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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NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC
Addressing the growing needs of low-income residents in the wake of widespread class-based & racially motivated financial divestment has become a paramount challenge, especially when coupled with the unique barriers of the COVID-19 quarantine. NHS requests continued general operating funding of our comprehensive housing counseling programming. NHS, as a grassroots organization led and staffed from the communities of color we serve, seeks to empower prospective and current homebuyers with an aim of bringing back financial investment and homeownership across Chicago’s low-income neighborhoods. NHS will achieve this through pre-purchase counseling, financial education, foreclosure prevention, post-purchase counseling, & mission-based lending.
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CHICAGO FILMMAKERS
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Erie Neighborhood House
Erie House respectfully requests funding to support our violence prevention and intervention efforts in Little Village, helping Latinx youth and families overcome the difficulties that result from experiencing violence and victimization. Our Proyecto Cuídate program is based out of South Lawndale and delivers much needed, quality mental health services that are trauma-informed, bilingual, and culturally competent, to the vulnerable and often victimized Latinx community in Little Village. This project will provide extensive case management services to Latinx youth and families as well as referrals linking them to other programs within Erie House, for example Legal Services, in order to provide a more holistic solution to beneficiary needs.
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Inner-City Muslim Action Network
The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) proposes a partnership with Chicago Community Trust and the Rockefeller Foundation based on shared commitments to providing holistic health and wellness interventions for underserved Illinois residents. Specifically, IMAN requests $75,000 in funding to augment its Health Center’s ongoing COVID-19 Vaccination Program, including existing outreach and education efforts in hard-hit areas on Chicago’s southside, and to support the salaries of two new medical assistants.
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MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION INC
Although young people care deeply about the problems in their communities, many feel powerless to solve them. Being left out of the conversation exacerbates the inequalities that youth experience, especially in the education system. Colleges across the country have failed to ensure that their students, particularly their low-income and students of color, do not fall through the cracks or become victims of the vastly unequal achievement gap. With the help of Mikva Challenge’s expertise in empowering youth voice, the City Colleges of Chicago aim to combat these inequalities in their system by bringing youth perspectives to the forefront of equity conversations, ensuring youth have a say in the development of a more equitable education system.
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FREE STREET PROGRAMS INC
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B U I L D INCORPORATED
BUILD’s Youth COVID-19 Vaccination Marketing and Community Outreach Campaign is designed to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates in the Austin and Humboldt Park communities, while empowering neighborhood youth to build knowledge, develop leadership skills, and help improve community health. The project will utilize a two-pronged approach, first engaging 10 teens from Austin and Humboldt Park in designing a comprehensive marketing and outreach campaign to increase resident awareness of the vaccine/vaccination process, then implementing the campaign strategy in both communities, partnering with CBOs and other stakeholders like the Dept. of Public Health - with the goal of increasing vaccination rates and reducing COVID-19 cases and deaths.
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Increase the Peace
LCN and ITP will recruit, hire, and train youth to expand it's pilot Community Health Ambassadors. Health Ambassadors will help residents navigate the vaccine registration process, meet with stakeholders to educate about health issues, get “buy-in,” and design youth-led activities that integrate vaccination, food assistance, and violence prevention. Moreover, youth Health Ambassadors will set up pop-up events to meet community residents at highly trafficked and/or visible locations where community members congregate. Health Ambassadors will conduct door-to-door outreach, assist at local vaccination sites, and amplify the voices and stories of trusted messengers like street vendors, youth, and community leaders, among others.