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Grants :: 2001 Grants

The grants listed below are those obtained by Catalyst from the foundations and from Board of Education board reports. The dates refer to the issues of Catalyst in which they were published, beginning with the most recent.

Bank One Foundation
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago
BP Corporation
Canine Companions for Independence
The Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Foundation for Education
Children’s Memorial Hospital
DeWitt Wallce-Readers Digest Fund
Disney Learning Partnership
Field Foundation of Illinois
Flowers Communications Group
Friends of Lincoln
GATX Corporation
Girl’s Best Friend Foundation
Harris Bank
Hoellen Family Foundation
IBM
Illinois Arts Council
Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
Illinois State Board of Education
Illinois State University
Illinois Violence Prevention Authority
John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation
The Joyce Foundation
Kauffman Foundation
Kiwanis Club of Lakeview Youth Foundation
McDougal Family Foundation
Midwest Generation
NASA
National Endowment for the Humanities
North Lawndale Learning Community
Northern Trust
The Oppenheimer Family Foundation
Peoples Energy Corp.
Polk Bros. Foundation
Sulzer Family Foundation
Temple University
U.S. Department of Education
United States Trust Company of New York
Wieboldt Foundation

Bank One Foundation

March-May

$23,935 over 6 months to Herzl School for student incentive awards, professional development and library books.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago

October-December

$100,000 to up to 10 Chicago public schools to develop school-based mentoring programs to provide positive adult role models for at-risk students.

January-February

$68,545 for up to six Chicago public schools to develop school-based mentoring programs for 10 to 20 students. BBBSMC will recruit, screen and train volunteer mentors and match them with students.

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BP Corporation

January-February

$705,000 over three years to all CPS high schools to implement classroom-based environmental service projects, developed and led by teachers and community members.

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Canine Companions for Independence

June-September

$10,000 to the CPS Office of Specialized Service for use of a facility dog and school social worker to provide animal-assisted therapeutic services to special and regular education students.

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The Chicago Community Trust

March-May

$300,000 over two years to University of Chicago’s Center for School Improvement for support of professional and school development programs.
$134,000 to Youth Guidance to build the capacity of several high schools to implement high quality advisory programs.
$100,000 over two years to Young Women’s Leadership Charter School for salary support of a reading specialist.
$100,000 over two years to Chicago Public Education Fund to support the development of cohorts of high school teachers as candidates in the National Board Certification process.
$100,000 to the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration for support of a program to develop new ways for social workers to work in urban schools.
$89,000 to the Association of Illinois Middlen Level Schools for support of 19 Chicago public schools in the Illinois Middle Grades Network.
$70,000 to the Community Renewal Society for the support of CATALYST.
$50,000 to the Centers for New Horizons to support the salary of an education organizer/director for the Bronzeville High School network.
$40,000 to Associated Colleges of Illinois for support of its College Readiness Program, which holds Saturday workshops for 500 high school students and parents to help them prepare for college. In addition, this program teaches school counselors to act as mentors through the college application process.
$35,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools, Inc. for general operating support.
$25,000 to College Summit for support of fourn day summer workshops to assist students in applying for college.
$25,000 to Umoja Student Development Corporation for general operating support for its work helping students connect service learning and academics, and helping teachers develop a service-learning curriculum at Manley High School.
$25,000 to Chicago Do Something to strengthen service learning in Chicago high schools.
$25,000 to the Consortium of Chicago School Research for partial support of a seminar series on High School Research and Development in Chicago.
$15,000 to Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to build a citywide coalition to address public high school transformation.
$15,000 to Community Media Workshop for support of its Successful Schools Project.
$10,000 to Future Teachers of Chicago for strategic planning and board development.

