2001-2002
Fall Cycle Grants

As a general practice, GBF includes an additional ten percent over and above grant amounts to support evaluation of projects/programs.

Total fall cycle grants: $384,050

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A Sporting Chance Foundation
1940 West Irving Park
Chicago, IL 60613
773-935-2401
$14,300
Support for Sporting Chance programs, which provide and promote sports and leadership training for girls to enhance their physical well-being, self-esteem, team-building skills and academic excellence. All programs are created with the mindset that regular sports activity increases the ability of girls to reach their full potential as youth and later as adults.

AAUW Gender Equity Fund
1624 N. Burling St. #C
Chicago, IL 60614
312-266-5995
$11,000
For Information Technology Empowerment, a multi-phase project exploring ways to make information technology more accessible, appealing, and inviting to young women and girls ages 12-18.

Alternatives, Inc.
4730 N. Sheridan
Chicago, IL 60640
773-506-7474
$16,500
For Girl World, a program providing girl-centered activities in the Uptown, Edgewater, and Rogers Park communities in Chicago. The program focuses on mentoring, community-based education, athletics, leadership development, site-based programming, awareness of community, and social and career issues.

Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired
2020 East Camp McDonald
Mt. Prospect, IL 60056
847-297-3206
$2,200
For Girls' Club, a program for girls ages 6-12 that works to improve the social integration of girls with hearing impairments and their hearing peers while raising knowledge and sensitivity regarding disabilities.

Beyondmedia Education
6960 North Sheridan Rd, Store B
Chicago, IL 60626
773-973-2280
$15,400
To expand Girls! Action! Media!, a program providing media empowerment workshops for a diverse group of girls and young women. The workshops will be used to develop a video, website, and study guide featuring girl-led social change initiatives from Chicago and around the world.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Vermilion County
600 Sager
Danville, IL 61832
217-446-6601
$8,250
Support for Young Women Aware, a program that works to inform young women about issues including health care, teen pregnancy prevention, self-esteem, communication and leadership skills through training, workshops, and participant involvement.

Center for Impact Research
926 North Wolcott
Chicago, IL 60622
773-342-0630
$12,500
Continued support for Girls and Women in Prostitution, a three-year research, organizing, and service delivery planning effort with the ultimate goal of creating a new systemic response to the needs of girls and young women involved in prostitution in the Chicago metropolitan area. This year, research will focus on the circumstances that deter women and girls from leaving prostitution.

Centro Comunitario Juan Diego
8812 South Commercial
Chicago, IL 60617
773-731-0109
$16,500
Continued support for the Junior Health Promoters program, which offers a safe space for mostly Latina girls and young women to learn about issues including domestic violence, health, gangs, self-esteem, and cultural traditions.

Chicago Women in Trades
1649 West Adams, Ste 400
Chicago, IL 60612
312-942-1444
$16,500
For Aspiring Tradeswomen, a program that provides leadership and advocacy skills, and a peer support system for high school-aged young women who are enrolled in vocational classes. The program seeks to promote young women's entry into and continued interest in skilled trades and other high-wage nontraditional jobs.

College of Dupage, Public Policy Institute
425 22nd
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
630-942-3965
$15,400
For Developing a Girl's Public Voice, designed to encourage high school girls from metropolitan Chicago and East St. Louis to become advocates for public policy issues of concern to them. The project consists of workshops in which girls identify public policy issues, develop and conduct forums, and document and report their findings.

Community TV Network
2035 West Wabansia
Chicago, IL 60647
773-278-8500
$13,200
For GROWING UP FEMALE: Girls of Color Speak Out, a program that integrates technical production skills with media literacy while providing participants with a safe environment to explore and address social issues. This year, girls from Ames Middle School will learn video production skills and examine stereotypes about girls of color while they write, shoot, and edit their own videos.

Developing Communities Project
212 East 95th Street
Chicago, IL 60619
773-928-2500
$16,500
For the Young Women's Leadership Development Project, a project for girls and young women ages 8-18 in the Greater Roseland area that provides opportunities for leadership development, advocate for community change, and develop alternatives to the negative societal messages that girls receive.

Family Matters
7731 North Marshfield
Chicago, IL 60626
773-465-6432
$15,400
Continued support for Sisters of Struggle and Sisters in Unity, programs for girls and young women ages 11-18 living in the North of Howard neighborhood. The program focuses on community building, entrepreneurial skills, and reaching leadership and academic goals.

Family Planning of Western Illinois
311 E. Main St.
Suite 409
Galesburg, IL 61401
309-343-6162
$16,500
To expand Initiative For Girls, a leadership development program for girls ages 11-17 in Galesburg. The program provides leadership opportunities, workshops, and conferences for girls to learn more about a range of issues, including sexual and reproductive health.

