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2000
General Grants
In addition to the grant amounts listed below, all grantees received an additional ten percent over and above their grants to support evaluation of their project. In 2000, GBF made a total of $480,897 in grants.
Total General grants: $387,200
Total with 10 percent for evaluation: $392,920
Note: * indicates project has a fiscal agent.
A Sporting Chance Foundation
1940 W. Irving Park
Chicago, IL 60613
773-935-2401
$13,000
For general support of 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
2050 Prairie
Downers Grove, IL 60515
630-968-3994
$13,000
For Information Technology Empowerment, a multiphase project exploring ways to make information technology more accessible, appealing, and inviting to a variety of female users and learners.
After School Action Programs*
4730 N. Sheridan
Chicago, IL 60640
773-506-7474
$15,000
For Girl World, a program providing girl-centered programming through a network of 30 community-based organizations in the Uptown/Edgewater community in Chicago. The program focuses on mentoring, community-based education, athletics, leadership development, site-based programming, and awareness of community, social and career issues.
Alternatives in Education for the Hearing Impaired
2020 E. Camp McDonald
Mt. Prospect, IL 60056
847-297-3206
$2,200
For Girls' Club, 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.
Beyondmedia Education
6960 N. Sheridan, Store B
Chicago, IL 60626
773-973-2280
$14,000
To launch Girls! Action! Media!, a program providing workshops for a diverse group of girls ages 13 - 18. The workshops will train a team of girls to organize, produce, and distribute Girls! Action! Media! as a video, web site, and study guide featuring girl-led social change initiatives from Chicago and around the world to educate youth about the social conditions of girls through their social change activism.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Vermilion County
600 Sager
Danville, IL 61832
217-446-6601
$7,500
To expand Young Women Aware, a collaboration with Danville High School and Provena United Samaritans Medical Center, to girls at the Northridge and Southview Middle Schools. Young Women Aware works to inform and empower young women on healthcare issues and strengthen self-esteem, communication, and leadership skills through training, workshops, and participant involvement.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield
PO Box 2592
Springfield, IL 62708
217-544-0548
$10,000
For SMART Girls, a program designed to prepare girls ages 10 - 14 to make positive decisions and develop healthy attitudes and lifestyles by addressing health and social issues specific to young women.
Center for Impact Research
926 N. Wolcott
Chicago, IL 60622
773-342-0630
$14,000
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.
Centro Comunitario Juan Diego
8812 S. Commercial
Chicago, IL 60617
773-731-0109
$15,000
For Junior Health Promoters Program, which offers a safe space for mostly Latina girls and young women to learn about health-related and other issues, including domestic violence, gangs, lack of self-esteem, and loss of cultural traditions.
Chicago Health Connection
954 W. Washington, Fourth Floor
Chicago, IL 60607
312-243-4772
$10,000
For the Teen Peer Leader Program, which trains and places parenting teen women in community-based agencies so that they can promote breastfeeding among pregnant and parenting teens in low-income communities. The program provides support to the Teen Peer Leaders so they can develop their own leadership qualities while educating other teen women about the benefits of breastfeeding.
Chicago Women in Philanthropy
330 S. Wells, Suite 1110
Chicago, IL 60606
312-409-4005
$5,000
Support for CWIP's research project on current foundation practices and strategic development, which seeks to increase funding for programs, services, and advocacy focused on women and girls.
College of Dupage, Public Policy Institute
425 22nd
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
630-942-3965
$15,000
For Developing a Girl's Public Voice, designed to provide high school girls from metropolitan Chicago and East St. Louis with experiences that will help them 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 document and report their findings.
Community Architexts Association
2565 W. Argyle, Suite 100
Chicago, IL 60625
773-506-7814
$5,000
For Family Voices/Austin, a public design program intended to collect and articulate the voices of the largely invisible community of mothers, teen mothers, and caregivers in the inner city neighborhood of Austin.
Community TV Network
2035 W. Wabansia
Chicago, IL 60647
773-278-8500
$7,500
For Growing Up Female: Girls of Color Speak Out, a video training program for sixth grade girls at the ACT Charter School in West Garfield Park. Girls will learn video production skills as they examine stereotypes about girls of color while they write, shoot, and edit their own videos.
Developing Communities Project
212 E. 95th
Chicago, IL 60619
773-928-2500
$14,000
For the Young Women's Leadership Development Project, a project that provides girls and young women ages 8 - 18 in the Greater Roseland area with opportunities to build leadership skills, develop alternatives to the negative societal messages that girls receive, and advocate for community change.
