Ancora Associates, Inc.
Atlantic Philanthropies
AT&T
BP Foundation
Broad Foundation
Brody Trading and Arbitrage, Inc.
Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Department of Human Services
Chicago Public Education Fund.
Children First Fund
Citigroup Foundation
CNA
Coleman Foundation
Comer Foundation
Field Foundation
Fry Foundation
Girl's Best Friend Foundation
Harris Bank Foundation
Hudson Trading, Inc.
IBM Corporation
Illinois Department of Human Services
Illinois State Board of Education
Intel Foundation
Japanese Chamber of Commerce
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
John G. Searle Fund at the Chicago Community Trust
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
Joyce Foundation
Judy Dimon
Kraft Foods
McCormick Tribune Foundation
McDougal Family Foundation
Midwest Generation
Morgan Stanley
Mr. James Mills
National Research Center
NEA Foundation
Nike Foundation
North River Commission
Northern Trust Company Charitable Trust
Office Depot
Oppenheimer Family Foundation
People's Energy Corp.
Polk Bros. Foundation
Prince Charitable Trusts
Refco LLC
Rocks for Kids
The Sierra Club Foundation
State of Illinois: Illinois Community College Board
University of Illinois
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Labor
Washington Mutual
Westcott Group, LTD
Wieboldt Foundation
Woods Fund of Chicago


Ancora Associates, Inc.

October-December

• $10,000 to CPS Office of Education-to-Careers to fund a technology maintenance program for high school students.

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Atlantic Philanthropies

January-March

• $2 million over four years to University of Illinois at Chicago for a four-year research project to create methods to enhance technology use in schools.

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AT&T

April-May

• $10,000 to the Illinois Business Roundtable Educational Foundation to support teachers' efforts to become nationally certified.

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BP Foundation

June-September

• $12,500 to the archi-treasures to recruit students for workshops that explore the ecosystem around Clemente High.
  
• $10,000 to the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) for an environmental project with Juarez High.
  
• $8,000 to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum to work with teachers from its Science Teaching Network to develop a service-learning project focused on biodiversity.
  
• $7,500 to the BOLD Chicago Institute to work with Bowen, Washington and Harlan high schools through the Calumet Is My BackYard (CIMBY) project to examine plant species and restoration of wetlands.
  
• $7,000 to the Lake Michigan Federation to implement the Adopt-A-Beach project, which works with CPS teachers to integrate the program into the curriculum.
  
• $5,000 to Friends of the Park to help students at Best, Northside College Prep and Noble Charter high schools improve parks in their community.

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Broad Foundation

June-September

• $1.875 million to Teach for America to increase the number of teachers it places in under-served communities.
  
• $200,000 over two years to The Broad Residency in Urban Education, which trains young people for administrative positions in urban school districts in the U.S.

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Brody Trading and Arbitrage, Inc.

June-September

• $4,000 to Hancock High for library books.

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Chicago Community Trust

October-December

• $200,000 to the Center for School Leadership at the University of Illinois for a training program for CPS principals and other urban district leaders.
  
• $170,000 to Teach for America for general operating expenses.
  
• $150,000 to Logan Square Neighborhood Association for a project that will encourage parents to read to their children at home.
  
• $133,000 to Steans Family Foundation for its new teacher support initiative.
  
• $125,000 to the Consortium on Chicago School Research for a study on CPS classroom instruction.
  
• $88,000 to the Young Women's Leadership Charter School for a language arts integration program.
  
• $70,500 to Lawndale Educational & Regional Network Charter School for staff development and salary support for a transition coordinator.
  
• $43,000 to Ariel Education Initiative for a teacher center at Ariel Community Academy.
  
• $25,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools for general operating expenses.
  
• $25,000 to Summer Fellows, a teaching internship for junior and senior education majors that introduces them to CPS.

June-September

• $200,000 to Strategic Learning Initiatives for schools in the Pilsen Education Network, a professional development program for teachers and parents.
  
• $150,000 to the Center for School Improvement at The University of Chicago for professional development in CPS and for research and operating support.
  
• $150,000 to Designs for Change for its work with local school councils on principal evaluation and selection.
  
• $92,000 to Alternative Schools Network for its youth joblessness and school drop-out initiative.
  
• $50,000 to Associated Colleges of Illinois for its College Readiness Program that helps prepare at-risk CPS students for college.
  
• $50,000 to the Chicago School Leadership Cooperative for its work with local school councils.
  
