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Grant Awards - 2017

Education/Entrepreneurship

  • Accion Chicago, Chicago, IL

    $200,000 – The Hatchery Chicago
    The award is to support the creation of The Hatchery, a food business incubator in East Garfield Park, one of Chicago's highest-need neighborhoods, to help local food and beverage entrepreneurs scale successful businesses.

  • Beloit College, Beloit, WI

    $100,000 – 2017 CELEB Renovation
    This capital project request completes an effort that was begun in 2003. The renovation project will update and expand the current Center for Entrepreneurship in Liberal Education at Beloit (CELEB) facilities to meet today’s demand for physical space, technology and more effective experiential learning.

  • Bunker Labs, Chicago, IL

    $90,000 – Coleman Entrepreneurship Fellowship for Student Veterans at Bunker Labs
    The Coleman Fellowship at Bunker Labs is proposed as a one-year fellowship that will provide a cohort of up to 15 military veteran students drawn from various local universities with diverse and relevant hands-on experiences as they intern with existing veteran-led startups and cultivate their own startup ideas.

  • Chicago Horticultural Society, Glenview, IL

    $300,000 – Farm on Ogden
    The award is to support Farm on Ogden, a partnership between the recipient’s urban agriculture initiative and Lawndale Christian Health Center, to create a community-based, local food entrepreneurship ecosystem to support new business development and growth in the region.

  • CodeNow Inc., Chicago, IL

    $50,000 – CodeNow 2.0
    CodeNow is creating a scalable program model to empower thousands of underrepresented teenagers (aged 13-19) to begin career paths in technology and entrepreneurship. Students will learn how to solve problems with software and the entrepreneurial skills necessary to start their own technology ventures.

  • FamilyFarmed, Chicago, IL

    $125,000 – General Operating Support
    The award is for general operating support to enable the expansion of services to aspiring and practicing entrepreneurs in the local food sector. The organization intends to build on its successful accelerator program by establishing an Incubator Without Walls providing technical assistance and mentoring to food entrepreneurs, enabling them to achieve greater business success.

  • Future Founders Foundation, Chicago, IL

    $180,500 – Future Founders Startup
    Grant funds will support the Future Founders (FF) Startup programs, which bring together universities, incubators, community organizations and businesses to provide a dynamic suite of experience & services for emerging collegiate entrepreneurs, promote inter-school collaboration and increase university program capacity and relevance by broadening their reach into the entrepreneurial community. The program components include: a year-long Fellowship; an Alumni Accelerator; a Pitch competition; a newsletter that connects students directly to the entrepreneurial community as well as on-campus workshops.

  • North Central College, Naperville, IL

    $90,000 – Self-Employment in the Arts
    This award is to support arts business program elements for faculty, students and artists, which includes an annual conference, off-cycle programming, partnering with ConVerge, the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, other colleges and universities, and community partners for collaborative programming. e.g. Chicago Artists Coalition, CEO, and Future Founders.

  • SkyART, Chicago, IL

    $150,000 – Campaign for Limitless Potential
    Grant funds will be used to complete Sky ARTS's campaign to improve facilities and build programing quality and reach. Funds to be added to a board-designated reserve to support increased general operating expenses associated with organizational expansion and new program development over the next 36 months.

  • University of Florida, Gainsville, FL

    $27,000 – Experiential Classroom 2018
    The award is in support of the Experiential Classroom Workshop, a clinic for college faculty who are relatively new to the teaching of entrepreneurship and the building of entrepreneurship programs. The grant will enable selected participants in the Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows Program to participate in the Workshop

Developmental Disabilities

  • Center for Independence through Conductive Education, Countryside, IL

    $122,000 - Teaching Together Chicago
    This award is to support development and expansion of the Teaching Together Chicago program, a collaboration to facilitate placement of adults with disabilities in internship positions as teacher’s aides, which lead to employment, by connecting social service agency clients with Chicago Catholic Schools.

