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.

American National Bank Foundation
Ameritech
AT&T Foundation
Bally Total Fitness
Cargill Investor Service
Chicago Annenberg Challenge
The Chicago Community Trust
Chicago Foundation for Education
CNA Insurance, KaBoom and Nuveen Co.
Coca Cola Bottling Company
Conrad Sulzer Foundation
CPS Bureau of Cultural Arts
Dewitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Fel-Pro/Mecklenburger Foundation
Field Foundation
GATX Corporation
Harris Bank
IBM Corporation
Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Chicago
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
The Joyce Foundation
Karl Cless Foundation
Kiwanis Club of Ravenswood
Marshall Field’s
McDougal Family Foundation
Miracle Ear Children’s Foundation
National 4-H Council
New Prospect Foundation
Northern Trust Co.
Oracle Corporation
Pew Charitable Trusts
Polk Bros. Foundation
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Sulzer Family Foundation
Technology Literacy Challenge Fund
Tooling and Manufacturing Association Education Foundation
U.S. Department of Education
Washington Elementary School PTA
Western Union N.A.
Wieboldt Foundation
Woods Fund of Chicago

American National Bank Foundation

January-March

• $5,000 each to Goldblatt, Sabin, Herzl and Mayo elementary schools to support the Junior Achievement Whole School Program, in which professional bankers visit the schools and conduct business workshops with students.
  
• $150,000 for the Chicago American National Saturday Scholars Program, a weekend college preparatory program for 165 graduates from the foundation’s partner elementary schools: Herzl, Mayo, Goldblatt and Sabin. The program follows the graduates through four years of high school and includes a summer camp.
  
• $30,000 each to Herzl, Mayo, Goldblatt and Sabin elementary schools for general operating support.

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Ameritech

April-June

• $30,000 to the Junior Achievement Whole School Partnership Program for materials and volunteer training at four Chicago elementary schools.

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AT&T Foundation

July-September

• $82,000 to the Chicago Foundation for Education’s TAKEOFF! program, which provides training and staff development for teachers in six Chicago schools and aims to incorporate technology into the basic reading and writing curriculum.

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Bally Total Fitness

October-December

• 150 pieces of exercise equipment and weights to nine Chicago public high schools as part of Bally’s Stronger Communities campaign, which donates training equipment also to park districts, community organizations and the police and fire departments.

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Cargill Investor Service

April-June

• $25,600 to the Galileo School for instructional materials, instructional services and staff support services. Amoco Foundation n $20,000 to Benito Juarez High School to purchase equipment and technical help for the school’s physics department.

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Chicago Annenberg Challenge

October-December

• $175,000 to the Alliance for Achievement Network, a partnership between Piccolo, Spry and Bethune schools and the Academic Development Institute, for teacher professional development.
  
• $175,000 to the Chicago Regional Learning Network Hub, a partnership between Disney Magnet, Woodson South and White schools and Illinois Learning Partnership, to increase parent involvement and provide teacher development.
  
• $175,000 to the Networks in Science in Education, a partnership between Dett, Cather and Gladstone schools and Columbia College’s Science Institute, to increase the overall science literacy of teachers, parents and students and to teach methods of engaging students’ interest in science.
  
• $175,000 to the STIR Network, a partnership between Illinois Future Problem Solving Inc. and Decatur, Stone, Jamieson, Rogers and George Armstrong schools, to create whole-school change by providing teachers extra time to collaborate and share ideas.
  
• $165,000 to the Austin On-Line Network, a partnership between Leland, Key and Spencer schools and the People’s ReInvestment Development Effort (PRIDE), for teacher professional development and equipment for video-conferencing among other projects.
  
• $150,000 for leadership development to the Grassroots School Improvement Campaign, a partnership between Chicago Acorn, the Small Schools Workshop, the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform and eight Chicago schools, for parent and community participation in school improvement. The schools are Acorn Charter, Gage Park High, Robeson High, Collins High, O’Toole, Little Village Academy, Charles E. Hughes and Mason.
  
• $150,000 to the Partnership to Encourage the Next Century’s Leaders (PENCUL), which evaluates the skills of people interested in becoming principals and helps LSCs choose an appropriate principal.
  
• $135,000 to the Greater Roseland School Improvement Partnership, which works with parents to develop leadership and improve educational quality and student achievement. Designs for Change and the Developing Communities Project have teamed with Alex Haley, Fernwood, Higgins, Kohn, Metcalfe, Shoop, Van Vlissingen, and West Pullman elementary schools in the partnership.
  
• $75,000 to the Leadership Academy and Urban Network for Chicago (LAUNCH), a training program for aspiring principals.
  
• $25,000 over six months to the Primarily Arts Network to develop a plan to infuse the arts into the 1st-3rd grade curriculum at Beasley, Howland and Helen Peirce elementary schools. CPS’ Fine Arts Department joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and DePaul University in the network.
  
• $25,000 to the Successful Schools Project, an effort by 13 citywide foundations to promote school reforms that originate at the local level from parents, the school, the community and external partners.
  