• $25,000 to the Community Media Workshop for the Chicago Successful Schools project, which showcases how local school councils are improving public schools.
  
• $20,000 to the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform for site visits to Chicago schools and CPS participation in its urban schools conference.
  
• $10,000 for program development to Life Learners, an effort that trains and supports CPS substitute teachers.
  
• $10,000 to Youth Guidance for strategic planning for health services at Clemente High.
  
• $9,600 to Time Dollar Institute for strategic planning for the Chicago Cross-Age Peer Tutoring Program.

April-May

• $62,000 to Umoja Student Development Corp. to expand its freshman/sophomore program.
  
• $50,000 to Parents United For Responsible Education (PURE) for parent and local school council training.
  
• $25,000 to the CPS Children's First Fund for professional development of the area instructional officers and the newly formed Education Support Team.
  
• $21,000 to the Chicago Foundation for Education for teacher study groups to improve literacy instruction in low-performing schools.
  
• $20,000 to The Great Books Foundation to train high school students and their elementary book groups.
  
• $10,000 to Hug-a-Book for strategic planning and board development training.
  
• $10,000 to the Institute for Educational Leadership for the National Alliance for the American High School in Chicago.

January-March

• $364,000 to University of Illinois Bureau of Educational Research for the first two years of evaluation of the Advanced Reading Development Demonstration Project that works to improve reading scores in 40 CPS schools through university-based teacher training and the provision of reading specialists.
  
• $225,000 to Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America for the Trust's William J. Cook Scholarship program for male high school seniors in Cook County.
  
• $222,000 to Noble Street Charter to improve math and science instruction.
  
• $200,000 to CPS Office of the CEO for the Diploma Project to reduce dropout rates.
  
• $100,000 to LEAP! To Language for a demonstration project of the SmartSchool program, which is part of a charter pre-school initiative.
  
• $90,000 to Associated Colleges of Illinois for the first of a five-year project to increase ACI graduates' presence as teachers in CPS.
  
• $62,000 to Umoja Student Development Corp. for program support and to replicate the project throughout CPS.
  
• $50,000 to Community Renewal Society to support CATALYST.
  
• $50,000 to Latino Education Alliance to support the Early Intervention Program and Benito Juarez High's College Readiness activities.
  
• $50,000 to Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) for operating support.

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Chicago Department of Human Services

January-March

• $476,514 to CPS Office of Specialized Services to support eight Head Start personnel.

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Chicago Public Education Fund.

October-December

• $200,000 to Summer Fellows, a teaching internship for junior and senior education majors that introduces them to CPS.
  
• $200,000 to the Center for School Leadership at the University of Illinois for a training program for CPS principals and other urban district leaders.
  
• $200,000 to CPS to support an initiative to promote data-based decision making throughout the school system.
  
• $150,000 over two years to Golden Apple Teacher Education (GATE), an alternative certification program to prepare post-collegiate professionals to teach in urban schools.
  
• $75,000 to Teach for America for general operating expenses.

June-September

• $382,000 to the National Board Certification Give-Back Incentive, which rewards teachers who achieve National Board Certification and schools with teachers seeking certification.
  
• $150,000 to New Leaders for New Schools, a principal preparation program for career changers.

April-May

• $28,600 to CPS teachers to adapt mentoring projects in elementary schools.
  
• $24,600 divided among 61 CPS teachers who have developed and shared new curricula in elementary schools.

January-March

• $248,171 to 535 teachers from 236 CPS schools to support special projects. The grants, up to $400 each, will affect approximately 42,566 students.

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Children First Fund

January-March

• $100,000 to CPS Office of Strategic Planning for continued planning initiatives.
  
• $250,000 to CPS Office of the CEO to support Rising Stars school accountability and reward program.

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Citigroup Foundation

October-December

• $15,000 to CPS Office of Education-to-Careers to support financial education programs at Corliss, Tilden, Marshall, Schurz and Jones high schools.

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CNA

October-December

• $15,000 to Skinner Elementary for general operating expenses.
  
• $15,000 to After School Matters, a program that offers extra-curricular activities to high school students.
  
• $10,000 to Junior Achievement of Chicago to support business education programs and activities for CPS students.

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Coleman Foundation

October-December

• $86,800 to Illinois Institute for Entrepreneurship Education to train teachers in the entrepreneurship programs at South Shore High.

June-September

• $161,750 to The Institute for Entrepreneurship to support teachers and young entrepreneurs, to fund grants and scholarships, and to pay for an annual conference.
  
