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2004
Fall Cycle Grants
Total FY 2004 Fall Core Cycle grants: $282,700
Alternatives
4730 N. Sheridan
Chicago, IL 60640
773-506-7474
$16,500 each year
A three-year grant to support 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 Ave
Chicago, IL 60626
773-973-2280
$16,500 each year
A three-year grant to support 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.
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 while learning about a variety of health related issues including domestic violence, health, gangs, self-esteem, nutritious cooking, and cultural traditions.
Chicago Women In Trades
1657 W. Adams, Ste 401
Chicago, IL 60612
312-942-1444 ext 203
$16,500 each year
A three-year grant to support 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.
Chicago Youth United (CYU)
3914 W. North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647
773-276-2194
$11,000
Support for CYU, a collaborative project between Blocks Together and Brighton Park Neighborhood Council. CYU works to organize youth to fight for citywide policy changes, encourage understanding of larger social issues, and build youth capacity to affect change in their communities.
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 and advocate for community change.
Family Matters
7731 North Marshfield
Chicago, IL 60626
773-465-6432
$16,500 each year
A three-year grant for continued support of 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 each year
A three-year grant for continued support of 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.
Girl Talk
28 E Jackson, Suite 710
Chicago, IL 60604
312-427-4460
$16,500 each year
A three-year grant for support of 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/STIs, healthcare, legal information, self-esteem, identity, sexuality, relationships, career options, and conflict resolution.
Girls in the Game (GIG)
1501 W. Randolph
Chicago, IL 60601
312-633-4263
$16,500 each year
A three-year grant to support general operating. GIG provides and promotes sports and leadership programming for girls to enhance their physical well-being, self-esteem, leadership, team-building skills and academic excellence.
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 interested in writing arts. The program engages 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 and Medicine Policy Research Group (HMPRG)
29 E. Madison St, Suite 602
Chicago, IL 60602-4404
312-372-4292
$16,500
Support for HMPRG advocacy efforts for the implementation of policy recommendations that emerged from the HMPRG Conference, Healing Girls in the Juvenile Justice System: the Challenge to our Community. The conference was held to examine the physical and emotional health issues facing incarcerated and recently released girls and young women.
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 each year
A three-year grant for general operating support. Literature for All of Us 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 each year
A three-year grant for 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 each year
A three-year grant to support Sisters 4 Science, an after-school and fieldwork program that combines leadership development with natural science explorations for girls in sixth through eighth grades on Chicago's southwest side. The program works to inspire and empower urban girls through hands-on experiences with paleontology and natural science.
Redmoon Theater
2936 N. Southport Ave.
Chicago, IL 60657
773-388-9031
$16,500 each year
A three-year grant for continued support of Dramagirls, a performance group of thirty middle school aged girls in the Logan Square community of Chicago. In the coming years, Dramagirls will create and implement an on-going system for evaluation and data collection, as well as plan and implement a four year curriculum.
Street-Level Youth Media
1856 W. Chicago Ave., 1st Floor
Chicago, IL 60622
773-862-5331
$13,200
Support for Female Action Voice and Change 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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