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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Current Innovation NFP
Current seeks a $50,000 general operating support from the Chicago Community Trust to offset administrative and compliance costs related to its $14.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Regional Innovation Engines Program, which was funded through the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. The Great Lakes Water Innovation Engine, or Great Lakes ReNEW, is an ambitious initiative led by Current to grow an inclusive and circular blue economy and drive innovations in water and climate technologies that support industry, utilities, and disinvested communities in the Great Lakes region and beyond. ReNEW was named one of just 10 inaugural Type 2 Regional Innovation Engines by the NSF in 2024, with the opportunity to attract $160 million across 10 years for research, commercialization, workforce development, and ecosystem building in the blue economy. With this award, Current has the opportunity not only to shape Chicago and the larger region’s blue economy, but also to inform the design of this new federal program and highlight the region’s capabilities on a national stage. Funding from the Trust will enable Current to overcome the barriers associated with managing the significant reporting and oversight requirements, provide funding to support the necessary scale-up of our grants management and compliance team, and cover some of the difference between the full cost of grant management and the de minimus indirect cost rate awarded by the federal government.
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Endeleo Institute Inc
Under the 95th Street Strategy Plan Endeleo has involved over 400 residents of Washington Heights and surrounding communities in planning what it will take to make 95th Street an economically viable, safe, shopping, dining and walkable corridor. A smaller group of volunteers, 14 to 16, meet to plan the issues to be discussed at the larger meetings that involved the 400 residents and others. The recommendations from the larger meetings will be presented to Endeleo and the City Department of Planning for consideration and implementation. The Community Action Group (CAG) with the support of Community Table (CT) was instrumental in the planning and development of the 95th street Strategic Plan. That is the Plan we mow must use to engage and empower residents of the study area/ s. Endeleo's pivot roles were to identify residents from the study areas (Neighborhoods)who would/could assist team leaders in planning the agenda, recruiting residents for the meetings and convening the meetings. Endeleo, along with the CT members, is now planning to generate the kind of civic, residential, economic, and political of support that will be needed to implement the plan.
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Tools Up Foundation, INC
In keeping up with the evolution of the construction workforce, our organization will use funds for capacity building, recruitment, participant support services, and accredited competency training material. We dedicate ourselves to continued capacity building, because it is an ongoing investment into a stronger organization that desires to deliver year-round programming without lapses. We plan to onboard additional instructional staff, such as experienced construction instructors and licensed therapists, to support our trauma-involved teenagers. Additional use of funds will go towards continued collaboration and curriculum with Chicagoland workforce transition partners, who continue to place our program graduates into their comparable career positions.
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Michael Reese Health Trust
Chicago Funders Together to End Homelessness (CFTEH) respectfully requests $200,000 over one year from The Chicago Community Trust to support emergency rental assistance for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Chicago and CFTEH’s general operating expenses. Over the next year, CFTEH will regrant $150,000 to All Chicago, a key partner in administering emergency rental assistance. Additionally, CFTEH will complete a strategic refresh and dismantle silos by growing CFTEH’s partnerships with philanthropy, government, and community partners.
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Erie Neighborhood House
Erie Neighborhood House is hereby applying for matching general operating support for use in covering the indirect costs (i.e., administrative, financial and compliance requirements) of a single government grant. The grant we have selected has been extended through December 31, 2025, for a total grant life of 36 months. For this reason, we are requesting the full amount of the match.
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Elevate Energy
Elevate requests funding from the Chicago Community Trust to cover the administrative and compliance costs associated with managing the ARPA-funded LeadCare Cook County grant, in order to complete lead service line replacements at child care facilities and ultimately achieve safe drinking water for children so that they can grow and prosper.
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Greenwood Archer Capital, Inc.
Greenwood Archer Capital (GAC), a mission-driven CDFI dedicated to equitable economic development, seeks funding to offset administrative and compliance costs associated with managing the Chicago Neighborhood Rebuild 2.0 program, funded by ARPA. This grant will enable GAC to overcome operational barriers, enhancing its ability to rehabilitate vacant properties, promote affordable homeownership, and create workforce opportunities. By strengthening its capacity to manage government-funded initiatives, GAC will advance its mission to foster economic stability and inclusive community development in historically disinvested Black and Latine communities in Chicago.
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The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
The proposed project seeks to advance research centering the lived experiences of residents from Chicago’s most socially and economically under-resourced communities. By doing so, our goal is to support research that impacts the basic needs of these individuals to help identify solutions that can improve health and empower residents in this work. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) can shift historical power inequities by making community members—particularly those from Chicago’s neighborhoods facing the highest levels of social and economic hardship-- active and valued members of the research team. By supporting community-led, participatory research of issues affecting basic needs, grassroots teams and academics can better partner to identify solutions that improve health, an integral component to addressing the racial wealth gap. The Community Citizen Scientist Certificate Program was developed at UIC as part of the citywide, Chicago Department of Public Health-led, hyperlocal COVID-19 response. Central to this work was the empowerment of Community-based Organizations (CBOs) and community members to provide COVID-19 outreach to their neighbors while building their capacity to accomplish career goals. Community members were paid to be trained on self-selected medical, public health and medical research career pathways they could pursue post-pandemic. The UIC School of Public Health (SPH) created the Community Citizen Scientist Certificate Program to train community members in public health and medical research fundamentals and prepare students for careers in public health, medicine and medical scientific research. We now seek to relaunch the Community Citizen Scientist Certificate Program at UIC to meet the citywide demand to build public health, medicine and medical scientific research capacity at the neighborhood level through the Healthy Chicago Equity Zones (HCEZ) and other hyperlocal public health practice initiatives.