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1999
General Grants
In addition to the grant amounts listed below, all grantees received an additional 10 percent over and above their grants to support evaluation of their project. In 1999, GBF made a total of $228,000 in grants.
Total General grants: $163,400
Note: * indicates project has a fiscal agent.
After School Action Programs*
4730 N. Sheridan
Chicago, IL 60640
773-506-7474
$10,000
Project support and technical assistance for Girl World, a program providing girl-centered programming through a network of 30 community-based organizations in the Uptown/Edgewater community in Chicago.
Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired
2020 E. Camp McDonald
Mt. Prospect, IL 60056
847-297-3206
$1,000
Start-up support to develop the new Cue Club for Girls, a program serving girls ages 6 - 12 to improve the social integration of deaf girls with their hearing peers while raising knowledge and sensitivity regarding disabilities.
Bethany Brethren Community Center
425 S. Central Park
Chicago, IL 60624
773-533-9799
$5,000
Planning support for Project GROW (Girls Reaching Out to Win), a leadership development and intergenerational mentoring program for girls in the East Garfield Park community in Chicago.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Vermilion County
600 Sager
Danville, IL 61832
217-446-6601
$3,500
Support for Young Women Aware, a collaboration with Danville High School and United Samaritans Medical Center Foundation to inform and empower young women on healthcare issues and strengthen self-esteem, communication, and leadership skills through training, workshops, and participant involvement.
Chicago Health Connection
954 W. Washington, 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60607
312-243-4772
$9,400
Support for the Teen Breastfeeding Promotion Project, a breastfeeding promotion program where young women function as peer leaders and community health workers.
Chicago Women in Trades
1649 W. Adams, Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60612
312-942-1444
$10,000
Support for the Tradeswomen of Tomorrow Initiative, a program designed to help young women enrolled in Chicago Public Schools' nontraditional vocational programs explore and enter careers in construction and other high-wage, high-skilled occupations leading to economic self-sufficiency. (This is the second year of a two-year grant.)
Family Matters
7731 N. Marshfield
Chicago, IL 60626
773-465-6432
$10,000
Continued support for Sisters of Struggle and Sisters in Unity, a leadership entrepreneurial development program for 11- to 18-year-old girls and young women living in the North of Howard neighborhood.
Family Planning Service of Western Illinois, Inc.
311 E. Main, Suite 409
Galesburg, IL 61401
309-343-6162
$10,000
Support for the Initiative for Girls, a program of workshops, discussions, and lectures focusing on gender-related health and safety issues as well as leadership development, asset building, and peer education training.
GIRL TALK*
28 E. Jackson, 7th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604
773-955-2802
$10,000
Continued project support, capacity building, and development for GIRL TALK, a collaborative program providing girls ages 13 - 17, detained at the Cook County 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.
Girl Zone*
1001 S. Wright
Champaign, IL 61820
217-637-4475
$10,000
Project support and technical assistance for Girl Zone, a grassroots Champaign-Urbana program providing girls with a supportive, all-female space to engage in weekly workshops where they are able to express their strength and power, question the validity of gender stereotyping, and shape their sense of efficacy.
Home Hi
412 W. Iowa
Urbana, IL 61801
217-344-3252
$5,000
Continued support for the development and distribution of the Science for Girls Only curriculum at Home Hi, a Champaign-Urbana all-girl middle school.
Illinois Center for Violence Prevention
220 S. State, Suite 1215
Chicago, IL 60604
312-986-9200
$10,000
Continued support for SisterNet, a network of young women addressing the issue of violence against and by girls through building girls' leadership, connecting young women to adult female mentors, organizing gender awareness sensitivity trainings, and building resources for girls. (This is the first year of a two-year grant.)
Illinois Gender Equity Commission*
28 E. Jackson, Suite 610
Chicago, IL 60604
312-409-8846 or 312-427-4460
$10,000
Continued support for Project Fair Play to produce and disseminate the Gender Equity Guide for Schools and to establish girl assemblies to design healthy school environments. (This is the second year of a two-year grant.)
Music Theatre Workshop
5647 N. Ashland
Chicago, IL 60660
773-561-7100
$10,000
Support for Fabulous Females Overcoming the Odds, a program that gives young women residents at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center the opportunity to write and perform original plays from their own perspectives. The program offers incarcerated girls the opportunity to build leadership skills, self-confidence, and self-respect, while allowing space for collaboration among girls of different ethnicities and backgrounds.
Project Hope*
3047 Cermak
Chicago, IL 60623
773-542-8280
$10,000
Support for Girls Unidas, a girls' leadership development program in the Little Village community in South Lawndale, designed to strengthen and build girls' self-esteem and leadership skills.
Redmoon Theater
2936 N. Southport
Chicago, IL 60657
773-388-9031
$10,000
Support for Drama Girls, a performance program for middle school girls in Logan Square that uses theater to expand each girl's capacity to express herself.
School Street Movement
1511 W. Berwyn
Chicago, IL 60640-2109
773-784-6106
$4,500
Planning and start-up support for the Tesla Project, an arts-based program involving pregnant teens and teen mothers in the creation of a community action plan to reduce HIV risk among Chicago-area youth.
Street-Level Youth Media
1856 W. Chicago, First Floor
Chicago, IL 60622
773-862-5331
$10,000
Support to further develop and expand the Girls Only program and curriculum. Girls Only is a girl-centered media arts program that enables young women to access and learn to use advanced media technologies and create multimedia projects that explore gender issues in a safe, supportive and participatory environment. (This is the first year of a two-year grant.)
University YWCA
1001 S. Wright
Champaign, IL 61820
217-344-0721
$5,000
Planning support for the involvement of girls in the Young Women Conscious & Aware Youth Mentoring Program, a program that connects young women ages 6 - 16 with adult mentors associated with Parkland College and the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
Video Machete*
5732 N. Glenwood
Chicago, Illinois 60660
773-506-9907
$10,000
Support for the Girl's Media Project, a project providing low-income Latina, African-American, and Native American young women ages 12 - 18 with the opportunity to present their experiences in their own voices through video, web sites, and publications and to understand each other and their communities though an analysis of violence and gender issues as they affect girls and young women. The program consists of weekly workshops, ongoing public presentations of girls' artworks, and the training of girls as peer educators.
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