• $15,000 to the Stone Soup: Multicultural Literacy Network, which includes the Hug-a-Book organization and Marconi, Ruiz and James Ward schools, for continued support of its program to promote literacy across subject areas and choose reading material that reflects the race and culture of the students.

April-June

• $125,000 to the Financial Research and Advisory Committee (FRAC) to support an initiative designed to recruit high- quality teachers in Chicago public schools that demonstrate the most need.

January-March

• $750,000 to the Urban Imagination Network for continued support of its programs to improve reading comprehension in science and social studies through the creation of museum-style exhibits in the schools, and to engage parents to work with their children and to serve as museum docents. The network includes Dewey, Hope, Locke, Suder and Terrell elementary schools and Corliss High School; the Center for Urban Education at DePaul University; and several local museums and cultural institutions.
  
• $650,000 to the New Schools Multicultural Network for support of its programs at predominantly Latino schools to improve student literacy in Spanish and English and to train both parents and teachers in their respective second languages. The network includes Lara, Little Village and Ortiz de Dominguez elementary schools and the Illinois Resource Center.
  
• $600,000 to the Impacting Meaningfully Parents, Administrators, Children and Teachers (I.M.P.A.C.T.) Network to support its programs to reduce class size by using parents and community members as mentors and tutors, to create a community center, and to facilitate faculty collaboration on teaching strategies. The network includes Jahn, Drummond and Mitchell elementary schools and the Chicago Children’s Museum.
  
• $575,000 to the Education and Technology for Citizenship (ETC) Network to support teacher training in citizenship and character education, parent involvement in the classroom, technology development and teacher collaboration. The network includes Lee and Eberhart elementary schools, Bogan High School and Facing History and Ourselves.
  
• $350,000 to the Chicago Public Schools/Chicago State University (CPS/CPU) Network to support the establishment of schools-within-schools, parent involvement in the classroom and personalized learning environments for students. The network includes Pullman, White, Bennett and Shedd Branch elementary schools and Chicago State University.
  
• $25,000 to the Community Renewal Society for its "School Reform: What Matters Most" series, being published by CATALYST.

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The Chicago Community Trust

April-June

• $75,000 to Cristo Rey High School to continue support of its work-study program.
  
• $35,000 to Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform for salary support of a Chicago program coordinator.
  
• $25,000 to the Acorn Charter School for its Educational Excellence Project to help fund dual language and college preparatory classes, staff training and the salary of a community outreach worker.
  
• $25,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools for expansion of programs designed to help prevent students from dropping out of school.
  
• $20,000 over two years to the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation for general operating support. The foundation provides training for emerging leaders in agriculture.
  
• $7,500 to the Union League Boys and Girls Clubs to support the Catch-Up Program, an after-school program that provides supplementary educational programs to 35 5- to 7-year-olds.

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Chicago Foundation for Education

January-March

• $159,638 in small grants to 523 Chicago public school teachers. The grants, up to $400 each, were given both to individual teachers and to teams of teachers to fund innovative learning projects that help students gain basic skills

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CNA Insurance, KaBoom and Nuveen Co.

October-December

• Construction of playgrounds for Schubert, Wacker and Talcott elementary schools. CPS will pay for the playground equipment.

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Coca Cola Bottling Company

April-June

• $1,500 to Tilden High School for the purchase of handheld computers to help students enhance reading and math skills.

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Conrad Sulzer Foundation

April-June

• $10,000 to Lake View High School for student support in areas including physical education, scholarships, instructional supplies, library fund and art department.

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CPS Bureau of Cultural Arts

July-September

• $250,000 in general operating funds to 106 Chicago public schools for individual music programs.

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Dewitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund

July-September

• $298,885 to DePaul University over the next three years to recruit and train former Peace Corps volunteers in their "Pathways to Teaching Careers" program as well as to provide technological assistance and leadership to other Pathways schools.
  
• $200,000 to the University of Illinois at Chicago over three years to institutionalize its "Pathways to Teaching Careers" program by recruiting and training college graduates to teach in Chicago Public Schools.

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Dr. Scholl Foundation

January-March

• $20,000 to Sauganash Elementary to purchase equipment for the school’s computer lab.

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Fel-Pro/Mecklenburger Foundation

January-March

• $4,000 to the Chicago Panel on School Policy for advocacy, monitoring, assessment and training on issues that affect school improvement and student performance.
  
• $2,500 to CATALYST for general operating support.
  
• $2,500 to Designs for Change for the Links to Literacy project, which encourages independent student reading and works to make it a permanent part of the Chicago Public Schools curriculum.
  
• $2,500 to Working in the Schools for the recruitment, training and transportation of corporate and retired volunteers to tutor in Chicago public schools.
  
• $2,500 to Lekotek of West Humboldt Park to provide early intervention services to children and their families at neighborhood sites, including local public elementary schools.
  
• $1,500 to Hug-A-Book for preschool-literacy teacher training and the creation of quality lending libraries for low-income children.

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Field Foundation

October-December

• $20,000 to Hibbard Elementary for its Changing Worlds project, for which immigrant families were interviewed and photographed for an exhibit on understanding cultural diversity. The staff developed a guide to incorporate the material into the school’s curriculum.

