Grants Database
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Year
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Programs
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Amount
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Location
Stand for Children Leadership Center
To advocate for stronger educator quality and college and career readiness policies in Indiana
$300,000
Stand for Children Leadership Center - Illinois
To advocate for dual enrollment policies in Illinois and serve on the state’s educator Performance Evaluation Advisory Committee
$85,000
State Higher Education Executive
To provide technical assistance to states to help them prepare for changes to the FAFSA
$80,000
Teach Plus Incorporated
For the national, Illinois, and Indiana chapters to support policy development and advocacy on teacher effectiveness, diversity, and supply and demand issues
$600,000
Teatro Vista Theatre with A View
For three years of general operating support (totaling $150,000) and one-year digital initiatives support (totaling $25,000)
$175,000
The 74 Media
To support coverage of COVID's impact on education, especially on communities of color, policy reforms spurred by the pandemic, and teacher shortages
$275,000
The Art Institute of Chicago
For the exhibition Himali Singh Soin: Static Range
$50,000
The Aspen Institute Inc.
To advance federal, state and district policies that ensure principals are trained and supported to run schools that improve school climate and student outcomes
$450,000
The HANA Center
To commission fiber and social practice artist Aram Han Sifuentes to create Citizenship for All, a community protest banner-making and immigrant justice project engaging multi-generations of Korean, Asian American, and multi-ethnic immigrant communities that will culminate in a public art installation in Chicago’s Albany Park
$75,000
The Institute for College Access and Success Inc.
To support policy development and advocacy to help close race- and income-based gaps in post-secondary success in Michigan
$150,000
The Surge Institute
To sustain a fellowship program that builds and supports a pipeline of Black and Latino leaders in education policy
$200,000
Tides Foundation
To support the Community Justice Reform Coalition (CJRC)’s advocacy and organizational development as well as a project to analyze media coverage of community violence
$235,000
Trace Media Inc.
To support expansion of Trace Media’s gun violence reporting project in the Great Lakes region
$360,000
University of Chicago
To support phase two of the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project
$400,000