From the JB Pritzker Administration:
Healing Illinois announces nearly $4.5 million in awards for racial healing efforts across the state
Illinois Dept. of Human Services and The Chicago Community Trust partner to award funds to 179 nonprofit organizations
SPRINGFIELD- The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) announced today the recipients of $4.5 million in funding for community-based activities to advance racial healing.
Healing Illinois, an initiative to engage residents of communities across the state that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 in meaningful dialogue, has selected 179 organizations to receive awards.
The organizations will use the funding to create community-centric, inclusive spaces to talk, learn and grow, supporting the initiative’s overarching goals: to
- build and advance knowledge and understanding of racial healing and racial equity in communities across the state;
- increase trust and relationship building among the residents of Illinois; and
- provide opportunities for communities and individuals to begin to heal from the harms caused by racism.
“Systemic racism affects all Illinois residents, and COVID-19 has made addressing it more urgent than ever before.
“I am so pleased to see the work, dedication and commitment by hundreds of community leaders to join Healing Illinois in tackling racism and the need to heal from its effects,” said Grace Hou, Secretary, IDHS.
“With all 179 organizations on board, we will make tremendous progress in developing more compassion, racial understanding and equity across the state.”
The State of Illinois allocated $4.5 million for Healing Illinois projects. About 85% of the funding (exactly $3,807,335) was used for direct awards. Additional funding details include:
- Of the direct awards, four organizations are serving as intermediaries, receiving $477,550. Intermediaries are nonprofit organizations that will re-grant the funds to smaller organizations across the state.
- Seventeen organizations are sub-contractors, receiving $590,000. Sub-contractors will host events, recruit participants and conduct specific racial healing sessions.
- There are $102,665 in funds reserved for nonprofit organizations in southern Illinois counties.
Grant recipients are in 25 counties across the state, and include:
- Boys and Girls Club of Elgin, for its Raise Your Voice social justice program for teens, which will focus on establishing a Social Justice Club in middle and high school sites in Elgin;
- Illinois Public Health Association in Sangamon County for expansion of its Healing Ambassadors program and amplifying of healing stories; and,
- Westside Justice Center of Chicago for Healing Justice activities using digital storytelling and conversations about race, community defense, food justice, and healing.
For a full list of grant recipients, intermediaries and subcontractors, visit healing.illinois.gov.
Managed by the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) in partnership with The Chicago Community Trust, Healing Illinois was launched in October. Since then, hundreds of people have attended public webinars to learn more about the grants, and nearly 500 grant applications were submitted by the final deadline. The first round of $2.53 million in awards was disbursed in early November; and the second round of $1.86 million in awards is being disbursed this month. Award recipients are located in 25 counties across the state’s five regions.
Awards will support four types of activities:
- Promoting dialogue: conversations to build understanding and empathy
- Encouraging collaboration: activities that bring people together in person or virtually to connect and to act together on a project or idea
- Facilitating learning: activities designed to build or enhance knowledge
- Seeding connection: racial healing circles, peace circles, or restorative justice activities
All Healing Illinois award recipients are 501(c)(3) organizations and Grant Accountability and Transparency Act (GATA) certified or working with a GATA-certified intermediary. All awardees must expend funds and complete projects by March 31, 2021.
About IDHS:
The Department of Human Services is one of Illinois’ largest agencies, with more than 13,000 employees. Illinois created IDHS in 1997, to provide our state’s residents with streamlined access to integrated services, especially those who are striving to move from welfare to work and economic independence, and others who face multiple challenges to self-sufficiency. The mission of IDHS is to provide equitable access to social/human services, supports, programs and resources to enhance the lives of all who we serve.
About The Chicago Community Trust:
The Chicago Community Trust is a community foundation dedicated to strengthening the Chicago region and improving the lives of the people who call it home. For more than 100 years, the Trust has served as a trusted philanthropic partner, connecting the generosity of donors with community needs by making grants to nonprofit organizations working to create lasting change. Following the creation of a new strategic plan in 2019, the Trust stands committed to addressing Chicago’s legacy of systemic inequity and closing the racial and ethnic wealth gap, while continuing to respond to the critical needs of our most vulnerable residents. The Trust administers more than $360 million in annual grant making as part of its commitment to equity, opportunity and prosperity for the Chicago region. To learn more, visit cct.org.
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The list of recipients can be found here.
In McHenry County, I found
- $38,000 to Thr Raue Center for the Performing Arts for “Our Voices/Our Town – a new monthly community engagement series where we will present the work of artists, local community leaders, and national activists as they explore racial justice through the medium of the arts.”
https://youtu.be/pxK3qTsj_eE
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Looks like Drag Queen Story Time didn’t make the cut.
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Good grief—you mean all these different organizations are getting money to have basically circle time conversations about Race and Unity?—i.e. make whitey feel guilty if any attend.
These “things” have been pushed on most of us, in the; Military, at College, in the Corporate world and workplace—its always the same thing.
