Grant Awards

2023 Grant Awards

Economy

Economic Security for Illinois, a program of Economic Security Project

To support the Economic Security for Illinois Program

Amount
$150,000
Term
24 months


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Farmworker & Landscaper Advocacy Project

To support general operations

Amount
$200,000
Term
24 months


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Education

After School for Children and Teens Now/Metropolitan Family Services (Fiscal Sponsor)

To support the work of ACT Now

Amount
$50,000
Term
12 months


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Children's Home & Aid

To support the Ahlquist Center for Policy, Practice, and Innovation.

Amount
$50,000
Term
12 months


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East Side Aligned

To support general operations

Amount
$120,000
Term
24 months


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Education Systems Center at NIU (Northern Illinois University Foundation, Fiscal Sponsor)

To support the 60 x 25 network.

Amount
$150,000
Term
24 months


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Equip for Equality, Inc.

To support the Special Education Rights Clinic

Amount
$100,000
Term
24 months


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Grow Your Own

To support general operations

Amount
$50,000
Term
12 months


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Palenque LSNA (formerly Logan Square Neighborhood Association)

To support the Parent Engagement Institute

Amount
$150,000
Term
24 months


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Partnership for Resilience

To support general operations

Amount
$120,000
Term
24 months


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Teach Plus

To support Teach Plus Illinois

Amount
$120,000
Term
24 months


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Elgin

African American Coalition of Kane County

General operating to support Black-led and centered community organizing.

Amount
$80,000
Term
24 months


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Alignment Collaborative for Education

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Association for Individual Development

To support Elgin-based operations

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Bethlehem Lutheran Child Development Center

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Boys & Girls Club of Elgin

To support Elgin-based operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Centro de Informacion

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Children's Theatre of Elgin

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Chinese Mutual Aid Association

To support Elgin-based operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Community Crisis Center

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Northern Illinois

To support Elgin-based operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Easter Seals DuPage & Fox Valley

To support Elgin-based operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Ecker Center for Behavioral Health

To support Elgin-based operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Elgin History Museum

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Elgin Master Chorale

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Elgin Partnership for Early Learning (YWCA Elgin fiscal sponsor)

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area

To support Elgin-based operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Food for Greater Elgin

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Greater Family Health

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Lutheran Social Services of Illinois

To support Elgin-based operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Marklund Children's Home

To support Elgin-based operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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One Hope United

To support Elgin-based operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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PADS of Elgin, Inc.

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Senior Services Associates

To support Elgin-based operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Side Street Studio Arts

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Summit School, Inc.

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Youth Leadership Academy

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Well Child Center

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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YWCA Elgin

To support general operations.

Amount
$50,000
Term
24 months


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Engagement

Black Researchers Collective

To support general operations.

Amount
$200,000
Term
24 months


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Illinois Black Advocacy Initiative

To support the work of Illinois Black Advocacy Initiative.

Amount
$350,000
Term
24 months


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Illinois Humanities

To support general operations

Amount
$100,000
Term
24 months


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Environment

Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation

To support general operations

Amount
$85,000
Term
12 months


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Rapid Response Fund

Kane County United

To support Get Out the Vote efforts focused on engaging the Black community in Elgin

Amount
$25,000
Term
3 months


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Urban Warrior Youth Community

To support transportation and food costs for new migrant youth who are accessing its programming

Amount
$5,000
Term
6 months


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Special Opportunities

East Side Aligned

To support East Side Aligned supported community collaboratives.

Amount
$30,000
Term
12 months


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Equity and Transformation

To support racial justice dialogues between Black informal workers and newly arriving migrants in Chicago.

Amount
$100,000
Term
12 months


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Equity Legal Services

To support general operations.

Amount
$20,000
Term
12 months


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Join Hands East St. Louis

To support general operations.

Amount
$20,000
Term
12 months


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New Cahokia Commons Urban Farm

To support general operations.

Amount
$20,000
Term
12 months


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Organized Communities Against Deportation

To support work with Asylum Seekers and new arrivals in Chicago

Amount
$100,000
Term
12 months


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Parents United for Change (Community Organizing and Family Issues, Fiscal Sponsor)

To support general operations.

Amount
$30,000
Term
12 months


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