1997
General Grants

In addition to the grant amounts listed below, all grantees received an additional 10 percent over and above their grant to support evaluation of their projects. In 1997, GBF made a total of $241,000 in grants.

Total General grants: $195,500

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A Sporting Chance Foundation
1940 W. Irving Park
Chicago, IL 60613
773-935-240
$5,000
Fundraising and development support for A Sporting Chance Foundation, an organization committed to the healthy development of girls through participation in athletics and fitness. This is a two-year grant.

After School Action Programs
1126 W. Granville
Chicago, IL 60660
773-973-0158
$7,500
Continued support of Girl World, an initiative providing girl-centered programming through a network of 30 community-based organizations in the Uptown/Edgewater community of Chicago.

American Association of University Women - Illinois
2050 Prairie
Downers Grove, IL 60515
630-968-3994
$6,000
Support for the 1998 issue of What's Working for Girls in Illinois, covering the Illinois Girls Summit and support for recruitment and training of girls to contribute to this issue.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Vermilion County
600 Sager
Danville, IL 61832
217-446-6601
$5,000
Start-up support for the Junior Women Aware program, a collaboration with Danville High School and United Samaritans Medical Center Foundation to inform and empower young women on healthcare issues and to strengthen their self-esteem, communication, and leadership skills through training, workshops, and participant involvement.

Black Ensemble Theater
4520 N. Beacon
Chicago, IL 60640
773-769-4451
$5,000
To support the Theater for Young Women; a year-round program that uses theater and performance as a catalyst for young women's personal growth.

Centro Communitario Juan Diego
8802 S. Exchange
Chicago, IL 60617
773-731-0109
$8,000
Continued support for Junior Health Promoters, a program to help girls and young women ages 8 - 16 develop healthy personal and neighborhood lifestyles.

Chicago Women in Trades
220 S. Ashland
Chicago, IL 60603
312-942-1444
$10,000
To support the Tradeswomen of Tomorrow Initiative, a curriculum in two Chicago public high schools designed to increase the number of young women aware of and interested in employment in construction and other high-wage, high-skilled occupations leading to economic self-sufficiency.

Chicago Women's Health Center
3435 N. Sheffield
Chicago, IL 60657
773-935-5665
$7,000
To support the outreach, clinic services and documentation of the Teen Gynecology Program, which provides healthcare and health education to young women who are overlooked and underserved by traditional healthcare services.

Coalition for Positive Sexuality
4241 N. Mozart
1st Floor
Chicago, IL 60618
773-267-9934
$6,500
Continued support of the GIRL GERMS Media Project, a collaboration between artists and teen women to produce posters and videos addressing issues of sexuality and gender identity.

Developing Communities Project
212 E. 95th
Chicago, IL 60619-7208
773-928-2500
$10,000
Start-up support 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 Greater Roseland community of Chicago.

Family Matters
7731 N. Marshfield
Chicago, IL 60626
773-465-6011
$7,500
Continued support of Sisters in Unity and Sisters of Struggle, a leadership entrepreneurial development program for 11- to 18-year-old girls in Chicago's North of Howard neighborhood.

Family Planning Service of Western Illinois, Inc.
311 E. Main, Suite 220
Galesburg, IL 61401
309-343-6162
$4,000
To support a planning process to develop girl-specific programming for girls in grades 6 - 12 in the Knox County area.

Guatemala Radio Project
3731 W. Ravenswood
Chicago, IL 60613
773-348-6994
$5,000
To support the start-up of the Radio Education Project, to be piloted at Aspira High School to expose inner-city girls to issues affecting women throughout the world and provide concrete skills in the areas of communication, news production, and political analysis.

Health Resource Center for Women with Disabilities
345 E. Superior, Room 106
Chicago, IL 60611
312-908-7997
$7,500
To support a planning process for the development of a mentoring project for girls with disabilities.

