LLOYDA.FRY FOUNDATION Annual Report 2008 The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation supports organizations with the strength and commitment to address persistent problems of urban Chicago resulting from poverty, violence, ignorance, and despair. We seek to build the capacity of individuals and the systems that serve them. Our vision is a Chicago that offers education, prosperity, and hope for all.

About the Foundation Board of Directors Staff

In 1933, Lloyd A. Fry founded the Lloyd A. Fry David A. Donovan Unmi Song Roofing Company on the southwest side Director Executive Director of Chicago. During the next five decades, the company grew to become the world’s largest Lloyd A. Fry III Jessica A. Brown manufacturer of asphalt roofing and allied Vice Chairman Program Analyst products, with nearly 5,000 dedicated employees in manufacturing facilities nationwide. The Graham C. Grady Sharon Bush company was sold to Owens-Corning Fiberglass Director Program Officer, Employment Corporation in 1977. In large part, the proceeds from the sale of the company now serve as the Stephanie Pace Marshall Regina Dixon-Reeves, Ph.D. endowment of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation. Vice President Program Officer, Education The Foundation has been addressing the needs of the Chicago community since 1983. Howard M. McCue III Soo Na Chairman Program Officer, Health Lloyd A. Fry Foundation 120 South LaSalle Street, Suite 1950 M. James Termondt Jennifer C. Reid Chicago, Illinois 60603-3419 President and Treasurer Program Assistant

Telephone: 312.580.0310 Unmi Song Sydney R. Sidwell Fax: 312.580.0980 Executive Director and Secretary Senior Program Officer, Arts Education www.fryfoundation.org Diane Sotiros Photography: Jean Clough CPA, Controller Writing: Mary O’Connell Design: Sam Silvio Cornelia G. Speed Grants Administrator

Lisa Torres Program Assistant

The Foundation mourns the passing of Jane Rowan Fry who died on July 29, 2008, just before her 88th birthday. Mrs. Fry was the wife of our former Director and President, Lloyd A. Fry Jr. (1917-2001) and the mother of our current director and Vice Chair, Lloyd A. Fry III. Mrs. Fry was a strong supporter of the Foundation’s grant making and overall mission. She will be missed. Message from the Chairman Message from the Executive Director

The 2008 fiscal year–ended June 30–was a strong year for our As this annual report goes to print, the nonprofit sector is foundation by any measure. Our total grants were $9.1 million, dominated by questions about how the financial crisis and and we finished the year with a solid $172.9 million of net assets. economic turbulence will affect grantees and foundation With the assistance of an outstanding professional staff, our grantmaking. To address the question that is on the minds of grantmaking has become a bit more focused within the parame- many of our grantees, “Yes, the Fry Foundation will continue ters we have set for our four primary areas of interest. We are making grants next year.” The Foundation has a history looking to build capacity in each of those areas of interest. We are of seeking continuity and stability in our grantmaking during looking to support organizations that are willing to engage in turbulent economic times. Our grant review process will rigorous self-assessment. We are trying to encourage the measure- continue unchanged, and we do not anticipate major changes in ment of outcomes wherever we can identify what our board member our four core program areas: Education, Arts Education, Stephanie Pace Marshall has described as “metrics that matter.” Employment and Health. We also will continue to consider new We have a growing interest in the problem of climate change, grantees. We may look a little harder than we did last year, but and our focus in this area has been (and will continue to be) on we already were fairly rigorous in our criteria for support, so the understanding the problem, measuring our impact on the problem, process will not be much different. reducing that impact, and mitigating the effects of the problem— We are excited to welcome a new director, Graham C. particularly the effects on the lowest-income people of the urban Grady. Graham brings energy, inquisitiveness and new Chicago community that we serve. We have devoted a modest portion perspectives to the Foundation. And in the tradition of all the of our assets to world relief, and we will likely continue to do so. Fry Foundation board members, he also brings a lifelong At this writing, however, we find ourselves struggling with the concern and commitment to the challenges facing low-income global economic crisis and its implications for our foundation. families in Chicago. Despite a defensive and highly diversified approach to the man- We also are pleased to report that we have continued agement of our portfolio, our asset values have dropped dramati- our explorations into climate change and how Fry Foundation cally. We do not know whether we are now looking at the bottom grantmaking might be most helpful in developing local of the market or into a pit of more bad news. We are seriously solutions to this important global problem, especially as it apprehensive, and we are in good company. Drew Gilpin Faust affects low-income communities in Chicago. The Foundation (the president of Harvard) recently wrote to the faculty, students has committed almost $1 million for research and analysis on and staff of her university on this very topic, noting that our eco- the effects of climate change, strategies for improving energy nomic landscape has been altered. Our foundation and Harvard efficiency, and efforts to improve our public transit system. are both of necessity planning for a period of financial constraint. And we are supporting efforts to monitor “green job” While we are anxious about the downturn that we face, we opportunities and help low-income job seekers take advantage are resolute in our commitment to those organizations described of them. Our grantees are working closely with the City in our mission statement “with the strength and commitment to of Chicago and its Climate Action Plan in order to help ensure address persistent problems of urban Chicago resulting from poverty, that public, private and nonprofit resources are coordinated violence, ignorance, and despair.” We will not let the press of the and work in complementary ways. economic downturn cause us to turn our backs on those organi- As you read about our grantees this year, you will hear zations and the wonderful people who run them. We consistently a resounding refrain in all the stories—better, better, better. have distributed more than the tax law has required in past years; All the groups featured are running exceptional programs and we will continue to do so. providing high quality services. They are already “the best We are optimistic about the future of our foundation, our in the business” and yet they continue to build on successful community and our nation. While we suffer from a relative scarcity practice and strive to do better. These are groups that give of resources, we have great energy and appetite for the work before definition to terms like culture of inquiry, continuous learning, us. Our foundation staff has never been stronger; our board has and continuous improvement. Terms to which many aspire, never been more committed to our mission. We have added a terrific but few achieve. In the pages that follow, I invite you to new member to our board, Graham Grady, who has insight and learn about some of the experienced, innovative leaders in enthusiasm for our tasks. We are fostering a number of partner- our community who are working to improve the lives of ships designed to strengthen our grantmaking. We will persevere. families throughout Chicago.

Scott Unmi Song Howard M. McCue III, Chairman Executive Director

1 Education, prosperity, and hope for all. That is the vision behind the Fry Foundation’s grantmaking. We provide support to nonprofit organizations that have the strength and commitment to improve conditions for low-income, underserved Chicago residents.Grants are awarded in four major areas: Education, Arts Education, Employment, and Health. Across all of our funding areas, our focus is on helping organizations: Build capacity to enhance the quality of services and better assess the impact of programs; Develop successful program innovations that other organizations in the field can learn from or adopt; and Share knowledge so that information which can help low-income communities and individuals is widely and readily available.

2008 Grants and Awards Totals

$2,500,000 Education $2,209,625 24%

Arts Education $1,523,000 17% $2,000,000 Employment $1,651,975 18%

$1,500,000 Health $1,654,500 18%

World Relief $795,000 9%

$1,000,000 Climate Change $465,000 5%

Special Purposes $847,289 9% $500,000 Total $9,146,389 100%

$0 Education Arts Education Employment Health World Relief Climate Special Change Purposes

Please visit our Web site at www.fryfoundation.org to see our 2008 audited financials.

2 Climate Change What can a local foundation possibly do about climate change? The scale is overwhelming, and the impacts—melting Arctic icecaps, coastal flooding in Asia—seem far away from the streets of Chicago. But research funded by the Fry Foundation demonstrates that Chicago has already shifted into a different climate zone. In a warmer world Chicagoans could find themselves coping with flooded basements, new diseases, and dying trees. Low-income residents will be the least able to adapt. Now the search is on for local solutions to this global problem.

