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Evanston Community Foundation Awards Grants to 29 Organizations

The Evanston Community Foundation (ECF) awarded $240,850 in grants to 29 organizations and programs at its 2013/2014 Responsive Grant Awards event held at the North Shore Retirement Hotel. 
 
Midwest Child-Parent Centers Expansion received $15,000 to provide PreK  The grants included a special initiative grant in the amount of $15,000 to the Midwest Child-Parent Centers Expansion to provide PreK through 3rd grade support to enhance achievement in low income families in Evanston.  

The 29 recipients represented a broad range of categories from early childhood education, community development, family support and counseling, housing, workforce development, seniors, the arts, and basic human needs.

The recipients are: 

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  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago
  • Center for Community Arts Partnership at Columbia College
  • Center for Economic Progress
  • Center for Independent Futures
  • Childcare Network of Evanston
  • Children's Advocacy Center of North and Northwest Cook County
  • Connections for the Homeless
  • Erie Family Health Clinic
  • Erika's Lighthouse
  • Evanston Art Center
  • Evanston School Children's Clothing Association
  • Evanston Township High School
  • Family Focus
  • Family Promise Chicago North Shore
  • Grandmother Park Initiative
  • James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy
  • Lighthouse 21stCentury Community Learning Centers
  • Literacy Works
  • Literature for All of Us
  • McGraw YMCA
  • Mudlark Theater Company
  • National Able Network
  • North Shore Senior Center
  • Northlight Theater
  • PEER Services
  • Y.O.U. (Youth Organizations Umbrella)
  • Youth Job Center of Evanston 
  • YWCA Evanston/North Shore 

The 2013/2014 responsive grants awards set another record for the greatest number of grants and the largest amount awarded by ECF in a single grant cycle. It is the 27th such annual cycle, dating from 1987, when grants totaled $30,000. ECF awarded $217,000 at the 2012/2013 Responsive Grant Awards.


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