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GATX Corporation

January-March

• $10,000 to the Constitutional Rights Foundation for "Law in My Life," an interactive program for 7th- and 8th-graders at 21 Chicago public schools that helps students learn more about government and the legal system.
  
• $10,000 to Community Youth Creative Learning Experience (CYCLE) to support its WIZ Factory after-school program for youths at the Cabrini-Green housing project.
  
• $7,800 to Ada S. McKinley Community Services to support its Talent Search program, which provides college preparation and placement services to inner-city youth.
  
• $7,500 to Christopher House to support its CLASS (Community Literacy Assisting Self-Sufficiency) program to help pregnant and parenting teens on Chicago’s North Side work toward a high school diploma.
  
• $7,000 to the Midtown Educational Foundation for its Metro Achievement Center, a year-round program for academic and personal growth that serves public and private school students from 4th through 12th grade.

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Harris Bank

April-June

• $10,000 to Loyola University of Chicago for its Loyola Community Literacy Center, which provides one-on-one tutoring in reading and writing to Chicago area adults.
  
• $9,000 to Urban Gateways for general operating support.
  
• $3,500 to the Chicago Foundation for Education for general operating support.
  
• $1,000 to the Jesse Owens Foundation for the Gold Mentoring Program, which offers career mentoring to 13- to 17-year-olds through five non-profit organizations.

January-March

• $5,000 to Junior Achievement of Chicago for general operating support.
  
• 2,500 to the Chicago Public Schools to support the citywide Student Science Fair.

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IBM Corporation

July-September

• 15 computers to six Chicago schools as part of the Chicago Foundation for Education’s TAKEOFF! program.

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Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Chicago

January-March

• $4,868 to Garvey Elementary to establish a supplemental reading program and to purchase books and materials.

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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

October-December

• $160,000 to Chicago Association of Local School Councils to train about 90 local school councils to select qualified principals and to plan major instructional improvement strategies.

July-September

• $300,000 over two years to support a project by the Council of Chief State School Officers that seeks more effective ways to use federal Title I funds.
  
• $300,000 to the University of Chicago’s Center for School Improvement.
  
• $275,000 to Youth Guidance for its Systemic School-Based Social Services program.
  
• $200,000 to the Chicago Public Schools for the Partnership for Professional Practice, a new program to support new teachers and prepare them for performance-based assessment; 600 are to be served this year. The Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center and the University of Illinois at Chicago are partners in the program.
  
• $200,000 to support the Teachers Union Reform Network, a new coalition of mainly big-city locals from both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. The goal is to develop ways for union organizing and bargaining to support educational improvement.
  
• $100,000 to the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association for LAUNCH, a training program for aspiring principals.

January-March

• $125,000 to the Financial Research and Advisory Committee of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago (FRAC) to support implementation of a teacher recruitment program for the Chicago Public Schools.
  
• $500,000 to the Chicago Public Schools to support the development of improved, standards-based assessments to measure student performance.
  
• $480,000 to the Institute for Education and Social Policy at New York University to support its School Change and Inquiry program, which provides professional development to teachers at 24 Chicago public schools.
  
• $210,000 over two years to Chicago State University to support a pilot secondary-grade teacher-preparation program.
  
• $40,000 over four months to the Chicago Association of Local School Councils for continued support in identifying the challenges faced by local school councils and developing pilot projects to address them.

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Johnson & Johnson

October-December

• $5,000 to Roosevelt High School to buy radios for its security staff.

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The Joyce Foundation

July-September

• $482,000 over two years to the University of Chicago’s Center for School Improvement for development of a program for principals and veteran teachers to share effective teaching strategies.
  
• $143,050 over 18 months to Leadership for Quality Education for assistance in recruitment, startup and operation of Chicago charter schools.

April-June

• $250,000 over two years to the Chicago Panel on School Policy for efforts to report on Chicago public school reform initiatives, to involve parents in school activities and to disseminate its research findings to a wider audience.
  
• $200,000 over two years to the Commercial Club Foundation to develop a new teacher recruitment initiative that will assist the Chicago Public Schools in designing strategies for recruiting, screening and matching applicants with schools.
  
• $200,000 over two years to the Center for Law and Education in Washington, D.C. to improve the implementation of federal Title I educational programs for low-income children in Chicago and Milwaukee.
  
• $151,930 over two years to the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. to monitor federal, state and local compliance with Title I requirements for assessing the educational progress and improving the school performance of Chicago’s low-income public school students.
  
• $150,000 over 18 months to the Center on Education Policy in Washington, D.C. to organize and lead a series of dialogues with policymakers, educators and parents in Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee and Cleveland to forge a consensus on ideas to improve student achievement.
  
• $125,000 to the Coalition for Improved Education in South Shore for general operating support.
  
• $123,371 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education to convene a statewide task force on minority teacher recruitment.
  
• $100,000 over two years to the Metropolitan Planning Council to promote the adoption of school finance reforms that ensure greater equity among districts in Illinois and reduce their reliance on property taxes.
  
