Igniting the Spirit of Service

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McCormick Foundation McCormick Foundation 2008 Annual Report

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One caring and committed individual can ignite the spirit of service.

Robert R. McCormick — the founder The McCormick Foundation is a and donor of the McCormick part of his legacy. We bear his name Foundation— was such a person. and our mission has been shaped His own flame burned brightly by his personal beliefs: during a lifetime of service to his • Our country’s health depends on country and his community. the health and well-being of its A passionate defender of freedom youngest citizens of speech and the First Amendment, • Civic dialogue and debate are McCormick took civic engagement both a right and a responsibility and citizen responsibility very • Freedom of speech and a free seriously. He served his country press are both essential to a during World War I as a soldier in vibrant democracy the U.S. Army’s First Division—and the city of Chicago as an active • Service to country is important, alderman and president of the and our nation’s soldiers deserve Sanitary District. He published the lasting gratitude and support Chicago Tribune, and made it a • Philanthropy strengthens a free, voice for truth and a forum for civic democratic society dialogue. He left behind a powerful legacy of service.

Through our programs, grants and partnerships, we strive to keep the flame burning and light the spark of service in our country’s citizens.

McCormick Foundation

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McCormick Foundation Team The McCormick Foundation aims to inspire greater civic involvement in our communities and country and ignite a spirit of service in all of us.

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McCormick Foundation Board of Directors and Management Team

Board of Directors Management Team Dennis J. FitzSimons David L. Grange Chairman President and Chief Executive Officer James C. Dowdle Donald A. Cooke Senior Vice President, Philanthropy David D. Hiller David J. Granat John W. Madigan Chief Investment Officer Scott C. Smith Louis J. Marsico, Jr. Senior Vice President, Operations David M. Anderson Vice President, Civic Programs Pattie Overstreet-Miller Senior Director, Communications and Marketing Paul H. Herbert Executive Director, Cantigny First Division Foundation Matthew P.LaFond Executive Director, Cantigny Park Michael R. Nass Executive Director, Cantigny Golf

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Message from the President

For the McCormick Foundation, To provide stronger and more the past year has been a period of meaningful investments in our growth and transition. grantmaking areas, the Foundation The Foundation remained has refined the direction of its focused on strengthening our free, Journalism and Citizenship Programs. democratic society, investing The Citizenship Program will now focus resources from our diverse program on youth engagement, including civic and service areas into the civic health education, volunteerism, and the of our communities. We continue to promotion of civic dialogue among confirm that strong communities, young people. Journalism will work empowered by civic leadership, on creating a more informed citizenry responsibility and engagement, are through assuring quality journalistic the foundation for a free, secure and content, protecting First Amendment prosperous nation. rights, and educating people, During the year, we grew in a especially young people, to number of areas. At Cantigny Park in understand the value of news and Wheaton, IL, the former estate of to be better consumers of news. Robert R. McCormick, we developed In 2008 the Foundation made new services and recreational charitable grants totaling $60 million, opportunities, including the state-of- including $22 million raised from the-art Cantigny Golf Academy and public donations. two new restaurants — Le Jardin and In addition, in the first quarter of Bertie’s. We also sponsored new the year, after three years of programs for children and families operation, the Freedom Museum and a host of special events. Our transitioned out of its physical space military museum acquired a World on Michigan Avenue and began to War II landing craft from the D-Day take its message directly to the invasion — laying the groundwork for community. Our new operating an exhibit that opens this summer. model already has us engaged in In addition, we provided fresh outreach initiatives that include opportunities for giving, including classroom programs for students, vital new partnerships focused on enhanced teacher professional the causes of veterans: Welcome development, expanded public Back Veterans, in partnership with programs and traveling exhibits. Major League Baseball, and Throughout our 50 years of Operation Healing Freedom, a philanthropic history, the Foundation collaboration with private equity has built and empowered more firms and the financial industry. Our active and engaged citizens Communities Program recently and served our free, democratic gained new partners for community society with the help of strong fundraising — the Chicago White collaborations and partnerships. Sox and the Chicago Bulls. We are particularly grateful for the role of these partners.

Sincerely,

David L. Grange President and Chief Executive Officer

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McCormick Foundation Mission, Vision, Values

Our Mission McCormick Foundation advances the ideals of a free, democratic society by investing in our children, communities and country.

Our Vision To be the philanthropic leader through distinctive programs and services that: – improve civic health – deliver impact by creating value and positive outcomes – continue the philanthropic legacy of Robert R. McCormick

Our Values Service Humility Integrity Diversity Innovation

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McCormick Foundation Organization

Our organization and programs are designed to accomplish our mission of advancing the ideals of a free, democratic society.

Journalism Education Special Initiatives

Communities Veterans

Grantmaking Programs

Citizenship

Cantigny Golf

Conference Civic McCormick Park/ Series Programs Foundation Recreation

Cantigny Park and Gardens McCormick Freedom Initiatives

Museums

First Robert R. Division McCormick Museum Museum

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McCormick Foundation 2008 Program Highlights

The McCormick Foundation’s grantmaking programs focus in five key areas: early childhood education, journalism and First Amendment freedoms, citizenship, veterans, and local communities. In addition, the Foundation’s Special Initiatives Program supports cultural, civic and other community institutions, primarily in Chicagoland. In 2008, the McCormick Foundation made more than 1,400 grants, totaling $60 million.

Cantigny Park, the former estate of Robert R. McCormick, offers educational and recreational opportunities for local citizens through its museums, golf, gardens, and wide variety of programs and events.

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The Foundation’s programs, which are highlighted on the following pages, illustrate how we build on Robert R. McCormick’s legacy of service.

Early Childhood First Division Education Museum at Cantigny Freedom Initiatives Special Initiatives Journalism Cantigny Golf Citizenship Employee Veterans Volunteerism Communities

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Education Since 1993, the McCormick Foundation has invested more than $70 million in early care and education initiatives throughout Illinois. The Foundation’s Education Program seeks to make Illinois a leader in providing early education for all children from birth to age five.

Raising the Next Generation and society at large. He’s got of American Prosperity decades of data to prove it. You would expect lofty discourse Heckman’s research reveals from a University of Chicago that investing in early childhood economist and Nobel Prize winner, development programs — but instead James L. Heckman particularly for low income wants to talk about The Little Engine children — provides a 10 percent That Could. annual return to society through This was during a recent increased achievement. conversation with, of all people, a As an influential stakeholder in representative from the Federal early childhood development, the Reserve Bank. Professor Heckman McCormick Foundation is a strong was underscoring the importance of supporter of Heckman’s work. enrichment activities like reading to In 2008, the Foundation awarded children. Such early nurturing and a $495,000 grant to the University learning experiences, he notes, are of Chicago to help disseminate and what every child needs for future leverage Professor James Heckman’s success in school, career and life. research and recommendations. The economics of human potential. The goal is to influence public policy, This is Professor Heckman’s focus. resource allocation and best practices His groundbreaking work shows in early childhood education. that early childhood development Our economy is only as healthy heavily influences health, economic as our investment in the healthy and social outcomes for individuals development of children.

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Freedom Initiatives, Journalism and First Amendment Rights The McCormick Freedom Museum and its initiatives inspire citizens to value and protect their First Amendment rights. The Foundation’s Journalism Program develops citizen appreciation of a free press, particularly among young people.

Having Your Say What was on their minds? Lower In today’s high-tech world, taxes. Universal health care. Energy expressing an opinion is just a click independence. Ending the war in Iraq. away. Sometimes it’s by instant Having a voice was something message. And sometimes…by Robert R. McCormick cared about vintage manual typewriter. passionately. As publisher of the In 2008, artist Sheryl Oring Chicago Tribune, he took the cause brought her performance piece to of press freedom all the way to the Chicago. I Wish To Say…Letters to U.S. Supreme Court, where he won the Next President was inspired by a major ruling that still stands today. the First Amendment and the right This past summer, more than of Americans to petition their 300 letters and photographs government. “The civic health of collected during Oring’s 18-city the nation depends on discourse,” U.S. tour were exhibited at the Oring says. McCormick Freedom Museum. As part of her show, Oring The exhibit was a powerful display assumed the persona of a 1950’s of democracy in action — and a stenographer and set up her “office” celebration of the diversity of on Michigan Avenue. She asked perspective in our country. passersby this question: “If given Did Sheryl send the letters she the opportunity, what would you wish collected on to President Obama? to say to the next U.S. president?” Of course. But like any good They dictated, she typed, and the stenographer, she made carbon click-click-click of civic engagement copies first. was loud and clear.

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Citizenship The McCormick Foundation’s Citizenship Program seeks to improve our nation’s civic health by motivating, enabling and inspiring citizens to become more active and involved.

Role Models for Civic Engagement Two years ago, Sharpe brought “You have to light a fire under them.” her civic engagement curriculum How often this sentiment is heard to St. James School in Belvidere, from the parents of middle school Illinois. Her 7th and 8th graders students. It can be rather difficult spent a year researching community to get them engaged in the world issues and then developing action around them. plans. Their topics included the Well, there’s a world of difference need for seat belts on school buses, in Stephanie Sharpe’s classroom. and revising procedures around Her civic engagement projects have firearm owner identification cards. preteens excited and empowered Her students took their causes all as they learn what it means to be the way to Springfield, where they citizens, constituents and agents met with elected officials. Among of change. “Kids need to know they the many civic lessons they learned have a voice and that people will was how often bills can get stuck in listen,” she says. committee. “It teaches them about Her own calling as a “citizen the importance of diligence and activist” goes back to 2003 when tenacity,” Sharpe says. Sharpe, a student at Rockford Who first got Stephanie excited College in Illinois, was selected about civic engagement? Her mentor as one of the first McCormick and mother. Elaine Sharpe is a Student Citizen Fellows. The psychology professor at Rockford distinction was awarded by Illinois College who has teamed up with Campus Compact, a youth her daughter for years on service leadership coalition supported by projects. “What she taught me, I the McCormick Foundation. pass on to others,” Sharpe says. “One generation helping the next.”

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Veterans Robert R. McCormick never forgot his experience serving in World War I. Throughout the remainder of his life he continued to support veterans and their families. Today, the McCormick Foundation’s Veterans Program deals with current and urgent issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder, physical injuries, family support, jobs and shelter.

A Healing Community veterans during his lifetime. It is now Years ago, just about every family in a fund of the Foundation’s Veterans this country had someone serving in Program, a new grantmaking the military. Each and every American program that serves those who was directly touched by war. serve our country. Times have changed. Today, Under the leadership of Chicago less than one percent of the U.S. Growth Partners, GTCR Golder population serves in the military. The Rauner, Madison Dearborn Partners farther removed we are from the and Welsh Carson Anderson & battlefield by personal connection, Stowe, Operation Healing Freedom the easier it seems to be to forget raised $950,000 in six months. This our obligations as citizens. But amount grew to $1.4 million when some have not forgotten. the McCormick Foundation matched In 2008, members of Chicago’s 50 cents on every dollar raised and financial community — in partnership covered all administrative costs. with the McCormick Foundation — Rob Healy, a founding partner launched Operation Healing with Chicago Growth Partners, was Freedom, a fundraising campaign to among the first to get involved with assist service members, veterans the cause — and not just because and their families who have suffered he is a West Point graduate and a injury and loss during current and former Army officer. “I’m involved as previous U.S. conflicts. a regular citizen,” he says, pointing The establishment of Operation out that the vast majority of donors Healing Freedom furthers the have no direct connection to the legacy of Robert R. McCormick, armed forces. “We’re the rank and who safeguarded the well-being of file of democracy.”

Rob Healy (left) is a founding partner of Chicago Growth Partners and Operation Healing Freedom, a new national fundraising and public awareness campaign of the Foundation’s Veterans Program. In 2008, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago received a $115,000 grant for its Mild Traumatic Injury Patient Project, which provides screening and rehabilitation to service members like Neal Michalik (right). 16 Body 1-27.qxd:Body 1-27.qxd 7/14/09 4:44 AM Page 17

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First Division Museum at Cantigny The First Division Museum at Cantigny Park, the former estate of Robert R. McCormick, honors the courage and sacrifice of soldiers. It also promotes public learning about America’s military heritage by tracing the history of the 1st Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, the division in which McCormick served during World War I.

One Final Mission Jima Memorial, the 1st Division The veterans on this special mission Monument and Arlington Cemetery. were all well into their eighties. But The veterans were accompanied for this grateful nation, they will by 30 “guardians” including soldiers always be fine young men. from the active 1st Division, In 2008, the McCormick Foundation representatives and Foundation and the Cantigny First volunteers, and medical staff. Division Foundation — in partnership These younger individuals learned with Honor Flight Chicago — flew 64 firsthand the service and sacrifice World War II veterans to Washington, required to protect our free, D.C., to visit the National World War II democratic society. Memorial on the Mall. The one-day Upon their return, the veterans trip was free of charge as a gesture were welcomed back at Midway of deep appreciation for their Airport by a crowd of 500 in a service to country. rousing display of patriotism. “Their The Honor Flight left in the predawn sacrifice more than a generation hours of October 22. Among the ago freed the nation from the terrible veterans on board were 19 who dangers of that time and created the served with the Big Red One — the world in which we live,” said Paul U.S. Army’s First Division in which Herbert, executive director of the Robert R. McCormick served during Cantigny First Division Foundation. World War I. Their legacy is our liberty — It was a day of reflection and one that will be kept alive for camaraderie at the Memorial and generations to come. other important sites — the Iwo

PFC Daniel Basile USA (Ret.), 16th Infantry, 1st Division, H Company, a World War II veteran, took part in Honor Flight Chicago, a trip to the National World War II Memorial supported by the McCormick Foundation. He was accompanied by Museum staff member Gayln Landem — one of the program’s many volunteers helping to pass on the legacy of veterans to a rising generation of citizens. 19 Body 1-27.qxd:Body 1-27.qxd 7/14/09 4:45 AM Page 20

Special Initiatives The Special Initiatives Program funds local cultural, educational, social service, civic and health institutions, primarily in Chicago.

A Will to Help Family Services extends well beyond During his lifetime, Robert R. numbers, as evidenced by the life of McCormick supported the organi- one little girl. zation now known as Metropolitan Last year, 11-year-old Bianca Family Services and specifically received help from Christine provided for it in his will. Whipple to overcome debilitating In 2008, the McCormick post-traumatic stress following a Foundation continued his legacy serious car accident. Counseling of support by awarding a $300,000 was a lifeline for her and her family, grant to Metropolitan Family who lacked the resources to pay Services for its counseling support — for mental health services. helping low income men, women “Bolstering the strength that lies and children cope with severe family within each family.” This is how problems and mental health issues. Metropolitan Family Services While more than 13,000 families describes its programs that reach and individuals received counseling 90,000 families and individuals a year. last year, the impact of Metropolitan

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Cantigny Golf, Youth Links and Golf Academy In his will, Robert R. McCormick left his estate to the people of Illinois for their recreation, instruction and welfare. Today Cantigny, in Wheaton, IL, is the site of a multitude of events and programs, as well as museums, gardens, and an award-winning 27-hole golf course. Through golf at Youth Links, young people have the opportunity to learn character and discipline, as well as to develop a life-long love of a great sport.

Teeing Up for the Future junior players ages 8 to 15. The Robert R. McCormick was not a nationally recognized program golfer, but it is still fitting that a golf offers lessons, tournaments, open course was built at his former home, play and special events. Cantigny, in 1989. He would have Youth Links teaches golf to young loved that it was open to all, and people and the life lessons that a championship course to boot. come with the game: Humility and After all, McCormick was a respect. Discipline and persistence. champion of the people — and an Clarity of purpose. Honesty. early supporter of green space The very same qualities needed and public parks for all citizens. to excel in golf also keep youth In the case of Youth Links, focused — as they become recreation and instruction go hand responsible and productive adults. in hand. This 9-hole golf course It’s a game that helps them take the was added to Cantigny in 1999 for right stance wherever life leads them.

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Employees as Citizens Service is at the heart of the McCormick Foundation and is a value and a commitment shared by all the Foundation’s employees. The Foundation offers its people the opportunity to participate in a variety of community service projects and supports them with contributions.

Stepping Up as Volunteers Providing employees with When Robert R. McCormick volunteer opportunities across the answered the call to public service, Chicago area underscores the one of his first civic engagements Foundation’s commitment to was to help “clean up” the Chicago on-the-ground service. Staying Sanitary District in his role as connected to community needs president of the district. He referred nurtures responsible grantmaking to it as a festering swamp of and responsible citizens. patronage and corruption. In addition to taking part in group Sometimes citizens have to get service days, staff members are deep in the muck —to make positive encouraged to volunteer four days changes happen in their community. a year with a charity of their choice. This is exactly what McCormick The Foundation makes a $500 Foundation employees did as contribution to each organization. volunteers with the DuPage County It is public service that can River Sweep. They picked up debris transform communities — and help in and along the waterway during turn around some of society’s one of the Foundation’s quarterly greatest challenges. After all, Robert group service days — part of a R. McCormick helped reverse the larger stream cleanup effort held flow of the Chicago River. There’s no during American Rivers Month. feat too large when people work together for change.

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Communities The McCormick Foundation works with both new and long-time partners across the country to raise money for local needs and causes, using matching funds to increase the positive impact of individual contributions. Some of the local needs can be extremely urgent, such as relief for the victims of fires in Southern California.