  • Center for Independent Futures, Evanston, IL

    $117,185 – Enhancing Community Partnerships with Traditional Providers
    The award is to continue a prior-funded effort to engage individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, families and communities in the planning and implementation of alternative residential models. Building on earlier work, this project will focus on assisting providers of services in delivering alternative solutions to the individuals and families they serve.

  • Envision Unlimited, Chicago, IL

    $300,000 – Day Program Disaggregation and Community Hub Development
    The award is for support of a transformation of the agency's day treatment program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, changing from a large-setting, segregated model to a smaller-setting, community integrated model that enables clients to build more self-directed and fulfilling lives as active and engaged members of their community.

  • Jewish Child & Family Services, Chicago, IL

    $150,000 – Residential Support of Adults with I/DD
    The award is to expand access to person-centered and community-based residential options for ten adults with I/DD with the opening of three new homes.

  • Neumann Family Services, Chicago, IL

    $100,000 – New Opportunity Center
    The award is for support of a new community-based program site to serve 50 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental illness. Services would deliver employment and healthcare programming through a clubhouse model.

  • RAMP, Inc., Rockford, IL

    $75,000 – Project SEARCH®
    The award is for Project SEARCH®, an initiative to be done in partnership with Mercyhealth Hospital and Belvidere School District #100 to prepare individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities for employment in the Rockford area.

  • Search, Inc., Chicago, IL

    $135,000 – Phase II of Career Services at the Planet Access Company
    The award is to continue a pilot program which identifies job roles for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in third-party logistics businesses. Participation by an academic partner will help to document the business case for employing this labor resource in this sector of the economy.

  • UCP Seguin of Greater Chicago, IL

    $250,000 – Independent Housing Opportunities through Mentoring and Partnerships
    The award funds a pilot effort to create a residential solution for four individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities which focuses on building independence and community integration through use of technology, natural supports and alternative staffing models.

Health & Rehabilitation

  • University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL

    $500,000 – Chicago South Side Asthma Center
    This matching grant award is to support the Chicago South Side Asthma Center for pediatrics. Four medical partners serving residents on the south side of Chicago will collaborate to develop and launch a multidimensional Asthma Center to: 1) provide comprehensive asthma care management, education and outreach for children and their families/caregivers and; 2) standardize education and treatment among asthma care providers based on best practices and lessons learned from local and national asthma providers.

  • Various Organizations, IL

    $441,500 to seven institutions (listed below) to support the Coleman Supportive Oncology Collaborative for Children with Cancer (CSOC-CC), Cycle 2.
    The Collaborative is designed to address and implement process improvements in supportive oncology service delivery. Hospital sites will collaborate to improve pediatric/adolescent supportive oncology; contribute to an understanding of pediatric/adolescent supportive oncology practices across Chicago; identify opportunities for improvement through shared tools and methods, and organizational improvements; and develop a long-term supportive oncology improvement plan directed at improving the quality of life of pediatric and adolescent patients.
    The seven institutions (at eight sites) will participate as Improvement/Implementation sites in the CSOC-CC, Cycle 2. They include:
    • Advocate Children's Hospital (two sites, Oak Lawn and Park Ridge)
    • Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital
    • Loyola University Medical Center
    • Rush University Children's Hospital
    • Stroger Hospital of Cook County
    • University of Chicago - Comer Children's Hospital
    • University of Illinois Health System

  • Center for Independence through Conductive Education, Countryside, IL

    $163,000 – Southside Chicago Conductive Education Center
    This award is to support startup and implementation of the Conductive Education program at a fourth site to serve children and young adults with physical disabilities living in the south and southwest corridor of Chicago. The other three sites are located in Countryside, Chicago, and Lake Zurich.

Public Affairs / Society Benefit

  • Forefront, Chicago, IL

    $130,000 – #ILGive
    The award is to advance the #ILGive campaign, comprised of multiple fundraising events across the year as well as capacity building trainings to help nonprofits gain necessary skills to increase individual philanthropic support.

 
 
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