• $50,000 to the Teachers’ Task Force to support leadership and professional development programs.

January-March

• $470,000 over three years to CATALYST for expanded coverage, including reform efforts in Cleveland, Milwaukee and other parts of the Midwest.
  
• $459,869 to SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., to study how educational technology is used differently in urban and non-urban schools in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas.
  
• $250,000 over three years to the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., to work with leading educational institutions to identify the strengths and weaknesses of school reform strategies in several large cities, including Chicago, and to produce new strategies.
  
• $178,000 over 20 months to the Department of African-American Studies at Northwestern University, for a project to identify, describe and publicize the factors that have contributed to a significant rise in student performance at 20 Chicago public elementary schools.

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Karl Cless Foundation

July-September

• $20,000 to Lane Technical High School for student scholarships and technical programs.

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Kiwanis Club of Ravenswood

July-September

• $2,000 to Courtenay Language Arts Center to purchase instructional materials and to repair the parking lot blacktop.

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Marshall Field’s

January-March

• $15,000 to Chicago Schools Quilt: A Millennium Project, a partnership among the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Art Institute of Chicago and Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE). The project will train about 50 teachers from Chicago public elementary and high schools in quiltmaking this spring; they will then teach their students how to quilt. Finished quilts from schools across the city will be joined to make a tapestry for public display.

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McDougal Family Foundation

October-December

• $120,000 to Chicago Public Schools for the Partnership for Professional Practice, a new program to link new teachers with mentors at their schools. The University of Illinois at Chicago and the Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center are helping with development and implementation.
  
• $75,000 to Financial Research and Advisory Committee to support a teacher recruitment initiative for Chicago Public Schools.
  
• $50,000 to the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association for LAUNCH, a training program for aspiring principals.
  
• $30,000 to the Small Schools Project at Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, which funds professional development opportunities for teachers and principals and arranges visits to small schools in other cities.
  
• $30,000 to the Small Schools Coalition to support outreach and advocacy activities.
  
• $25,000 to the Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center to cover application fees for Chicago Public Schools teachers pursuing certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
  
• $25,000 to National-Louis University for professional development activities for staff at Best Practice High School.
  
• $20,000 to the Ariel Community Academy for professional development for teachers and development of a schoolwide curriculum.
  
• $15,000 to Woodlawn Development Associates for the professional development of the teachers at Woodlawn Community School.
  
• $10,000 to Future Teachers of Chicago to support programs to bring minorities into the teaching profession.

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Miracle Ear Children’s Foundation

April-June

• Miracle Ear will donate free hearing aids to eligible CPS students. Other related services include providing CPS audiologists with replacement parts for hearing aids and repairing hearing aids for two years.

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National 4-H Council

July-September

• $1,000 to Courtenay Language Arts Center for field trips for both regular and special education students.

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New Prospect Foundation

January-March

• $5,000 to the Lawyers’ School Reform Advisory Project for general operating support.

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Northern Trust Co.

October-December

• $7,500 to Right Angle Educational Foundation for college scholarships for four Wells Academy seniors and $5,000 for the academy’s summer program, in which students took courses at prestigious universities, including Stanford, Harvard, Yale and Brown, and colleges overseas.
  
• $5,000 a year for three years to Chicago Women in Trades for its Tradeswomen of Tomorrow program. The grant will be used to work with 40 female students from seven high schools: Manley, Prosser, Tilden, Curie, Dunbar, Westinghouse and Simeon. The girls are juniors and seniors taking shop classes who are interested in pursuing careers as electricians, carpenters, machinists and auto mechanics.
  
• $5,000 to the Commercial Club Foundation for the Partnership to Encourage the Next Century’s Urban Leaders (PENCUL).
  
• $5,000 to Midtown Educational Foundation for continued support of its Metro Achievement Center. The center’s all-female staff runs after-school programs for girls in 4th to 12th grades. The girls meet professional women who speak to them about career development, character building and workplace values and do job shadowing of women at work.
  
• $3,500 to Carole Robertson Center for Learning to support its academic summer camp, which served students from Gladstone and Pope elementary schools and families in the Lawndale community.
  
• $3,500 to Kohl’s Children Museum for City Connections, which links museum staff with kindergarten and 1st-grade teachers to carry out a year-long exploration of one theme, such as liquid science or the five senses. The grant supports six class visits and field trips and a year-end museum party for the families of participating students from Peterson and Stock schools.
  
• $3,500 to Youth Communication, publisher of New Expression, a monthly newspaper written and illustrated by Chicago youth and distributed to 60,000 teenagers in 150 locations, including Chicago public high schools, charter schools and transition centers.
  
• $2,500 to Community Youth Creative Learning Experience (CYCLE) for citywide summer program and after-school learning labs for Lincoln Park, Wells, Francis Parker and Near North high school students. The program is based on problem solving in math, science, technology and fine arts.
  
• $2,500 to Nature Conservancy for the Mighty Acorns Youth Stewardship Program, in which 3rd-to 9th-graders from more than 60 schools, including at least 15 Chicago public schools, participate in classroom and outdoor activities studying native species in an adopted area of the Cook County Forest Preserves.
  