A Citizen Call to Action distributed $1.2 million for front-line When the dry, gusty Santa Ana winds emergency services to wildfire blow, firefighters like Nick Schuler are victims. In collaboration with media ready. He’s a battalion chief with Cal outlets, sports teams and other Fire, which helps coordinate air and entities across the country, the ground resources for fire protection Communities Program encourages in San Diego County and throughout local giving, inspires civic California. All it takes is one spark. involvement and addresses human In October 2007, the fire siege of needs. Southern California burned a half In 2008, the Foundation ramped million acres — destroying 3,100 up its disaster relief efforts with homes, taking 17 lives and injuring partners AEG Corporation, performer hundreds. More than 900,000 Garth Brooks, the Los Angeles residents were evacuated and cared Times, American Express and for by emergency responders, Ticketmaster. More than $6 million volunteers and citizens. was distributed for rebuilding efforts, With the help of its partners in and to replace and upgrade Los Angeles and San Diego, the firefighting equipment. Foundation’s Communities Program

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Power of Our Communities Partnerships: Fundraising and Grantmaking

McCormick Foundation + 32 Communities Program Partners

1. ABC26/CW38 Children First 10. CW11 Care for Kids Fund 22. Newsday Charities 2. Baltimore Sun Charities 11. CW33 Kids Fund 23. North County Times Charities Fund 3. Cavaliers Youth Fund 12. CW39 Cares For Kids 24. Orlando Magic Youth Fund 4. Chicago Tribune Charities 13. Daily Press Holiday Fund 25. Orlando Sentinel Family Fund 5. Colorado Rockies Charity Fund 14. Ducks Charities Fund 26. Post-News Charities 6. The Courant Community Fund 15. Fox 43 Charities 27. Post-News Season to Share – The Courant/Fox 61 Children’s 16. Fox59/CW4 Community Fund 28. Q13 Fox Family Fund Holiday Campaign 17. Fox 61 Family Fund 29. Sun-Sentinel Children’s Fund 7. Cubs Care 18. KTLA-TV Charities Fund 30. WGN Radio 720 Neediest Kids Fund 8. CW2 Gives 19. Los Angeles Times Family Fund 31. WGN-TV Children’s Charities 9. CW5 Cares for Kids 20. The Morning Call Community Fund 32. The YES! Fund 21. myphl17 Cares

Establish McCormick Foundation Fund (e.g., Chicago Tribune Charities, Colorado Rockies Charity Fund)

Solicit and receive contributions from the public through events, promotions, annual campaigns and disaster relief campaigns (public includes: individuals, corporations and organizations)

McCormick Foundation matches public contributions

Contributions + match are granted to communities where the funds are raised*

*Contributions and match from disaster relief and special campaigns are granted to communities in need.

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Leveraging Resources to Improve Communities Partnerships are at the core of the McCormick Foundation’s Communities Program. We team up with businesses, local nonprofit agencies, and generous donors across the country to solve community challenges and improve the quality of life.

Together with newspapers, broadcasters and sports teams nationwide, we raise money from the public for important local and national causes. In addition to mobilizing our partners’ ability to reach out to readers, viewers and fans, the Foundation matches all donations at 50 cents on the dollar. The Foundation and our partners absorb all administrative costs, so 100 percent of every dollar donated, plus our match, goes directly to approved agencies that provide critical services to communities in need.

In 2008, thanks to people’s generosity and the momentum provided by our community partners, the Foundation’s Communities Program raised $17 million in public donations and, including the Foundation’s matching funds, made more than 1, 200 grants totaling over $29 million.

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2008 Communities Program Grants Paid

The Communities Program — Community Bike Works Turning Point of Lehigh Valley, Inc. the only program of its kind in the $5,000 $5,000 country — is designed to stimulate For Earn a Bike program For Emergency Domestic Violence local philanthropy and improve Shelter Services program community life through collaborative Crime Victims Council of partnerships in communities Lehigh Valley, Inc. Two Rivers Health & Wellness nationwide. $3,000 Foundation For Rape Crisis program $5,000 Allentown, PA For Northampton Dental Initiative De Sales University program $3,000 For Hispanic Initiative Summer Wildlands Conservancy, Inc. Academic Enrichment program $3,000 For Environmental Education program Embrace Your Dreams $5,000 Morning Call Community Fund For general support Anaheim, CA Total $137,000 Focuses on improving education Episcopal Ministries of the and literacy programs for children Diocese of Bethlehem, Inc. and adults, and supports basic $5,000 human needs. For Hunger Relief Services of Mollard Hospitality Center ArtsQuest $5,000 Fund to Benefit Children For B-Smart program and Youth, Inc. Ducks Care* $8,000 Total $930,139 Baum School of Art For Family Needs program *Renamed Ducks Charities Fund $5,000 in 2008 For Access to the Arts program Girl Scouts of Eastern Focuses on the education, health Pennsylvania, Inc. and well-being, and recreation of Boy Scouts of America $3,000 disadvantaged children and families. $6,000 For Girl Scout program For Urban Scouting program America On Track Kutztown University $15,000 Boys Club of Allentown Foundation, Inc. For Kids on Track Through Mentoring $3,000 $5,000 program For Digital Arts Suite program For Academic Alliance program Boy Scouts of America Orange Boys Club of Easton, Inc. Lehigh County Conference County Council $5,000 of Churches $70,000 For Keystone Character & Leadership $9,000 For general support Teen programs For Daybreak and Homelessness program Boys & Girls Clubs of Anaheim, Inc. Carl and Emily Weller Center $20,000 for Health Education Lehigh Valley Child Care, Inc. For Motel Kids Outreach program $5,000 $4,000 For Food and Fitness for Life program For general support Boys & Girls Clubs of Vista, Inc. $6,000 Casa Guadalupe Center Planned Parenthood of North East For Hockey program $5,000 Pennsylvania, Inc. For Jesus Ramos Senior Center $5,000 Burn Institute program For Community Education in the $10,000 Lehigh Valley For Emergency Needs/Special Catholic Charities, Diocese Assistance Fund program of Allentown Project of Easton, Inc. $6,000 $5,000 California Family Life Center For Community Support and For Even Start program $15,000 Allentown Ecumenical Kitchen For My L.I.F.E. program programs Sacred Heart Foundation $6,000 Canyon Acres Children and Community Action Committee For Sacred Heart Dental Clinic Family Services of the Lehigh Valley, Inc. program $25,000 $11,000 For Pediatric Healthcare program For Safe Harbor Easton and Second Third Street Alliance for Harvest Food Bank programs Women & Children Children’s Bureau of $5,000 Southern California Community Action Development For Resident Housing program $10,000 Corporation of the Lehigh Valley, Inc. For Prevention Works program $2,000 For Start Your Business program

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2008 Communities Program Grants Paid

CHOC Foundation for Children Mariposa Women and Family Center American National Red Cross – $50,139 $10,000 Central Maryland Chapter For Healthy Tomorrows Mobile For general support $15,000 Health Clinics For general support Olive Crest Treatment Center Court Appointed Special Advocates $15,000 Baltimore Reads, Inc. of Orange County, Inc. For Residential program $5,000 $5,000 For general support For Mentor-Advocate program Project Dignity $10,000 Family Tree Discovery Science Center of For general support $15,000 Orange County For Partners in Prevention program $350,000 Project Hope School Foundation For Educational Content $30,000 St. Vincent De Paul Society Development for New Exhibit: For general support of Baltimore Science of Hockey program $5,000 Ronald McDonald House For Beans and Bread program El Puente Community Charities of Southern California Development Corporation (Orange County) United Ministries, Inc. $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 For Homework Club program For general support For Earl’s Place program

The Eli Home, Inc. Saint Joseph Ballet Company $10,000 $25,000 Chicago, IL For Eli Home Shelter program For Saint Joseph Ballet Year-Round programs Families Forward $15,000 San Diego Youth & Community For Transitional Housing program Services, Inc. $15,000 Fresh Start Surgical Gifts For The Bridgman Home program $5,000 Chicago Tribune Charities For Surgery Weekend program Special Olympics Southern Total $5,121,500 California – Orange County Improves the lives of disadvantaged Girls Incorporated of $20,000 children, adults and families by Orange County For general support supporting basic needs such as $15,000 hunger and housing; promoting For Eureka! program Starlight Starbright Children’s family development; improving Foundation employment prospects; and Hamburger Home $5,000 developing literacy skills. $5,000 For Orange County Great Escapes For Youth Development program program Advocate Charitable Foundation $25,000 Healthy Smiles for Kids of Taller San Jose For Child Trauma Treatment program Orange County $15,000 $15,000 For Taller Tech program Albany Park Community Center, Inc. For Expansion of Children’s $25,000 Preventive Dental Services Thessalonika Family Services, Inc. For Workforce Development program $5,000 Hillview Acres Children’s Home For general support Albany Park Community Center, Inc. $10,000 $20,000 For School for Abused & Neglected Thomas House Temporary Shelter For Adult Literacy Tutoring program Children program $30,000 For general support American Indian Center, Inc. J.F. Shea Therapeutic Riding $15,000 Center, Inc. For Community Hunger initiatives $14,000 Baltimore, MD For general support Apna Ghar, Inc. (Our Home) $20,000 Joyful Foundation For Children’s Services program $10,000 For general support Apna Ghar, Inc. (Our Home) $18,000 Laura’s House For the development of culturally $20,000 Baltimore Sun Charities sensitive program evaluation For Domestic Violence Emergency Total $50,000 Shelter and Support Services program Supports programs that provide Aquinas Literacy Center family services, basic human needs, $5,000 Laurel House, Inc. and children and youth development. For Staff and Tutor Training program $20,000 For T.E.E.N.S. program

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Asian Human Services Catholic Charities of the Children’s Home & Aid Society of Chicago, Inc. Diocese of Joliet, Inc. of Illinois $30,000 $10,000 $15,000 For Adult and Family literacy programs For the Daybreak Center Transitional For After-School Reading program Housing program Association House of Chicago Children’s Research Triangle $10,000 Center for Labor and $10,000 For the Out of School Time program Community Research For Trauma Treatment program $25,000 Austin Career Education Center For Chicago Manufacturing Chinese Mutual Aid Association $10,000 Renaissance Council program $10,000 For Adult Literacy program For the Family Literacy Club Centers For New Horizons, Inc. Beacon Therapeutic School, Inc. $25,000 Christian Outreach of Lutherans $125,000 For Workforce Development program $30,000 For Family ACT program For COOL Food Pantry program Changing Worlds Beacon Therapeutic School, Inc. $10,000 Christopher House $20,000 For Literacy and Cultural Connections $40,000 For Homeless Family Assertive In-School Training program For Building Thriving Families Through Community Treatment Team program Social Work Services program Chicago Children’s Advocacy Blue Gargoyle Community Services Center Christopher House $20,000 $15,000 $25,000 For Adult Literacy and Family For Mental Health Clinic For Adult and Family literacy programs Literacy programs Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition Coalition of African, Asian, European Bridge Communities, Inc. $1,500 and Latino Immigrants of Illinois $20,000 For Strategic Planning program $15,000 For general support For Adult Education Training program Chicago Commons Association Bridge Youth & Family Services $35,000 Community Assistance Programs $25,000 For Adult Education and Nuevos $35,000 For Traumatic Stress program Exitos programs For Customized Job Training program

Cabrini-Green Tutoring Chicago House and Community Crisis Center, Inc. Program, Inc. Social Service Agency $5,000 $5,000 $40,000 For children’s program staff training For the Tutoring program For iFour Employment program Community Help Center Cambodian Association of Illinois Chicago House and $10,000 $30,000 Social Service Agency For Adult Literacy program For Employment and Economic $25,000 Development program For Family Support program Community Help Center $4,500 Campus Kitchens Project, Inc. Chicago Lights For computer network upgrade $15,000 $15,000 For Campus Kitchen at Northwestern For Near North Nutritional Unification Connections for Abused Women University program and their Children $40,000 Casa Central Chicago Lights For Child Witness program $25,000 $15,000 For La Posada Interim Housing For Tutoring Program’s Literacy Connections for the Homeless, Inc. program initiative $15,000 For Family Housing program Casa Norte Chicago Public Library Foundation $10,000 $35,000 Corazon A Corazon For Solid Ground Supportive Housing For Chicago Reads Together $10,000 program Early Literacy program For Adult ESL Literacy program

Catholic Charities of the Chicago Rehabilitation Network Corporation for Supportive Housing Archdiocese of Chicago $50,000 $50,000 $40,000 For general support For Chicago-area Family Supportive For Parish Emergency Assistance Housing program Resource Network Chicago Youth Programs, Inc. $15,000 Council for Jewish Elderly Catholic Charities of the For Path to Reading Literacy $25,000 Archdiocese of Chicago programs For Home Delivered Meals program $70,000 For the Homelessness Prevention Children’s Advocacy Center Call Center $25,000 For Safe From the Start program 32 Body 28-74.qxd:Body 28-74.qxd 7/14/09 4:35 AM Page 33

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Crisis Center for South Suburbia Family Rescue, Inc. Housing Opportunities For Women $12,000 $25,000 $20,000 For assessing and treating trauma in For enhanced child victim services For Housing First Consultation program children affected by domestic violence Family Shelter Service, Inc. Howard Area Community Center Crisis Center for South Suburbia $35,000 $40,000 $35,000 For Children’s Counseling program For Adult Education and Children’s For Child Care Counseling Services Literacy programs program Family Shelter Service, Inc. $15,000 Howard Area Community Center De La Salle Institute For Childcare Services program $35,000 $65,000 For Employment Resource Center For Adult Literacy and Family Literacy Feeding America program programs $40,000 For Produce Initiative Hull House Association Dominican Literacy Center Aurora $25,000 $5,000 Glen Ellyn Community Resource For Family Literacy program For the purchase of a database Center $10,000 Humboldt Park Social Services DuPage P.A.D.S., Inc. For After-School Literacy program $20,000 $10,000 For Center for Changing Lives program For case management for families Good News Partners $20,000 Inspiration Corporation Easter Seals Joliet Region, Inc. For Howard Area Anti-Hunger Network $55,000 $35,000 For Training and Employment For Regional Autism Diagnostic Clinic Greater Chicago Food Depository Services program and related services $250,000 For general support and Nourish for Inspiration Corporation El Valor Corporation Knowledge program $40,000 $10,000 For Meals program For Lexia Learning & Reading PLUS Greater West Town Community Software and staff training Development Project Inspiration Corporation $50,000 $10,000 El Valor Corporation For Vocational Job Training and For Family Housing program $10,000 Placement program For the STARS Reading program Institute for Latino Progress Harborquest, Inc. (Instituto del Progreso Latino) Emergency Fund $50,000 $40,000 $50,000 For Member Services program For Carreras en Salud program For Financial Assistance program Heartland Human Care Services, Inc. Institute for Latino Progress Enterprising Kitchen, Inc. $50,000 (Instituto del Progreso Latino) $35,000 For Families Building Community $25,000 For general support District 14 program For Family Literacy program

Erie Neighborhood House Heartland Human Care Services, Inc. Interfaith Housing Development $35,000 $40,000 Corporation of Chicago For Adult Literacy and After-School For the Homeless Prevention program $25,000 Partners for Reading Literacy programs For program design and Heartland Human Care Services, Inc. community outreach services for Erie Neighborhood House $30,000 family developments $10,000 For Adult Literacy program For Lexia Learning & Reading Interfaith Refugee and Software and staff training Hektoen Institute for Medical Immigration Ministries, Inc. Research, LLC $30,000 Family Focus, Inc. $10,000 For the Adult Literacy program $30,000 For the Child Trauma Capacity For Right from the Start program Building Project Jewish Child and Family Services $10,000 Family Focus, Inc. House of the Good Shepherd For Parenting Education and $15,000 $25,000 Support program For Hug-A-Book program For Children and Family Services program Jewish Federation of Family Matters, Inc. Metropolitan Chicago $10,000 Housing Action Illinois $35,000 For Evening Tutoring and I-Read $20,000 For Job Readiness Training program programs For support of Chicago-area programs Jewish Federation of Family Rescue, Inc. Housing Opportunities For Women Metropolitan Chicago $45,000 $55,000 $20,000 For Rosenthal Family Lodge program For general support For Tenant Support Project

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Jewish Federation of Literacy DuPage National Able Network, Inc. Metropolitan Chicago A ProLiteracy America Affiliate $25,000 $15,000 $25,000 For Able Career Institute program For Uptown Cafe program For Adult Literacy program National Latino Education Institute Kids Hope United Literacy DuPage $55,000 $35,000 A ProLiteracy America Affiliate For Workforce Development Initiatives For Wings/Healthy Families Initiative $3,500 program For evaluation modules Korean American Resource NCO Youth & Family Services and Cultural Center Literacy Volunteers of Fox Valley $10,000 $20,000 A ProLiteracy America Affiliate For Youth In Transition program For Adult Literacy program $15,000 For Adult Literacy program Nicasa La Rabida Children’s Hospital $25,000 and Research Center Literacy Volunteers of Fox Valley For the Parent Empowerment program $20,000 A ProLiteracy America Affiliate For the Family Therapy program $6,000 Night Ministry For Diversified Fundraising Plan $40,000 Lake County Crisis Center For Open Door Youth Shelter Interim for the Prevention and Treatment Literacy Works program of Domestic Violence $40,000 $40,000 For Adult Volunteer Tutor Training North Lawndale Employment For children’s program program Network $50,000 Lake County Crisis Center Little Brothers – Friends of For U-Turn Permitted program for the Prevention and Treatment The Elderly of Domestic Violence $15,000 Northern Illinois Food Bank $14,000 For Elder Food program $225,000 For outcome tracking and service For general support evaluation Local Economic and Employment Development Council, Inc. Northwest Neighborhood Lake County Haven $35,000 Federation $10,000 For Entry Level Industrial Skills $10,000 For Integrated Shelter, Housing and Training program For Adult ESL Literacy program Case Management program Loyola University Chicago Oakton Community College Lakeview Pantry $25,000 Educational Foundation $25,000 For evaluation of Chicago’s Housing $20,000 For general support First plan For Adult Literacy program

Lambs, Inc. Lutheran Child & Family Services Outreach Community Ministries, Inc. $10,000 of Illinois $20,000 For general support $35,000 For the Jubilee Village Transitional For Little Village Food Network Housing program Latin Center–Universidad Popular $15,000 Lydia Home Association PADS Crisis Services, Inc. For Family Literacy program $15,000 $10,000 For Safe Families program For Beyond Shelter Rent Support Latin United Community Housing program Association Marklund Children’s Home $10,000 $10,000 PADS Inc.–Public Action to For Supportive Housing Project For the Early Intervention program Deliver Shelter, Inc. program $10,000 Mercy Housing Lakefront For Transitional Living Community Lawyers’ Committee For $25,000 program Better Housing For Family Supportive Housing $25,000 program People’s Resource Center For general support $35,000 Metropolitan Family Services For Basic Services program Learning Center House of $35,000 Connections For Healthy Families program People’s Resource Center $25,000 $25,000 For Adult Literacy program Misericordia Home/Heart of Mercy For the Homeless Prevention program Center Literacy Connection $10,000 People’s Resource Center $15,000 For general support $15,000 For Adult and Family Literacy For Adult Literacy program programs Mujeres Latinas en Accion $20,000 For Parent Support program

