2020 Education Grant Recipients
Academy for Urban School Leadership: Creating a Pipeline of High-Quality, Diverse Teachers for CPS
Chalkbeat: Chalkbeat Chicago
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights: Education Equity Project
Children First Fund: Action Research for African American and Latino Male Achievement
Communities United: General operations
Education Systems Center at Northern Illinois University: Scaling Education Pathways in Chicago Public Schools
Embarc: Building Equity in Education – Scaling Experiences at Michele Clark High School
Leading Educators: COVID-19 school re-entry planning and to develop a professional learning program in a cohort of Chicago Public Schools
Loyola University Chicago, School of Education: Developing Equitable Math Education Leaders and Becoming An Anti-racist School of Education
Mikva Challenge: Issues to Action
School That Can: Equity by Design – Developing Middle Grade Teams to Organize Schools for Culturally-Relevant Learning
Surge Institute: Chicago Surge Fellowship
Teachers Supporting Teachers: Impact Teams
The Chicago Public Education Fund: Program support for Chicago Public School principals
Umoja Student Development Corporation: Transforming Schools through Restorative Practices & Whole-School Social Emotional Learning Capacity-Building
University of Chicago, Network for College Success: High School Leadership for Equity
University of Chicago, Urban Education Institute: Middle Grades Network
2020 Healthy Water Grant Recipients
Alliance for the Great Lakes: For general operating support
Center for Neighborhood Technology: For the Great Lakes Water Infrastructure Project
Clean Wisconsin: For green infrastructure planning in Green Bay and Racine, Wisconsin
Cleveland Water Alliance: For its Lake Erie Entrepreneurship and Innovation efforts
Current: To strengthen the Great Lakes economy and accelerate water technologies
Environmental Law & Policy Center: To protect the Great Lakes ecology and drinking water from harmful algae blooms
FLOW (For Love of Water): To support Line 5 advocacy
Freshwater Future: For general operating support
Imagine H2O: For its Deployment for Impact program in the Great Lakes
Metropolitan Planning Council: For its Water Action Agenda
Milwaukee Water Commons, Inc.: For general operating support
River Alliance of Wisconsin: For the Wisconsin Water Agenda
Save the Dunes Conservation Fund: To develop the Northwest Indiana lake Michigan Water Pollution Prevention Plan
The Nature Conservancy: For StormStore
The National Wildlife Federation - Great Lakes Regional Center: For the Healing Our Waters Coalition
2020 COVID-19 Relief Grant Recipients
Children First Fund: The Compassion Fund
The Chicago Public Education Fund: The Chicago Public Schools Comeback Fund
The Resurrection Project: COVID-19 relief for undocumented families
Additional support for all grantees
2020 Special Opportunity
University of San Francisco, Scholarship Fund
Movement Voter Project, Tides Foundation: Black-Led Organizing Fund and general funds