• $2,500 to the Union League Boys and Girls Clubs for the computer labs, libraries and nature study programs at the clubs and camp that serve students from West Side elementary and high schools.

July-September

• $7,500 to the Chicago Panel on School Policy for its Parent Connection program.
  
• $5,000 to Art Resources in Teaching for Wells Academy High School feeder schools.
  
• $5,000 to Chicago Communities in Schools, Inc. for operating support.
  
• $5,000 to Working In The Schools for operating support.
  
• $3,500 to the Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic program in the Chicago Public Schools.
  
• $2,500 to Northeastern Illinois University’s Chicago Teachers Center for its Bridges to the Future program at Wells Academy.

January-March

• $3,000 to the Mary Crane Center for Express to the Max, an after-school arts and writing program for 36 students from Chicago public elementary schools in Lakeview, Humboldt Park and Logan Square.
  
• $10,000 to Erie Neighborhood House for its tutoring program for Wells Academy students.
  
• $5,000 to the Right Angle Educational Foundation to plan a charter school.
  
• $3,500 to the Gads Hill Center for its Learning Connection project, which provides group and one-on-one academic tutoring to 30 children in public and private elementary schools in the Pilsen neighborhood.
  
• $1,250 to Community Youth Creative Learning Experience (CYCLE) to administer scholarships to Wells Academy students.

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The Oppenheimer Family Foundation

January-March

• $91,000 in Teacher Incentive Grants for teams of teachers in 46 Chicago public schools, to encourage teachers to provide creative, hands-on educational experiences for students outside the classroom.

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Oracle Corporation

July-September

• 31,000 to Moses Montefiore Special School to complete network wiring upgrades.

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Pew Charitable Trusts

January-March

• $300,000 over two years to the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to develop materials to assist teachers and parents with the implementation of standards-based practices in schools and districts.

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Polk Bros. Foundation

October-December

• $150,000 to the Chicago Academy of Sciences for the Science Scene: KIDS and TEENS program, which encourages science literacy and provides mentors for 200-300 children from the Ida B. Wells and Dearborn Homes public housing. The grant includes a special allocation for development of program materials for the new Nature Museum.
  
• $75,000 to Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education to provide technical support for integrating the arts into the Chicago Public Schools curricula.
  
• $65,000 to Roosevelt University for the Chicago Education Alliance for professional development of teachers and to form three separate alliances of one high and two elementary schools each in North Lawndale, West Town and Woodlawn to help students transition successfully from elementary to high school.
  
• $50,000 to the Field Museum of Natural History for an educational outreach program that includes workshops for children, families and Chicago Public Schools teachers.
  
• $45,000 to the John G. Shedd Aquarium for youth and community outreach activities and teacher workshops offered at the aquarium and in under-served areas of Chicago, including programs at schools and parks.
  
• $45,000 to the Chicago Historical Society for its History Explorers program, which provides teacher and student workshops, in-class instruction and field trips to the museum for students in Ames, Pritzker, Orozco and South Loop schools. Students will prepare a history of their school and community.
  
• $40,000 to the Chicago Communities in Schools for an agency-school coordinator and evaluation efforts. Chicago Communities in Schools links 50 Chicago public schools with social service agencies, hospitals and universities for a variety of social services for students and their families.
  
• $40,000 to the Jewish Council for Youth Services for continued support of a Camp Henry program that promotes problem solving, teamwork and self-esteem for at-risk students in Hyde Park, Sullivan and Lincoln Park high schools.
  
• $38,800 to the Museum of Contemporary Art for Behind the Scenes in the Art World, a program that teaches a class of Hyde Park Career Academy students about arts-related careers through visits to museums and cultural institutions, interviews with arts professionals and production of a video. The video and a resource guide will be widely distributed to Chicago public schools.
  
• $35,000 to Women Employed Institute for the Career Links career awareness program, which works with female students at Corliss Vocational High School and five Park District sites.
  
• $35,000 a year for two years to the Court Theatre Fund for its high school matinee program and In-School Partnerships with DuSable, Harper, Phillips and Kenwood high schools.
  
• $25,000 a year for two years to Chicago Metro History Education Center for the Urban Schools Initiative, which helps inner-city schools establish history fairs.
  
• $25,000 to Shakespeare Repertory for continued support of Team Shakespeare, an outreach program that includes downtown and in-school performances, teacher handbooks and workshops, and post-performance discussions for middle and high school students in Chicago and throughout the state.
  
• $25,000 to Executive Service Corps of Chicago for management assistance to Chicago Public Schools staff and local school council members.
  
• $25,000 to Facing History and Ourselves for teacher training in helping middle- and high school students understand the consequences of prejudice and violence; about 750 teachers have participated, about half from Chicago public schools.
  
• $20,000 to the Chicago Youth Success Foundation for expansion of extracurricular and academic programs in Chicago public high schools.
  
• $20,000 to the Rochelle Lee Fund for the Streams reading program, which trains teachers from at least three consecutive grades in a school to offer an in-depth reading program aimed at instilling the love of reading in children. 103 teachers from 38 schools have undergone training.
  