Nearly everyone understands that the earth’s climate is pushing a “big picture” approach that would consider the warming as a result of burning fossil fuels, cutting down capital needs of all three systems simultaneously and rainforests, and other human activity. Less is understood investigate alternative financing methods and fare structures about how this vast atmospheric shift will change things that support thoughtful and strategic investments in transit. on the ground right here in Chicago. Part of making the public case is understanding Last year, the Fry Foundation took the lead among what other cities are already doing. That is the goal of local foundations in funding the Global Philanthropy Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC)’s Peer Exchange Partnership to provide research to the City of Chicago to program, which brings public officials from Chicago together outline the potential impact of climate change on the city. with their counterparts in New York, San Francisco, This information would help Chicago develop a climate and Stockholm to share ideas for reducing congestion and action plan designed to mitigate the impact of climate improving transit. change on the residents of Chicago. The results of the In addition, both the MPC and another group, research, based on scientific scenarios that differ slightly, Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), are working predict that Chicago will have milder winters but longer to bring transit solutions to local neighborhoods. MPC is and hotter summers, more heat emergencies, more flooding, collaborating with the Regional Transportation Authority and an increase in pests and diseases that currently don’t on plans to increase access to transit in three low-income thrive in these parts. Termites, for example, could become Chicago neighborhoods. CNT is promoting transit designs a real problem if winter frosts are not severe enough to and neighborhood planning that makes transit more kill them off. appealing and efficient, and therefore more likely to be Such impacts will affect all Chicagoans. Those used by local residents. least able to adapt are likely to be poorer residents, Fry Foundation support has enabled the CNT to who already face higher fuel bills and have less money collaborate with the Global Philanthropy Partnership on to invest in energy-efficient air conditioners or new finding ways to cut energy used to heat and cool buildings. energy-efficient cars. The City’s climate change plan calls for reducing energy That insight prompted the Fry Foundation to concentrate consumption in 550,000 low- to middle-income housing funding on improving energy efficiency and public transit. units. CNT, which has been promoting residential Together, these two strategies have the potential to help energy efficiency for more than a quarter century, has low-income Chicagoans decrease their “carbon footprint” analyzed energy consumption by type of housing stock and decrease energy bills—and could translate into new green and neighborhood location to identify where investment job opportunities in neighborhoods that sorely need them. would make the most difference. Meanwhile, with state Transportation accounts for 21 percent of Chicago’s law mandating that utility companies seek out renewable greenhouse gas emissions. Any serious climate change plan sources and subsidize their customers’ efficiency, the must include expanding public transit to provide an alter- Environmental Law and Policy Center is working with the native to cars. But Chicagoans in recent years have instead utilities to design incentives and standards to achieve the seen dispiriting struggles over budgets, threatened service greatest impact. cuts, and infrastructure problems resulting from decades Improving buildings to reduce heating costs, of deferred maintenance. The Fry Foundation’s funding improving public transit, selling energy-efficient appli- supports groups working to turn that bleak picture toward ances: all these investments should create not just energy a more hopeful scenario. savings and climate change benefits, but jobs as well. Chicago Metropolis 2020, a highly respected civic group, Global Philanthropy Partnership is analyzing the potential provides research and analysis on regional transit and “green job” opportunities and seeking to ensure that those examines how funding for transit can be targeted to improve jobs become economic opportunities for Chicagoans who the current system and create new services to attract new need them most. Together, these initiatives should help riders. Currently planning for transit is fragmented among Chicago shift to a more climate-friendly way of life in ways the region’s three transit systems. Metropolis 2020 is that make sense, not just globally, but locally as well.

www.chicagoclimateaction.org

3 Arts Education The Fry Foundation’s Arts Education Program concentrates on supporting high-quality instruction for children who would not otherwise have that opportunity. For twenty years, the Marwen Foundation has provided visual arts instruction by top local arts professionals for low-income Chicago students. Now Marwen wants to spread its method of creative engagement to arts teachers around Chicago and improve its own faculty’s skills in the process.

share their collective ideas on what constitutes a “At least some of the Chicago teachers who first-class arts education. show up for Marwen classes are unable at “Our teachers may not come with classroom first to see how the visual arts might inform their experience or training as teachers, but many have teaching practices,” says Lundius. “We provide marvelous instincts,” says director of education new points of access to their own creative Scott Lundius. Through the workshops they benefit potential and inspire them to put that creativity from research on adolescent brain development into play with their students.” Marwen also and explore best practices on working with provides tools and curriculum for applying what students with different styles of learning. Such they learn in their own classrooms. And it knowledge can help them tailor their instruction to emphasizes applying visual arts practice (what make the most of their students’ experiences. At arts education theorists call “Studio Habits of the same time, Lundius says, the discussions build Mind”) to enhance learning in other areas. on what Marwen teachers already know from With so much pressure on test scores and their work. “We are creating our own professional other narrowly defined measures of achievement, vocabulary, codifying what it is that sets Marwen arts education, in Chicago and elsewhere, often teaching apart. We believe that what we learn from suffers. “Public school teachers are up against engaging teaching artists will be applicable in so many obstacles and contradictions—I have other settings.” tremendous respect for them,” says Lundius. The second Marwen program aims to share “Here we offer them a completely different those insights with Chicago public school teachers. environment, a wonderful laboratory for thinking Spend a few minutes at the Marwen Foundation Over two years, Marwen will offer 300 teachers about the place of creativity in their lives and in on Chicago’s Near North Side and it is immediately their choice of professional development courses students’ lives, and how to foster it.” clear that you are in a special place. The spaces are in the visual arts, ranging from art history to By offering that opportunity, Marwen large, open, functional, and beautiful. The young computer graphics and digital photography. hopes to expand the creative potential of Chicago people are as diverse as the city they come from, Follow-up workshops will explore classroom learn- students well beyond those enrolled in its but with a shared distinctiveness of hair, dress, body ing through visual arts and offer a select group of programs. All the insights Marwen has learned by art, and belongings that marks a visual sensibility. teachers the opportunity to participate in a Studio engaging teaching artists have proved so valuable, And they are engaged: with each other, with Art practicum, for both themselves and their says Lundius, that “we don’t want to just keep the adults around them, with the making of art. own students, at Marwen. all that to ourselves.” Marwen has been offering high-quality visual arts education, paired with college and career coun- seling, to some 2,000 low-income Chicago students for the last two decades. At the center of the program are “teaching artists,” who bring to the classroom the skills and seriousness of people who have made the arts their life’s work. Marwen’s approach stresses creativity, individual expression, and personal growth. This is a strong model and a nationally recognized success. Now Marwen is exploring how to spread the benefits beyond students they can serve directly, while at the same time continually improve its own programs. The key to both, they decided, is professional development. With Fry Foundation funding, Marwen has embarked on two separate but parallel courses. The first offers its own instructors workshops on adolescent development and classroom management, along with structured discussions in which faculty “Our teachers may not come with classroom experience or training as teachers, but many have marvelous instincts.”

4 5 Education What does it really take to turn around low-performing schools? Many things are important: good teachers, good curriculum, adequate resources, best practices. But pulling them all together must be strong leadership. University of Illinois-Chicago researchers found principals who had succeeded where others had failed and asked them to share their secrets. With Fry Foundation funding, the University uses these ideas, built on successful practice, in an innovative program of training, networking, and coaching to create a new generation of principals ready to transform failing schools.

