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Trust Talks

16 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings

Trust Talks is the podcast by The Chicago Community Trust. Each episode of Trust Talks highlights a different strand of the Trust’s strategic priority to close the Chicago region's racial and ethnic wealth gap, including growing household wealth, catalyzing neighborhood investment, and building collective power, or its foundational commitments to addressing critical needs and connecting philanthropy to impact.

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Episodes

Episode 13: Planning for Equitable Neighborhood Development

January 22, 2024 20:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MB

Thriving neighborhoods where residents have access to essential services, amenities, and jobs are vital to creating an equitable and prosperous Chicago region. As part of the Trust’s efforts to address disinvestment, we are supporting opportunities that lead to resident-driven neighborhood revitalization. Through our Flexible Funding Program, the Trust has has supported planning initiatives, ranging from neighborhood plans to zoning assessments, that help create environments in neighborhoo...

Episode 12: Closing the Homeownership Gap

September 25, 2023 14:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MB

Homeownership is one of the most important vehicles for building generational wealth and helping families achieve economic stability; however, Black and Latinx families often face barriers to accessing and maintaining homeownership. Since The Chicago Community Trust launched its strategic focus on closing the Chicago region’s racial and ethnic wealth gap in 2019, affordable and equitable homeownership has been a key priority.   Connecting Capital and Community (3C) is a community-driven ini...

Episode 11: Accessing Federal Funds for an Equitable Recovery

June 05, 2023 20:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MB

The federal government has allocated trillions in federal funds toward relief and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The American Rescue Plan Act’s State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund alone has made about $19 billion dollars available to the City of Chicago, Cook County, and the State of Illinois for the purpose of economic recovery. These funds present a unique opportunity for the city, county, and state to invest in an equitable and inclusive recovery, especially for Black and Latinx co...

Episode 10: Creating a Lasting Legacy for the Chicago Region

March 27, 2023 19:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MB

For more than a century, individuals and families have partnered with The Chicago Community Trust to transform gifts—from wills, trusts, and other vehicles—into lasting impact for our region. Through unrestricted gifts to our endowment, donors ensure that the Trust has the flexibility to respond to the region’s evolving and urgent needs. These bequests have allowed us to support our neighbors through the Great Depression, the Great Recession, the COVID-19 pandemic, and to tackle the region’s...

Episode 9: Civic Engagement Through a Racial Equity Lens

December 06, 2022 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MB

There is a long-held notion civic engagement is declining in the Chicago region. The 2010 Chicago Civic Health Index report even stated “Chicagoland’s civic health is on life support.” However, research measuring civic health tends to be rooted in a framework that focuses on voting and giving one’s time, labor, and money to formal organizations. That is only one part of the civic engagement picture.  Under the Trust's Building Collective Power strategy, The Chicago Community Trust commissio...

Episode 8: Building Neighborhood Wealth with Community Investment Vehicles

September 07, 2022 15:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MB

The Trust’s Catalyzing Neighborhood Investment strategy is focused on closing the region’s racial and ethnic wealth gap at the neighborhood level by fostering an environment that leads to more inclusive development in historically disinvested Black and Latinx communities.  Last year—in partnership with Community Desk Chicago—the Trust conducted a study of philanthropy's role in supporting community ownership models for neighborhood development. We were particularly interested in learning ho...

Episode 7: Solving Our Workforce Challenge

May 17, 2022 16:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MB

The Trust’s Growing Household Wealth Income Strategy supports closing the racial wealth gap in Chicago through a commitment to innovations in workforce development, inclusive business practices, and education. Along with reducing the debt burden of students and households in educational attainment, we prioritize implementing solutions that increase the income stability and wage growth of all Chicagoans. Workers of color make up 47 percent of the Chicagoland workforce ages 25 – 64, and 59 per...

Episode 6: Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy

February 15, 2022 19:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB

The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered the disparities created by segregation and systemic racism.  We are witnessing a taxed public health infrastructure that has been woefully underinvested in over generations. Currently, 75 percent of Chicagoans are fully vaccinated. However, the disaggregated data indicates stark disparities across race and ethnicity, with 63 percent of Latinx and 52 percent of Black Chicagoans fully vaccinated. Similarly, COVID-related hospitalizations and severe consequen...

Episode 6: Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy

February 15, 2022 19:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB

The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered the disparities created by segregation and systemic racism.  We are witnessing a taxed public health infrastructure that has been woefully underinvested in over generations. Currently, 75 percent of Chicagoans are fully vaccinated. However, the disaggregated data indicates stark disparities across race and ethnicity, with 63 percent of Latinx and 52 percent of Black Chicagoans fully vaccinated. Similarly, COVID-related hospitalizations and severe consequen...

Episode 5: Making Philanthropy Your Own

November 18, 2021 16:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MB

The Trust’s Philanthropic Services team works with many types of donors, including individuals with Donor Advised Funds, family foundations, corporations, and those interested in giving to specific causes. The Trust advises donors on every aspect of their giving strategy. Its philanthropic advisors also leverage the Trust’s expertise and community connections to identify organizations that will make the biggest difference, ensuring donors are effectively fulfilling their philanthropic goals....

Episode 4: Media Makers

September 14, 2021 18:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MB

The “Voice” strand of The Chicago Community Trust's Building Collective Power strategy supports community-centered media platforms that allow the authentic narratives of communities to emerge and be amplified not just in neighborhoods but across the city. Those community-centered platforms likewise bring vital information into communities to inform their agenda-setting.  In three segments, this episode of Trust Talks will explore the different ways the Trust is strengthening local media and...

Episode 3: Catalyzing Neighborhood Investment

May 17, 2021 15:01 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MB

In this episode of Trust Talks, Michael Davidson, senior director of community impact who’s leading the Trust’s Catalyzing Neighborhood Investment team, sits down with Lennox Jackson, founder and CEO of Urban Equities Inc, Ja’Net DeFell, program manager of Community Desk Chicago; and Juan Saldana principal at P3 markets, to discuss the role real estate development plays in our communities.

Episode 2: Fund for Equitable Business Growth

March 10, 2021 23:55 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB

In this episode of Trust Talks, guests Constance Simms-Kincaid, owner and operator of 5 Loaves Eatery, Eya Louis, contract development coordinator at Elevate Energy, and Mambu Sherman, vice president of global philanthropy at JP-Morgan Chase, sit down with the Trust’s Shandra Richardson, a program manager on the Growing Household Wealth team, to discuss how the Fund for Equitable Business Growth is supporting the small business ecosystem in Chicago. 

Episode 1: Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities

February 22, 2021 16:36 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MB

In the first episode of Trust Talks, Charlotte Spaeth sits down with Anna LauBach, program director at the McCormick Foundation, Deborah Bennett, senior program officer at Polk Bros Foundation, and Anna Lee, director of community impact at The Chicago Community Trust for a discussion on the role grassroots organizations have in violence prevention in Chicago’s neighborhoods.

Episode 1: Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities

February 22, 2021 16:36 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MB

In the first episode of Trust Talks, Charlotte Spaeth sits down with Anna LauBach, program director at the McCormick Foundation, Deborah Bennett, senior program officer at Polk Bros Foundation, and Anna Lee, director of community impact at The Chicago Community Trust for a discussion on the role grassroots organizations have in violence prevention in Chicago’s neighborhoods.

Trailer

February 16, 2021 15:25 - 43 seconds - 525 KB

Helene Gayle, President and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust, is excited to announce the launch of Trust Talks.