The Magnificent Mile Charitable Foundation
2010 Grant Recipients
Alliance for Community Peace
Rev. Dr. Walter Johnson Jr., Executive Director
509 W. Elm Street
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 943-8530
The Alliance For Community Peace initiative is a faith-based project which seeks the following: improve academic performances and school attendance of students; to provide opportunities for demonstrating positive social skills, interactions, and relationships through educational, recreational, cultural and other programs activities; adopt positive decision making skills that discourage negative risk taking behaviors through life skills application; and develop meaningful work experiences leading to career and vocational fulfillment for students and families.
Cabrini Green Tutoring Program
Jill Heller, Director of Fundraising
1515 N. Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60622
(312) 397-9119
www.cabrinigreentutoring.org
For 42 years, the Cabrini-Green Tutoring program, Inc. (CGTP) has been dedicated to defining and responding to children's needs for quality, innovative and instructional programs that are not only educational but build self-esteem. The mission of Cabrini Green Tutoring Program is to help economically disadvantaged students succeed in elementary school and beyond.
Chicago Lights at Fourth Presbyterian Church
Vicky Curtiss, Executive Director
126 E. Chestnut Street
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 787-4570
www.chicagolights.org
Chicago Lights is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit community outreach organization that changes lives one at a time by offering hope and opportunity to individuals and families who face the challenges of aging, poverty, and access to education and healthcare.
Chicago Lights fosters literacy and education, alleviates hunger and homelessness and advances health and wellness through eight outreach programs including: the Center for Life and Learning, the Center for Whole Health, the Elam Davies Social Service Center, Tutoring, Summer Day, Literacy and Arts at the Near North Magnet Cluster Schools, Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy at the Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School, and the Chicago Lights Urban Farm on Chicago Avenue.
Gilda's Club Chicago
Lance Shart, Director of Development
537 N. Wells Street
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 464-9900
www.gildasclubchicago.org
Gilda's Club Chicago provides a "warm and welcoming meeting place where men, women and children diagnosed with cancer, and family and friends, join with others to build social, emotional and informational support as an essential supplement to medical care." Membership and their program are free of charge. They offer support and networking groups, lectures, workshops and social events in their home-like clubhouse.
Happiness Club
Maureen Schulman, Board President
c/o Wright College
4300 Narragansett Ave., Room E-116
Chicago, IL 60634
(773) 481-8264
www.thehappinessclub.com
The Happiness Club is a diverse group of 50 Chicago kids who promote positive values and social change through original hip hop and pop music, dance and poetry. The Happiness Club kids create all their material based on issues kids themselves deem important. The group sings out against drugs, gangs, violence and smoking and says yes to education, tolerance, high self-esteem and helping the environment. They recently won the Mayor's Office of Environmental Affairs' 2010 Earth Day video contest for their music video "So Hot," created to increase awareness of global warming. The Happiness Club's goal is simple: to capture the attention of kids through the pop culture mediums of music, dance and urban poetry and impact them with the positive messages within the lyrics. The Happiness Club's emphasis on positive values and a strong work ethic help students grow into adulthood with a set of ethics, leadership skills and the confidence that anything is possible.
H.E.L.P. (Help Ease Local Poverty)
Jacqueline Hayes, Founder
155 N. Harbor Drive, Suite 401
Chicago, IL 60601
(312) 861-1700
www.help-chicago.org/
Help Ease Local Poverty (HELP) is a consortium of business, residential, religious, social service, institutional and volunteer leaders striving to promote an atmosphere of dignity and compassion toward those in need by providing access to food, health services, shelter and employment. HELP works to educate local businesses and residents as to how they can help ease the plight of the homeless and disadvantaged and improve their well being, self-esteem and productivity.
Lawson House YMCA
Gloria Johnson, Executive Director
Lawson House YMCA
30 W. Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60654
(312) 932-1163
www.ymcachgo.org/content/home.aspx
Since 1931, Lawson House has provided safe, affordable housing for
Chicago's men and women. Now the largest single-room occupancy (SRO)
supportive housing facility in the Midwest, it plays a key role in
Chicago's efforts to address homelessness.
Pro Se Services
"Operation Chi-City Streets"
Dinae Knox, Executive Director
7950 W. Ogden
Lyons, IL 60534
(312) 925-5723
www.proseservices.org
Pro Se Services strives to provide homeless downtown Chicago with sustainable programs and services through essential stepping stones - education, employment, health, housing, nutrition, basic necessities and assets - thereby decreasing panhandling and criminal activity.
Project Education Plus
Vince Carter, Executive Director
857 N. Cleveland
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 642-4191
www.projecteducationplus.org
PEP's purpose is to divert anger, frustration, and negative attitudes of youth into positive learning experiences and constructive activities. The grant will provide after-school programming and mentoring, college preparatory, community technology lab, an organized sports program and senior citizen activities.
The Ogden International School of Chicago
24 West Walton Street (under construction reopening in September 2011)1443 North Ogden Avenue (east Campus serving grades Prek-5)
1250 West Erie Street (west Campus serving grades 6-12)
Chicago, IL 60610
www.ogdenschool.org
The Ogden International School of Chicago, founded in 1857 as the tenth public school in Chicago and named for Chicago’s first mayor, is the neighborhood school on the near north side of Chicago. Located in the heart of Chicago, a rapidly redeveloping cosmopolitan city, Ogden International School serves as the public school for students from a racially, ethnically and socio-economically diverse community. Nestled among some of the most prominent cultural, social and business institutions in the world, Ogden is committed to providing a world-class education to the children of the community.
In addition to its general education program, Ogden offers the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme to all students in grades 6-10 and recently became affiliated with the Asia Society and their International Studies Schools Network. Academic content is investigated through a thematic approach which emphasizes the universality of the human experience and celebrates the value of cultural diversity. Internationalism and global concerns form a common denominator for all subjects and for all students. Additional academic support by teachers after school to address the needs of the children who are at the cusp of moving into a more advantaged educational program would greatly enhance the school’s mission and vision. By supporting the students who would benefit the most from this resource, Ogden will better be able to prepare them for secondary school, positively impacting their college and career years.
Ogden School can be defined as a community school with a worldly spirit. One goal of its international program is to continue to develop various international courses and experiences for all students. In addition, Ogden currently offers three foreign learning experiences closely associated with sister schools in Mexico, France and Serbia. Funding is necessary to provide resources for the school library and reference center at all levels so students can learn and experience other cultures. These materials will be used in their inquiry based model of instruction and will be aligned with the literacy, science, and social science curricula.
The Ogden International School of Chicago has developed a rich, rigorous curriculum that prepares students for lifelong success in a global society. The curriculum is comprehensive among and within grade levels, emphasizing humanities and liberal arts while incorporating advanced technology designed to maximize student achievement, increase student readiness to advance to the next level and engage students in authentic and meaningful learning experiences.
