Grants List
PROMOTE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Albany Park Community Center
www.apcc-chgo.org
$49,000
For citizenship education, voter registration and community service programming
Effective: one-year grant
Bridge Youth and Family Services
www.bridgeyouth.org
$4,500
For the Youth Council
Effective: one-year grant
Chicago Area Project
www.chicagoareaproject.org
$40,000
For general support
Effective: one-year grant
Chicago Public Schools JROTC Program
www.chicagojrotc.org
$50,000
For general support
Effective: one-year grant
Chicago Video Project
www.chicagovideo.com
$25,000
For the Campaign for Public Service
Effective: one-year grant
Chinese Mutual Aid Association
www.chinesemutualaid.org
$50,000
For the U.S. Citizenship Project
Effective: one-year grant
Citizen Advocacy Center
www.citizenadvocacycenter.org
$34,000
For the Civic Empowerment Zone
Effective: one-year grant
City Year Chicago
www.cityyearchicago.org
$50,000
For the Training and Leadership Development Program
Effective: one-year grant
Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago
www.crfc.org
$50,000
For the 2006 Illinois Youth Summit
Effective: one-year grant
The Crib Collective
www.cribcollective.org
$50,000
For the Generation Innovation program
Effective: one-year grant
Executive Service Corps of Chicago
www.esc-chicago.org
$50,000
For volunteer recruitment, training, and placement
Effective: one-year grant
Illinois Campus Compact
www.illinoiscampuscompact.org
$50,000
For McCormick Presidential Leader Fellows and Raise Your Voice Fellows
Effective: one-year grant
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
www.icirr.org
$60,000
For new citizen civic engagement programming
Effective: one-year grant
Illinois Humanities Council
www.prairie.org
$30,000
For the Illinois Capitol Forum on America's Future
Effective: one-year grant
Interfaith Youth Core
www.ifyc.org
$50,000
For the Chicago Fellows Alliance program
Effective: one-year grant
Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation, Inc.
www.mikvachallenge.org
$50,000
For the Active Citizen Project
Effective: one-year grant
Mobilize.org
www.mobilize.org
$10,000
For the Party for the Presidency
Effective: one-year grant
The National Conference on Citizenship
www.ncoc.net
$50,000
For the 2007 Civic Health Index
Effective: one-year grant
National Student Partnerships
www.nspnet.org
$30,000
For volunteer and civic engagement activities
Effective: one-year grant
Northwestern University Civic Education Project
www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep
$17,500
For the 2007 Chicago Civic Leadership Institute and CivicWeek programs
Effective: one-year grant
Polish American Association
www.polish.org
$50,000
For Immigration Services and the Polish American Leadership Project
Effective: one-year grant
University of Illinois at Chicago
www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/CCLP
$50,000
For the Chicago Civic Leadership Certificate Program
Effective: one-year grant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
www.uiuc.edu
$100,000
For the Civic Leadership Program
Effective: one-year grant
University of Wisconsin-Madison
www.wisc.edu
$50,000
For a study of civic education programs
Effective: one-year grant
HONOR SOLDIERS AND VETERANS
AMVETS National Service Foundation
www.amvetsnsf.org
$50,000
For a memorial carillon at the Flanders Field American Cemetery in Waregem, Belgium
Effective: one-year grant
Bugles Across America
www.buglesacrossamerica.org
$15,000
For general support
Effective: one-year grant
Citadel Foundation
www.citadel.edu/tcf
$40,000
For academic scholarships
Effective: one-year grant
Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans
www.helpaveteran.org
$10,000
For general support
Effective: one-year grant
Pritzker Military Library
www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org
$45,000
For general operating support
Effective: one-year grant
Remember Museum 39-45
www.remembermuseum.com
$8,000
For general operating support
Effective: one-year grant
USO of Illinois
www.uso.org/Illinois
$60,000
For general operating support
Effective: one-year grant
FACILITATE CITIZEN DIALOGUE
The Aspen Institute
www.aspeninstitute.org
$25,000
For the Mid-America Foundation CEO Seminar
Effective: one-year grant
American Assembly
www.americanassembly.org
$40,000
For the Next Generation Project’s Midwest Assembly
Effective: one-year grant
Army War College Foundation
www.awcfoundation.org
$25,000
For the National Security Seminar
Effective: one-year grant
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
www.ccfr.org
$400,000
For general support and programming
Effective: one-year grant
Chicago Urban League
www.thechicagourbanleague.org
$45,000
For the Chicago Economic Summit
Effective: one-year grant
Independent Sector
www.independentsector.org
$25,000
For the Annual Conference
Effective: one-year grant
Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society
www.iusafs.org
$25,000
For general support
Effective: one-year grant
International House (at the University of Chicago)
ihouse.uchicago.edu
$30,000
For the World Beyond the Headlines lecture series
Effective: one-year grant
National Strategy Forum
www.nationalstrategy.com
$200,000
For general support and programming
Effective: one-year grant
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE)
www.pacefunders.org
$35,000
For general operating support
Effective: one-year grant
Remy Bumppo Theater Company
www.remybumppo.org
$20,000
For the thinkTank series
Effective: one-year grant
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
www.steppenwolf.org
$25,000
For I Sing America
Effective: one-year grant
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
www.vvmf.org
$50,000
For education and outreach programs
Effective: one-year grant
MISCELLANEOUS
Arts & Business Council of Chicago
www.afpnet.org
$20,000
For the OnBoard and Business Volunteers for the Arts programs
Effective: one-year grant
Indiana University Foundation
www.philanthropy.iupui.edu
$50,000
For general support of the Center on Philanthropy
Effective: one-year grant
Lumity
www.lumity.org
$25,000
For general operating support
Effective: one-year grant
The Philanthropy Roundtable
www.philanthropyroundtable.org
$25,000
For general support
Effective: one-year grant