Chicago-Based Organizations Building Community Wealth
Alternative lending organization dedicated to providing credit and other business services to small business owners who do not have access to traditional sources of financing.
A credit union, a type of financial institution similar to a commercial bank, is a member-owned financial cooperative, controlled by its members and operated on a not-for-profit basis. Alliant is the 8th largest credit union in USA.
Provides low-cost, flexible financing to nonprofit community development organizations for affordable housing, commercial development, and nonprofit facility initiatives.
Provides loans for the acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable housing in the Chicago area.
Provides loans and real estate consulting to nonprofits based in the Midwest.
Credit union with a social change philosophy based on the notion that alternative resources can lead to a more economically just community and greater financial stability for its membership.
Community development organization serving residents of the West Garfield neighborhood.
Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation
Produced more than 1328 affordable homes and rental units.
Focuses on providing capacity building services, technical assistance, guidance, and advocacy to local businesses.
Leader in commercial and industrial development.
Connects neighborhoods to the resources they need to become stronger and healthier.
Works to create a viable, mixed-income community without displacing low and moderate-income residents.
Convenes residents, organizations, businesses, and institutions to plan, guide, support, and monitor human infrastructure and community development activities.
Designs and implements programs that improve community economic viability.
Aims to build relationships and challenge people to create healthy communities.
Manages housing units and connects residents to educational and social services.
Helps to revitalize the Lawndale neighborhood.
Provides capacity building services, technical assistance, guidance, and advocacy to local businesses and entrepreneurs.
Provides municipalities with block grants that are used to provide communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community needs.
A non-profit affiliate of the City of Chicago that invests in Chicago communities using New Markets Tax Credit financing. CDF focuses on three types of projects in distressed communities: industrial/business expansion projects, grocery-anchored retail, and nonprofit-sponsored community facilities.
Awards grants to projects that have a catalytic impact on the neighborhood and lead to the construction or rehabilitation of new and existing, publicly accessible, commercial spaces (e.g. grocery stores, retail establishments, or restaurants) or cultural establishments. NOF does not award grants for the construction or rehabilitation of residential uses, manufacturing uses, industrial uses, or places of worship that do not identify commercial as the primary use of a project.