The Chicago Community Trust Outstanding Community Plan Award

The Chicago Community Trust Outstanding Community Plan Award recognizes the development and successful implementation of a community plan or strategy within Cook County that addresses the racial and ethnic wealth gap.

Plans and strategies should be community-led, place-based initiatives transforming underinvested communities or preserving residents’ stakes in gentrifying areas and ensuring asset ownership spurs wealth generation for current and future residents.

Applicants will be evaluated on leadership and innovation; stakeholder engagement in planning and implementation; partnerships at the local and citywide levels as appropriate; short and long-term impacts of the plan or strategy on addressing the racial and ethnic wealth gap; and demonstrated improvement or change in the community’s physical and economic infrastructure as a result of the plan.

Eligible applicants include non-profit organizations and government entities.

The Award winner will receive $15,000.