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Pioneer Center for Human Services South Suburban Family Shelter West Suburban PADS, Inc. $15,000 $23,000 $20,000 For PADS Transitional Shelter program For staff training for tools/outcome For Family Transitional Housing reporting program Poder Learning Center $15,000 South Suburban Family Shelter Wings Program, Inc. For Adult ESL Literacy program $15,000 $15,000 For Children’s Counseling program For the Transitional Housing program Polish American Association $45,000 South Suburban PADS Women Employed Institute For Employment Services and $20,000 $75,000 Vocational Training program For Families First program For general support

Positive Parenting DuPage Spanish Coalition for Housing Women’s Treatment Center $10,000 $25,000 $40,000 For general support For the SCH Homeless Prevention For the Parenting program program Prevent Child Abuse Illinois World Relief Corporation of National $10,000 St. Leonard’s Ministries Association of Evangelicals For Happiest Baby on the Block $45,000 $20,000 program For Michael Barlow Employment For Family Literacy program Center program Project Match—Families in World Relief Corporation of National Transition Association Supportive Housing Providers Association of Evangelicals $40,000 Association $20,000 For Employment program $20,000 For the Welcome Inn Homelessness For Chicago-area Family Supportive Prevention program Pui Tak Center Housing program $35,000 Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center For Adult Literacy program Teen Living Programs $20,000 $30,000 For Sexual Assault Treatment Pui Tak Center For general support Counseling program $10,000 For Computerized Intake Process Teen Parent Connection and ESL Curriculum $35,000 For the Adolescent Family Renaissance Social Services, Inc. Strengthening program $10,000 For Housing Stability program Thresholds $30,000 Cubs Care Respond Now For Homeless Families program Total $993,000 $10,000 Funds neighborhood-based nonprofit For the Family Homelessness Together We Cope organizations, as well as programs Prevention program $25,000 supporting children with special For Rent/Utility Assistance for Families needs, victims of domestic violence Safer Foundation and youth baseball leagues. $50,000 Township High School District 214 For Public Policy and Advocacy Community Education Foundation Advocate Charitable Foundation program $65,000 $10,000 For Adult and Family Literacy For the School-Based Health Safer Foundation programs Centers at Lake View & Amundsen $45,000 High Schools For the Youth Empowerment Project Turning Point, Inc. and PACE Institute programs $15,000 B.U.I.L.D., Inc. For Children’s program $10,000 San Miguel Febres Cordero For out-of-school sports program School, Inc. Turning Point, Inc. $25,000 $14,000 Between Friends For literacy activities For Emergency Shelter program $5,000 development For general support Sarah’s Inn $30,000 Vital Bridges, NFP, Inc. Big Brothers Big Sisters of For Children and Teens program $160,000 Metropolitan Chicago For Food and Nutrition program $15,000 SGA Youth & Family Services For the Mentoring Partnership $30,000 Waubonsee Community College program For Healthy Families Illinois/Parents $10,000 Too Soon program For Johnson School Adult Literacy Center on Halsted program $20,000 For Youth Fitness program

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Chicago Park District Greater Chicago Food Depository Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club $162,000 $10,000 $10,000 For Cubs Care Rookie League For general support For the Baseball, Softball and Youth Baseball & Therapeutic Recreation Leadership & Development program programs Hephzibah Children’s Association $10,000 Neopolitan Lighthouse Chicago Park District For the Ryno Kid Care program $5,000 $100,000 For Women’s and Children’s For Thillens Stadium House of the Good Shepherd Residential Shelter program $12,000 Chicago Park District For general support Night Ministry $65,000 $10,000 For Inner City Little League program Howard Brown Health Center For Youth Outreach Team program $10,000 Chicago Park District For Domestic Violence program North Side Housing and $60,000 Supportive Services For Cubs Care Special Olympics Illinois Wisconsin Sertoma Regional $15,000 Leagues program Center for Communicative Disorders For general support $8,000 Chicago Women’s Health Center For the Fantasy Baseball Camp for Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago $5,000 Speech and Hearing Impaired $55,000 For general support Children For the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Sports program Children’s Memorial Hospital Keshet $45,000 $6,500 Residents for Effective Shelter For the Literacy and UPLIFT School For the Buddy Baseball program Transitions Health Center programs $20,000 Korean American Women In Need For general support Children’s Place Association $5,000 $5,000 For general support Saint Joseph Hospital For general support $20,000 Lakeview Pantry For the Lakeview Health Center/Saint Connections for Abused Women $20,000 Catherine Laboure Outpatient Center and their Children For general support Medication Assistance program $5,000 For Children’s Services at Lincoln Park Community Shelter Super Sibs Greenhouse Shelter $10,000 $5,000 For general support For Sibling Support and Outreach Counseling Center of Lake View Education programs $10,000 Little City Foundation For Latino Family Violence program $5,000 Tuesday’s Child For the Project Connect program $10,000 Crisis Center for South Suburbia For the Familias Felices program $5,000 Merit School of Music For Children’s Services program $10,000 Union League Boys and Girls Club For the Bridges: Partners in $85,000 Crohns & Colitis Foundation of Music/Graeme Stewart Elementary For the Reviving Baseball in Inner America, Inc. Band program Cities program $5,000 For the Camp Oasis program Midtown Educational Foundation University of Illinois/Chicago $10,000 Campus DePaul University For the Academic Year Sports program $1,000 $1,000 For Lake View High School For Lake View High School The Moyer Foundation Scholarship Scholarship $12,500 For the Camp Erin Bereavement Women’s Sports Foundation Emergency Fund program $10,000 $5,000 For GoGirlGo! Chicago program For the Financial Assistance program Mujeres Latinas en Accion $5,000 YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago Family Rescue, Inc. For Domestic Violence program $55,000 $5,000 For the Cubs Care After-School For general support Naperville Area Humane Society program $5,000 Girls in the Game For the 2008 Canine Coaches $10,000 program For general support National Runaway Switchboard $5,000 For the 2008 Thanksgiving Dinner for Homeless Youth program

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Connections for Abused Women Latino Education Alliance and their Children $20,000 $2,000 For general support For Greenhouse Shelter program Lawrence Hall Youth Services Erie Neighborhood House $7,000 $30,000 For Holiday Gift program For Youth Options Unlimited program WGN Radio 720 Neediest Kids Fund Learning and Skills Center Total $640,000 Family Focus, Inc. $15,000 Supports youth development, child- $10,000 For general support hood hunger and holiday gift pro- For Holiday Toy & Gift program grams for disadvantaged children. Lutheran Social Services of Illinois Fraternite Notre Dame, Inc. $15,000 Alternatives, Inc. $25,000 For Christmas Project 2008 program $20,000 For Kids Cafe program For Career and Employment Services Metropolitan Family Services program Gads Hill Center $20,000 $15,000 For Project S.T.R.I.V. E. program ARK For Teen Connection program $2,000 Morning Star Mission Ministries, Inc. For Holiday Gift Wishes program Gads Hill Center $4,000 $6,000 For Stars of Hope program Association House of Chicago For the Holiday Wishes program $12,000 Mujeres Latinas en Accion For Holiday Programming for Children Gilda’s Club Chicago $4,000 $3,000 For Children’s Holiday program B.U.I.L.D., Inc. For Noogieland Children’s Holiday $10,000 program Northern Illinois Food Bank For Youth Development Initiative $35,000 program Greater Chicago Food Depository For Youth Nutrition program $60,000 Beacon Therapeutic School, Inc. For Kids Cafe program and Nourish Puerto Rican Arts Alliance $10,000 for Knowledge program $4,000 For Vocational Service program For Three Kings Day Festival Heartland Human Care Services, Catholic Charities of the Inc. San Miguel Febres Cordero Archdiocese of Chicago $8,000 School, Inc. $10,000 For the Holiday Help program $20,000 For Celebration of Giving program For Graduate Support program Howard Area Community Center Centers for New Horizons, Inc. $9,000 Seguin Service, Inc. $10,000 For Holiday Project $4,000 For Wendell Phillips Community For Holiday program School program Indo-American Center $3,000 Southwest Youth Services Chicago Area Project For the Holiday Party Collaborative $12,000 $25,000 For Holiday Winter Coat program Jane Addams Resource For ScholarShop program Corporation Chicago Lights $20,000 Street Level Youth Media $10,000 For Youth in Manufacturing After- $15,000 For Tutoring and Summer Day Meals School program For Youth Employment program program Jewish Child and Family Services Together We Cope Chicago Youth Centers $10,000 $12,000 $15,000 For Holiday Wish List program For Client Christmas program For Teen Leadership Development Jewish Child and Family Services Will County Center for Community ChildServ $10,000 Concerns, Inc. $10,000 For Investing in Teen Futures program $7,000 For Project Interweave For Holiday Baskets program Jobs For Youth –Chicago, Inc. Community & Economic $20,000 Young Men’s Educational Network Development Association of For Customer Service and Computer $10,000 Cook County, Inc. Skills Training programs For academic support and $20,000 preparation for college programs For Summer Food Service program Larkin Center For Children and Adolescents Youth Guidance $6,000 $30,000 For Food & Clothing Drive holiday For Project Prepare program program 37 Body 28-74.qxd:Body 28-74.qxd 7/14/09 4:35 AM Page 38

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Youth Job Center of Evanston, Inc. Cleveland, OH Dallas, TX $15,000 For Youth Employment Initiative

Cavaliers Youth Fund CW33 Kids Fund Total $715,000 Total $112,702 Supports programs positively Funds programs focusing on impacting at-risk youth, such as education and health for youth education, recreation, and under the age of 18. WGN-TV Children’s Charities employment and life skills. Total $142,188 Central Dallas Food Pantry Supports programs benefiting Access, Inc. $5,000 children, such as early intervention, $15,000 For the Children’s Education child abuse prevention, recreation, For Employment and Life Skills After-School Academy program advocacy, child welfare and holiday program gift programs. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Berea Children’s Home $10,000 America Scores Chicago $25,000 For specialized care and patient $10,000 For Cradle of Caring program serving education For Literacy in Action program children from low-income families Dallas Challenge, Inc. Chicago Children’s Advocacy City Year, Inc. $6,000 Center $25,000 For Gang Prevention program $17,188 For Support Successful Students For Mental Health Clinic program JA Worldwide – Chisholm $5,000 JA Worldwide Cleveland Botanical Garden For general support $10,000 $25,000 For low-income students in the Whole For Green Corps Urban Youth JA Worldwide – Dallas School Sponsorship program program $5,000 For general support Jobs For Youth/Chicago, Inc. Cleveland Scholarship Programs, Inc. $15,000 $15,000 Junior Players Guild For Better Choice program For College Access Advisory Services $10,000 for Families For Discover Ourselves After-School La Rabida Children’s Hospital program and Research Center Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc. $20,000 $500,000 Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Inc. For general support For general support – North Texas Chapter $10,000 Link Unlimited HELP Foundation, Inc. For the Patient Financial Aid program $10,000 $50,000 For Academic Enrichment and For Continuing Education Extended Mi Escuelita Preschool, Inc. College Readiness program School Year Summer program $6,000 For scholarship program Providence St. Mel School Lorain County Boys and Girls $20,000 Club, Inc. Mi Escuelita Preschool, Inc. For Intervention program $10,000 $702 For general support For general support St. Patrick High School $10,000 New Life Community Neighbors United for Quality For Financial Assistance program $25,000 Education, Inc. For Life Skills and Jobs Training $6,000 United Negro College Fund, Inc. program For Scholarship Assistance program $15,000 For need-based scholarships for Old Stone Foundation New Beginning Center, Inc. Chicago area students $5,000 $5,000 For general support For general support Women’s Treatment Center $15,000 Shoes for Kids, Inc. Rainbow Days, Inc. For Infant and Toddler Day Care $20,000 $5,000 program For Shoes and Clothes for Kids For Life Skills Education for Children, Buying and Distribution program Youth & Families program

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Southern Methodist University Big Brothers Big Sisters of Denver SCORES $5,000 Colorado, Inc. $5,000 For the Perkins Youth program $20,000 For Words Work program For One-to-One Mentoring programs Texas Girls Choir, Inc. Environmental Learning for Kids $5,000 Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro $5,000 For scholarship program Denver, Inc. For the Denver Youth Naturally $40,000 program United Cerebral Palsy of For the Colorado Rockies RBI Metropolitan Dallas, Inc. Baseball League program Excelsior Youth Centers, Inc. $6,000 $10,000 For general support Boys Hope Girls Hope of Colorado For the Substance Abuse Treatment $5,000 and Prevention program The Wilkinson Center For Boys Hope program $6,000 Family Homestead For general support Breckenridge Outdoor $25,000 Education Center For general support YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas $35,000 $11,000 For Tuition Assistance Fund program Girls Scouts of Colorado For YMCA Urban Swim Initiative $10,000 program Children’s Hospital Foundation For Healthy Living Outreach program $20,000 in metro Denver Young Womens Christian For patient care through Experimental Association of Fort Worth and Therapeutics program Griffith Centers for Children, Inc. Tarrant County $30,000 $6,000 Colorado Council on For the Education program For YWCA Child Development Economic Education program $10,000 I Have a Dream Foundation Colorado For general support $45,500 For the Dreamer Class of 2017 Denver, CO Conflict Center $5,000 Judi’s House For Youth-At-Risk program $10,000 For general support Delta Gamma Anchor Center for Blind Children Kempe Foundation for the $10,000 Prevention and Treatment of For general support Child Abuse and Neglect $20,000 Denver Area Council, For Fostering Healthy Futures Colorado Rockies Charity Fund Boy Scouts of America program Total $753,000* $10,000 *Includes $100,00 from returned por- For Urban Scouting programs National Sports Center for tion of unused grants from prior years. the Disabled Denver Children’s Advocacy Center $20,000 Promotes participation in baseball $10,000 For Sponsor-an-Athlete scholarship and softball by people of all ages For general support program and abilities, and supports education, literacy, health, and drug and Denver Inner-City Parish, Inc. Parent Pathways, Inc. alcohol abuse prevention programs. $10,000 $7,500 For La Academia program For Early Learning Center of Florence Adaptive Adventures Crittenton School $10,000 Denver Kids, Inc. For year-round adaptive sports $90,000 Project PAVE, Inc. programs For general support $10,000 For Clinical Counseling program Adoption Exchange Denver Police Activities League, Inc. $15,000 $50,000 Regis Jesuit High School For the Colorado Family Recruitment For Denver PAL Baseball program $10,000 program For 2009 Scholarship program Denver Public Library Friends Advocates For Children Foundation Rocky Mountain Children’s $20,000 $15,000 Law Center For general support For the 2008 Summer of Reading $5,000 program For Legal Advocacy program Alliance for Choice in Education $10,000 Denver Public Schools Foundation SafeHouse Denver, Inc. For the K-12 Scholarship program $100,000 $10,000 For Denver Public Schools Middle For children’s program Arapahoe House, Inc. School Prep League program $10,000 For Adolescent Services program

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Sewall Child Development Center Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Front Range Center for $10,000 Denver, Inc. Assault Prevention For general support $125,000 $5,000 For general support For Child Assault Prevention program Special Olympics Colorado, Inc. $10,000 Central City Opera House Girl Scouts of Colorado For Colorado youth programs and Association $15,000 youth competitions $10,000 For Discover, Connect, Take Action For education and community program Tennyson Center for Children at programs Colorado Christian Home Girls Incorporated of $40,000 Children’s Advocacy and Metropolitan Denver For general support Family Resource, Inc. $50,000 $5,000 For Center-Based Youth program Urban Peak Denver For general support $25,000 JA Worldwide Rocky Mountain For general support Children’s Hospital Foundation $75,000 $20,000 For Public School program Volunteers of America, Inc. For Patient Care $10,000 Juvenile Diabetes Research For Brandon Center Children’s Museum of Denver, Inc. Foundation International $5,000 $15,000 Warren Village, Inc. For Sponsored Admissions program For Family Connections Outreach $5,000 program For Learning Center City Wild $10,000 Mental Health Center of Denver Young Americans Center for For Leadership Development program $10,000 Financial Education For the Suicide Prevention project $15,000 Delta Gamma Anchor Center For the Young AmeriTowne program for Blind Children Metropolitan State College of $50,000 Denver Foundation, Inc. Young Mens Christian Association For general support $15,000 of Metropolitan Denver For the Alumni Association $20,000 Denver Center for the Scholarships program For Youth Baseball program Performing Arts $50,000 Mount Saint Vincent Home For the Arts in Education program $25,000 for low-income students For Residential Care for Children program Denver Kids, Inc. $100,000 Second Wind Fund For general support $5,000 For general support Denver Public Library Friends CW2 Gives Foundation Sewall Child Development Center Total $935,233 $25,000 $45,000 Funds programs that promote the For children and youth services For general support health and well-being of children, youth and families. Denver Young Artists Orchestra SOS Outreach Association $12,500 Adaptive Sports Center of $10,000 For Seven Year Colorado Curriculum Crested Butte, Inc. For outreach and financial aid services program for low-income children $50,000 For the Winter and Summer Adaptive Denver Youth Program Tennyson Center for Children at Recreation program $7,500 Colorado Christian Home For the Gang Rescue and Support $30,000 Advocates For Children program (GRASP) For Residential program $6,000 For general support Easter Seals Colorado Voices for Children, Inc. $43,733 $5,000 Big Brothers Big Sisters of For scholarships at Rocky Mountain For general support Colorado, Inc. Village Camp $50,000 Volunteers of America, Inc. For One-to-One Mentoring programs Family Star, Inc. $25,000 $15,000 For the Brandon Center Bluff Lake Nature Center For general support $8,000 Warren Village, Inc. For Science Education program $12,500 For Learning Center

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Denver Center for the Mi Casa Resource Center Performing Arts for Women $20,000 $5,000 For the Arts in Education program For Youth Development program

