Hope Community
$10,000,000 in support of Hope Center and the individuals, youth, and families of the far southside community.
By helping individuals secure living-wage jobs and manage their finances, HCF helps to reduce poverty, crime, and violence. HCF’s work is a direct social and economic solution that is transforming individuals, their families, and the community.
Now, HCF needs the capacity and operational support to realize a thriving far southside community where individuals and families are fully employed with family-sustaining wages living in homes they own.
Our approach to a thriving far south side:
Reclaiming Communities
Hope Center Foundation, in partnership with Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives (CNI) and United Power, will create a pathway to economic opportunity, homeownership, and generational wealth for low-to-moderate-income residents of the Roseland community in Chicago. The “Reclaiming Communities” project involves the construction of 1000 single-family, affordable homes to help residents invest in and revitalize their own communities. For too long, Roseland has been stripped of its resources and critically-needed investment due to poverty, violence, academic skills gaps, the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, and the subsequent economic divestment. This project aims to remedy these pervasive issues by targeting residents and families who need financial education, coaching and homeownership counseling to become banked and home loan ready.
The Hope House
Hope Center Foundation, in partnership with Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives (CNI) and United Power, will create a pathway to economic opportunity, homeownership, and generational wealth for low-to-moderate-income residents of the Roseland community in Chicago. The “Reclaiming Communities” project involves the construction of 1000 single-family, affordable homes to help residents invest in and revitalize their own communities. For too long, Roseland has been stripped of its resources and critically-needed investment due to poverty, violence, academic skills gaps, the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, and the subsequent economic divestment. This project aims to remedy these pervasive issues by targeting residents and families who need financial education, coaching and homeownership counseling to become banked and home loan ready.
Arts and Culture Center
A state-of-the-art complex and cultural hub that brings together the Roseland and Pullman communities through an energy efficient facility that features a 500-seat theater, dance and art studios, an art gallery, a community terrace, a food panty, a music production studio, computer lab, health and wellness clinic, a commercial kitchen and retail incubation space.
