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• Grants Administrator Position
• Strategic Restructuring Models for Nonprofit Organizations
• $1 Million Will Bolster Local 2010 Census Participation
• Letter to Grantees
• Lloyd A. Fry Foundation appoints new board member
• The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation is pleased to welcome a new Education Program Officer
• The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation is pleased to welcome a new Health Program Officer
• New Program Name for the Arts Education Program (formerly Arts and Culture)
• Sharon Bush selected for Connecting Leaders Fellowship Program
• Quarterly Grant Awards Press Releases
Grants Administrator Position• Strategic Restructuring Models for Nonprofit Organizations
• $1 Million Will Bolster Local 2010 Census Participation
• Letter to Grantees
• Lloyd A. Fry Foundation appoints new board member
• The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation is pleased to welcome a new Education Program Officer
• The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation is pleased to welcome a new Health Program Officer
• New Program Name for the Arts Education Program (formerly Arts and Culture)
• Sharon Bush selected for Connecting Leaders Fellowship Program
• Quarterly Grant Awards Press Releases
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation is seeking a Grants Administrator to manage our grant process. You will implement and administer all policies and procedures involving grants, as well as grant related database systems. You will manage the grants calendar, prepare and process payments, and work with staff to update them on all grant systems and software. Your initiative, flexibility, patience, and strong communication skills will enable you to have a meaningful impact in our mission driven organization. Foundation and GIFTS experience, or other related software, preferred. This position will also provide administrative support to Program staff in our small office, located near LaSalle and Monroe in the Loop. This opportunity offers comprehensive benefits and potential for growth. Bachelor's degree required. Equal Opportunity Employer.
Please send resume to search3jobs@yahoo.com. No phone calls please.
Strategic Restructuring Models for Nonprofit Organizations
On November 16, 2009 the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation and the Michael Reese Health Trust held a workshop on strategic restructuring models for nonprofit organizations. The workshop was facilitated by Jean Butzen of Mission Plus Strategy Consulting. Butzen has over 25 years experience in leadership positions in the Chicago nonprofit sector. She is the former president of Lakefront Supportive Housing which merged with Mercy Housing in 2005. The workshop provided participants with an overview of four types of nonprofit partnerships--joint ventures, management service organizations, parent corporations, and mergers--along with pros and cons of each type and real life examples. 56 participants from 50 different grantee organizations were in attendance.
The Fry Foundation has made meeting materials available for download. Below you will find links to the meeting participant list, Power Point presentation, and a bibliography of articles on restructuring. Please click on the links below to download the PDF documents.
• Partner to Grow!
• Bibliography by Jean Butzen
• Nov. 16 Participant List
• Nov. 18 Participant List
$1 Million Will Bolster Local 2010 Census Participation
Largest Effort in the Nation by Philanthropic Community to Target Hard-to-Count, Low-Income Populations
(Chicago, Ill.) Ten of Illinois' leading foundations announced today they are jointly investing $1 million to improve participation in hard-to-count, poor, minority, rural and high-rise communities in the 2010 Census. Known as the Count Me In campaign, this endeavor marks the nation's largest investment to date in 2010 Census efforts in any one state by a group of philanthropic funders.
The foundations will release a Request for Proposals on April 8, 2009 to more than 200 civic, social service and community-based organizations, inviting them to apply for funding for projects that will increase the mail-back of Census forms from households in select Illinois communities. Activities such as public education campaigns, communications, community outreach, trainings, special events and organizing will be funded.
The 2010 Census will help determine the distribution of roughly $400 billion a year in federal funds to state and local governments, and for every person not counted, Illinois will lose $12,000 over the next 10 years.
Low-income, immigrant, minority and rural communities have historically been undercounted in the once-a-decade survey, which is mandated by the U.S. Constitution. With the sagging economy and billions of federal dollars at stake, not only are these underserved populations disproportionately affected, but residents throughout the state will be harmed if the count is not accurate.
Census data is critical when government officials make decisions about where to build new roads, schools and hospitals and where to locate job training centers and services for the elderly. Census data is also used for drawing congressional and state legislative districts and monitoring and enforcing civil rights laws in employment, housing, voting, lending and education.