Denver Museum of Nature Opera Colorado and Science $15,000 $15,000 For 2008–2009 Education and Post-News Charities* For Outreach Scholarships for low- Community program Total $397,000 income students *Renamed The Denver Post Charities Reach Out and Read Colorado in May 2009 Denver Public Library Friends $10,000 Foundation For general support Supports opportunities for at-risk $20,000 youth, arts and cultural institutions, For Children and Youth programs Rocky Mountain Butterfly after-school and tutoring programs and literacy programs. Consortium Denver Public Schools Foundation $5,000 $10,000 For the Butterfly Pavilion Scholarship Adams 14 Education Foundation For the A to Z Fund program program $12,000 For school literacy support Denver SCORES Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust $10,000 $5,000 Arapahoe Library Foundation, Inc. For the Words Work program For 2008–2009 tuition assistance $10,000 For Begin with Books program Emily Griffith Foundation, Inc. Summer Scholars $15,000 $20,000 Arvada Council for the Arts For Literacy and Preparatory Skills For general support and Humanities, Inc. program $15,000 For the 2009 Children’s Theater and Young Americans Center for Arts Days programs Escuela de Guadalupe Financial Education $7,500 $15,000 For Literacy Development program For International Towne program Ballet Nouveau Colorado $10,000 For 2008–09 Elementary School Focus Points Family Resource Center YouthBiz, Inc. $5,000 $5,000 Partnerships For Family Literacy program For YouthBiz and Advance programs Central City Opera House Impact on Education Association $7,500 $10,000 For Classroom Mini-Grants program For Education and Community programs Friends of Arts Street $5,000 Children’s Museum of Denver, Inc. For the 2008 Arts-to-Career program $20,000 For Get Caught Reading and the G.R.O.W. Science and Literacy I Have a Dream Foundation of programs Boulder County $5,000 Post-News Season to Share* For Iris Dreamer Class program Total $2,197,500 Colorado Seminary *Renamed The Denver Post Season $15,000 to Share in May 2009 For Bridge Project Reading program JA Worldwide Rocky Mountain $10,000 Supports programs addressing For Kindergarten program hunger, homelessness, medical Colorado Symphony Association care and the needs of children $15,000 and families. For the 2007–2008 Season CSO Jefferson County Library Education and Outreach programs Foundation, Inc. $10,000 Adoption Exchange For Traveling Children’s Library $10,000 Colorado UpLIFT program For the Colorado Family Recruitment $15,000 program For 2008 program support Learning Source $20,000 Arvada Community Food Bank Colorado Women’s Employment For general support $20,000 and Education Incorporated For general support $10,000 For Basic Skills program Mental Health America of Colorado $5,000 Aurora Interchurch Task Force, Inc. For the Education program $30,000 Denver Botanic Garden For general support $5,000 For Cultivation Cruiser program Metropolitan State College of Denver Foundation, Inc. Boulder Shelter for the Homeless $15,000 $40,000 For Family Literacy program For general support 41 Body 28-74.qxd:Body 28-74.qxd 7/14/09 4:35 AM Page 42

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Bright Beginnings Denver Inner-City Parish, Inc. Interfaith Hospitality Network of $35,000 $10,000 Greater Denver, Inc. For the Metro Denver Bright For the Emergency Food Bank $25,000 Beginnings program program For general support

Broadway Assistance Center Denver Kids, Inc. Jeffco Action Center, Inc. $25,000 $30,000 $50,000 For general support For general support For EMS program

Capitol Hill Community Services Denver Public Schools Pupil Jewish Community Centers $45,000 Assistance Fund, Inc. of Denver For general support $20,000 $10,000 For general support For Early Childhood Center program Carriage House Homeless Community Center Denver Urban Ministries Metro CareRing $20,000 $50,000 $50,000 For general support For general support For general support

Castle Rock Community Denver Youth Program Mount Saint Vincent Home Inter-Church Task Force $20,000 $40,000 $25,000 For general support For Residential program For general support Family Homestead National Jewish Medical & Center for Neurological Diseases $40,000 Research Center Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis For general support $50,000 Center For Pediatric Medical programs $35,000 Family Star, Inc. For the King Adult Day Enrichment $32,500 National Multiple Sclerosis program For general support Society–Colorado Chapter $30,000 Children’s Hospital Foundation Family Tree, Inc. For Independent Living, $50,000 $35,000 Empowerment, and Advocacy For the Child Health Clinic For the Family Tree Women in Crisis program program Clinica Campesina Family National Sports Center for Health Services Food Bank of the Rockies the Disabled $50,000 $50,000 $25,000 For general support For general support For Sponsor-an-Athlete Scholarship program Clinica Tepeyac Gathering Place, A Drop-in Center $40,000 for Women Outreach United Resource For general support $50,000 Center, Inc. For general support $35,000 Colorado Coalition for For general support the Homeless General Conference of $40,000 Seventh-Day Adventists Parent Pathways, Inc. For the Health Outreach program $35,000 $30,000 For the Family Care program For Parent Pathways Housing Colorado Health Network Services program $50,000 Girls Incorporated of For the Food Bank program Metropolitan Denver Parenting Place $20,000 $30,000 Community Ministry of For the Center-Based Youth programs For Family Strengthening program Southwest Denver $25,000 Hope Center for the Retarded The Parker Task Force for For general support $35,000 Human Services Charitable Trust For Early Childhood Education and $13,000 Delores Project Care program For general support $30,000 For general support Howard Dental Center Project Angel Heart $30,000 $50,000 Delta Gamma Anchor Center For general support For Home Delivered Meals program for Blind Children $50,000 Inner City Health Center Rocky Mountain Youth Medical For general support $50,000 and Nursing Consultants, Inc. For general support $50,000 Dental Aid, Inc. For general support $50,000 Inter-Church Arvada Resource For the Children’s Uninsured Oral for Ministry and Service Health program $17,000 For general support

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Ronald McDonald House Charities YWCA of Boulder County Casa De Amparo of Denver, Inc. $45,000 $6,000 $20,000 For Children’s Alley program For the Children’s Shelter Education For general support program

Safehouse Progressive Alliance Escondido, CA Catholic Charities, Diocese for Nonviolence, Inc. of San Diego $30,000 $5,000 For Emergency Shelter program For the emergency services program

Salvation Army Lambuth Center for Community Solutions Family Center $4,000 $20,000 For the clinical program For general support North County Times Charities Fund Community Campership Council Samaritan House Total $283,000 $5,000 $50,000 Supports programs focusing on For the Kids to Camp program For Samaritan House program hunger and homelessness, as well as literacy, mentoring, and crisis Community Housing Works Sewall Child Development Center intervention and prevention. $7,500 $25,000 For the Learning Communities For general support Alpha Project for the Homeless program $7,000 Share Our Strength, Inc. For the Casa Raphael/Casa Base Community Resource Center $30,000 program $5,000 For Operation Frontline Colorado For the Homeless Prevention and program Armed Services YMCA of the USA – Intervention program Camp Pendleton Chapter Sister Carmen Community Center $9,000 Conner’s Cause for Children $25,000 For the Camp Hero program $5,000 For general support For general support Assistance League of Inland Special Transit (Special North County (Escondido Valley) Escondido Community Child Transportation for Boulder County) $5,000 Development Center $25,000 For the Operation School Bell $4,000 For free service to the homeless program For the Infant/Toddler and Preschool Counseling and Parent Education St. Francis Center Big Brothers Big Sisters of program $50,000 San Diego County, Inc. For general support $5,000 Fallbrook Child Development For the Operation Bigs program Center Stride $4,000 $25,000 Boys & Girls Club of Carlsbad For general support For general support $5,000 For the Kids in Unison program Fallbrook Food Pantry Tennyson Center for Children at $10,000 Colorado Christian Home Boys & Girls Club of Oceanside For general support $45,000 $7,500 For the residential program For the Gangbusters program Fraternity House, Inc. $4,000 Tiny Tim Center Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos For general support $30,000 $7,500 For Tiny Tim Scholarship Grant For the Job Ready! Teen Center Girls Incorporated of program program San Diego County $4,000 Urban Peak Denver Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito For the Preventing Adolescent $50,000 $5,000 Pregnancy program For Shelter for Homeless Youth For the Family Support program program Jewish Family Service of San Diego Boys’ Club of Fallbrook $4,000 Volunteers of America, Inc. $7,500 For the Mentoring Mothers program $30,000 For the Potter After-School Teen For Theodora House program Center program Lifeline Community Services $4,000 Young Mens Christian Association Boys’ Club of Vista, Inc. For the Juvenile Diversion – of Metropolitan Denver $7,500 Gang Prevention program $15,000 For the Power Hour program For YMCA School Age Child Care Meals-On-Wheels Greater program Brother Benno Foundation, Inc. San Diego, Inc. $10,000 $10,000 For general support For general support

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Menifee Valley Community Vista Community Clinic Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, Inc. Cupboard $7,000 $10,000 $4,000 For the Kare for Kids Fund For Prevention Against Violence Early For Emergency Food Distribution program program Vista Oceanside Meals on Wheels $10,000 All Florida Youth Orchestra, Inc. National Assistance League – For general support $5,000 North Coast For Music STEPS program $5,000 Welcome Home Ministries For Operation School Bell – $5,000 American Heart Association Clothing for Children program For general support $5,000 For Healthy Children Outreach National Assistance League – Women’s Resource Center program serving low-income Rancho San Dieguito $5,000 communities $4,000 For the Alternatives to Abuse program For the Operation School Bell Ann Storck Center, Inc. program YMCA of Riverside City and County– $15,000 Southwest Family Branch For Preschool Early Intervention North County Health Project, Inc. $7,000 program $6,000 For the YMCA Day Camp program For the Infant & Toddler Feeding Big Brothers Big Sisters program YMCA of San Diego County of Broward, Inc. $4,000 $17,000 North County Interfaith Council, Inc. For the Oz North Coast program For Mentoring Children of Promise $10,000 program For Family Housing program YMCA of San Diego County – Magdalena Ecke Family Branch Big Brothers Big Sisters of OASIS Institute $6,000 Palm Beach County, Inc. $6,000 For the Community Connections $5,000 For Intergenerational Tutoring program For Parenting Partners program program YMCA of San Diego County – Boca Helping Hands, Inc. Oceanside Senior Citizens Palomar Family Branch $8,000 Association, Inc. $6,000 For Crisis Financial Assistance $5,000 For the Teen Center program program For the Project Care program Boca Raton Museum of Art Palomar Family Counseling Ft. Lauderdale, FL $5,000 Service, Inc. For Meet a Master, Create a $4,000 Masterpiece Roadshow program For the Children’s Intensive program Boca Raton’s Promise– Poway Valley Senior Citizens Corp. The Alliance For Youth, Inc. $7,500 $5,000 For Senior Nutrition program Sun-Sentinel Children’s Fund For Friday Friends program Total $1,525,000 Roman Catholic Bishop of Funds programs providing low- Boys & Girls Clubs of San Bernardino income children and families with Broward County $4,000 food, shelter, emergency assistance, $20,000 For St. Martha’s Community Food health programs, abuse prevention, For Odyssey into the Performing Pantry education programs and holiday Arts program activities. Senior Gleaners of San Diego Boys & Girls Clubs of County Achievement and Rehabilitation Palm Beach County, Inc. $6,000 Centers, Inc. $10,000 For general support $8,000 For general support For Parents as Teachers program Special Olympics Southern Breakthrough Collaborative California, Inc. Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish $5,000 $4,000 Community Center, Inc. For South Florida Breakthrough For the School Partnership program $10,000 program For Camp Kavod – Special Needs St. Vincent De Paul Society for Summer Camp program Brookwood Florida-East, Inc. the Diocese of San Diego $5,000 $5,000 Adopt-A-Family of the Palm For general support For general support Beaches, Inc. $15,000 Broward Children’s Center, Inc. TEAM Evangelical Assistance For Project SAFE program $10,000 Ministries of Rancho-Temecula- For Community Bridges Initiative Murrieta Valley $5,000 For general support 44 Body 28-74.qxd:Body 28-74.qxd 7/14/09 4:35 AM Page 45

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Broward Coalition for the Coalition for Independent Living First Call for Help of Broward, Inc. Homeless, Inc. Option, Inc. $5,000 $8,000 $7,000 For general support For community-based shelter program For Alert/Team programs Florence Fuller Child Development Broward Community College Community Caring Center of Center, Inc. Foundation, Inc. Boynton Beach, Inc. $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 For general support For Tutoring and Mentoring program For Nutrition Education program For the Children, Inc. Broward Education Foundation, Inc. Community Child Care Center $25,000 $35,000 of Delray Beach, Inc. For Barton Community Beacon Center For general support $5,000 For general support Foster and Adoptive Broward Homebound Program, Inc. Parents Association of $8,000 Community Foundation Palm Beach County, Inc. For Disabled Adults Care and Home of Broward, Inc. $10,000 Delivered Meals program $30,000 For general support For Boards in Action Leadership Broward Partnership for the Academy program FuturePoint, Inc. Homeless, Inc. $10,000 $25,000 Cool Kids Learn, Inc. For I am Connecting program For general support $5,000 For general support Gateway Community Outreach, Inc. Caridad Center, Inc. $8,000 $15,000 Covenant House Florida, Inc. For general support For Holiday program $10,000 For general support Gloria M. Silverio Foundation Caridad Center, Inc. $15,000 $20,000 Cross Road Food Bank, Inc. For general support For the Pediatric Clinic $15,000 For general support God’s Little Lambs, Inc. Center for Family Services of Palm $8,000 Beach County, Inc. Drug Free Youth In Town, Inc. For tuition scholarships $10,000 $5,000 For general support For Dillard and Blanche Ely Substance Governor’s Council for Community Abuse Prevention program Health Partnerships Children’s Case Management $50,000 Organization Early Learning Coalition of Broward For summer camp scholarships $10,000 County, Inc. For Family Self-Sufficiency program $8,000 Gratitude House, Inc. For School Readiness program $7,000 Children’s Harbor, Inc. For Mothers & Infants in Treatment $10,000 Easter Seals Florida, Inc. Together program For Residential Foster Care program $10,000 For Teach One, Reach Many Mental Habitat for Humanity of Children’s Home Society of Florida, Health program Broward County, Inc. South Coastal Division $20,000 $15,000 Expanding & Preserving Our For Family Support program For general support Cultural Heritage, Inc. $5,000 Habitat for Humanity of Children’s Home Society of Florida, For Spady Kids Cultural Club South Palm Beach County Intercoastal Division 3-T program $10,000 $10,000 For Home Building program For I. Lorraine Thomas Children’s Facing It Together, Inc. Emergency Home program $8,000 Haven, Inc. For Dental/Orthodontic program $15,000 Children’s Museum For general support $8,000 Family of Humanity, Inc. For FACES multicultural programs $10,000 Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies For Human Understanding & Coalition of Broward County Children’s Place at Home Safe, Inc. Growth program $10,000 $12,000 For Prenatal/Infant Health–Teen For Libra Girls program Farmworkers Childrens Council, Inc. Collaborative program $10,000 Christians Reaching Out to For Campo Alegre program Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Society, Inc. Coalition of Palm Beach County $5,000 Farmworkers Coordinating Council $12,000 For Community Food Pantries of Palm Beach County, Inc. For Prenatal Care Coordination and program $10,000 Education programs For Family Preservation program

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Helping Abused Neglected Lake Worth Playhouse, Inc. Prime Time Palm Beach County, Inc. Disadvantaged Youth, Inc. $5,000 $25,000 $10,000 For Strategic Theatre Education For Enhancements program For Emergency Needs and Family program Preservation programs Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Latin American Immigrant and Performing Arts, Inc. Helping Abused Neglected Refugee Organization, Inc. $25,000 Disadvantaged Youth, Inc. $10,000 For Kravis Center Education & $10,000 For general support Outreach program For Social and Holiday Gift program Leadership Broward Foundation, Inc. Rebuilding Together Broward Henderson Mental Health Center, Inc. $17,000 County, Inc. $5,000 For the Youth Leadership Broward $10,000 For Case Management Emergency program For general support Assistance program Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach Renaissance Learning Center, Inc. Henderson Mental Health Center, Inc. County, Inc. $8,000 $8,000 $20,000 For educational after-school program For Holiday Celebration program For general support Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service Here’s Help, Inc. Lighthouse of Broward County, Inc. of South Palm Beach County, Inc. $30,000 $8,000 $8,000 For general support For KIDS Keys to Independence For Youth Conflict Resolution program program Hispanic Unity of Florida, Inc. Salvation Army $50,000 Mental Health Association of $30,000 For Unity 4 Teens program Palm Beach County, Inc. For Angel Tree Christmas Assistance $5,000 program Holy Cross Hospital For Listen to Children program $15,000 Samuel M. and Helene E. Soref For Growing Healthy Kids program Milagro Foundation, Inc. Jewish Community Center, Inc. $10,000 $5,000 HOPE Project Corporation For general support For Children’s program $15,000 For general support Museum of Discovery and Schott Memorial Center Science, Inc. $9,000 Humane Society of Broward County $70,000 For Literacy Camp for Deaf Children $8,000 For Opportunity Funds for At-Risk For Wags & Tales program Youth program Senior Volunteer Services, Inc. $8,000 Jack and Jill Children’s Center, Inc. National Multiple Sclerosis Society For Dropout Prevention program $15,000 South Florida Chapter For Scholarship program $15,000 Shepherd’s Way For Crisis Financial Assistance program $8,000 Jewish Adoption and Foster Care For general support Options, Inc. Our Children Our Future, Inc. $10,000 $20,000 SOS Children’s Villages – For Children’s Emergency Shelter For general support Florida, Inc. program $15,000 Pace Center for Girls, Inc. For Children’s Health program Jewish Community Centers $10,000 of South Broward, Inc. For general support Susan B. Anthony Center, Inc. $5,000 $10,000 For Children First program Palm Beach County Association For general support for Retarded Citizens, Inc. Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital $5,000 United Cerebral Palsy of Foundation, Inc. For Potentials School Therapeutic Broward County, Inc. $25,000 program $10,000 For Love Jen Cancer Fund program For Respite Care program Palm Beach County Community Justice For All in Broward, Inc. Health Alliance, Inc. Urban League of $10,000 $25,000 Broward County, Inc. For There’s More to Life than Sports For general support $25,000 program For general support Palm Beach County Literacy Kids In Distress, Inc. Coalition, Inc. Urban League of $50,000 $8,000 Palm Beach County For general support For Village Readers Family Education $25,000 program For Center of Excellence program

