The findings of this report will help inform our work, including: • The Trust’s efforts to understand and respond to urgent community needs such as health, well-being, and job readiness; • The Trust’s and We Rise Together’s individual and collective efforts to help fund community investments that bring new economic opportunities to communities and contribute to community well-being; and • The Trus. [...] 2 Due to concerns about the representativeness of the volunteers who signed up for the North Lawndale community conversation and the already delayed project timeline, the decision was made to focus on 7 of the 8 planned community conversations. [...] Another stated the pandemic was a, Good time to spend with the neighbors during the weekends because we can't go to the cinemas, we can't go to watch the football games. [...] Participants from Cicero and Roseland voiced the need for rental assistance: One of the things that I'd like to mention is when it comes to rental assistance, [the city] should try and give a priority to emergency rental assistance to keep the renters in their homes by mapping the neighborhood where the low-income people are at a greater risk of being homeless (Roseland). [...] Staffing support for local organizations to meet the various needs of the community and to ensure follow-up is done as we continue to live through the pandemic (Cicero): I was helping families to refer them emotionally, but it did collapse because there were too many…I know that maybe the organizations did not have so many staff, it was a momentary thing from one day to the next, all the work.
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