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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