2007 Grants

This is a list of the Special Initiatives Program grants awarded by the Foundation's Board of Directors last year. For a complete list of all current Special Initiatives Program grants, please click here.

Civic Institutions

Chicago Metropolis 2020, Chicago, IL
www.chicagometropolis2020.org
$250,000
For 2008 general support
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2008

Chicago Public Education Fund, Chicago, IL
www.cpef.org
$1,000,000
For Leadership Fund III to improve school leadership and student achievement
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2012

Corporate Leadership Center NFP, Burr Ridge, IL
www.corporateleadership.org/
$50,000
For a scholarship for a nonprofit leader to participate in the CEO Perspective program at Northwestern's Kellogg School in 2008
Effective: 12/13/2007 - 12/13/2008

Friends of the Chicago River, Chicago, IL
www.chicagoriver.org
$100,000
For capacity building for the McCormick Tribune Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum
Effective: 5/23/2007 - 12/31/2008

Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago, IL
www.metroplanning.org
$200,000
For two years of general operating support
Effective: 3/1/2007 - 2/28/2009

The Chicago Community Foundation, Chicago, IL
www.cct.org
$1,000,000
For support of the 2016 Olympics Fund for Chicago Neighborhoods, which benefits nonprofits and communities impacted by the City's Olympic bid
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009

The Chicago Community Foundation, Chicago, IL
www.thepartnershipfornewcommunities.org
$300,000
For the Partnership for New Communities' workforce development initiative, Opportunity Chicago
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009

University of Illinois Foundation, Chicago, IL
www.ceasefirechicago.org
$500,000
For renewed general support of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention
Effective: 1/10/2008 - 12/31/2009

Cultural Institutions

Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL
www.chfestival.org
$200,000
For renewed festival support in 2008 and 2009
Effective: 12/13/2007 - 12/13/2009

Lincoln Park Zoological Society, Chicago, IL
www.lpzoo.com
$500,000
For restoration of the south pond and environmental education programs
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2010

Health Institutions

Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
www.childrensmemorial.org
$5,000,000
For the campaign to support the new hospital in Streeterville
Effective: 6/1/2007 - 6/30/2012

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
www.ric.org
$580,000
For the Healing Military Heroes Fund
Effective: 3/1/2007 - 12/31/2009

Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
www.rush.edu
$472,875
For a preschool social emotional learning initiative at Rush Neurobehavioral Center
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2010

Social Service Institutions

Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired, Chicago, IL
www.thechicagolighthouse.org
$480,000
For support of the Birth to Three program and adaptive technology services for youth over three years
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2010

Chicago Youth Centers, Chicago, IL
www.chicagoyouthcenters.org
$150,000
For The Language Arts and Media Center at Centro Nuestro in Humboldt Park, as part of CYC's 50th Anniversary campaign
Effective: 3/1/2007 - 2/28/2009

Have Dreams, Park Ridge, IL
www.havedreams.org
$500,000
For expansion of its Communication and Independent Life Skills program for children with autism
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2011

Juvenile Protective Association, Chicago, IL
www.juvenile.org
$100,000
For the "Building Bridges to North Lawndale" program
Effective: 12/13/2007 - 12/31/2008

Non-Chicago Institutions

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, Washington, DC
www.lincolnbicentennial.gov
$500,000
For the rededication of the Lincoln Memorial and accompanying naturalization ceremony in April 2009
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009

Michigan State University College of Communication Arts & Sciences, East Lansing, MI
www.cas.msu.edu
$397,000
For preservation and digitization of a collection of Chicago Tribune newspapers
Effective: 1/1/2008 - 6/30/2010