Community & Economic Development

Recent Grants

Practice
Research Communication, and Documentation

Practice

Number of Grants: 42

After School Matters (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 to support of out-of-school programs. (2009)

After School Matters (Chicago, Illinois)
$600,000 to support youth development programs in 16 neighborhoods in Chicago (over three years). (2009)

Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$110,000 to support playing a lead role in coordinating the Digital Excellence Demonstration Community program in the Humboldt Park community (over 15 months). (2009)

Center for Polytechnical Education (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to fund the incubation phase of the Chicago Academy for Advanced Technology. (2009)

Chicago Community Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,000,000 in support of the Smart Chicago Trust Fund (over four years). (2010)

Chicago Community Trust (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of the Unity Challenge 2010. (2010)

Chicago Project for Violence Prevention (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 to support the CeaseFire gang intervention initiative (over two years). (2011)

Chicago Project for Violence Prevention (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of the CeaseFire gang intervention initiative (over two years). (2009)

City University of New York (New York, New York)
$600,000 in support of the Chicago Violence Reduction Initiative. (2011)

City University of New York (New York, New York)
$375,500 to support the National Network for Safe Communities (over three years). (2009)

Civic Consulting Alliance (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to support an inventory of anti-violence programs in Chicago. (2010)

Credit Builders Alliance (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to provide training and technical assistance to financial counselors as part of the Foreclosure Prevention and Mitigation Project (over two years). (2010)

Economic Mobility Corporation (New York, New York)
$200,000 to assess 12 Centers for Working Families in Chicago (over two years). (2009)

Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$170,000 in support of staffing for the Digital Excellence Demonstration Community program (over two years). (2009)

Greater Southwest Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 to support foreclosure prevention efforts in Southwest Chicago neighborhoods (over two years). (2009)

Harvard University Department of Sociology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$250,000 in support of loan modification experiments designed to reduce the incidence of home foreclosures. (2009)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$255,000 to enhance technology capacity in five New Communities Program neighborhoods in Chicago. (2011)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$225,000 in support of summer youth programs to reduce violence in Chicago. (2011)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 to conduct exploratory activities related to economic development in Chicago neighborhoods. (2011)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$455,000 to support violence reduction efforts in a Chicago neighborhood. (2010)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 to support business and industrial area planning for neighborhoods in the New Communities Program. (2010)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,050,000 to support the Centers for Working Families in Chicago. (2010)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$370,000 in support of the New Communities Program. (2009)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,000,000 to support the Centers for Working Families. (2009)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 to support foreclosure prevention activities in 16 New Communities Program neighborhoods in Chicago. (2009)

MDRC (New York, New York)
$250,000 in support of general operations. (2009)

Metro Chicago Information Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 to track the performance of the Foreclosure Prevention and Mitigation Project. (2009)

Metropolis Strategies (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 to conduct exploratory activities related to economic development in the Chicago Metropolitan area. (2011)

Metropolis Strategies (Chicago, Illinois)
$180,000 in support of the Regional Economy Initiative. (2010)

National Community Stabilization Trust (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 to support REOMatch, a national web-based clearinghouse for the disposition of foreclosed properties. (2010)

National Skills Coalition (Washington, D.C.)
$75,000 to support the Bridging Community and Workforce Development Policy project. (2011)

Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 to support strategic planning and efforts to address the negative effects of foreclosure on low- and moderate-income communities in Chicago. (2010)

Public / Private Ventures (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$35,000 to support a literature review/practice scan and program recommendations for the Chicago Public Schools Violence Prevention Middle Grades Initiative. (2010)

RAND (Washington, D.C.)
$245,000 to research police misconduct complaints in Chicago (over 18 months). (2010)

Resurrection Project (Chicago, Illinois)
$170,000 in support of staffing for the Digital Excellence Demonstration Community program (over two years). (2009)

Spanish Coalition for Housing (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 to support foreclosure prevention counseling in Chicago neighborhoods. (2010)

University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Urban Economic Development (Chicago, Illinois)
$93,000 in support of research to inform a neighborhood-based employment strategy in Chicago. (2011)

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (Chicago, Illinois)
$185,000 to evaluate foreclosed property reclamation efforts in Chicago neighborhoods (over three years). (2010)

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 to research SmartChicago, a program to extend Internet access in five Chicago neighborhoods (over four years). (2009)

Woodstock Institute (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 to collect and analyze data and to provide technical assistance as part of the Foreclosure Prevention and Mitigation Project (over two years). (2010)

World Sport Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 in support of summer youth sports programs to reduce violence in Chicago. (2011)

World Sport Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$900,000 in support of The World Sport Chicago Scholars Program (over five years). (2009)

Research, Communication, and Documentation

Number of Grants: 12

City University of New York (New York, New York)
$500,000 to support a police reform demonstration project in Chicago. (2009)

Economic Mobility Corporation (New York, New York)
$150,000 to evaluate a neighborhood employment program. (2011)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$291,000 to support a more fair and equitable property tax assessment system in Cook County, Illinois. (2010)

MDRC (New York, New York)
$2,800,000 to fund a comprehensive evaluation of the New Communities Program (over four years). (2009)

Safer Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 to support Safer Return, a prisoner reentry demonstration in Chicago's Garfield Park neighborhood (over two years). (2011)

University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$70,000 to assemble, prepare, and analyze baseline data needed to evaluate the Chicago Elev8 program. (2009)

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 to provide guidance on evaluation of information technology programs. (2011)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$500,000 to evaluate the Chicago Violence Reduction Strategy. (2011)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$132,000 to evaluate and conduct a cost-benefit analysis of Safer Return, a prisoner reentry demonstration in Chicago (over twenty-seven months). (2011)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000 in support of a book on neighborhood indicators. (2010)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$395,000 in support of the National Neighborhood Indicator Partnership (over two years). (2010)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$650,000 to support the evaluation and cost-benefit analysis of Safer Return, a prisoner reentry demonstration in Chicago. (2009)