2010 Awards


Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago

its education and housing organizing and advocacy work |  $30,000

Action Now Institute

general operating support | $40,000

Asian American Institute

its community organizing project |  $25,000

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest

its Regional Affordable Housing Initiative |  $50,000

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless

general operating support | $40,000

Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European, and Latino Immigrants of Illinois

its Workers Rights Project, to organize Chicago street vendors |  $20,000

Chicago Jobs Council

its Illinois Works for the Future Campaign | $35,000

Chicago Rehab Network

general operating support | $30,000

Chicago Workers' Collaborative

general operating support | $40,000

Community Organizing and Family Issues

POWER-PAC, a citywide parent group |  $30,000

Designs for Change

its community organizing and advocacy work |  $30,000

Developing Communities Project

its Red Line Extension Project | $30,000

ENLACE Chicago  

its organizing and advocacy work |  $35,000

Grand Boulevard Federation

its Peer Parent Education Network | $35,000

Grassroots Collaborative

general operating support |  $40,000

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights

its From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign |  $40,000

Housing Action Illinois

general operating support | $30,000

Illinois Action for Children

Parent Empowerment and Leadership Development Project | $25,000

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights

general operating support |  $50,000

Illinois Hunger Coalition

its advocacy and organizy efforts |  $40,000

Imagine Englewood If...

capacity building support | $15,000

Inner-City Muslim Action Network

its Muslim Run Campaign for Health, Wellness and Healing | $40,000 

Latino Policy Forum

its Illinois Latino Agenda | $40,000

Latino Union of Chicago

general operating support |  $40,000

Midwest Academy

its 2011 Summer Internship Program | $30,000

The Monroe Foundation

salary support for its Community Reinvestment Organizing Project's part-time organizer  | $15,000

Northwest Side Housing Center

its Home Preservation through Counseling, Outreach and Organizing, and Leadership Development Project | $20,000

Northwestern University School of Law--Children and Family Justice Center, Bluhm Legal Clinic

The Illinois Coalition on Fair Sentencing | $25,000

Pilsen Alliance

The Tax Increment Finance Education & Equity Campaign | $25,000

Protestants for the Common Good

general operating support | $35,000

Restaurant Opportunities Center United

ROC-Chicago's worker-led Paid Sick Days Policy Campaign and
its Workplace Justice Campaign |  $35,000

Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

general operating support |  $75,000

Supportive Housing Providers Association

general operating support |  $30,000

United African Organization

general operating support |  $35,000

University of Illinois at Chicago, Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement

its Voorhees Center | $25,000

Warehouse Workers for Justice

general operating support | $20,000

We the People Media

general operating support |  $20,000

Westside Health Authority

its Student Freedom Riders and Youth Peace Keepers
youth organizing initiatives |  $25,000