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Chicago Foundation for Education

June-September

424 Small Grants totaling over $160,000 to 503 teachers at 215 elementary schools. These $400 grants support teachers who develop innovative approaches to learning.
141 Adaptor Grants totaling $31,000 to 183 teachers at 111 schools. These $200 or $300 grants allow teachers to adapt mentor projects in their own classrooms.
31 Mentor Grants totaling $20,000 to 42 teachers at 25 elementary schools. These grants of $600 or $800 will be used to support teachers who have developed and tested successful projects share their lesson plans with other interested teachers.

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Children’s Memorial Hospital

January-February

$29,000 donation to the Office of Specialized Services to cover expenses that will expand health care access to all CPS students.

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DeWitt Wallce-Readers Digest Fund

June-September

$65,000 to the CPS Office of School and Community Relations to plan a community learning program for the Austin and Pilsen neighborhoods.

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Disney Learning Partnership

October-December

$51,962 to 29 Chicago public middle and high school teachers to help develop innovative instructional projects that actively engage students in learning.

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Field Foundation of Illinois

June-September

$9,749 to Ninos Heroes Academy to purchase books for reading improvement workshops for parents and students.

March-May

$15,000 to Revere School for a series of programs presented by the Black Ensemble Theater that gives parents tools to be more active participants in their children’s educations.
$15,000 to Northeastern Illinois University’s Chicago Teachers Center for the On Line Expeditions program, which enables students and teachers to go on interactive virtual expeditions via the Internet.
$13,000 to Healy School to help teachers collect materials and develop a curriculum to fight racism. Teachers also will receive anti-racism training from CrossRoads Ministries.
$11,340 to Wendell Smith School for professional development to help teachers provide reading instruction in all subject areas.
$10,000 to Literacy Works for general operating support of its efforts to recruit and train literacy volunteers.
$10,000 to the Chicago Horticultural Society/Chicago Botanic Garden for the Teacher Renewal Program.
$10,000 to Chicago United for its program to support teachers from West Pullman elementary schools who are applying for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification.

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Flowers Communications Group

June-September

$1,500 to Manierre School to enable students to go to Chicago Academies League games.

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Friends of Lincoln

January-February

$25,000 to Lincoln Elementary School to fund a part-time art teacher position.

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GATX Corporation

January-February

$25,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools for its work in Englewood, Grand Boulevard and Humboldt Park to partner health and human services with the public schools.
$25,000 to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to continue the participation of the Beasley Academic Center in its Primary Arts Network, a collaboration between the symphony and three CPS schools to incorporate music into the math, science, reading and social studies curricula.
$15,000 to Pegasus Players for the Young Playwrights Festival, which uses play writing as an educational tool in high schools and culminates in a production of the winning play as part of Pegasus’s main stage season.
$7,000 to expand the Streams program, in which teachers in consecutive grades form teams so that their students can move from one language-rich classroom to another. The grant will allow participation by five additional teachers in three schools.

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Girl’s Best Friend Foundation

March-May

$13,000 to Guild Complex for the Young Women Writers Program, which provides in-school and after-school educational activities for 15 and 16 year old girls from the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School.
$7,500 to Community TV Network for “Growing up Female: Girls of Color Speak Out,” a video training program for 6th-grade girls at the ACT Charter School. Girls will learn video production skills as they examine stereotypes about girls of color.

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Harris Bank

January-February

$45,000 to Henson Elementary School for special projects to improve literacy achievement, and $4,200 for computers.
]$9,000 to Urban Gateways for general operating support.
$5,000 to Chicago Communities and Schools for continued support to link existing community resources to children and families in Chicago public schools.

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Hoellen Family Foundation

June-September

$10,000 to Lane Technical High School for student scholarships.

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IBM

March-May

$7,000 to the Department of Instruction for Science, Mathematics, Health and Technology. Funds to be used to provide teacher and professional development in mathematics and science.

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Illinois Arts Council

January-February

$87,700 to 16 schools for artist-in-residency and Quickstart arts programs. The schools are Chase, Decatur, Edison, Evers, Galileo, Hancock, Hawthorne, InterAmerican, Nettlehorst, Peirce, Skinner, Stockton, Sutherland, Walsh, Whittier and Young.

