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2001

 

 

Albany Park Community Center
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the YouthNet 17 program
$5,000.00

Chicago Public Library Foundation
Chicago, IL
Operating support for Bookamania Week
$25,000.00

Music and Dance Theater
Chicago, IL
Design and construction of a theater for
Chicago's mid-sized performing arts companies
$100,000.00

Alternatives, Inc.
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Girl World program
$10,000.00

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
Project support for the broadcast of the 2000-2001 season
on WFMT-FM
$75,000.00

Music Institute of Chicago
Winnetka, IL
Operating support for Institute for Therapy Through the Arts
$10,000.00

American Heart Association
Chicago, IL
Project support for the CPR in the Chicago Public Schools program
$75,000.00

Chicago Women's Health Center
Chicago, IL
Operating support for outreach and education
$5,000.00

Music Theater Workshop
Chicago, IL
Operating support of writing and drama programs for female juvenile offenders
$10,000.00

Anixter Center/Chicago Hearing Society
Chicago, IL
Operating support to expand the Youth Program
$15,000.00

Chicago Youth Programs
Chicago, IL
Operating support of the Teen Career and Children Teaching Children programs at the Cabrini Green, Washington Park, and Uptown sites in Chicago
$15,000.00

National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, WI
A Challenge Grant to stimulate local giving for construction of an enclosed facility to protect and present its priceless core collection
$100,000.00

Apna Ghar
Chicago
, IL
Operating support for capacity building
$5,000.00

ChicSpeare Production Company
Chicago, IL
Operating support for audience expansion
$3,000.00

The Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Newberry Consort's senior community project
$5,000.00

Apna Ghar
Chicago
, IL
General operating support
$10,000.00

Children's Place Association
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Day Care Program for HIV/AIDS-affected children
$20,000.00

The Night Ministry
Chicago, IL
Operating support of the Open Door Youth Emergency Shelter
$30,000.00

Art Encounter
Evanston, IL
Operating support for the Linking Generations project
$2,300.00

Child's Play Touring Theater
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Chicago Young Writers program
$5,000.00

Ounce of Prevention Fund
Chicago, IL
Operating support for adding a music component to the Early Childhood Arts Initiative
$5,000.00

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support of educational programming for "2001: Building for Space Travel" and "Modern Trains and Splendid Stations
$80,000.00

Columbia College
Chicago, IL
Operating support of services to Chicago Public FIne and Performing Arts Magnet schools
$10,000.00

The Peach Club
Chicago, IL
Operating support for arts programming at Mahalia Jackson Public School
$5,000.00

Art Resources in Teaching
Chicago, IL
Project support to evaluate art residencies at seven Chicago Public Schools
$7,500.00

Dominican University
River Forest
, IL
Operating support for the Leadership Education and Development program
$15,000.00

Rape Victim Advocates
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Adolescent Program
$7,000.00

After School Matters
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the 2001 Application Sessions
$30,000.00

Donor's Forum Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support for Giving Greater Chicago, f/k/a Greater Chicago Philanthropy Initiative
$25,000.00

Rehabiliation Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Computer Skills Learning Center and the Health Resource Center for Women with Disabilities
$10,000.00

Associated Colleges of Illinois
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the College Readiness program
$10,000.00

Executive Service Corps of Chicago
Chicago, IL
General operating support
$15,000.00

The Resurrection Project
Chicago, IL
Operating suppport for the Supportive Housing program
$10,000.00

Better Existence with HIV
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Safe Start program
$5,000.00

Family Rescue
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Ridgeland Transitional Living and Day Care Center program
$10,000.00

St. Vincent de Paul Center
Chicago, IL
Operating support for Laboure House, an intergenerational residential living facilty
$10,000.00

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Neighborhood Outreach program
$25,000.00

Goodman Theatre
Chicago, IL
Operating support of the CHA Youth Drama Workshop and Youth Drama Too!, the Goodman/Yollocalli Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum workshop, and the Student Subscription Series
$125,000.00


Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine
Chicago, IL
Operating support to expand the Footcare for the Homeless program
$5,000.00

Black Ensemble Theater
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Arts for Parents in School Communities program
$10,000.00

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Writers in the Schools program
$5,000.00

Horizon Hospice
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Indigent and Uncompensated Care program
$7,500.00

Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Salary support for the Physical Education Director at the Robert Taylor Club
$30,000.00