"The 2010 Census will profoundly impact the lives of all Illinois residents because it will determine spending on education, employment, public safety, the environment and a host of other issues, not to mention bedrock democracy issues like the size of the state's congressional delegation," stated Ellen S. Alberding, president of the Joyce Foundation. "The Census truly has the potential to advance or delay progress in a number of areas all across the state." Achieving an accurate count is complicated this year by the ailing economy, which will make it hard to find funding for Census awareness efforts in the strapped federal budget. And there are other challenges to achieving a full and accurate count, including:
- Declining public participation in surveys of all kinds.
- Americans' reluctance to share personal information in a post 9-11 environment.
- Immigrants' reticence to participate due to anti-immigrant laws, work-place raids and other government-sponsored dragnets.
- More families living in temporary quarters due to the foreclosure crisis.
- Large increases in hard-to-count populations in the Chicago metropolitan area since 2000—Latino population by 24%, immigrant population by 15% and Asian population by 29%.
Nonprofits interested in learning more about the Request for Proposal can visit www.joycefdn.org and www.cct.org for an application or more information. Grant decisions will be made in July.
Count Me In is funded by the Boeing Company, the Chicago Bar Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, Grand Victoria Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Polk Bros. Foundation, Steans Family Foundation and Woods Fund of Chicago. In addition, the Joyce Foundation has awarded separate grants to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund and the Illinois League of Women Voters for Census related work in Illinois and the Midwest.
Letter to Grantees:
I am writing to let you know about the implications of the global economic crisis on the endowment of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation and our grantmaking this year and next. I hope this information will be helpful as you plan and budget for your organization.
Despite a defensive and highly diversified approach to the management of our endowment, over the last six months our assets have dropped by more than 25 percent. At this time, it is impossible to know whether capital markets will continue to decline or when the economy will begin to recover. We consistently have distributed more than the tax law has required in past years, and we will likely continue to do so. We will reduce our grantmaking this year, and we are likely to make further reductions in fiscal year 2010 as we strive to balance immediate needs with responsible stewardship.
Grant payouts for our fiscal year ending June 2009 are projected to be approximately 10 percent lower than fiscal 2008 levels. This would bring us back to a grantmaking level similar to that of 2007. While we are unable to forecast market values for the following year, we anticipate that Fry Foundation grant payouts are likely to drop an additional 10 percent to 15 percent in fiscal year 2010.
Reductions in grants will not be even across the board. The Board and staff have reviewed the categories of giving in our four program areas and have identified priority areas for smaller cuts. We are not using set formulas, but instead are using priorities as guidelines. For example, in our Health program, we will strive to limit reductions in grants for primary health care to low-income, uninsured adults and children. As a result, grants for disease prevention and health outreach services likely will experience larger cuts. In our Education program, support for out-of-school academic enrichment programs will likely shrink the most, and in our Employment grantmaking, programs which provide short-term, pre-employment preparation likely will be pared back; as will Arts Education programs with the weakest assessments of arts learning.
Across all our areas of grantmaking, priority will be given to programs that: have a strong assessment process for identifying strengths and challenges; provide good data on results; and demonstrate that they learn from their work and the work of others in order to improve their programs. Reductions in grants likely will range from five to 50 percent. And some groups which have received funding in previous years will be declined.
We are acutely aware that smaller grants may mean a staff person will be laid off or fewer clients will be served, and there is considerable analysis and dialogue by the Board and staff over each grant decision. Our grantees and our community have benefitted from significant growth in assets during the previous three years. From 2005 to June 2008, our grantmaking in our four core program areas—Arts Education, Education, Employment and Health—increased by more than 40 percent. Nonetheless, we know that cuts in grants these next two years will come at a time of significant need.
As Scott McCue stated in his Message from the Chairman in our 2008 Annual Report, "We are optimistic about the future of our foundation, our community and our nation. While we suffer from a relative scarcity of resources, we have great energy and appetite for the work before us. Our foundation... has never been more committed to our mission."
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me or your program officer. We have tremendous regard for your work and are proud to be a part of your community.
Sincerely,
Unmi Song
Executive Director
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation appoints new board member
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation has announced the addition of a new member to its Board of Directors: Graham C. Grady, partner, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP in Chicago, IL.