• $50,372 to Illinois Institute for Entrepreneurship Education for operating support.
  
• $35,000 to the Entrepreneurship Small School at South Shore High for operating support and teacher training.
  
• $25,520 to North Lawndale College Preparatory Charter High for the Young Entrepreneurs Program that will introduce 25 students to the basics of free enterprise, market principals and how to start and run a business.
  
• $2,500 to Educated Eats for CPS student and parent attendance at the Young Entrepreneur Conference.
  
• $1,700 to Midtown Educational Foundation for the Young Entrepreneur Conference to cover attendance fees for The Institute for Entrepreneurship conference in Wisconsin.

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Comer Foundation

June-September

• $5,687 to Revere Elementary for supplies and other general needs.

April-May

• $132,550 to Revere Elementary to fund one teaching position, a mentoring program, the Math Manipulative Program and for general operating support.

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Field Foundation

October-December

• $19,500 to Nash Elementary to aid in providing professional development for 20 CPS science teachers.
  
• $15,000 to Burley Elementary to support professional development provided by the staff of Suzuki-Orff School for Young Musicians.
  
• $15,000 to North Lawndale Learning Community to support professional development in language arts for CPS elementary school teachers.
  
• $15,000 to CPS Foundation/Children First Fund to back an initiative that gathers resources for after-school and in-school youth support.
  
• $15,000 to the Erikson Institute to support continued professional development in child assessment for early childhood teachers.
  
• $10,000 to Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) to support a new resource development coordinator position.
  
• $10,000 to Pros Arts Studio for a science and arts integration program at two CPS elementary schools in Pilsen and Little Village.
  
• $10,000 to the Young Women's Leadership Charter School for professional development and teacher leadership training.
  
• $10,000 to Chicago Foundation for Education to support a schoolwide technology program that trains teachers from six CPS elementary schools to integrate technology into their curriculum.
  
• $10,000 to Chicago Public Library Foundation for an after-school homework support program for at-risk children.
  
• $10,000 to Lakeview Action Coalition for a project to help CPS leaders better connect with the community.
  
• $10,000 to HistoryMakers for support of a year-long social studies program in 45 CPS junior high and high schools that will draw on African-American video oral history archives.
  
• $10,000 to Logan Square Neighborhood Association for a parent-teacher mentor program at six CPS elementary schools.
  
• $7,500 to ACT Charter for an arts integration program that will pay for artists to work with teachers in three classrooms.
  
• $7,500 to Haines Elementary for an arts integration program designed to improve literacy.
  
• $6,000 to Art Resources in Teaching to provide teaching demonstrations, workshops and other professional development for four teachers at Wendell Smith Elementary.
  
• $8,377 to Disney Magnet and William H. Brown Elementary to support a program that teaches core subjects through popular music.

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Fry Foundation

October-December

• $20,000 to East Village Youth Program for a college readiness program for high school students.
  
• $20,000 to the Young Women's Leadership Charter School for general operating expenses.
  
• $20,000 to Designs for Change for training and support of local school councils.
  
• $20,000 to Chicago Academy of Sciences to expand science education training for teachers at four CPS elementary schools.
  
• $15,000 to Albany Park Neighborhood Council for a parent involvement project at nine CPS elementary, junior high and high schools.
  
• $15,000 to Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to support research on teacher quality and small schools in CPS.
  
• $10,000 to Chicago Civic Innovation Consortium for a project that helps youth address civic issues through service learning projects.

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Girl's Best Friend Foundation

June-September

• $16,500 to the Coalition for Education on Sexual Orientation, a group of organizations that ensures the safety and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth in Illinois schools.
  
• $16,500 to the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health for its Healthy Choices Campaign, a leadership program designed to build advocacy skills and inform young women.
  
• $16,500 to Project Exploration to support Sisters for Science, an after-school and fieldwork program that combines leadership development with paleontology and natural science explorations for girls at the Young Women's Leadership Charter School and Triumphant Charter Middle School.
  
• $16,500 to Young Chicago Authors for GirlSpeak, a program for high school-aged young women to be held at Clemente and Prologue high schools.
  
• $16,500 to the Young Women's Empowerment Project (YWEP), a nonjudgmental, safe and respectful space for girls and young women aged 11 to 21 who are impacted by prostitution.
  
• $11,000 to the Chicago Health Connection to implement Breastfeeding Promotion for Teens, an effort to provide school-based clinic services to pregnant and parenting teens at Juarez High.
  
