2023 Grants

Healthy Water

Alliance for the Great Lakes: For general operating support
Center for Neighborhood Technology: For Calumet Citizen Science & Leadership: Water Resiliency and Climate Justice
Clean Wisconsin: For its water programs
Cleveland Water Alliance: For general operating support
Current: To accelerate water technologies in Lake Michigan
Delta Institute: For generating data and methods to expand nature-based green infrastructure in BIPOC Chicago communities
Elevate: To advance water affordability solutions in the Great Lakes
Environmental Law & Policy Center: To protect the Great Lakes from algae blooms and other pollutants
FLOW (For Love of Water): To support Line 5 advocacy
Freshwater Future: For general operating support and re-granting to grassroots social justice environmental groups
Friends of the Chicago River: For the Chicago-Calumet River Watershed Council
Metropolitan Planning Council: To support its Water Action Agenda
Midwest Environmental Advocates: For The People’s Law Project
Milwaukee Water Commons: For general operating support
National Wildlife Federation - Great Lakes Regional Center: To support the Healing Our Waters Coalition
River Alliance of Wisconsin: For its coalition building and policy agenda
Save the Dunes Conservation Fund: To implement the Northwest Indiana Lake Michigan Water Pollution Prevention Plan
The Nature Conservancy in Illinois: For StormStorm
Windward Fund: For the Daybreak funder collaborative

 Strengthening Learning Communities for Equity

Advance Illinois: For Advancing the Education Leadership Pipeline
Chalkbeat: For Chalkbeat Chicago
Embarc: For its Whole School Initiative
Leading Educators: For the CPS Skyline Networked Improvement Community
NewRoot Learning Institute: For general operations
New Teacher Center: For Equity Change Agents
Surge Institute: For the Chicago Surge Fellowship
Teachers Supporting Teachers: For Impact Teams in Chicago Public Schools
The Chicago Public Education Fund: For general operations
University of Chicago Network For College Success: For the High School Leadership for Equity initiative
University of Chicago Urban Education Institute: In support of the To&Through Middle Grades Network
University of Chicago Urban Education Institue: For the Chicago Consortium on School Research Leadership Council