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Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs

June-September

$195,000 to Taylor, Bouchet and Brentano schools to support a program to develop and use renewable energy resources in Illinois.
$65,000 to Frazier school to install a solar electric system on the roof.
$50,000 to DuSable High for a community technology center.
$30,000 to purchase and install a new wrought iron fence at Prescott school.
$12,500 to Smyser school for classroom laptop computers.
$12,500 to Edgebrook school for new windows.
$12,500 to Wildwood school to replace chalkboards with dry-erase boards.
$12,500 to complete Oriole Park school’s local area computer network.
$12,500 to Bridge school to purchase computer equipment.

March-May

$50,000 to the Chicago Military Academy Bronzeville to conduct a four-week transitional leadership training program for new cadets.
$50,000 to Clemente High School to upgrade its computer technology infrastructure.
$25,000 to Smyser Accelerated School to purchase laptop computers.
$25,000 to O.A. Thorp Scholastic Academy to update its computer lab and purchase supplies.
$25,000 to Ebinger School for a new intercom and intercom switches.
$12,500 to Norwood Park School to update computers and related equipment.
$12,500 to Onahan School to upgrade computer equipment.
$10,000 to Bright School for resource books, newspaper and magazine subscriptions, printers, scanner and copy machine.
$5,000 to Schmid School for printer supplies.
$5,000 to Lawrence School for computer software.

January-February

$50,000 to Chicago Military Academy for general education initiatives.
$12,500 to Beard Special Education Center to upgrade computer equipment.
$5,000 to Lawrence School to implement a school-wide recycling collection program.

Illinois State Board of Education

June-September

$570,000 to the CPS Office of Technology for professional development, technical assistance, network design consultation and other work to increase the quantity and quality of access to on-line resources.
$40,000 to the CPS Office of Education-to-Careers to assist in providing work-based learning programs.
$24,000 to the CPS Office of Education-to-Careers to plan business partnerships in culinary arts at Phillips Academy and information technology at Jones Academic Magnet High School.

January-February

$256,000 to six schools for after-school programs. ($50,000 each to Mozart, Chopin, Jose De Diego, Lloyd and Monroe; $6,000 to Bond.)
$226,556 to five schools for continuation of the Job Training Partnership Act Illinois Pre-Employment Placement Programs. The schools are Clemente, Collins, Harper, Orr and Tilden.
$152,312 to 13 schools for the continuation of the Chicago Public Schools’ Jobs for Illinois Graduates Program. The schools are Chicago Vocational, Curie, Dunbar, Flower, Julian, Kelly, Manley, Prosser, Richards, Roosevelt, Simeon, Tilden and Westinghouse.
$138,110 to 20 schools to fund the Peace Program and help families and communities create safe and drug-free environments for children. The schools are Aldridge, Avondale, Beethoven, Budlong, Burnham, Carver, Cather, Fernwood, Fuller, Harold Washington, Jamieson, Johnson, Murphy, Ninos Heroes, Overton, Parker, Sherwood, Terrell, Wendell Smith and West Pullman.
$77,204 to five schools for staff to attend in-service programs under the Year 2000 Illinois Partnership Academy. The schools are Calumet, Crane, Future Commons, Harper and Marshall.
$35,000 to seven schools for computer enhancement. (Albany Park, Budlong, Mather, Palmer, Prussing, Volta and Von Steuben)
$20,000 each to Beaubien and Hitch schools for equipment enhancement.
$19,606 for Calumet and Marshall high schools for planning schools-within-a-school under the Illinois Partnership Academy.
$18,319 to Marshall High School to plan business partnerships for its hospitality and information processing academies.
$15,000 to Boone School for supplies, equipment and computers.
$10,000 to Hirsch High for computer hardware to support a new Internet wing.
$10,000 to Robeson High for security phones, incentives for students and parents, and reading, math and parent involvement programs. Another

$8,196 to plan collaborations with businesses to establish an Allied Health Academy.
$6,000 to Parker Community Academy to purchase software to track discipline, attendance, and other student information.
$5,000 to Black Branch Magnet School for instructional materials.
$5,000 to Chappell School for science equipment.

