The Chicago Cmty Trust

Site Url: http://www.cct.org/
Location: Chicago, Ill.

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Hyper-Local Information. To provide a digital platform that links neighborhood residents to a wide-range of civic services and activities. Chicago residents have access to a wide-range of services, but they often aren’t aware that they exist or are challenged to access them. This project would bring all these activities online in an easily accessible format tailored to neighborhood needs. The site, focused on two to four communities in Chicago’s Southside, would compile data, news reports and user-generated content to provide information such as where they can buy fresh produce, find a food pantry or enroll in a food stamp program.

Grants: 1) Hyper-local Information, $250,000 beginning in 2009 with a KCI matching grant, Purpose: Digital platform to connect residents to civic services and activities; 2) Chicago Matters, $3,660,000, Purpose: For community development; 3) Community Media Workshop, 2006: $15,000, 2007: $40,000, 2007: $25,000, 2008: $40,000, 2011: $35,000; 4) Windy Citizen, 2011: $35,000; 5) Chicago Reporter, 2011: $35,000 2011: $110,000 (A grant jointly awarded to Chicago Reporter and Community Media Workshop to administer to promote news stories about Chicago’s low-income areas (http://www.cct.org/sites/cct.org/files/CCT_31LocalReportingAwards_Apr11.pdf)”