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.

Afropaedia LLC, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Ameritech/The Chicago Academy of Science
Bank One
Brinson Partners
The Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Foundation for Education
Disney Publishing Worldwide
Estate of Donald J. Schmidt
Everen Foundation
The Field Foundation
GATX Corporation
Humana Inc.
IBM Corporation
Illinois Arts Council
Illinois Violence Prevention Authority
J.D. and C.T. MacArthur Foundation
Joyce Foundation
Knight Foundation
Magellan Development Company
McDougal Family Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Oppenheimer Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
Preferred Meal Systems
Trial Group Foundation
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control
U. S. Department of Justice
Woods Fund of Chicago


Afropaedia LLC, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

October-December

• $1,172,520 over three years to the University of Chicago to support research by the Consortium on Chicago School Research, especially on high school restructuring.
  
• $441,000 over two years to Northwestern University to support a partnership with urban and suburban, public and private schools in the Chicago area that aims to improve curricula and teaching and to create multicultural exchanges between city and suburban students.
  
• $227,812 over two years to Northwestern University to analyze technology- enhanced curricula to determine how effectively they meet the literacy needs of poor readers and instructional needs of teachers.

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Ameritech/The Chicago Academy of Science

June-September

• $19,229 to Orozco Community Academy for providing training and hands-on use of digital cameras, CD-ROM burners, video editing software, LCD projectors, and video capable computers.

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Bank One

April-May

• $30,000 to Goldblatt, Sabin, Herzl and Mayo elementary schools for books, teacher development and other operating expenses.

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Brinson Partners

April-May

• $10,000 to Marconi Community Academy for instructional materials and supplies.

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The Chicago Community Trust

April-May

• $300,000 for two years to CPS to expand magnet programs in neighborhood schools that will target math and science, fine and performing arts, world language and the International CPS Scholars Program.
  
• $100,000 to Designs for Change for a reading and writing project, "Building a School Community That Reads," to improve achievement in five CPS elementary schools.
  
• $75,000 to The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago to train LSCs to use a competency-based principal selection process and to provide professional development for aspiring principals.
  
• $75,000 to the Community Renewal Society for support of the publication of CATALYST.
  
• $60,000 to the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. for its education programs and to monitor Title 1 spending.
  
• $30,000 to Target Hope, a non-profit providing tutoring, college-prep activities and leadership programs for at-risk high school students.
  
• $25,000 to World Trade Center Chicago to provide international trade education to students at Hughes Elementary and Bogan, Bowen and Taft high schools.
  
• $25,000 to Chicago School Leadership Development Cooperative for general operating expenses.
  
• $25,000 to the Rochelle Lee Fund for the Streams program, which supports teacher collaboration in literature curriculum.
  
• $25,000 to Northwestern University to support its educational training programs for parents and students at Saucedo, Corkery and Spry elementary schools.
  
• $20,000 to Leadership for Quality Education for LSC election activities.
  
• $15,000 to the Successful Schools Project, a collaboration among 13 Chicago foundations to promote balanced media coverage of education reform.
  
• $6,000 to Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI) for a series of three school policy luncheons.

January-March

• $134,000 to Youth Guidance for the CPS Student Advisory Program.
  
• $95,000 to Leadership for Quality Education for a charter school accountability conference.
  
• $70,000 to Business and Professional People for the Public Interest for general operating support of the Small Schools Coalition.
  
• $35,000 to Academy of Communications and Technology Charter School to support a field experience coordinator.
  
• $25,000 to Associated Colleges of America to the Improving High School Completion in Inner-City Chicago, a College/Community Partnership program.
  
• $20,000 to Literacy Chicago to support the adult and family literacy program.
  
• $15,000 to Hug-a-Book for general operating support

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Chicago Foundation for Education

April-May

• $20,200 to 42 CPS elementary school teachers in 25 schools to join a national network of exemplary teachers whose ideas will be published in a mentoring catalog to be distributed among CPS schools.

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Disney Publishing Worldwide

April-May

• $2 million in books to students in 102 CPS schools, 17 in each region.
  

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Estate of Donald J. Schmidt

April-May

• $31,834 (estimated value of gift) to CPS Board of Education to use as the Board sees fit.

