CHICAGO, IL
Chicago Tribune Charities
Total $4,540,000
Improves the lives of disadvantaged
children, adults and families by
supporting basic needs such as
hunger and housing; promoting
family development; improving
employment prospects; and
developing literacy skills.
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
For Supportive Housing Initiatives program
$25,000
AIDSCARE, Inc.
For family programs at Sawyer Gardens and Garden View apartments
$25,000
Albany Park Community Center, Inc.
For Veterans' Workforce Development program
$10,000
Albany Park Community Center, Inc.
For Adult Literacy Tutoring program
$20,000
American Indian Center, Inc.
For Community Hunger Initiatives
$15,000
Asian Human Services of Chicago, Inc.
For Literacy Education for Adults and Families (LEAF) program
$30,000
Association House of Chicago
For Out of School Time program
$10,000
Beacon Therapeutic School, Inc.
For Family Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) project
$100,000
Beacon Therapeutic School, Inc.
For Family Assertive Community Treatment program
$20,000
Breaking Ground
For Breaking Ground's APL Teaching Factory program
$20,000
Bridge Communities Inc.
For Transitional Housing program
$15,000
Bridge Youth & Family Services
For Bridge Traumatic Stress program
$25,000
Cabrini-Green Tutoring Program, Inc.
For the After School Tutoring Program
$5,000
Cambodian Association of Illinois
For Employment program
$15,000
Campus Kitchens Project, Inc.
For Campus Kitchen at Northwestern University program
$10,000
Cara Program
For general support
$55,000
Carole Robertson Center for Learning
For Adult Literacy (25,000) and Family Literacy Development (20,000) programs
$45,000
Casa Norte
For the Solid Ground program
$10,000
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
For Parish Emergency Assistance Resource Network program
$40,000
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Joliet, Inc.
For Daybreak Center Transitional Housing program
$15,000
Center for Labor and Community Research
For Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council program
$25,000
Centro Romero
For Lets Go Learn Reading Assessment Tool
$4,300
Centro Romero
For After School program
$10,000
Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness
For general support
$65,000
Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation
For Healthy Food program
$35,000
Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation
For Oliver's Kitchen program
$20,000
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center
For Mental Health program
$40,000
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
For general support
$35,000
Chicago House and Social Service Agency
For iFOUR Employment program
$25,000
Chicago Jobs Council
For general support
$90,000
Chicago Lights
For the Tutoring Program's Literacy Initiative
$10,000
Chicago Public Library Foundation
For Chicago Reads Together Early Literacy program
$35,000
Chicago Rehabilitation Network
For general support
$40,000
Chicago Women In Trades
For Technical Opportunities program
$40,000
Chicago Youth Programs, Inc.
For Path to Reading Literacy programs (restricted to K-3rd grade)
$20,000
Children's Advocacy Center
For Safe From the Start program
$35,000
Children's Home & Aid Society of Illinois
For After School and Summer Reading program
$20,000
Chinese Mutual Aid Association
For Family Literacy Club program
$10,000
Christian Outreach Of Lutherans
For COOL Food Pantry program
$30,000
Christopher House
For Building Thriving Families Through Social Work Services
$40,000
Christopher House
For Adult Literacy program
$19,000
Community Help Center
For Adult Literacy program
$10,000
Connections for Abused Women and their Children
For Children's Services
$40,000
Connections for the Homeless, Inc.
For Family Housing program
$10,000
Corazon A Corazon
For Adult ESL Literacy program
$10,000
Council for Jewish Elderly
For Home Delivered Meals program
$20,000
Crisis Center For South Suburbia
For Children's Services
$40,000
De La Salle Institute
For Adult Literacy ($30,000) and Family Literacy ($35,000) programs
$65,000
Dominican Literacy Center Aurora
For Adult Literacy program
$20,000
DuPage P.A.D.S., Inc.
For Case Management for Families program
$15,000
Easter Seals Joliet Region, Inc.
For Regional Autism Diagnostic Clinic and Related Services
$35,000
El Valor Corporation
For STARS Reading program
$20,000
Emergency Fund
For Financial Assistance program
$35,000
Erie Neighborhood House
For Adult Literacy program ($30,000) and Partners in Reading ($10,000)
$40,000
Family Focus, Inc.
