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Episode #26: Building Opportunity, Block by Block
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- Trust Talks
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- Jun 30, 2026
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- 2269
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Summary
From 2021 to 2025, We Rise Together: For an Equitable & Just Recovery (We Rise Together), a funder collaborative led by The Chicago Community Trust, invested $47 million in brick-and-mortar development, small business support, and workforce programs in underinvested communities, which are predominantly on Chicago’s South and West sides. These investments improved economic activity and expanded opportunity--and raised an essential question for philanthropy, communities and developers: What...