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Women in Distress of Coordinating Council for Broward County, Inc. Children in Crisis, Inc. $25,000 $5,000 For services for child victims of For Family Violence Outreach domestic violence program

Women of Tomorrow Mentor and Everybody Wins Connecticut, Inc. Scholarship Program, Inc. $5,000 $8,000 For Power Lunch program For scholarship program The Courant/Fox 61 Children’s Holiday Campaign Family Life Education, Inc. Young At Art of Broward, Inc. Total $56,000 $17,000 $15,000 Supports programs addressing basic For Family Services program For ArtReach program human needs such as nutrition, clothing and housing, wellness and Greater Hartford Association for Young Men’s Christian Association education, and mentoring and Retarded Citizens, Inc. of South Palm Beach County, Inc. literacy initiatives. $20,000 $10,000 For Family Support program For Partners with Youth program Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford, Inc. $8,000 Klingberg Family Centers, Inc. Youth Automotive Training Center For SMART Moves program $5,000 of Broward, Inc. For Parent Aide program $20,000 Connecticut Food Bank For general support $8,000 National Conference for Community For New Haven Kids’ BackPack and Justice of Connecticut and Zoological Society of the program Western Massachusetts Palm Beaches, Inc. $10,000 $5,000 Family Services of Greater For general support For Zoo Field Trip program Waterbury, Inc. $8,000 Network Against Domestic Abuse of For general support North Central Connecticut, Inc. Hartford, CT $5,000 Foodshare, Inc. For the Bilingual Safety Planning $8,000 program For general support Salvation Army & Its Components Literacy Volunteers of $5,000 Central Connecticut, Inc. For School Age Care program The Courant Community Fund $8,000 Susan B. Anthony Project, Inc. Total $62,000 For Parenting for Academic Success $5,000 Improves the lives of children, for Families Learning English program For Rebuilding Lives program youth, family, elderly and those living with disabilities by supporting My Sister’s Place, Inc. Trinity College education, literacy, health and well- $8,000 $8,000 being programs. For the Love of Children Initiative For the Dream Camp at Trinity College Camp Courant, Inc. Prudence Crandall Center, Inc. $40,000 $8,000 Visiting Nurse Association of For Camperships program For Child Advocacy program Central Connecticut, Inc. $5,000 Center for First Amendment For Sure Shot program Rights, Inc. $5,000 Womens Center of Southeastern For the Middle School First Amendment Connecticut, Inc. Leadership Seminar program $5,000 For Community Education and Community Health Resources, Inc. $3,000 Outreach program For the Safe Home program Fox 61 Family Fund Mercy Housing and Shelter Total $105,000 Corporation Funds programs supporting $7,000 education, literacy, family health For Family Services program awareness, as well as child and spouse abuse prevention. National Conference for Community and Justice of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic $7,000 $10,000 For the Bridges, ANYTOWN and For the Clifford Beers Latino Clinic Youth Action Coalition programs

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Houston, TX Children’s Bureau of California State University, Indianapolis, Inc. Northridge Foundation $6,442 $5,000 For Project Safe Place For the Literacy Scholarship program

Crooked Creek Multi-Service Centinela Youth Services, Inc. Center, Inc. $5,000 $10,000 For family counseling programs For the No Barriers 2008 program Children’s Bureau of Southern CW39 Cares for Kids Girls Incorporated of Indianapolis California Total $105,000 $10,000 $40,000 Supports programs serving the For the winter program For the Prevention Works program physical and/or psychological well- being of children and their families, Indiana Youth Services Association Children’s Lifesaving Foundation with special consideration given to $10,000 $10,000 programs aiding abused children, For general support For the Care through College deterring juvenile crime, and educat- Learning Center program ing families on healthy lifestyles. Indianapolis Urban League, Inc. $10,000 Chinatown Service Center Adoptation For the Annual Back to School $5,000 $15,000 Block Party For the After-School program For Season of Smiles Holiday Party program Indianapolis-Marion County Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Public Library Foundation Southern California Chapter Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater $10,000 $10,000 Houston For 2009 Summer Reading program For specialized care programs $25,000 For general support United Way of Central Indiana DonorChoose, Inc. $5,000 $5,000 Children’s Assessment Center For the YAR Safe Student Initiative For the Half Fund Initiative Foundation $15,000 El Centro de Accion Social For therapy and psychological Los Angeles, CA $10,000 services For Youth Education program

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation EmpowerTech $12,500 $5,000 For Cystic Fibrosis Care Center For the TRADE program program KTLA-TV Charities Fund Encompass Epilepsy Foundation of Total $396,500 $3,500 Southeast Texas Provides funding for academic For the Compassion Plays program $12,500 achievement initiatives; child and For Camp Spike ‘n’ Wave and Kamp youth development; health, home- Friends of Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Kaleidoscope programs lessness, hunger programs; and $10,000 holiday events for children. For general support Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. AbilityFirst Goodwill Industries of Southern $25,000 $15,000 California For general support For After-School Enrichment program $5,000 For Youth Opportunity Center BookEnds program Indianapolis, IN $5,000 For the Book Drive program Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood $5,000 $5,000 For 2009 ZooCamp scholarship For general support program

Fox 59/CW4 Community Fund Boys & Girls Club of Venice, Inc. Helpline Youth Counseling, Inc. Total $71,442 $10,000 $5,000 Funds programs focusing on social, For Technology Learning Center For general support emotional and physical aspects of youth development for adolescents California Science Center Hollywood Community Housing ages 13 to 18. Foundation Corporation $5,000 $5,000 Assistance League of For community youth programs For transportation services Indianapolis, Inc. $10,000 For the Operation School Bell program

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Jackie Robinson Foundation, Inc. National Foundation for Teaching Union Station Foundation $10,000 Entrepreneurship to Handicapped $20,000 For the Education and Leadership $5,000 For the Family Center program Development program For the Los Angeles Schools Entrepreneurship Initiative Volunteer Center of Greater Jeffrey Foundation Orange County $5,000 Optimist Boys Home and Ranch $5,000 For Early Education/School $5,000 For the Take the Lead 2008 Teen Readiness Program For general support Summit

LACER Afterschool Programs Orange County Child Abuse Weingart Center Association $5,000 Prevention Center, Inc. $5,000 For the Academic Academy $5,000 For general support For the Teen Voices/Teen Choices LA’s BEST program Wheels for Humanity $30,000 $3,500 For general support Orange County Human For Youth Volunteer program Relations Council Learning Excites All People, Inc. $10,000 $5,000 For BRIDGES School Inter-Ethnic For the Children Exploring Relations and Violence Prevention Mathematics & Science Today program program Project Angel Food Literacy Network of Greater $5,000 Los Angeles, Inc. For general support Los Angeles Times Family Fund $5,000 Total $2,468,825* Reading to Kids For general support *Includes $38,175 from returned por- $5,000 tion of unused grants from prior years. Los Angeles Brotherhood For the Saturday reading clubs Crusade, Inc. Supports programs providing $8,000 Ronald McDonald House Charities disadvantaged children, youth and For the Youth Enrichment program of Southern California families with food, shelter, literacy $6,000 development, after-school programs Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra For the Good Times Camperships and summer camp opportunities. Society, Inc. program $5,000 African American Unity Center, Inc. For the Meet the Music program Salesian Boys and Girls Club $25,000 of Los Angeles For AAUC Enrichment program Los Angeles County Public Library $5,000 Foundation For CLUB AP program Al Wooten Jr. Youth and Adult $10,000 Cultural Educational Center For the Oral History for East Los Salvation Army, Southern California $20,000 Angeles program Division (Los Angeles County) For After-School Education program $5,000 Los Angeles Free Clinic For the Red Shield Youth & Alexandria House $6,000 Community Center program $10,000 For the Healthy Eating to Prevent For Transitional Residence program Dental Caries program Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry $5,000 All Peoples Christian Center Los Angeles Music and Art School For general support $8,000 $7,000 For Joe Ide Summer Camp program For general support Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County American Family Housing Lutheran Social Services of $10,000 $9,000 Southern California For Mobile Pantry program For Camp Hope program $5,000 For the Orange County Emergency Second Harvest Food Bank Serving American Lung Association Food and Shelter program Riverside & San Bernardino Counties of California $5,000 $17,000 MEND (Meet Each Need For general support For Southern California Asthma With Dignity) Medical Program Camp $7,500 Shelter Partnership, Inc. For general support $5,000 Angel View Crippled Children’s For the shelter resource bank Foundation Museum of Latin American Art $20,000 $5,000 Shoes That Fit For Camp Forest program For the school tours and workshops $5,000 For general support Asian Pacific Women’s Center, Inc. $15,000 For After-School program

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Assistance League of Boys & Girls Clubs of La Habra Create Now Southern California $3,000 $10,000 $10,000 For residential camp program For the Take Heart program For CHEERS program Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach Crystal Stairs, Inc. Associated Students, California $21,000 $15,000 State University, Fullerton, Inc. For summer camp program For SAGE Family Literacy program $12,000 For Camp Titan program Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc. Dubnoff Center for $20,000 Child Development and Asthma & Allergy Foundation For First Steps to Literacy program Educational Therapy of America $15,000 $20,000 California 4-H Foundation For Early Childhood Literacy program For asthma camp program $7,000 For Southern California 4-H Summer Ecumenical Council of the Boys & Girls Club of Camp program Pasadena Area Churches Coachella Valley $5,000 $25,000 Camp Fire USA For Friends In Deed House For LINKS Juvenile Diversion program Orange County Council Summer Camp program $10,000 Boys & Girls Club of For Camp Ta Ta Pochon program El Centrito Family Learning Centers Coachella Valley $20,000 $14,000 Camp Laurel Foundation, Inc. For family literacy and school For Pathfinder Ranch Camp program $15,000 readiness programs For Camp Laurel Summer and Teen Boys & Girls Club of Cypress Camp program First African Methodist Episcopal $5,000 Church of California For Pathfinder Ranch program Camp Mariastella, Inc. $5,000 $45,000 For summer camp program Boys & Girls Club of For Camp Mariastella program Desert Hot Springs Five Acres – The Boys’ & Girls’ Aid $6,000 Canyon Acres Children and Society of Los Angeles County For summer camp program Family Services $20,000 $20,000 For residential treatment and group Boys & Girls Club of For Residential Treatment Center home programs Palm Springs, Inc. program $20,000 Food Share, Inc. For Pathfinder Ranch Camp Catholic Charities of $25,000 Los Angeles, Inc. For Snack Attack program Boys & Girls Club of Placentia $19,000 $7,000 For the Circle V Ranch Summer Food Share, Inc. For Pathfinder Ranch Camp Camp program $20,000 For Circle V Ranch Camp program Boys & Girls Club of Tustin Chapman University $10,000 $15,000 Foodbank of Southern California For Summer Camp 2008 program For tutoring program $25,000 For food distribution program Boys & Girls Club of Venice, Inc. Children’s Bureau of $10,000 Southern California Fullerton Interfaith Emergency For summer camp program $15,000 Services, Inc. For Oakwood School Readiness $10,000 Boys & Girls Club of Ventura program For New Vista Transitional Living $20,000 Center program For Facing the Future program Children’s Fund, Inc. $15,000 Gabriella Axelrad Education Boys & Girls Club of For Foster Care/Kinship Summer Foundation West San Gabriel Valley Camp programs $15,000 $7,000 For Everybody Dance! After-School For YMCA Bluff Lake & Pathfinder Children’s Nature Institute program Ranch programs $20,000 For Outreach Discovery program Girl Scouts– Spanish Trails Council Boys & Girls Clubs of $15,000 Huntington Valley City of Angels Ballet For summer camp program $5,000 $10,000 For summer camp scholarships For Outreach program Hamburger Home $10,000 Community Action Partnership For SAFE (Student Aftercare for of San Bernardino County Enrichment) program $7,000 For summer camp program

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Hands Together – A Center Los Angeles Regional Foodbank Salvation Army, Southern California for Children $25,000 Division (Los Angeles County) $10,000 For Kids Cafe program $200,000 For Prekindergarten Family Literacy For Mt. Crags & Mt. Gilmore summer program Los Angeles Team Mentoring, Inc. camp programs $25,000 Harmony Project For Team Mentoring Summer Camp San Gabriel Valley YMCA $20,000 program $105,000 For South Los Angeles music program For Summer Resident Camp program Lutheran Retreats Camps and Helpline Youth Counseling, Inc. Conferences San Gorgonio Girl Scout Council $5,000 $20,000 $20,000 For Salvation Army program For Just for Life! program For Camp Azalea Trails program

Inland Valley Council of Churches National Kidney Foundation, Inc. Santa Clarita Valley Boys $15,000 $7,000 and Girls Club For Food Security program For Kidney Kids Camp program $3,000 For Outdoor Adventures 2008 program Jay Nolan Community Services, Inc. Operation Jump Start $14,000 $25,000 Santa Clarita Valley Boys For Jay Nolan Camp program For College-Access Mentoring and Girls Club program $10,000 Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters For Project Learn program Association of Los Angeles Painted Turtle Gang Camp $82,000 Foundation Scott Newman Center For Camp Max Straus program $9,000 $45,000 For the Painted Turtle Medical For the Rowdy Ridge Gang Camp Junior Blind of America Specialty Camp program program $20,000 For After-School enrichment program Para Los Ninos Society of St. Vincent de Paul, $10,000 Council of Los Angeles Junior Blind of America For San Bernardino Child $90,000 $12,000 Development Center program For Circle V Ranch Camp program For Camp Bloomfield program People Assisting The Homeless Special Service for Groups, Inc. Keep Youth Doing Something, Inc. $10,000 $8,000 K.Y.D.S. For Rhonda Fleming Family Center For summer camp program $8,000 program For KYDS Camp 2008 program St. Joseph Center Project GRAD Los Angeles $20,000 Korean American Family $15,000 For Early Learning Center and Infant Service Center For Reading and Math After-School Toddler Development Center programs $17,000 program For Readiness for School program St. Vincent de Paul Society Protestant Episcopal Church in the $50,000 L.A. Police Department Devonshire Diocese of Los Angeles For Summer Camp Scholarship Police Activity League $27,000 program $11,000 For Camp Stevens and Camp For LAPD Devonshire PALS Mountain Wrightwood programs Thousand Pines Camp & Camp Adventure program Conference Center (Southern Public Counsel California Baptist Convention) LACER Afterschool Programs $15,000 $75,000 $10,000 For the Homeless Families program For Team Together program For Math Matters program and Youth Initiative Toberman Settlement House, Inc. Laura’s House Reading is Fundamental of $10,000 $20,000 Southern California, Inc. For Learning Center & Gang For therapeutic children’s programs $20,000 Prevention programs For WIC Family Literacy program Los Angeles County Union Station Foundation Education Foundation Ronald McDonald House Charities $15,000 $25,000 of Southern California For Family Center program For Blue Sky Meadow Summer $27,000 Science Camp program For Camp Ronald McDonald for United Church of Christ Good Times program $20,000 Los Angeles Junior For Pilgrim Pines Summer Camp Chamber of Commerce Charity Rosemary Children’s Services program Community Foundation $5,000 $15,000 For Positive Results program United in Harmony For Los Angeles Safe Passage $15,000 Tennis program For Camp Harmony program

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University Camps (UCLA UniCamp) Manhattan, KS Melville, NY $120,000 For UCLA UniCamp program

Venice Arts in Neighborhoods $20,000 For Art Mentoring program

Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services Jewish Orphans Home The YES! Fund Newsday Charities of Southern California Total $189,000 Total $1,092,000 $25,000 Funds programs promoting arts Funds programs supporting at-risk For After-School Therapeutic education, literacy and youth children and youth development, Enrichment program development, alleviating hunger student and family literacy and homelessness, and supporting programs, as well as those providing Westside Children’s Center those with developmental disabilities. essential needs such as food, $10,000 clothing and shelter. For Promoting Early Literacy in Boys & Girls Club of Manhattan, Inc. Disadvantaged Children program $55,000 Bethany House of Nassau County For general support Corporation Woodcraft Rangers $12,000 $67,000 Friends of Sunset Zoo For general support For Nvision Summer Camp program $5,000 For Youth in Action program Big Brothers Big Sisters of YMCA of Greater Whittier Long Island, Inc. $16,000 Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters, Inc. $10,000 For YMCA Camp Arbolado program $10,000 For general support For Bigs in School program YMCA of the East Valley Catholic Charities, Diocese of $15,000 Little Apple Youth Soccer Club, Inc. Rockville Centre For YMCA Camp Edwards program $5,000 $65,000 For the scholarship program For Christmas Help-A-Family program Young Men’s Christian Association of Anaheim Manhattan Baseball Association, Inc. Central Council of the Society of $12,000 $8,000 St. Vincent De Paul in the Diocese For Anaheim Family Camp program For after-school youth program $45,000 For Family Assistance & UPLIFT Young Men’s Christian Association Manhattan Basketball Association programs of Greater Long Beach $8,000 $65,000 For general support Child Abuse Prevention Services For Camp Oakes program $20,000 Manhattan Arts Center, Inc. For the Bully Prevention program Young Men’s Christian Association $5,000 of Greater Long Beach For Arts Learning Ladder program Circulo de la Hispanidad $19,000 $20,000 For After-School Balanced Literacy The Manhattan Optimist For Amigos/Friends program program Foundation, Inc. $8,000 EAC, Inc. Young Men’s Christian Association For general support $25,000 of Metropolitan Los Angeles For the CASA’s Chance to Advance $130,000 Manhattan Marlins, Inc. Initiative For Kids-to-Camp summer program $5,000 For general support EAC, Inc. Young Men’s Christian Association $30,000 of Orange County Manhattan-Ogden Public Schools For home energy assistance program $10,000 Foundation For Camp Oakes program $50,000 Family and Children’s Association For general support $30,000 Young Men’s Christian Association For the camp program of Riverside City & County Midwest Educational Center, Inc. $26,000 $18,000 Family and Children’s Association For summer resident camp program For Hooked on Clubs and $50,000 Think Big programs For the client emergency relief Youth Connection of program Ventura County, Inc. Pawnee Mental Health Services, Inc. $15,000 $6,000 Family Service League, Inc. For Supportive and Therapeutic For Youth As Resources program $50,000 Options program For The CAIR Centers program UFM, Inc. $6,000 Family Service League, Inc. For the Teen Mentoring program $35,000 For the CAMP program 52 Body 28-74.qxd:Body 28-74.qxd 7/14/09 4:35 AM Page 53

