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Grant Awards

2021 Grant Awards

Economy

Adelante Center for Entrepreneurship

For general operating support

Amount
$60,000
Term
12 months


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Co-Op Ed Center

For general operating support

Amount
$50,000
Term
12 months


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Economic Security of Illinois

To support their work advocating for equitable expansion of EITC and direct cash based public policy

Amount
$150,000
Term
24 months


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Farmworker & Landscape Advocacy Project

For general operating support

Amount
$200,000
Term
24 months


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Jobs to Move America

To support general operations for the Illinois based work

Amount
$150,000
Term
24 months


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Latino Union of Chicago

For general operating support

Amount
$100,000
Term
24 months


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One Body Collaborative

To support the Bridges Out of Poverty Project

Amount
$25,000
Term
12 months


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Proviso Partners for Health

To support the Economic Justice and Wellness Center

Amount
$70,000
Term
12 months


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Small Business Majority Foundation Inc

To support general operations of the Illinois work

Amount
$65,000
Term
12 months


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WePower

To support the East St. Louis Work

Amount
$150,000
Term
24 months


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Woodstock Institute

For general operating support

Amount
$65,000
Term
12 months


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Young Invincibles

To support general operations for the Illinois work

Amount
$100,000
Term
12 months


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Education

Afterschool for Children & Teens Now

To support statewide out-of-school time efforts

Amount
$100,000
Term
24 months


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Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

To support the Resilience Education to Advance Community Healing initiative

Amount
$60,000
Term
12 months


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Children's Home & Aid

To support the Ahlquist Center for Policy, Practice, and Innovation and strategic planning activities

Amount
$140,000
Term
24 months


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Early Childhood Transformation Team/Northern Illinois University Foundation (Fiscal Sponsor)

To support the Early Childhood Equity Impact Manager

Amount
$50,000
Term
12 months


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East Side Aligned/United Way of Greater St. Louis (Fiscal Sponsor)

To support the work of East Side Aligned

Amount
$120,000
Term
24 months


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Education Systems Center/Northern Illinois University Foundation (Fiscal Sponsor)

To support the 60 x 25 Network

Amount
$750,000
Term
12 months


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Equip for Equality

To support the special education rights clinic

Amount
$100,000
Term
24 months


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Grow Your Own Illinois

For general operating support

Amount
$100,000
Term
24 months


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Illinois Action for Children

To support the Public Policy and Advocacy department

Amount
$120,000
Term
24 months


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Link Unlimited

To support the High School Success & College Persistence Program

Amount
$120,000
Term
24 months


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Logan Square Neighborhood Association

To support the Parent Engagement Institute

Amount
$120,000
Term
24 months


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Partnership for Resilience

For general operating support

Amount
$120,000
Term
24 months


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Teach Plus Incorporated

To support Teach Plus Illinois

Amount
$120,000
Term
24 months


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Elgin

African American Coalition of Kane County

To support Black-led and centered community organizing

Amount
$20,000
Term
6 months


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Alignment Collaborative for Education

For general operating support

Amount
$26,667
Term
8 months


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Boys and Girl Club of Elgin

For general operating support

Amount
$33,333
Term
8 months


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Community Crisis Center

For general operating support

Amount
$16,667
Term
8 months


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Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Northern Illinois

For general operating support of Elgin based work and operations

Amount
$12,500
Term
12 months


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Ecker Center for Behavioral Health

For general operating support

Amount
$31,250
Term
15 months


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Elgin History Museum

For general operating support

Amount
$16,667
Term
8 months


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Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra

For general operating support

Amount
$37,500
Term
15 months


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Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area

For general operating support

Amount
$31,250
Term
15 months


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Food for Greater Elgin

For general operating support

Amount
$20,000
Term
8 months


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Greater Elgin Family Care Center

For general operating support

Amount
$37,500
Term
15 months


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Hamilton Wings

For general operating support

Amount
$380,000
Term
24 months


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Marklund Children's Home

For general operating support of Elgin based work and operations

Amount
$12,500
Term
12 months


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Midwest Academy

To support organizing training for the Elgin community

Amount
$7,500
Term
6 months


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One Hope United

For general operations of Elgin based center

Amount
$37,500
Term
15 months


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PADs of Elgin, Inc.

For general operating support

Amount
$31,250
Term
15 months


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Senior Services Associates, Inc.

For general operating support

Amount
$16,667
Term
8 months


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Side Street Studio Arts

For general operating support

Amount
$20,000
Term
12 months


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Youth Leadership Academy

For general operating support

Amount
$18,750
Term
15 months


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YWCA Elgin

For general operating support

Amount
$43,750
Term
15 months


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Engagement

Alliance of Illinois Community Foundations

For general operating support

Amount
$24,000
Term
12 months


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Black Researchers Collective

To support BRC’s work to build collective power utilizing research

Amount
$100,000
Term
24 months


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Chicago African Americans in Philanthropy/Forefront (Fiscal Sponsor)

To support the Illinois Black Advocacy Initiative

Amount
$300,000
Term
24 months


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Forefront

For general operating support

Amount
$100,000
Term
12 months


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Hana Center

For general operating support

Amount
$200,000
Term
24 months


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Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

For general operating support

Amount
$200,000
Term
24 months


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Illinois Humanities

For general operating support

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Lighthouse Foundation

To support the Black Queer Equity Index Project

Amount
$75,000
Term
12 months


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Mano a Mano Family Resource Center

To support Project Puentes

Amount
$100,000
Term
12 months


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Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

For general operating support

Amount
$50,000
Term
12 months


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Soapbox Productions & Organizing

For general operating support

Amount
$40,000
Term
12 months


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Environment

The Conservation Foundation

For general operating support

Amount
$62,500
Term
12 months


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Environmental Law & Policy Center

To support coal ash solutions and protection of Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

Amount
$60,000
Term
12 months


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Faith in Place

For general operating support

Amount
$60,000
Term
12 months


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HeartLands Conservancy

For general operating support

Amount
$70,000
Term
12 months


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The Land Conservancy of McHenry County

For general operating support

Amount
$60,000
Term
12 months


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Metropolitan Planning Council

To support MPC’s Water Resources Program

Amount
$300,000
Term
12 months


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Openlands

For general operating support

Amount
$100,000
Term
12 months


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Prairie Rivers Network

For general operating support

Amount
$110,000
Term
12 months


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Natural Land Institute

For general operating support

Amount
$55,000
Term
12 months


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The Nature Conservancy

To support the StormStore project in Cook County

Amount
$195,000
Term
12 months


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Sierra Club

To support Sierra Club Illinois Chapter

Amount
$75,000
Term
12 months


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Special Opportunities

Chicago Community Foundation

For the Jumpstart Equity Fund

Amount
$25,000
Term
12 months

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

Sponsorship of the 2022 Conference in Chicago

Amount
$25,000
Term
12 months


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Rapid Response Fund

Children's Home & Aid

To support the organization’s Holiday Campaign in providing direct cash assistance to program participants during the holiday season

Amount
$25,000
Term
3 months


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University Park Youth Athletic Association

To support the organization in providing clean drinking water to communities in the areas of the Village of University Park and the Village of Dixmoore

Amount
$25,000
Term
6 months