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.

Ameritech Corporation
AT&T
Barre Seid Foundation
Chatham Food Center, Inc.
Chicago Annenberg Challenge
Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Foundation for Education
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Field Foundation
GATX Corporation
Girl’s Best Friend Foundation
Harris Bank Foundation
Illinois Arts Council
Illinois Attorney General
J.D. and C.T. MacArthur Foundation
The John Nuveen Company
The Joyce Foundation
McDougal Family Foundation
Midwest Computer, Inc.
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
New Prospect Foundation
Northern Trust Company Charitable Trust
Open Society Institute
The Oppenheimer Family Foundation
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Pepper Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
Preferred Meal Systems
Pyramid West
University of Chicago
U.S. Department of Education
Weist Foundation
Wiebolt Foundation
Windows of Opportunity, Inc.
Woods Funds of Chicago

Ameritech Corporation

March-May

• $1.2 million for the Bronzeville Academy Project, a CPS effort to renovate and expand the abandoned old 8th Regiment National Guard Armory building to create a public high school military academy.

January-February

• $400,000 over two years to the Suzuki-Orff School for Young Musicians for a partnership with Anderson Community Academy, Schneider Elementary and Rochas Early Childhood Center to support the Clap, Sing and READ! Program, which uses music to promote reading and encourages parents to be active partners in educating their children.
  
• $350,000 over 18 months to the Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century Network, a partnership between Kohl Children’s Museum and three elementary schools, Ariel, Price and Sullivan, to connect content between grades and foster unity within the schools.
  
• $300,000 over 18 months to the Center for International Technology Network, a partnership between Governors State University and three elementary schools, Anderson Community Academy, Dunne and Van Vlissingen, for teacher professional development.
  
• $300,000 over 18 months to the South Side Writing Coalition, a partnership between The DePaul University School of Education and four schools, Tilton High and Hamline, Libby and Sherman elementary, for teacher professional development and to improve students’ reading and writing.
  
• $250,000 over 18 months to the Flower Cluster Network, a partnership between the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance and four schools, Flower High, Clark Middle and Hefferan and Sumner elemenatary, to incorporate a hands-on science program into classrooms and to provide training for school staff and parents.
  
• $25,000 over six months to the Alliance for Community Education Network to plan for whole-school change. A.C.E. is a partnership between Loyola University and four schools, Kelvyn Park High and Hayt, Swift and Solomon elementary.
  
• $17,000 over six months to the Partnership in Learning Network to plan a program to help prepare students for college through enrichment activities and curriculum development. The network is a partnership between the Principals’ Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago and four schools, Bowen, Calumet and Westinghouse high and Ryder Elementary.

AT&T

March-May

• $125,000 to the Chicago Public Libraries to hire 23 full-time high-tech librarians to assist patrons with databases and on-line resources during summer 1999. Tech librarians will be recruited from area colleges and universities.

• $500,000 to the Chicago Area Writing Project at Roosevelt University to fund general operations and develop a reading initiative, Chicago Area Reading Project, based on the writing model. The Writing Project has trained 180 teachers to go into schools and train colleagues to teach writing more effectively.

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Chatham Food Center, Inc.

March-May

• $500 to Penn Elementary School to purchase gift certificates and merit prizes for grades 4 through 8.

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Chicago Annenberg Challenge

June-September

• $275,000 to the Technology for Integration on the East Side (T.I. E.S) Partnership. Hawthorne, Healy, Lincoln and Mark Sheridan schools have partnered with National-Louis University to continue their efforts to develop and implement strategies that enable students to better understand, interpret and evaluate information through the integration of technology and the arts.
  
• $250,000 to the West Town Learning Network. Wells High School and Lozano, Otis and Peabody elementary schools are working with the Chicago Teachers’ Center at Northeastern Illinois University to meet the network’s principle goal: creating a high-performing K-12 learning community.
  
• $175,000 to the Making Education Better Network. Burke, Ellington and Melody elementary schools are working with the Teachers’ Task Force to continue the network’s efforts to increase student achievement through innovative teaching techniques and more personalized learning environments.
  
• $175,000 to the STIR Network, which includes Armstrong, Decatur, Jamieson, Rogers and Stone elementary schools and the Illinois Future Problem Solving. The network is working on whole-school change and developing problem-solving skills in students.
  
• $75,000 to Stone Soup: The Multicultural Literacy Network. Ruiz, Marconi and Ward elementary schools are working with Hug-A-Book to continue efforts to promote literacy through multicultural literature, and classroom libraries with books that reflect the cultures and races of the students enrolled in network schools.

March-May

• $500,000 over 27 months to Art and Culture in Education, a network of the Newcomer Center, Salazar Bilingual Education Center and Cooper Dual Language Academy that will develop and implement a curriculum that enhances bilingual student learning through integration of arts and culture.
  
• $400,000 over two years to the Primarily Arts Network to help teachers integrate music into school curriculums. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will work with teachers in 1st-, 2nd- and 3rd-grade classrooms at Beasley, Howland and Peirce schools. The group will later expand to serve grades 4 through 6.
  