Graham Grady is an equity partner in Bell, Boyd & Lloyd's Real Estate Department. Mr. Grady has a long history working with government and as a civic leader. He served in the Cabinet of Mayor Richard M. Daley from 1989 through 1996 and was chief executive of the Chicago Housing Authority. He currently serves as Chair of the Chicago Community Trust African-American Legacy Initiative, which seeks to make positive change in the lives of Chicago's African-American community and increase the number of African-Americans involved in charitable giving. He also serves as a trustee of the Chicago Zoological Society, Old St. Patrick's Church, St. Ignatius College Prep, and is a member of the Architecture and Design Committee at the Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. Grady received his Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law and is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"We are pleased to announce that Graham Grady will be joining the Fry Foundation Board of Directors," said Scott McCue, chair of the Fry Foundation's Board. "Graham's commitment to Chicago and his experience in our civic community will be a welcome addition. We look forward to having the benefit of his perspective and understanding of Chicago's communities and its institutions."
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation is pleased to welcome a new Education Program Officer
Regina Dixon-Reeves will guide the Foundation's Education funding. Regina brings valuable experience in the education field and grantmaking. For the past five years, she has been at Chicago Public Schools in the Department of Post Secondary Education and Office of High School Programs. She also has worked at Governors State University, with the Field Foundation of Illinois, and at the Joyce Foundation. Regina earned her Ph.D. and MA from the University of Chicago. Her BA is from Marquette University.
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation is pleased to welcome a new Health Program Officer
Soo Na, LCSW, will guide the Foundation's Health funding. Soo brings valuable experience in community health programs. Most recently she was Program Manager for Community Health Programs and the Center for Cross Cultural Education at the Asian Health Coalition of Illinois. She also has experience managing wellness and health programs at Korean American Community Services and Cambodian Association of Illinois. Her Masters of Social Work is from Loyola University Chicago and her B.A. is from DePaul University.
New Program Name for the Arts Education Program (formerly Arts and Culture)
In an effort to offer a more current description of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation's funding interests in the arts, we have changed the name of the program to the Arts Education Program and created a more detailed description of our grantmaking guidelines in this area. The Foundation has a longstanding commitment to supporting arts education opportunities for Chicago's low-income children and youth and we now emphasize that commitment in the program name.
The modifications to the program guidelines are meant to clarify the Foundation's ongoing funding priorities in the Arts Education program. These updated guidelines emphasize our interest in supporting high quality, rigorous, and engaging arts education experiences, in supporting in-depth professional development for arts educators, including classroom teachers, in-school arts instructors, and teaching artists, and our interest in helping organizations assess student learning in the arts.
Arts Education Program
Our Arts Education funding focuses on programs for low-income Chicago children and youth that use the arts as a means to improve learning and provide life-enriching experiences. We are interested in efforts to improve the quality and expand the availability of arts education programs, especially in Chicago Public Schools. The Foundation considers support for arts education for students and professional development for arts educators.
We give priority to arts education programs that provide a combination of arts instruction, performance or exhibition experience, and interaction with professional artists and arts educators. We look for programs that are artistically rigorous, engage students in the creative process, and assess student learning in the arts.
We look for teacher-training programs that immerse educators in the practice and study of the arts and present teachers with innovative strategies for teaching the arts, engaging students in the creative process, and assessing student progress. We look for programs that provide ongoing support, expertise and resources to both teachers and students.
The Foundation is also interested in proposals to convene experts to share information, facilitate discussion with arts educators, and help shape and strengthen arts education in Chicago Public Schools.
We think that these modifications respond to both the strengths and interests of Chicago's rich arts education community. It is our hope to be a supportive partner to the arts education community and to contribute to city-wide efforts to provide arts education opportunities for children and youth from all parts of Chicago.
Sharon Bush selected for Connecting Leaders Fellowship Program
Sharon Bush, program officer for the Employment program, has been selected by the Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE) to be a member of its 2007-2008 Class of Connecting Leaders Fellowship Program. Ten individuals representing philanthropic organizations across the nation were selected as emerging leaders to participate in ABFE's signature leadership development program. The year-long experience is designed to sharpen the skills and strengthen the leadership capacity of foundation staff, donors, and trustees who are committed to assisting Black communities through philanthropy.
