Resurrection Project
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The Resurrection Project works in the predominately low-income Latino communities on Chicago’s Southwest Side. These are mostly first- and second-generation Mexican communities that continue to face the persistence problem of disinvestment, which limits the ability of residents to obtain high-wage employment, acquire homeownership, and pursue entrepreneurship. Communities without adequate resources – whether that be educational resources, economic resources, or health resources – are communities that do not provide the foundation for economic opportunity. These underlying issues contribute to a fractured and limited economic system, one that does not provide economic opportunity and vibrancy. The Resurrection Project’s top strategic priority is to continue to build and preserve these communities through increased investment in new physical assets, the preservation of community character, the eradication of blight, and the development of human capital.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Community Wealth Building
Community Wealth Building programs offer culturally competent, bilingual financial education in two major areas: general Financial Wellness education and Full Circle Homes, through group classes and one-on-one counseling. Clients are empowered to reach financial capability, toward stability in rental tenancy or homeownership. By encouraging savings through products tailored to low-income communities, our programs help families reduce debt and build credit.
Stewardship of Community Assets
The Stewardship of Community Assets pillar includes TRP’s work to transform underutilized land and abandoned buildings into modern, energy-efficient affordable housing (rental and for-sale) and community spaces. TRP seeks to ensure that low- and moderate-income individuals and families have the opportunity to live in quality housing that they can afford.
Community Ownership
Community Ownership programs empower individuals with the skills, knowledge, and tools they need to be catalysts of change. Leadership development underpins much of TRP’s work, as the organization engages its constituents to deliver meaningful programs in their communities. Additionally, program areas include Immigration Legal Services, Access to Healthcare, Parent Mentors, Organizing, Safety, and several Education initiatives. One highly innovative program, La Casa, is a first-of-its-kind community-based college dormitory and resource center that combines student support services with affordable housing, and provides guidance for first-generation college-bound students.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, Ethnic and racial groups, Social and economic status
Related Program
Stewardship of Community Assets
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
TRP's mission is to build relationships and challenge individuals to act on their faith and values by creating community ownership, building community wealth, and by serving as stewards of community assets. Working in virtually every area of community life with its culturally competent and bilingual approach, TRP provides the sustainable foundation that gives rise to healthy communities where everyone can achieve their dreams regardless of race, social class, or circumstance of birth.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The Resurrection Project's ambitious five-year strategic plan, Vision 2020, outlines its plans to do more in five years than in its first 25. The Imagine More Campaign is the catalyst for TRP to achieve its goals and to enable 60,000 catalysts of change, creating more than $460 million in community investment by 2020. The overall strategy is to effectively leverage the organization's strengths and implement its Community Resurrection model in other communities.
TRP's innovative three-pillar Community Resurrection Model integrates services across Community Wealth Building, Stewardship of Community Assets, and Community Ownership. Programs and services in these pillar areas work strategically to counter community disinvestment from multiple angles, strengthening public, private and community stakeholders.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Since its founding, TRP has developed a strong record of accomplishments that demonstrates its capacity to effectively meet the needs of its communities. To meet the ambitious goals outlined in the strategic plan, TRP has added key high-level staff positions.. Some of TRP's key capabilities include:
-Community Wealth Building provides financial education programs at eight office locations in Chicagoland, Programs include the nonprofit TRP Realty, and TRP Lending, LLC which is an emerging CDFI.
-Stewardship of Community Assets provides high-quality management of 581 units of affordable rental housing in 41 buildings. Ongoing program work preserves buildings with expiring affordability requirements; constructs and rehabilitates multi-family buildings; incorporates energy efficiency measures; and engages residents.
-Community Ownership engages thousands of immigrant families in community and civic initiatives that cover a wide range of topics, fostering leadership among local residents to create local, regional, and national change around the issues that matter to them most.
-TRP has also been awarded the Advancing Cities grant from Chase; a $7.2 million investment in community wealth building in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
TRP creates vibrant, healthier, and safer communities on Chicago's Southwest side. Of the 844 units of affordable housing that TRP has developed, it currently provides high-quality property management for affordable rental housing and commercial spaces in Chicago's Pilsen, Little Village, and Back of the Yards neighborhoods. TRP has also created over 275,000 square feet of community commercial spaces.
Despite the success of TRP's community development work, more is needed. There are not enough affordable and available rental units for those who need them. Specifically in Pilsen, property values and rents have risen in recent years, making it harder for working-class Mexican-Americans to stay in the area. Families in TRP's service area face challenges including concentrated areas of low-income families, predatory lending, and a lack of bilingual financial education and services. Through the strategic initiatives of Vision 2020, TRP will broaden its reach and make even more meaningful change in Chicago communities.
In response to the global pandemic TRP has developed the Chicago Resiliency Fund and the Rapid Relief Fund to provide cash assistance and housing assistance to families and individuals in need. To date the funds have raised $9.5 million and are being distributed in neighborhoods across Chicago.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Resurrection Project
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
Vicky Arroyo
MB Community Development Corp.
Antonio Ortiz
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School
Vicky Arroyo
MB Community Development Corp
Antonio Ortiz
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School
Jack Crane
Community Investment Corporation
Juan Arazia
The Federal Savings Bank
Andrew DeCoux
Illinois Housing Development Authority
Raul Hernandez
Community Volunteer
Fr. Don Nevins
St. Agnes of Bohemia Parish
Maria Prado
Prado & Renteria Certified Public Accountants
Raul Raymundo
The Resurrection Project
Guacolda Reyes
CMHDC
Milena Tous
Multi Latino Marketing Agency, Inc.
Sara Bradley
Retired Executive/Community Leader
Fr. Charles Dahm
St. Pius V Church
Antonio Martinez
The Chicago Community Trust
Board leadership practices
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Ethics and transparency
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Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.