• $265,000 to the Learning and Sharing Connection to improve the quality of staff development and to increase parent involvement at Calhoun North, Corkery and Saucedo schools. Participation Associates is the project’s external partner.

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Chicago Community Trust

March-May

• $600,000 over three years to the Teachers Academy for Mathematics and Science for support of the West Pullman School Development Program. Teachers from 10 West Pullman elementary schools will attend training to improve math, science and technology curriculums. The program is part of the Chicago United Project for Redevelopment of West Pullman.
  
• $409,265 to the Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation of America for administrative support of the William J. Cook Scholarship program for male high school seniors in Cook County.
  
• $300,000 over two years to the University of Chicago’s Center for School Improvement for general operating support.
  
• $105,000 to a Chicago Community Trust initiative to examine the Trust’s role in high school improvement.
  
• $100,000 to Designs for Change for support of its Network for Leadership Development program, "Building A School Community That Reads." Local school councils, parents, principals and teachers in the program work to improve literacy.
  
• $60,000 to the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for support of its education program.
  
• $60,000 to the Community Renewal Society for continued support of CATALYST.
  
• $40,000 to the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago to examine alternative methods for delivering education, such as vouchers, and to develop an educational choice program for Chicago and Illinois.
  
• $25,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools, Inc. to connect community resources to 65 Chicago public schools. Resources provided by agencies and businesses include mentoring, HIV/AIDS prevention, eye examinations, immunizations, abuse prevention workshops and other safety classes.
  
• $25,000 to the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform for partial salary support of its Chicago program coordinator. The coordinator will work with local school councils, parents and teachers to create policies and other strategies that foster healthy schools.
  
• $20,000 to Chicago’s Successful Schools for continued support of media outreach programs.
  
• $10,000 to the Chicago Area Alternative Education League for a part-time program coordinator to conduct academic outreach programs for at-risk students in 35 alternative schools.
  
• $5,000 to Business and Professional People for the Public Interest for activities related to the 10th Anniversary of the 1988 Chicago School Reform Act.
  
• $3,700 to the CPS’s Children First Fund for costs related to a citywide High School Fair at Navy Pier. The fair was attended by 8,000 8th-graders and their parents.

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Chicago Foundation for Education

June-September

• 425 small grants totaling $162,922 to 516 elementary school teachers to develop innovative approaches to make learning more effective and exciting. The grants, up to $400 each, were awarded to teachers at 231 schools, reaching approximately 28,400 students.
  
• 34 IMPACT II mentor grants totaling $23,400 to 59 elementary teachers in 28 schools to share ideas, plans and materials with other Chicago teachers. The teachers’ programs are published in a catalog, "Take An Idea ... And Go Creative!" which is distributed to all CPS elementary schools.
  
• 145 IMPACT II adaptor grants totaling $30,900 to 179 elementary teachers at 89 schools to adapt and implement projects developed by fellow teachers. Teachers contact CFE mentor teachers to gather information about designing a similar project for their classrooms. The grants, $200 or $300 each, will reach approximately 7,800 students.

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Dr. Scholl Foundation

March-May

• $16,550 to Sauganash Elementary to develop a musical program to use for character education.

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Field Foundation

March-May

• $20,000 to Perspectives Charter School to support the salary of a parent coordinator.
  
• $10,000 to the Chicago Successful Schools Project for the Community Media Workshop to continue informing policy makers, educators and the public about Chicago’s school reform strategies.
  
• $10,000 to Chicago Metro History Education Center to organize a Bilingual History Fair, an effort to attract limited-English-speaking participation from across the metropolitan area.

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GATX Corporation

June-September

• $20,000 to Earle Elementary School in West Englewood for the expansion of its band program.

March-May

• $54,020 to the Waterford Institute for the Early Reading Program at Hartigan Elementary.
  
• $25,000 to Art Resources in Teaching (A.R.T.) to develop and implement an Art and Science Residency Program in three West Englewood elementary schools yet to be chosen. Professional artists will work with four classes in each school, integrating visual arts with the science curriculum.
  
• $7,500 to Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra for the Music Path Program at Beethoven Elementary in Grand Boulevard and Earle Elementary in Englewood. Seventh- through 12th-grade students organize workshops and perform for 300 elementary students.
  
• $2,500 to Cristo Rey Jesuit High School for reading programs.
  
• $2,500 to Council for Aid to Education for the Council’s programs that improve the productivity of education systems and institutions.

• $10,000 over two years to Chicago Women in the Trades for support of the Tradeswomen of Tomorrow Initiative, a program designed to help young women enrolled in Chicago Public Schools’ non-traditional vocational programs explore and enter careers in construction and other high-wage, high-skilled occupations leading to economic self-sufficiency.
  