• $11,000 to the Guild Complex to support the Young Women Writers Program, an after-school program for students attending Young Women's Leadership Charter School.
  
• $9,658 to the Advocate Charitable Foundation for the Latina Girls Group at Lake View High for a youth development program.
  
• $3,850 to Mikva Challenge for the Young Women's Leadership Project, a program that connects young women with female public officials and community leaders.
  
• $1,980 to Umoja Student Development Corp. for Women of Destiny and Just US Girls I&II leadership programs.
  
• $1,655 to Northeastern Illinois University for peer self-defense classes for 5th-8th-grade girls at Marshall Middle School.

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Harris Bank Foundation

October-December

• $30,000 to North Lawndale College Preparatory Charter High for support of a summer student development program.
  
• $20,000 to L.E.A.R.N. Charter to build a new school facility.
  
• $10,000 to Chicago Botanic Garden to support a gardening program at Henson Elementary in North Lawndale.
  
• $7,500 to Art Resources in Teaching to support arts programs in North Lawndale schools.
  
• $6,000 to Junior Achievement of Chicago to support economic education programs that prepare students to enter the workforce.
  
• $5,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools to cultivate relationships between community social service agencies and CPS schools.
  
• $5,000 to Teach for America to recruit, select, train and support two teachers to work in North Lawndale.
  

June-September

• $30,000 to North Lawndale College Preparatory Charter High for Phoenix Rising, a summer enrichment program that offers experiential learning, promotes equitable access to higher education, and fosters leadership and academic development.
  
• $7,500 to Art Resources in Teaching for an artist-in-residency program at a North Lawndale school and for the Umoja Student Development Corp.

April-May

• $20,000 from Art Resources and Teaching in grants of $5,000 to the Umoja program at Manley High, the Midtown Educational Foundation, Teach for America and Youth Guidance at North Lawndale schools.

January-March

• $37,000 to Henson Elementary to support a full-time coordinator for the school's literacy program.

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Hudson Trading, Inc.

June-September

• $25,000 to Hancock High for library books.

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IBM Corporation

June-September

• $2,000 to YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago for its Black and Hispanic Achievers Program that provides culturally based programs that foster interaction between youth and adults.

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Illinois Department of Human Services

January-March

• $35,207 to CPS Office of Specialized Services, in addition to original $763,572 given in support of STEP, based on its successful placement of special education students in competitive jobs beyond its required numbers.

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Illinois State Board of Education

January-March

• $375,000 to fund Professional Development Academies, which promote teaching in a least-restrictive environment.

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Intel Foundation

June-September

• $50,000 to the CPS Office of Professional Development, Department of Instructional Technology for project and administrative costs.

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Japanese Chamber of Commerce

October-December

• $5,000 to Chicago Academy of Sciences' Peggy Notebaert Museum for an after-school education and community outreach program for 50 CPS students.
  
• $5,000 to Friends of the Chicago River for a river curriculum project to train K to 4th-grade teachers.
  
• $5,000 to Pegasus Players for artist residency programs at six CPS elementary and high schools.
  
• $5,000 to Waters Elementary for salary support for a director of ecology programs.
  
• $4,925 to Chicago Sister Cities International Program for a web video exchange program between students at Whitney Young High and a high school in Accra, Ghana.
  
• $4,980 to Ruiz Elementary to install a solar winds weather station.

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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

June-September

• $2,025,000 over three years to the Consortium on Chicago School Research to support an analysis of CPS.
  
• $90,000 over three years to Sullivan Elementary to support partnership activities between the school and the foundation.

April-May

• $600,000 over two years to the CPS Strategic Planning and Development Office.
  
• $75,000 to the CPS Commission on Improving Curriculum-Based Assessments at the Erikson Institute.

January-March

• $404,000, three-year grant to Chicago Community Foundation/Chicago Community Schools Fund to support the expansion of community schools.
  
• $275,000 to Chicago Principals and Administrators Association/Chicago Leadership Academies for Supporting Success for the continuation of their leader training programs.
  
• $35,000 to Umoja Student Development Corporation to support replication of its program throughout Chicago high schools.

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John G. Searle Fund at the Chicago Community Trust

January-March

• 6.63 million to CPS to implement the Advanced Reading Development Demonstration Project in 47 schools over the next two years.
  
• $970,000 to University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education to support the "Best Teachers for Chicago's Neighborhood Schools" project.
  
