Evanston Community Foundation Awards Grants to 29 Organizations

The Evanston Community Foundation (ECF) awarded $240,850 in grants to 29 organizations and programs at its 2013/2014 Responsive Grant Awards event held at the North Shore Retirement Hotel. 
 
Midwest Child-Parent Centers Expansion received $15,000 to provide PreK  The grants included a special initiative grant in the amount of $15,000 to the Midwest Child-Parent Centers Expansion to provide PreK through 3rd grade support to enhance achievement in low income families in Evanston.  

The 29 recipients represented a broad range of categories from early childhood education, community development, family support and counseling, housing, workforce development, seniors, the arts, and basic human needs.

The recipients are: 

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago
• Center for Community Arts Partnership at Columbia College
• Center for Economic Progress
• Center for Independent Futures
• Childcare Network of Evanston
• Children's Advocacy Center of North and Northwest Cook County
• Connections for the Homeless
• Erie Family Health Clinic
• Erika's Lighthouse
• Evanston Art Center
• Evanston School Children's Clothing Association
• Evanston Township High School
• Family Focus
• Family Promise Chicago North Shore
• Grandmother Park Initiative
• James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy
• Lighthouse 21stCentury Community Learning Centers
• Literacy Works
• Literature for All of Us
• McGraw YMCA
• Mudlark Theater Company
• National Able Network
• North Shore Senior Center
• Northlight Theater
• PEER Services
• Y.O.U. (Youth Organizations Umbrella)
• Youth Job Center of Evanston 
• YWCA Evanston/North Shore 

The 2013/2014 responsive grants awards set another record for the greatest number of grants and the largest amount awarded by ECF in a single grant cycle. It is the 27th such annual cycle, dating from 1987, when grants totaled $30,000. ECF awarded $217,000 at the 2012/2013 Responsive Grant Awards.