• $10,000 to the Gender Equity Fund for capacity-building support in the areas of fundraising and financial management. The Gender Equity Fund, the Illinois branch of the American Association of University Women, works to promote equity in educational opportunities for girls and young women through activities and projects.
  
• $10,000 to the Illinois Gender Equity Commission for Project Fair Play to produce and disseminate the Gender Equity Guide for Schools. The program will also establish assemblies of girls that will design healthy school environments.
  
• $10,000 to Black Ensemble Theater for support of Theater for Young Women, a year-round program that uses theater and performance as catalysts for young women with developmental disabilities to achieve personal growth, self-advocacy and empowerment.
  
• $10,000 to Centro Comunitario Juan Diego for support of Junior Health Promoters, a program helping girls ages 8-16 in southeast Chicago develop healthy lifestyles, self-esteem and leadership skills through after-school workshops and participation in community service projects.
  
• $10,000 to GIRL TALK for project support and technical assistance. GIRL TALK is a collaborative program providing girls ages 13-17 at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center with information and creative activities on topics such as cultural diversity, identity, self-esteem, body image, HIV/AIDS/STDs, sexuality, violence, conflict resolution and career options.
  
• $10,000 to the Illinois Center for the Prevention of Violence for support of Sister Net, a statewide network of girls ages 14-18 that addresses violence against and by girls through building girls’ leadership, connecting young women to adult female mentors, organizing gender awareness sensitivity training and building resources for girls.
  
• $10,000 to Video Machete for continued support of the Young Women’s Video Project. The program provides young women ages 14-17 a forum to communicate with each other through autobiographical video, poetry videos and publications.
  
• $8,645 to the Chicago Health Connection for support of the Teen Breastfeeding Promotion Project. Young women in the program function as peer leaders and community health workers by contacting teen mothers in their community and encouraging them to breast-feed.
  
• $7,500 to Guatemala Radio Project for support and technical assistance to Radio Educate Chicago, a program that exposes girls from Antonia Pantojo Alternative High School to issues affecting women throughout the world. Girls meet in the studio once a week to learn radio production, communication and political analysis skills, and at the end of the semester produce their own radio show.
  
• $6,000 to Street-Level Youth Media for continued support of Welders and Warriors, a media arts program that enables girls to access advanced media technologies and use them to create multi-media projects that explore gender issues in a safe, supportive and participatory environment.
  
• $5,000 to After School Action Programs for an evaluation of Girl World, a mentoring program designed with and for girls ages 8-15 in the Uptown/ Edgewater community.
  
• $5,000 to Community Extension Project, Inc. for the Girls Becoming Women Group, a program for high school girls to develop peer health education forums and community service opportunities in an environment that encourages them to become vocal and valued members of their community.
  
• $5,000 to the Developing Communities Project for technical assistance for the Young Women’s Leadership Development Project, a program directed at increasing the health and well-being of girls and young women living in the far South Side of Chicago.
  
• $5,000 to Family Matters for support for an evaluation and documentation of the Sisters of Struggle and Sisters in Unity programs, which facilitate positive opportunities for 15 girls ages 15-18 in the areas of personal growth, community activism, leadership and education and business development.
  
• $5,000 to Redmoon Theater for development and fundraising activities for Drama Girls, a performance-based program to empower fifth-grade girls at Chase Elementary School.
  
• $3,000 to A Sporting Chance Foundation for fundraising and development support. The organization fosters the healthy development of Chicagoland girls ages 7-18 through participation in athletics and fitness.

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Harris Bank Foundation

October-December

• $7,500 to Chicago Communities In Schools for partnership programs between social service agencies and approximately 50 public schools.
  
• $5,000 to Designs for Change to support general operations.
  
• $5,000 to Youth Guidance drop-out prevention program, which serves
  
• 20,000 at-risk youth and their families in 44 public schools.
  
• $2,000 to Creating Pride for an educational painting program that assists public school children in creating paintings for sale and profit to benefit their schools.

March-May

• $5,000 to Junior Achievement for general operating funds.
  
• $2,500 to Chicago Public Schools Student Science Fair for general operations.
  
• $1,000 to Literacy Chicago, which works with Colman and South Loop elementaries, to offer literacy, parenting and life skills classes to parents during school hours, and joint after-school activities for parents and children.

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Illinois Arts Council

March-May

• $25,000 to Gresham Elementary to purchase art materials and supplies for the school’s new art program.

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Illinois Attorney General

October-December

• $2.2 million for safety programs in the Chicago Public Schools; part of Atty. Gen. Jim Ryan’s $14 million Safe to Learn legislation. CEO Paul Vallas says $1.6 million will be allocated to train teachers in conflict resolution and hiring additional student counselors in 100 schools; $500,000 will pay for 50 off-duty Chicago police officers to patrol 25 elementary schools part-time; and $100,000 will subsidize parents serving as truant officers in the Walking School Bus program.

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J.D. and C.T. MacArthur Foundation

June-September

• $1,200,000 over three years to the University of Illinois at Chicago for restructuring its teacher preparation program.
  