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Federation Employment and New Ground, Inc. New Orleans, LA Guidance Service, Inc. $20,000 $20,000 For Reading All-Stars program For emergency cash assistance program North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center Federation of Organizations $10,000 for the New York State For Advantage After-School program Mentally Disabled, Inc. $10,000 North Shore Holiday House ABC 26/CW38 Children First For Foster Grandparent program $15,000 Total $154,569 For camp program Provides funding for crime Heckscher Museum prevention, child abuse prevention, $10,000 Options for Community Living, Inc. recreation, education, nutrition and For School Discovery program $10,000 medical services. For transitional housing program Hispanic Counseling Center American Red Cross – $35,000 Outreach Development Corporation Southeast Louisiana Chapter For Teen Drop-In Center $10,000 $30,000 For Outreach House II program For general support Interfaith Nutrition Network $40,000 Salvation Army Audubon Nature Institute, Inc. For Crisis Housing program $50,000 $20,000 For Nassau County Fund for Needy For Audubon Zoo’s Teacher and Island Harvest, Ltd. Children, Youth and Families program School Services programs $40,000 For Weekend Backpack Food Salvation Army Bridge House Corporation program $50,000 $30,000 For Suffolk County Fund for Needy For the Substance Abuse Treatment Long Island Adolescent and Children, Youth and Families program program Family Services, Inc. $15,000 SCO Family of Services Children’s Hospital, Inc. For Youth Transportation Initiative $25,000 $35,000 For Help for Needy Families program For the Adolescent Behavioral Health Long Island Cares, Inc. Unit $40,000 Smith Haven Ministries, Inc. For School Tools program $10,000 United Way for the Greater For youth & family services New Orleans Area Long Island Council of $39,569 Churches, Inc. Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch For Child Care Quality Improvement $60,000 $20,000 program For social services program For vocational training program

Long Island Gay and Lesbian Tri-Community and Youth Newport News, VA Youth, Inc. Agency, Inc. $20,000 $10,000 For the Safe Schools Initiative For Homework Help program

Ministry for Hope, Inc. Usdan Center for the Creative $20,000 and Performing Arts For Community House program $20,000 For tuition assistance Daily Press Holiday Fund Momma’s, Inc. Total $191,000 $20,000 Variety Child Learning Center Supports programs providing For general support $30,000 food, clothing, shelter, toys and For Early Intervention Center-Based abuse prevention programs MPowering Kids program for children and families. $15,000 For general support West Islip Youth Enrichment American Red Cross, Hampton Services Roads Chapter NASSAU Coalition On Child $15,000 $2,000 Abuse & Neglect For Work Readiness program For general support $20,000 For Keeping Kids Safe program Young Men’s Christian Association Avalon: A Center for Women of Long Island, Inc. and Children Nassau County Coalition Against $20,000 $3,000 Domestic Violence, Inc. For the Scholarship Fund For general support $20,000 For the High School Dating Violence Colonial Capital Williamsburg Project Kiwanis Foundation $3,000 For the Toys for Kids program 53 Body 28-74.qxd:Body 28-74.qxd 7/14/09 4:35 AM Page 54

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Foodbank of the Virginia Peninsula New York, NY Beta Center, Inc. $23,000 $49,000 For general support For Teen Moms counseling program

Gloucester Housing Partnership, Inc. Boys & Girls Club of $3,000 Central Florida, Inc. For general support $45,000 For Eastonville Boys & Girls Club Laurel Shelter, Inc. CW11 Care for Kids Fund $6,000 Total $260,000 Central Florida Police Athletic For domestic violence program Provides funding for AIDS support League, Inc. services, drop-out prevention, drug $30,000 LINK of Hampton Roads, Inc. and child abuse prevention and For athletic and educational $7,000 health programs for at-risk youth. programs For the CANLINK Permanent Support Housing programs Asian American Coalition for Children’s Home Society of Florida Children and Families, Inc. $25,000 Peninsula Agency on Aging, Inc. $40,000 For emergency shelter program $4,000 For Building Supports for Asian For Meals on Wheels for Holiday American Families program Civic Theatre of Central Florida, Inc. program $12,000 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. For No Empty Buses program Salvation Army, Virginia Peninsula $35,000 $85,000 For education and humanities Coalition for the Homeless of For holiday and emergency programs Central Florida, Inc. assistance programs $50,000 Children’s Aid Society For children’s services Salvation Army, Williamsburg Corp. $35,000 $11,000 For job preparation programs Community Coordinated Care For holiday and emergency for Children, Inc. assistance programs The Children’s Village, Inc. $35,000 $45,000 For Early Learning program The Samaritan Group, Inc. For the Kathy Shepherd Creative $3,000 Spirit program Foundation for Orange County For general support Public Schools, Inc. Coalition for the Homeless $25,000 Smithfield Kiwanis Foundation, Inc. $45,000 For Reading is a Family Thing $5,000 For Bound for Success After-School program For Isle of Wight Christmas Fund and Summer Day Camp programs Gift of Swimming St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Literacy, Inc. $10,000 $15,000 $25,000 For Head Start Swim Scholarship For outreach programs For Teen Tutor Reading Partner program program Transitions Family Violence Greater Reading or Writing Skills Services New York Hall of Science Literacy Council, Inc. $10,000 $35,000 $10,000 For children’s programs For Science Career Ladder program For the Family Literacy program

Virginia Peninsula Shelter For Health Care Center for the Abused Children, Inc. Orlando, FL Homeless, Inc. $7,000 $20,000 For general support For pediatric program

Williamsburg-James City County Hebni Nutrition Consultants, Inc. Community Action Agency, Inc. $15,000 $4,000 For Keeping Your Diet Straight For Christmas Basket Food program program

Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando Magic Youth Fund Orlando, Inc. Total $751,000 $38,000 Supports literacy, family programs, For Family Stabilization program health and wellness, and arts and cultural education.

Adult Literacy League, Inc. $10,000 For Family Literacy Services program

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Justice and Peace Office, Inc. Foundation for Osceola $45,000 Education, Inc. For Kids in Motion program $25,000 For the Gotta Getta Good Start Magic Action Team Community Fund program $35,000 For the University of Central Florida Orlando Sentinel Family Fund Foundation for Seminole County Minority Scholarship and Magic Total $790,000 Public Schools, Inc. Achiever Scholarship programs Supports programs assisting with $20,000 basic needs of children, families and For the 2008 Back to School program Mayor’s Fund Foundation the elderly, literacy and education, $38,000 school supplies, and toys and cloth- A Gift for Teaching, Inc. For summer scholarships ing for the holidays. $20,000 For the Backpacks for Kids program National Society to Prevent Adult Literacy League, Inc. Blindness, Florida Affiliate, Inc. $25,000 Greater Reading or Writing Skills $8,000 For general support Literacy Council, Inc. For See The Difference Vision program $24,000 Catholic Charities of Central Florida For the Family Literacy program Orlando Ballet, Inc. $15,000 $25,000 For the Back to School program Halifax Urban Ministries, Inc. For Tri-County STEPS program $20,000 Central Florida Police Athletic For the Family Emergency Assistance Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc. League, Inc. program $30,000 $20,000 For Tiny Tots program For education programs Hope Community Center, Inc. $40,000 Ronald McDonald House Charities Christian Sharing Center, Inc. For the Strong Families-Strong of Central Florida, Inc. $10,000 Futures program $40,000 For updated technology For Share-A-Night program House Next Door, Inc. Community Service Center of $33,000 Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, Inc. For the Step by Step and toys/ Central Florida, Inc. $35,000 clothing vouchers programs $30,000 For the Back to School and For Kids Cafe program Emergency Assistance programs Intervention Services, Inc. $18,000 Special Olympics Florida, Inc. Council on Aging of Volusia For the Learning Solutions program $15,000 County, Inc. For Healthy Athletes program $37,000 Jewish Family Services of Greater For the Elder Services program Orlando, Inc. Steinway Society of $75,000 Central Florida, Inc. Covenant House Florida, Inc. For the Family Stabilization program $2,000 $20,000 For general support For the Crisis Shelter program Jewish Federation of Volusia & Flagler Counties SunSystem Development Easter Seal Society of Volusia and $25,000 Corporation Flagler Counties, Inc. For the 08–09 School Supply project $50,000 $20,000 For Florida Children’s Hospital’s For the DeLane Child Development Justice and Peace Office, Inc. health intervention and prevention Center and Joey’s Gift Respite $36,000 programs program For the Kids in Motion program

United Cerebral Palsy of Educational Foundation of Lake Orlando Day Nursery Central Florida Inc. County, Inc. Association, Inc. $29,000 $20,000 $24,000 For Not Missing a Step program For the Back to School program For general support

Valencia Community College Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home Osceola County Council Foundation, Inc. $25,000 on Aging, Inc. $30,000 For the Emergency Children’s Shelter $35,000 For Take Stock in Children program program For the Home for the Holidays program Florida Senior Programs, Inc. $18,000 Salvation Army For general support $30,000 For the Christmas Assistance program

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Salvation Army – Lake County United Cerebral Palsy Association Operation Homefront, Inc. $25,000 of Philadelphia and Vicinity $5,000 For the Holiday Assistance program $10,000 For general support For children’s services programs Salvation Army – Orange County Ronald McDonald House Charities $90,000 of San Diego, Inc. For the Christmas Assistance San Diego, CA $10,000 program For general support

United Cerebral Palsy of Central San Diego Center for Children Florida Inc. $5,000 $5,000 For Expanded Music program For West Orange Center Early- Intervention program San Diego Hospice Foundation, Inc. $10,000 For the children’s program Philadelphia, PA CW5 Cares for Kids Total $205,000 San Diego MANA Funds programs addressing the $5,000 mental, emotional and physical well- For Hermanitas Youth Leadership being of underprivileged children, Mentor program youth and families. San Diego Youth & Community A Reason to Survive Services, Inc. $5,000 $10,000 For Expression Sessions program For Youth Education Town program myphl17 Cares Total $73,305 Aquatic Adventures Science St. Vincent de Paul Village, Inc. Supports programs providing Education Foundation $10,000 academic, mentoring and leadership $5,000 For Toussaint Academy of the Arts training for children and youth. For the SEA Power Initiative and Sciences program

Adoption Center of Delaware Valley Big Brothers Big Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul Village, Inc. $10,000 San Diego County, Inc. $5,000 For general support $10,000 For children’s services For Operation Bigs program Boy Scouts of America – YMCA of San Diego County– Cradle of Liberty Council Boys & Girls Club of East County, Inc. Copley Family Branch $5,000 $10,000 $10,000 For general support For After-School Mentoring program For the preschool program

Corporate Alliance for Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos YMCA of San Diego County– Drug Education $10,000 East County Family Branch $5,000 For Job Ready! Teen Center program $10,000 For general support For child care programs Boys & Girls Clubs of Inland Devereux Foundation North County YMCA of San Diego County– $7,500 $10,000 Jackie Robinson Family Branch For general support For Scholarships program $10,000 For SPLASH: Learn to Swim program Muscular Dystrophy Association Casa De Amparo $8,305 $10,000 YMCA of San Diego County – For summer camp programs For general support Magdalena Ecke Family Branch $5,000 Philadelphia Children’s Alliance Chicano Federation of For Community Connections $7,500 San Diego County, Inc. program For Victim Support Service program $10,000 For Chicano Youth Leadership Camp YMCA of San Diego County– Police Athletic League of program Mission Valley Branch Philadelphia $10,000 $15,000 Girl Scouts San Diego– For Physical Education Outreach For general support Imperial Council, Inc. program $10,000 Support Center for Child Advocates For Girl Scout Outreach program YWCA of San Diego County $5,000 $10,000 For Child Victim Assistance program Kids Included Together For Becky’s House Domestic San Diego, Inc. Violence program $10,000 For general support

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Seattle, WA Disaster Relief Campaigns Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, U.S.A. $100,000 For the Fire Relief program

Thousand Pines Camp & Conference Center (Southern California Baptist Convention) North County Times & The CW5 $25,000 Q13 Fox Family Fund San Diego Fire Relief Campaign For the Fire Relief program Total $126,161 Total $70,924 Supports education, health care and Supports agencies providing aid to mentoring programs for youth. victims and their families, and to first responders of the San Diego wildfires. College Success Foundation $28,000 Salvation Army, Western For Chateau Ste. Michelle Diversity Territory, Sierra Del Mar Division, Scholarship Fund San Diego County $70,924 Fire Intervention Relief Effort Food Lifeline For the Fire Relief program Campaign $61,161 Total $6,003,422 For general support Supports agencies providing aid to victims and their families, and first Hearing, Speech & Deafness Center responders of the Los Angeles and $20,000 Fire Relief San Diego wildfires, as well as finan- For Early Childhood Education Campaign cial assistance to California firefight- program Funds of the McCormick Tribune Foundation ing departments in need of additional or replacement firefighting equipment. JA Worldwide (Junior Achievement of Washington) KTLA and Los Angeles Times Alpine Fire Protection District $17,000 Family Fund Fire Relief Campaign $21,000 For educational programs Total $535,920 Supports agencies providing aid to For fire equipment victims and their families, and to first responders of the Los Angeles Burn Institute York, PA wildfires. $100,000 For the Fire Relief program Catholic Charities – San Bernardino/ Riverside Catholic Charities – $100,000 San Bernardino/Riverside For financial support and advocacy $450,000 for victims For services for fire victims

Community Action Partnership of City of El Cajon Fire Department San Bernardino County $10,000 Fox 43 Charities For fire equipment Total $947 $50,920 For the Fire Relief program Supports programs addressing the City of Escondido Fire Department health and well-being of children, $10,000 youth and families. Children’s Fund, Inc. $50,000 For fire equipment For the Fire Relief program Children’s Home of York City of La Mesa Fire Department $947 $10,000 For general support Habitat for Humanity International– San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valleys For fire equipment $75,000 For the Fire Relief program City of Lemon Grove Fire Department $10,000 Operation Provider For the Fire Relief program $100,000 For the Fire Relief program Community Housing Works $250,000 Salvation Army, Southern California For the Fire Relief program Division (Los Angeles County) $35,000 County of San Diego For the Fire Relief program (DPLU Fire Services) $1,072,000 For Fire Control program

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Deer Springs Fire District Salvation Army, Western Crider Health Center, Inc. $30,000 Territory, Sierra Del Mar Division, $10,000 For fire equipment San Diego County For LifeRAFT program $625,000 Habitat for Humanity International– For direct services and rebuilding Embarras River Basin Agency, Inc. San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valleys efforts for fire victims $35,000 $100,000 For flood cleanup and rebuilding For rebuilding and the Brush with San Bernardino County Fire efforts Kindness program Department $200,000 Feeding America Jewish Family Service of San Diego For fire equipment $100,000 $565,000 For Midwest flood relief for Illinois, For direct services and rebuilding San Diego Regional Fire & Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and efforts Emergency Services Foundation Wisconsin $223,000 La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians For fire equipment Four Oaks, Inc. $380,000 $40,000 For fire department improvement Save the Children Federation, Inc. For Family Support Workers program projects $250,000 For Resilient and Ready, and Safe Iowa City Crisis Intervention Center Los Angeles County Fire Department Spaces programs $60,000 $200,000 For Johnson County flood recovery For fire equipment Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, U.S.A. Lincoln-Central Neighborhood Lutheran Social Services $60,000 Family Center, Inc. of the Southwest For fire relief services $35,000 $134,422 For the flood relief program For the Fire Relief program Wildland Firefighter Foundation $34,000 Lutheran Services in Iowa, Inc. North County Fire Protection District For fire relief services $76,363 $9,000 For the disaster response program For fire equipment Lutheran Family and Children’s North County Interfaith Council, Inc. Services of Missouri $120,000 $10,000 For direct services and rebuilding For the flood relief program efforts for fire victims Lutheran Social Services of Operation Provider Neighbors in Need Wisconsin and Upper Michigan $110,000 Total $788,363 $60,000 For services for fire victims Supports agencies providing short- For long-term recovery program term and long-term aid to Midwest Ramona Food & Clothes Closet, Inc. flood victims in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Mid-Eastern Iowa Mental Health $25,000 Missouri and Wisconsin. Center For services for fire victims $30,000 American National Red Cross For Project Recovery program Ramona Fire Department $100,000 $325,000 For Midwest flood relief for Iowa, Neighborhood Outreach Work, Inc. For fire equipment Indiana and Wisconsin $57,000 For rehabilitation of flood-damaged Rebuilding Mountain Hearts Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cedar homes and Lives Rapids and East Central Iowa $80,000 $5,000 The Salvation Army Central For educational workshops, For emergency financial assistance Territorial Headquarters materials, and financial assistance for flood victims $100,000 for fire victims For Midwest flood relief for Iowa, Catholic Charities – Diocese of Indiana and Wisconsin Rim Family Services, Inc. Madison $100,000 $14,000 Sts. Joachim and Ann Care Service For the Fire Relief program For flood disaster recovery program $7,000 For housing and disaster response Riverside County Fire Department Catholic Charities of the Diocese of programs $500,000 La Crosse, Inc. For fire equipment $14,000 For emergency services program Communities Program Grants $29,428,640 Catholic Charities Terre Haute $35,000 For the flood relief program

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2008 Veterans Program Grants Paid

Veterans Program Legal Assistance Foundation Cornell University of Chicago $250,000 $25,000 Program for Anxiety and Traumatic For the Veterans Rights Project Stress Studies

