$500,000
2021 • 2 years • Chicago Commitment
Enlace Chicago engages community members in confronting systemic inequities in order to improve the quality of life in the Little Village neighborhood. Enlace works to achieve its mission through four focus areas: education, health, immigration, and violence prevention. With this award, Enlace retains and expands staff for its COVID-19 Pandemic Response Team, strengthens its systems for evaluation, and builds its model for engaging local resident community health workers (CHWs).
$125,000
2020 • 1 year • Chicago Commitment
Enlace Chicago engages community members in confronting systemic inequities in order to improve the quality of life in the Little Village neighborhood. Its comprehensive community development approach incorporates elements of community organizing, convening and planning, and individual and community capacity building. Enlace works to achieve its mission through four focus areas: education, health, immigration, and violence prevention. With this award for placed-based community economic development, Enlace hires a Senior Manager of Community Health to oversee the creation of a COVID-19 Pandemic Response Team and works to strengthen systems for evaluation, data management, documentation, and dissemination.
$1,000,000
2019 • 4 years • Chicago Commitment
Enlace Chicago engages community members in confronting systemic inequities in order to improve the quality of life in the Little Village neighborhood. Its approach incorporates elements of community organizing, convening and planning, and individual and community capacity building. Violence prevention programs include street outreach workers, school-based counselors, and school Safe Passage programs that ensure that children can walk to and from school safely. With this institutional support award, Enlace builds a cash reserve, increases its development capacity, and integrates new technology.
$25,000
2000 • 1 year
To support community-building and economic-development efforts.