Illinois Council for the Prevention of Violence
220 S. State, Suite 1215
Chicago, IL 60604
312-986-9200
$5,000
Start-up support for the YouthPeace Girls Track, an initiative to bring attention to the issue of girls and violence, to foster leadership of girls, and to promote gender equity in YouthPeace. YouthPeace supports youth in being part of the solution to violence and promotes youth activism and leadership in local, regional, and statewide violence prevention efforts.

Illinois Gender Equity Commission
28 E. Jackson, Suite 610
Chicago, IL 60604
312-409-8846
$8,000
Continued support for Project Fair Play, now in Phase Two, aimed at achieving gender equity in Illinois schools.

Insight Arts
1545 W. Morse, 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60626
773-973-1521
$5,000
Start-up support for the Visibility Now Project; a series of structured feminist-based programs for girls in the East Rogers Park community of Chicago, including production of a 30 minute video, a collaborative performance, a book of poetry and prose, and an exhibition of visual art.

Interagency Task Force on Girls
500 N. Peshtigo Court, Room 604
Chicago, IL 60611
312-744-0280
$6,000
To support the Symposium on Girls; a component of a larger effort to foster systemic change toward gender equity in local government programming and funding.

Lawyer's Committee for Better Housing
407 S. Dearborn, Suite 1075
Chicago, IL 60605
312-347-7600
$5,000
To support the Young Women's Housing Education Project, a program that addresses the barriers to housing faced by young women with children and/or receiving public aid.

Ms. Foundation for Women
120 Wall, 33rd Floor
New York, NY 10005
212-742-2300 ext. 315
$20,000
Continued support of the Collaborative Fund for Healthy Girls/Healthy Women, a national fund to develop and support innovative girls' programming (three-year grant).

Music Theater Workshop
5647 N. Ashland
Chicago, IL 60660
773-561-7100
$5,000
To support Arts Incarcerated: TEMPORARY LOCKDOWN - the Women's Project; the first of a two-year demonstration project to build a model play writing and performance workshop focusing on building life-enhancing skills for young women residents at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.

National Council for Research on Women
11 Hanover Square, Floor 20
New York, NY 10005
212-785-7335
$7,500
A partnership grant to support two meetings in Illinois and dissemination of The Girls' Report: What We Know and Need to Know About Growing Up Female.

Project Vida
2659 S. Kedvale
Chicago, IL 60623
773-522-4570
$8,000
Continued support of the Young Women's Program to increase knowledge about HIV, reducing transmission rates, and increasing self-efficacy in controlling HIV infection. Program components include street outreach, community outreach, and group education sessions targeting adolescent Hispanic females.

Redmoon Theater
2936 N. Southport, First Floor
Chicago, IL 60657
773-388-9031
$10,000
Planning and continued project support for Dramagirls, an after-school theater/creative mentorship program for fifth, sixth and seventh grade girls in Logan Square.

Street-Level Youth Media
1856 W. Chicago, First Floor
Chicago, IL 60622
773-862-5331
$5,000
To support the start-up of the Girls Only media arts program in the West Town, Grand Boulevard, and Rogers Park communities in Chicago.

Taylor Institute
915 N. Wolcott
Chicago, IL 60622
773-342-5510
$8,000
A Collaborative Action Research grant to support the Teen Pregnancy Project, a research project to obtain information from pregnant and parenting teens on welfare, to inform policy and programmatic interventions for those teens who are identified as current victims of violence.

Video Machete
5732 N. Glenwood
Chicago, IL 60660
773-506-9907
$3,500
To support the start-up of the Young Women's Video Project, a project providing a group of young women the opportunity to present their reality in their own voice through the vehicles of autobiographical video, poetry videos and publications.

Women in the Director's Chair
3435 N. Shefield, Unit 202
Chicago, IL 60657
773-281-4988
$8,000
Technical assistance and project support for Girl Talk, a collaborative program for girls 13 - 17 years old who are detained at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center that provides information and creative activities on such topics as cultural diversity and identity, self-esteem and body image, HIV/AIDS/sexually transmitted diseases, sexuality, conflict resolution, violence, and career options.

Women's Health Education Project
1914 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60647
773-292-1990
$7,500
To support the Media Project; a video production and media training program for young women.