Chicago has been striving to improve its schools for Begun in 2003, UIC’s four-year doctoral schools usually try broad-brush approaches to boost the last two decades, and Peter Martinez has been program currently has 74 enrollees, all selected for attendance; what works better is identifying what part of it all. As a community organizer, he fought their commitment to school change. “That’s kinds of students are most often truant, understanding to change state law to make Chicago schools more something you can’t teach,” says Martinez. Students the circumstances that encourage or cause truancy, accountable. As a foundation leader, he funded a begin with coursework, then move into a paid and targeting efforts to those specific circumstances. whole range of school improvement strategies. in-school practicum with a mentor principal, and Similarly, grade-level reading and math scores tell only “It became incontrovertibly clear,” he says, “that no then into their own schools. Currently 59 members so much; it is critical to identify which students are matter how many outside resources you bring into of the program are serving as either principals, having trouble in which subject areas and to develop a school to help it turn around, if the principal is assistant principals, or district administrators. strategies to support different kinds of learners. “If you not knowledgeable and highly motivated, those “Our principals start out by being very can disaggregate the data, that’s the beginning of resources just could not take root in that school.” strategic,” says Martinez. “They use research based telling you where to concentrate,” says Martinez. “And Chicago Public Schools leaders have come to frameworks to analyze the strengths and weaknesses then you have to decide what are the key indicators the same conclusion. Having launched an ambitious of their school, set up systems to collect data, get that are going to tell you whether you’re doing the initiative to improve high schools, CPS realized that, people together to reflect on what they see, decide right things, and keep refining that all the time.” amid all the good ideas and resources, a critical what to do about it, then track what they are doing Last year Peggy Korellis, the UIC principal of ingredient was often missing: a principal capable of and how it’s working.” A coach, drawn from the Team Englewood High School, brought her entire transforming organizational culture and instructional ranks of principals experienced with turning freshman class and over 200 of their parents to practices to bring about change. The district turned around failing schools, meets with the new visit the University of Illinois-Chicago, meet with its attention to training strong principals. One of its principals weekly to help them devise their own students and faculty, check out the dorms, and hear key partners is the University of Illinois-Chicago turnaround strategies and keep them on course. firsthand what it takes to go to a good college. This (UIC) College of Education, where Dr. Steve Tozer The UIC program posts school data on its Web year the principals of Power House High School and Peter Martinez co-founded the Transformational site and teaches principals to examine it to track and the UNO charter school did the same thing at Urban Principal Preparation Program. what is really going on in specific schools. The different colleges, and others are planning to make The University offers an innovative principal principals create their own school leadership teams similar visits in the future. The visits help fulfill training program that draws on the real world and work together to develop targeted strategies, one of UIC’s key school improvement principles: experience of successful schools. Martinez and his based on the data, for improvement. For example, establishing a culture of high expectations, for colleagues interviewed Chicago principals from both the students and their school. mostly poor, mostly minority schools where Turning around a school is hard work and can students excel. The University drew on their ideas draw opposition from people who are reluctant to to create a new training curriculum that stresses change. That is why coaching, networking with key strategies for school turnaround, including other principals, building strong school leadership building a culture of high expectations, creating a teams, and staying on top of the data are all so strong leadership team, and using data to improve important: they give the principals the information performance. They invited the principals, several and support they need to stay on course toward of whom were retiring, to join their team as creating genuinely successful schools. coaches and mentors. The program takes advantage of a critical “The more principals situation: over 170 Chicago public schools had we get in the system who principal vacancies in the last school year, and another 200 new vacancies are projected over the are highly qualified and next two years. That massive generational turnover highly motivated to turn creates a major opportunity, says Martinez: “The more principals we get in the system who are schools around, the more highly qualified and highly motivated to turn likely it is that change schools around, the more likely it is that change will happen.” will happen.” 6 7 Employment Job losses, high gas prices, consumer cutbacks, housing foreclosures: this is a tough time in the U.S. economy. With unemployment rising, workers need solid language and job skills to compete, but federal job training funds are evaporating. The Fry Foundation has responded by nearly tripling funding for adult education and job training programs in the last two years—including one innovative program for immigrants and refugees that combines both.

need to do a good job. It is a constant balancing act, says Wills. Still, she says, the program works because it offers a win-win situation for both sides. “These employers need entry-level employees,” she says. “And refugees and immigrants need the jobs. Refugees and immigrants tend to be very stable employees. So employers are getting committed employees, people who are willing to learn and to move up the ladder. That means they don’t have to spend a lot of money hiring and rehiring people.” The figures back that up: Heartland’s job placement and retention rates exceed 70 percent. The agency is not resting on its laurels: this year it is offering professional development to improve instructors’ teaching practices and their ability to assess the language progress of their students. Meanwhile, Heartland keeps investigating ways to connect with sectors that offer wages and benefits sufficient to support a family, and is looking for new employers to partner with. Employers who People who walk through the doors of Chicago’s measurements, and read English labels on ingredients. have been through the program and are pleased Heartland Human Care Services reflect political and Key to the program are partnerships with local with the results are often the best ambassadors. economic unrest around the globe: refugees from employers who understand both the needs and the Says Wills: “Our job is to educate and influence the Burma, Burundi, Uzbekistan, and Iraq, immigrants opportunities presented by employing immigrants, employers we work with, let them exchange stories from Africa and Central and South America. says Shana Wills, Heartland’s Director of Refugee about the benefits of employing our people, and Heartland has been helping such people adapt to the and Immigrant Community Services. Cooperating get them to influence others.” At the same time American labor market since 1981. In an increasingly employers include landscapers, greenhouses, and Heartland follows up with trainees to make sure tough economy, newcomers encounter all the major hotels as well as a restaurant operated by they are adjusting to American workplace culture. problems that other entry-level job seekers face and Inspiration Corporation, another Fry Foundation The goal is to make sure the program remains a then some. Experience, credentials, and connections grantee. The firms open their facilities for daylong “win-win” for both workers and employers. from their home country mean little to American internships, where the trainees shadow workers employers; and language barriers make it hard for doing the jobs they aspire to—and often build a them to function in an American workplace. connection that turns into a job offer. Another To overcome these barriers, the Fry partner is the University of Illinois Extension, which Foundation is funding Heartland to offer an provides horticultural training. Many immigrants innovative program that combines English classes, and refugees come from farming backgrounds, but job readiness training, and placement services in they need new language skills and exposure to a three industries that have strong job prospects: whole new array of plants and products they may restaurant work, landscaping, and hospitality. never have seen before. The program offers ten courses a year, from six to Heartland works hard to keep adapting the eighteen weeks in length depending on the sector. programs to meet the specific needs of both The curriculum includes English instruction that participants and employers. A common struggle is features information on workplace culture, job time. Refugees get short-term public assistance expectations, and basic math and interviewing immediately on arrival in the United States and are skills. Also included are skills and language specific generally desperate to get a job before it runs out. to the industry. Take restaurant work, for example: Immigrants typically have families to support. a cook from Baghdad may make a mean kouba or Employers, on the other hand, are counting on the taghrib, but needs a whole new vocabulary to programs to deliver specific skills in order to follow American recipes, identify utensils and guarantee that employees have the knowledge they “Our job is to educate and influence the employers we work with, let them exchange stories about the benefits of employing our people, and get them to influence others.”

8 9 Health Program Riding a bus, holding down a job, shopping, interacting with other people—every aspect of life becomes more complicated when people have difficulty seeing. In a country where health insurance and primary care are out of reach for many people, vision care can be even harder to come by. Our funding enables the Illinois Eye Institute to treat eye problems of low-income Chicagoans and help them address the underlying causes.

people, the Illinois Eye Institute, with its parent out of prison; mostly they are working poor. institution, the Illinois College of Optometry, is The Institute is tracking how often appointments taking a comprehensive approach to addressing are kept as well as incidents of eye disease, this challenge. Its Vision of Hope Health Alliance vision limitations, general medical diseases, and was created with funding from the Fry Foundation other markers. The results should both suggest and other foundations, including a major grant how to improve its programs and make the case for from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. improving vision and other medical services for Through the Alliance, twenty-one community-based low-income and uninsured people. The Institute organizations and five community health centers also continues to spread the word to other join together to refer people to the Institute for community agencies both inside and outside eye care. its network. When patients come to the clinic, a case “There is no reason to sit and suffer for a manager talks to them first about common eye prob- whole year without seeing,” said one patient, lems and other general medical conditions. They get who praised the clinic for helping her despite her examinations and treatment for eye diseases, and inability to pay. “They helped me to understand nearly 90 percent receive eyeglasses. If patients don’t what could happen with my eyes, that when have a primary care physician, the case manager changes occur I need to follow up and have my makes appointments for them at the partnering eyes checked, so that I will always have my vision,” community health agencies and follows up to make said another. “And they gave me new glasses, and sure they get the care they need. For those who that enabled me to read again after six years.” The Illinois Eye Institute on Chicago’s South Side don’t speak English, the program provides For another patient, the change was even has ninety thousand visits each year from people, translators in several languages, including Spanish, more dramatic. “They gave me a prosthetic eye, mostly low-income, who are seeking help with eye Polish, French, Vietnamese, Korean, and Urdu. they gave me glasses, they gave me my life back,” problems. For every one who comes, there are The Institute sees over 1,000 patients a year she said. “My self-esteem is back, my confidence— many others who make do with limited vision and through Vision of Hope. Some are homeless or just I can look people in the eye again.” don’t seek help until a crisis lands them in the emergency room or they lose their vision altogether. Poverty, lack of health insurance, lack of primary care, lack of information, language barriers—all these prevent people from getting medical care generally, including adequate vision care. The results of lacking even routine care can be devastating. Without eyeglasses some people can’t drive a car or read instructions on a medicine bottle. Sometimes symptoms like blurry vision will prompt people to seek help, but many times there are no symptoms until the condition is advanced; readily treatable problems like glaucoma are neglected until it’s too late. And lack of vision care feeds into a much bigger problem, because eye problems can result from diseases such as diabetes or hypertension that, if left untreated, can become life-threatening. Because of the need for eye care and medical care generally among low-income and uninsured “They gave me a prosthetic eye, they gave me glasses, they gave me my life back,” she said. “My self-esteem is back, my confidence— I can look people in the eye again.”

10 11 Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Grantmaking Programs

The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation supports organizations We give priority to programs that measure are made to projects that focus on: employment- with the strength and commitment to address improvements to academic achievement, instruc- related literacy and English as a Second Language; persistent problems of urban Chicago resulting from tional quality, or college enrollment rates. The employment assistance programs that offer poverty, violence, ignorance, and despair. We seek to Foundation encourages proposals that include pre-employment, job placement, and job retention build the capacity of individuals and the systems efforts to enhance the quality of programs. These services; and vocational training connected to that serve them. Our vision is a Chicago that offers efforts might include professional development for growing industries. education, prosperity, and hope for all. program staff, incorporating new program elements, We recognize the need to improve the quality The Foundation focuses on programs that or the development of evaluation tools, among others. and effectiveness of employment programs. improve conditions for low-income, underserved We generally do not fund unsolicited proposals We encourage proposals for efforts to build the communities in Chicago, and we are especially from individual schools. On occasion, the capacity of organizations to deliver high-quality interested in efforts that will foster learning and Foundation will solicit proposals from individual employment services. We also welcome proposals innovation. We award grants in four major fields: schools for programs that demonstrate exemplary for policy advocacy efforts to improve the quality Education, Arts Education, Employment, and Health. success or a promising innovation in one of the of education and training programs and to Within these funding areas, we give priority to: Foundation’s priority areas. In soliciting proposals increase access to education and training for from individual schools, we look for: a record of low-income adults. G Programs with a demonstrated record of high strong academic performance among students; quality, effective services a focus on improving academic achievement; and Health indicators that the work funded by the grant will The Health Program seeks to improve access to G Efforts to improve the quality and contribute valuable lessons and strategies that can be quality care for Chicago’s low-income residents. effectiveness of programs and services (these adopted by other schools. After an initial year of We support programs that target Chicago’s might include program design, evaluation or funding, schools may be required to develop plans for underserved neighborhoods and communities with staff development efforts, among others) making the lessons learned under the grant available needed primary care (including medical, vision, to other schools. dental, and mental health care), community outreach G The development of innovative approaches that and disease prevention programs, and policy will contribute valuable examples, information, Arts Education advocacy efforts. We give priority to research-based and knowledge to others working in the field Our Arts Education funding focuses on programs for initiatives that: incorporate health education, early low-income Chicago children and youth that use the disease detection, and treatment interventions for The Foundation also considers policy advocacy arts as a means to improve learning and provide life- chronic diseases (such as asthma, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, efforts that help ensure low-income communities enriching experiences. We are interested in efforts and hypertension); enroll families into government- and individuals in Chicago are treated fairly and to improve the quality and expand the availability of subsidized health insurance programs (such as All have access to the services they need and deserve. arts education programs, especially in Chicago Kids, FamilyCare, Medicaid, and Medicare); include The Foundation is interested in investing in public schools. The Foundation considers support strategic partnerships between a health system organizations and ideas that demonstrate for arts education for students and professional and community-based organizations; focus on exceptional potential for making a difference in development for arts educators. linguistically and culturally competent programs for one or more of the Foundation’s four grantmaking We give priority to arts education limited-English speaking immigrants; and improve areas. These projects show promise of developing programs that provide a combination of arts knowledge and practice in the health field. new information or program innovations useful to instruction, performance or exhibition experience, We will consider programs operated by non-profit other organizations, institutions, and policymakers. and interaction with professional artists and arts community service organizations, community health In these cases, the Foundation will consider grants educators. We look for programs that are artistically centers, hospitals, and policy advocacy organizations. which represent larger or longer-term commitments rigorous, engage students in the creative process, Programs must demonstrate the ability to measure than is otherwise typical. and assess student learning in the arts. improvements in access to care and health status In all reviews of proposals, we look for strong We look for teacher-training programs that within an accessible, culturally and linguistically program designs with clear expected outcomes and immerse educators in the practice and study competent environment. specific procedures for assessing and evaluating of the arts and present teachers with innovative progress. strategies for teaching the arts, engaging students in What the Foundation Does Not Fund Our funding guidelines are described below. the creative process, and assessing student In general, the Foundation does not make grants For instructions on how to apply for a grant, please progress. We look for programs that provide ongoing to individuals, governmental entities, or 509(a)(3) see our Grant Application Procedures. support, expertise, and resources to both teachers Supporting Organizations, although exceptions and students. sometimes are made for publicly supported charities. Education The Foundation is also interested in proposals We also do not provide funding for: general The Education Program has been a cornerstone of to convene experts to share information, facilitate operating expenses for new grantees, capital our grantmaking since the Foundation’s inception. discussion with arts educators, and help shape and projects, endowments, fundraising events, political Our interests in education focus on improving strengthen arts education in Chicago public schools. activities, medical research or religious purposes. public education and expanding educational We rarely fund unsolicited proposals from opportunities in order to increase the academic Employment organizations based outside Chicago. When achievement and college graduation rates of Our Employment Program addresses our exceptions are made, we look for organizations low-income students in Chicago public schools. commitment to helping families and individuals with strong local board leaders who are responsible Teacher professional development, school leadership move out of poverty. We support employment for establishing program priorities and policies development, academic enrichment, and college programs that help low-income individuals build in Chicago. In addition, organizations must agree preparation are among the activities we fund to the knowledge and skills necessary to find and that funds awarded for Chicago-based programs support this goal. The Foundation also considers keep jobs. We are particularly interested in pro- remain in Chicago and are not included in grant requests for policy advocacy when the grams that help individuals improve their potential calculations of funds exchanged between local connection to academic achievement is clear. to advance to living-wage jobs and careers. Grants and national offices.

12 Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Grant Application Procedures

How to Apply 3. An income and expense budget for the project year may be appropriate. While we wish to be The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation makes grants during the duration of the grant period. The flexible in recognizing the needs of our grantees, in the following program areas: Education, Foundation covers reasonable and appropriate there will be few exceptions to this policy. Arts Education, Employment, and Health. We make administrative expenses. These should be Following a year off, grantee organizations are grants only to tax-exempt organizations and rarely explained in an accompanying budget narrative. welcome to apply for renewed support. These fund organizations outside Chicago. We give proposals will be evaluated under the Foundation’s priority to proposals for specific projects rather 4. An operating budget for the organization with grantmaking guidelines. As with all proposals, these than for general operating support. In our review income and expense projections that pertain should target Chicago residents in financial need. of proposals, we look for strong program design, to the fiscal year in which the project will take For further clarification of the Foundation's clear expected outcomes, and procedures for place. Include the percentage of organization grantmaking priorities, please refer to the assessing and evaluating programs. income received through earned income, Grantmaking Programs on page 12. government sources, individual gifts, corporate Letters of Inquiry and foundation grants, and other sources. Submission Dates and Board Meetings If you are seeking support for the first time The Board of Directors meets quarterly to consider or if you are a returning grantee seeking support 5. A list of current and projected funding sources requests for grants. These meetings are held in for a new project, we highly recommend that and amounts for both the organization and the February, May, August, and November. We must you send us a letter of inquiry before you submit project for the fiscal year in which the project receive your proposal by 5 p.m. on the deadline a full proposal. This would allow us to give you will take place. date in order to review it at the corresponding preliminary feedback concerning your request board meeting: and its potential fit within our funding priorities. 6. A copy of the organization’s most recent Letters of inquiry should include a brief description audited financial report. Proposal Deadline Board Meeting of the proposed project, a project budget, and December 1 February other projected sources of support. 7. A list of board members and their affiliations. March 1 May June 1 August Proposal Application Procedures 8. A list of professional staff of the organization September 1 November We do not use a grant application form; we accept and resumes of key personnel involved in the proposals of varying length that adhere to the project. Proposals for organizational capacity- In the event that a deadline falls on a weekend or procedures described below. Although we accept the building activities that involve outside holiday, requests may be submitted by 5 p.m. on Chicago Area Common Grant Application form consultants should include a copy of the the following business day. distributed by the Donors Forum of Chicago, we consultant’s resume and a list of clients. consider this application a supplement to, rather Proposals and letters of inquiry should be sent to: than a replacement for, a full proposal. 9. A copy of the organization's 501(c)(3) tax exemption letter from the Internal Revenue Ms. Unmi Song For new and renewal requests, full proposals Service. Please note that the Foundation Executive Director should contain the following elements: generally does not make grants to 509(a)(3) Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Supporting Organizations. Exceptions 120 South LaSalle Street 1. A brief history of the organization, including sometimes are made for publicly supported Suite 1950 a general statement of its primary functions charities. Chicago, Illinois 60603-3419 and goals. 10. A copy of the organization’s employment www.fryfoundation.org 2. A project description which includes: hiring policy.

G A statement of the need to be addressed Grant Reports and the population to be served Returning grantees must submit a full narrative

G A description of how the planned and financial report on the previous grant and project will address the identified need these must be approved by the Foundation before

G Clearly stated goals and objectives a new request is considered. For agencies

G Plans for assessing performance and submitting a proposal to be reviewed one year monitoring progress toward program goals. from their last grant, the final reports will cover a Please identify at least three indicators ten-month period rather than a full twelve months or measures that you will track in order to meet the proposal deadline. We ask and analyze in order to: understand the that final reports and proposals be submitted under effectiveness of services provided; separate cover. For more information on this identify program strengths or challenges; subject, see our Grant Reporting Requirements on or document potential long-term impact. our Web site. A discussion of progress on these indicators during the grant period (and Renewal Policy over time, if receiving more than one An organization which has received five grant from the Foundation) should be consecutive years of Fry Foundation funding will included in grant reports. (For further be asked to take a year off in seeking support for information, see Outcomes and Assessments the following twelve-month period. The on our Web site) Foundation recognizes that there may be unusual

G A timeline for project activities circumstances in which support for one additional

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Free Street Programs Music of the Baroque Snow City Arts Foundation www.freestreet.org www.baroque.org www.snowcityarts.com Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Youth Performance Ensembles For the Educational Outreach Program Second payment of a two-year $25,000 in Chicago public high schools $60,000 grant for Capacity $20,000 Building Initiatives Goodman Theatre $30,000 www.goodmantheatre.org National Museum of Mexican Art Chicago, IL www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org Steppenwolf Theatre Company Second payment of a two-year Chicago, IL www.steppenwolf.org $37,500 grant for the Student First payment of a two-year Chicago, IL Subscription Series and Teacher $60,000 grant for Teacher Second payment of a two-year Training Initiatives Development Programs $50,000 grant for Steppenwolf $12,500 $30,000 for Young Adults $25,000 Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Northwestern University www.hubbardstreetdance.com Settlement Association Street-Level Youth Media Chicago, IL www.nush.org www.street-level.org First payment of a two-year $90,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago Humanities Festival grant for Movement as Partnership First payment of a two-year For the Summer Arts Arts Education www.chfestival.org dance and teacher training in ten $50,000 grant for the Adventure Apprenticeship Program Chicago, IL Chicago public schools Stage Chicago Neighborhood $20,000 Albany Park Theater Project For Words@PLAY, a neighborhood $45,000 Bridges Program www.aptpchicago.org based poetry education program $25,000 The Suzuki-Orff School for Chicago, IL $20,000 Hyde Park Art Center Young Musicians First payment of a two-year $50,000 www.hydeparkart.org Pegasus Players www.suzukiorff.org grant for Theatre Education Activities Chicago Moving Company Chicago, IL www.pegasusplayers.org Chicago, IL $25,000 www.chicagomovingcompany.org For the Visual Learners and Chicago, IL For the Clap, Sing and Read Program Chicago, IL Leaders Program First payment of a two-year $20,000 American Theater Company For Extended Residency at Marconi $30,000 $50,000 grant for the Artists in www.atcweb.org School and the National Teachers Residency with Teachers in Teatro Vista Theater with a View Chicago, IL Academy Intuit: The Center for Intuitive the Schools (ARTS) Program www.teatrovista.org For the American Mosaic Outreach $10,000 and Outsider Art $25,000 Chicago, IL and Education Program www.art.org For Projects of Possibility/Proyectos $25,000 Chicago Opera Theater Chicago, IL People's Music School de Posibilidad! www.chicagooperatheater.org First payment of two-year www.peoplesmusicschool.org $15,000 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL $40,000 grant for the Teacher Chicago, IL www.artinstituteofchicago.org For Opera For All, an educational Fellowship Program For the Musical Instruction Timeline Theatre Company Chicago, IL outreach program in Chicago $20,000 Programs www.timelinetheatre.com For the School Partnerships Program public schools $25,000 Chicago, IL $65,000 $20,000 Jazz Institute of Chicago For the Living History Program www.jazzinchicago.org The Poetry Center of Chicago $6,000 Barrel of Monkeys Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago, IL www.poetrycenter.org www.barrelofmonkeys.org www.chicagoshakes.com For the Jazz Links Educational Chicago, IL Urban Gateways Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Program For the Hands on Stanzas Program www.urbangateways.org For In-School Creative Writing For the Team Shakespeare Bard $20,000 $25,000 Chicago, IL Residency Programs and After-School Core Curriculum For the Teaching Artist Program $25,000 Joffrey Ballet Pros Arts Studio Mentorship Initiative $10,000 www.joffrey.com www.prosart.org $30,000 Chicago Sinfonietta Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Black Ensemble Theater www.chicagosinfonietta.org For the Middle School Dance Clubs For Arts Integration and Mentoring Victory Gardens Theater www.blackensembletheater.org Chicago, IL $35,000 at Cooper Dual Language Academy www.victorygardens.org Chicago, IL First payment of a two-year $50,000 $15,000 Chicago, IL First payment of a two-year $40,000 grant for Audience Matters and Lifeline Theatre For educational programs for grant for Strengthening the School SEED: Student Ensembles with www.lifelinetheatre.com Puerto Rican Arts Alliance Chicago public schools Through Theater Arts Program Excellence and Diversity Chicago, IL www.praachicago.org $20,000 $20,000 $25,000 For Arts Residency in Chicago, IL Field Elementary School In support of Cuatro and Spanish WTTW 11 Changing Worlds Chicago Symphony Orchestra $12,000 Guitar after-school classes www.wttw.com www.changingworlds.org www.cso.org $20,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Lookingglass Theatre Company Second payment of a two-year For the Literacy and Cultural Second payment of a three-year www.lookingglasstheatre.org Raven Theatre $140,000 grant for Artbeat on Connections School Partnership $135,000 grant for the Music Activity Chicago, IL www.raventheatre.com Chicago Tonight Program Partnership (MAP) Program Second payment of a two-year Chicago, IL $70,000 $17,500 $45,000 $50,000 grant for Education and For the Education Outreach Community Programs in Chicago Program Young Chicago Authors Chicago Architecture Foundation Columbia College Chicago public schools $20,000 www.youngchicagoauthors.org www.architecture.org www.colum.edu/Administrative_ $25,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL offices/Academic_Research/Index.php Ravinia Festival Association For the literary arts program in For the Newhouse Program and Chicago, IL Luna Negra Dance Theater www.ravinia.org Lindblom Academy High School Architecture Competition and Second payment of a two-year www.lunanegra.org Highland Park, IL $25,000 The Architecture Handbook: A Student $160,000 grant for Arts Integration Chicago, IL First payment of a two-year Guide to Understanding Buildings Initiatives and the Development For support of a dance education $100,000 grant for the Education and $35,000 of Teaching Artists program in four Chicago public schools Community Partnerships school Education $80,000 $20,000 programs and the Lawndale Chicago Arts Partnerships in Partnership Academy for Urban School Education Court Theatre Marwen Foundation $50,000 Leadership www.capeweb.org www.courttheatre.org www.marwen.org www.ausl-chicago.org Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Reading In Motion Chicago, IL Second payment of a two-year For the Student Education Program First payment of a two-year $80,000 www.readinginmotion.org For Coaching and Induction for $60,000 grant for the Arts in $25,000 grant for the Marwen Institute Chicago, IL new teachers Education Partnership Design $40,000 For the Benchmarks Initiative $75,000 Seminars ETA Creative Arts Foundation $50,000 $30,000 www.etacreativearts.org Merit School of Music Ada S. McKinley Community Chicago, IL www.meritmusic.org Redmoon Theater Services, Inc. Chicago Chamber Musicians Second payment of a two-year Chicago, IL www.redmoon.org www.adasmckinley.org www.chicagochambermusic.org $40,000 grant for the Showfolk First payment of a two-year $80,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Daytime Performance Series and the grant for the Humboldt Park Extended For the Redmoon School For the Talent Search College For the School Residency Program Arts in Education Programs Day Orchestra and Band and for Partnership Program in Preparation and Placement Program $20,000 $20,000 the Regenstein Windows Program Audobon School $20,000 $40,000 $15,000 Chicago Dramatists Facets Multimedia Incorporated Adler Planetarium & www.chicagodramatists.com www.cicff.org Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago Silk Road Theatre Project Astronomy Museum Chicago, IL Chicago, IL www.muntu.com www.srtp.org www.adlerplanetarium.org First payment of a two-year $40,000 For the Chicago International Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL grant for the Educational Outreach Children's Film Festival and For Arts for Community For Myths to Drama, an arts-integrated For the Math and Science Initiative Program Media Education Empowerment Programs education program in Chicago public schools $20,000 $35,000 $25,000 $20,000 $25,000

