McCORMICK TRIBUNE FOUNDATION STRENGTHENS NATION’S CIVIC HEALTH THROUGH SECOND-QUARTER 2007 GRANTS
Grants to 19 agencies benefit children, communities and country
CHICAGO, June 5, 2007
The McCormick Tribune Foundation continued its investment in civic health by approving grants that positively impact children, communities and country. More than $9.6 million will be awarded to 19 nonprofit agencies throughout the nation. Approximately $8.3 million of that amount will be awarded to Chicago-area organizations. (A complete record of grants awarded is below).
“The McCormick Tribune Foundation strengthens the vital components of civic health that advance the ideals of a free, democratic society,” said David L. Grange, president and chief executive officer of the McCormick Tribune Foundation. “Our grants this quarter will empower individuals and communities to deliver basic human needs, provide safety and security, and make quality early education accessible.”
To ensure the physical and mental well-being of children and families in the Chicago area, the Children’s Memorial Foundation will receive a $5 million grant to support the construction of the new Children’s Memorial Hospital, in the Streeterville community. The grant will help the hospital accommodate increased demand for advanced pediatric care, and provide the adequate space and physical infrastructure to support new standards of care in pediatric medicine. The grant also leverages the McCormick Tribune Foundation’s $5 million grant to Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s new Prentice Women’s Hospital, as the two institutions will collaborate to save newborns’ lives.
To address community needs around the nation, the McCormick Tribune Foundation, through its Orlando Sentinel Family Fund (Orlando, Fla.), will grant $160,000 to the Salvation Army – Orange County. The grant will support the Holiday Gifts for Children and Teens program, providing toys and clothing vouchers to low-income families during the winter holidays. In 2006, the program served 8,900 children and teens.
Additionally, the McCormick Tribune Foundation’s communities program, through the Sun-Sentinel Children’s Fund (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), awarded $125,000 to Kids In Distress, Inc. The grant will support the agency’s programs that provide shelter, counseling, therapeutic preschools, medical services, family reunification and foster care for 7,500 abused and/or neglected children and their families.
In support of quality early care and education in Illinois, the McCormick Tribune Foundation’s education program will grant $200,000 to Teach for America to launch an early education initiative that will be the first of its kind in the Midwest. The initiative will address the inadequate supply of qualified teachers working in early education programs in Chicago’s lowest-income communities by recruiting, training and placing approximately 55 recent college graduates in early childhood teaching positions.
Concurrently, Erikson Institute will receive a $408,000 grant to launch a Math Training Initiative for approximately 180 pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers in the Chicago Public Schools. The goal of the initiative is to increase math achievement in low-income children by improving teachers’ math knowledge. The program will train them to use math vocabulary and integrate math content into other subjects on an everyday basis.
Complete list of the McCormick Tribune Foundation’s second-quarter 2007 approved grants:
Communities Program Grants |
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| Grants approved through: |
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| Cubs Care |
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| 1. Chicago Public Schools |
$150,000 |
| Cavaliers Youth Fund |
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| 2. Foundation Fighting Blindness |
$500,000 |
| Orlando Sentinel Family Fund |
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| 3. Salvation Army – Orange County |
$160,000 |
| Sun-Sentinel Children’s Fund (Ft. Lauderdale) |
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| 4. Kids In Distress, Inc. |
$125,000 |
Total |
$935,000 |
Education Program Grants |
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| Grants approved to strengthen: |
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| Public Awareness |
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| 5. Center for Law and Social Policy |
$80,000 |
| 6. Window to the World of Communications, Inc. |
$120,000 |
| Public Policy |
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| 7. Ounce of Prevention Fund |
$900,000 |
| 8. National-Louis University’s McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership |
$194,000 |
| Pre-K Now |
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| 9. Institute for Educational Leadership, Fiscal Agent |
$220,000 |
| Quality Assurances Strategies |
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| 10. Big Shoulders Fund |
$235,000 |
| Chicago Coalition of Site Administered Childcare Programs |
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| 11. Center for New Horizons, Fiscal Agent |
$300,000 |
| 12. City Colleges of Chicago |
$400,000 |
| 13. Erikson Institute |
$408,000 |
| 14. Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago |
$300,000 |
| 15. Teach for America |
$200,000 |
Total |
$3,357,000 |
Journalism Program Grants |
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| 16. Challenge Fund for Journalism |
$100,000 |
Total |
$100,000 |
Special Initiatives Program Grants |
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| Grants approved strengthen: |
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| Civic Institutions |
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| 17. Friends of the Chicago River |
$100,000 |
| Health Institutions |
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| 18. Children’s Memorial Hospital |
$5,000,000 |
| Non-Chicago Institutions |
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| 19. The Advertising Council |
$150,000 |
Total |
$5,250,000 |
Second-Quarter 2007 Grand Total |
$9,642,000 |
About the McCormick Tribune Foundation
The McCormick Tribune Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to making life better for our children, communities and country. Through its charitable grantmaking programs, Cantigny Park and Golf, Cantigny First Division Foundation and the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, the Foundation positively impacts people’s lives and stays true to its mission of advancing the ideals of a free, democratic society. For more information, please visit our Web site
www.McCormickTribune.org.
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