Latest Thechicagocommunitytrust Podcast Episodes
Episode 14: Building a Robust Local Media Landscape
Trust Talks - March 25, 2024 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAcross the nation, local news outlets have been folding at an alarming rate. In response, philanthropy has stepped up funding efforts to address this decline as America becomes increasingly polarized and trust in institutions plummets. Against this backdrop, Chicago has been experiencing a media...
Episode 13: Planning for Equitable Neighborhood Development
Trust Talks - January 22, 2024 20:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThriving 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 revit...
Episode 12: Closing the Homeownership Gap
Trust Talks - September 25, 2023 14:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHomeownership 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 ...
Episode 11: Accessing Federal Funds for an Equitable Recovery
Trust Talks - June 05, 2023 20:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe 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 Illi...
Episode 10: Creating a Lasting Legacy for the Chicago Region
Trust Talks - March 27, 2023 19:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsFor 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...
Episode 9: Civic Engagement Through a Racial Equity Lens
Trust Talks - December 06, 2022 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThere 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 on...
Episode 8: Building Neighborhood Wealth with Community Investment Vehicles
Trust Talks - September 07, 2022 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe 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 partners...
Episode 7: Solving Our Workforce Challenge
Trust Talks - May 17, 2022 16:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe 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 attainme...
Episode 6: Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy
Trust Talks - February 15, 2022 19:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe 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 d...
Episode 6: Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy
Trust Talks - February 15, 2022 19:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe 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 d...
Episode 5: Making Philanthropy Your Own
Trust Talks - November 18, 2021 16:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe 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 advis...
Episode 4: Media Makers
Trust Talks - September 14, 2021 18:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe “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 likew...
Episode 3: Catalyzing Neighborhood Investment
Trust Talks - May 17, 2021 15:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn 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 Saldan...
Episode 2: Fund for Equitable Business Growth
Trust Talks - March 10, 2021 23:55 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn 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 progr...
Episode 1: Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities
Trust Talks - February 22, 2021 16:36 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn 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...
Episode 1: Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities
Trust Talks - February 22, 2021 16:36 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn 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...
Trailer
Trust Talks - February 16, 2021 15:25 - 43 seconds ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHelene Gayle, President and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust, is excited to announce the launch of Trust Talks.
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