Collaboration
for Early Childhood Care and Education -
$2,730 to fund a college credit training
program offered to early childhood practitioners
in Oak Park and River Forest;
Community
Support Services - $2,500 for
the Family Outreach Initiative, increasing
community awareness of services available
for people with developmental disabilities;
Dominican
University - $500 for the Chicago
Latino Film Festival, scheduled at Dominican
for April, 2005;
Family
Service & Mental Health Center - $1,500 for a Life Skills Program targeted
to 8th graders at Percy Julian Middle School
and focused on the avoidance of substance
abuse and violence;
Faith
and Fellowship - $750 to provide
three educational workshops for this Oak
Park-River Forest congregational outreach
to people with mental illness;
Hephzibah
Children's Association - $3,000
for summer 2005 Colorful Days art enrichment
program;
Heritage
Chorale - $2,000 to purchase new
choral standing risers necessary due to the
growing number of the chorus members;
Historical
Society of Oak Park and River Forest - $500 for a traveling exhibit focusing
on architects who have helped build Oak Park
and River Forest throughout their history;
Institute
for Science Education & Technology - $600 for the 2005 Percy Julian Symposium,
a scientific forum for local high school
students;
Oak
Park-River Forest Children's Chorus - $500 for a choral workshop held in October,
2004, focused on recruiting and retaining
male chorus members;
Oak
Park-River Forest Day Nursery -$2,880
to provide a consultant to teach music to
the Day Nursery's youngsters and to help
incorporate music into the classroom curriculum;
Oak
Park-River Forest Infant Welfare Clinic - $2,000 to purchase an assessment tool to
evaluate clinic patients for mental illness
who are between the ages of 6 months and
five years, as well as provide counseling
and referral services to children in need
of early intervention;
Oak
Park Township Youth Services - $3,000
supporting the Gang and Drug Interventionist
Program, which identifies and works with
teens highly at-risk for gangs, violence
and substance abuse within Oak Park and River
Forest;
Oak
Park YMCA - $1,500 in support of Teen
Nights, a supervised recreational program
for local teens every Friday night;
Parenthesis - $2,250 to purchase a new
computer and two cell phones for social work
staff in the Parenteen, Parenting on Our
Own and Family Wrap Programs;
Park
District of Oak Park - $2,500 to underwrite
the summer 2005 Scoville Park Concert Series;
Senior
Center of Oak Park & River Forest - $2,000 to support the Artist in Residence
Program, featuring weaving, lapidary and
stained glass classes;
Steckman
Studio of Music - $3,000 for the
Jazz Prep Coordinator, facilitating recruitment,
tracking and assessment, and coordination
with parents and schools;
Village
Players - $1,000 to produce The
Haunted Theatre, a fundraiser for the Village
Players held this past October;
Vital
Bridges - $2,500 to provide nutrition
and food assistance to low-income and disabled
clients living with HIV and AIDS in Oak Park
and River Forest;
Volunteer
Center - $3,000 to support the
second annual spring break college tour for
at-risk students in the YouthConnect mentoring
program from Oak Park and River Forest;
West
Suburban P.A.D.S. - $1,750 to provide
household supplies and move-in costs for
families in the transitional housing program.
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