< BACK
OTHER GRANTS
COLLABORATIVE FUNDS
Recognizing the importance and effectiveness of collaboration, The Chicago Community Trust supports funder collaboratives, which bring together leadership and funding from multiple foundations, corporations and donors to respond to a particular issue. These collaboratives help funders mobilize and leverage resources needed to achieve greater impact for the community. Following are funder collaboratives of the Trust and the nonprofit organizations they awarded grants to in 2019.
ARTS WORK
Access Contemporary Music
Art Encounter
ArtReach Chicago
Arts Refreshing the Soul
Awakenings
Barrel of Monkeys Productions
Blair Thomas & Company
Chicago a cappella
The Chicago Art Department
Chicago Artists Coalition
Joel Hall Dancers & Center
Chicago West Community Music Center
DanceWorks Chicago, Inc. NFP
Deeply Rooted Productions
Forefront
Forward Momentum Chicago, NFP
FULL SPECTRUM FEATURES NFP
Fund for Innovative TV
Interrobang Theatre Project Inc.
Intonation Music Workshop
Jackalope Theatre Company
Korean Cultural Center of Chicago
MAKE Literary Productions, NFP
Mandala South Asian Performing Arts Inc.
National Indo-American Museum
National Veterans Art Museum
Praize Productions, Inc.
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble
Red Clay Dance Company Inc.
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
Synapse Arts Collective
The Chicago Mosaic School
True Star Foundation Inc.
UrbanTheater Company NFP
Winifred Haun & Dancers
SAFE AND PEACEFUL COMMUNITIES
1200 N Menard
1st Holy Zion Missionary Baptist Church
2016 MA’AT Inc. NFP
300 Block Club Lotus
300 North Mason Block Club
300 North Pine Block Club
360 Nation
4800 W Crystal Street Block Club
4900 W Washington Blvd Block Club
51st Street Business Association
800 N Karlov Block Club
800 N Kedvale
8000 Constance Block Club
83rd Street Block Club
900 North Parkside Block Club
A Long Walk Home Inc.
Agape Werks, Inc.
Alexie
Alliance of the Southeast
All Family Active (ALFA Organization)
Alliance 98
Annie B. Jones Community Services, Inc.
Another Chance Baptist Church
Archi-Treasures Association
Arthur Lockhart Resource Institute
Austin Green Team
Automotive Mentoring Group Inc.
B.Fli Productions, Inc.
Black Girls Break Bread Inc.
Bounce For Joy Project
Brave Camps Inc.
BraveSoul Movement
Bronzeville Historical Society
Brothers Standing Together Inc.
Bullying Prevention and Awareness 365, Inc.
Bush Community Gardeners Organization
CBR Tranquility Development NFP
Center for Advancing Domestic Peace Inc.
Center for Community Development Initiatives
Center of Higher Development
Central Austin Neighborhood Association
Champs Male Mentoring Program – Chirise
Chasing23
Chicago Alternative to Incarceration Collaborative
Chicago Cultural Performing Arts & Media Alliance
Chicago Metamorphosis Orchestra Project NFP
Chicago Youth Boxing Club Inc.
Chi-shorties NFP
Christ is First Productions
Circles & Ciphers
City of Refuge – Chicago
Collaboraction Theatre Company Inc.
Commonwealth Foundation Collective
Cosmopolitan Community Church
Dancing with Class
Darren B. Easterling Center for Restorative Practices
Deeply Rooted Productions
DMI Information Processing Center, Inc.
Dorchester Community Garden
Drive Our Future
Edward G. Irvin Foundation
Elastic Arts Foundation
Elijah’s House, NFP
Englewood Enterprise Gallery
Excel Community Development Corporation
Fathers Who Care
FOUS Youth Development Services
Friends of the Parks
Future Ties, NFP
GAP Community Center
Getting Connected
Girls Like Me Project, Inc.
Global Girls Inc.
Goldin Institute
Grand Boulevard Prevention Services
Grow Greater Englewood
Gyrls In The H.O.O.D. Foundation
Henry Williams Love Foundation
Hermitage Street Community Garden
Hope Works Community Development
Hyde Park Jazz Festival
I AM My Brother’s Keeper Unity Day
Imagine Englewood If, NFP
IMANI Community Development Corporation
IMPACT Family Center
Insight Project for Kids
Institute for Positive Living
Jackson Park Golf Association
Jardincito Nature Play Garden
J-Def Peace Project
Kells Park Community Council
Kids Off The Block, Inc.
KUFI Club of Chicago
La Villita Nature Play Garden
Ladies of Virtue, NFP
Live the Spirit Residency
Local-Motions, Inc.