Housing Opportunities & Maintenance for the Elderly (H.O.M.E.)
Chicago, IL
Operating support for housing assistance programs and services
$10,000.00

Snow City Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Artist-in-Residence program
$5,000.00

Brain Research Foundation
Chicago, IL
Project support to plan the Core Genetics Research Facility
$82,500.00

Housing Opportunites for Women
Chicago, IL
Operating program support for the family program
$10,000.00

South Austin Job Referral Service
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Job Search Center
$5,000.00

Cambodian Association of Illinois
Chicago, IL
Project support for strengthening Cambodian American Families
$30,000.00

Howard Brown Health Center
Chicago, IL
Salary support for a Primary Care Social Worker
$20,000.00

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Drop-in programs
$10,000.00

Carole Robertson Center for Learning
Chicago, IL
Operating support of a partnership with the Old Town School of Folk Music in a music education program
$5,000.00

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
Project support to train and recruit young dancers to perform outreach to youth throughout Chicagoland
$50,000.00

Suzuki-Orff School for Young Musicians
Chicago, IL
Operating support for outreach programs
$5,000.00

Catholic Charities
Chicago, IL
Operating support of counseling and case management at the House of the Good Shepherd
$10,000.00

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra
Park
Forest, IL
Operating support for the Artists-in-the-Schools program
$7,500.00

Teach for America
Chicago, IL
Operating support to recruit, select, and train new teachers in the Chicago Public Schools
$5,000.00

Centro San Bonifacio
Chicago
, IL
Operating support for the Multipiers program
$5,000.00

Inspired Partnerships
Chicago, IL
General operating support
$20,000.00

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Cultural Policy program
$50,000.00

Chicago Abused Women Coalition
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Greenhouse Shelter
$10,000.00

Lathrop Community Music Center
Chicago, IL
Operating support for music lessons and instrument rental
$5,000.00

Urban Retreat
Chicago, IL
General operating support
$5,000.00

The Chicago Community Trust
Chicago, IL
Challenge Grant support for the Young Leaders Fund
$47,650.00

Lawrence Hall Youth Services
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Expressive Therapies program
$150,000.00

Urban Gateways
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Cultural Enrichment Program: Healthy Child
$25,000.00

The Chicago Ensemble
Chicago, IL
Project support for audience expansion and diversification
$4,000.00

Legal Aid Bureau of Metropolitian Chicago
Chicago, IL
A Challenge Grant to stimulate new and increased fundraising, as well as provide salary support for the development and administrative staff
$122,259.38

WFMT
Chicago, IL
National sponsorship of two live opening night
Lyric Opera broadcasts
$116,000.00

Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
Sponsorship of the Making History Awards
$80,000.00

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Sponsorship of the 2001 Stars of Lyric Opera Concert in Grant Park
$150,000.00

Window to the World Communications/The Orchestral Association
Chicago, IL
A Challenge Grant to stimulate financial support of the national broadcast of Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts
$200,000.00

Chicago House
Chicago, IL
General operating support
$15,000.00

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Sponsorship of "Susanah"
$250,000.00

 

Women in the Director's Chair
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the "Inside-Out" workshop series at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center
$5,000.00

Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago, IL
Sponsorship of the Children's Humanities Festival
$50,000.00

Miller Art Musuem
Sturgeon Bay
, WI
Operating support for the Cultural Contemporary Indian Art exhibition
$11,000.00

 

Zephyr Dance
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Power Girls program
$5,000.00

 

Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Birth-to-Three Family Intervention program
$20,000.00

Misericordia Heart of Mercy
Chicago, IL
Operating support for therapy programs
$5,000.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

2002

 

 

About Face Theatre
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Youth Theatre Project and the Educational Outreach Tour
$5,000.00

Donors Forum of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support for Greater Giving
Chicago
$25,000.00

Matthew House
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the expansion of Operation H.O.P.E.
$15,000.00

Access Community Health Network
Chicago, IL
Salary support for a nurse who will focus on the clinical, educational, and outreach components of the asthma program
$50,000.00

eAngel
Winnetka, IL
Operating support for expansion of its website
$10,000.00

Metropolitan Chicago Council of Hostelling International
Chicago, IL
Renovation of 24 East Congress as a year-round youth hostel and center
$50,000.00

AIDS Care
Chicago, IL
General operating support
$5,000.00

Elmhurst College
Elmhurst, IL
Project support for the assessment of the effectiveness of arts training on the cognitive and emotional health of older adults living at
Plymouth Place
$5,000.00