• $400,000 to the Chicago Public Schools for work with the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing in developing end-of-year exams for elementary and secondary students that are aligned with Chicago’s achievement standards and its programs of study.
  
• $300,000 over three years to the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education to carry out a site-based teacher improvement strategy at the high school level.
  
• $300,000 to the University of Illinois at Chicago Small Schools Workshop to deepen the university’s whole-school restructuring practice and begin to train other practitioners to carry out similar interventions.
  
• $275,000 to Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform for efforts to advance school reform in Chicago and other urban areas.
  
• $225,000 to Youth Guidance for implementation of the Comer School Development Program in the Chicago Public Schools.
  
• $200,000 to Designs for Change to improve student achievement at the local level.
  
• $150,000 to Chicago Public Schools’ Teachers Academy for Professional Development to help implement a system-wide induction program for new teachers
  
• $100,000 over three years to A Sporting Chance Foundation for the "Get in the Game" initiative.
  
• $100,000 to Chicago Youth Agency Partnership in support of continuing effort to strengthen the group’s membership base and to develop programming.
  
• $60,000 over two years to Chicago Do Something for creating new opportunities for young people in their schools and communities.
  
• $50,000 to Chicago School Leadership Development Cooperative to develop a network of 20 community organizations to organize parents and community leaders to help improve the quality of leadership and teaching in their schools.
  
• $10,000 to the City of Chicago in support of Mayor Daley’s National Education Conference.

March-May

• $480,000 over two years to the Community Renewal Society for CATALYST to expand its work and audience.
  
• $175,000 to Chicago United to develop standards-based procedures for assessing Illinois teachers.
  
• $125,000 to the Financial Research and Advisory Committee of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago for the Teacher Recruitment Initiative, a program for recruiting highly qualified teachers to CPS.
  
• $75,000 to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to plan a strategy to recruit and support Chicago teachers to pursue national board certification.
  
• $50,000 to the Chicago School Leadership Development Cooperative to form a network of local community organizations that will organize parents and community leaders to improve leadership and teaching in neighborhood schools.
  
• $33,500 to the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin- Madison to plan a five-phase study on the impact of probation policy on CPS elementary schools.
  
• $20,000 to Chicago’s Successful Schools Project to promote school reforms that originate at the local level from parents, the school, the community and external partners.

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The John Nuveen Company

January-February

• $50,000 to the Chicago Public Schools’ Children’s First Fund.

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The Joyce Foundation

June-September

• $455,000 over two years to The University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics to help 29 Chicago public schools use the internet and to encourage other local universities to set up similar programs.
  
• $228,417 to Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy to convene a meeting of senior school district administrators from Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee to discuss new school reform strategies in curriculum and technology.
  
• $257,183 to Chicago United to set up an online forum among 15 Chicago public schools and design a prototype for an educational technology collaboration.
  
• $200,000 over 13 months to SRI International to do a strategic review of Chicago Public Schools’ professional development programs in technology.
  
• $160,000 to University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education to provide technical assistance, advocacy and policy support for small schools in the Chicago public school system.
  
• $99,564 to Education Development Center Inc. to help Chicago Public Schools create a technology training site.
  
• $76,920 over two years to Rethinking Schools Ltd. to study teacher supply, diversity and preparation in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee.
  
• $75,000 to Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI) to promote small school development in Chicago.

March-May

• $400,000 over two years to the Neighborhood Capital Budget Group to develop local, regional and statewide networks aimed at increasing public support and funding for public school construction and repairs.
  
• $261,600 over two years to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The organization will conduct research and legal work designed to reduce overcrowding in Chicago Latino neighborhood schools and to monitor CPS’s implementation of new language-instruction policies and practices.
  
• $250,000 over two years to the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to help Chicago and other city reform leaders share reform strategies, insights and experiences.
  
• $141,790 to Chicago State University’s field-based teacher preparation program. The money will also be used to establish a program to prepare students to teach science.
  
• $70,000 to the Coalition for Improved Education in South Shore to work with the South Shore Education Task Force in developing a community-wide education plan for 11 area public schools.
  
• $36,850 to the Community Renewal Society to develop a special issue of CATALYST on teacher recruitment and retention efforts in Chicago.
  
• $354,000 over 2 years to Marquette University, Institute for the
  Transformation of Learning, to promote systemic school restructuring in urban areas and school-community partnerships that focus on student achievement.
  
• $175,000 over 16 months to the University of California, Los Angeles, National Center for Research on Evaluation, to train Chicago public school faculties to collect and analyze data to measure educational progress and prepare school improvement plans.
  
• $150,000 over 16 months to the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, to examine the effects of CPS’ "no social promotion" policy on students, parents, teachers and instruction.
  
• $60,000 to Northwestern University, School of Education and Social Policy, to evaluate the impact of proposed school finance strategies in Illinois.

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McDougal Family Foundation

June-September

• $100,000 to the University of Illinois at Chicago to restructure the field and clinical experiences in its teacher preparation program.
  