• $500,000 to Golden Apple Foundation to expand the GATE, teacher education program.
  
• $400,000 to CPS High School Read 180 project.
  
• $250,000 to New Leaders for New Schools to design, implement and evaluate an effective school residency program that trains CPS principals.
  
• $300,000 to CPS for the Rochelle Lee Reading for Deeper Meaning Project.
  
• $175,000 to CPS for the Children First Fund.
  
• $100,000 to North Lawndale High School for teacher and staff development and training.

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Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

April-May

• $4,300 to Jose De Diego Community Academy to purchase gift certificates at Jewel and Cub Food supermarkets for needy families.

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Joyce Foundation

October-December

• $780,000 over two years to the Consortium on Chicago School Research to support its school reform research.
  
• $400,000 over two years to Community Renewal Society to support the publication of CATALYST: Voices of Chicago School Reform.
  
• $150,000 to Neighborhood Capital Budget Group to support community involvement activities related to CPS facility planning and design.
  
• $110,000 to Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) to help LSCs advocate for improved teaching and learning in CPS.

June-September

• $150,000 to Designs for Change to continue its policy reform initiatives in Chicago, assist local school councils with principal selection issues and provide assistance to Milwaukee Catalyst, an education reform coalition. The coalition is not related to CATALYST: Voices of Chicago School Reform.

January-March

• $165,625 to Erikson Institute to study the feasibility of providing universal access to early childhood education for families in Chicago.
  
• $160,000 to National Center for Fair and Open Testing to promote alternative assessment and accountability in public education and to continue its work with the Assessment Reform Network.
  
• $75,000 to Leadership for Quality Education for continued assistance to charter schools.

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Judy Dimon

June-September

• $50,000 to the CPS Office of After School Programs to support its programs.

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Kraft Foods

April-May

• $1 million to Mayor Daley's KidStart initiative to fund a variety of programs, including monthly field trips, free passes for children to Chicago cultural institutions, summer activities in the parks and reading programs.

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McCormick Tribune Foundation

October-December

• $6.2 million to eight institutions to support early childhood education programs in Chicago and Illinois. Grantees include Kohl Children's Museum ($2.5 million); Dolores Kohl Foundation ($994,000); University of Chicago ($804,000); Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies ($750,000); Chicago Metropolitan Association for the Education of Young Children ($570,000); Erikson Institute ($330,000); National-Louis University ($175,000); and Loyola University Chicago ($78,000).

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McDougal Family Foundation

June-September

• $65,000 to the University of Illinois at Chicago for Changing School Leadership Preparation, a performance-based preparation program for principals and administrators in urban schools.
  
• $62,995 to the CPS Consistency Management and Cooperative Discipline (CMCD) Pilot for Golden Teachers, a program for 12 schools in Area 8 that helps teachers create positive learning environments in their classrooms.
  
• $30,000 to CATALYST for general operating support.
  
• $27,185 to the University of Houston CMCD Pilot to provide professional development for CPS teachers and administrative staff, mentors and new teachers in the CMCD pilot schools.
  
• $22,400 to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) CMCD Pilot for CTU Quest Center staff to provide assistance to new teachers in the CMCD pilot schools.
  
• $15,000 to the Golden Apple Foundation for the GATE teacher education program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, an alternative teacher certification program for college graduates.
  
• $15,000 to Whirlwind as general operating support for its arts-based reading and teaching programs in Chicago Public Schools.

January-March

• $60,000 to the Erikson Institute for continued development of comprehensive assessment tools for use in new teacher preparation programs.
  
• $57,872 to the Field Museum to test and evaluate an Education Program Continuum that provides professional development in environmental education to Southeast Side teachers.
  
• $50,000 to Metropolitan Family Services and $15,000 to the Chicago Community Foundation to support a partnership with Sullivan Elementary, part of the Campaign to Expand Community Schools in Chicago.
  
• $40,000 to Rochelle Lee Fund for general operating support.

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Midwest Generation

October-December

• $250,000 to Juarez High to build a performing arts center that will be part of the school's $25 million expansion.

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Morgan Stanley

October-December

• $25,000 to After School Matters, a program that offers extra-curricular activities to high school students, for general operating expenses.

June-September

• $150,000 to "Good Cents," a computer simulation that teaches CPS middle school children about personal finance.

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Mr. James Mills

April-May

• $51,200 to Clinton Elementary to support creative teaching ideas, student activities and a planning meeting.

