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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LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
LCDC requests a project grant to help close the racial wealth gap through creating Black homeownership. LCDC will do this with new construction, manufactured housing, rehabs for ownership, and homeownership counseling to ensure Black working families can access safe and affordable financing and are ready to purchase and retain their homes. North Lawndale is on the brink of extensive redevelopment and it is essential to increase homeownership now before prices are driven too high. In addition to other pending developments, Invest South West has two RFPs in the community for large scale development as well as a 606-type project near Homan Square. We are at the beginning of a tipping point that will determine the future of the community.
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CIRCESTEEM INC
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La Casa Norte
LCN's mission is to serve youth and families confronting homelessness. We provide access to stable housing and deliver comprehensive services that act as a catalyst to transform lives and communities. Our Continuum of Care includes drop-in centers for youth, emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing. We recognize numerous barriers and needs affect that confronting homelessness, so are services include a Nutrition Center, with a food pantry and community café, in our new Community Center. This facility includes Howard Brown Health Center, to which we refer clients, making health care more accessible. Typically, clients and residents also utilize our Clothing Closet, where we distribute clothing and supplies.
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YOUNG INVINCIBLES
Beginning summer 2021, Young Invincibles will build a multi-pronged effort designed to educate young adults, with a focus on young adults of color, about the COVID vaccine in Chicagoland, developing key messaging that resonates with a broader young adult audience, and provide information about resources where they can make vaccination appointments, leveraging the existing young adult engagement programs and digital outreach and communications platforms that we’ve built over the last decade. Our goal is to ensure access to critical and trusted information about the vaccine for young people with a focus on communities of color and underserved, harder to reach populations so that every young person can make the best decision for themselves.
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MATTHEW HOUSE
Matthew House is a nonprofit organization serving the homeless for over 29 years with over 92% self-reporting they are Black or people of color. Services includes housing first, food and safety security, assess to mainstream benefits, staff and board is representative of the population served. MHC provides healthy food choices through our daytime services and to all permanent housing residents with food vouchers on or offsite as needed. MHC takes a case management evidence base approach making the experiencing of homelessness as brief as possible. MHC provides access daily to quality clothing; toilette and supplies for the homelessness supporting improve self-confident and ensuring well being of individuals. Annual budget is 2 million
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Chicago Torture Justice Center
The Chicago Torture Justice Center (CTJC) offers politicized healing and wellness services to individuals, families, and communities impacted by police violence. We work closely with survivors tortured by Jon Burge and others within the Chicago Police Department, an organization that continues to inflict violence on Black and Brown people. We are also the home of Justice for Families, a group of family members whose loved ones have been murdered by the police. Our work responds to trauma experienced across the lifespan, as survivors who were tortured in the Burge era as teenagers and young adults are now in their 50s and 60s. As the violence of policing continues to create and exacerbate trauma, we are growing to meet evolving needs.
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GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
GAGDC, is working to address the impact of the Covid-19 virus and long term health disparities residents are facing in the Auburn Gresham community. The primary objective includes utilizing community engagement task forces (housing, education, seniors, health and wellness and faith-based institutions), block clubs, and GAGDC school staff working with parent councils that make up our neighborhood network partners infrastructure. We will use already trusted staff and partners by hosting virtual community conversations, campaigns, and other organized events where we can share the value and importance to our community, as well as providing vaccination location resources, and available technology and transportation to those with limited access.
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The Chicago Community Foundation/Elevated Chicago
Elevated Chicago (EC) requests Project-Specific Support for a coalition of public, private & nonprofit organizations co-convened by the Office of Mayor Lightfoot & EC as the Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Working Group (ETOD WG). The coalition includes 30+ government agencies, BIPOC-led community & art organizations, developers, & policy experts. Its goal is to implement the 36 policies of Chicago’s first ETOD Policy Plan & advance several ETOD demonstration projects. This work seeks to prevent future TOD from displacing residents, small businesses, cultural institutions, and community organizations; encourage investment and build community wealth in BIPOC and low-income communities; & position Chicago as a national leader in ETOD.