• $20,000 to St. Augustine College for fall GED classes at Kanoon and Spry elementary schools, held primarily for Spanish-speaking parents. In January, classes will be offered at two other schools.
  
• $15,000 to Art Resources in Teaching for professional training and development for artists and teachers, and for two residencies in Chicago public schools. Artists in residence work one day a week teaching four classes in the same school for at least six weeks; they weave art into the basic curriculum.
  
• $15,000 to Northlight Theatre for the Student Theatre Arts Resource (STAR) program for Chicago high schools.
  
• $15,000 to the Smart Museum of Art in Hyde Park for the MusArts program, which shows 6th-to 8th-graders in 18 Chicago public schools the relationship between music and the visual arts, and for a museum advisory committee.
  
• $10,000 to Community Organizing and Family Issues for the Family Focused Leadership Institute, which provides training and technical assistance to community-based organizations in organizing parents to work in Chicago public schools.
  
• $10,000 to Organization of the NorthEast for the Parent Leadership Development Project, which will offer workshops on leadership development to parents from Brennemann, Peirce and Arai schools. Parents will learn to set goals for their children, families, schools and communities.
  
• $10,000 to Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) for training parents and local school council members.
  
• $10,000 to Friends of Battered Women and their Children for the REACH Dating Violence Prevention Project, which provides in-class presentations, teacher training and support groups for Chicago Public Schools students.
  
• $10,000 to Friends of the Chicago River for the Chicago River Schools Network, which shows teachers how to include the Chicago River in their curriculum and suggests activities and field trips. Friends has worked with 59 teachers from 27 schools, the majority of which are Chicago public schools.
  
• $10,000 to Good News Partners for continued support of the Reading Coaches program for underachieving 1st-graders at Gale School.
  
• $10,000 to the Lawyers’ School Reform Advisory Project for its work with Chicago public schools.
  
• $10,000 to the Nature Conservancy of Illinois for Mighty Acorns, a program in which Chicago elementary students help maintain an adopted natural area in the Cook County Forest Preserves.
  
• $10,000 to Healthworks Theatre to underwrite in-school performances of and curriculum guides for Peace 4, which addresses gang violence, sexual abuse, date rape, domestic violence and violence to oneself.
  
• $10,000 to the International Music Foundation for the Artists-in-Residence program, which sends teams of professional musicians to elementary schools for weekly workshops culminating in a concert. This fall, Perez, Donoghue and Hibbard elementary schools are participating. Musicians will visit three more schools during the winter/spring semester.
  
• $8,500 to Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art for a yearlong program that provides teachers with materials, books, magazines, slides and other materials to enable their students to study outsider art works created by untrained or self-taught artists. Students from Lake View High, Healy, Byrd, and Ravenswood elementary schools in Chicago and Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park will visit galleries and mount an exhibit of their own art.
  
• $8,000 to Chicago Children’s Theatre to provide performances, in-school visits, study guides and a workshop series for Chicago public school students.
  
• $7,500 to City Lit Theater to provide performances, pre-and post-performance workshops and study guides for Chicago public school students.
  
• $3,500 to Safer Pest Control Project to continue working with Chicago Public Schools administrators, contractors, nurses, teachers, parents and policy makers statewide to explain the health and environmental risks of routine spraying and the efficacy of integrated pest management.

July-September

• $67,500 to the Ravina Festival for the Jazz in the Schools Program, which provides master classes, demonstrations and concert-attendance programs in 10 Chicago public high schools.
  
• $65,000 a year for two years to the Lincoln Park Zoological Society to develop and implement Zoo Ecology and Biology Resource Access (ZEBRA), a comprehensive education sub-site for the zoo’s web site, which will support national science learning goals and the new Illinois and Chicago Academic Standards for grades K-12.
  
• $50,000 to the Chicago Botanic Garden for the teacher-training component of the School Garden Initiative so that the green spaces created in up to 75 Chicago Public Schools will be effective educational resources.
  
• $50,000 a year for two years to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago for the expansion of the company’s outreach program in Chicago Public Schools and for development of new projects for children and families in the West Loop.
  
• $40,000 a year for two years to National-Louis University for work in Chicago Public Schools in Westhaven, including the sending of parents and staff to the Waloon Institute.
  
• $40,000 to The Family Institute for the Community Outreach Program, which provides individual and group counseling for children and families in three social-service agencies and at Byrd Elementary School.
  
• $40,000 to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for expansion of OPERAREACH 2000, which is education and outreach programming in Chicago Public Schools.
  
• $40,000 to the Steppenwolf Theatre Company for expansion of its Arts Exchange education-outreach program.
  
• $35,000 to the Golden Apple Foundation for the 1998 Summer Science Workshop series for Chicago Public School teachers.
  
• $25,000 to the Chicago Panel on School Policy for general operating support.
  
• $20,000 a year for two years to the Lookingglass Theatre Company for expansion of the Education and Outreach program, which is projected to reach 400 students at Lincoln Park High School in the coming year.
  
