2009 Awards


Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago

affordable housing and education advocacy and youth organizing | $30,000  

Action Now

general operating support| $40,000

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest  

affordable housing advocacy | $50,000.00 

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless  

its organizing and advocacy work| $35,000 

Chicago Jobs Council 

the Illinois Works for the Future Campaign| $35000

Chicago Workers' Collaborative

general operating support| $35,000

Chicago Rehab Network

general operating support | $40,000

Community Organizing and Family Issues 

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

Developing Communities Project

the CTA Red Line Extension Campaign| $25,000

Grand Boulevard Federation

the Peer Parent Organizing Network| $30,000 

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights

the From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign: Realizing Human Rights in Illinois | $40,000

Housing Action Illinois

general operating support| $30,000

Illinois Action for Children

the Equal Access to Quality, Affordable Child Care Campaign | $35,000

Illinois Hunger Coalition

its organizing and policy programs | $40,000

Inner-City Muslim Action Network

expenses related to its community organizing and public policy advocacy| $35,000

Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs

its tenants' rights policy advocacy and tenant organizing work| $25,000

Latino Policy Forum

the Latino Leaders Acuerdo| $35,000

Latino Union of Chicago

general operating support | $40,000  

Midwest Academy

its 2010 Summer Internship Program| $30,000

National Training and Information Center

general operating support | $50,000.00

Northwest Side Housing Center

Vacant and Foreclosed Homes Taskforce | $20,000

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

the Illinois Coalition for the Fair Sentencing of Children | $25,000

Pilsen Alliance

general operating support| $25,000

Protestants for the Common Good 

general operating support| 35,000

Public Action Foundation 

the Monsignor Egan Campaign for Payday Loan Reform| $20,000

Restaurant Opportunities Center United

the ROC-Chicago project | $35,000

Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

general operating support |  $75,000  

Supportive Housing Providers Association

general operating support | $30,000

TARGET Area Development Corporation

general operating support| $35,000

United African Organization, Inc

general operating support | $35,000

We The People Media

general operating support | $20,000

West Town Leadership United

general operating support | $20,000