"As an organization that is committed to promoting effective and responsive philanthropy in Black communities, ABFE has proudly taken the initiative to develop emerging leaders through programs like the Connecting Leaders Fellowship," said Kenneth W. Austin, President of ABFE. "As the primary architect of the program, I'm proud of the contributions ABFE has made toward the development of emerging leadership within philanthropy." The incoming class of Fellows represents a talented group of emerging leaders who have demonstrated through their work in philanthropy a commitment to Black communities.
Quarterly Grant Awards Press Releases
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation announces first-quarter grant awards
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation has announced first-quarter grants totaling $2,049,000 in four major program areas: Education, Arts Education, Employment, and Health.
Grants included a two-year $60,000 award to Chicago Youth Programs. Chicago Youth Programs offers programs in the Cabrini Green, Washington Park, and Uptown neighborhoods that serve over 900 students. The Fry Foundation grant supports the Teen Career and Teen Tutoring programs, which provide academic assistance, career, and post-secondary education counseling to students. The program has a 90% graduation rate for middle school and high school participants.
The Fry Foundation is pleased to announce that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is a recipient of a two-year $90,000 grant for the Music Activity Partnership program (MAP), a professional development program that helps 4th through 6th grade teachers incorporate music into the classroom. In this multi-year program, teachers collaborate in curriculum building with the guidance of Chicago Symphony Orchestra teaching artists. The program works in CPS schools that do not have extensive music programs and helps teachers build the knowledge and skills to successfully incorporate music into a variety of curricula. Along with 30 classroom teachers, nearly 900 students each year are engaged in classroom music making and concert attendance.
The Fry Foundation also awarded a two-year $100,000 grant to The Cara Program which operates several job training programs for low-income adults. These programs include Cleanslate, the Career Pathways Initiative, and the Quad Communities Center for Working Families. Cleanslate -- a neighborhood beautification business that offers street cleaning, recycling, and landscaping services to local businesses and communities - provides transitional jobs to students of The Cara Program with significant challenges to employment, including recent incarceration. The Career Pathways Initiative works with the University of Chicago to match program graduates to university system jobs. The Quad Communities Center for Working Families provides work readiness training and financial counseling to the residents of the Bronzeville, Douglas, Oakland, and North Kenwood neighborhoods.
The Juvenile Protective Association (JPA) received a two-year $70,000 grant to fund community and school based mental health services offered for children and their families. Founded in 1901 by Jane Adams and her colleagues at Hull House, the Juvenile Protective Association has established multiple partnerships with schools and hospitals to provide its services for children who exhibit emotional and behavioral difficulties. Fry Foundation funds will help support services at both JPA and four North Lawndale elementary schools.
Across all of our funding areas, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation's focus is on helping organizations: build capacity to enhance the quality of services and better assess the impact of programs; develop successful program innovations that other organizations in the field can learn from or adopt; and share knowledge so that information which can help low-income communities and individuals is widely and readily available.
Education, prosperity, and hope for all is the vision behind the Fry Foundation's grantmaking. We provide support to nonprofit organizations that have the strength and commitment to improve conditions for low-income, underserved Chicago residents.
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation announces its fourth-quarter grant awards
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation has announced fourth-quarter grants totaling $960,000 in four major program areas: Education, Arts Education, Employment, and Health.
Boundless Readers was the recipient of a $40,000 grant for their Supporting Young Adolescent Literacy Study Groups for 5th through 8th grade teachers program. The program provides professional development and study groups for classroom teachers from Chicago elementary schools. Boundless Readers, formerly known as the Rochelle Lee Fund, has provided support and training to more than 5,400 teachers in Chicago since 1988.
In the Fry Foundation's Arts Education grants program, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater was the recipient of a two-year $50,000 grant for the Team Shakespeare Bard Core Curriculum Program, a year-long program which strengthens core literacy skills in Chicago public high school students. Another Arts Education grantee, the Poetry Center of Chicago received $20,000 for the Hands on Stanzas Program, a poetry and literary arts residency that serves 1500 students in 15 elementary and secondary Chicago public schools.
The Fry Foundation awarded a two-year $76,000 grant to Greater West Town Community Development Project for the Woodworking and Shipping and Receiving Programs. The Woodworking program provides students with 450 hours of training in carpentry and other solid surfaces. The Shipping and Receiving program provides students with 350 hours of warehouse operations instruction including inventory control and forklift operation. Greater West Town Community Development Project, established in 1988, has a long record of providing workforce development services for low-skilled, low-income youth and adults.