Miller Art Museum
Sturgeon Bay
, WI

Operating support for the Children's Carnival of Art exhibit
$5,000.00

AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support to train and provide technical assistance to Service Providers Council members
$10,000.00

Environmental Law & Policy Center
Chicago, IL
Project support to develop a media campaign for the
Midwest High-Speed Rail Network Project
$50,000.00

Miller Art Museum
Sturgeon Bay
, WI

General operating support
$5,000.00

AIDS Legal Council of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the HIV+ Immigration Rights Project
$5,000.00

ETA Creative Art Foundation
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Showfolk Daytime Performance Series for Children and the Playwriting/Creative Dramatics program
$10,000.00

Music and Dance Theater Chicago
Chicago, IL
Project support for a community event celebrating the beginning of construction of a new theater for
Chicago's mid-sized performing arts companies
$10,000.00

AirLifeLine Midwest
Peoria, IL
Operating support for transporting people with emergency medical or humanitarian needs throughout the Chicago metropolitan region
$5,000.00

FamilyCare of Illinois
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the GranConnections programs
$20,000.00

NAMES Project Chicago
Chicago, IL
General support for Project CANVAS
$5,000.00

Apna Ghar
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Child Advocacy program
$10,000.00

Family Focus
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Prevention Initiative
, Primary Prevention, and Family Resource Services programs $3,000.00

National Railroad Museum
Green Bay, WI
A Challenge Grant to stimulate local giving for construction of an enclosed facility to protect and present its priceless core collection
$100,000.00

Arch-treasures
Chicago, IL
Operating support of an
East Garfield Park partnership, building a garden gallery at Willa Cather Elementary School, and spring service learning workshops with students at Roberto Clemente High School
$5,000.00

Friends of the Chicago River
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the
Chicago River School Network
$5,000.00

Near West Side Community Development Corp.
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Home Visitors program
$2,500.00

Art Encounter
Evanston, IL
Operating support to develop programs at
North Kenwood Oakland Charter School
$5,000.00

Gads Hill Center
Chicago, IL
Operating support of the
Gads Hill Child Care Center for Families and Neighbors at Mt. Sinai Hospital
$2,500.00

The Night Ministry
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Open Door Youth Emergency Shelter
$30,000.00

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support for "Window on the West: Artists and Patrons of the New Frontier, 1890-1940"
$200,000.00

GLSEN Chicago
Chicago, IL
A Challenge Grant to support the Speakers Bureau
$19,520.00

The Night Ministry
Chicago, IL
General operating support
$5,000.00

Art Resources in Teaching
Chicago, IL
Operating support for artist residencies in six Chicago Public Schools
$50,000.00

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
Operating support for youth education programs
$5,000.00

North Shore Senior Center
Northfield, IL
Operating support for the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren program
$5,000.00

Arts & Business Council of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support for educational programs
$5,000.00

Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Schweitzer Fellows program
$5,000.00

Northwest Symphony Orchestra
Mt. Prospect, IL
General operating support
$500.00

BeyondMedia
Chicago
, IL

Operating support for "Girls! Action! Media!"
$5,000.00

Hephzibah Children's Association
Oak Park, IL
Operating support for the Community Family Support program
$10,000.00

Old Town School of Folk Music
Chicago, IL
Project support for the Ethnic and Minority Audience Development Initiative
$25,000.00

Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
Chicago, IL
General operating support
$5,000.00

Horizon Hospice
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Physician Education in Hospice and Palliative Medical Care program
$5,000.00

Open Hand
Chicago, IL
General operating support
$5,000.00

Chapin Hall Center for Children
Chicago, IL
Project support for research on primary social supports in inner-city neighborhoods
$30,000.00

Horizons Community Services
Chicago, IL
Operating support of fundraising, public relations, and community outreach efforts for the Center
$105,000.00

Orchestral Association of Chicago/Civic Orchestra
Chicago, IL
Project support for scholarships, the Chamber Ensemble series, and the National Audition Tour
$145,167.00

Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, IL
Operating support for curriculum development, a teacher workshop, and youth education program expansion
$50,000.00

Horizons Community Services Chicago, IL
Operating support for the expansion of the Mature Adult program
$35,000.00

Parkways Foundation
Chicago, IL
Project support for the development of a playground at
Kenwood Community Park in Chicago
$10,000.00