National Military Family Deep Streams Institute Association, Inc. $150,000 $25,000 For the Coming Home Project For the Joanne Patton Military Spouse Operation Healing Freedom Scholarship program Easter Seals, Inc. Total $1,400,000 $250,000 Supports agencies providing adaptive Operation Homefront, Inc. For Community OneSource program housing, family care, employment $150,000 training and placement, and physical For Villages and Emergency Services EMDR Humanitarian Assistance and mental health services to for Wounded programs Programs, Inc. wounded veterans and their families. $250,000 Our Military Kids, Inc. For the Healing Combat PTSD Albany Park Community Center, Inc. $25,000 program $70,000 For Our Military Kids Grant program For Veterans’ Workforce Development Fisher House Foundation, Inc. program Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago $200,000 $115,000 For support for families of PTSD and Armed Services YMCA of the USA For the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury TBI patients $25,000 Military Patient Project For Wounded Soldiers Support New Directions, Inc. initiative Shepherd Center Foundation, Inc. $250,000 $150,000 For general support Casa Colina, Inc. For the SHARE Initiative $150,000 Operation Homefront, Inc. For the Wounded Warrior/Traumatic $200,000 Brain Injury program For general support

Catholic Charities of the Shepherd Center Foundation, Inc. Archdiocese of Chicago $300,000 $65,000 For the SHARE Initiative program For Veterans Supportive Services – Cooke’s Manor and St. Leo Stanford University Residence Welcome Back Veterans $250,000 Total $2,910,000 For the Connect Center program Easter Seals, Inc. Supports agencies providing $100,000 mental health services, job training The University of Michigan For Operation Employ Veterans and placement, and family care to $350,000 veterans and their families. For Phase I – Veterans Treatment Fisher House Foundation, Inc. Program $200,000 Casa Colina, Inc. For general support $250,000 Veterans Program Grants For the Wounded Warriors Program $4,310,000 Homes for Our Troops $250,000 Computing Technology Industry For general support Association Educational Foundation, Inc. John Marshall Law School $210,000 $50,000 For Linking Disabled Veterans to IT For the Veterans Legal Support Futures program Center and Clinic

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2008 General Fund Grants Paid

50th Anniversary Benedictine University The Crib Collective Total $550,000 $20,000 $50,000 The continuation of grants awarded For sponsorship of the third annual For the Generation Innovation program in 2005 honoring the Foundation’s Civic Leadership Conference and 50th anniversary and the legacy of its Youth Government Day Donors Forum* benefactor, Robert R. McCormick. $100,000 Bradley University For general and program support Northwestern University – $10,000 Media Management Center* For the National Symposium on DuPage Education Foundation $267,000 Energy Sustainability $22,500 For a McCormick Leadership For the Regional Summit on Scholars program for future Bugles Across America Civic Education journalism leaders $15,000 For general operating support Executive Service Corps of Chicago Northwestern University – $50,000 Medill School of Journalism* campusCATALYST For support of the efforts of $283,000 $35,000 250 volunteers and the Executive For a McCormick Leadership For general support Transition Team initiative Scholars program for future journalism leaders Catholic Charities of the The Foundation Center Archdiocese of Chicago $5,000 $15,000 For general support Citizenship For ProjectSALUTE – Chicago Total $2,421,524* Great Lakes Urban Exchange *Includes $26,176 from returned Chicago Area Project $30,000 portion of unused grants from $40,000 For the annual planning conference prior years. For the general operating expenses of CAP’s Youth Capital Development Illinois Campus Compact Develops a new generation of and Youth as Resources (YAR) $35,000 informed and actively engaged programs For the Raise Your Voice Fellows citizens, and supports opportunities and Student Citizen Fellows for youth to participate in our Chicago Council on Global Affairs democratic process. $400,000 Illinois Coalition for Immigrant For general and program support and Refugee Rights AMVETS National Service $100,000 Foundation Chicago Council on Global Affairs For support of civic engagement $50,000 $25,000 programs For installation of a memorial carillon For support of new student at the Suresnes American Cemetery memberships for the 2008–2009 Illinois Humanities Council in France and for the dedication program year $30,000 ceremony on May 25, 2008 For the Illinois Capitol Forum on Chicago Public Schools – America’s Future The Army War College Department of JROTC Foundation, Inc. $50,000 The Trustees of Indiana University $35,000 For general support $50,000 For the 2009 National Security For general operating support of Seminar Chinese Mutual Aid Association the Center on Philanthropy $50,000 The Aspen Institute For the U.S. Citizenship Project Interfaith Youth Core $10,000 $50,000 For the Mid-America Foundation The Citadel Foundation For the Policy and International CEO Seminar $20,000 Affairs Program For a scholarship for one student Association of the U.S. Army Fort from Illinois International House Sheridan-Chicago Chapter $45,000 $5,000 City Year Chicago For the World Behind the Headlines For patriotic and educational $75,000 lecture series programs For the Corps Member Training and Leadership Development Program IssueLab Ball State University $8,500 $50,000 Constitutional Rights Foundation For the special initiative on voting For an oral history project with the Chicago rights and free elections U.S. Army’s First Infantry Division $50,000 veterans For the 2009 Illinois Youth Summit League of Women Voters of Illinois Education Fund Be the Change, Inc. Council on Foundations $23,900 $50,000 $20,000 For the Illinois Student Vote 2008 For the Service Nation Summit and For sponsorship of the closing panel project Day of Action at the COF Annual Leadership Summit

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Marmion Academy University of Illinois Foundation Business and Professional People $800 $50,000 for the Public Interest For the Colonel Earl K. Buchan Invita- For the 2008–2009 Chicago Civic $50,000 tional Drill Meet and the Col. Robert Leadership Certificate Program For support of a new Bilingual R. McCormick Commanders Award Enrichment/School Improvement University of Maryland, Baltimore program Mikva Challenge Grant $32,000 Foundation, Inc. For the Virtual Resource Center Centers For New Horizons, Inc.* $25,000 $150,000 For the Active Citizen Project USO of Illinois, Inc. For support of a two-year program $50,000 that uses the Substitute Teacher pro- The National Conference For general and program support gram in resource-poor, early care and on Citizenship education agencies with the goal of $50,000 USO of Illinois, Inc. increasing staff credentials and help- For the 2008 Civic Health Index $50,000 ing them meet the requirements of For operational planning and new state programs National Strategy Forum promotional development of the $100,000 2009 Chicago Medal of Honor Chicago Children’s Museum For general operating and program Annual Convention $50,000 support For general operating expenses for VetDogs early childhood programming National Strategy Forum $50,000 $5,000 For general operating support Children First Fund For increasing student attendance at $26,000 the Speaker Series Vietnam Veterans Memorial For support of civic education Fund, Inc. highlighted by a student trip to National Student Partnerships $50,000 Washington, D.C., for the Presidential $5,000 For the Education Center at The Wall Inauguration For sponsorship of the closing panel at the NSP Annual Leadership Summit City Colleges of Chicago* Education $200,000 National Student Partnerships Total $6,644,000* For building on and strengthening the $50,000 *Includes $42,000 from returned por- McCormick Foundation supported For volunteer and civic engagement tion of unused grants from prior years. Child Development Studies Initiative activities Seeks to create a statewide system Civil Society Institute that provides access to quality early $50,000 Northwestern University* care and education for all children For continuation and expansion of $75,000 from birth to age five, and to improve For the new Center for Civic the Build Initiative the quality of programs serving those Engagement young children in the Chicago region. Columbia College Chicago* Pritzker Military Library $250,000 Action for Children* For a professional development $50,000 $50,000 initiative that will target mid-level For general support For continued support of the public management in 10 early childhood, policy and advocacy programs Public Communications, Inc. community-based agencies $50,000 Action for Children* For the “Hallowed Grounds” Community Renewal Society $300,000 $35,000 documentary For general operating support For support of a series of early Remember Museum 39-45 education articles in Catalyst as Advance Illinois* well as a community forum on early $10,000 $200,000 care and education For general operating support for the For support of Advance Illinois, a museum and activities related to the public policy advocacy group for the The Dolores Kohl Education 2008 Memorial Day celebration betterment of education in Illinois Foundation* U.S. Public Service Academy $202,000 Big Shoulders Fund* For continued support of the $20,000 $65,000 Kohl McCormick StoryBus For a national poll on young people’s For building the capacity of 25 early attitude toward public service childhood education programs The Dolores Kohl Education supported by Big Shoulders Fund University of Illinois at Foundation Urbana-Champaign $150,000 The Board of Directors of $100,000 For support of the Kohl McCormick Illinois State University* For the Civic Leadership Program Early Childhood Teaching Awards $122,000 For support of policies and programs that will better connect early education and K–12 leaders in order to help create a seamless educational continuum

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DuPage Children’s Museum, Inc. Institute for Educational Leadership Ounce of Prevention Fund* $50,000 $47,000 $300,000 For support to help increase parents’ For support of research for a new For a one-time, capacity-building participation in their child’s play- book on leadership in the field of grant to increase, intensify and based learning at the museum early care and education entitled expand Ounce of Prevention Fund’s Leading for the Future of Early Care leadership, impact and reach to Erikson Institute* and Education improve the odds for young children $400,000 living in poverty in Illinois For support of Erikson’s capital Institute for Educational campaign, “Fulfilling the Promise: Leadership* Ounce of Prevention Fund* The Campaign for Erikson” $45,000 $300,000 For strengthening and expanding For general operating support Erikson Institute* efforts to advance voluntary high $250,000 quality prekindergarten for children Rutgers University Foundation* For support of the Illinois Early of military families (including families $150,000 Childhood Teaching Certification and in Ft. Riley, Kansas) For conducting a study examining Teacher Preparation program the components of an effective Kohl Children’s Museum* preschool education system Erikson Institute* $150,000 $208,000 For support of Early Childhood Sargent Shriver National Center For launching a Math Training initia- Connections (ECC), an outreach pro- on Poverty Law tive for early childhood classrooms in gram for low-income students and $50,000 the Chicago Public Schools their teachers, and to launch a new For general support of public policy initiative with a similar focus but tar- work in early care and education Erikson Institute* geting preschool children served by $111,000 home-based or center-based Strategic Learning Initiatives For support of two international sym- providers $50,000 posia on early mathematics education For improvement and expansion Latino Policy Forum of the Early Childhood Parent Erikson Institute $50,000 Engagement program $50,000 For a study on the state of Latino For support of math research and children ages birth to five in Illinois Teach For America* planning for two international symposia $100,000 on early mathematics education in Lifelink Corporation* For launching an early childhood 2009 and 2010 $200,000 initiative that would recruit, train, For the start-up of Educare West place and support recent college Evanston Community Foundation DuPage, a state-of-the-art early child- graduates into Chicago’s early $50,000 hood center serving children at risk of childhood programs For the launching of the Illinois Early academic failure in DuPage County Childhood Fellowship University of Chicago* Loyola University Chicago $275,000 Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Illinois $50,000 For support of a strategic communi- $30,000 For continuation of the professional cations program that will brand, For support of public awareness development initiative for early disseminate and leverage research regarding the benefits of quality early care and education staff in nine and recommendations of Nobel-prize care and education community-based organizations winner James Heckman and the Consortium on Early Childhood Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Illinois Loyola University Chicago* Development $85,000 $350,000 For support of public policy and pub- For continued support of the University of Illinois at Chicago* lic awareness regarding the benefits McCormick Foundation’s Initiative for $335,000 of quality early care and education the Professional Development of For development of an early care Childcare Educators and education module to be added Illinois Association for Infant to the University of Illinois at Chicago Mental Health MDRC Principal Preparation program $50,000 $50,000 For completing the second phase of For continued support for the Voices for Illinois Children* developing an infant mental health Foundations of Learning Project in $300,000 credential in Illinois Chicago For general operating support

Illinois Network of Child Care National-Louis University* Women’s Business Resource & Referral Agencies* $300,000 Development Center $300,000 For general operating support $50,000 For improvement and standardization For the Child Care Business Initiative of professional development for Ounce of Prevention Fund* and Annual Business Exposition practitioners in the field of early care $50,000 and education For continued support of public policy and advocacy efforts

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Journalism Chicago Filmmakers International Center for Total $5,951,930* $40,000 Journalists, Inc. *Includes $9,070 from returned por- For support of YouthLAB, a model $104,000 tion of unused grants from prior years. youth media summer program For a journalism training conference on emergency preparedness Committed to the ideal that nothing is more critical to the vitality of Columbia College Chicago democracy than a free, vigorous $125,000 International Women’s Media and diverse news media that pro- For continued support of Columbia Foundation* vides citizens the information they Links high school journalism project $75,000 For continued support of the Leadership need to make informed decisions. Columbia College Chicago Institute for Women Journalists Academy for Educational $15,000 Investigative Reporters Development For a city-wide conference on environ- $50,000 mental issues for high school reporters and Editors, Inc. For the Youth Media Reporter’s cover- $10,000 age of emerging youth media markets Committee to Protect For an investigative training workshop Journalists, Inc.* for ethnic media America Abroad Media $75,000 $50,000 For an online journalism initiative and Jim Murray Memorial Foundation* For the Afghan Journalism initiative Latin American program $5,000 For Jim Murray Memorial Journalism scholarships American Society of Newspaper Community Renewal Society* Editors Foundation, Inc. $80,000 $125,000 For continued support of The KU Endowment Association For continued support of the online Chicago Reporter $50,000 readership workshops for editors For continued support of the Military Community Television Network* and the Media project The Arch Foundation for the $20,000 Robert C. Maynard Institute for University of Georgia, Inc. For a journalism training project $10,000 Journalism Education For a weekend event for Ethnic Free Spirit Media* $80,000 Media leaders $40,000 For the editing program and diversity For support of the FSM Connections development research Arizona State University Foundation initiative $35,000 Minnesota Public Radio/American For development of an electronic Free Spirit Media Public Media* clearinghouse for journalism diversity $25,000 $75,000 For a documentary film project For support of the Public Insight Journalism initiative Asian American Journalists Association* Fund for the City of New York, Inc. $60,000 $50,000 MLRC Institute For support of the Executive For general support of the New York $50,000 Leadership program Community Media Alliance For the First Amendment Speakers Bureau The Associated Press Managing The Harvard Crimson, Inc. NAMME Foundation Editors Foundation, Inc. $10,000 $18,000 For financial aid for the Crimson staff $25,000 For NewsTrain college educator training program For continued marketing support of outreach the McCormick Fellowship Sociedad Interamericana NAMME Foundation Ball State University de Prensa, Inc.* $40,000 $200,000 $30,000 For a First Amendment Project for For continuation of the Chapultepec For general operating support high school administrators project National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation Beyondmedia Education* iFOCOS $15,000 $75,000 $60,000 For Girls! Action! Media! For general support For broadcast executive development, diversity programs and a college PSA contest Broadcasters’ Foundation* Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and $25,000 Refugee Rights For assistance to radio and television $20,000 National Association of Hispanic journalists For a youth radio and Election Day Journalists* program $150,000 For support of the Parity Project California First Amendment Coalition* $20,000 Illinois First Amendment Center* For legal assistance to ethnic media $75,000 The National Federation of For continued support of a First Community Broadcasters $35,000 Center for Media and Security Ltd. Amendment education campaign For a youth journalism training project $50,000 For general support

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National Judicial College* The Reporters Committee for University System of Maryland $20,000 Freedom of the Press* Foundation, Inc. For five regional workshops on $125,000 $50,000 bench-media-bar committees For continued support of the For a McCormick Specialized McCormick Legal Fellowship Reporting Institute on covering demo- National Museum of Mexican Art* graphic changes in communities $50,000 Research Foundation of the For Radio Arte’s First Voice/Primera City University of New York* University of Miami* Voz News program $50,000 $25,000 For support of the Entrepreneurial For a research project into South New York University Journalism program Florida Haitian newsrooms and $25,000 audience For Beatblogging.org Roosevelt University $40,000 The University of Montana Northwestern University – For the McCormick Foundation Foundation Media Management Center* High School Media Awards and other $30,000 $400,000 scholastic journalism projects For support of Native American For general operating support journalism programs Society of Environmental Northwestern University – Journalists* University of Southern California Media Management Center* $50,000 $100,000 $300,000 For the First Amendment Watchdog For a conference and training on For continued support of the project immigration coverage McCormick Fellows program Strategic Human Services University of Southern California Northwestern University – $35,000 $50,000 Medill School of Journalism* For the Youth Writers Journalism For a leadership conference on digital $1,250,000 program media strategy For construction, renovation and equipping of journalism buildings Street Level Youth Media University System of Maryland $40,000 Foundation, Inc. The Ohio State University For radio production workshops $85,000 Foundation For support of the McCormick $50,000 Student Press Law Center* Initiative for New Media Women For a McCormick Specialized $61,000 Entrepreneurs Reporting Institute on climate change For a McCormick Publications Fellowship VOX Teen Communications, Inc.* Pacific News Service* $15,000 $100,000 Suburban Newspapers of For a teen resource guide project For support of New America Media’s America Foundation journalism school initiative $35,000 Washington State University For a research project on online Foundation Pacific News Service* newspaper access $45,000 $45,000 For a McCormick Specialized For support of Youth Outlook TCC Group Reporting Institute on Reporting in multimedia $150,000 Virtual Spaces For continued support of the The Poynter Institute Challenge Fund for Journalism What Kids Can Do, Inc. $50,000 $20,000 For a McCormick Specialized Texas State University For a photo essay project in Chicago Reporting Institute, “Covering War $50,000 at Home” For a study of emergency communi- Yale University cations with non-English speaking $28,000 President and Fellows of populations For training of Midwestern broadcast Harvard College meteorologists in coverage of climate $50,000 True Star Foundation, Inc.* change For a Global Voices Summit $20,000 For youth media activities Young Chicago Authors Radio and Television News $40,000 Directors Foundation, Inc.* UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. For Say What magazine and the $125,000 $40,000 Louder Than a Bomb poetry festival For news leadership training For UNITY 2008 student projects Youth Communication Radio and Television News University of Georgia Research $25,000 Directors Foundation, Inc. Foundation, Inc. For city-wide teen journalism initiatives $50,000 $45,000 For Camp STN Chicago 2008 For an initiative to revise the Annual Youth News Service L.A. Bureau* Survey of Journalism and Mass $40,000 Communication Graduates For general support