The Heartland International Health Center was the recipient of a two-year $145,000 health grant from the Fry Foundation for Dental Care Services at Senn and Roosevelt High Schools in Chicago. The Heartland International Health Center was founded in 1992 and has five sites on the north side of Chicago, including the school-based health center at Senn High School. In 2008, it took over the operation of the school health center at Roosevelt High school. Both school-based health centers at Senn and Roosevelt High Schools will provide comprehensive dental services to low-income students. Previous support from the Fry Foundation helped open and start these two dental facilities.
Across all of our funding areas, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation's focus is on helping organizations: build capacity to enhance the quality of services and better assess the impact of programs; develop successful program innovations that other organizations in the field can learn from or adopt; and share knowledge so that information which can help low-income communities and individuals is widely and readily available.
Education, prosperity, and hope for all is the vision behind the Fry Foundation's grantmaking. We provide support to nonprofit organizations that have the strength and commitment to improve conditions for low-income, underserved Chicago residents.
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation announces third-quarter grant awards
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation has announced third-quarter grants totaling $1,252,000 in four major program areas: Education, Arts Education, Employment, and Health.
In an effort to support the mission of Inner City Teaching Corps (ICTC), to transform education in underserved communities and to empower children in urban schools, the Fry Foundation awarded a $35,000 grant in support of the UrbaN Impact Through Education (UNITE) Program. Unite provides teacher recruitment, intensive professional development and induction program for college graduates and mid career changers seeking to work with underserved children in urban school systems.
The People's Music School received a two-year $50,000 grant for their musical instruction programs. Serving residents of Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, the People's Music School is a tuition free community music school offering instrument and voice instruction.
$30,000 was granted to OAI, Inc. for their Environmental Training Programs. OAI's primary goal is to "empower and enhance" people who are seeking better opportunities by offering them education and job training programs. Through Greencorps Chicago and the Minority Worker Training programs, the Fry Foundation's support of OAI's Environmental Training Programs will offer participants on-the-job training in the areas of landscaping techniques, basic carpentry, environmental clean-up and restoration and construction skills.
The Fry Foundation also awarded a two-year $90,000 grant for Mobile C.A.R.E.'s Comprehensive Asthma Management Program (CAMP). The Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation was founded specifically to address the alarming number of untreated asthma cases in children in Chicago's underserved communities. CAMP helps to fulfill this mission by offering the use of three asthma vans to schools across the South and Southwest sides of Chicago to monitor, diagnose and treat asthma cases in students. Through the use of their asthma vans and with support from the Fry Foundation, CAMP regularly visits more than 60 Chicago public and parochial elementary schools and Head Start sites.
Additionally, the Foundation is awarding $50,000 to Oxfam America for their Humanitarian Response Program. Oxfam works to resolve problems internationally including poverty, hunger, and social injustice. The goal of Oxfam America's Humanitarian Response Program is to respond with relief assistance in time of disaster; support recovery and rebuilding efforts; and help communities prevent the injury, loss, and death that accompany natural disasters through planning and development.
Across all of our funding areas, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation's focus is on helping organizations: build capacity to enhance the quality of services and better assess the impact of programs; develop successful program innovations that other organizations in the field can learn from or adopt; and share knowledge so that information which can help low-income communities and individuals is widely and readily available.
Education, prosperity, and hope for all is the vision behind the Fry Foundation's grantmaking. We provide support to nonprofit organizations that have the strength and commitment to improve conditions for low-income, underserved Chicago residents.
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation announces second-quarter grant awards
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation has announced second-quarter grants totaling $1,250,000 in four major program areas: Education, Arts Education, Employment, and Health.
Communities in Schools of Chicago (CISC) was awarded a $30,000 grant in support of its Agency Impact Initiative. CISC partners with 161 Chicago public schools and nearly 134 different health, social service, and cultural agencies to provide schools and community service providers with a variety of services free of charge. The Agency Impact Initiative will increase the scope, scale and impact of programs and services offered and expand the number of agency and school partners, including arts programming, healthcare, and social service agencies, working in Chicago public schools.