• $25,000 to BPI for its Public Education Project. The project advocates for small schools on a policy level and works to strengthen Chicago’s existing small schools.
  
• $20,000 to the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago for general operating support.
  
• $17,000 to the Center for City Schools at National-Louis University for "Spreading the Word: Professional Development for Chicago Secondary Teachers." The program brings together 62 high school teachers who observe and interact with teachers at Best Practice High School, as well as attend a workshop run by the center to learn innovative teaching techniques.
  
• $10,000 to Chicago Arts Collaborative for Teachers for general operating support.

March-May

• $32,000 to Chicago Secondary Mathematics Improvement Project at the University of Illinois at Chicago for professional development and training of lead teachers in the Interactive Mathematics Program. IMP is a four-year, secondary curriculum that integrates algebra, geometry, trigonometry, statistics and probability. It encourages students to find solutions to real-life problems.
  
• $30,000 to Comer School Development Project for the planning and implementation of a Masters in Education curriculum for CPS teachers involved in the Comer School Development Project. This will be a collaboration between Youth Guidance and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
  
• $25,000 to CAPE for general operating support for Year of the Chicago Arts Partnership in Education.
  
• $25,000 to Financial Research and Advisory Committee to support the Partnership to Encourage the Next Century’s Leaders (PENCUL), an evaluation and screening program for principal candidates.
  
• $25,000 to the Rochelle Lee Fund, a program that offers books and development workshops to CPS elementary teachers, to support student reading. About 300 awards were given last year.
  
• $20,000 to Merit Music Program to support MusicAll, a program that works with students and teachers to bring Solfege and Kodaly instruction methods into all classes at Greene, Goldblatt and Shoesmith elementary schools.
  
• $15,000 to the Teachers’ Task Force for its Curriculum Development and Alignment Symposium and Assessment. The Task Force has trained over 30 CPS schools to align curriculum with state and local goals.
  
• $15,000 to Whirlwind, an arts-based reading group, to develop, implement and assess a new teacher training program. Whirlwind aims to train 50 teachers over the summer, about half from CPS.
  
• $10,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools Inc., which links 98 social service agencies with 50 Chicago public schools for counseling, gang prevention, HIV education/prevention and other services.
  
• $10,000 to Chicago’s Successful Schools Project to promote school reforms that originate at the local level from parents, the schools, the community and external partners.
  
• $10,000 to Facing History and Ourselves to provide training and ongoing classroom support for CPS teachers in helping middle and high school students understand the consequences of prejudice and violence by looking at historical events.
  
• $5,000 to the Suzuki-Orff School for Young Musicians for a pilot project to bring its BabySTEPS program to Burley, Stockton, Webster and Andersen elementaries, and another to be selected later. BabySTEPS introduces prekindergarten children and their parents to musical beats and rhythms.
  
• $4,000 to Chicago Public Schools Region 3 as continuing support for principals participating in Region 3’s Principal Executive Circle.

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Midwest Computer, Inc.

March-May

• 32 computers, with monitors and peripherals, to the New Green School to fully equip a new computer lab. Valued at over $38,000.

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NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC

June-September

• $525,000 over two years to Fenger Academy High School to house a Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA). The facility will consist of nine workstations, and will allow students to design an aircraft and plot its flight. It will also feature a virtual reality flight simulator, wind tunnel and weather station. Seven elementary schools—West Pullman, Haley, Whistler, Curtis, Metcalfe, and Songhai Learning Institute—also will have access to the facility.

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New Prospect Foundation

June-September

• $5,000 to the Chicago School Leadership Development Cooperative for general operating support. This network of neighborhood and citywide organizations supports local school councils and works to encourage community participation in education.
  
• $10,000 to Youth Guidance for support of the Comer School Development Program.
  
• $5,000 to Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) for general operations.
  
• $5,000 to the Lawyers’ School Reform Advisory Project for general operations. The project provides legal advice to local school councils and other school reform organizations.
  
• $5,000 to the Chicago Successful Schools Project for general operations. The project is a collaboration among 13 Chicago foundations to promote balanced newspaper and broadcast media coverage of education reform.
  
• $2,500 to the Rochelle Lee Fund for general operations. The fund helps Chicago Public School teachers create literacy-rich classrooms that encourage students to read independently.

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Northern Trust Company Charitable Trust

October-December

• $22,500 over three years to Chicago Communities in Schools for general operating costs.
  
• $15,000 over three years to the Rochelle Lee Fund for their Streams project, which facilitates collaboration between teachers in consecutive grades to enhance reading instruction.
  
• $15,000 to the Scholarship & Guidance Association for a school drop-out prevention program at Wells Community Academy.
  
• $10,500 over three years to the Chicago Foundation for Education for their Grants to Teachers Program.
  
• $10,000 to the Chicago Panel on School Policy to support operating costs.
  
• $10,000 over two years to Chicago Dramatists Workshop for educational outreach at Wells High School.
  