GIRL TALK
28 E Jackson, 7th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604
312-427-4460
$13,750
Support for GIRL TALK, a collaborative program for girls and young women ages 13-17 detained at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. The program provides 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. This year, Girl Talk will develop the Talk Out Initiative to provide a community education and advocacy component to the program, and to continue serving girls that have left the detention center. (This grant was made to Women in the Directors Chair.)

GirlZone
1001 South Wright St.
Champaign, IL 61820
217-637-4475
$14,300
Continued support for GirlZone, a program in Champaign-Urbana that creates safe spaces for girls to explore their individual abilities and examine gender-based boundaries that impact their sense of choice and self. The program offers weekly skill-building workshops such as the all-girl community radio program RadioGirl and book club BookGrrrl. (This grant was made to the YMCA of the University of Illinois.)

Guild Complex
1212 N. Ashland, # 211
Chicago, IL 60622
773-227-6117
$11,000
For the Young Women Writers Program, a program for young women from the Young Women's Leadership Charter School. Participants create, publish, and perform their own work and have the opportunity to work with women writers and leaders to plan and implement a girls' component to the Women Writers Series and Conference.

Health Resouce Center for Women with Disabilities
345 E Superior St
Room 106
Chicago, IL 60611
312-238-1051
$16,500
For the Mentee & Mentor Role Model Program, which pairs teenage girls with disabilities and adult women with disabilities in a mentoring relationship meant to support and assist mentees while exploring issues of growing up with a disability. (This grant was made to Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.)

Institute of Positive Education
7825 South Ellis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60619
773-651-9599 or 773-651-1977
$12,650
For The Sisterhood, a society of girls ages 8-14 of African descent who participate in workshops, discussions, ceremonies, and artistic/creative expression. These activities promote African-centered values and encourage girls to bond and become social and academic support systems for each other.

Literature for All of Us
2010 Dewey Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
847-869-7323
$15,400
Support for Literature for All of Us, which offers book groups for young women and girls throughout the Chicagoland area. The groups combine literature discussion and poetry writing that support self-exploration and empowerment. Particpants perform their work throughout Chicago.

Ms. Foundation for Women
$30,000
Continued support for the Collaborative Fund for Youth-led Social Change. (This grant was made for $110,000 to be paid in four installments--$30,000 in 2001, 2002, and 2003 and $20,000 in 2004).

Music Theatre Workshop
7359 N. Greenview
Chicago, IL 60626
773-973-7266
$16,500
For the expansion of Fabulous Females, a program for young women residents at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. The program offers incarcerated girls the opportunity to write and perform original plays from their own perspectives, to build leadership skills, self-confidence, and self-respect, and to allow for collaboration among girls of different ethnicities and backgrounds. The program will expand to provide services for girls leaving the detention center.

Near North Development Corporation
1251 N. Clybourn Ave.,1st Floor
Chicago, IL 60610
312-337-5666
$8,800
For Girls, Girls, Girls, a program in North Town/Cabrini Green for girls ages 10-18. Participants learn about a range of topics including conflict resolution, problem solving, self-image, self-esteem, sex education, career options, higher education, and team building.

Project Exploration
990 E. 61st St.
Chicago, IL 60637
773-834-7614
$15,400
For Sisters 4 Science, a program in partnership with Triumphant Charter School that combines leadership development with natural science explorations for sixth to eighth grade girls on Chicago's southwest side. The project seeks to introduce girls to the wide variety of roles played by women in science, as well as create an alternative educational model that provides leadership opportunities within the program.

Project Hope
$11,000
Support for Girls Unidas, a girls' leadership development program for girls ages 10-12 in the Little Village community of South Lawndale. Girls Unidas strengthens and builds girls' self-awareness, self-esteem and leadership skills through workshops, skill building opportunities, mentoring, and tutoring. (This grant was made to Cabrini Mission Foundation.)

Redmoon Theater
2936 North Southport
Chicago, IL 60657
773-388-9031
$15,400
For Dramagirls, a performance program for middle school girls in Logan Square that expands girls' capacity to express themselves, through stilt walking, puppet-making, performing, mask-designing, and drumming. Participants direct, write, design, build, perform, and evaluate their work.

School Street Movement
1511 West Berwyn
Chicago, IL 60640
773-784-6106
$7,700
For Girls Recognizing Our Unique Potential (GROUP), a project at Tesla Alternative High School. GROUP works with pregnant and parenting teen women in the Tesla school, using theater and dance to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS.

Video Machete
1180 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
773-645-1272
$5,500
For Media Activism for Girls and Trans Youth in the Know (MAGIK), a program for lesbian and bisexual girls and transgender youth ages 15 to 18 that seeks to create social justice through media production, advocacy, self-expression, and community building.