2004
Fund for Staff Development Grants

Staff Development grants are made to support individual staff development opportunities that benefits girls' programs, and builds the field of girls' development, organizing, and/or advocacy. 

Total FY 2004 Professional Staff Development grants: $8,974

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Advocate Charitable Foundation, Latina Girls Club
$250
To cover part of the registration fee for a staff member to attend the Reaching Adolescents:  Building Strengths of Youth conference offered by Contemporary Forums May 7-8, 2004.

Chicago Girls' Coalition
$50
To cover the registration fee to attend a Circle Training April 1-2.
$200
To cover the registration costs for a staff member to attend the Built to Last Series Workshops at Donors Forum of Chicago.

Community TV Network
$90
To cover registration for the Community Renewal Society's Community Organizing Training.

Friends of Battered Women and Their Children
$250
To support three staff members to attend the Illinois Center for Violence Prevention Annual Conference.
$1,000
To cover all costs for a staff member to present a workshop at the National Coalition Against Violence National Conference July 11 - 14.

Family Planning Service of Western Illinois, Inc
$1,324
To cover the cost of public relations training and consultation with Valerie Denney Communications.
$3,000
Support for Board and Fund Development training with a consultant.

Global Girls
$200
To cover the registration costs for a staff member to attend the Built to Last Series Workshops at Donors Forum of Chicago.

The Guild Complex
$200
To cover the registration costs for a staff member to attend the Built to Last Series Workshops at Donors Forum of Chicago.

Literature for All of Us
$260
To support attendance at the Lucille Clifton Workshop, a roundtable writing workshop with The Poetry Center of Chicago.

Korean American Resource and Cultural Center
$90
To cover registration for one staff member to attend a three-day community organizing training presented by the Community Renewal Society.

Southwest Youth Collaborative
$600
To support one staff member to attend an INCITE! Conference, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, and to meet with other youth and community organizers in the area.

UMOJA
$1,060
To support attendance at a three-day course focusing on strategic financial management, planning, and development.

Young Chicago Authors
$200
To cover the registration costs for a staff member to attend the Built to Last Series Workshops at Donors Forum of Chicago.

Young Women's Empowerment Project
$40
To cover registration costs for two staff members to attend Budgeting 101 at the Crossroads Fund.
$160
To cover registration costs for one staff person and one board member to attend Building the Team that Builds the Organization at Donors Forum of Chicago.