Arts & Culture
Frank
Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust: $2,100 for tour and classroom activities
for all 4th grade students in District 97
Heritage
Chorale: $500 to commission and
premiere a new choral work
MOMENTA
Performing Arts Company: $3,000
for workshops and new work creation to include
people with disabilities
Oak
Park Art League: $500 to establish
a volunteer recruitment and training program
Oak
Park Festival Theatre: $1,500 to support
Family Days performances of summer shows
Community Building
Oak
Park Area Lesbian and Gay Association: $3,000 to support drop-in programs for youth
and adults
Oak
Park Regional Housing Center: $2,500
to design, produce and distribute a new agency
brochure
Oak
Park-River Forest Legacy Partners: $1,000 for a publicity campaign to promote
planned giving
South
East Oak Park Community Organization: $1,050 for organizational and board capacity
building activities
Volunteer
Center: $500 for community workshops
to identify issues around which to promote
collaboration
Way
Back Inn/Grateful House: $500 for landscape
beautification of an Oak Park treatment home
Education
Animal
Care League: $2,000 for supplies
and staff for humane education programs for
children
Collaboration
for Early Childhood Care and Education: $1,500 for training for early
childhood educators to increase access to
preschool programs for children with disabilities
Literacy
Volunteers of Western Cook County: $700 for outreach to tutors and students
Oak
Park & River
Forest Day Nursery: $2,330 for art supplies
for child care programs
River
Forest Public Library: $2,000 for
after school programs
Steckman
Studio of Music: $1,000 for after
school African drum class for at risk students
at Julian and Brooks Middle Schools
Wonder
Works Children's Museum: $750 for
Black History Month programming
Health & Human Services
Aspire
of Illinois: $500 for supplies for
feeding and oral-motor therapy program for
children with disabilities and their families
Community
Support Services: $2150 for Art
Time program for developmentally disabled
children and their siblings
Family
Service & Mental Health Center
of Oak Park & River Forest: $500 for
nutrition education class for clients
Hephzibah
Children's Association: $2,800
to support mentoring program for children
living in group homes
Infant
Welfare Clinic of Oak Park and River Forest: $2,507 for dental hygiene and toothbrush
exchange program through area child care
centers
Lutheran
Child & Family Services of
Illinois: $250 for a public awareness campaign
for Foster Care
Oak
Leyden Developmental Services: $1,500
for early intervention integration project
developmental screenings and family treatment
and support
Parenthesis: $700 for video equipment and
supplies to support all programs
PCC
Community Wellness Center: $3,000 for
snacks and incentive gifts for clients in
the maternal and child health education sessions
Sarah's
Inn: $500 for community outreach
and education about domestic violence
Seguin
Services, Inc.: $2,000 for computer,
software, internet access and training for
supported homes for people with disabilities
Vital
Bridges: $3,000 for food for low-income
residents living with HIV/AIDS
West
Suburban PADS: $1,410 to update and
print brochures
Conservation & The
Environment
Seven
Generations Ahead: $2,500 for development
of a web-based community green building guide
