The grants listed below are those obtained by Catalyst from the foundations and from Board of Education board reports.

Chicago Community Trust
The Coleman Foundation
The Exelon Foundation
Illinois State Board of Education
The Joyce Foundation
Polk Brothers Foundation

Chicago Community Trust

• $1,500,000 to Children First Fund at CPS to support project to improve local university partnerships supporting literacy improvement in schools and the number of teachers with reading endorsements.
• $1,000,000 to the Renaissance Schools Fund to support the start-up of performance, contract and charter schools.
• $500,000 to the Renaissance Schools Fund for the planned Chicago High School for the Arts.
• $500,000 to the Erikson Institute to support its capital campaign to raise money for a new campus and for its signature programs.
• $225,000 to Children First Fund at CPS to support the development and initial implementation of a curriculum map outlining what should be taught in each art discipline within CPS.
• $45,000 to Community Renewal Society for Catalyst Chicago.
• $25,000 to the Children First Fund at CPS to support the development of an enhanced social studies curriculum in schools.

The Joyce Foundation

• $475,000 to the Chicago Public Education Fund to continue providing strategic support to CPS for strategy for turnaround schools.
• $344,178 to the New Teacher Project to help CPS effectively staff a set of its lowest-performing schools; coordinate the Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. school districts in exploring reform of human resource policies; and document state-level policies that may hamper effective teacher hiring.
• $300,000 to the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching for communication and training support for the Chicago Teacher Advancement Program; and for national policy work and compensation reform.
• $127,610 to Northwestern University to work with CPS to develop a new selection and development process for student teachers.

Polk Brothers Foundation

• $150,000 to University of Illinois-Chicago to work with CPS teachers to develop and implement science-literacy curriculum units for 1st through 4th grade.
• $90,000 to Youth Guidance to help 13 CPS schools develop and maintain a positive school climate and an engaging curriculum during school and after school.
• $180,000 to the University of Chicago for their summer Mathematics Institute, to teach CPS teachers different approaches for teaching elementary school math.
• $85,000 to Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education for integrating arts curricula into CPS schools.
• $80,000 to Loyola Universityís Center for Science and Math Education to train CPS middle school teachers.
• $75,000 to Loyola Universityís School of Social Work for the Family and School Partnerships Program to train CPS school social workers and teachers in classroom management.
• $140,000 over two years to Columbia College Chicago for the Center for Community Arts Partnerships to support teaching artists and teachers in CPS schools participating in an arts mentoring program.
• $65,000 to Adler Planetarium for development of 11th-grade science curriculum and professional development for CPS teachers.
• $60,000 to the Logan Square Neighborhood Association to support its 150-member parent mentoring and parent health outreach program in CPS schools.
• $60,000 to Reading In Motion to support teacher training in 16 CPS elementary schools on the South Side and West Side in an arts-based reading program.
• $50,000 over two years to Community Organizing and Family Issues for the Austin-Wide Parent Network to work with parents in the Austin community to address issues affecting the community and schools.
• $45,000 to the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration for the Network for College Success, to help 11 CPS high school principals implement strategies to raise graduation and college placement.
• $45,000 to the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council for parent organizing on school policy, workshops for teachers on service learning and expanding community partnerships with Burroughs Elementary and Kelly High.
• $40,000 to Ada S. McKinley Community Services for the Early Intervention Program, which offers tutoring and other academic services for 6th-through 8th-grade students in the Bronzeville community.
• $35,000 to Boys and Girls Club of Chicago for College Bound, which provides academic support and college prep activities to CPS students.
• $35,000 to Chicago Child Care Society to engage pregnant and parenting CPS students in a college readiness program.
• $30,000 to East Village Youth Program for the College Readiness and Support program to work with 125 CPS high school students to prepare them for college with mentoring and other activities.
• $25,000 to Urban Solutions for the 21st Century Pathways to Excellence Program, an after school program for youth development at Dyett Academic Center.
• $25,000 to Community Justice Youth Institute to provide restorative justice training for CPS teachers, administrators, and staff on alternatives to school suspension and arrest; training will be conducted along with community residents, parents, youth and civic and faith-based organizations.
• $20,000 to Blocks Together to engage parents to become more involved in schools in West Humboldt Park.
• $20,000 for PURE for the Comprehensive Parent Involvement Program, to help develop parent leaders at schools and to provide workshops in English and Spanish.
• $20,000 to Leap Learning to provide CPS preschool teachers with professional development coaches for science curricula.
• $20,000 to Latino Education Alliance for programs to help freshmen at-risk of dropping out at Juarez and North-Grand high schools, and to pilot after-school peer mentoring and tutoring for 10th-graders.

The Excelon Foundation

• $200,000 to Teach for America in Chicago and Philadelphia for recruitment, training, and professional development for 40 corps members who will teach high school math and science. Each site will receive $50,000 per year over two years.

Illinois State Board of Education

• $248,307 to 4 Chicago Public Schools as part of a federal initiative to provide more healthy food options in schools. Grant amounts and schools are: $56,097 to Morrill Elementary; $127,764 to UNO Charter, $17,998 to Namaste Charter and $46,448 to Inter-American Magnet.

The Coleman Foundation

• $75,000 to the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship-Chicago to support the 2007 National Advanced Teacher Forum to provide teachers with the opportunity to exchange tips to enhance teaching of entrepreneurship.