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), founded in 1992 to align the arts with student learning and academic achievement, received $40,000 for the CAPE Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster Initiative. The initiative will provide professional development for arts instructors to help them teach the arts and engage students in the creative process while integrating the arts across curricular areas. CAPE also brings these arts instructors together to develop a collegial, collaborative community of arts teachers dedicated to improving student learning through the arts. This grant will support CAPE's work in fifty-eight CPS schools.
Our grantmaking this quarter for our Employment program totaled $185,000 which includes a $25,000 grant to Casa Central, the largest Hispanic social service agency in the Midwest.
The Fry Foundation also awarded a $50,000 grant to the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago (IWS) a community-based health clinic providing an array of health services for children up to 19 years of age. Fry Foundation funding will support comprehensive dental services for pediatric patients. Children will receive prophylactic dental services and education to help them maintain good dental health.
The Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), was awarded a two-year $80,000 grant to continue its energy efficiency policy work under its Energy Efficiency Initiatives to Reduce Global Warming. The goal of this initiative is to support successful implementation of the Illinois energy efficiency legislation that will, over time, lead to pollution reduction and cost savings on utility bills for residents of Chicago and Illinois.
Additionally, the Foundation is awarding two international relief grants. Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an independent international medical humanitarian organization, received $100,000 for their Emergency Relief Fund. The grant will be used to help Doctors Without Borders respond quickly to health emergencies as well as offer support to humanitarian crises that may receive little media coverage and financial support.
$60,000 was granted to the Institute of International Education (IIE) for the Scholar Rescue Fund's Iraq Scholar Rescue Project. IIE is an international exchange organization that seeks to foster mutual understanding between the United States and other countries through educational programs. The objective of the Iraq Scholar Rescue Project is to provide three-year fellowships for senior Iraqi professors threatened with violence. The fellowships provide scholars with academic homes outside of Iraq allowing them to continue teaching, researching and publishing. Further information: www.scholarrescuefund.org.
Across all of our funding areas, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation's focus is on helping organizations: build capacity to enhance the quality of services and better assess the impact of programs; develop successful program innovations that other organizations in the field can learn from or adopt; and share knowledge so that information which can help low-income communities and individuals is widely and readily available.
Education, prosperity, and hope for all is the vision behind the Fry Foundation's grantmaking. We provide support to nonprofit organizations that have the strength and commitment to improve conditions for low-income, underserved Chicago residents.
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation announces first-quarter grant awards
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation has announced first-quarter grants totaling $1,345,000 in four major program areas: Education, Arts Education, Employment, and Health.
Grants included a $35,000 award to Teach for America Chicago. Teach for America is a national service corps of outstanding recent college graduates from all academic majors who commit to spending two years teaching in high need urban and rural public schools. With the support of this grant, Teach for America Chicago will place corps members in high need Chicago public schools and will recruit experienced and successful alumni of the Teach for American program for teaching and administrative positions in Chicago public schools.
The Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago's premier youth chorus, received a $45,000 grant to support the start up of the new Albany Park Neighborhood Choir. The Albany Park Neighborhood Choir will recruit young singers for the Albany Park community and will be the newest of eight neighborhood choirs from around the city run by the Chicago Children's Choir.
The Fry Foundation also awarded a $45,000 grant to Upwardly Global in support of the Jobseeker Services and Employer Network programs. These programs provide mentoring, job coaching, and job search support for immigrants to the United States, and they work with large corporate employers, human resource staff, and hiring managers to assist in hiring and integrating immigrant professionals into the workforce.
Community Counseling Centers of Chicago received $45,000 to provide sexual assault counseling services to low-income residents and to develop an evaluation system. Its sexual assault counseling services program provides free and confidential crisis intervention and counseling services for victims of sexual violence at the Quetzal Center.
Across all of our funding areas, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation's focus is on helping organizations: build capacity to enhance the quality of services and better assess the impact of programs; develop successful program innovations that other organizations in the field can learn from or adopt; and share knowledge so that information which can help low-income communities and individuals is widely and readily available.
Education, prosperity, and hope for all is the vision behind the Fry Foundation's grantmaking. We provide support to nonprofit organizations that have the strength and commitment to improve conditions for low-income, underserved Chicago residents.