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Everen Foundation

April-May

• $10,000 to Jenner Academy for books, mentor reading material and up-grades to the library collection, and $2,000 for the service contract on a copier.

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The Field Foundation

January-March

• $15,000 to the Rochelle Lee Fund for professional development in two CPSschools.
  
• $15,000 to Coalition for Improved Education in South Shore for teacher professional development and curriculum re-development.
  
• $10,000 to Community Media Workshop for the Chicago Successful Schools Project.
  
• $10,000 to Ellen Mitchell Elementary School for an arts integration program.
  
• $10,000 to Perspectives Charter School for parental development and curriculum development.
  
• $10,000 to Chicago Horticultural Society/Chicago Botanic Garden for its school garden initiative.
  
• $10,000 to Pros Arts Studio for a joint project with Walsh Elementary School to integrate theater and history.
  
• $10,000 challenge grant to Youth Communications/Chicago Center for general operations.
  
• $8,000 to Bridgeport, Armour Square, Near North Friends of the Fine Arts, fiscal agent for Robert Healy Elementary School, for arts integration activities.
  
• $7,500 to Academy of Communications and Technology Charter School for arts integration activities.
  

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GATX Corporation

January-March

• $24,000 to Suzuki-Orff School of Music for Project Image, a comprehensive music education program that is integrated into school curriculums.
  
• $21,700 to Chicago Public Art Group for an arts program at Earle Elementary School that will produce mosaics for the cafeteria and the school facade.
  
• $20,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools for its work to improve the access of students and their families to such community resources as hospitals, universities and health and human service agencies.
  
• $10,000 to Pegasus Players for an arts program and writing contest for Chicago high school students.
  
• $10,000 to Chicago Shakespeare Theater for work in schools and youth performances at Navy Pier.
  
• $7,000 to the Rochelle Lee Fund to expand to 10 more elementary schools.

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Humana Inc.

April-May

• $5,000 to Bass Elementary and the School Partners Program, a school-business partnership, for educational tours, transportation and materials for middle-grade classes.

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IBM Corporation

April-May

• $88,579 in computers to CPS Learning Technologies Office and Cesar Chavez Multicultural Center to integrate technology and a wireless educational LAN into classrooms.

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Illinois Arts Council

June-September

• $7,970 to Healy Elementary School for an eight-week artist-in-residence program with Chicago Dance Medium.

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Illinois Violence Prevention Authority

October-December

• 2,288,500 to the office of Specialized Services and Pupil Support Services to train teachers in 100 schools in Life Skills/Conflict Resolution curriculum, to provide counseling support to children at risk and to increase security personnel.

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J.D. and C.T. MacArthur Foundation

October-December

• 150,000 to Museums in the Park for a collaborative educational effort among museums and public schools.
  
• $75,000 to Ames Middle School for efforts to engage teachers, students and parents in the development of a community learning center.

June-September

• $300,000 to Youth Guidance to initiate Phase II of the Comer School Development strategy for improving schools and student performance in Chicago Public Schools.
  
• $275,000 to the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to train parents in effective techniques to improve the quality of principals and teachers in their schools.
  
• $250,000 to Designs for Change to train students and community leaders to advocate school improvement
  
• $30,000 to the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, FRAC, to provide local school council members with training and technical assistance in interviewing and evaluating principals.

January-March

• $30,000 to the Chicago Metro History Education Center for general operations.
  
• $20,000 to Arts Bridge for general operations.

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Joyce Foundation

October-December

• $1,172,520 over three years to the University of Chicago to support research by the Consortium on Chicago School Research, especially on high school restructuring.
  
• $441,000 over two years to Northwestern University to support a partnership with urban and suburban, public and private schools in the Chicago area that aims to improve curricula and teaching and to create multicultural exchanges between city and suburban students.
  
• $227,812 over two years to Northwestern University to analyze technology- enhanced curricula to determine how effectively they meet the literacy needs of poor readers and instructional needs of teachers.

June-September

• $525,000 to the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago to develop a math and science curriculum and address under-representation of women in math and science vocations.
  
