McCormick Tribune Foundation Board Approves Third-Quarter Grants to 41 Agencies
New grants affirm commitment to children, communities and country
CHICAGO, November 3, 2006
The McCormick Tribune Foundation board of directors continued its commitment to children, communities and
country by approving a total of $6.9 million to 41 agencies throughout the nation. More than $2.2 million
of that amount will go to Chicago-area organizations. (For a complete record of grants awarded, please see
attached listing).
“The McCormick Tribune Foundation is committed to ensuring our work is linked to today’s most pressing
societal needs,” said David L. Grange, president and chief executive officer of the McCormick Tribune Foundation.
“This quarter, we actively pursued synergies between our grantmaking areas, museums and recreational services.
This unified focus continues to make big things possible for our children, communities and country.”
To keep early care and education issues at the forefront of the state and local legislative policy agendas,
the foundation approved $350,000 grants each to Illinois Action for Children and the Ounce of Prevention Fund.
These grants will support public policy efforts to build a high quality system of care and education for all
children with the priority placed on the needs of low-income working parents.
Aligned with the Foundation’s commitment to addressing community needs, a $175,000 grant was approved for
Children’s Bureau of Southern California through its communities program’s KTLA-TV Charities Fund (Los Angeles).
The grant will fund Families Unlimited, a child abuse prevention and treatment program for 5,200 low-income
children, under the age of six, and their parents.
The foundation also awarded $750,000 to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH),
an organization aligned with the Foundation’s belief that a well-educated citizenry is important to preserving
America’s free, democratic society. The grant will help fund the Star-Spangled Banner Gallery, which will preserve
and display the American flag that inspired the National Anthem in a new exhibit space within the remodeled NMAH
building.
In addition, the board authorized the journalism program to launch a new youth voices initiative that will
invest in teen journalism projects. The board also approved $200,000 for a series of specialized reporting
institutes that will improve journalists’ ability to cover timely, complex topics that are vital for citizen
knowledge and engagement. Topics for consideration include immigrant remittances, presidential primaries and
post-traumatic disorder of soldiers returning from Iraq.
Third-quarter grants include:
Communities Program Grants |
| WB2 Gives Fund (Denver) |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Denver |
$119,000 |
| JA Worldwide |
$156,000 |
| KSWB Cares for Kids Fund (San Diego) |
| Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Inland North County |
$126,000 |
| St. Vincent de Paul Village, Inc. |
$112,000 |
| YMCA of San Diego County – Magdalena Ecke Branch |
$126,000 |
| KTLA-TV Charities Fund (Los Angeles) |
| Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood |
$130,000 |
| Children’s Bureau of Southern California |
$175,000 |
| LA’s BEST |
$280,000 |
| ABC 26/WB38 Children First (New Orleans) |
| Bridge House Corporation |
$203,000 |
| Fox 61 Family Fund (Hartford) |
| National Conference for Community and Justice |
$250,000 |
| Orlando Sentinel Family Fund |
| Boys & Girls Club of Volusia County |
$161,000 |
| Philadelphia’s WB17 Cares |
| Support Center for Child Advocates |
$120,000 |
| Q13 Fox Cares Fund (Seattle) |
| JA Worldwide |
$160,000 |
| Sun-Sentinel Children’s Fund (Ft. Lauderdale) |
| Broward Partnership for the Homeless |
$125,000 |
| WB33 Kids Fund (Dallas) |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation |
$161,000 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society – North Texas Chapter |
$175,000 |
| Total |
$2,579,000 |
Education Program Grants |
| Public Policy |
| Illinois Action for Children |
$350,000 |
| Ounce of Prevention Fund |
$350,000 |
| Quality Assurance Strategies |
| Dolores Kohl Education Foundation – Teaching Awards |
$250,000 |
| Dolores Kohl Education Foundation – StoryBus |
$605,000 |
| Total |
$1,555,000 |
Journalism Program Grants |
| Free Speech |
| The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press |
$125,000 |
| World Press Institute |
$75,000 |
| News Leadership |
| American Society of Newspaper Editors Foundation, Inc. |
$150,000 |
| Community Renewal Society |
$100,000 |
| International Women’s Media Foundation |
$75,000 |
| Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education |
$100,000 |
| Minnesota Public Radio / American Public Media |
$75,000 |
| Northwestern University – Media Management Center |
$300,000 |
| National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation |
$50,000 |
| NAMME Foundation |
$125,000
| Pacific News Service |
$100,000 |
| Radio & Television News Directors Foundation |
$150,000 |
| Journalism Education |
| Center for Media and Security, Ltd. |
$80,000 |
| International Center for Journalists, Inc. |
$100,000 |
| Northwestern University – Medill School of Journalism |
$80,000 |
| Youth Voices |
| Columbia College |
$105,000 |
| Illinois First Amendment Center |
$80,000 |
| Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum |
$50,000 |
| Radio and Television News Directors Foundation |
$60,000 |
| Student Press Law Center |
$50,000 |
| Total |
$2,030,000 |
Special Initiatives Program Grants |
| Non-Chicago Institution |
| Smithsonian Institution – National Museum of American History |
$750,000 |
| Total |
$750,000 |
| Third-Quarter Grand Total |
$6,914,000 |
McCormick Tribune Foundation
The McCormick Tribune Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to making life better for our
children, communities and country. Through its charitable grantmaking programs, Cantigny Park and Golf,
Cantigny First Division Foundation and the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, the Foundation is able to positively
impact people’s lives and stay true to its mission of advancing the ideals of a free, democratic society.
The Foundation is an independent nonprofit, separate from the Tribune Co., with substantial holdings in the
Tribune Co. For more information, please visit our Web site www.McCormickTribune.org.
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