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Chicago, IL
Operating support for professional development courses and workshops
$5,000.00

Howard Area Community Center Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Parent Education project
$5,000.00

PCC Community Wellness Center
Oak Park, IL
Operating support for the Community Health Nursing Department's Healthy Steps program
$5,000.00

The Chicago Community Trust
Chicago, IL
Challenge Grant support for the Young Leaders Fund
$47,543.00

Howard Brown Health Center
Chicago, IL
Salary support for the Primary Care Social Worker
$20,000.00

Polish American Association
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Senior Program
$5,000.00

The Chicago Ensemble
Chicago, IL
Project support for audience expansion and diversification
$4,000.00

Imagination Theater
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Deaf Children project
$2,500.00

Rainbow House
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the children's program at the Little Village Community Resource site
$5,000.00

Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
Sponsorship of the Making History Awards
$80,000.00

Infant Welfare Society of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Providing Access to Healthcare project
$25,000.00

Roadworks Productions
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the
Open Road program
$5,000.00

Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
Project support for the Teen Initiative
$50,000.00

Institute for Psychoanalysis
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Barr-Harris Children's
Grief Center
$10,000.00

Rochelle Lee Fund
Chicago, IL
General operating support
$5,000.00

Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Children's Humanities Festival
$10,000.00

Interfaith House
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the
Respite Center
$20,000.00

St. Leonard's Ministries
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the
Adult High School program
$5,000.00

The Chicago Lighthouse
Chicago, IL
Operating support of the Birth-to-Three Family Invention program
$20,000.00

Jane Addams Resource Center
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the adult literacy program
$5,000.00

Salvation Army
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the summer day camp at Evangeline Booth Lodge
$5,000.00

Chicago Mutual Housing Network
Chicago, IL
Operating support of the Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities program
$50,000.00

Joel Hall Dancers & Center

Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Dance as a Language program and the Joel Hall Dancers Preparatory Training Ensemble
$10,000.00

Scrap Mettle Soul
Chicago, IL
Operating support for "Moving to Health"
$5,000.00

Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
Project support for development and marketing upgrades, expansion of the Director of Finance and Administration position, and expansion and upgrade of the Development/Marketing Department's technological, research, and database capabilities
$100,000.00

Legal Aid Bureau of Metropolitan Family Services

Chicago, IL
A Challenge Grant to stimulate new and increased fundraising, as well as provide salary support for development and administrative staff
$46,433.74

Shorebank Neighborhood Institute
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Studio Air program
$5,000.00

Chicago Public Library Foundation
Chicago, IL
Sponsorship of Bookmania Week
$50,000.00

Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago

Chicago, IL
Salary support for an attorney who will provide legal representation to seniors
$10,000.00
 

Southwest Women Working Together
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Counseling program
$15,000.00

Chicago Youth Programs
Chicago, IL
Operating support for programs in the Cabrini Green, Washington Park, and Uptown neighborhoods
$5,000.00

Lekotek of Evanstion

Evanston, IL
Operating support for the Compuplay program
$5,000.00
 

STEP, Inc.
Chicago, IL
Salary support for a therapist in the Community Day Treatment program
$5,000.00

Claretian Associates
Chicago, IL
Operating support of arts programming for youth at the South
Chicago Art Center
$5,000.00

Literature for All of Us

Chicago, IL
General operating support
$5,000.00

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Arts Exchange program
$20,000.00

Community Renewal Society
Chicago, IL
Operating support for Sanctuary for Youth
$10,000.00

Live Bait Theater

Chicago, IL

Operating support for the "Bait, Hook, and Read" outreach program
$3,000.00

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Operating support of the Cultural Policy program
$50,000.00

Community Health
Chicago
, IL

General operating support
$5,000.00

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Chicago, IL
Annual Campaign Challenge Grant in support of the 2001-2002 season

$200,000.00 

Women Employed Institute
Chicago, IL
Operating support for the Career Links youth mentoring program
$5,000.00

Council for Jewish Elderly
Chicago, IL
Operating support for expansion of its program to suburban seniors
$15,000.00

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Chicago, IL
Sponsorship of the 2002 Stars of Lyric Opera Concert in Grant Park

$150,000.00 

 

Counseling Center of Lake View
Chicago, IL
Salary support for a clinical therapist in the homeless youth program
$26,000.00

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Co-sponsoring of the spring re-broadcast of the 2001-2002 season on WFMT
$50,000.00

 


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