IDEAS Action PEOPLE THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST 2014 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Letter from the Chairman of the Executive Committee and President 2 Year in Review 8 Competitive Education and Economic Development Grants 14 Competitive Health, Housing and Human Services Grants 24 Competitive Civic and Cultural Vitality Grants 32 Competitive Sustainable Development Grants 36 The Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust 40 Community Champion: María Bechily 42 Candid Conversations 46 Community Champion: Automotive Mentoring Group 48 Donor Advised Grants 67 Designated Grants 68 Community Champions: Bill and Cheryl Lowry 70 Matching Gifts 71 Grants from Identity-Focused Funds 72 Grants from Supporting Organizations 76 Community Champion: Chicago School of Data 78 Grants from Collaborative Funds 79 In Memoriam 83 Funds of The Chicago Community Trust and Affiliates 91 Contributors to Funds at The Chicago Community Trust and Affiliates 98 Community Champion: Ana Guajardo 100 The 1915 Society 102 Professional Advisory Committee and Young Professional Advisory Committee 104 Community Champions: Ray and Susan Gillette 106 Executive Committee 107 Trustees Committee and Banks 108 The Chicago Community Trust Staff 109 Trust at a Glance LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND PRESIDENT DEAR FRIENDS, For 99 years, The Chicago Community Trust has reflected the collective spirit of commitment to community powered by the generosity of donors, residents, and non- profit and civic leaders throughout our region. To mark our 99th anniversary, we began in earnest to spark that spirit of community by engaging a much larger circle of residents in a conversation about the future of metropolitan Chicago. During On The Table, nearly 12,000 residents gathered in small groups to share meals and voice their ideas that could make our region even stronger. The result: one of the most powerful moments of civic reflection that the Chicago region has ever experienced. In addition to thousands of ideas, the Trust heard a powerful call for more opportunities for community residents to connect and col - laborate. Our fellow residents share a passionate desire to work together to overcome barriers and solve the most pressing challenges that keep individuals and communities from succeeding. As we advance in our centennial year, we carry with us that echo of community conversation surfaced by On the Table. In the face of a rapidly changing economy, increasing diversity and disparity, shrinking role of government, and growing frustration with political grid - lock, we heard the call for the Trust to — on behalf of our donors and nonprofits that we serve — lead by supporting and inspiring more opportunities for resident-centered discussion and action. To that end, we’ve committed our centennial year, 2015, to inspiring more philanthropy — more public good — by amplifying stories of people and institutions that make our region vibrant. Without question, our donors, grant recipients and affiliates are representative of these heroic stories. We remain grateful for the opportunity to serve you, and we look forward to sharing many of your stories. You inspire us. Sincerely, FRANK M. CLARK Chairman of the Executive Committee TERRY MAZANY Frank M. Clark (l.) and Terry Mazany President and Chief Executive Officer 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 1 1 4 5 2 6 3 2 THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST YEAR IN REVIEW OCTOBER 3, 2013 Foundation, an organization she founded Excellence recognizes Home First Illinois, Trust donors discuss how they partner to help survivors of sexual abuse and a project funded in part by the Trust, with The Chicago Community Trust to rape use art to heal from their trauma as an outstanding model for providing translate their values and passions into and bring awareness to the problem. housing and services for people with philanthropy that truly makes a difference disabilities. Launched by Trust grant at Impact Chicago, the Trust’s series of OCTOBER 9, 2013 recipients IFF and Access Living, Home briefings exclusively for its donors and The Little City Foundation debuts its First Illinois develops and manages friends. The panel features Bob and Trust-funded documentary at the Gene affordable, accessible housing options David Mendelson, who share how the Siskel Film Center. “Share My Kingdom” integrated into the community for Trust has helped them cultivate family delves into the lives and art of three low-income people with disabilities. giving through three generations. Bob artists with disabilities who emerged Mendelson established donor advised from the art program at Little City. Little NOVEMBER 20, 2013 funds at the Trust for his three children, City provides programs and services With support from the Trust, the Sinai including David Mendelson. David to children and adults with autism and Urban Health Institute launches the Mendelson has passed on his passion for other intellectual and developmental second Sinai Community Health Survey, philanthropy to his own children, who will disabilities. the largest door-to-door health survey eventually serve as