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Youth News Service L.A. Bureau Chicago Horticultural Society/ Lincoln Park Zoological Society* $30,000 Chicago Botanic Garden* $175,000 For a Los Angeles high school $250,000 For restoration of the south pond and journalism study For a Children’s Learning Center and environmental education programs Growing Garden Y-Press* Loyola University Chicago* $25,000 Chicago Humanities Festival* $1,000,000 For a Web site redesign and general $100,000 For the Program for the Study of operating support For renewed festival support in Cardiac Remodeling at the Stritch 2008 and 2009 School of Medicine

Special Initiatives Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Metropolitan Family Services* Total $8,468,000 Are Blind or Visually Impaired* $150,000 $160,000 For the General Counseling Provides major support for nonprofit For support of the Birth to Three Program, in honor of the agency’s organizations, primarily in Chicago, program and adaptive technology 150th anniversary in 2007 when exceptional one-time opportu- services for youth over three years nities exist and focus on education, cultural events, social service Metropolitan Planning Council* Chicago Metropolis 2020 agencies, civic institutions and $200,000 $500,000 For general operating support health institutions. For general operating and program support Michigan State University College Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial of Communication Arts & Sciences* Commission* Chicago Public Education Fund* $225,000 $263,000 $250,000 For the rededication of the Lincoln For preservation and digitization For Leadership Fund III to improve Memorial and accompanying natural- of a collection of Chicago Tribune school leadership and student ization ceremony in April 2009 newspapers achievement Museum of Science and Industry* The Advertising Council, Inc.* Chicago Youth Centers* $50,000 $2,000,000 $100,000 For an emergency preparedness For the new U-505 exhibit For The Language Arts and Media campaign and general support over Center at Centro Nuestro in Humboldt three years Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago* Park, as part of CYC’s 50th $290,000 Anniversary campaign For the Healing Military Heroes Fund Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago* Communities in Schools $75,000 The Renaissance Schools Fund* of Chicago* For the Colonel Robert R. McCormick $500,000 $100,000 Veterans Programs For two new Renaissance 2010 schools For support of the Agency Impact initiative Rush University Medical Center* Chicago Children’s Choir $75,000 $150,000 Corporate Leadership Center NFP For general operating support For a preschool social emotional $50,000 learning initiative at Rush For a scholarship for a nonprofit Neurobehavioral Center The Chicago Community leader to participate in the CEO Foundation* Perspective program at $250,000 Smithsonian Institution* Northwestern’s Kellogg School For support of the 2016 Olympics $250,000 of Management in 2009 Fund for Chicago Neighborhoods, For construction of the new which benefits nonprofits and Star-Spangled Banner gallery Friends of the Chicago River* communities impacted by the $50,000 City’s Olympic bid Swedish Covenant Hospital* For capacity building for the $500,000 McCormick Tribune Bridgehouse For a campaign to expand its The Chicago Community and Chicago River Museum emergency department Foundation* $150,000 Have Dreams* For the Partnership for New University of Illinois Foundation* $200,000 Communities’ workforce develop- $250,000 For expansion of its Communication ment initiative, Opportunity Chicago For renewed general support of the and Independent Life Skills program Chicago Project for Violence Prevention for children with autism Chicago Community Trust* $125,000 Juvenile Protective Association* For program support of the Burnham $30,000 Plan Centennial at Chicago For the Building Bridges to Metropolis 2020, which focuses North Lawndale program on youth civic engagement

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2008 General Fund/Affiliated Organization Grants Paid

Funding for Matching Gifts Funding for Affiliated Organizations and Direct Support of Total $24,728,084 Charitable Organizations Advances the McCormick Total $1,884,415 Foundation’s priorities and supports other activities of interest. McCormick Foundation Direct Charitable Giving Cantigny First Division Foundation $1,059,037 $2,995,000 McCormick Foundation Cantigny Foundation Matching Gifts $16,056,350 $825,378 McCormick Freedom Museum General Fund Grants $25,919,869 $4,260,298

McCormick Foundation Conference Series $1,416,436 To impact public policy or academic investigation by facilitating a balanced and challenging discussion of issues critical to our communities and country

Summary of 2008 Charitable Distributions

Communities Program Grants $29,428,640 General Fund Grants 25,919,869 Veterans Program Grants 4,310,000

Total Grants Paid $59,658,509

Funding for Affiliated Organizations 24,728,084

Total Charitable Distributions Paid $84,386,593

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Information for Grantseekers

Grantmaking Programs Foundation’s six grantmaking procedures for assessing and The McCormick Foundation areas: evaluating progress. focuses its giving on children, • Citizenship The McCormick Foundation communities and country, • Communities program priorities are outlined helping to build active and • Education below. For information on how engaged citizens and to im- • Journalism to apply for a grant, please see prove our nation’s civic health. • Special Initiatives our Grant Application The Foundation invests • Veterans Procedures on page 71. in nonprofit organizations For all grant considerations, that demonstrate exceptional the Foundation looks for strong potential for making a differ- program design, with clear ex- ence in one or more of the pected outcomes and specific

Citizenship The Citizenship Program helps develop a new generation of informed and actively engaged citizens and supports opportunities for youth to participate in our democratic process.*

Core Priorities Include

Civic Education Improving the quality and accessibility of civic education in Illinois in the following ways: • Promoting the inclusion of rigorous civics classes in high school and university curricula • Combining school-based programs with extracurricular activities that educate youth in civic engagement • Creating opportunities for youth to participate in discussions on policy issues that affect their communities • Supporting research and evaluation that help measure the quality and accessibility of civic education in Illinois

Service Providing youth with meaningful opportunities to serve and become positive change agents in their communities by supporting the following: • School-based and out-of-school programs that offer long-term community service opportunities combined with civic reflection • Programs that foster youth initiated, youth organized and youth executed service and volunteer projects • Research and evaluation that help measure these goals

Civic Leadership Developing a diverse and energetic new generation of civic leaders by supporting organizations that do the following: • Provide meaningful leadership training and education opportunities • Place youth in leadership positions in their communities and give them a voice in decision-making bodies • Give youth the opportunity to interact and collaborate with elected officials and adult community leaders • Support research and evaluation that help measure these goals

*The Citizenship Program funds initiatives for high school and college age youth (ages 15 to 25) in the Chicago area.

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Information for Grantseekers

Communities and then grants to nonprofits in McCormickFoundation.org for The Communities Program the donors’ communities. Each additional information on our stimulates local philanthropy partner has its own set of Program partners, their loca- and improves quality of life guidelines that target specific tions and priorities. through collaborative partner- needs in the community and ships with strategically selected meet the Foundation’s priorities. Core priorities include: businesses and nonprofits. Nonprofit organizations may Supporting causes such as Together with newspaper, apply for Foundation grants homelessness, hunger and broadcast and sports team through the Program partners in employment. Programs in partners in communities their communities. Please see support of youth sports and nationwide, the Communities 2008 Communities Program recreation, literacy or education Program raises money locally Grants Paid or visit us at may be appropriate.

Education The Education Program focuses on building a statewide system of quality early care and education that serves all children from birth to age five in Illinois.*

Core Priorities Include Public Policy Increasing public and private investments in early care and education and creating policies that lead to a system of quality early care and education. Efforts include, but are not limited to the following: • Maintaining public and private support for universal access to quality early care and education and its successful implementation • Increasing the amount and availability of funds for early care and education programs overall and per child • Ensuring state government promotes quality assurance strategies, which include professional development and program quality improvement • Creating better links in the educational continuum, which begins at birth and continues through grade three and beyond

Quality Assurance Improving the quality of the professionals and programs that provide early care and education in Illinois in four primary ways: • Increasing the skill and knowledge of teachers and leaders • Promoting a unified system of professional standards and credentials for the field • Assessing and improving national accreditation • Constructing a streamlined system to measure inputs and outcomes

Public Awareness Heightening public awareness of quality early care and education and its benefits. Efforts include, but are not limited to the following: • Motivating support for investments in early childhood • Promoting the perception of early childhood professionals as educators • Educating the public about child development and quality early care and education • Educating the public about the role of parents as first teachers

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Journalism The Journalism Program is committed to the idea that nothing is more critical to the vitality of democracy than a free, vigorous and diverse news media, providing citizens the information they need to make reasoned decisions.

Core Priorities Include

News Leadership Promoting the development of farsighted media in the following ways: • Increasing understanding of changes affecting news organizations and their audiences, including digital media and electronic format • Promoting diversity of staffing and content • Building media management’s commitment to core news values

Free Speech Promoting freedom of expression and the vital importance of an independent news media in a free society through the following: • Monitoring and protesting abuses against journalists • Examining restrictive laws • Enhancing public support of the First Amendment

Journalism Education Strengthening the quality and depth of journalism with three focus areas: • Investing in journalism training at the collegiate level • Increasing understanding between the military and the media • Strengthening specialized reporting

Youth Media Promoting the development of future generations of journalists by the following: • Enriching high school journalism programs • Encouraging teen inquiry, civic engagement and expression • Increasing young people’s awareness of First Amendment freedoms

Special Initiatives Core priorities include: The Special Initiatives Program General and program support, strengthens the Foundation’s as well as capital and endow- hometown community— ment campaigns for civic, Chicagoland— by providing cultural, educational, health support to nonprofits that im- and social service institutions. pact the region and are aligned with the Foundation’s mission to improve civic health.

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Veterans agencies, philanthropies, The McCormick Veterans and committed individuals, Program (MVP) honors the serv- MVP supports nonprofit ice and sacrifice of America’s organizations that assist veterans by maximizing the veterans in overcoming value they provide to their fami- their unique challenges and lies, communities and country. successfully re-entering Together with government life at home and work.

Core Priorities Include

Veteran & Family Support Increasing success of returning veterans by improving their ability to overcome challenges and amplifying the various resources available to them in the following ways: • Addressing mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), as well as physical injuries • Supporting family issues, including psychological support for all family members • Providing shelter to veterans who are homeless and seeking permanent housing • Assisting with job and career development, including job training, counseling and resume preparation • Supporting legal challenges facing our veterans

Public Awareness Raising the public’s awareness of the sacrifices made by veterans and their families, the challenges they face leaving the military, and the benefits and values that they offer organizations, communities and our country.

Veteran Service Provider Strengthening the work of organizations already supporting Capacity Building veterans by building partnerships, effective grantmaking and extensive networking.

McCormick Foundation To increase the breadth of What the Foundation Conference Series topics and conference partners, Does Not Fund Since 1990, the McCormick the Foundation welcomes In general, the McCormick Foundation Conference Series proposals from academic insti- Foundation does not make has provided a forum for the tutions, policy experts, and grants to individuals, govern- exploration and analysis of public, nonprofit and private mental agencies or corporations. complex issues, situations, sector professionals from In very limited situations, we and events affecting our com- all fields. do provide grants for individual munities and country. Through For detailed submission or academic scholarships. balanced and challenging guidelines and a downloadable We also do not provide grants discussions, the Conference application form, please visit for research projects, docu- Series brings together people McCormickFoundation.org. mentaries, fundraising events, of diverse backgrounds and In order to be considered political activities, medical perspectives to reach new for support for a conference research or religious purposes. levels of understanding and in 2010, the Foundation must Although the Foundation does develop long-term solutions. receive proposals no later than make grants across the country, The McCormick Foundation August 28, 2009. it places an emphasis on constantly seeks opportunities organizations within Illinois. to build on the quality and tradition of its Conference Series.

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Grant Application Procedures

How to Apply describing the goals of the Itemized Project Budget The McCormick Foundation project, expected outcomes Narrative of other projected welcomes funding requests and how they relate to the sources of support, amount from nonprofit 501(c)(3) Foundation’s interests, the target of funds requested from the organizations for purposes audience and beneficiaries, the McCormick Foundation, their that support the core priorities estimated budget and duration, proposed use, and the timeline of our six program areas: plans for dissemination of in which funds will be expended. Citizenship, Communities, findings and the evaluation Name and Qualifications— Education, Journalism, Special process. Please understand of people involved in project. Initiatives and Veterans. The that submitting a letter of inquiry Foundation gives priority to does not guarantee an invitation Board Members — their titles, proposals for specific projects to submit a full proposal. outside affiliations, and rather than for general support. telephone numbers. For all grant considerations, the Formal Proposals Organizational Expenses and Foundation looks for strong After reviewing the letter of Income — for previous, current program design, clear expected inquiry, the Foundation may and coming fiscal year. outcomes, and procedures request a formal proposal. Internal Revenue Service for assessing and evaluating Formal proposal requirements Verification — a copy of the programs. Please see the do vary among the Foundation’s IRS tax-exempt letter. description of the McCormick six program areas, but in Foundation’s Grantmaking general should include: Audited Financial Statements — Programs on page 67 for and IRS 990 form plus attach- additional information. Description of Organization ments for the most recently Brief history, general statement completed fiscal year. Letter of Inquiry of mission and goals, and If you are seeking support for experience in the area for Deadlines the first time or are a returning which funds are sought. Grant proposals are considered grantee seeking support for a year-round. Please visit new project, we highly recom- Project Description McCormickFoundation.org mend that you contact the Issue to be addressed and for more details. Foundation or visit our Web site, population to be served, how the McCormickFoundation.org, proposed project will address to determine whether your the identified need, clearly proposed program fits within stated goals and objectives, the Foundation’s funding expected outcomes and how priorities. If your proposed they relate to the Foundation’s program is compatible, you core program priorities, plans need to submit a letter of for evaluation and dissemination inquiry, which should be of findings, and timeline for no more than 2–3 pages project activities.

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Financial Summary

2008 was a transition year for the Cantigny Foundation (Cantigny) Robert R. McCormick Foundation was established by Article Eight of the (“the Foundation” includes the last will and testament of Robert R. McCormick Foundation, Cantigny McCormick and is organized under Foundation, Cantigny First Division the General Not For Profit Corporation Foundation and McCormick Freedom Act of Illinois. The last will and testa- Museum). The year began with the ment provided that McCormick’s development of a long-term invest- former residence and 500 acres of ment allocation model and continued land near Wheaton, IL, be held in trust with the methodical process of filling in perpetuity as a museum and public the designated asset categories park. Cantigny’s operations are with initial investment placements. supported primarily by fees from the The investing process was further general public for use of its facilities, challenged by the ongoing economic investment income, and grants from downturn, which slowed the overall McCormick Foundation. pace of the Foundation’s diversifica- tion. Although the Foundation’s Cantigny First Division Foundation investments will continue to change (First Division) is an Illinois corpora- in the coming year, the Foundation’s tion organized under the General Not core mission and philanthropic for Profit Corporation Act of Illinois. activity remain the same. Our mission First Division has operational respon- is to advance the ideals of a free, sibility for the First Division Museum democratic society by investing in at Cantigny, located on the estate of our children, communities and the late Robert R. McCormick. The country. Through our commitment museum facilities are owned by to service, we work to improve the Cantigny and are used primarily for nation’s civic health and to build the exhibition of memorabilia of the active, engaged citizens. 1st Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. In addition, First Division maintains The Robert R. McCormick affiliations with the Society of the Foundation’s operations include: First Division and the U.S. Army for the mutual benefit of all three organi- Robert R. McCormick Foundation zations. First Division’s operations are (McCormick Foundation) was supported primarily by grants from established under provisions in the McCormick Foundation. last will and testament of Robert R. McCormick and is organized under McCormick Freedom Museum the General Not for Profit Corporation (Freedom Museum) is an Illinois Act of Illinois. McCormick Foundation’s corporation organized under the primary mission is to advance the General Not for Profit Corporation ideals of a free, democratic society by Act of Illinois. Freedom Museum investing in our children, communities, commenced operations in 2006 at and country. McCormick Foundation’s the Tribune Tower on Michigan Avenue operations are supported primarily by in Chicago. The Freedom Museum investment income and contributions honors American freedoms. In early from the general public in support of its 2009, the Freedom Museum began Communities and Veterans Programs. a transition from its physical location to outreach initiatives to take its mission directly to educators, students and the general public. The Freedom Museum’s operations are supported primarily by grants from McCormick Foundation.

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The grantmaking activity of the McCormick Foundation is defined by its six program areas. The percentage of total grants paid in 2008 by program area is illustrated in the chart below.

2008 Grants Paid by Program Area as a % of Total Grants Paid

4.2% Citizenship 7.6% Veterans

10.3% Journalism

50.7% Communities 11.6% Education

15.6% Special Initiatives

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Statements of Financial Position (Unaudited)

December 31, 2008 and 2007 (in thousands) 2008 2007 Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 463,757 $ 763,780 Investments 635,496 591,938 Fixed assets (net of accumulated depreciation) 37,878 39,902 Other assets 4,013 6,476 Total assets $1,141,144 $1,402,096

Liabilities and Net Assets Grants payable $ 29,711 $ 31,561 Other liabilities 3,225 4,487 Total liabilities 32,936 36,048

Unrestricted net assets 1,105,424 1,363,241 Permanently restricted net assets 2,784 2,807 Total net assets 1,108,208 1,366,048 Total liabilities and net assets $1,141,144 $1,402,096

Statements of Activities (Unaudited)

December 31, 2008 and 2007 (in thousands) 2008 2007 Revenues Dividends and interest $ 30,728 $ 35,314 Public donations 22,055 16,479 Realized (loss)/gain (8,861) $1,071,677 Golf, park and museum operations 6,513 6,170 Other 310 278 Total revenues $ 50,745 $1,129,918

Expenses Grants approved $ 57,808 $ 52,390 Operating expenses 30,972 34,213 Depreciation expense 10,209 4,436 Total expenses 98,989 91,039

Change in unrealized net gain on investments (209,596) (976,976) Change in net assets (257,840) 61,903 Beginning net assets 1,366,048 1,304,145 Ending net assets $1,108,208 $1,366,048

The Foundation’s most recent audited financial report and tax return (Form 990) are available online at McCormickFoundation.org under “About the Foundation” or by contacting Lou Marsico, Sr. Vice President of Operations, at 630 260 8151.

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