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Illinois State University

January-February

$59,000 to CPS Teachers Academy for Professional Development to support the recruitment and improvement of teacher quality in high-need K-12 schools.

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Illinois Violence Prevention Authority

June-September

$133,800 to the CPS Office of Specialized Services to implement a Safe to Learn demonstration project at Harper and Marshall high schools and their feeder elementary schools.

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John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation

June-September

650,000 to Chicago Teacher Union’s Quest Center to fund the Nurturing Teacher Leadership Program, which supports teachers going for National Board Certification.
$350,000 to the CPS Office of Teacher Recertification to support a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification program.

March-May

$750,000 over three years to Community Renewal Society for support of CATALYST.
$350,000 to Chicago Public Schools Office of Teacher Recertification and Professional Standards for support of a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification program.
$300,000 to Chicago Public Schools Teachers Academy for Professional Development for support of the mentoring and new teacher induction program (MINT).
$300,000 to University of Illinois at Chicago to expand the Small Schools Workshop to 12 additional urban districts.
$275,000 to Chicago Leadership Academy for Supporting Success to improve training for aspiring and working principals.
$100,000 to Chicago School Leadership Development Cooperative to help parents and community members advocate for high quality teaching and learning.
$80,000 to Chicago United to work with Illinois State Board of Education on a new teacher certification system.
$75,000 to Southeast Center for Teaching Quality in Chapel Hill, N.C., for research, development and documentation of the use of National Board certified teachers.
$40,000 to Illinois State University College of Education for support of a school-based program to prepare and support teachers as they complete National Board certification.
$35,000 to Community Media Workshop in support of the Chicago Successful Schools Project.
$32,000 to the University of Illinois Council on Teacher Education for the design and coordination of an alternative teacher certification program.
$10,000 to the Public Agenda Corporation to examine the public’s opinion on student standards and the effects of the growing testing and accountability movement.

January-February

$275,000 to the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to train parents and coordinate their efforts to improve the quality of school leadership and training.
$50,000 to Chicago Annenberg Challenge in support of the final evaluation of the organization’s work in Chicago.
$30,000 to the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago’s Financial Research and Advisory Committee to train and provide consultation to local school council members on interviewing and evaluating principal candidates for their schools.

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The Joyce Foundation

October-December

$461,139 over two years to Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy for a project to leverage technology to support urban school reform.
$330,000 over two years to Bethel New Life to establish the West Side Education Reform Collaborative, a parent and community education policy project targeting predominantly poor and minority communities.
$330,000 over two years to Organization of the Northeast to establish Emerging Communities Education Collaborative.
$100,000 to Chicago Public Education Fund to conduct an inventory of professional development programs, assess their quality and outline a districtwide strategy.

June-September

$500,000 to the Chicago Public Education Fund to help establish a Local School Council Fund to support broader participation in LSC elections.

January-February

$375,000 over three years to the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to document how central office policies and practices influence local school results and can be helped to improve instruction and student achievement.
$375,000 over two years to the Northwest Neighborhood Federation to strengthen and expand its parents and youth education policy project targeting predominately low-income and minority neighborhoods on the west, northwest and near southwest sides of Chicago.
$75,000 to the Chicago Media Workshop for continued support of the Chicago Successful Schools Project, which is aimed at raising awareness about the valuable contributions of local school councils.
$60,000 to Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to assist the Milwaukee Public Schools in developing a decentralized resource allocation system.

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Kauffman Foundation

June-September

$16,500 to Chicago High School of Agricultural Sciences for an entrepreneurial educational program at the Ag school and Cassell, Clissold and Dixon elementary schools.

