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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. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.
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Big NFP
Background and Purpose The City of Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development (DPD) launched “We Will Chicago,” the City’s first citywide planning initiative in more than 50 years. BIG, NFP (termed “Community Partner” through this MOU) is among the groups selected to assist with the citywide planning process and contribute to one of the plan’s seven pillar research reports or the initiative’s Advisory Committee. The We Will Chicago Phase II timeline has been extended to June 2022 and includes five (5) additional pillar research team meetings and three (3) additional Advisory Committee meetings, two (2) reconvenings in the fall of 2022 and two (2) Community Partner-led engagement events.
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Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community
This is an application to request support to fund the extension of We Will Chicago activities through June 2022 and also to participate in the Fall 2022 We Will Chicago convening.
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CITY COLLEGES OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION
CCC seeks funding to ensure continuity of leadership in the next phase of Championing Equity, an ambitious effort to achieve a universal 4-Year Outcomes Measure success rate of 55% by 2032. With an investment of $2,000,000 over 3 years, CCC will retain the skills and leadership necessary for driving equity work across the seven colleges and district office, putting CCC on-track to be a third of the way to this universal goal of 55% by 2025, by focusing on the significant equity gaps in outcomes for Black and Brown students. This team will increase stakeholder engagement in the Championing Equity efforts to ensure an Anti-Racist and Equity-focused culture, momentum, sustainability, and unprecedented and equitable student outcomes. In collaboration with colleges and district office colleagues, they will improve existing and develop new dashboards and tools to harness equity data, expand the reach of the Equity Partners and Microgrants Program, elevate student voice and feedback, and promote the dissemination of scalable equity solutions across the district and beyond.
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CHICAGO UNITED FOR EQUITY
Since initial seed investment from the Chicago Community Trust in 2017, Chicago United for Equity (CUE) has trained over 200 Chicagoans in the Racial Equity Impact Assessment process, which stopped the closure of National Teachers Academy, built support for 100% affordable housing in Logan Square, and inspired more participatory policymaking processes like the 2019 Vote Equity co-created voter guide, and the 2020 launch of the People's Budget Chicago, a participatory budget built by communities most impacted by inequitable city investment. We seek the Trust's support to continue to grow our impact on policy issues, in building a leadership pipeline, and fostering cross-sector mutual accountability to racial equity. In 2020, CUE launches our third Fellowship cohort of civic strategists who will work together across organizational influence to build meaningful, systemic reforms. We seek the Trust's support to catalyze the reform projects that will result from this space.
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CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE
Civic Consulting Alliance requests general operating support from the Chicago Community Trust to advance our mission – to make the Chicago region a great place for everyone to live in and work.
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CHICAGO CULTURAL ALLIANCE
The City of Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development (DPD) launched “We Will Chicago,” the City’s first citywide planning initiative in more than 50 years. The Chicago Cultural Alliance has joined as a “Community Partner” and is among the groups selected to assist with the citywide planning process and contribute to one of the plan’s seven pillar research reports for the initiative’s Advisory Committee. MUSE and Rudd Resources are part of the consulting team supporting DPD in developing research reports on seven pillars. As part of its role, MUSE and Rudd Resources are tracking the Community Partner’s involvement and making stipends available to selected organizations to participate on a pillar research team or the Advisory Committee.
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The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
The University of Chicago Center for Effective Government is grateful to be considered for the Chicago Community Trust’s support of $200,000 over two years for the Civic Leadership Academy (CLA). This support will sustain the annual leadership development program for 30 Chicago civic leaders, focusing on training for individual leaders, bridging communities, and harnessing their collective power to advance meaningful institutional reform across the city of Chicago.
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Latino Policy Forum
Building on the success of four years of the Multicultural Leadership Academy, six years before that offering the Illinois Latino Leadership Academy, and last year’s inaugural program for the combined graduates of those academies, we will continue to offer development opportunities for the more than 220 Latino and African American academy graduates. Those development opportunities will include (1) training that will develop their transformative leadership skills; (2) training and other opportunities to build cross-cultural understanding and collaboration; (3) an in-depth program to develop advocacy skills and knowledge among a cohort of 12 to 24 program participants; (4) networking events to build lasting bonds among the participants; and (5) opportunities to engage in cross-cultural community-based civic improvement projects..