• $525,000 over three years to Designs for Change to continue its school improvement policy reform initiatives in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee.
  
• $345,754 to support a national study, led by UCLA professor Amy Stuart Wells, on the impact of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. The study will examine whether and how early school desegregation efforts changed the lives of students and will project next steps for race-specific public policies.
  
• $260,000 over three years to Designs for Change to develop the Learning Path Institute, an organization to train parent and community leaders in advocacy and organizing skills they will need to impact public policy.
  
• $250,000 over two years to the Chicago Panel on School Policy to report on CPS reform initiatives, to disseminate its reports to a wider audience and to get parents involved in schools.
  
• $250,000 over two years to the Coalition for Improved Education in South Shore to its efforts to restructure South Shore High and to launch a community-wide reading and math literacy program.
  
• $200,000 over two years to the Metropolitan Planning Council to promote school financing reforms that would reduce reliance on property taxes as a funding source, achieve funding equity among Illinois districts and broaden citizen access to information and communication technology.
  
• $187,100 over two years to Leadership for Quality Education to step up its efforts to support charter schools in the Chicago metropolitan region, and to explore the options for charter schools in Cleveland.
  
• $180,200 over two years to the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to monitor and evaluate the local distribution of federal Title I poverty funds.
  
• $75,000 to the Commercial Club Foundation to assist CPS in developing strategies to recruit and screen prospective teachers and better match applicants to schools.

January-March

• $495,000 over three years to the National Center for Fair and Open Testing for continued work with national and regional school reform organizations on issues related to student assessment and to educate policymakers on the need to develop alternatives to standardized tests.
  
• $300,000 over two years to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge in continued support of independent evaluation of the program by the Consortium on Chicago School Research.
  
• $165,000 to the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago to redesign and improve its teacher education programs in partnership with the Chicago Comer Schools Initiative and the Youth Guidance agency.
  
• $125,000 to Leadership for Quality Education to organize, in cooperation with a network of grassroots and reform organizations, a citywide campaign to generate greater participation in Chicago’s local school council elections.
  
• $50,000 to Community Media Workshop for continued support of the Chicago Successful Schools Project to raise public awareness about the valuable contributions of local school councils

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Knight Foundation

April-May

• $7,500 to Marshall Middle for conference and travel fees for staff presentations at national conferences.

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Magellan Development Company

April-May

• $25,000 to William B. Ogden Elementary School for the mentoring scholarship program.

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McDougal Family Foundation

January-March

• $35,000 to the Rochelle Lee Fund for general operations.
  
• $20,142 to the Interactive Mathematics Program, Chicago Secondary Mathematics Improvement Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago for professional development and training of lead teachers in each of CPS’s six regions.
  
• $15,000 to the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) for general operations.
  
• $10,000 over three years to the Financial Research and Advisory Committee for its program, called PENCUL, to train and assist local school councils in making principal selection decisions.
  
• $7,500 to Future Teachers of Chicago for general operations.
  
• $7,500 to Merit Music Program for the teacher training portion of MusicAll, which brings Solfege and Kodaly instruction methods to all classrooms at three Chicago public schools.
  
• $7,500 to the Teachers Task Force for general operations.

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National Endowment for the Arts

October-December

• 25,000 to Chicago Architecture Foundation to support the Newhouse Architecture Competition, which provides educational opportunities to under- served CPS students. Selected students will receive paid internships at architecture firms and workshop scholarships.
  
• $5,000 to Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras to support Music Pathways, a program for elementary students in Chicago public schools. The project includes student training, development, in-school workshops, concert trips and program evaluation.

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Oppenheimer Foundation

June-September

• $150,000 to Chicago Public Schools for the Teacher Incentives Grant Program, which provides funds to teachers for hands-on, project-based instruction, to be implemented at 80 pre-schools, elementary schools and high schools.
  
• $10,000 to Hubbard High to fund a European tour production of the school musical.
  
• $5,000 to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards for general operations.
  
• $2,000 to the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois to develop and expand the small schools concept in Chicago.

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Polk Bros. Foundation

October-December

• 3.1 million over six years for new in-school health centers at Clemente, Sullivan, Arai and Franklin schools.
  