• $20,000 to the Chicago Humanities Festival for educational outreach programs, which will include a teachers’ seminar at Roosevelt University, annotated bibliography, film series and a special meeting between speakers and performers with Chicago Public High School students.
  
• $20,000 to the World Trade Center Chicago to provide international and trade education for students at Bogan, Bowen and Taft High Schools.
  
• $15,000 to the Community TV Network for the Public Schools Program, which includes curriculum-integrated media arts projects and video production training.
  
• $15,000 to the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform for the Schools and Community Program, which provides research, training and networking opportunities for educators, school reform and community groups interested in improving education in local and national public schools.
  
• $12,000 to the Suzuki-Orff School for Young Musicians to continue providing the Project IMAGE (Integrating Music/Movement Arts with General Education) and Clap, Sing and READ outreach programs for students in Chicago Public Elementary Schools.
  
• $10,000 to the Child’s Play Touring Theatre for the Chicago Young Writers Project, designed to motivate children in 10 Chicago public schools to write and to enhance the teaching of writing with drama-based methods in classroom instruction.
  
• $10,000 to Music of the Baroque for an outreach program that provides coaching or master classes and in-school performances to enhance vocal music instruction in three Chicago public high schools.
  
• $10,000 to the United Neighborhood Organization of Chicago to hire additional staff for the Take Ten! parent involvement program.
  
• $8,000 to the Chicago Association of Local School Councils for the Professional Development Program, which provides training and technical assistance for local school councils across the city.
  
• $8,000 to the Small Schools Coalition for its work with Chicago Public School parents and staff.
  
• $7,500 to the Center Theater Ensemble for the artsReach program, which provides performances and in-school workshops about ecology, Illinois history, marine biology, the history of theater and creative writing for children in grades kindergarten through six.

January-March

• $50,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago to assist five Chicago public schools integrate recently restored historical murals into their curricula.
  
• $40,000 to Business and Professional People for the Public Interest for its West Haven Revitalization Project, which includes efforts by principals and volunteers to improve academic achievement and parent involvement in public schools in the West Haven community.
  
• $30,000 to the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago for its Second Step Family Violence Prevention Program that works with 1st- through 3rd-graders and their families in four Chicago public schools. The program includes lessons on empathy, impulse control and anger management.
  
• $20,000 to the Chicago Arts Collaborative for Teachers for efforts to improve the quality and increase the role of the arts in the classroom.
  
• $15,000 to the Scholarship and Guidance Association for the New City Counseling Network, which provides individual, group and family counseling for teen mothers and high-risk adolescents, including services at Graham, Seward and Lara elementary schools.
  
• $15,000 to Music Theatre Workshop for two projects: development and presentation of the Temporary Lockdown theater series for youths at the Juvenile Detention Center, and the Cultural Diversity Project, offered in collaboration with the Field Museum, which involves students from Chicago public and private schools in interviewing community members, then writing and producing a play about cultural diversity.
  
• $15,000 to Little Black Pearl Workshop to support an interior renovation project at King High designed to teach students the importance of teamwork and community service.
  
• $15,000 to the Chicago Children’s Choir for its in-school choral music program in various Chicago public schools.
  
• $12,000 to Asian Human Services for its PASS (Promoting Asian Student Success) program, which links low-achieving Asian-American immigrant and refugee students with Asian-American Americorps volunteers.
  
• $10,000 to the Chicago Public Art Group for its New Schools Program, which this year will serve 12 to 14 Chicago public elementary and high schools. The program brings students, staff, parents and visiting artists together to create murals and mosaics on school walls using themes of their choosing; it incorporates lessons on scale drawing, composition and urban culture.
  
• $75,000 to Youth Guidance for continued support of the Comer School Development Program.
  
• $50,000 to the Commercial Club Foundation to support the Financial Research Advisory Committee’s work with the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association, the Chicago Public Schools and local school council representatives to improve the quality of principal candidates.
  
• $40,000 to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago for its Injury Prevention Program, which provides more than 100 presentations a year in Chicago-area schools on preventing brain and spinal cord injuries.
  
• $35,000 to LaRabida Children’s Hospital for its Community Asthma Program for Children, which provides in-school and home medical services to Chicago public school children with asthma.
  
• $30,000 to Erie Family Health Center to support a full-time case manager at Erie Westside, a satellite clinic at Ryerson Elementary.
  
• $25,000 to the Chicago Child Care Society for continued support of its Primary Prevention Program, which provides counseling on self-esteem and reproductive health for students at Douglass Middle School.
  
• $25,000 to the Chicago Sinfonietta for expansion and evaluation of its Youth and the Professional program, a training component for the string section of the Chicago Public Schools youth orchestra.
  
• $25,000 to the University of Illinois at Chicago for its Building Your Life program, which works to prevent early sexual activity and other negative behaviors among students at several South Side public elementary schools.
  
• $25,000 to the Logan Square Neighborhood Association to underwrite salaries of staff who help local parents find permanent jobs.
  
• $20,000 to Aspira, Inc. of Illinois, for continued support of its Leadership Development Institute clubs in Chicago public schools.
  
• $20,000 to the Mental Health Association of Illinois to provide programs in the Chicago Public Schools and public daycare centers that improve children’s communication and relationship skills.
  