For Outcome/Evaluation Capacity Building Project
$4,500
Family Matters, Inc.
For Evening Tutoring and IRead programs
$5,000
Family Matters, Inc.
For Scholastic Reading Inventory Assessment Tool
$3,300
Family Rescue
For Children's Residential Services
$45,000
Family Shelter Service, Inc.
For Children's Program
$30,000
Feeding America
For Produce program
$40,000
Glen Ellyn Community Resource Center
For After-School & Summer Literacy program
$10,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository
For general support
$245,000
Greater Roseland/West Pullman Food Network
For MENU program
$15,000
Harborquest, Inc.
For Member Services program
$40,000
Heartland Human Care Services, Inc.
For Transitional Jobs program
$45,000
Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, LLC
For Domestic Violence and Mental Health Policy Initiative project
$20,000
Hinsdale Community Service
For Homeless Prevention Services
$10,000
House of the Good Shepherd
For Children and Family Services program
$25,000
Housing Action Illinois
For support of Chicago-area programs
$30,000
Housing Opportunities For Women
For general support
$50,000
Howard Area Community Center
For Howard Area Anti-Hunger Network program
$25,000
Howard Area Community Center
For Employment Resource Center program
$15,000
Howard Area Community Center
For Adult Education ($25,000) and After-School Literacy ($15,000) programs
$40,000
Howard Area Community Center
For BEST Plus Diagnostic Assessment Test
$3,400
Hull House Association
For Family Literacy program
$30,000
Illinois Hunger Coalition
For Building Blocks Child Nutrition program
$15,000
Illinois Migrant Council
For Farmworker Housing Services program
$15,000
Inner-City Computer Stars Foundation
For general support
$25,000
Inspiration Corporation
For Training and Employment Services program
$45,000
Inspiration Corporation
For Housing Services program for families
$25,000
Institute for Latino Progress (Instituto del Progreso Latino)
For Carreras en Salud (Health Careers) program
$50,000
Institute for Latino Progress (Instituto del Progreso Latino)
For Family Literacy program
$25,000
Interfaith Council For The Homeless
For Shelter Graduates program
$25,000
Jane Addams Resource Corporation
For Adult Literacy program
$15,000
Jewish Child and Family Services
For Parenting Education and Support program
$15,000
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
For Uptown Cafe program
$10,000
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
For Job Readiness Training program
$15,000
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
For EZRA Tenant Support Project
$15,000
Juvenile Protective Association
For Parent-Infant Services program
$35,000
Kids Hope United
For Wings/Healthy Families program
$35,000
Korean American Resource and Cultural Center
For Adult Literacy program
$15,000
Lambs, Inc.
For general support
$20,000
La Rabida Children's Hospital and Research Center
For Family Therapy program
$25,000
Latin Center - Universidad Popular
For Family Literacy program
$20,000
Latin United Community Housing Association
For Supportive Housing program
$5,000
Lawyers' Committee For Better Housing
For Homeless Prevention Services
$20,000
Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago
For Housing Law Project
$15,000
Literacy Volunteers Fox Valley A Proliteracy America Affiliate
For Adult Literacy program
$15,000
Literacy Volunteers of America - DuPage, Inc.
For Adult Literacy program
$25,000
Literacy Works
For Adult Volunteer Tutor Training program
$40,000
Little Brothers - Friends of The Elderly
For Elder Food program
$15,000
Local Economic and Employment Development Council, Inc.
For Workforce Development programs
$25,000
Lydia Home Association
For Safe Families Parent Child Interaction Therapy program
$20,000
McHenry County College
For Adult Literacy program
$20,000
Mercy Housing Lakefront
For Chicago Family Supportive Housing program- Wentworth & Holland Cluster
$25,000
Metropolitan Tenants Organization
For Homeless Prevention Services
$20,000
Misericordia Home/Heart of Mercy Center
For general support
$20,000
Morton College
For Adult Literacy program
$35,000
Mujeres Latinas en Accion
For Parent Training program
$30,000
National Able Network, Inc.