Whites made to feel guilty, little gets accomplished, Whites have to be quiet, or join in with head nods to everything, even when they dont agree with it.
They’re basically blame sessions.
Now they have the Police and Defunding them to add to the “laundry list”.
Sorry, but 4.5 million in a broke state to do something that most schools and workplaces are already doing doesnt make much sense in the way of real progress or getting change.
There’s even a Public Library in Roselle listed, as getting staff trained on this topic?
You mean they’re not already doing this with their employees?
How’d they get out of it and now need Funding to have a “conversation”?
Sorry this all just rubs me the wrong way.
What a waste of OUR money.
If Pritzker can throw $50 million at the fair tax ammendment why can’t he fund this out of pocket? Should be pocket change for him.
If you believe so much in this stuff check your privilege and put your money where your mouth is JB.
Otherwise you are just a elite white boy who just talks the talk.
https://youtu.be/ib-Qiyklq-Q
Whata crock of crap!
The Healing will begin when all the crooks are OUT!
and we don’t see that happening anytime soon now do we!
Dont’ worry China will give you mo money to continue being cheaters…
Russia was not the worry what was was the scum right under our noses is what we needed to be watchful of…
swamp is bigger than ever now…
Before the Gov begins ‘ Healing Illinois’.
I beg his kind attention to review with me, the systemic racism, that put Obama in the White House twice.
More agitprop from our Jewish overlord Fatty Pritzk….. you people are funding your own dispossession.
The one thing I do agree with that moslem congresswhore in Minn., Ilhan(sp?) is that no criticism of Israel can ever be made in America.
Fatty Pritzker needs to be fattened up.
Send him to the Sinai border US expeditionary force and have him examine the wall there.
pritzker and the people like him only care about this agenda of punishing and humiliating white people…
paying for it with white people’s tax money is just icing on the cake.
what are we going to do about it?
if we speak up, we get branded ‘evil racist white supremicist nazis’ and shunned from society.
The more these programs go on, the worse it will be for anyone that speaks out against it.
this isn’t about money, these people demonstrate time and time again that they have no problem spending money that isn’t there and just kicking the can down the road.
they love to keep the debate focused on budgets because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter to them.
what they don’t want is white people calling out that all this flowery language of ‘promoting connection’ and ‘bringing people together’ and ‘racial healing’ is all b.s. and this is all about punishing white people and keeping us afraid to stand together.
“The more these programs go on, the worse it will be for anyone that speaks out against it.”
This is exactly why we must put an end to this now.
Raue Center for the Arts founded by Richard Kuranda.
Every time you look into who is behind spreading this anti-white garbage you find jews.
A lot of BS. A lot of baloney. Unnecessary. What is being done to get at the root of problems of crime?
Looked at the list of 179 organizations, groups getting the money. A tremendous amount of time and effort went into compiling it along with some limited details on what the groups will do.
The Governor and his IDHS Department needs to tell we Illinois citizens how many employees were involved in compiling the list of 179, how many hundreds or thousands of hours they spent and what was the overall IDHS cost of these employees efforts.
Noticed that most of the groups getting money are in Cook County. A bigger need in that County is stopping crime, particularly carjackings. These have doubled in 2020 vs 2019. More than 1,000 in 2020.
We need more police in Chicago, Cook County to catch the perps. Lake County also has a lot of crime.
Examples of real racism and offensive behavior –
What about all of the racist remarks that doofus Joe Robinette Biden has made over the years. Will Illinois Democrats call him out on that? Will Biden attend speech feel nice talk circles on how he offended many people and how he upset many women by giving them unwanted kisses, hugs and smelling of their hair? What is Biden doing to change his manners and ways? Democrats have been telling everyone that a president needs to set a good example. Will he be sorrowful for his behavior and promise to reform after he is involved in “talk” and “healing” sessions?
I’m tired of living in a Jew dictatorship and having my rights squashed by fat, slovenly and/or ugly monsters like Soros, Nadler, Madoff, Epstein, Pritzker, Schakowsky, etc.
they have deChristianized America so it’s a cesspool of filth and greed.
Drum, you forgot about Schiff, the rotten State Department, Schumer of the Waco whitewash hearings of old, and so many others. Like RBG.
And every university teeming with vermin at the administration and professoriate.
Oh, and the sleazoid LTC Vindamin of the recent fake impeachment hearings.
WTH is systemic racism anyway?
Guess I need a yarmulke heh?
Is it extremist to shine on a light on these people?
They’ve been bleeding us for many years.
The Great Reset will be their undoing.
Kill the 1%.
They’re murdering us.
Did you frightened anonymous racists get some weird injections that are making you more angry and paranoid than usual?
It’s not racist to point out that the state is broke and doesn’t need to be paying for this garbage.
“Did you frightened anonymous …”.
Said the frightened, anonymous, communist.
Martin, hows the gender reassignment going?
Hormones Ok?
When does the scalpel come into ‘play’?