Check out #TrustTalks, a #podcast by @ChiTrust highlighting the different strands of the Trust’s strategic priority to grow #wealth and well-being in underinvested communities — and improve the region for all in #Chicago. Browse our current episodes:

A new documentary explores Southside Blooms, a @ChiTrust grant recipient, and their work on #Chicago's South and West sides to transform a number of vacant lots into flower farms—providing employment opportunities for youth in underserved communities.

Kirk Hoopingarner finds deep satisfaction in counseling high-net-worth families on their charitable giving strategies. Through both his volunteering and law practice, Hoopingarner has enjoyed a variety of touchpoints with @ChiTrust. Learn more:

Neighbors gathered in #Chicago's Austin neighborhood to celebrate the grand opening of the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation—a joint venture of the Westside Health Authority and Austin Coming Together (both @ChiTrust grant recipients). Learn more:

In @ChiTrust's #TrustTalks, Noreen Sugrue tells us when it comes to #homeownership barriers, ". We have to somehow have to figure out, particularly because policy cannot target one demographic group over another, what we are missing." #Chicago. Hear more:

The Chicago Region Food System Fund is a group of funders and community partners working together to build a more resilient local food system while ensuring more local voices are included in the decision-making process. What’s feeding change in our region:

Episode #19 of #TrustTalks has landed! @ChiTrust's Matt Shomo is joined by Noreen Sugrue, Meegan Dugan Adell, and Paul Hawkinson to examine unique challenges #Chicago homeowners in underinvested communities face converting #homeownership into #wealth.

Check out #TrustTalks, a #podcast by @ChiTrust highlighting the different strands of the Trust’s strategic priority to grow #wealth and well-being in underinvested communities — and improve the region for all in #Chicago. Browse our current episodes:

The Puerto Rican Arts Alliance plans to open a community center and offices next to its current space after buying the two buildings neighboring the former firehouse. #Chicago

The Wealth Our Way program, a $4 million, city-funded initiative from Community Desk Chicago, will provide both funding and technical coaching to organizations looking to revitalize their neighborhoods through commercial redevelopment. Learn more:

Urban Growers Collective, a @ChiTrust grant recipient, works to address inequities in access to fresh, healthy produce and foster local food system resilience. The ribbon-cutting at the new Green Era campus marked a new day in sustainable agriculture.

.@ChiTrust is driven by a fundamental commitment to making #Chicago better for all. We’re a community of philanthropists dedicated to strengthening the broader community around us. Because when our neighbors do better, we all do better. #HereForGood

A spurt of resident-led development projects anchored on the 71st Street commercial corridor is increasing local ownership of community assets and shifting more control to residents. With strategy and tenacity, South Shore is poised for its next chapter:

The Chicago South Side Birth Center, a @ChiTrust grant recipient, will renovate a former church into birthing suites and a reproductive health clinic with midwifery care. This birth center will be the first on the South Side. #Chicago. Learn more:

Check out #TrustTalks, a #podcast by @ChiTrust highlighting the different strands of the Trust’s strategic priority to grow #wealth and well-being in underinvested communities — and improve the region for all in #Chicago. Browse our current episodes:

Arya Daire and Anish Jethmalani are WBEZ’s tour guides for an exploration of the neighborhood near Devon Avenue, a cultural hub for South Asians, which will be fictionalized on stage in an upcoming play. #Chicago. Learn more:

George E. Johnson, a @ChiTrust Executive Committee member from 1976 to 1979, recently published his memoir documenting his creation of hair products that revolutionized the market and made him a trailblazing Black businessman in #Chicago.

As the region’s community foundation, @ChiTrust is here to steward a vision – and the actions that bring it to life – for a stronger, more vibrant #Chicago. It’s what we’ve always done, and what we’ll always be here to do. More in our annual report:

By the Hand Club for Kids is set to purchase and renovate the former Altgeld Gardens Commercial Center. The project aims to preserve the building’s architectural legacy while creating a vibrant hub for youth and families. #Chicago. Learn more:

The TRiiBE has opened a new production studio on #Chicago's West Side, a milestone in the outlet's editorial growth and community support. It will produce more film and multimedia projects telling stories about Black Chicagoans. Learn more: