Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

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Telephone: 312.580.0310 Fax: 312.580.0980 www.fryfoundation.org LY .FRY FOUNDATION LLOYD A. Lloyd A. Fry Foundation 2004 Annual Report 2004 ANNUAL REPORT

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Table of Contents In 1933 Lloyd A. Fry founded the Lloyd A. Fry Roofing 2 Message from the Chairman Company on the Southwest Side of Chicago. 3 Message from the Executive Director During the next five decades, the company grew to 4 Grant Highlights become the world’s largest manufacturer of asphalt 10 Urban Leadership Awards roofing and allied products, with nearly 5,000 12 High School Initiative dedicated employees and manufacturing facilities 18 2004 Grants and Awards Totals nationwide. The company was sold to Owens- 19 2004 Grants Corning Fiberglass Corporation in 1977. In large part, 28 Report of Independent Auditors the proceeds from the sale of the company now 33 Grantmaking Programs serve as the endowment of the Lloyd A. Fry 34 Grant Application Procedures Foundation, addressing the needs of the Chicago 36 Board of Directors and Staff community since 1983. DESIGN: LIPMAN HEARNE, CHICAGO/WASHINGTON TEXT: DIMITRA TASIOURAS PHOTOGRAPHY: JEAN CLOUGH PHOTOGRAPHY PRINTING: THE FOX COM PHOTOGRAPHY: DIMITRA TASIOURAS TEXT: DESIGN: LIPMAN HEARNE, CHICAGO/WASHINGTON Front cover: George Henry freshmen Ken Marshall (left) and Marcus Carradine.

Below: The Fry Foundation’s High School Initiative improves achievement and the learning envi- ronment at six unique Chicago public high schools.

Mission. 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. Message from the Chairman

2004 was a year of obvious change. At the Employed, but we could equally note the accom- beginning of our fiscal year, Jill Darrow Seltzer, plishments of the Carole Robertson Center. who had served with distinction as our Executive We looked carefully at our mission statement and Director for a decade, retired early to move to changed not a word. And while we have added California so that she might live with her husband. some focus to our Community Services grant- Unmi Song came to us from the Joyce Foundation, making, we have at the same time created new with a distinguished résumé of academic achieve- opportunities for community service organizations ment and philanthropic service, to serve as our not involved in job-training to seek grants in new Executive Director. At the end of our fiscal year, education, the arts or health. Dimitra Tasiouras, a much-loved program officer, left us to become Executive Director of Chicago We have enthusiastically reaffirmed our core values. Global Donors Network. And as Unmi notes in her We remain committed to support those who most letter, there have been some evident changes in effectively serve an inner-city population of need. our grantmaking. We cherish our own easy collegial atmosphere, and we remain determined to treat our grantees with 2004 was a year of introspection. All who have respect—as partners in a common endeavor—even seen the inner workings of the Fry Foundation as we continue the search for new projects to fund agree that its most distinguishing characteristic is that may truly “make a difference.” its board that meets monthly and discusses all aspects of our operations and grantmaking— Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. incessantly. This extraordinary group, which includes Dave Donovan, Chip Fry, Stephanie Pace Marshall and Jim Termondt, started the year with a private dialogue about what we were seeking in an Executive Director. Unmi Song fit our style; Howard M. McCue III, Chairman she will cheerfully engage us in our dialogue; she is forever pushing us for greater “clarity”; with her good help (and with substantial input from an excellent, knowledgeable staff) we spent the rest of the year sharpening our grantmaking guidelines, studying the initial evaluations of our high school initiative, thinking about other things that we might do, and working on a new program of “investment grantmaking” that is to be put in place in 2005 and subsequent years.

2004 was also a year of affirmation. We saw remark- able accomplishments by our Urban Leadership Award winners. In her letter, Unmi mentions Women

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2004 was a year of accomplishment for Lloyd A. target efforts that help low-income people prepare Fry Foundation grantees. After three years of for, find and keep jobs. intense preparation, with support from a Fry Foundation Urban Leadership Award, Women Community Services is the cornerstone of the Employed launched its interactive Career Coach Foundation’s commitment to helping families in website. The first of its kind in the country, this poverty. Over the years, in responding to valuable website marks an exciting new approach for helping and innovative, yet wide-ranging programs, the low-wage workers get information they need to Community Services grant portfolio grew in move up a career ladder into better paying jobs. breadth as well as size. After much discussion and deliberation, the Board of Directors determined The Fry Foundation’s five-year High School Initiative that a sharper focus would help the Foundation and reached its mid-point, and this year the schools its grantees be more effective in helping people involved began to see the fruits of their labors. move out of poverty. The Foundation is pleased to Some efforts, including programs for vulnerable have supported a rich diversity of projects for many freshmen, intensive writing workshops, and inter- years. Our new focus will help the Foundation departmental faculty exchanges, are achieving target an area of critical importance to low-income good results. While the schools are still struggling families and individuals throughout Chicago. in other arenas to make the kind of progress that was hoped for, the school teams are working In all our program areas, the Fry Foundation diligently to identify what is working and where remains committed to helping organizations provide improvements are needed. These and other grantee assistance and services to the most vulnerable highlights discussed throughout this year’s annual in our society. This leads us to be careful and report are but a small sampling of the numerous deliberate about making changes that affect our achievements of our grantees. grantees and the people they serve. At the same time, foundations have the flexibility—and 2004 was also a year of change at the Fry responsibility—to respond quickly to emerging Foundation. With much affection and good wishes, challenges and to invest in promising new ideas. the Foundation bid farewell to Jill Darrow Seltzer, Our challenge is to strike a balance between who served as Executive Director for nine years stability and innovation that enables us and our before choosing to move to the sunny shores grantees to make the best use of the resources of Southern California. On the programmatic front, under our stewardship. We are proud of the two major changes marked the year. In November, achievements of our grantees and look forward to 2003, the Foundation refined its policy under many more fruitful years of good work helping which grantees are encouraged to “take a year off” to improve the lives of people in Chicago. from Fry Foundation support after three consecutive years of funding. Following one year off, organiza- tions are welcome to reapply for support. In the summer of 2004, the Foundation sharpened the focus of our Community Services grantmaking to Unmi Song, Executive Director

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4 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Left: The Bridge Partnership at Merit School of Music brings music instruction to 5,000 Chicago schoolchildren.

Below: At Café Too, students gain hands-on experience in the food service industry.

The Fry Foundation’s grantmaking approach strives to be flexible and responsive to the evolving needs of nonprofit organizations serving low-income communities in Chicago. Whether health care, arts, education or community services, Fry Foundation grants help strong organizations build their capacity to reach out to new populations, enhance the quality of their services, and better assess the impact of their programs.

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“The first time you dice Inspiration Corporation Supportive services include case an onion, you have management, counseling sessions, “We think of the Café Too program employment training, job placement a pretty tough time. as a transformational experience,” assistance, transitional housing, The 500th time, you’re reflects Margaret Haywood, Director of and health care services. practically Emeril.” Training at the Inspiration Corporation. “Students in the program are not Café Too is a restaurant industry just learning new cooking skills, they training program that prepares students are learning interpersonal skills and, for entry-level jobs in the food service because restaurant work can be industry. The 12-week program so physically demanding, they learn operates six times a year and teaches how to improve their physical and basic culinary skills and concepts, mental health.” teamwork, sanitation and safety. Students gain hands-on experience Inspiration Corporation serves meals preparing and serving meals to guests in a restaurant-style setting and at Inspiration Corporation cafes, to provides a broad array of supportive the paying public during Thursday and services to homeless individuals at two Friday lunches, and to events catered locations in Uptown and Woodlawn. by Inspiration Corporation.

6 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Once placed into employment, “The restaurant will allow students ment projects, writing and reading graduates can continue to access to develop strong culinary skills that workshops, computer classes, men- supportive services. really only come through repetition. toring, college admissions preparation, The first time you dice an onion, you service learning projects, scholarships Inspiration Corporation has been have a pretty tough time. The 500th and a summer reading program; preparing for a major expansion in the time, you’re practically Emeril.” and Community Scholarships for coming year of its employment training alternative school students who want programs, particularly the Café Too East Village Youth Project to attend college. training program. New partnerships with St. Leonard’s House, a transi- As their classmates drop out of high It is the program’s comprehensive tional shelter for ex-offenders, and school at alarmingly high rates, the scope that is the key to student suc- Heartland Alliance, which serves Latino students at East Village Youth cess, according to Executive Director homeless adults, will allow Inspiration Program prepare to succeed in Jeannie Balanda. “To help our Corporation to more than double the college. Over 40% of Latino students students succeed in college, we’ve number of Café Too graduates. A in do not learned that we have to address the merger with the Employment Project, graduate from high school, yet over social issues as well as the academic which offers services to homeless 90% of the students in the East Village issues,” observes Ms. Balanda. adults on-site at shelters will increase Youth Program College Readiness “We’ve also learned that we have to Inspiration Corporation’s capacity and Support Program graduate from work with the students over the long to offer employment assistance. high school and enroll in college. term. You can’t just start working And in November 2004, Inspiration Moreover, 85% of the college students with students when they are juniors Corporation will open a full-service, have graduated from college or are and seniors in high school. We start stand-alone restaurant and employ- on track to graduate. reaching out to students and parents ment training center in Uptown. as early as sixth grade.” The restaurant, also called Café Too, Since 1989, East Village Youth will provide hands-on training to Program has been offering intensive, Students continue to receive support increase students’ skills before gradu- year-round academic assistance and from East Village Youth Programs ating, provide transitional employment college preparatory assistance to through their college graduation, for those program graduates who Latino students on the Near Northwest in the form of regular phone calls, still need extra support before moving Side. The College Readiness and meetings, counseling and referrals into the private workforce, and Support Program helps students to other services and resources. generate revenues for operations. prepare for and succeed in college by “Freshman year can be difficult and providing services and support to isolating,” notes Ms. Balanda. “We The new restaurant will dramatically approximately 600 students and parents help students create a support system increase the amount of training each year. The program is organized for themselves at colleges where offered to students. Each student will into five components: Outreach and they are often among the few minority be able to start with job shadowing Awareness to educate parents and students on campus.” with a staff person or experienced students on preparing for college; student, progress to hands-on Targeted School-Based Workshops on training, then work at the restaurant key topics related to college prepara- to hone their skills. tion, offered at times of transition to high school and college; Mentoring for “The amount of hands-on experiences high school students who need one- will greatly increase the quality of on-one assistance in preparing for the program and the success of the college; the Intensive Program which students,” observes Ms. Haywood. includes tutoring, academic enrich-

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Vital Bridges assess the client’s current diet and “We’ve seen young recommend a nutrition plan based on wind instrument Despite advances in treatment, HIV their health needs, other conditions disease continues to ravage Chicago’s they have, and medications they may players go from their poorest, most vulnerable communities. be taking. Clients then visit weekly first squeaks and to pick up groceries with the help of squawks to spinning “We’re seeing a great difference from volunteers. While getting their food, a beautiful phrase in 10 years ago in the population that clients get HIV prevention information we’re serving,” notes Deborah Hinde, and can see a prevention counselor a Mozart sonata.” Chief Executive Officer of Vital individually. Vital Bridges staff are also Bridges. “The epidemic is reaching available to help them stabilize their into a broader range of communities— housing as well. poorer communities, communities of color, less stable communities.” “It’s important to understand that this disease takes a terrible toll on people,” Vital Bridges reaches into these same stresses Ms. Hinde. “The treatments communities to help low-income pop- are still very difficult, with lots of side ulations affected by HIV/AIDS meet effects. When you are poor and don’t their basic living needs and improve have many options, dealing with the their health. Operating in six com- disease in the face of the isolation and munities, Vital Bridges provides clients prejudice that still exists can be over- with free groceries for daily meals; whelming. By providing services where nutritional counseling; assistance in our clients already come for their gro- stabilizing housing; help in managing ceries, we can better help them stabi- medication schedules; and prevention lize their lives. There’s a security here and risk reduction education. The for the clients because it’s a familiar Fry Foundation supports the South environment. They don’t have to go to Side Program, which provides these yet another agency and tell someone comprehensive services to 550 indi- new their life story one more time.” viduals a week. Merit School of Music The comprehensive range of services provided to clients at the South Side At Merit School of Music, a visitor Program is of tremendous value to walking down the hall can hear individuals often dealing with poverty, young people who have never held mental illness and substance abuse, a musical instrument trying out in addition to AIDS and HIV. “The their first notes, as well as accom- bottom line issue is that most of our plished young musicians preparing clients don’t have many options in to study music in college. their lives. Most are living on less than $800 a month,” notes Ms. Hinde. Merit, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, offers a wide range Clients at the program start with a of programs for students of all ages nutritional analysis. Nutrition special- and abilities. The eight programs ists measure a client’s body fat, at Merit are designed to provide a hydration and muscle mass, then continuum of music education for

8 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION students, from beginning programs In between its beginning and most The continuum of music education to college preparatory programs. advanced programs, Merit offers the and mentoring is key at Merit, provid- On one end of the continuum, the Preparatory Program to train students ing a consistent support structure Bridge Partnership provides music from the Bridge Partnership for admis- that builds on previous training and instruction to elementary school sion to the Tuition Free Conservatory. is designed to prepare students for students with little or no previous music The Windows Program offers training in college. Many students go through the instruction. The Bridge Partnership music performance to public housing full continuum of programs, emerging reaches 5,000 children at 68 Chicago residents, and Dynamic Starts provides as accomplished musicians. “We public schools and community beginning group instruction to families really see students grow musically,” organizations. who cannot afford the cost of private observes Executive Director Duffie music instruction. Private lessons are Adelson. “We’ve seen young wind On the other end of the continuum, also available to adults and children. instrument players go from their first the Tuition-Free Conservatory offers squeaks and squawks to spinning accomplished students an integrated While Merit attracts students from all a beautiful phrase in a Mozart sonata.” curriculum of group lessons, ensemble socio-economic classes Merit is espe- work, theory instruction and perform- cially committed to serving students ance. Approximately 500 students from low-income communities. Last participate in the Conservatory, Merit’s year, Merit awarded $2 million in schol- most selective program. arships and financial aid to students.

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“Parents and teachers are working side-by- side, creating a genuine camaraderie among all of the adults that ultimately benefits the entire family.”

10 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION The Fry Foundation created the are women, have generally low-levels Career Coach will increase women’s Urban Leadership Awards in 1995 to of education and limited economic knowledge of the labor market, strategically focus financial support opportunities. emphasize career paths out of poverty for innovative solutions to persistent and guide women in planning their social problems in Chicago. Through After two years of operation, the education and training. Its many the Urban Leadership Awards, the Center for Adult Learning has now features include: profiles of women Foundation identifies strong leaders become fully embedded in the Carole in various careers and the paths they working with strong organizations and Robertson Center. Minimal recruitment took towards those careers; a guide invites them to create and implement efforts were needed to fill the English for conducting informational inter- their most ambitious program ideas— as a Second Language (ESL) and views; and links to training programs ideas they’ve always wanted to pursue, General Education Development (GED) that will help them pursue their chosen but did not have the funds to support. classes last year. Unsolicited interest career paths. The website was in ESL was so high that the Center developed in partnership with One Carole Robertson Center had to increase the number of classes Economy, a national nonprofit organi- offered. Teachers at Carole Robertson zation that uses technology to help “The Center for Adult Learning has Center now actively pursue profes- lower-income families join the eco- enabled us to truly become a one-stop sional development opportunities as nomic mainstream. shop for our families,” observes Gail a normal part of their job. Nelson, Executive Director of the Launched on June 15, 2004, the web- Carole Robertson Center for Learning. With the Center for Adult Learning, site immediately drew enthusiastic “Community residents who may not the culture of learning that has always responses from individual women, as need our child care services can now existed in the child and youth develop- well as from organizations such as city attach to a community institution that ment programs has been extended colleges, libraries and job training pro- can connect them to programs and to parents and staff as well. Notes grams that serve low-income women. resources. And families already using Ms. Nelson, “Now at the Carole “We are getting a great response from our child and youth development pro- Robertson Center, you see adults these institutions, as we had hoped,” grams can access learning opportunities learning. Parents and teachers notes Anne Ladky, Executive Director and other services without adding more are working side-by-side, creating of Women Employed. “Career Coach work to already complicated lives.” a genuine camaraderie among all really expands their capacity to pro- of the adults that ultimately benefits vide their clients with quality career A respected provider of quality child, the entire family.” development experiences in a more youth and family development pro- efficient and effective way.” grams in three centers on Chicago’s Women Employed Institute West and South Sides, the Carole The development process for Career Robertson Center for Learning used Millions of women in Chicago and Coach ultimately led to a web-based its Urban Leadership Award to launch across the nation are working in low- program that can be used anytime, the Center for Adult Learning. Now wage jobs that don’t allow them to anywhere, and is enriched with audio in its third year, the Center for Adult get ahead financially. Believing that and interactive tools. “The Urban Learning aims to create a stable, low-income women deserve high- Leadership Award allowed our original committed and well-trained workforce quality career development and plan- vision for the program to expand so for early childhood education. Staff, ning services that will help them access that we created something far more parents, home child care providers better jobs, Women Employed used ground-breaking than we originally and community residents can access its Urban Leadership Award to create envisioned,” observes Ms. Ladky. training, education and personal Career Coach, a free online tool to help Career Coach can be found development opportunities. Adult people identify and pursue careers that on the Women Employed website: learners in the program, most of whom pay family-supporting wages. www.womenemployed.org

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12 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Left: Each school in the Initiative has had the freedom and flexibility to develop programs that are best-suited for them.

Below: In an art class at Corliss High School, students combine technology with basic drawing skills to create a self-portrait.

“Educators should not be blamed for what they do not know; they should be blamed for what they refuse to learn. Happily, the teachers and administrators within the Fry Foundation High School Initiative are learning much, and sharing their lessons with their colleagues at the other high schools in the Initiative.” —Roland Barth, Educator

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Each high school invited to join the In addition, the six schools also played Fry Foundation High School Initiative a greater role in developing training committed to the Initiative’s goal: sessions for their Initiative Teams. to increase student achievement and In the fall of 2003, instead of offering improve the learning environment a single training session for the six at their schools. Each school faced schools as a group, the Fry Founda- a different set of challenges in improv- tion provided resources and support ing student achievement, and each so that each school’s Initiative Team school developed different programs could design and lead full day planning in response to those challenges. sessions just for their team. The Midway through the Initiative, the schools used their planning days to six schools began to face a common review their progress to date, make challenge: learning how to assess changes to their program designs, and progress toward their goals of improv- discuss the assessments in the interim ing their schools. evaluation reports.

Launched in January 2001, the The six school principals led the plan- High School Initiative aims to help ning and design of the spring 2004 six Chicago public high schools build Given the multitude of factors that can retreat. With Roland Barth as facilita- strong, student-centered learning affect student achievement and the tor, retreat sessions focused on using environments and improve students’ school environment, the challenge of data to provide feedback on goals; academic achievement through a measuring a program’s impact can be building a community of leaders at collaborative leadership process. The daunting.The schools each received the schools; and using whole-school six schools—Corliss, Crane, Curie, interim reports from Roosevelt buy-in to create change at their Kennedy, Prosser and Senn—have University, the independent evaluators schools. Participants also attended committed to participate in the $8 mil- of the High School Initiative. The “mini classes” on successful Initiative lion Initiative over five years, and have reports, which were based on class- programs, taught by teachers and staff dedicated the principal and a core room observations, interviews with from each of the six high schools. team of teachers and staff to lead the students and teachers, as well as Initiative at their schools. Each school other data collected by the evaluators, In the months before summer break, has had the freedom and flexibility to assessed the potential of each the six schools worked with Roosevelt develop programs that are best-suited school’s program to increase student University evaluators and Allan Alson, for their schools and so developed achievement and improve the learning Superintendent of Evanston Township creative strategies to increase aca- environment. The schools learned High School, on an effort to develop demic achievement and improve the that some of their Initiative programs goals and markers of progress for learning environment. Some of the were helping to improve their school’s their Initiative programs. By focusing schools focused on using technology. performance; other programs had the past year on assessment and Other schools have designed pro- yet to show their potential to improve evaluation, the six Fry High Schools grams to help freshmen succeed in teaching and learning. Later in the begin the new school year with new the difficult first year of high school. year, the schools met individually with tools for measuring their progress All of the schools are providing profes- the evaluators in order to develop a towards improving their schools. sional development programs for clear set of goals and markers for their As one principal proclaimed, “We go teachers. (A brief profile of each Initiative programs that would help forward with hope and optimism.” school’s Initiative program follows in them assess their progress on a more the school profiles.) consistent basis.

14 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION George Henry Corliss Richard Crane Technical Marie Sklowdowska Curie High School Prep Common High School Metro High School

Principal: Anthony Spivey Principal: Melver Scott Principal: Jerryelyn Jones Address: 821 E. 103rd St. Address: 2245 W. Jackson Blvd. Address: 4959 S. Archer Enrollment: 1,371 Enrollment: 1,285 Enrollment: 3,088 Faculty and staff: 168 Faculty and staff: 186 Faculty and staff: 334 Attendance rate: 90.2% Attendance rate: 86.4% Attendance rate: 90.18% Graduation Rate: 60.9% Graduation rate: 60.9% Graduation rate: 85% Low-income: 95.6% Low-income: 91% Low-income: 82.5% Major programs Instructional Team Major programs Technology Integration; Major programs Attendance 90% Club; and initiatives: Leader; Writing and initiatives: Professional and initiatives: Forefront; Telecenter; Initiative/Writing Center; Development; Monday Staff Student and Teacher Math, Science and Development; Visual Portfolios; Professional Technology Academy; and Performing Arts; Development Education-to-Careers Curie Branch of Park Federal Bank

The long-term objectives for the One of the key components in its The new technology component Initiative programs at Corliss focus Initiative programs, Crane’s Multi- at the core of Curie’s Initiative on building leadership capacity of purpose Technology Laboratory is programming continues to provide faculty, developing smaller learning used by 300–400 students a week new resources for classroom teach- communities and improving student who visit the lab on their own time. ers. New classroom equipment has success in writing. A professional The lab is also booked four to five linked together the entire school, development program, teacher and periods a day by teachers using leading to greater communication, student portfolios, and a school- the lab to teach their classes. An coordination and integrated learning. wide writing plan are among the intensive professional development Teachers at Curie are also taking strategies Corliss is pursuing. program continues to help Crane leadership roles in developing faculty enhance their computer skills and implementing an internal pro- “In our search for ways to have and integrate the new technology fessional development program the greatest impact on student into the curriculum. A new profes- focused on integrating technology achievement, we have focused on sional development program will in the classroom and aligning the the craft of teaching,” comments help Crane teachers with strategies school curriculum with state learning Principal Anthony Spivey. “For the for teaching reading and writing standards. past two years we have emphasized across the curriculum. the development of new methods “This year, we are working to firmly of teaching writing and have seen “We have made great strides in embed our Initiative programs into gains posted each year. This has devising professional development the fabric of our school,” notes validated our efforts in this area and activities to encompass a broad Principal Jerryelyn Jones. “We are we will continue to focus on this as spectrum of educational strategies developing goals and markers to we move forward.” and best practices,” states Principal reach more students and staff. With Melver Scott. “In the past two years a school the size of Curie, one of our we have strengthened teaching challenges is to communicate and methodologies by providing content- involve everyone in the Fry program.” specific workshops and using new techniques. As we strive toward improved levels of instruction, our teachers will continue to refine the strategies they have learned through this Initiative.”

15 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION John F. Kennedy High School C.A. Nicholas

Principal: Dr. Fanchion Blumenberg Principal: Kenneth Hunter Principal: Judith Hernandez Address: 6325 W. 56th St. Address: 2148 N. Long Address: 5900 N. Glenwood Enrollment: 1,673 Enrollment: 1,352 Enrollment: 1,720 Faculty and staff: 137 Faculty and staff: 148 Faculty and staff: 153 Attendance rate: 89.8% Attendance rate: 93.6% Attendance rate: 89.9% Graduation rate: 87% Graduation rate: 78% Graduation rate: 66.7% Low-income: 78.6% Low-income: 91% Low-income: 91.5% Major Programs College Summit; CPS Major programs International Major programs International and initiatives: Scholars and Advanced and initiatives: Baccalaureate, and initiatives: Baccalaureate Program; Placement Classes; Service Learning Award Winning Service Network Portfolios; Advisory Board, Learning Program; Attendance Incentive Falcon Leadership TESOL-Multilingual Program Institute, JROTC, Program; Achievement Education to Careers Academy; Student Health Center; Peer Mediation and Peer Jury

Kennedy’s Initiative programs The Freshman Academy, which Senn’s Initiative programs continue continue to be organized around provides academic and social to focus on supporting at-risk two priorities: Student Support and supports to all freshmen, was so freshmen and on providing high Teacher Support. Student Support successful last year that it has been quality professional development provides counseling, skill-building expanded to provide the same to the Senn faculty. The Striving opportunities, and aims for better, services to the sophomore class. for Excellence Program provides more consistent communication The professional development smaller classes, tutoring, counseling with students and families. Teacher program will be organized around and additional supports to students Support programs foster creativity mini-conferences, taught by Prosser struggling in their freshman year and collaboration and provide faculty, focusing on technology, at Senn. With three-fourths of the technical support for curriculum special education, classroom Senn faculty having completed the development. strategies and the emotional and Research for Better Teaching pro- social needs of students. fessional development program, “We are at a point where we can Senn teachers are using what they now see some of the impact of “The professional development pro- learned through the program to our Initiative programs at Kennedy,” gram at Prosser is designed to help build their instructional skills and to observes Principal Dr. Fanchion students and teachers to extend their strengthen the professional learning Blumenberg. “We are becoming world,” says Principal Ken Hunter. community at Senn. adept at using data to steer our “Our faculty members are committed improvement efforts, and we are to enhancing their programs and to “The staff development program slowly moving toward our goal of increasing the store of student expe- has become a catalyst for teacher transforming the culture of teaching rience and knowledge.” development and professional and learning at Kennedy.” growth,” notes Principal Judy Hernandez. “We have a responsi- bility now to make sure staff devel- opment becomes more ingrained and institutional and that we con- tinue to provide effective, skills- based staff development activities.”

16 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Lloyd A. Fry Foundation 2004 Grants 2004 Grants and Awards Totals Education $1,623,870 20.9% Community Services 2,047,500 26.3% Arts and Culture 1,077,500 13.8% Health 750,000 9.6% World Relief 150,000 1.9% Special Purposes 525,000 6.8% Urban Leadership Awards 304,743 3.9% High School Initiative 1,309,806 16.8% Total $7,788,419 100%

Education

High School Initiative

Urban Leadership Awards Community Services

Special Purposes

World Relief

Health

Arts and Culture

18 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION 2004 GRANTS The Associated Colleges Chicago Coalition for Community Organizing of Illinois the Homeless and Family Issues Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the College Readiness For the Educational Rights For the Austin Parent Program of Homeless and At-Risk Leadership and $20,000 Youth Program Organizing Project $10,000 $25,000 Augustana College Rock Island, IL Chicago Communities Community Renewal Society Education To assist economically in Schools Chicago, IL disadvantaged minority students Chicago, IL For CATALYST: Voices Academy for Urban School from Chicago For general operating support of Chicago School Reform Leadership $1,120 $30,000 $20,000 Chicago, IL For Residents’ salaries Big Shoulders Fund Chicago Foundation for Cristo Rey Jesuit High School $45,000 Chicago, IL Education Chicago, IL For scholarships, technology Chicago, IL For general operating support Academy of Communications and professional development For the Grants to Teachers $40,000 and Technology Charter School $150,000 Study Groups Program Chicago, IL $15,000 Cross City Campaign for For the Development Office Blocks Together Urban School Reform $25,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Education Impact Redesign Initiative To support work with Albany Park Neighborhood Project Chicago, IL Chicago public schools Council $20,000 First payment of a three-year $15,000 Chicago, IL $100,000 grant for the Initiative For the Emerging Communities BOLD Chicago Institute $50,000 Deborah’s Place Education Project Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $15,000 For general operating support Chicago Metro History For the Education and $15,000 Education Center Employment Services Program Alternative Schools Network Chicago, IL $25,000 Chicago, IL Brighton Park Neighborhood For the Students Exploring For the PRAXIS project Council and Researching Community Designs for Change $15,000 Chicago, IL History Program Chicago, IL For expansion of school $25,000 For the Assistance to Local Alternatives, Inc. reform initiatives School Councils Project Chicago, IL $15,000 Chicago SCORES $20,000 For the Restorative Justice Chicago, IL Program Business and Professional For the Creative Writing Program Dominican University $10,000 People for the Public Interest $20,000 River Forest, IL Chicago, IL To support the Special Asian Human Services, Inc. For the Public Education Chicago Youth Programs Education Degree Program for Chicago, IL Initiative Chicago, IL Chicago Public School Teachers For the Reading/Language $25,000 For the Early Education $30,000 Arts Curriculum Project Initiatives at Passages Charter School Centro Romero $15,000 East Village Youth Program $20,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Technology for City Year Chicago For the College Readiness Latino Children Program Chicago, IL and Support Program $15,000 For the Literacy Program $20,000 $20,000 Changing Worlds Executive Service Corps Chicago, IL of Chicago For the Literacy and Cultural Chicago, IL Connections Program and the For the Education Practice Summer Institute for Teachers Program $10,000 $20,000

19 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Education (cont’d) Knox College The Newberry Library Southwest Youth Collaborative Galesburg, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Family Matters For the Scholarship Program For the Teachers as Scholars For the After School Education Chicago, IL $5,250 Program Enhancement Project For the Community Tutoring $30,000 $25,000 Program Leadership for Quality $30,000 Education Noble Street Charter High St. Vincent De Paul Center Chicago, IL School Chicago, IL Gads Hill Center For Partnership with Chicago, IL For child care and Chicago, IL New Leaders for New Schools For general operating support educational programs For the Club Learn Program $40,000 $20,000 $25,000 $25,000 Literacy Chicago North Lawndale College Teach for America Chicago Golden Apple Foundation Chicago, IL Preparatory Charter Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Volunteer Tutor High School For general operating support For the Golden Apple Recruitment, Training Chicago, IL $25,000 Teacher Education program and Support Services For general operating support $25,000 $25,000 $20,000 Umoja Student Development Corporation Greater West Town Community Literacy Works Parents United for Chicago, IL Development Project Chicago, IL Responsible Education For general operating support Chicago, IL For the Expansion Plan Chicago, IL $20,000 For the ’s $10,000 For the Early Childhood Transitions Counselor position Education Program The Young Women’s $25,000 Literature for All of Us $15,000 Leadership Charter School Evanston, IL of Chicago Hales Franciscan High School For book groups at Perspectives Charter School Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Simpson Academy Chicago, IL For general operating support For management consulting $20,000 For general operating support $20,000 services $30,000 $25,000 Loyola University Youth Guidance Chicago, IL Poder Learning Center Chicago, IL High Jump For the Grade 6-8 Science Chicago, IL For the Youth Transitioning Chicago, IL Endorsement Program For Computer Training Programs Upward Program For general operating support $12,500 $10,000 $20,000 $50,000 Mikva Challenge Project Exploration Illinois Humanities Council Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Civic Educator Network For the Sisters4Science For the Odyssey Project $15,000 Program $25,000 $15,000 National-Louis University Illinois Literacy Resource Chicago, IL Providence-St. Mel School Development Center For the High School Reform Chicago, IL Champaign, IL Network For general operating support For Solutions to Accountability $25,000 $30,000 in Literacy Programs $10,000 Near Northwest Reading in Motion Neighborhood Network Chicago, IL Illinois Mathematics Chicago, IL For general operating support and Science Academy For Project TEAM $50,000 Aurora, IL $15,000 For the Excellence Safer Foundation 2000+ Initiative Chicago, IL $60,000 For the PACE Institute $25,000

20 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Bonaventure House Catholic Charities of the Chicago Jobs Council Chicago, IL Archdiocese of Chicago Chicago, IL For the Occupational Chicago, IL For general operating support Therapy Program For the Workforce $15,000 $35,000 Preparation Programs $20,000 Chicago Legal Clinic Broader Urban Involvement Chicago, IL and Leadership Development Catholic Charities, Diocese For the Pro Bono Program Community Services Chicago, IL of Joliet $25,000 For the Youth Violence Joliet, IL Abraham Lincoln Centre Prevention Project For Daybreak Shelter Chicago Lights Chicago, IL $30,000 $10,000 Chicago, IL For the Communities For the Job Training and Responsible for Employment Cabrini Green Legal Aid Clinic Center for Economic Progress Readiness Program and Development Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $15,000 Opportunities Program For the Criminal Records For the Tax Counseling Project $20,000 Program $25,000 Chicago Metropolitan $10,000 Battered Women’s Network Access Living Chicago Abused Women Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Cambodian Association Coalition For the Centralized For general operating support of Illinois Chicago, IL Training Institute $25,000 Chicago, IL For the Hospital Crisis $30,000 For the Strengthening Intervention Project at After School Matters Cambodian American Cook County Hospital Chicago Mutual Housing Chicago, IL Families Project $25,000 Network For the After School $25,000 Chicago, IL Apprenticeship Program Chicago Christian Industrial For the Training and Technical $25,000 The CARA Program League Assistance Program Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $15,000 AIDS Legal Council of Chicago For general operating support For support of the Job Chicago, IL $30,000 Retention Specialist Chinese Mutual Aid Association For general operating support $15,000 Chicago, IL $20,000 Carole Robertson Center For the Youth Program and for Learning Chicago Civic Innovation JumpStart Program Apna Ghar, Inc. Chicago, IL Consortium $10,000 Chicago, IL For the Volunteer Program Chicago, IL For counseling services for $30,000 For the Innovation Fund Christopher House abused women $10,000 Chicago, IL $25,000 Casa Central For general operating support Chicago, IL Chicago Community Loan Fund $25,000 Arab American Action Network For the Youth Services Program Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $15,000 For the Technical Assistance Coordinated Advice & Referral For the Family Violence Program Program for Legal Services Intervention and Prevention Cathedral Shelter of Chicago $10,000 Chicago, IL Program Chicago, IL For the Domestic Relations $15,000 For the Educational Chicago Continuum of Care Self-Help Desk Coordinator position Chicago, IL $20,000 Bethel New Life $25,000 For the Training and Technical Chicago, IL Assistance Program For the Welcome Home initiative $25,000 for people leaving prison $25,000

21 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Community Services Family Rescue, Inc. Housing Opportunities and Jane Addams Juvenile Court (cont’d) Chicago, IL Maintenance for the Elderly Foundation For the Court Advocacy Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Court Appointed Special Program For the Upkeep and For the Community Advocates of Cook County $10,000 Repair Services Program Partnerships Initiative Chicago, IL $25,000 $10,000 Salary support to hire Featherfist a Development Director Chicago, IL Housing Opportunities Jobs for Youth $20,000 For the Outreach, Retention for Women Chicago, IL and Treatment Program Chicago, IL For general operating support The Day Laborer Collaboration $25,000 For general operating support $40,000 Chicago, IL $25,000 For the Leadership Friends of Battered Women Lakefront Supportive Housing Development Program and Their Children Howard Area Community Chicago, IL $15,000 Chicago, IL Center For the Employment and For the Peer Education Chicago, IL Training Program Emergency Fund for and Leadership Initiative For general operating support $30,000 Needy People $20,000 $30,000 Chicago, IL Lawndale Christian For the Bridges to Friends of the Parks Illinois Facilities Fund Development Corporation Independence Program Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $15,000 For the Citizen Advocacy For general operating support For general operating support in Parks Program $35,000 $35,000 The Employment Project $15,000 Chicago, IL Inspiration Corporation Lawrence Hall Youth Services For general operating support Genesis Housing Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $35,000 Development Corp. For Café Too Culinary Skills For general operating support Chicago, IL Job Training Program $10,000 The Enterprising Kitchen For the Housing Services $20,000 Chicago, IL Assistance Program Lawyers’ Committee for For general operating support $15,000 Interfaith Council for the Better Housing $10,000 Homeless Chicago, IL Goodwill Industries of Chicago, IL For the Tenant Advocacy Project Equip For Equality, Inc. Metropolitan Chicago, Inc. For the Shelter Graduates’ $20,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Program For the Training Institute For job coaching services for $30,000 Legal Assistance Foundation on Disability Rights deaf and hard of hearing clients of Metropolitan Chicago $25,000 $15,000 Interfaith Housing Development Chicago, IL Corporation of Chicago For the Public Benefits Hotline Erie Neighborhood House Greater Chicago Food Chicago, IL $25,000 Chicago, IL Depository For general operating support For the Parent to Chicago, IL $15,000 Life Span Parent Program Second payment of a two-year Chicago, IL $20,000 $100,000 grant for the Produce Interfaith Refugee & For general operating support People Share program Immigration Ministries $25,000 Family Focus $50,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Job Developer Position Local Economic and For the Primary Prevention Hamdard Center for Health $15,000 Employment Development Program at Nuestra Familia & Human Services Council $15,000 Addison, IL Chicago, IL For the Employment For the Workforce Training Program serving Development Program Chicago residents $15,000 $20,000

22 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Lutheran Social Services Northwest Neighborhood Roger Baldwin Foundation St. Agatha Family of Illinois Federation of ACLU Empowerment Des Plaines, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For Reconnections For the Improving Lives For the Children’s Initiative For the Teen Alternative Network $15,000 through Education Project $10,000 $10,000 $10,000 Metropolitan Family Services Rogers Park Community St. Martin de Porres House Legal Aid Bureau Onward Neighborhood House Council of Hope Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Domestic Violence For the Youth Program For the Victim Advocacy For general operating support Team Victim Advocate $10,000 Support Program $30,000 $15,000 $10,000 Openlands Project Suburban Job-Link Metropolitan Planning Council Chicago, IL Sacred Heart Schools Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Urban Greening Chicago, IL For the Business Development For the Public Housing in Program For the Children of the Team the Public Interest Project $20,000 Heart Program $35,000 $35,000 $12,500 Partnership to End Thresholds Mujeres Latinas En Accion Homelessness Saint Elizabeth Catholic Worker Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL To support the Vocational/ For general operating support For the No Agency Left For the Development and Residential Support $25,000 Behind Project Fundraising Program Worker position $10,000 $10,000 $20,000 National Center on Poverty Law Chicago, IL Pro Bono Advocates Sarah’s Circle Women’s Business For Welfare Program Activities Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Development Center $50,000 For the Civil Court Clinic for For general operating support Chicago, IL Orders of Protection Program $25,000 For the Child Care Neighborhood Housing $15,000 Business Initiative Services of Chicago South Side Help Center $15,000 Chicago, IL Project Match Chicago, IL For the Home Ownership Chicago, IL For salary support for a YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago Preservation Initiative For salary support of a full-time Creative Arts Specialist Chicago, IL $30,000 Job Development Specialist $10,000 For the Customer Service and $25,000 Employment Training Program New Moms, Inc. Southwest Chicago Pads $25,000 Chicago, IL Rainbow House Chicago, IL For general operating support Chicago, IL For the Volunteer Program YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago $20,000 For the Domestic $15,000 Chicago, IL Violence Prevention and For general operating support North Lawndale Employment Education Program Southwest Women $25,000 Network $15,000 Working Together Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Community Rape Victim Advocates For the Community Resource Job Center Chicago, IL Organizing Initiative $25,000 For the Adolescent Program $20,000 $20,000 Spanish Coalition for Jobs The Renaissance Collaborative Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the Bilingual Medical For the Supportive Services Assistant Training Program program $35,000 $20,000

23 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Chicago Horticultural Society The Goodman Theatre Lookingglass Theatre Company Glencoe, IL Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the School Garden Initiative For the Education and For Education and $10,000 Community Programs Community Programs $25,000 $15,000 Chicago Humanities Festival Chicago, IL Grantmakers in the Arts Lyric Opera of Chicago For Education Programs and the Seattle, WA Chicago, IL Arts and Culture Children’s Humanities Festival For the Annual Conference For OPERAREACH youth $15,000 $5,000 education programs Art Institute of Chicago $25,000 Chicago, IL Chicago Moving Company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago For the Art Partners Program Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Marwen Foundation $25,000 For the New Frontiers Project For the Education and Chicago, IL $10,000 Community Programs For the Teacher Program Art Resources in Teaching $20,000 $15,000 Chicago, IL Chicago Opera Theater For Building Arts Capacity in Chicago, IL Hyde Park Art Center Merit School of Music the Classroom For outreach programs Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $12,000 at Audubon Elementary and For the Visual Learners school For general operating support Roosevelt High School outreach program $30,000 Arts for Learning Chicago $10,000 $15,000 Chicago, IL Millennium Park/ For Art Links: A Professional Chicago Shakespeare Theater Joffrey Ballet of Chicago The Joan W. and Development Series Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Irving B. Harris Music $10,000 For Team Shakespeare For the Education Outreach and Dance Theater $30,000 Program Chicago, IL Chicago Academy of Sciences $15,000 For the endowment Chicago, IL Claretian Associates $200,000 For Science on the Go! Chicago, IL John G. Shedd Aquarium education program For the South Chicago Art Chicago, IL Muntu Dance Theatre $20,000 Center school outreach program For the ACES Project for of Chicago $15,000 Chicago Public School teachers Chicago, IL Chicago Architecture $25,000 For the Arts Community Foundation Court Theatre Empowerment Program Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Lifeline Theatre $10,000 For the Newhouse Program For the Student Chicago, IL and Architecture Competition Education Program For the arts residency at Music Institute of Chicago $15,000 $25,000 Field Elementary School Winnetka, IL $10,000 For the Music Integration Project Chicago Arts Partnerships ETA Creative Arts Foundation $15,000 in Education Chicago, IL Lincoln Park Zoological Society Chicago, IL For the Showfolk Daytime Chicago, IL Music of the Baroque For general operating support Performance Series For Project NOAH, an outreach Chicago, IL $20,000 and the Playwriting/Creative program for Chicago Public For the Educational Dramatics Program School students Outreach Program Chicago Children’s Choir $10,000 $35,000 $15,000 Chicago, IL For the in-school and Facets Multimedia Northwestern University neighborhood choir programs Chicago, IL Settlement Association $20,000 For the Education Program Chicago, IL of the Chicago Children’s For the Vittum Theater’s International Film Festival Season for Young Audiences $15,000 $15,000

24 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION The Oriental Institute Museum Sherwood Conservatory Chicago, IL of Music For a professional development Chicago, IL program for Chicago For the Teen Ensembles public school teachers Program $25,000 $7,500

Pegasus Players The David and Alfred Smart Chicago, IL Museum of Art For the Artists in Residency Chicago, IL with Teachers Program For the Art in Context Program $15,000 $25,000 For production of the Philanthropic Phollies Snow City Arts Foundation $3,000 Chicago, IL For general operating support The People’s Music School $10,000 Chicago, IL For general operating support Steppenwolf Theatre Company $15,000 Chicago, IL For the Arts Exchange Performing Arts Chicago Outreach Program Chicago, IL $15,000 For the pilot education program at Roberto Clemente Suzuki-Orff School for High School Young Musicians $5,000 Chicago, IL For outreach and education The Poetry Center of Chicago programs Chicago, IL $25,000 For the Hands on Stanzas Outreach Program Urban Gateways $15,000 Chicago, IL For the Cultural Enrichment Ravinia Festival Association Program in Chicago Highland Park, IL Public Schools For the Education and $20,000 Community Outreach Initiatives $40,000 Victory Gardens Theater For the August 2004 Chicago, IL performance by Lorraine Hunt- For the Educational Lieberson and Peter Serkin Outreach Program $10,000 $15,000

Redmoon Theatre WTTW11 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For the School For the Artbeat Chicago series Partnership Program $70,000 $10,000

25 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Children’s Home & Aid Society Free People’s Clinic Rehabilitation Institute Chicago, IL Chicago, IL of Chicago For the Peer Education For general operating support Chicago, IL Component of the Illinois $20,000 For the Health Resource Center Subsequent Pregnancy for Women with Disabilities Prevention program Heartland Health Outreach $40,000 $15,000 Chicago, IL For the Pathways Home Saint Anthony Hospital Health The Children’s Place Program Chicago, IL Association $30,000 For the Diabetes Center Advocate Bethany Hospital Chicago, IL $20,000 Chicago, IL To hire a nurse for the Children’s Illinois Caucus for For the Adopt-A-School Place at Vision House Adolescent Health SGA Youth & Family Services Asthma Education Pilot Project $20,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $10,000 For general operating support For the Bella Artes Art Therapy Chinese American Service $20,000 Project at Shields School AIDS Foundation of Chicago League $20,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Infant Welfare Society For general operating support For the Community Health of Chicago Swedish Covenant Hospital $25,000 Program Chicago, IL Chicago, IL $20,000 For the Women’s For the school-based clinic Alivio Medical Center Whole Wellness Project at Roosevelt High School Chicago, IL Community Counseling Centers $40,000 $30,000 For general operating support of Chicago $30,000 Chicago, IL Interfaith House University of Illinois at Chicago For the Parent Education Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Centro Comunitario Juan Diego Program For the Assessment/ For the Healthy Steps for Chicago, IL $20,000 Respite Program Young Children Program For the Community Health $35,000 $40,000 Promoter Program CommunityHealth $10,000 Chicago, IL Juvenile Protective Association Vital Bridges For general operating support Chicago, IL Chicago, IL Centro San Bonifacio $30,000 For the Building Bridges to For the South Side Program Chicago, IL Enrich the Family Program $25,000 For the Multipliers Program Counseling Center of Lake View $25,000 $15,000 Chicago, IL For the Latino Family Violence La Rabida Children’s Hospital Chicago Health Connection Project and Research Center Chicago, IL $20,000 Chicago, IL For the Peer Counselor Training For the Community Asthma and Placement Program Erie Family Health Center Program for Children $10,000 Chicago, IL $20,000 For the Depression Chicago House and Social Collaborative Program Mobile C.A.R.E. Service Agency $30,000 Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For school outreach to provide For the Family Support Program The Family Institute asthma management care $30,000 Evanston, IL $20,000 For the Community Chicago Women’s Outreach Program Planned Parenthood of Health Center $40,000 the Chicago Area Chicago, IL Chicago, IL For Outreach and Education For the Community Partnership Programs with Chicago Public Schools $20,000 $20,000

26 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION World Relief

CARE Chicago, IL For the Emergency Response Fund $50,000

Urban Leadership Award Church World Service Elkhart, IN Carole Robertson Center For the Emergency for Learning Response Disaster Fund Chicago, IL $50,000 Year-three of a four-year grant to establish the Center Doctors Without Borders USA for Adult Learning New York, NY $100,000 For the Emergency Relief Fund $50,000 Women Employed Institute Chicago, IL Special Purposes Year-three of a four-year grant to research, develop, Independent Sector implement and disseminate Washington, DC career development tools For the annual meeting to help low-income women $7,500 move out of poverty $204,743 Other Grants Grants made to 92 organizations upon the recommendation of the members of the Board of Directors and the Fry family $517,500

High School Initiative

For the fourth year’s activities of a multi-year initiative to improve student achievement and create lasting improvements in the learning environments at six Chicago public high schools $1,309,806

27 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Independent Auditor’s Report

Board of Directors of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

We have audited the statements of financial position of Lloyd A. Fry Foundation as of June 30, 2004, and 2003 and the statements of activities and of cash flows for the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Foundation's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the U.S. generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation as of June 30, 2004 and 2003 and its activities and cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with the U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Chicago, Illinois September 10, 2004

28 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION 2004 Financial Statements

Statements of Financial Position June 30, 2004 June 30, 2003 Assets Cash and equivalent $ 7,034,648 $ 6,845,606 Accrued dividends and interest receivable 357,334 248,178 Excise tax refund receivable 216,670 42,374 Prepaid expenses 19,291 10,269 Marketable securities 156,890,936 141,080,563 Mutual fund 83,935 Investment partnerships 156,250 Furniture and equipment 124,175 173,084 $ 164,799,304 $ 148,484,009

Liabilities and Net Assets Accrued expenses $ 58,403 $ 26,029 Unconditional grants payable 902,045 1,407,241 Deferred federal excise tax 260,425 171,000 1,220,873 1,604,270 Unrestricted net assets 163,578,431 146,879,739 $ 164,799,304 $ 148,484,009

See accompanying notes.

Statements of Activities June 30, 2004 June 30, 2003 Revenue Fixed income investments $ 1,715,583 $ 1,976,797 Dividends 1,539,737 1,488,346 Distributions from Lloyd A. Fry Trusts 1,039,539 1,105,162 4,294,859 4,570,305 Expenditures Grants authorized 7,402,483 8,014,725 Administrative and other expenses 2,182,530 1,929,487 Federal excise tax (benefit) 248,469 (90,930) 9,833,482 9,853,282 Expenditures over revenue (5,538,623) (5,282,977) Net gains (losses) on investments Realized 13,409,653 (4,190,429) Unrealized 8,827,662 (3,700,780) 22,237,315 (489,649) Net increase (decrease) in unrestricted net assets 16,698,692 (5,772,626) Unrestricted net assets Beginning of year 146,879,739 152,652,365 End of year $ 163,578,431 $ 146,879,739

See accompanying notes.

29 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION 2004 Financial Statements

Statements of Cash Flows June 30, 2004 June 30, 2003 Operating activities Net increase (decrease) in unrestricted net assets $ 16,698,692 $ (5,772,626) Depreciation 55,342 57,026 Net realized and unrealized (gains) losses on investments (22,237,315) 489,649 Changes in: Accrued dividends and interest receivable (109,156) 248,354 Excise tax refund receivable (174,296) 17,127 Other assets (9,022) 12,907 Unconditional grants payable (505,196) (689,133) Deferred federal excise tax 89,425 (99,000) Accrued expenses 32,374 14,780 Net cash used in operating activities (6,159,152) (5,720,916) Investing activities Additions to furniture and equipment (6,434) (1,963) Proceeds from sales of investments 121,212,980 128,523,914 Purchases of investments (114,858,352) (120,814,511) Net cash provided by investing activities 6,348,194 7,707,440 Increase in cash and equivalent 189,042 1,986,524 Cash and equivalent Beginning of year 6,845,606 4,859,082 End of year $ 7,034,648 $ 6,845,606

See accompanying notes.

30 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Notes to the Financial Statements

1. Nature of Activities and Significant Accounting Policies Furniture and Equipment Furniture and equipment Nature of Activities Lloyd A. Fry Foundation (the “Foundation”) are stated at cost. Depreciation is being computed over is a nonprofit private charitable foundation that distributes the estimated useful lives of the assets using the straight- grants principally to charitable organizations. line method.

The Foundation is exempt from income taxes under Section Use of Estimates The preparation of financial statements 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and applicable in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting state law. principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions affecting the amounts reported in the financial Investments Investments are stated at market value. statements and accompanying notes. Actual results The fair values of investment partnerships are estimated by could differ from those estimates. management based on the fair value of the assets owned by the partnerships (as determined by managing partners of 2. Distributions from Lloyd A. Fry Trusts the partnerships) and the liquidity of the Foundation’s invest- The Foundation has a residual interest in several trusts ments in those partnerships. The market value of corporate established by the Estate of Lloyd A. Fry. The Trusts made bonds and equity securities traded on national securities distributions to the Foundation of $1,039,539 during fiscal exchanges is the last reported sales price. Purchases and year 2004 (2003–$1,105,162). Future residual amounts sales of securities are accounted for on the trade date. to be received by the Foundation cannot be determined. Interest is recorded as earned and dividends are recorded on the exdividend date. 3. Investment Partnerships Investment partnerships consist of limited partnership Cash Equivalents The Foundation considers all investments interest in venture capital funds, buyout funds, mezzanine purchased with a maturity of three months or less to be cash and subordinated debt funds, and restructuring and equivalents. The Foundation maintains its cash in bank distressed debt and securities funds. The Foundation had accounts which, at times, may exceed federally insured lim- open commitments to make additional partnership invest- its. The Foundation has not experienced any losses in such ments of $4,843,750 at June 30, 2004. accounts. Management believes that the Foundation is not exposed to any significant credit risk on cash.

4. Marketable Securities Marketable securities consisted of the following: 2004 2003 Cost Market Cost Market Equity securities $ 96,952,002 $ 122,538,313 $ 95,646,586 $ 110,613,108 Fixed income investments 34,253,796 34,352,623 28,576,501 30,467,455 $ 131,205,798 $ 156,890,936 $ 124,223,087 $ 141,080,563

31 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Notes to the Financial Statements

5. Grant Commitments 7. Federal Excise Taxes Total unconditional grants payable at June 30, 2004 are The Foundation is classified as a private foundation pur- estimated to be distributed as follows: suant to Section 509(as) of the Internal Revenue Code and, therefore, is subject to an excise tax on net investment 2005 $ 647,045 income, including realized net gains on sales of securities. 2006 255,000 A liability for deferred excise taxes is provided on the unreal- $ 902,045 ized gain on investments and accrued investment income. The tax was provided for at a 1 percent rate for fiscal year The Foundation had approved grants amounting to approxi- 2004 and 2003. Private foundations are also required to mately $4,430,000 at June 30, 2004 (2003–$5,650,000) make minimum annual distributions of grants in accordance which are subject to the satisfaction of prior conditions by with a specified formula. The Foundation met the distribu- the intended recipients before payments will be made. These tion requirement for fiscal years 2004 and 2003. conditional grants are not reflected in the financial statements. 8. Grant Distributions During fiscal 2001, the Foundation established the Chicago During the current year, grants totaling $7,907,679 Public High School Initiative. This five-year funding initiative were paid, including Foundation Grants of $6,167,500, is directed at six high school principals who have demon- Scholarship Grants of $6,370, Urban Leadership Awards strated leadership skills. The Foundation anticipates sup- of $304,744 and payments relating to the High School porting each school with a grant of approximately $250,000 Initiative of $1,429,065. Unconditional grants authorized per year for a five-year period. The grants will be used to but not distributed as of June 30, 2004 totaled $902,045, support programming designed by each school’s principal which included Foundation Grants of $710,000 and Urban that should result in improved student achievement and Leadership Grants of $192,045. Grant expense for fiscal a more rigorous learning environment. Annual grants to be year 2004 consisted of the following: made by the Foundation under this initiative are included in the amount of conditional grants specified in the preceding Unconditional grants payable paragraph and are to be supplemented by matching at June 30, 2003 $(1,407,241) contributions from the schools. Grants approved from July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004 7,907,679 6. Other Commitments Unconditional grants payable at The Foundation is required to make the following minimum June 30, 2004 902,045 annual rental payments under a noncancelable lease for $ 7,402,483 office space through 2010: 9. Employee Benefit Plan 2005 $ 131,894 The organization maintains a Section 403(b) salary reduction 2006 135,840 retirement plan. The plan covers all full-time employees. The 2007 139,918 plan agreement provides for employer contributions based 2008 144,149 on a set percentage of salary up to the annual maximum. 2009 148,453 The Foundation’s contributions for 2004 and 2003 were Thereafter 88,075 $57,124 and $72,429, respectively. $ 788,329

Rental expense (primarily for office space) was approxi- mately $186,000 for fiscal year 2004 (2003–$186,000).

32 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Grantmaking Programs

The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation supports The program descriptions listed below serving low-income workers and job organizations with the strength and provide general information on the seekers. We also support advocacy commitment to address persistent types of activities we most commonly work to improve public policies that problems of urban Chicago resulting fund within each category. They are affect job training and employment from poverty, violence, ignorance not intended to serve as a comprehen- opportunities. and despair. We seek to build the sive or exhaustive list of our grant- capacity of individuals and the making programs. For instructions on The Foundation recognizes that some systems that serve them. Our vision how to apply for a grant, please see our of the most effective employment serv- is a Chicago that offers education, Grant Application Procedures. ices are not stand-alone programs. prosperity and hope for all. Job training, placement and retention Education success frequently depend on access The Foundation is specifically inter- to a range of interconnected services ested in programs that improve Education has been the cornerstone of that can include case management, conditions for low-income, under- our grantmaking since the Foundation’s counseling, or assistance with child served communities. We award inception. Our interest in education care, health care, housing or trans- grants in four major fields: education, relates to improving public education portation. The Foundation encourages community services, health, and and expanding opportunities for inner- the submission of proposals that arts and culture. city youth in Chicago. School reform address the complex factors which and school improvement, school contribute to long-term employment Generally, we give priority to proposals leadership, teacher training, policy and success. See our list of 2004 for the initiation of new programs or advocacy, education outreach, adult Community Services grants. the strategic expansion or enhance- literacy and enrichment programs for ment of existing programming. We disadvantaged youth are among the Health also favor programs that build the activities we fund. For further examples, capacity of the individuals served. see our list of 2004 Education grants. Our grantmaking in health focuses on improving access to quality care for In all program areas, for organizations Community Services Chicago’s low-income residents. We which are or have been grantees of provide support for primary health care the Foundation, we also will consider Community Services funding services, community health outreach proposals for projects that strengthen addresses the Foundation’s commit- activities, advocacy, and prevention- an organization’s capacity to develop, ment to helping families and individu- based health education programming to implement and sustain a high level of als move out of poverty. We are Chicago’s underserved neighborhoods quality services. These projects might especially interested in efforts which and communities. See our list of 2004 include: strategic planning, program help low-income individuals prepare Health grants for further examples. evaluation, board and staff develop- for, find and keep jobs. We support ment, fundraising and the application programs that provide employment- Arts and Culture of technology. related services to low-income individ- uals. These services can include: adult Our arts and culture funding focuses We are also interested in funding education, employment-related literacy on outreach and education programs advocacy activities that focus on and English as a second language, serving inner-city Chicago youth. ensuring that low-income communities vocational training, and job placement We are especially interested in arts and individuals in Chicago are being and job retention services. We support education programs that include a treated fairly and are getting the efforts to improve the quality and training and professional development services they deserve. effectiveness of employment programs component for classroom teachers.

33 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Grant Application Procedures

Grantmaking Programs (cont’d) How to Apply For new and renewal requests, full Other activities funded in this category proposals should contain the following include performance and arts The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation makes elements: education programs for students grants in the following broad fields: in the Chicago Public Schools, special education, community services, 1. A brief history of the organization, outreach projects of the city’s major arts and culture, and health. We including a general statement cultural institutions, and efforts to make grants only to tax-exempt of its primary functions and goals. make the arts accessible to children organizations and rarely fund 2. A project description which throughout Chicago, regardless of organizations outside Chicago. We includes: their economic situation. For further give priority to proposals for specific • A statement of the need to be examples, see our list of 2004 Arts projects rather than for general addressed and the population to and Culture grants. operating support. be served • A description of how the planned In general, we do not make grants Letters of Inquiry project will address the identified for: individuals, general operating need support for new grantees, capital, If you are seeking support for the • Clearly stated goals and objectives endowments, governmental entities, first time or if you are a returning • Plans for assessing and reporting fundraising events, political activities, grantee seeking support for a new the results and impact of the medical research, or religious project, we highly recommend that project’s activities (for further purposes. We rarely fund unsolicited you send us a letter of inquiry before information, see Outcomes and proposals from outside Chicago. you submit a full proposal. This Assessments on our website) would allow us to give you preliminary • A timeline for project activities feedback concerning your request 3. An income and expense budget for and its potential fit within our funding the project during the duration of priorities. Letters of inquiry should the proposed grant. include a brief description of the 4. An operating budget for the proposed project, a project budget, organization with income and and other projected sources of expense projections that pertain support. to the fiscal year in which the project will take place. Proposal Application Procedures 5. A list of current and projected funding sources and amounts We do not use a grant application (government, corporate and form; we accept proposals of varying foundation sources) for both the length that adhere to the procedures organization and the project, for described below. Although we accept the fiscal year in which the project the Chicago Area Common Grant will take place. Application form distributed by the 6. A copy of the organization’s most Donors Forum of Chicago, we consider recent audited financial report. this application a supplement to, rather 7. A list of board members and their than a replacement for, a full proposal. affiliations.

34 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION 8. A list of professional staff of the For further clarification of the organization and resumes of key Foundation’s grantmaking priorities, personnel involved in the project. please refer to the Grantmaking Proposals for organizational Programs page of the Fry Foundation’s capacity-building activities that web site. involve outside consultants should include a copy of the consultant’s Submission Dates and resume and a list of clients. Board Meetings 9. A copy of the organization’s 501(c)(3) tax exemption letter from The Board of Directors meets quarterly the Internal Revenue Service. to consider requests for grants. These 10.9. Returning grantees must submit meetings are held in February, May, a full narrative and financial report August and November. We must on the previous grant before a receive your proposal by 5 p.m. on the new request is considered. We ask deadline date in order to review it at that final reports and proposals the corresponding board meeting: be submitted under separate cover. For more information on this Board Meeting Proposal Deadline subject, see our Grant Reporting February December 1 Requirements on our website. May March 1 August June 1 Renewal Policy November September 1

An organization which has received In the event that a deadline falls on a three years of funding for either general weekend or holiday, requests may be operating support or a specific project submitted by 5 p.m. on the following will generally be asked to take a year off business day. in seeking support during the following year. The Board of Directors recognizes With one exception, we review grant that there may be unusual circum- requests representing all of the stances in which ongoing support for Foundation’s fields of interest at each more than three consecutive years will quarterly meeting. We review propos- be appropriate, but there will be a high als for theater outreach in May only. hurdle after three years. Proposals and letters of inquiry Following a year off, organizations should be sent to: may resubmit proposals for either Ms. Unmi Song general operating support or specific Executive Director project support. These proposals will Lloyd A. Fry Foundation be evaluated under the Foundation’s 120 S. LaSalle Street, Suite 1950 grantmaking priorities. Chicago, IL 60603

35 LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION Board of Directors Staff

David A. Donovan Unmi Song Vice President Executive Director

Lloyd A. Fry III Jill Darrow Seltzer Vice Chairman Executive Director (through December 2003) Stephanie Pace Marshall Vice President Ann Billingsley Senior Program Officer Howard M. McCue III Chairman Sharon Bush Program Officer M. James Termondt President and Treasurer Kaberi Banerjee Murthy Program Officer Unmi Song (through February 2004) Executive Director and Secretary Dimitra Tasiouras Program Officer (through August 2004)

Ernest Vasseur Program Officer

Melissa Hixon Office Manager

Guy A. Sell Consultant

Diane Sotiros Controller

Cornelia G. Speed Grants Administrator

Lisa Torres Secretary

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120 S. LaSalle Street Suite 1950 Chicago, Illinois 60603

Telephone: 312.580.0310 Fax: 312.580.0980 www.fryfoundation.org LY .FRY FOUNDATION LLOYD A. Lloyd A. Fry Foundation 2004 Annual Report 2004 ANNUAL REPORT

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