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Kiwanis Club of Lakeview Youth Foundation

June-September

$1,600 to Lane Technical High School for athletic awards, supplies and equipment.

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McDougal Family Foundation

March-May

$4,500 over 6 months to the Region 3 office to use for the Region 3 Principals Circle.

January-February

$100,000 to CPS Teachers Academy for Professional Development to support the Mentoring and Induction of New Teachers Program.
$50,000 to University of Illinois at Chicago for a Mentor Institute for K-12 teachers to help them work more effectively with student teachers in their classrooms.
$25,000 to Teach for America to support interns working in CPS.
$10,000 to Chicago Public Education Fund for general operating support.
$10,000 to Bold Chicago (formerly Chicago DoSomething) to expand the program to work with partner schools in CPS.
$10,000 to provide training and on-going classroom support for CPS teachers in the Facing History and Ourselves curriculum, which uses the Holocaust as a case study to help students understand and combat racism.
$10,000 to Suzuki-Orff School for Young Musicians to support a public-relations campaign.
$7,500 to Chicago United for its West Pullman Elementary School National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Preparation and Support Program.
$5,000 to the Middle School Math Institute at the University of Chicago.

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Midwest Generation

June-September

$5,000 to Cooper Dual Language Academy for supplies, field trips and software.

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NASA

June-September

$160,000 to 10 elementary schools to implement the NASA math, science and engineering program.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

October-December

$145,000 to Kenwood High to work with the University of Chicago to use the city’s history and diversity to create new curricula.

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North Lawndale Learning Community

June-September

$65,000 to Henson School to hire a literacy coordinator.

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Northern Trust

October-December

$18,500 to Right Angle Educational Foundation for college scholarships at Wells High.
$15,000 to Art Resources in Teaching over 3 years to plan and implement an after school art club at Drummond school.
$10,000 to Chicago Panel on School Policy for operating support.
$10,000 to Designs for Change for the Network for Leadership Development.

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The Oppenheimer Family Foundation

January-February

More than $200,000 in 150 grants of up to $2,000 each through the annual Teacher Incentive program, which supports project-based learning by CPS teachers.
$10,000 to the Chicago Public Education Fund for its leadership fund.

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Peoples Energy Corp.

June-September

$50,000 to Lincoln Park Zoo to support the “Traveling Zoo” program bringing animals and zoo-related curriculum into CPS classrooms.
$10,000 to Chicago Foundation for Education for its teacher grant program.
$2,500 to the Chicago Constitutional Rights Foundation for a civics program at Jones Magnet High School.

