food needed to lead healthy, stable lives.
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ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF CHICAGO
Arts & Business Council of Chicago (A&BC) seeks to renew support in service of Chicago Community Trust's (CCT) SMART Growth grantees and for A&BC’s general operations. Since 2011, A&BC and CCT have partnered to provide over 100 cultural agencies an organizational, management, and governance assessment. The smARTscope® assessment tool is ideal for short and long range planning and supports cohort learning. To support this partnership, A&BC will provide 29 SMART Growth Grantees with: - Review of Grantees' Year 3 proposals - 2 admissions per organization to Learning and Board Labs - 2 dedicated professional development Labs designed specifically for the SG cohort - 5 hours per organization of Business Volunteers for the Arts® On-Demand
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Northern Illinois Food Bank
We are requesting $150,000 to support our vision that our neighbors will have the food they need to thrive. As of 2020, we met the meal gap in 99% of our service area, yet recognize that we are not yet reaching all neighbors in need, particularly with the increased food insecurity due to COVID-19. We acknowledge and embrace the opportunity to design a better experience for neighbors and prioritize solutions for populations disproportionately impacted by hunger. In launching a new strategic plan, we take responsibility to serve more neighbors, especially those we often miss, and pursue a refined mission to provide nutritious food and resources for all those in need, with dignity, equity and convenience, through partnerships and innovation.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Arts Work Fund
AWF provides capacity-building grants and peer knowledge sharing opportunities to small arts and cultural organizations. In September, we launched Think • Explore • Share. These grants enable arts organizations to develop and test solutions to challenges posed by COVID-19 or challenges that hampered arts nonprofits before the pandemic. Challenges can relate to management, production, technology, fiscal planning, or artistic mission. The AWF Connect a listserv has grown in vitality as grantees are now asked to post lessons learned from their grants on the listserv so that the field can benefit from the knowledge gained and lessons learned.
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ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS
Despite our significant successes in policy advocacy at the local, state and federal levels, permanent immigration policy solutions are still needed. ICIRR’s evolving analysis and approach is now focused on developing innovative partnerships that support not only immigrants and refugees but all low-income Black and Brown communities. We believe an integrated strategy that lifts all boats is the way to create economic equity. We will: -Develop the capacity and leadership of our institutional members. -Conduct Intentional relational organizing with BIPOC-led organizations and people directly impacted by immigration policies and the racial/ethnic wealth gap. -Build integrated campaigns that support Black/Brown unity and economic justice.
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The Chicago Community Trust
To support the Office of Equity and Racial Justice, for Nneka Onwuzurike’s internship.