The RE Society, Inc.

The Smith Center for Community Advancement, founded by Andre C. Russell, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the South Side of Chicago. With a mission to elevate family stability, improve academic success, counteract harmful behaviors, and strengthen community pride and involvement, the center focuses on creating and supporting various community action projects that promote family involvement and investment in the community. Through their services and initiatives, they aim to create strong and thriving communities by empowering families and fostering a sense of unity and social responsibility. The Smith Center for Community Advancement offers two components of service that address the key core concerns of their clients. They are committed to providing support and resources to enhance family well-being and academic achievement. As a 501c3 sponsored organization with Goodcity Chicago, all donations and contributions made to the center are tax deductible, allowing individuals and businesses to contribute to the positive development of the South Side of Chicago and make a lasting impact on the lives of families and the community as a whole.Generated from the website

Chicago Community Loan Fund (CCLF) is a social investment intermediary providing low-cost, flexible financing to community development organizations engaged in affordable housing, social service and economic development initiatives that benefit low- and moderate-income families and neighborhoods throughout metropolitan Chicago. CCLF was founded in 1991 by a group of visionary social-investment advocates. Their aim was to create a nimble, flexible nonprofit lender who would fill the community development credit gaps as they emerged across the city and region. In particular, CCLF was created to ensure that Chicagoland community developers (including small and emerging groups) would have a lender to turn to for harder-to-underwrite projects and enterprises. Individual and institutional investors concerned about the social dividend of their investments place funds in CCLF at or below market-rate, creating a pool of loan capital dedicated to improving the lives of people in disinvested communities. CCLF, in turn, re-lends this capital at a rate close to or at prime to finance community organizations' development projects.