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National Research Center

June-September

• $5,000 to Ames Middle School to help purchase the school sign.

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NEA Foundation

April-May

• $2,000 to Kenwood Academy to update the library media center's foreign language books, magazines, videos, DVDs and tutorial software.

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Nike Foundation

January-March

• $2,500 to Ryerson School for the production of a student-designed book.

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North River Commission

April-May

• $14,500 to Peterson Elementary to fund a math and science program.

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Northern Trust Company Charitable Trust

January-March

• $7,500 to Junior Achievement of Chicago to support its mentor program.
  
• $5,000 to Midtown Educational Foundation for operating support of its tutoring program.

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Office Depot

June-September

• $1,000 to Consuella B. York Alternative High for office supplies.

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Oppenheimer Family Foundation

June-September

• $5,000 to the Merit School of Music to provide musical training to underprivileged public and private elementary and high school youth.

April-May

• $2,100 to Kenwood Academy to produce the Matrix, a literary magazine.

January-March

• $202,000 to 400 CPS teachers from 158 schools to support hands-on learning projects outside of the classroom.

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People's Energy Corp.

October-December

• $10,000 to the Chicago Public Library Fund for an after-school tutoring and homework support program at six branch libraries.
  
• $10,000 to Openlands Project of Chicago to support a collaborative program to use school gardens as curricular tools in Chicago-area schools.
  
• $3,500 to the Merit School of Music for music instruction for 3,000 CPS students.
  
• $3,500 to Marwen Foundation to support visual arts education training for CPS teachers.
  
• $2,500 to the Black Ensemble Theater for a theater arts integration program designed to increase math and reading scores of more than 1,500 CPS students.
  
• $2,000 to Apple Tree Theatre for a youth theater program for CPS and North Shore students.
  
• $2,000 to the National Conference of Community & Justice for its high school diversity program.
  
• $2,000 to Urban Gateways, which provides visual, literary and performing arts programs to CPS students, for general operating expenses.
  
• $2,000 to the Girl Scouts to provide leadership programs for 6th-, 7th- and 8th-grade CPS students.
  
• $1,000 to the Chicago Opera Theatre for its opera outreach program for CPS students.
  
• $1,000 to the National Jazz Museum for a middle school social studies curriculum on the connection between jazz and American culture.

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Polk Bros. Foundation

October-December

• $80,000 to Arts Matter/Gallery 37 for an after-school arts initiative for special needs students in up to 14 CPS elementary schools.
  
• $75,000 to Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education to train and support CPS teachers to work with artists on integrating fine arts into core subjects.
  
• $70,000 to Organization of the NorthEast for a parent leadership and involvement project in CPS schools located in Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park.
  
• $70,000 to Teach for America for general operating expenses.
  
• $50,000 to Chicago Foundation for Education for a small grants program to support CPS teachers who develop innovative classroom projects.
  
• $40,000 to Erie Neighborhood House for an after-school program for CPS elementary and middle school students.
  
• $40,000 to Near Northwest Neighborhood Network for a technology integration program for CPS students.
  
• $40,000 to Urban Gateways for an arts exposure program for students at 17 CPS elementary schools.
  
• $35,000 to Ada S. McKinley Community Services to support an after-school and summer program for 6th- to 8th-graders in Bronzeville.
  
• $30,000 to HistoryMakers for support of a year-long social studies program in 45 CPS junior high and high schools that will draw on African-American video oral history archives.
  
• $30,000 to Jumpstart for Young Children to recruit and train college students.
  
• $25,000 to Chicago Architecture Foundation to train CPS elementary teachers to use its curriculum that integrates Chicago architecture with core subjects.
  
• $20,000 to Northeastern Illinois University for an online exchange program that connects CPS students to an Amazon trip and local organic farms.
  
• $15,000 to Albany Park Neighborhood Council to support a project that will tackle such issues as overcrowding and safety in CPS schools.
  
• $12,500 to Poetry Center of Chicago to support a 20-week student literacy program in 30 CPS elementary and high schools.
  
• $10,000 to Project Exploration to support three initiatives to boost student achievement in science among CPS students aged 12 to 17 years.
  
• $7,500 to Hyde Park Neighborhood Club to develop extracurricular programming for CPS students in Hyde Park and surrounding communities.
  
• $7,500 to Make A Difference Youth Foundation to support math and reading programs for CPS elementary students and college preparation activities for CPS high school students.

June-September

• $100,000 to Chicago High School Redesign Initiative to support professional development and operations.
  