For Able Career Institute
$40,000
National Latino Education Institute
For Workforce Development Initiatives program
$40,000
NCO Youth & Family Services
For Youth in Transition program
$10,000
Nicasa, NFP
For Parent Empowerment program
$25,000
Nicasa, NFP
For Parenting Stress Index Assessment
$4,500
Night Ministry
For Open Door Youth Shelter Interim program
$30,000
North Lawndale Employment Network
For U-Turn Permitted program
$45,000
North Lawndale Employment Network
For UrbanPonics Green Jobs program
$5,000
Northern Illinois Food Bank
For general support
$215,000
Northwest Neighborhood Federation
For Adult ESL Literacy program
$5,000
Northwestern University Settlement
For West Town Food Distribution Network program
$30,000
Pads Inc. - Public Action To Deliver Shelter, Inc.
For Transitional Living Community program
$10,000
Parenthesis, Inc.
For Parenteen, Parenting On Our Own and Family Wrap programs
$30,000
Parenthesis, Inc.
For Adult Adolescent Parenting Inventory Assessment
$4,500
People's Resource Center
For Basic Services program
$35,000
People's Resource Center
For Homeless Prevention program
$20,000
People's Resource Center
For Adult Literacy program
$15,000
Pillars Community Services
For Safe From the Start program
$15,000
Pioneer Center for Human Services
For Family Transitional Housing program
$5,000
Poder Learning Center
For Adult ESL program
$15,000
Project Match Families in Transition Association
For Employment program
$15,000
Public Private Ventures
For Chicago ARRA Workforce Development Evaluation Framework
$35,000
Pui Tak Center
For ESL program
$30,000
Reading in Motion
For Reading Training Institute for Staff and Volunteer Educators serving low income students
$20,000
Reading in Motion
For Benchmarks Reading program
$30,000
Renaissance Social Services, Inc.
For Housing Stability program for families
$10,000
Residents For Effective Shelter Transitions
For Uptown Neighborhood Feeding program
$15,000
Respond Now
For Family Homelessness Prevention program
$20,000
Safer Foundation
For Policy and Advocacy program
$25,000
Safer Foundation
For ARRA Job Club
$15,000
The Salvation Army, Metropolitan Division
For Harbor Light Mobile Outreach program
$15,000
SGA Youth & Family Services
For Parents Too Soon program
$35,000
South Suburban Family Shelter
For Children's Counseling program
$40,000
Spanish Coalition for Housing
For Homeless Prevention Initiative
$15,000
St. Leonard's Ministries
For Michael Barlow Employment Center program
$40,000
St. Leonard's Ministries
For Grace House Family Reunification program
$15,000
St. Leonard's Ministries
For Greening of St. Leonard's Ministries Campus
$5,000
Tapfound, Inc.
For Chicago-area Service Grant Sponsorships program
$12,000
Teen Living Programs, Inc.
For general support
$35,000
Teen Parent Connection, Inc.
Adolescent Family Strengthening Programs
$40,000
Teen Parent Connection, Inc.
For Outcome Assessment Tool Capacity Building
$4,500
Thresholds
For Homeless Families program
$25,000
Together We Cope
For Rent and Utility Assistance for Families
$20,000
Township High School District 214 Community Education Foundation
For the Adult ($20,000) and Family ($35,000) Literacy programs
$55,000
Turning Point, Inc.
For Turning Point Children's program
$15,000
Vital Bridges, NFP, Inc.
For Food and Nutrition program
$75,000
Voices for Illinois Children
For support of Chicago-area children's mental health advocacy and training programs
$40,000
West Suburban PADS, Inc.
For Family Transitional Housing program
$15,000
Wings Program, Inc.
For Transitional Living program
$10,000
Women Employed
For general support
$75,000
Women's Treatment Center
For Parenting program
$45,000
World Relief Corporation of National Association of Evangelicals
For Welcome Inn Homelessness Prevention program
$15,000
World Relief Corporation of National Association of Evangelicals
For Family Literacy program
$25,000
Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center
For Children's Counseling program
$30,000
Total Chicago Tribune Charities: $4,540,000