Advancing Equity Recap: A Three-Part Series Exploring the Homeownership Gap
In May, the Trust completed a three-part series on the homeownership gap as part of Advancing Equity, an ideas exchange that brings together various stakeholders…
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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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Hispanic American Construction Industry Association
HACIA proposes a strategic expansion of existing programming to create a business accelerator cohort designed to support and help Black and Latinx business owners scale their construction related businesses. The cohort, known as HACIA Executive Fellows in Construction, will provide both executive coaching and customized technical assistance in the following four core areas: finance, operations, business development, and legal. The aim is to give small to medium size M/W/V/DBE firms the opportunity to grow their professional networks within the construction industry in a targeted way, assist with scaling from subs to primes, where applicable, and/or help to facilitate joint ventures.
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FOLDED MAP PROJECT
This application creates a series of conversations that combine Tonika Johnson's arts-based projects (Folded Map and Inequity for Sale) with accessible social science research, on-the-ground insights from community organizations, and interactive experiences to encourage knowledge acquisition and to inspire innovative solutions and repairs to the wealth and economic inequities associated with homeownership in a segregated Chicago.
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Chicago Desi Youth Rising
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IL MUSLIM CIVIC COALITION
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Tides Foundation
We are seeking support for the Muslim Collaboration Prizes, a unique grant funding opportunity launched in 2022 for a select group of Muslim-led organizations that have been participating in the Community Collaboration Imitative (CCI), a three-year community-based action research project hosted by Indiana University's Lilly School of Philanthropy. The CCI research project is focused on building trust and a collaborative culture among the 21 participating Muslim-led organizations, which work a range of areas including civic justice, mental health, arts and culture, public policy and advocacy. The organizations have formed five teams based on shared programmatic and strategic interests, with each team challenged with finding a creative and collaborative solution to address a common societal problem. To incentivize the organizations in participating in this time-intensive, challenging collaboration process, CCI launched the Muslim Collaboration Prizes for the third and final year of this project. The Muslim Collaboration Prizes serve as a reward for the risks taken by these organizations. By participating in the Prizes process, including submitting an LOI and an application on time, each group will be guaranteed a minimum award of $50,000 and a maximum award of $200,000. Rather than competing against each other, the groups will be evaluated against a set of criteria. The criteria will ultimately consider the quality and depth of the collaboration, and the long-term impact of proposed projects.
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CHICAGO CULTURAL ALLIANCE
The Cultural Heritage Curriculum Incubator Program (CHCIP) is a cohort training program that works with 3-4 cultural heritage centers to develop and implement heritage-based arts curriculum, creating the sustainable structures to work within schools.