• $10,000 to Designs for Change for their Network for Leadership Development Program.
  
• $5,000 over two years to the Union League Boys and Girls Clubs for educational program development in West Town.
  
• $3,500 to the Great Books Foundation for their Junior Great Books Chicago, a project that links public schools to Foundation’s language arts curriculum enhancement program.
  
• $3,500 to Target Hope for their academic achievement and high school retention program.
  
• $3,500 to Youth Communication in support of operating costs.
  
• $3,500 to Midtown Educational Foundation for operating support.
  
• $3,250 to the Right Angle Educational Foundation to fund Wells Academy scholarships.
  
• $2,915 to the Erie Neighborhood House to support the Tutoring to Educate for Aims and Motivation (TEAM) banquet. TEAM provides academic support and social services to students at Wells Academy and other West Town-area high schools.
  
• $2,500 to the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Foundation for their Youth Motivation Program, which provides college scholarships.

March-May

• $25,000 to Northwestern University for its Community Law Clinic in West Town.
  
• $7,750 to Right Angle Educational Academy for scholarships to students at Wells Academy High School.

January-February

• $10,000 to Erie Neighborhood House’s TEAM Tutoring Program for Wells Academy Students.

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Open Society Institute

March-May

• $60,000 to the Chicago Debate Commission, a Community Renewal Society initiative, to expand CPS debate teams. Other Debate Commission partners include CPS, Phi Betta Kappa and the League of Women Voters.

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The Oppenheimer Family Foundation

January-Febuary

• $103,000 to 260 middle and high school teachers in the Chicago Public Schools for 75 innovative projects.

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The Pew Charitable Trusts

June-September

• $1,500,000 over three years to North Central Assn. of Colleges and Secondary Schools to design a new accreditation model for quality improvement programs.

January-February

• $103,000 to 260 middle and high school teachers in the Chicago Public Schools for 75 innovative projects.

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Pepper Foundation

March-May

• $55,647 to Melody Elementary to purchase supplies, furniture and equipment for the school’s library and media center.

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Polk Bros. Foundation

October-December

• $222,500 to the University of Illinois at Chicago for a program supporting continuing education for physics and chemistry teachers in Chicago public high schools.
  
• $200,000 to the Big Shoulders Fund to purchase supplies, teaching materials and computer software at outstanding Big Shoulders schools.
  
• $90,000 to the Museum of Science and Industry for a Master Teacher program to train K-12 teachers how to integrate technology and science curricula.
  
• $75,000 to Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education to launch a new phase of arts integration programs at 30 partnership schools.
  
• $60,000 to the Field Museum of Natural History to bring museum resources into 30 Chicago public schools through the Field Ambassadors program.
  
• $60,000 to the Erikson Institute to motivate and train Head Start teachers to integrate technology into their curricula.
  
• $55,000 to the Chicago Children’s Museum for the Latino Initiative, which supports efforts to make the museum more culturally accessible and communicate with parents and teachers in seven public schools.
  
• $50,000 to the John G. Shedd Aquarium to encourage long-term, collaborative outreach programs for underserved students in Chicago schools and parks.
  
• $50,000 to Metropolitan Family Services to fund the Midway Center’s community development director position, which serves as a liaison to CPS. First payment of a two-year grant.
  
• $45,000 to the Jewish Council for Youth Services to support the Camp on Wheels Adventure Education program in Hyde Park Academy, Lincoln Park and Sullivan high schools.
  
• $40,000 to the Chicago Shakespeare Theater for Team Shakespeare to perform for 4th- through 12th-graders in up to 100 Chicago public schools.
  
• $30,000 to the Museum of Contemporary Art to support teacher workshops and school-to-work programs for CPS high school students.
  
• $30,000 to the Chicago Urban League to work with the Illinois Ethnic Coalition to ensure an accurate Census 2000 count of CPS families.
  
• $30,000 to Chicago Cares for their Discovery program, a Saturday morning academic? enrichment program created and run by volunteers at Henderson and McCormick schools.
  
• $25,000 to the Rochelle Lee Fund for the Streams program, which facilitates collaboration between teachers in consecutive grades to enhance reading instruction. First payment of a two- year grant.
  
• $25,000 to the Chicago Humanities Festival to promote education programs for CPS teachers and students. First payment of two-year grant.
  
• $25,000 to Chicago Youth Success Foundation to expand existing CPS academic and extracurricular programs.
  
• $25,000 to Executive Service Corps of Chicago for three programs: Career Talks with students at 37 schools, School-to-Work Initiative at 10 high schools, and integrating Internet and curriculum at Kenwood Academy..
  
• $25,000 to the North Lawndale Learning Community for the Teacher and Parent Resource Center at Homan Square.
  
• $20,000 to Organization of the NorthEast to cultivate parent leaders at Brenneman, Peirce and two other Uptown elementary schools to be recruited.
  
• $20,000 to Muntu Dance Theater in support of Arts for Community Empowerment, a dance program in based in schools and youth organizations.
  