• $50,000 to Strategic Learning Initiatives for continued support of the Pilsen Education Network (PEN), a professional development program for teachers and parents at four elementary schools.
  
• $50,000 to Designs for Change to support the Policy Reform Program, which studies and advocates changes in school systems that promote educational quality and student achievement.
  
• $50,000 to the Ounce of Prevention Fund for continued support of the Educare center in the Grand Boulevard community.
  
• $45,000 to LaSalle Street CYCLE to support the Urban Anthropology Project, a cultural/anthropological organization that provides arts programming in photography to underprivileged children.
  
• $40,000 to Midtown Educational Foundation to support the College Orientation Program for 9th-12th graders in some Chicago Public Schools.
  
• $40,000 to Newberry Library to support the Teachers as Scholars professional development program for CPS teachers.
  
• $35,000 to Whirlwind to support the Reading In Motion professional development programs for CPS teachers.
  
• $30,000 to the North Lawndale Learning Community for continued salary support of a site coordinator position.
  
• $25,000 to the Neighborhood Capital Budget Group to support the Schools Initiative to assist neighborhood groups and schools with their capital improvement plans.
  
• $20,000 to the Children's Education Foundation for the design and development of exhibits on the StoryBus, which stops at CPS sites.
  
• $15,000 to Poder Learning Center for continued support of the English as a Second Language program in Pilsen.
  
• $12,500 to the Near South Planning Board for support of the Authors in the Schools program to increase 3rd graders' access to books and reading at 21 Chicago public schools.
  
• $12,500 to Centro Comunitario Juan Diego to support the Computer Skills for a New Millennium program, which tutors children from Mireles Elementary.
  
• $5,000 to the American Indian Center for continued support of the School Tours and Teacher Training Programs for CPS, which implements Native American study into the curriculum.
  
• $5,000 to the Lakeview Action Coalition to support a new education initiative to provide leadership training for parents, teachers and administrators from three Chicago public schools.
  
• $5,000 to the Institute for Positive Living to support the Open Book program that seeks to build literacy and communication skills of CPS children from 10 to14 years of age.

April-May

• $50,000 as the first payment of a two-year grant to Friends of the Chicago River for teacher training and student activities of the Chicago River Schools network.
  
• $30,000 to Facing History and Ourselves for workshops and reference material to bring the book "Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement" to Chicago area teachers.
  
• $30,000 to the Howard Area Community Center to support youth programming at Jordan and Gale schools and Sullivan High.
  
• $30,000 to Working in the Schools to support the Power Lunch program where volunteers spend lunch hours reading to students in 30 Chicago public schools.
  
• $22,500 to Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform for work with CPS and community-based organizations.
  
• $20,000 to the Chinese Mutual Aid Association for salary support of the Families Learning Together literacy coordinator.
  
• $20,000 to Inner Voice for salary support for the educational coordinator of the Adult Learning Skills Program.
  
• $20,000 to Parents United For Responsible Education (PURE) to provide expanded training for CPS parents and local school council members.
  
• $15,000 to Chicago Metro Association for the Education of Young Children for Partnership in Professional Practice to improve teaching by creating professional learning communities.
  
• $15,000 to Citizens Information Service of Illinois for continued support of the Future Voter Junior Program, which teaches students about citizen's rights.
  
• $15,000 to Constitutional Rights Foundation of Chicago to implement the Primary VOICE program in nine Chicago public elementary schools.
  
• $15,000 to Umoja Student Development Corp. for the Career and College program that provides intensive individual counseling and group activities for students at Manley High.
  
• $10,000 to LEAP! to Language for salary support for two language pathologists to work with students at Oscar Mayer Elementary.
  
• $10,000 for general operating support to the North River Community Schools Network, which include nine Chicago public schools.
  
• $7,500 to the Aquinas Literacy Center to support ESL classes and tutoring for residents of McKinley Park.
  
• $7,500 to New Concepts for salary support for tutoring and mentoring activities with CPS students.
  
• $7,500 to Southside Educational Center for Youth to support the after-school tutoring and mentoring program for 50 youth.

January-March

• $160,000 over two years to Associated Colleges of Illinois to continue the scholarships and campus support of its minority achievement programs.
  
• $85,000 to Youth Guidance for the Comer School Development Program.
  
• $50,000 to Columbia College to support the Arts Integration Mentorship Training project, which provides CPS educators with new art-integrated interdisciplinary strategies for teaching writing and reading.
  