• 75,000 over two years to Chicago Arts Partnership in Education to provide support for school partnerships and to advance the role of the arts in public education.
  
• $50,000 to National-Louis University to help improve classroom instruction and student achievement in the public schools.
  
• $50,000 to Designs for Change for the Network for Leadership Development.
  
• $40,000 to Chicago Cares to expand to a third Chicago public elementary school the Discovery program, which provides academic enrichment and mentoring on Saturdays.
  
• $30,000 over two years to Organization of the North East to provide leadership development training for CPS parents in Uptown/Edgewater.
  
• $30,000 to Chicago Metro History Education Center for the Urban School Initiatives Program.
  
• $30,000 to the Home Instruction Program for Pre-school Youngsters (HIPPY), to improve school readiness of children in Humboldt Park and West Englewood.
  
• $25,000 to Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to provide training and support to strengthen education organization efforts in Chicago.
  
• $25,000 to Chicago Panel on School Policy to support Initiative Status Reports, which assess CPS programs and policies, and Application of Research, which turns existing research into recommendations for specific action.
  
• $20,000 to Executive Service Corps of Chicago for its work in CPS.
  
• $15,000 to Constitutional Rights Foundation of Chicago to support Primary VOICE: Literature and the Law, a program that teaches critical thinking skills and responsible behavior to 2nd-graders in several Chicago public schools.
  
• $15,000 to Future Teachers of Chicago for the Minority Male Recruitment Program.
  
• $15,000 to the Ariel Education Initiative for continued support of the Exploratoruim at the Ariel Community Academy.
  
• $10,000 to Citizens Information Service to educate CPS students on electoral and policy-making processes and to encourage civic participation in low-income neighborhoods.

April-May

• $60,000 to the University of Chicago’s Department of Mathematics to support professional development for CPS middle school teachers.
  
• $50,000 to Teach for America to expand its new-teacher recruitment and placement program to Chicago.
  
• $50,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools for salary support of an agency and school coordinator.
  
• $35,000 to the Golden Apple Foundation for its Summer Science Workshop series for CPS elementary school teachers.
  
• $30,000 to North Park University for after-school recreational programs at Albany Park Multicultural Academy.
  
• $25,000 to Family Matters to hire a volunteer coordinator and support a volunteer reading and math tutoring program at Gale Elementary.
  
• $25,000 to the Teachers Task Force for a professional development program to strengthen teacher leadership and professional capacity.
  
• $10,000 to the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education to support Integrating the Arts into the Basic Curriculum, which provides CPS teacher workshops.
  
• $10,000 to Redmoon Theater to support the Dramagirls outreach program at Chase School.
  
• $8,000 to the Near South Planning Board to support Authors in the Schools, a program that brings Chicago writers to 15 CPS elementary schools to encourage 3rd-graders to read and write independently.
  
• $7,500 to Windy City Earth Force to help teachers at Gallistel, Lavizzo and Harold Washington elementary schools devise environmental projects.
  
• $7,500 to Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired for salary support for a program director to oversee visual communication education for 50 CPS preschool and kindergarten students.
  
• $5,000 to Raven Theatre to support a theater program for preschool through 4th-grade .

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Preferred Meal Systems

June-September

• $14,430 to John Hay Community Academy to fund programs for honor roll students, accelerated reading, perfect attendance, and student of the month.

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Trial Group Foundation

April-May

• $26,000 to Roosevelt High School to support the robotics team's competing in the First Robotics Competition.

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U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control

April-May

• $341,715 to the CPS for a comprehensive HIV awareness and health education program, and related teacher inservice, parent training and community-based partnerships with public health agencies.

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U. S. Department of Justice

October-December

• 100,000 to the Office of Specialized Services and Pupil Support Services to implement the Youth Outreach Program. Presentations will be made at 12 schools to alert students to the dangers of substance abuse.

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Woods Fund of Chicago

June-September

• $20,000 to Parents United for Responsible Education to continue working with CPS parents, monitoring school management and training local school council members.
  
• $15,000 to College Summit to expand a college advisory reform initiatives in CPS high schools.
  

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