Lost Boyz Inc.
Love, Unity & Values (LUV) Institute
Magnifying Urban Realities and Affecting Lives
Major Adams Community Committee
Marillac Social Center
Mentor Teacher Brother, Inc.
Metro Vision Partners, NFP
Mindfulness Leader, NFP
Monroe Foundation
Morganway Community Garden
Downtown Mt. Vernon Development Corporation
Museum Shores Educational Community Project NFP
NEBC Employment Resource Services
Nehemiah Group
Nehemiah Trinity Rising
New Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago
Nobel Neighbors
North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council
Not Before My Parents
One Church One School Community Partnership
OPEN Center for the Arts
Opera-Matic NFP
Peace and Education Coalition of Back of the Yards
Peace Makers Worldwide
People’s Community Development Association of Chicago, Inc.
Permaculture Chicago Teaching Institute
Phoenix Diverse Holistics Collaborative NFP
Port Ministries
Prevention Force Family Center Inc.
Pride ROC
Project Education Plus
Real Men Charities, Inc.
ReCondition Community Cooperative
Red Clay Dance Company Inc.
Redeemed Community Development NFP
Redevelopment Management Resources, Inc.
Reflections Foundation
Restoring the Path (dba Crushers Club)
Roll Call
Root-Riot Urban Garden Network
Sacred Ground Ministries
Saint Agatha Catholic Church
Sankofa Safe Child Inc.
Saving Lives, Inc.
Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center
Shamar Group Community Development Corporation
South Austin Neighborhood Association
South Merrill Community Garden
South Side Jazz Coalition
Southside Together Organizing for Power
St. Titus One Missionary Baptist Church
Stop The Violence
Sweet Water Foundation Inc.
Talented 10th Mentoring Program
Teamwork Englewood
Telpochcalli Community Education Project Inc.
Terrell M Bosley Anti-Violence Association Inc.
Territory NFP
TGiMovement
The Black Star Project
One For One
The Garden of Love
The Neighborhood Network Alliance
The Original Sixty Fourth Street Beach Drummers, Inc.
The Rock Enterprises and Development Corporation
The Voices and Faces Project
THE Westside Writing Project NFP
Think Outside Da Block
Third Unitarian Church of Chicago
Totally Positive Productions, Inc.
UCAN
Un Nuevo Despertar A New Awakening NFP
U.N.I.O.N. Impact Center
United For Better Living, Inc.
Villapalooza Inc.
We Are Light
West Side Cultural Arts Council
West Side Justice Center Inc.
What About Us Charitable Enterprises Inc.
Windsor Park Foundation Inc.
Working Family Solidarity
WRAP your beYOUty Movement
YogaCare
Young Chicago Authors
CHICAGOLAND WORKFORCE FUNDER ALLIANCE
Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership
Chicago Jobs Council
City Colleges of Chicago Foundation
Instituto del Progreso Latino
Skills for Chicagoland’s Future
The Aspen Institute
The Chicago Community Trust
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago
Harper College Educational Foundation
Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership Inc.
GET IN CHICAGO
Better Boys Foundation
Cabrini Green Legal Aid
Chapin Hall Center for Children at University of Chicago
Lawndale Christian Legal Center
Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation
One Hope United
Teamwork Englewood
Westside Health Authority
ILLINOIS IMMIGRATION FUNDERS COLLABORATIVE
Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights & Empowerment
Arab American Action Network
Arab American Family Services, Inc.
Arise Chicago
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: United Workers’ Center
Centro Romero
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
Beyond Legal Aid
DePaul University
DuPage Federation on Human Services Reform
Enlace Chicago
Erie Neighborhood House
Family Focus, Inc.
Healing to Action
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights
North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic
Hispanic American Community Education and Services, Inc.
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Immigrant Solidarity DuPage
Legal Aid Chicago
Mujeres Latinas En Acción
Latino Policy Forum
Latino Union of Chicago
Latinos Progresando
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Mano a Mano Family Resource Center
Northern Illinois Justice for Our Neighbors
PASO – West Suburban Action Project
Pan-African Association
RefugeeOne
Resurrection Project
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
Southwest Organizing Project
Southwest Suburban Immigrant Project
Spanish Community Center
HANA Center
The Immigration Project Inc.
University YMCA
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
Vietnamese Association of Illinois
World Relief
ELEVATED CHICAGO
Arts + Public Life, an initiative of UChicago Arts
Center for Neighborhood Technology
DePaul University
Esperanza Health Centers
Garfield Park Community Council
IFF
K.L.E.O. Community Family Life Center
Latin United Community Housing Association (LUCHA)
Latinos Progresando
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Sunshine Gospel Ministries