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• The Fry Foundation is pleased to welcome a new Arts Education program officer (November 11, 2011)
• Quarterly Grant Awards Press Release (September 13, 2011)
• Fry Foundation now requesting demographic information from applicants (June 30, 2011)
• Letter from the Executive Director regarding a change in our schedule for proposals (March 22, 2011)
• Revised Grantmaking Guidelines for the Employment Program
• 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
• Quarterly Grant Awards Press Release
The Fry Foundation is pleased to welcome a new Arts Education program officer• Quarterly Grant Awards Press Release (September 13, 2011)
• Fry Foundation now requesting demographic information from applicants (June 30, 2011)
• Letter from the Executive Director regarding a change in our schedule for proposals (March 22, 2011)
• Revised Grantmaking Guidelines for the Employment Program
• 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
• Quarterly Grant Awards Press Release
Julie E. Adrianopoli will guide the Foundation's Arts Education funding. Julie brings valuable experience in the arts education field. Since 2008, she has worked as a creative strategy consultant with the Chicago Arts Learning Initiative (CALI) and the Chicago Arts Education Collaborative. She also has worked at DePaul University, Arts Alliance Illinois, and the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture in Cleveland, Ohio. Julie earned her MBA from Case Western Reserve University and her BA from John Carroll University.
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation announces first-quarter grant awards
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation has announced first-quarter grants totaling $1,435,000 in support of arts education, education, and employment programs in the City of Chicago.
The Fry Foundation is pleased to announce that the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic is the recipient of a two-year, $60,000 grant for its Jazz Alive program. Jazz Alive partners with Chicago Public Schools that have little or no musical curriculum to provide yearlong sessions of music instruction for K-8 students and to assist schools in building and sustaining instrumental music programs. The program culminates with a summer jazz camp at the University of Illinois-Chicago. The camp brings together jazz students from around the city and offers students continued instruction through workshops, master classes and clinics, and participation in a variety of performing groups including quartets, big bands and jazz orchestras.
The Alain Locke Initiative, formerly Inner-City Teaching Corps, received a two-year, $100,000 grant for its Career Changers program. The Career Changers program offers mid-career professionals interested in teaching math or science an alternative route to teacher certification by providing two years of intensive training and support. Applicants come from a variety of professional backgrounds including engineering, sales, and non-profit management. Working closely with Northwestern University faculty and school-based mentor teachers, the program offers teaching candidates intensive professional development and training, including rigorous coaching and feedback on classroom management and instruction.
The Fry Foundation also awarded a $40,000 grant to Chicago Youth Programs (CYP) in support of its Teen Career and Teen Tutoring programs. The programs help middle and high school students from low-income communities develop strong academic skills and prepare for post-secondary education. Each program utilizes a rigorous curriculum series developed by CYP staff and Chicago Public Schools teachers that includes ACT/SAT preparation and supports researching and applying for college and financial aid. The programs hold an 88 percent graduation rate with 100 percent of those graduates transitioning into community colleges, four-year institutions, or vocational programs.
Instituto del Progreso Latino was the recipient of a two-year, $120,000 grant for its bilingual healthcare bridge program, Carreras en Salud. Launched in 2005, Carreras en Salud offers a series of short term programs that combine academics with job training to prepare low-income, limited-English-speaking Latino immigrants for careers in the health care field. Since its implementation, nearly 300 students have become certified as licensed practical nurses through the program and its partnership with Wright Community College, a City College of Chicago. For its continued success and innovative program model, Carreras en Salud has been nationally recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Council for Continued Education and Training.
The Fry Foundation has four funding areas: Arts Education, Education, Employment and Health. 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. The Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations that have the strength and commitment to improve conditions for low-income, underserved Chicago residents. The Foundation has awarded more than $150 million in grants since 1983.
Fry Foundation now requesting demographic information from applicants
Dear Fry Foundation grantees and applicants:
The demographic composition of organizations, schools, universities and corporations has been a topic of research and discussion for over fifty years. And since the earliest days of the United States, the U.S. government has taken a regular census of its residents and citizens.
For several decades, a small number of foundations have been requesting demographic information about the boards and senior staff of grantee organizations. In recent years, the number of foundations collecting this information has been growing. We believe we now should join them.
The demographic composition of boards and senior staff can have an impact on the way it makes decisions and provides services. It is also a reflection of the organization's priorities and values. As part of the application process, the Foundation will now be requesting demographic information about your organization's board and senior management. Grant proposals should include information about the racial and gender composition of those holding these positions. You are welcome to submit additional information such as sexual orientation or disabilities, though these are not required.
We appreciate your help in collecting this information. Please contact our offices should you have any questions about this new requirement.
Sincerely,
Unmi Song
Letter from the Executive Director regarding a change in our schedule for proposals
Dear Fry Foundation Grantees:
I am writing to let you know about a change in our schedule for proposals which may affect the timing of your organization's next submission of a proposal.
As some of you may be aware, the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation's Board of Directors and program staff have spent the past nine months engaged in a strategic review of the foundation's grantmaking. I am pleased to report this review has resulted in a strong affirmation of the foundation's current set of grantmaking priorities, including our ongoing commitment to high quality, effective services for low-income families and individuals in Chicago. In particular, the Foundation has affirmed and emphasized its interests in supporting innovations and other work that helps to advance the field in our four program areas, as well as efforts that support collaborations and convening amongst grantee organizations. A significant number of you are working on testing new ideas and new designs which represent innovations and improved practices that advance the work of not only your individual organizations but that of other organizations in your fields. These are the efforts for which the Foundation wishes to increase consideration and support. We will report more about this in coming months.
In order to dedicate additional time at board meetings to discuss grantmaking strategies and outcomes in greater depth, the foundation will review proposals in three of our four programs on a rotating basis. During each board meeting cycle, one program will not review proposals and instead will focus on analysis of its grantmaking strategies, outcomes and trends in innovations and advancement.
Below is a schedule of programs and proposal review cycles:
If your organization has a grant which was reviewed during the "off cycle" according to the schedule above, your program officer will be in contact soon to discuss shifting your next proposal submission to an earlier or later cycle.
We recognize that this may cause some inconvenience in the coming year and apologize for any confusion in advance. We also recognize that skipping a cycle for proposal review creates a six month gap during which the Foundation will not consider proposals in your particular program area and on rare occasions that may create undue hardship or a particularly important lost opportunity. For those reasons, we will consider exceptions and we encourage you to talk with your program officer if you anticipate projects for which the foundation should consider an exception.
The Foundation appreciates your contributions to the community and is proud to be supporting your work. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Unmi Song
Revised Grantmaking Guidelines for the Employment Program
The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation has recently modified the Employment Program grantmaking guidelines to better reflect a commitment to important efforts to improve job training and education for low-income Chicagoans. Please see the revised guidelines and reporting requirements (PDF file).
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."
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.