• $17,500 to Pegasus Players for continued support of its Young Playwrights Festival, a year-round theater and writing education program for Chicago-area high school students.
  
• $17,500 to Teachers’ Task Force to support the Reculturing Initiative Partners Pioneering Learning Expansion (RIPPLE) program, which provides long-term support to Chicago public school teachers to address issues that impact their teaching.
  
• $15,000 to Victory Gardens Theater for continued support of its outreach program in nine Chicago public high schools.
  
• $15,000 to the Northwest Austin Council to hire three adult mentors for the Austin High School Safe Haven program, an after-school program that serves nine Chicago public elementary schools and Austin High School.
  
• $12,500 to the Black Ensemble Theater Corporation for continued support of its Theater in the Schools outreach program at five Chicago public elementary schools.
  
• $12,000 to the Illinois Art Gallery to support its Cultural Education Extension Program, which provides educational programming to seven Chicago public schools.
  
• $10,000 to Lifeline Theatre for its artist-in-residency program at Kilmer Elementary.
  
• $10,000 to the Citizens Information Service of Illinois to support its Future Voter program, which teaches the importance of political participation in a democracy to 6th- and 7th-graders at several Chicago public schools.
  
• $10,000 to Healthworks Theatre for educational materials and performances of "Peace 4," a violence-prevention play for Chicago-area high school students.

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Ronald McDonald House Charities

July-September

• $60,000 to the Chicago Foundation for Education’s TAKEOFF! program.

January-March

• $2,240,907 to the Chicago Public Schools to support the continuation and expansion of its extended-day program, which provides after-school tutoring, recreation and meals to students at 208 low-performing elementary schools. The funding will be used for staff salaries and materials.

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Sulzer Family Foundation

July-September

• $1,000 to Courtenay Language Arts Center to purchase instructional materials and to improve the learning environment.

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Technology Literacy Challenge Fund

July-September

• $3,945,000 to 66 Chicago Public Schools, chosen on the basis of low-income enrollment and school needs, as part of a five-year federal initiative to integrate technology into the curriculum.

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Tooling and Manufacturing Association Education Foundation

July-September

• $2,500 to the Chicago Public Schools to purchase U.S. Savings Bonds for prizes in the 1998 CPS machining contest.

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U.S. Department of Education

January-March

• $5.6 million over five years to the Chicago Neighborhood Learning Network, a partnership of the Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Housing Authority, the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Chicago Urban League.
  
  The Network will establish computer learning centers in the neighborhoods surrounding Wells and King high schools and in the schools themselves. The project has several components: setting up the computer centers in schools, libraries and residential buildings; providing professional development in technology for teachers; providing computer training for students, parents and community members; and creating and maintaining neighborhood Web sites.

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Washington Elementary School PTA

July-September

• $1,344 to Washington Elementary School to purchase instructional materials and supplies.

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Western Union N.A.

October-December

• $15,000 to expand the America Reads Challenge Read *Write*Now program to 40 Chicago public schools this fall. This past summer, 11 Chicago public schools served as Illinois’ pilot sites in the federal program to develop 3rd-graders’ reading skills. CPS’ School Leadership Development Office is managing Chicago’s program in which volunteer tutors from Parents as Teachers First and students from Roosevelt University and the University of Illinois at Chicago help children spend a minimum of 30 minutes a day five days a week reading and writing. The Western Union grant will be used to buy supplies and 1,000 multicultural learning journals. The National Black Child Development Institute will consult on the curriculum.

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Wieboldt Foundation

October-December

• $20,000 over two years to Designs for Change for general operations.
  
• $20,000 to Parents United for Responsible Education for operating support for parent and local school council advocacy programs.
  
• $10,000 to Chicago Association of Local School Councils for operating support.

January-March

• $30,000 over two years to the Lawyers’ School Reform Advisory Project for general operating support.
  
• $20,000 over two years to the Chicago Panel on School Policy for general operating support.

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Woods Fund of Chicago

January-March

• $80,000 over two years to Designs for Change for salary for a new community organizer/adult educator.
  
• $15,000 to the Chicago Association of Local School Councils (CALSC) for general operating support.
  
• $7,500 to the Northwest Neighborhood Federation to increase parent and community participation in elections at seven schools on the Northwest Side.
  
• $6,000 to Bethel New Life, Inc., for salary for a community organizer to work on the local school council elections at eight schools in West Garfield Park.
  
• $5,000 to the Beverly Area Planning Association to increase parent and community participation in LSC elections at seven schools in the Morgan Park and Beverly communities.
  
• $5,000 to the South Austin Coalition Community Council for salary for a community organizer to work on LSC elections at eight schools in South Austin.
  
• $4,000 to Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) to support communications about LSC campaigns and elections.
  
• $3,000 to the Northwest Austin Council for work on LSC elections at nine schools.

Correction

In the Grants section of our June 1998 issue, CATALYST incorrectly reported a $50,000 grant to Roosevelt University. The funds were awarded to the Teachers’ Task Force, which had been located at Roosevelt.

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