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2003
Fall Cycle Grants
Total FY2003 GBF Fall grants: $303,750
Alternatives
4730 N. Sheridan
Chicago, IL 60640
773-506-7474
$16,500
Support for Girl World, a program that provides mentoring, sports, leadership development programs, and career and media workshops for girls and young women from Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park neighborhoods in Chicago.
Beyondmedia Education
7013 N. Glenwood
Chicago, IL 60626
773-973-2280
$16,500
For support of Girls! Action! Media!, a program that teaches media/technology arts and academic skills to girls. The program fosters leadership development, public speaking, community activism, and girl-led social change.
Center for Impact Research
926 N. Wolcott
Chicago, IL 60622
773-342-0630
$15,000
Support for the third phase of the Girls in Prostitution Project, a three-year research, organizing, and service delivery planning effort. The ultimate goal is to create a new systemic response to the needs of girls and young women involved in exchanging sex for money and other means of survival. This year, research will focus on how girls enter prostitution so that appropriate prevention and intervention services can be established.
Centro Comunitario Juan Diego
8812 S. Commercial Ave.
Chicago, IL 60617
773-731-0109
$16,500
Support for the Junior Health Promoters Program, which offers a safe after-school space for mostly Latina girls and young women. Participants develop their creativity through arts, learn about a variety of health related issues including domestic violence, health, gangs, self-esteem, nutritious cooking, and cultural traditions.
Chicago Heath Connection
954 W. Washington Blvd.
Box 36, Fourth Floor
Chicago, IL 60607
312-243-4772
$11,000
Support to implement Breastfeeding Promotion for Teens, a collaborative relationship with one or two high schools providing school-based clinic services to pregnant and parenting teens. Chicago Health Connection trains teen mothers to advocate breastfeeding among their peers.
Chicago Women In Trades
1649 W. Adams, Ste 400
Chicago, IL 60612
312-942-1444
$16,500
Support for Aspiring Tradeswomen, a program that develops leadership and advocacy skills and a peer support system for high school-aged young women enrolled in vocational classes, to promote their continued interest in and entry into high-wage nontraditional jobs.
Community TV Network
2418 W. Bloomingdale
Chicago, IL 60647
773-278-8500
$14,300
Support for Sisters Against Violence II, a girls' and young women's violence prevention program that focuses on leadership development, video production training, and an all-video screening workshop event.
Developing Communities Project
212 E. 95th St.
Chicago, IL 60619
773-928-2500
$16,500
Support of the Young Women's Leadership Development project; A project that provides girls and young women ages 8-18 with opportunities to build leadership skills and contribute in positive ways to their personal growth as well as to advocate for community change.
Family Matters
7731 N. Marshfield
Chicago, IL 60626
773-465-6432
$16,500
Continued support for Sisters of Struggle and Sisters in Unity, programs for middle school and high school girls and young women living in the North of Howard neighborhood in Chicago. The program focuses on community building, entrepreneurial skills, and reaching leadership and academic goals.
Family Planning Service of Western Illinois, Inc.
311 E. Main St., Ste 409
Galesburg, IL 61401
309-343-6162
$16,500
Continued support for Initiative For Girls, a girl-driven program promoting leadership development, asset building, and peer education for girls ages 11-17. The focus of the program is on sexual and reproductive health.
Girls in the Game
1501 W. Randolph
Chicago, IL 60601
312-633-4263
$16,500
Support for The Girl's Advisory Board, the youth voice of Girls in the Game (formerly A Sporting Chance Foundation). They provide and promote sports and leadership programming for girls to enhance their physical well-being, self-esteem, leadership, team-building skills, and academic excellence.
Girl Talk
c/o ICAH, 28 E Jackson, 7th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604
312-427-4460
$13,750
Support for Girl Talk, a program consisting of weekly workshops for young women ages 12-17 detained in the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center that address such topics as HIV/AIDS/STDs, healthcare, legal information, self-esteem, identity, sexuality, relationships, career options, and conflict resolution.
Guild Complex
1212 N. Ashland, # 211
Chicago, IL 60622
773-227-6117
$11,000
Support for the Young Women Writers Program, an after-school program for young women attending the Young Women's Leadership Charter School. The goal of the program is to engage high school girls as readers and creators of cross-cultural literature by increasing their exposure to literature by women, creating access to living women writers, and writing as a skill and means of personal expression.
Health Resource Center for Women with Disabilities
345 E Superior St, Room 106
Chicago, IL 60611
312-238-1051
$16,500
Continued support for the M & M (Mentee and Mentor) Roll Model Program, which pairs women with disabilities with teenage girls with disabilities in mentoring relationships, and holds monthly group meetings for all participants. HRCWD works with young women to do outreach to the medical community and create advocacy projects within their own communities.
Literature for All of Us
2010 Dewey Ave
Evanston, IL 60201
847-869-7323
$16,500
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. Participants perform their work throughout Chicago.
Music Theater Workshop
7359 N. Greenview
Chicago, IL 60626
773-973-7266
$16,500
Continued support for Fabulous Females, a playwriting and performance program for young women incarcerated in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center of Chicago and recently released young women living in the Warrenville Illinois Youth Center. Program participants write and perform original plays.
Project Exploration
990 E. 61st St.
Chicago, IL 60637
773-834-7623
$16,500
Support for Sisters 4 Science, an after-school and fieldwork program that combines leadership development with natural science explorations for girls in sixth through eight grades on Chicago's southwest side. The program works to inspire and empower urban girls through hands-on experiences with paleontology and natural science.
Project Hope
3047 W. Cermak Rd.
Chicago, IL 60623
773-542-8280
$11,000
Continued support for Girls Unidas, a girls' leadership development program for girls ages 10-12 in the Little Village community. Girls Unidas strengthens and builds girls' self-awareness, self-esteem, and leadership skills through workshops, skill-building opportunities, mentoring, and tutoring.
Redmoon Theater
1438 W. Kinzie
Chicago, IL 60622
312-850-8440
$16,500
Continued support for Dramagirls, a performance group of thirty middle school aged girls in the Logan Square community of Chicago. This year, Dramagirls will collaborate with the Cambodian Association of Illinois to develop a cross-cultural arts learning curriculum called Crossing Cultures/Rites of Passage. This initiative will establish an ongoing creative exchange between Dramagirls and the girls in Chicago's Cambodian community.
Street-Level Youth Media
1856 W. Chicago Ave., 1st Floor
Chicago, IL 60622
773-862-5331
$13,200
Support to build and further develop the Girls Group program, a media arts program for high school aged young women to explore gender issues in a safe, supportive, and participatory environment. Using video production, computer arts, and the Internet, young women address community issues, access advanced communication technology, and gain insight into information-based society.
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