LGBTQ Community Fund Awards $619,000 in its 2025 Grantmaking Cycle
The LGBTQ Community Fund, an initiative of The Chicago Community Trust, unites donors to support nonprofit organizations that serve the Chicago region’s LGBTQ…
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Unity Fund: A Look at Impact in 2025
The Chicago Community Trust’s Unity Fund is a testament to the power of collective giving. Since its founding in 2008 at the height…
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Financial Health in Cook County: Why it Matters and How Policy Impacts Financial Well-Being
In 2025, The Chicago Community Trust, with support from JPMorganChase, commissioned the Financial Health Network to update the findings of its Financial Health…
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What Does Volunteering Mean? CHIRP Radio Asks Around
It has been said that those who can, do, but those who can do more, volunteer. That act of doing more, making more good in…
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How One College Student Has Brought Joy to 40,000 Sick Children
Lonely, forgotten, sad and isolated. These four words only begin to describe how kids can feel when they are hospitalized. Jen Rubino of Park Ridge…
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Think Good, It's Friday! 6.19.15
This week, Giving USA released their 2015 philanthropy study. It cited $358.38 billion in charitable contributions in 2014, rising by 7.1 percent in current dollars…
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Coaching an Underdog Public School to Science Olympiad Triumph
Dzevida Duheric and her family fled Bosnia and came to America in 1997, when she was just 15 years old. Although the group left a…
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Math Initiative Builds Excellence in Teaching and Learning
“I’m thinking about it differently. I’m able to share with my students a new joy, or even love, of math that I didn’t have when…
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"Youth-Led Tech" Summer Program Delivers Digital Skills
This summer, Chicago teens are connecting with an opportunity to learn cutting-edge tech skills—the skills that matter most to them. Smart Chicago has created “Youth-Led Tech |…
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Centennial Reunion Sparkles with a Century of Community Champions
On June 9, the Great Hall of Union Station swirled with donors, nonprofit partners, and former and current staff—all united by their commitment to the…
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Think Good, It's Friday! 6.12.15
Protect and preserve green spaces to keep our communities healthy and strong… That every child and family have access to a high-quality neighborhood school… Stable,…
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Spark a Movement. Celebrate the Stories of Philanthropy.
Today, The Chicago Community Trust announces its latest Centennial initiative, Stories of Philanthropy. In our Centennial year of 2015, the Trust wants to spark a movement…
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Advocate for People, Place & Philanthropy: Ben Helphand
Ben Helphand knows that when it comes to communities, it’s the little things that add up to the big picture. He says, “Small decisions make…