advisors to his donor ever conducted to improve the health of advised fund at the Trust. In addition, OCTOBER 28, 2013 Chicago’s most vulnerable communities. Jean Cozier tells the audience how the The National Council of State Housing The survey will provide robust data about Trust helped her set up the Awakenings Agencies’ Annual Awards for Program the health of residents and communities 1 President and CEO Terry Mazany (second from l.) attended the 4 (From l.) Moderated by Director of Donor Services Bob world premiere of the Trust-funded documentary “Share My Eichinger, the Impact Chicago event on Oct. 3, 2013, featured Kingdom” on Oct. 9, 2013, at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Trust donors Bob Mendelson, David Mendelson and Jean Cozier Mazany got the chance to meet the stars of the film, (from l.) discussing how they partner with the Trust to carry out their Luke Tauber, Harold Jeffries and Wayne Mazurek, as well as philanthropy. Photo by Cristina Rutter. Little City Foundation Executive Director Shawn E. Jeffers. Photo by Cristina Rutter. 5 On June 23, 2014, Trust donors Peter Ascoli and Lynne Dinzole were among the 70 donors who attended the Trust’s Impact 2 Executive Committee member Jack Catlin announced the Chicago event, which was a small-scale, intimate version of the launch of ADA 25 Chicago at the Disability Pride Parade on July community foundation’s popular On the Table event that was 19, 2014. The Trust-funded initiative will commemorate the held a month earlier. It gave them the opportunity to talk about 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 2015 the vital issues the Trust should address. Photo by Cristina and leverage the milestone to ensure greater inclusion, Rutter. empowerment and opportunities for people with disabilities in the Chicago region. Catlin is an honorary co-chair of the 6 The 2014 Chicago Community Trust fellows: (back row, from l.) initiative. Photo by Bruce Powell. David Ernesto Munar, president and CEO of the Howard Brown Health Center; David Marzahl, president and CEO of the Center 3 Steve Pemberton, chief diversity officer of Walgreen’s, was one for Economic Progress; Eliza Solowiej, executive director of of the speakers at a breakfast meeting co-hosted by the Trust First Defense Legal Aid; (front row, from l.) Cindy Holler, senior and Northern Trust on April 28, 2014, that explored how to vice president for national real estate strategy of Mercy improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Housing Lakefront; Miguel Keberlein Gutiérrez, supervising Pemberton emphasized that the drug store chain employs attorney of the Illinois Migrant Legal Assistance Project and people with disabilities because they first and foremost co-director of the Immigrants and Workers’ Rights Practice contribute to the growth of the company. “Talent and disability Group at LAF (Legal Assistance Foundation); and Beth Johnson, can and should exist in the same sentence,” he said. “That director of legal programs with Cabrini Green Legal Aid. Photo philosophy has been at the foundation of what we’ve done and by Bonnie Robinson. crystallizes everything we do.” Photo by Bonnie Robinson. 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 3 YEAR IN REVIEW NOVEMBER 21, 2013 The National Medical Fellowships hosts a colloquium for the recipients of the Dr. David Monash/John Caldwell Scott Student Scholarship Program, which is funded by the Trust. The winners of the scholarships give presentations about how their community service and research projects are helping underserved populations. DECEMBER 5, 2013 - FEBRUARY 15, 2014 The Steppenwolf Theatre Company extends its production of “Tribes,” which is funded in part by the Trust. In this clever, funny and moving play, the only deaf member of a noisy and cheerfully The Steppenwolf Theatre Company was awarded a grant from the Trust to stage “Tribes,” a play combative family searches for a place to about an eccentric, intellectual family with a deaf son named Billy. John McGinty (l.), the actor be heard. who played Billy, is deaf. Photo courtesy of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. JANUARY 28, 2014 In its first competitive grant cycle of the that will inform health programs, activ- year, the Trust grants $12.7 million to ities and resources. The results from 151 nonprofits. Of the grants awarded, Sinai’s first health survey in 2002 led to six nonprofits receive $145,000 from the creation of 31 health interventions the Unity Fund, the Trust’s campaign and programs and approximately $17 to combat poverty in the wake of the million in funding. recession. NOVEMBER 20, 2013 FEBRUARY 4, 2014 The Metropolitan Tenants Organization Six nonprofit leaders are selected to take launches a mobile app for renters and part in The Chicago Community Trust landlords at a reception at the Trust’s Fellowship. The class of 2014 consists of three experienced leaders and three office. Designed to facilitate communi- emerging leaders, who will pursue profes - cations and improve relations between sional development that will enhance tenants and landlords, the Squared their leadership skills and strengthen the Away Chicago app provides easy digital nonprofit sector.