Family Matters
7731 N. Marshfield
Chicago, IL 60626
773-465-6432
$14,000
Continued support for Sisters of Struggle & Sisters in Unity, programs providing comprehensive youth and leadership entrepreneurial development for 11- to 18-year-old girls and young women living in the North of Howard neighborhood.
GirlZone*
1001 S. Wright
Champaign, IL 61820
217-637-4475
$10,000
Continued support for GirlZone, a program in Champaign-Urbana that provides girls with a supportive, all-female space to engage in weekly skill building workshops. Girls participate in programs such as the all-girl community radio program RadioGirl and the new book club BookGrrrl. Through programs such as these, girls are encouraged to express their strength and power, question the validity of gender stereotyping, and shape their sense of efficacy.
Guild Complex
1212 N. Ashland, Suite 211
Chicago, IL 60622
773-227-6117
$13,000
For the Young Women Writers Program, which provides in-school and after-school educational activities for 15- to 16-year-old girls from the Young Women's Leadership Charter School. Participants will work with women writers and leaders to plan and implement a girls' component to the Women Writers Series and Conference.
Health Resource Center for Women with Disabilities
345 E. Superior, Room 106
Chicago, IL 60611
312-238-1051
$15,000
For the Mentee & Mentor Roll 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.
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 second year of a two-year grant.)
Institute of Positive Education
7825 S. Ellis
Chicago, IL 60619
773-651-9599
$9,500
For The Sisterhood, a society of girls ages 8 - 14 of African descent who participate in workshops, discussions, ceremonies, interaction with productive women, and artistic/creative expression. Through these activities that also promote African-centered values, girls bond and become a support system for each other, both socially and academically.
Literature for All of Us
2010 Dewey
Evanston, IL 60201
847-869-7323
$12,000
For general support of this organization, which offers book group circles to girls and teenage mothers throughout Chicago. The circles combine literature discussion and poetry writing exercises that support self-exploration and empowerment. Specifically, some of GBF's funds will be used to train and support young women as book group leaders.
Ms. Foundation for Women
120 Wall, 33rd Floor
New York, NY 10005
212-742-2300 ext. 315
$30,000
For support of Round Two of the Healthy Girls/Healthy Women Collaborative. First installment of a four year $110,000 grant. (This grant does not include 10 percent for evaluation).
Music Theatre Workshop
5647 N. Ashland
Chicago, IL 60660
773-561-7100
$15,000
To support 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; build leadership skills, self-confidence, and self-respect; and allow for collaboration among girls of different ethnicities and backgrounds.
Near North Development Corporation
1251 N. Clybourn, First Floor Rear
Chicago, IL 60610
312-337-5666
$15,000
For a girls' program in North Town/Cabrini Green that provides discussion "rap" sessions and volleyball instruction. The program will include sessions on conflict resolution, problem solving, self-image, self-esteem, and team building.
Project Exploration
5521 S. Blackstone
Chicago, IL 60637
773-643-3014
$12,000
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 expose the girls to the wide variety of roles played by women in science, as well as create an alternative educational model that allows the girls to provide leadership for the program itself.
Project Hope*
3047 W. Cermak
Chicago, IL 60623
773-542-8280
$10,000
Continued support for Girls Unidas, a girls' leadership development program working in three middle schools in the Little Village community of South Lawndale. Girls Unidas strengthens and builds middle school girls' self-esteem and leadership skills.
Redmoon Theater
2936 N. Southport, First Floor
Chicago, IL 60657
773-388-9031
$14,000
For Dramagirls, a performance program for middle school girls in Logan Square that uses theater to expand each girl's capacity to express herself. The program teaches stilt walking, puppet making, performing, mask designing, drumming, and many other skills. This year Redmoon is initiating a Lifeskills Project, which will include training in first aid as well as workshops in nutrition and eating disorders.
School Street Movement
1511 W. Berwyn
Chicago, IL 60640
773-784-6106
$7,500
For Girls Recognizing Our Unique Potential (GROUP), a project at Tesla Alternative High School. GROUP works with pregnant and parenting teen women at Tesla, using theater and dance to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS.
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 second year of a two-year grant.)
YWCA of Alton
304 E. Third
Alton, IL 62002
618-465-7774
$15,000
To establish The Young Women's Leadership Council, a group of young women serving as an active body informing the ongoing design of YWCA programs, and focusing initially on the developing and implementing of a Young Women's Leadership Development Institute.
YWCA of Aurora
201 N. River
Aurora, IL 60506
630-896-8588
$15,000
For implementation of a mentoring project, which will match adult mentors with girls ages 10 - 12 who attend Rollins Elementary School in Aurora. The mentoring relationship will address girls' leadership development and economic literacy.
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