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Polk Bros. Foundation

October-December

$240,000 over two years to the DePaul University Teacher Leadership network.
$90,000 over two years to Community Renewal Society over two years for an associate editor’s position at CATALYST.
$75,000 to Illinois Institute of Technology to enhance the technology-related capacity of public schools in nearby communities and to assist in the improvement of math, science and technology skills of students in 17 CPS Bronzeville-area schools.
$60,000 to Teach For America to place new teachers in CPS.
$60,000 to the University of Chicago Department of Mathematics for professional development Institute for CPS middle school math teachers.
$60,000 to LaSalle Street CYCLE for after-school and summer programs.
$60,000 over two years to Chicago Metro History Education Center for the of the Urban Schools Initiative Program.
$55,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools for an agency/school coordinator and evaluation efforts.
$50,000 over two years to Chicago Panel on School Policy for research on CPS programs and policies.
$50,000 to Centers for New Horizons for the project director at Phillips High.
$50,000 to Designs for Change for the Network for Leadership Policy Reform.
$50,000 to Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance for educational and curricula development.
$40,000 to Chicago Cares to support the Discovery Program, which provides academic enrichment and mentoring opportunities to 202 students at Henderson, Penn and McCormick schools.
$40,000 to Urban Gateways for the Cultural Enrichment Program: Healthy Child.
$35,000 to Leadership for Quality Education for its EXCEL program to cultivate dialogue between LSCs and principals.
$35,000 to North Lawndale Learning Community for expansion of the Teacher and Parent Resource Center.
$35,000 to the Rochelle Lee Fund for promoting reading in CPS schools.
$35,000 to Golden Apple Foundation to train elementary teachers in hands-on science projects.
$35,000 to Whirlwind to improve literacy through the arts in CPS schools.
$35,000 to Newberry Library over two years for cross-disciplinary seminars for CPS science and English teachers.
$30,000 to Community Organizing and Family Issues to work with parents at Spencer, Key and Douglas middle schools in Austin.
$30,000 to North Park University for the After Hours Program that serves students and parents from Albany Park Academy.
$30,000 to East Village Youth Program over two years for to help prepare minority youth in West Town for college.
$30,000 to The Nature Conservancy of Illinois for a youth stewardship and mentoring program in 14 Chicago public schools.
$25,000 to Teachers Task Force for professional development in whole-school improvement at Melody, Cooper and Howard Area Alternative schools.
$25,000 to Executive Service Corps of Chicago for advocacy, leadership training and professional development for CPS administrators and LSC members.
$25,000 to Austin Career Education Center to help dropouts earn a diploma.
$25,000 to Coalition for Improved Education in South Shore to develop a Parent Resource Center at South Shore High.
$20,000 to Chicago School Leadership Development Cooperative for LSC candidate recruitment and training.
$20,000 to Cabrini Connections for after-school tutoring and mentoring.
$20,000 to Little Black Pearl Workshop to help students create and market their art.
$20,000 Abraham Lincoln Centre for a mentor program for African-America girls in the Greater Grand Boulevard community.
$20,000 to Northeastern Illinois University for a program connecting CPS students to virtual expeditions to the Amazon and Antarctic on the internet.
$20,000 to Target Hope to expand the Saturday Academic Academy that provides college readiness and support services to underachieving CPS students.
$20,000 to the Chicago Foundation for Education for its Small Grants to Teachers.
$20,000 to Parents United for Responsible Education for CPS parent and LSC member training.
$20,000 to West Town Leadership United for support of the Parent/Teacher Mentoring program.
$15,000 to Future Teachers of Chicago to support the Summer Internship Program, which pairs minority male students with “best practice” teachers in CPS schools.
$15,000 to Chicago Metro Association for the Education of Young Children for creating partnerships that pair schools seeking to improve teacher learning and program quality in early education with organizations working in direct or indirect service to young children.
$10,000 to Junior Achievement of Chicago for a program that provides economics lessons to kindergarten through 8th-grade students.

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Sulzer Family Foundation

June-September

$116,000 to Lane Technical High School for special college programs.

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Temple University

March-May

$49,500 to Future Commons High School for the supplementary materials and activities.

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U.S. Department of Education

June-September

$300,000 to CPS Pupil Support Services for approximately 4,000 eye exams and 2,400 pairs of glasses for low-income, uninsured CPS students who fail school-based vision screening.
$275,666 over three years to the CPS Office of High School Development for writing mathematics, science and technology curriculum.
$646,500 to the CPS Office of the Deputy Chief Education Officer to fund the 21st Century Community Learning Centers at Ames, Brentano, Funston, Monroe and Mozart schools, in collaboration with the Logan Square Neighborhood Association.

January-February

$3,700,000 to the CPS Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development for a planning grant for The Consortium for the Advancement of Teaching, a partnership between the CPS and the Illinois Math and Science Academy.

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United States Trust Company of New York

January-February

$50,000 each to McCosh Elementary and Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences to upgrade science facilities and purchase equipment and instructional materials.

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Wieboldt Foundation

June-September

$20,000 to Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for education work. Second year of a two-year grant.
$10,000 to Organized Students of Chicago for general operating support.
$10,000 to Chicago Panel on School Policy for general operating support. Second year of a two-year grant.

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