• $20,000 over two years to the Chicago Foundation for Education for the Small Grants to Teachers program.
  
• $20,000 to Youth Communication to fund journalism workshops in 18 high schools and youth organizations.
  
• $30,000 to Friends of the Chicago River to fund teacher training and student activities with the Chicago River Schools Network, which promotes using the Chicago River as an instructional tool and maintains a web site compiled by students? at Whittier Elementary in Pilsen.
  
• $15,000 to the Chicago Architecture Foundation to support the Newhouse Architecture Competition, which attracts about 700 students from over 20 public high schools.
  
• $10,000 to Intuit: Center for Intuitive & Outsider Art in support of art education programs at five Chicago public schools.
  
• $10,000 to Citizens Information Services for the Future Voter education program in elementary schools.
  
• $10,000 to East Village Youth Program to fund a program coordinator position to work with seven Chicago high schools.
  
• $8,000 to West Town Leadership Program for parent stipends for assisting classroom teachers.
  
• $5,000 to Community Film Workshop to fund CPS in-school and after-school media arts workshops.

March-May

• $80,000 to DePaul University to expand the Polk Bros. Foundation Teacher Leadership Network, a two-year approach to improving teaching and learning by working with teachers and administrators in CPS schools to develop and implement innovative changes in education. First payment of a two-year grant.
  
• $50,000 to Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center for the second year of Partnership for Professional Practice, an orientation program for new CPS teachers that offers support and seminars on instructional strategies and classroom management.
  
• $25,000 to Howard Area Community Center for continued support for Greensleeves and Project JAM!, after-school and summer programs at Gale Community Academy and Jordan Community elementary schools.
  
• $25,000 over two years to ETA Creative Arts Foundation for continued support of Showfolk, a children’s matinee series, and for the Playwrighting/Creative Dramatics artists-in-residence program at McCosh, O’Keeffe and Brownell schools.
  
• $25,000 to Future Teachers of Chicago to support two positions, director and assistant director, of the Minority Male Recruitment Project.
  
• $20,000 to the National Lekotek Center for play-based family support and educational programs at Nobel, Piccolo, Cameron and two non-CPS sites in Humboldt Park.
  
• $20,000 to Teachers’ Task Force to support Building a Learning Community, a program to strengthen teacher leadership and professional capacity through long-term professional development and training; and cultivate a student-centered learning environment.
  
• $20,000 to Chicago Children’s Choir to provide children with a choral music experience by forming and directing choirs in 38 CPS schools.
  
• $12,500 to Chicago Public Art Group for the New Schools Program, a school and community beautification initiative that includes designing and executing murals and mosaics. Last year, New Schools worked with 13 CPS schools.
  
• $10,000 to Redmoon Theater for the Halloween Lantern Parade and Spectacle, in which the Dramagirls from Chase School will participate. Dramagirls is a program for about 20 at-risk teenage girls in which the students learn skills such as drumming and each has an adult female mentor.
  
• $10,000 to the Constitutional Rights Foundation of Chicago for Educating Students for Democracy, an initiative to teach law and conflict resolution, government and the Constitution to grade school students at Coleman, Hartigan, Mollison, and Overton schools.
  
• $10,000 to Joel Hall Dance Center for an education outreach program.
  
• $10,000 to Lifeline Theatre for in-school residency programs at Kilmer and Riley elementaries. Artists work with teachers and students to use drama techniques to teach a variety of subjects.
  
• $8,000 to Near South Planning Board for Authors in Schools, in which authors give writing workshops and book readings for 3rd-graders in 15 CPS schools.
  
• $7,000 to Creating Pride for the Art Development Program, which trains teachers at Brown, Deneen, Stagg and Webster to teach art in their classrooms.
  
• $3,500 to the Raven Theatre Company for children’s theater, including Aesop’s Fables and three Hans Christian Anderson plays, for pre-school through 5th-grade students at up to 15 CPS schools.

January-February

• $60,000 to the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago for the School in Museum project, which integrates classroom and museum experiences for students visiting the reopened Oriental Institute Museum.
  
• $50,000 to the Commercial Club Foundation to support the second year of the Partnership to Encourage the Next Century’s Urban Leaders (PENCUL), which evaluates the skills of people interested in becoming principals and helps LSCs choose an appropriate principal.
  
• $40,000 over two years to the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies for the museum’s education programs on prejudice and stereotyping for students in public and private schools.
  
• $40,000 to the Community Renewal Society for an associate editor of CATALYST.
  
• $35,000 to the Marwen Foundation for the expansion of the Introductory Studio program, an after-school and weekend arts program, for 7th- through 12th-graders from 60 schools, both public and private.
  
• $30,000 to the Chicago Area Planned Parenthood for Linked Services, a teen pregnancy prevention program that works with freshmen students at Harlan, Simeon, Steinmetz, Harper and Englewood high schools and Perspectives Charter School and grades 5 through 8 at Piccolo Middle School, and Parker and Whittier elementary schools.
  