• $50,000 to Community Renewal Society to support the associate editor's position at CATALYST.
  
• $50,000 to Jewish Council for Youth Services for the Adventure Education program for at-risk students in three Chicago public high schools.
  
• $45,000 to Logan Square Neighborhood Association for the Parent-Teacher Mentor Program.
  
• $30,000 for Community Organizing and Family Issues to support the Family Focused Leadership Training and Organizing project in the Austin community.
  
• $30,000 to Illinois Literacy Resource Development Center for its Building Relationships through Evaluation project.
  
• $30,000 to North Park University for the After Hours Program serving middle school students at Albany Park Multicultural Academy.

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Prince Charitable Trusts

June-September

• $65,000 to the Chicago Community Trust for the Campaign to Expand Community Schools.
  
• $15,000 to Bold Chicago Institute to support service learning in the CPS.
  
• $15,000 to Business and Professional People for the Public Interest for the Public Education Initiatives project that supports smaller learning environments in CPS.
  
• $15,000 to Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education to support arts integration partnerships in CPS.
  
• $15,000 to Chicago School Leadership Cooperative for operating support.
  
• $15,000 to Chicago Teachers' Center for the On-line Expeditions Initiative that connects students via the internet to live, field-based expeditions.
  
• $15,000 to College Summit Chicago to improve college guidance in Chicago public high schools.
  
• $15,000 to Community Organizing and Family Issues for operating support.
  
• $15,000 to Community Renewal Society to support CATALYST magazine.
  
• $15,000 to National-Louis University for the Center for City Schools, which develops and supports projects that improve urban education.
  
• $15,000 to New Leaders for New Schools for operating support.
  
• $15,000 to Noble Street Charter School for operating support.
  
• $15,000 to North Lawndale Learning Community to support Vertical Teams, a professional development program for teachers that aligns curricula across subject areas and grade levels.
  
• $15,000 to Strategic Learning Initiatives for the Pilsen Education Network, a professional development program for teachers and parents.
  
• $15,000 to Umoja Student Development Corp. for operating support.
  
• $15,000 to Whirlwind for its Reading in Motion: After School program, which provides school-based professional development for teachers.
  
• $10,000 to Alain Locke Charter Academy for operating support.
  
• $10,000 to Albany Park Neighborhood Council for the Emerging Communities Education Project, which provides leadership training for parents and LSC members at nine elementary and high schools in Albany Park and Irving Park.
  
• $10,000 to Community Media Workshop for the Chicago Successful Schools Project Gold Star Awards, which honor the role local school councils play in a school's success.
  
• 10,000 to Chicago ACORN for the Grassroots School Improvement Campaign, which promotes teacher quality in North Lawndale, Englewood, West Englewood and Little Village.

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Refco LLC

June-September

• $2,000 to Hancock High for library books.

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Rocks for Kids

June-September

• $1,000 to Stone Scholastic Academy to supplement the artists who work with students in the Blues Program.

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The Sierra Club Foundation

June-September

• $141,801 to 31 Chicago public schools to pay for field trips and other educational outdoor activities.

April-May

• $5,000 to Telpochcalli Elementary to fund the Students Nature Project.

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State of Illinois: Illinois Community College Board

January-March

• $6,250 to CPS Office of Professional Development to review technology-integrated course modules.

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University of Illinois

June-September

• $11,000 to Walter Payton College Prep for the Walter Payton College Prep International Program, which facilitates school exchanges in Europe.

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U.S. Department of Education

January-March

• $6,250 to CPS Office of Professional Development to review technology-integrated course modules.

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U.S. Department of Labor

January-March

• $25,000 and an extended funding period to CPS Office of Specialized Services to involve more students in the High School/High Tech Program, which promotes science, engineering and technology careers to students with disabilities.

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Washington Mutual

October-December

• $35,000 to the Illinois Business Roundtable to advance a statewide teacher education program that aims to increase the number of National Board-certified teachers in Illinois.
  
• $16,000 to Teach for America for general operating expenses.

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Westcott Group, LTD

June-September

• $5,000 to Hancock High for library books.

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Wieboldt Foundation

April-May

• $20,000 to Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) for operating support.
  
• $10,000 to the Coalition for Improved Education in South Shore for operating support.

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Woods Fund of Chicago

June-September

• $120,000 over three years to Designs for Change to assist CPS local school councils.
  
• $65,000 over two years to Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) for its Partnership Program in 26 Chicago public schools.