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Ada S. McKinley Community High Jump Perspectives Charter The University of Chicago www.highjumpchicago.org School Center for Urban School Chicago, IL www.perspectivescs.org Improvement For general operating support and Chicago, IL www.usi.uchicago.edu program evaluation For the Math and Science Academy Chicago, IL $60,000 $30,000 First payment of a two-year $230,250 grant to provide professional HighSight The Posse Foundation, Inc. development support to the www.highsight.org www.possefoundation.org USI Network of new schools Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $115,125 For college readiness programming First payment of a two-year $15,000 $70,000 grant for the Pre-Collegiate University of Illinois at Chicago Training Program Center for School Inner–City Teaching Corps $35,000 Leadership–College of Education www.ictc-chicago.org www.education.uic.edu/uel%2Dedd/ Chicago, IL Providence Englewood Chicago, IL For the UrbaN Impact Through Charter School First payment of a two-year Education Program (UNITE) www.psm.k12.il.us $150,000 grant for the High School $35,000 Chicago, IL Principals' Network Education Christopher House For Third Semester $75,000 www.christopherhouse.org Leap Learning Systems $40,000 Albany Park Neighborhood Chicago, IL www.leaplearningsystems.org WBEZ Chicago Public Radio Council For the Youth Leadership Program Chicago, IL The Renaissance www.chicagopublicradio.org www.aptpchicago.org $20,000 For the Language Through Schools Fund Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Science Program www.rsfchicago.org First payment of a two-year For the Greater Albany Park Communities in Schools $25,000 Chicago, IL $80,000 grant for an Education Desk Education Coalition of Chicago For the Score to do More to cover education news in Chicago $20,000 www.chicagocis.org Link Unlimited Program $40,000 Chicago, IL www.linkunlimited.org $50,000 Alternative Schools Network For the Agency Impact Initiative Chicago, IL Working In The Schools www.asnchicago.org $30,000 For the Academic Enrichment The Rochelle Lee Fund www.witsontheweb.org Chicago, IL and College Readiness Programs www.rochelleleefund.org Chicago, IL For the Praxis Project Community Renewal Society $25,000 Chicago, IL For the Power Lunch Program $30,000 www.communityrenewalsociety.org For the Annual Award Program $20,000 Chicago, IL Logan Square Neighborhood and Supporting Young Adolescent Associated Colleges of Illinois First payment of a two-year $110,000 Association Literacy Study Groups The Young Women's Leadership www.acifund.org grant for CATALYST: Voices of School www.lsna.net $40,000 Charter School of Chicago Chicago, IL Reform and for The Chicago Reporter Chicago, IL www.ywlcs.org For the College Readiness Program $55,000 For the Parent Tutor Program Roosevelt University Chicago, IL $20,000 $25,000 www.roosevelt.edu For the Equity and Achievement Constitutional Rights Chicago, IL in Standards-Based Learning Big Shoulders Fund Foundation Chicago Loyola University Chicago For the Summer Academy for (EASL) Program www.bigshouldersfund.org www.crfc.org www.luc.edu Middle School Chicago public $25,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL school students For the Extended Day Program For A More Perfect Union: Teaching For the Center for Science and Math $25,000 $150,000 and Learning About the Constitution Education Employment professional development cohort $50,000 John G. Shedd Aquarium Business and Professional $20,000 www.sheddaquarium.org Access Living People for the Public Interest Midtown Educational Foundation Chicago, IL www.accessliving.org www.bpichicago.org Designs for Change www.midtown-metro.org For the Shedd Navigators Program Chicago, IL Chicago, IL www.designsforchange.org Chicago, IL $25,000 For the Community and For the Chicago Schools Alliance Chicago, IL For the Metro Achievement Program Economic Development Team project For the Aiding Local School $25,000 St. Ignatius College Prep $25,000 $40,000 Councils Project www.ignatius.org $35,000 Mikva Challenge Chicago, IL Albany Park Community Centro Romero www.mikvachallenge.org For the Higher Achievement Program Center, Inc. www.centroromero.org Erikson Institute Chicago, IL $25,000 www.apcc-chgo.org Chicago, IL www.erikson.edu For the Civic Educator Network and Chicago, IL For the After School Program Chicago, IL development of an Action Civics Strategic Learning For the Vocational Program for $25,000 For ELL Preschoolers’ Course for Chicago public schools Initiatives Employment Literacy Vocabulary Acquisition and Story $30,000 www.strategiclearning.org $35,000 Chicago Academy Comprehension project Chicago, IL of Sciences $60,000 Museum of Science and Industry For the Scaling Up Best Practice Aquinas Literacy Center www.naturemuseum.org www.msichicago.org Program www.aquinasliteracycenter.org Chicago, IL Facing History and Ourselves Chicago, IL $50,000 Chicago, IL For the Science on the Go! www.facinghistory.org For the Teacher Professional For the English as a Second Language education program Chicago, IL Development Series Target Hope, Inc. and computer literacy programs $25,000 For professional development $35,000 Matteson, IL $20,000 of Chicago teachers For the Academic Chicago Foundation for Education $30,700 Namaste Charter School Achievement and College Asian Human Services, Inc. www.chicagofoundationfor www.namastecharterschool.org Readiness Program www.ahschicago.org education.org Family Matters Chicago, IL $30,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL www.familymatterschicago.org For the Teacher Quality Initiative For the Literacy Education for Adults For the Grants for Teachers Study Chicago, IL $20,000 Teach For America and Families Program Group Program and the Teacher For the Community Tutoring Program Chicago $30,000 Network Leadership Institute $30,000 New Teacher Center at www.teachforamerica.org $40,000 the University of California Chicago, IL Association House of The Federation for Community Santa Cruz For corps member professional Chicago Chicago Horticultural Society Schools www.newteachercenter.org development and the Alumni www.associationhouse.org www.chicagobotanic.org www.ilcommunityschools.org Santa Cruz, CA Human Capital Initiative Chicago, IL Glencoe, IL Chicago, IL Second payment of a two-year $25,000 For the Vocational English as a For the Science First and College For support of the Jenner-Columbia $200,000 grant for the Chicago New Second Language classes First Programs College community school partnership Teacher Center Enhancement Umoja Student Development $25,000 $30,000 $65,000 $100,000 Corporation www.umojacorporation.org The Cara Program Chicago Metro History Gads Hill Center The Newberry Library Chicago, IL www.thecaraprogram.org Education Center www.gadshillcenter.org www.newberry.org For college prep programming Chicago, IL www.chicagohistoryfair.org Chicago, IL Chicago, IL at Manley Career Academy Second payment of a two-year Chicago, IL For Teen Connection For the Teachers as Scholars Program $40,000 $150,000 grant for capacity building For the Historical Inquiry $30,000 $30,000 activities and to expand Cleanslate Project (HIP) The United Neighborhood $75,000 $30,000 Great Books Foundation Passages Charter School Organization www.greatbooks.org www.ahschicago.org/passages_ www.uno-online.org Career Advancement ChildServ Chicago, IL charter_school.htm Chicago, IL Network, Inc. www.childserv.org To improve reading across the Chicago, IL For the Evaluation of the www.careeradvancementnetwork.org Chicago, IL curriculum in two Chicago For the Road to Academic English Structured English Immersion Chicago, IL For the Tutoring Program public schools Program Program For the Career Passport Program $20,000 $48,800 $30,000 $40,000 $35,000

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Jobs for Youth/Chicago, Inc. Polish American Association Center On Halsted www.jfychicago.org www.polish.org www.centeronhalsted.org Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL First payment of a two-year For the Employment Services and For mental health services for $80,000 grant for the Customer Vocational Training Program low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual, Service and Office Assistants $30,000 and transgender persons training programs $25,000 $40,000 Restaurant Opportunities Center United Centro de Salud Esperanza La Casa Norte www.rocunited.org www.esperanzachicago.org www.lacasanorte.org New York, NY Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the ROC-Chicago job training program For the Pediatric After-Hours Clinic For the Esperanza Trabajando $50,000 $30,000 Career Readiness Program $20,000 Safer Foundation Centro San Bonifacio www.saferfoundation.org www.sanbonifacio.org Latino Union of Chicago Chicago, IL Chicago, IL www.latinounion.org First payment of a two-year For the Multiplier’s Program Chicago, IL $120,000 grant for the Community $20,000 Casa Central Goldie's Place For the Day Laborer Program and Faith-Based Re-Entry program at www.casacentral.org www.goldiesplace.org $20,000 People’s Church of the Harvest Chicago Children's Advocacy Center Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $60,000 www.chicagocac.org For employment assistance services For the Two-Track Employment Program Literacy Works Chicago, IL at La Posada $20,000 www.litworks.org St. Leonard’s Ministries For the Mental Health Clinic $25,000 Chicago, IL www.slministries.org $25,000 Greater Chicago Food Depository For Succeed With Literacy, a workplace Chicago, IL Centers for New Horizons www.chicagosfoodbank.org literacy skills training program First payment of a two-year $60,000 Chicago Christian Industrial www.cnh.org Chicago, IL $25,000 grant for job training activities at the League Chicago, IL First payment of a two-year $70,000 Michael Barlow Center www.ccil.org For the Bronzeville Employment grant for the Chicago's Community Local Economic and Employment $30,000 Chicago, IL Initiative Kitchens Program Development Council For Healthy Bodies–Healthy Minds $45,000 $35,000 www.leedcouncil.org Windy City Harvest on-site health clinic Chicago, IL www.chicago-botanic.org $25,000 Chicago House and Social Greater West Town Community For the Entry-Level Industrial Chicago, IL Service Agency Development Project Skills Training program For the Transitional Jobs Pilot Program Chicago Family Health Center www.chicagohouse.org www.gwtp.org $30,000 $30,000 www.chicagofamilyhealth.org Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Increase Income and For the Shipping and Receiving Metropolitan Family Services YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago For the Health Disparities Program Independence Initiative and Woodworking Training Programs www.metrofamily.org www.ymcaalliance.org $30,000 $30,000 $50,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Young Fathers Initiative For the Customer Service and Chicago Health Connection Chicago Interfaith Committee Growing Home, Inc. $15,000 Employment Training Program www.chicagohealthconnection.org on Worker Issues www.growinghomeinc.org $25,000 Chicago, IL www.buildingbridgesproject.org Chicago, IL National Able Network For a Community Health Worker Chicago, IL For the Transitional Jobs Program www.nationalable.org Network For the Building Bridges $25,000 Chicago, IL Health $25,000 Project: a pre-apprenticeship For adult education services of training program Heartland Human Care Able Career Institute Access Community Health Network Children’s Home & Aid Society $20,000 Services, Inc. $40,000 www.accesscommunityhealth.net www.childrenshomeandaid.org www.heartlandalliance.org Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago Jobs Council Chicago, IL National Latino Education Institute For the Chronic Disease Care For the School-based www.cjc.net Second payment of a two-year (formerly Spanish Coalition for Jobs) Management Initiative Mental Health Program Chicago, IL $100,000 grant for the Vocational www.scj-usa.org $40,000 $40,000 Second payment of a English as a Second Language Programs Chicago, IL two-year $130,000 grant for the $50,000 First payment of a two-year Advocate Illinois Masonic Children’s Memorial Medical City-Wide Workforce $100,000 grant for Vocational Training Medical Center Center Development Advocacy Project Housing Opportunities for Women and Adult Education Programs www.advocatehealth.com www.childrensmemorial.org $65,000 www.how-inc.org $50,000 Park Ridge, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL First payment of a two-year For the Consortium to Lower The Chicago Lighthouse For the Employment Services Program New Moms, Inc. $120,000 grant for School-Based Obesity in Chicago Children's Bridging for People Who are Blind or $25,000 www.newmomsinc.org Health Centers at Amundsen and Clinical and Community Work to Visually Impaired Chicago, IL Lake View High Schools Reduce Childhood Obesity project in www.thechicagolighthouse.org Howard Area Community Center For the Rising Star Career $60,000 Humboldt Park Chicago, IL www.howardarea.org Readiness Program $43,000 For the Office Skills and Chicago, IL $20,000 AIDS Foundation of Chicago Customer Service Skills For the Education and www.aidschicago.org The Children’s Place Association Training Programs Employment Program North Lawndale Employment Chicago, IL www.childrens-place.org $25,000 $30,000 Network For the Primary Care Case Chicago, IL www.nlen.org Management and Disease For the Residential Center Chicago Workers’ Collaborative Inspiration Corporation Chicago, IL Management Programs $20,000 www.chicagoworkers.org www.inspirationcorp.org For the U-Turn Permitted and Sweet $40,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Beginnings Job Training Programs Chinese American Service League For the Workers’ Rights First payment of a two-year $40,000 Alivio Medical Center www.caslservice.org Promoters Program $120,000 grant for the Employment www.aliviomedicalcenter.org Chicago, IL $15,000 Services and Training Program OAI, Inc. Chicago, IL First payment of a two-year $60,000 www.oaiinc.org For the Diabetes Peer Education Program $80,000 grant for the Community Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago Chicago, IL $31,000 Health Program www.eastersealschicago.org Instituto del Progreso Latino For the Academic Initiative of the $40,000 Chicago, IL www.idpl.org Pre-Employment Education and American Heart Association, Inc. For salary support of the Chicago, IL Training Programs www.americanheart.org Christian Community Health Center Willett Employment Center Second payment of a two-year $35,550 Chicago, IL www.cchc-online.org Case Manager $150,000 grant for Carreras en Salud: For the Search Your Heart Program in Chicago, IL $31,425 Bilingual Healthcare Bridge Program Pan-African Association the Back of the Yards neighborhood For the Dental Clinic $75,000 www.panafricanassociation.org $23,000 $35,000 The Enterprising Kitchen Chicago, IL www.theenterprisingkitchen.org Jane Addams Hull House For the Workforce Development Program Asian Human Services Family CommunityHealth Chicago, IL Association $25,000 Health Center, Inc. www.communityhealth.org For the Job Skills Training www.hullhouse.org www.ahschicago.org Chicago, IL through Social Enterprise Program Chicago, IL The Partnership for New Chicago, IL For the Volunteer Coordinator $35,000 For the salary of the Employment Communities For the Chronic Disease position Outreach Specialist www.thepartnership Prevention Project $35,000 Ethiopian Community Association $30,000 fornewcommunities.org $31,500 of Chicago Chicago, IL The Family Institute www.ecachicago.org Jane Addams Resource Corporation Second payment of a two-year Better Existence with HIV www.family-institute.org Chicago, IL www.jane-adams.org $150,000 grant for Opportunity www.behiv.org Evanston, IL For the Community Chicago, IL Chicago, a workforce development Evanston, IL For the Community Outreach Program Employment Program For the Workforce Education Initiative initiative for public housing residents For HIV Prevention Programs in Chicago and the Program Evaluation System $25,000 $30,000 $75,000 $10,000 $45,000

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Sargent Shriver National Center LSU Health Sciences Center Chicago Foundation for Women on Poverty Law www.lsuhsc.edu www.cfw.org www.povertylaw.org New Orleans, LA Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the New Orleans Patient For the Catalyst challenge grant For the Let’s Get It Right! Program Navigation project $5,000 $50,000 $60,000 Columbia College Chicago St. Bernard Hospital and Health Oxfam America www.colum.edu/Administrative_ Care Center www.oxfamamerica.org offices/Academic_Research/Index.php www.stbh.org Boston, MA Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Humanitarian Response Program For the Arts Partners in support For the Pediatric Mobile Health Unit $100,000 of a daylong workshop on $30,000 understanding and developing arts learning assessments Teen Living Programs Climate Change $4,900 www.teenliving.org Chicago, IL Center for Neighborhood Technology Community Initiatives For the Whole Health Program www.cnt.org www.communityin.org $25,000 Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA Health & Disability Advocates La Rabida Children's Hospital and First payment of a two-year $200,000 For the Diversity in www.hdadvocates.org Research Center University of Chicago Medical Center grant for Fixing Mass Transit Benefit Philanthropy Project Chicago, IL www.larabida.org www.bsd.uchicago.edu Climate Protection $5,000 First payment of a two-year Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $100,000 $84,000 grant for the Chicago For the Community Asthma Program Second payment of a two-year Council on Foundations, Inc. Partnership for Children Program $25,000 $60,000 grant for the Pediatric Mobile Chicago Metropolis 2020 www.cof.org $42,000 Care Program www.chicagometropolis2020.org Arlington, VA Lawndale Christian Health Center $30,000 Chicago, IL Membership grant Health and Medicine Policy www.lawndale.org First payment of a two-year $19,680 Research Group Chicago, IL University of Illinois at Chicago $200,000 grant to develop and help www.hmprg.org For the Diabetes Component of College of Nursing implement a sound and sustainable Delta Institute Chicago, IL the Chronic Care Program www.uic.edu/nursing/ghlo/index.shtml transit capital plan www.delta-institute.org For Securing the Chicago Metropolitan $40,000 Chicago, IL $100,000 Chicago, IL Area Health Care Safety Net project For Stipend Support for Chicago To host a green jobs community $25,000 Mile Square Health Center Health Corps Members Environmental Law & Policy Center forum www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/uicni $15,000 www.elpc.org $2,500 Heartland International Health Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Center For Integrated Medical and Villa Guadalupe Senior Services, Inc. For the Climate Change Solutions Donors Forum www.iphca.org Mental Health Services at Drake www.claretianassociates.org/projects3.htm project in Illinois www.donorsforum.org Chicago, IL Elementary School Chicago, IL $40,000 Chicago, IL For Dental Care Services at Senn $40,000 For the Health Component of the Membership grant and Roosevelt High Schools Vecinos Program Global Philanthropy Partnership $17,334 $80,000 Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation $15,000 www.global-philanthropy.org www.mobilecarefoundation.org Chicago, IL Grantmakers Concerned with Howard Brown Health Center Chicago, IL White Crane Wellness Center For the Chicago Climate Change Immigrants and Refugees www.howardbrown.org For the Comprehensive Asthma www.whitecranewellness.org Action Plan www.gcir.org Chicago, IL Management Program (CAMP) Chicago, IL $100,000 Sebastopol, CA To provide primary medical care $45,000 For the Holistic Health Outreach For Labor Market Research on To support the planning, to uninsured clients Initiative Green Jobs implementation, and documentation $36,000 Mount Sinai Hospital Medical $25,000 $50,000 of Promoting Immigrant Integration: Center Leadership in Challenging Times Illinois College of Optometry www.sinai.org The Women’s Treatment Center, Inc. Metropolitan Planning Council $5,000 www.ico.edu Chicago, IL www.womenstreatmentcenter.org www.metroplanning.org Membership grant Chicago, IL For Project Advantage, a program Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $2,000 First payment of a two-year to improve screening, treatment, First payment of a two-year $60,000 grant First payment of a two-year $70,000 grant for the Vision of and follow-up for children with for salary support of the Pediatric Nurse $150,000 grant for the Promoting Grantmakers for Education Hope Health Alliance developmental delays $30,000 Transit in Chicago project www.edfunders.org $35,000 $35,000 $75,000 Portland, OR Membership grant Illinois Maternal & Child Health The Night Ministry World Relief $2,000 Coalition www.thenightministry.org Special Purposes www.ilmaternal.org Chicago, IL CARE USA High School Initiative Chicago, IL First payment of a two-year www.care.org Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders $50,000 For the Illinois Coalition for $70,000 grant for the Outreach and Atlanta, GA in Philanthropy School Health Centers Health Ministry Program For the Emergency Relief Fund www.aapip.org Hyde Park Art Center $25,000 $35,000 $100,000 San Francisco, CA www.hydeparkart.org First payment of a four-year Membership grant Chicago, IL Illinois Poison Center PCC Community Wellness Center $500,000 grant for the Myanmar $2,500 Unrestricted www.illinoispoisoncenter.org www.pccwellness.org Cyclone Response Fund $500 Chicago, IL Oak Park, IL $125,000 Bethel New Life For the Latino Outreach Program For the Maternal and Child Health www.bethelnewlife.org Independent Sector $10,000 Services Program Church World Service Chicago, IL www.independentsector.org $50,000 www.churchworldservice.org To hire a consultant to create Washington, DC Infant Welfare Society of Chicago Elkhart, IN a strategic planning process for the Membership grant www.infantwelfare.org Planned Parenthood of the For Emergency Response and Employment Center $8,000 Chicago, IL Chicago Area Preparedness $5,000 For the Pediatric Dental Clinic www.ppil.org $100,000 Lookingglass Theatre $50,000 Chicago, IL The Center for Arts Policy at Company To pilot a healthy sexuality Doctors Without Borders Columbia College www.lookingglasstheatre.org Institute of Women Today curriculum for 6th graders in www.doctorswithoutborders.org www2.colum.edu/center_for_arts_ Chicago, IL www.instituteofwomentoday.org Chicago public schools New York, NY policy/ For three teacher workshops in Chicago, IL $28,000 For the Emergency Relief Fund Chicago, IL conjunction with the production of For the Health and Wellness Program $100,000 For the Democratic Vistas Forum the No Child project $20,000 Rape Victim Advocates For emergency relief programs in “What are the Real Benefits $3,000 www.rapevictimadvocates.org Myanmar of Arts Education” Interfaith Council for the Chicago, IL $100,000 $3,000 Marwen Foundation Homeless For Mental Health Services www.marwen.org www.ichchicago.org of the Adolescent Program Institute of International Chicago City-Wide Literacy Coalition Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $20,000 Education, Inc. Chicago, IL For a planning meeting for a For the Housing First www.scholarrescuefund.org For members to attend the National teaching artist training initiative Healthcare Program Saint Anthony Hospital New York, NY Community Literacy Leadership $2,000 $25,000 Foundation For the Iraq Scholar Rescue Project Conference in Memphis, TN www.saintanthonyhospital.org $60,000 $5,000 Other Grants Juvenile Protective Association Chicago, IL Grants made to 141 organizations www.juvenile.org Second payment of a two-year Kingsley House, Inc. Chicago Council on Global Affairs upon the recommendation of the Chicago, IL $80,000 grant for the Primary www.kingsleyhouse.org www.thechicagocouncil.org members of the Board of Directors, For the Treatment and Counseling Prevention Project in Chicago’s New Orleans, LA Chicago, IL the Fry family, and the employee Program Latino communities For the Health Care for All program President's Circle membership matching grants program $55,000 $40,000 $50,000 $250 $704,625

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