• $30,000 to the Eric Family Health Center for a full-time case manager at the Westside Health Center for Ryerson Elementary School students, their families and the surrounding community.
  
• $30,000 to Swedish Covenant Hospital for a new school-based health clinic at Roosevelt High School.
  
• $25,000 to the Pegasus Players for the Young Playwrights’ Festival, which provides workshops for 30 Chicago public high schools and seven middle schools, and to help the new Jones Magnet High School use the arts to enhance instruction.
  
• $25,000 to Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center for the Rockwell-Grant Youth Project, a school-based intervention and prevention program of the Rush Institute for Mental Well-Being. The program is an after-school and summer program for 10 to 15 troubled students from Grant Elementary.
  
• $25,000 to the Newberry Library for the Chicago Teachers as Scholars program, which will provide seminars to help 60 CPS teachers per year better use the resources of the Newberry and the Chicago Academy of Sciences.
  
• $22,500 to the Chicago Sinfonietta for "Youth and the Professional," a collaboration between the Sinfonietta and Bogan, Curie, Lane Technical, Chicago Vocational, Schurz and Whitney Young high schools and Foster Park and Gallistel elementary schools.
  
• $20,000 to Victory Gardens Theatre for the expansion of its education outreach program at Kelvyn Park, Simpson, Chicago Vocational, Dunbar, Wells, King, Near North, Carver, Lindblom Technical, Morgan Park, Austin and Harlan high schools.
  
• $20,000 to the South Side Help Center for a violence specialist who will teach a curriculum-based violence prevention model in grades 6 through 12 at Brenan and Cullen elementary schools, and Fenger, Morgan Park and Julian high schools.
  
• $16,000 to St. Agatha Family Empowerment for the support of the Teen Alternative Network, which provides educational assistance, college and career planning, life skills development and teen mentor employment to 7th- to 12th-grade students in North Lawndale public high schools and elementary schools.
  
• $15,000 to the Gateway Charitable Foundation for support of the Rite of Passage Program, a substance-abuse prevention and education support program for at-risk students at Coonley and Ravenswood elementary schools and Lake View High.
  
• $15,000 to the Holy Cross Hospital Foundation for salary support for a nurse practitioner who will make house calls to homebound students of Tesla Alternative High. The foundation provides 63 students with on-site pre- and post-natal health care and allows them to deliver at Holy Cross Hospital.
  
• $15,000 to the Black Ensemble Theater Corporation for the Strengthening the Schools through the Arts Program at Revere Elementary.
  
• $15,000 to the Chicago Theatre Company for a Saturday class for community youth, and for its High School Theater Appreciation Project with students at Tesla, Harlan, Manley, Chicago Vocational, Kenwood and Gage Park high schools.

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Preferred Meal Systems

March-May

• $12,784 to Hay Community Academy to purchase classroom computers and software.

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Pyramid West

March-May

• $2,234 to Penn Elementary to purchase band uniforms, certificates and supplies.

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University of Chicago

October-December

• $1.15 million over three years to the Center for School Improvement for school improvement and teacher preparation programs.

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U.S. Department of Education

June-September

• $8 million technology grant over 5 years to 86 schools in Region 3. Each school will receive up to 16 computers to transform classrooms into virtual learning communities. The first 16 are Brown, Cather, Chalmers, Galileo, Grant, Gregory, Hammond, Johnson, May and Melody elementary schools; and Austin, Crane, Flower, Jones, Juarez and Marshall high schools.

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Weist Foundation

March-May

• $5,000 to FACETS, a food-service industry training center, to supply instructional software to the student technology center at Harper High School.

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Wiebolt Foundation

June-September

• $40,000 over two years to Parents United For Responsible Education for general operations.
  
• $20,000 to Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform for their work to improve Chicago public schools.
  
• $10,000 to Designs For Change for general operations.

March-May

• $15,000 to the Lawyers’ School Reform Advisory Project.
  $10,000 to the Chicago Panel on School Policy, a research and advocacy organization that also sponsors parent involvement forums.

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Windows of Opportunity, Inc.

March-May

• $15,000 to Schneider Elementary to purchase an outdoor school marquis and supplies for the school store’s incentive program. Students are awarded "Shark notes" for good attendance, behavior and completed homework. They can then redeem the notes for books and supplies at the school store.
  
• $15,000 to Suder Elementary to expand the school’s on-site health clinic, which serves students and their families.
  
• $15,000 to Phillips High to help fund its after-school, remedial reading and math program.

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Woods Funds of Chicago

June-September

• $50,000 over two years to the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform for its work in Chicago on school improvement.
  
• $30,000 over two years to the Small Schools Coalition and BPI to support work on behalf of small schools.
  
• $20,000 to the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education for efforts to enhance teaching and learning through the arts.
  
• $15,000 to the Chicago Panel on School Policy for research and advocacy and efforts to increase parent involvement.
  
• $2,000 to the Chicago Association of Local School Councils for board development.