Community & Economic Development

Recent Grants

Practice
Research Communication, and Documentation

Practice

Number of Grants: 34

After School Matters (Chicago, Illinois)
$600,000 in support of youth development programs in 16 neighborhoods in Chicago (over three years). (2006)

Center for Economic Progress (Chicago, Illinois)
$2,000,000 to deliver tax counseling, financial education, and other income support and asset-building to working families in 16 neighborhoods that participate in the LISC New Communities Program (over five years). (2008)

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

Center for Responsible Lending (Durham, North Carolina)
$500,000 in support of research, policy analysis, and public education to curb predatory lending and to advance a comprehensive home foreclosure prevention and mitigation initiative in the City of Chicago (over two years). (2008)

City of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in support of professional services to help restructure and merge several Chicago departments. (2008)

City of Chicago, Department of Police (Chicago, Illinois)
$850,000 in support of the design and testing of public-access components of a data management system (over two years). (2006)

Civic Consulting Alliance (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 in support of training and technical assistance for community development practitioners. (2007)

Civic Consulting Alliance (Chicago, Illinois)
$150,000 in support of training and technical assistance for community development practitioners (over six months). (2006)

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)
$626,000 to support a comprehensive program to limit the extent of foreclosure in a New Communities Program neighborhood in Chicago under the Foreclosure Prevention and Mitigation Project. (2008)

Housing Partnership Network (Boston, Massachusetts)
$250,000 in support of research and development for a new national fund to acquire and dispose of foreclosed homes. (2008)

Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing (Chicago, Illinois)
$398,500 to provide legal representation for tenants of foreclosed properties as part of the Foreclosure Prevention and Mitigation Project (over two years). (2008)

Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$400,000 in support of the Home Ownership Preservation Project to provide legal assistance to borrowers seeking to avoid foreclosure in New Communities Program and other Chicago neighborhoods under the Foreclosure Prevention and Mitigation Project (over two years). (2008)

Living Cities: National Community Development Initiative (New York, New York)
$2,250,000 in support of community development projects in 23 cities, data collection and analysis of urban markets, and public policy initiatives to strengthen cities and regions (over three years). (2007)

Living Cities: National Community Development Initiative (New York, New York)
$200,000 in support of program expansion and the continued development of the Living Cities Policy Series. (2006)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of foreclosure prevention efforts in New Communities Program neighborhoods. (2008)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of MetroEdge projects in the City of Chicago (over two years). (2008)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York, New York)
$4,000,000 in support of the Sustainable Communities Program, which uses Chicago's New Communities Program as a model for comprehensive community revitalization efforts in ten U.S. cities (over four years). (2007)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$26,000,000 in support of the New Communities Program (over five years). (2007)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$3,000,000 in support of operating Centers for Working Families in 13 neighborhoods in Chicago (over three years). (2006)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$50,000 in support of a conference on new approaches to increasing the economic security of low-wage workers (over six months). (2006)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,600 in support of community participation in the design and testing of Internet tools for community policing. (2006)

MB Financial Charitable Foundation (Rosemont, Illinois)
$250,000 to provide technical assistance to financial institutions and public agencies developing foreclosure mitigation products and strategies. (2008)

Metro Chicago Information Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$75,000 to develop measures of performance of the Foundation's Foreclosure Prevention and Mitigation Project grantees. (2008)

National Center for Victims of Crime (Washington, D.C.)
$50,000 to complete production of the report of a national panel on technology as a community engagement tool for crime prevention. (2007)

National Center for Victims of Crime (Washington, D.C.)
$62,000 in support of a national panel on technology as a community engagement tool for crime prevention (over six months). (2006)

Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
$2,500,000 in support of public education and counseling to prevent foreclosure in New Communities Program and other neighborhoods in Chicago as part of the Foreclosure Prevention and Mitigation Project (over two years). (2008)

Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (Chicago, Illinois)
$600,000 in support of the Full Circle community mapping and planning project (over three years). (2006)

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

Safer Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$5,000,000 in support for implementation of Safer Return, a prisoner reentry demonstration in Chicago's Garfield Park neighborhood (over four years). (2007)

Spanish Coalition for Housing (Chicago, Illinois)
$500,000 in support of foreclosure prevention counseling in Chicago neighborhoods (over two years). (2008)

University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Criminal Justice (Chicago, Illinois)
$97,000 in support of an evaluation of community participation in the design and use of web-enabled tools to improve citizen/police relations and improve neighborhood safety. (2006)

University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa)
$72,000 in support of the Chicago Digital Excellence Study: Survey and Analysis project. (2008)

Woodstock Institute (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 to develop an expanded database on foreclosure filings and completions in Chicago neighborhoods (over two years). (2008)

Research, Communication, and Documentation

Number of Grants: 7

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 to develop a web-based social networking application targeting community development professionals. (2007)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (New York, New York)
$750,000 in support of the acquisition and development of MetroEdge, a market research initiative to help stimulate retail and commercial development in underinvested urban neighborhoods (over three years). (2006)

Metro Chicago Information Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,300,000 to support operation of a neighborhood indicator database in Chicago (over four years). (2008)

University of Illinois at Chicago, City Design Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$100,000 in support of research on housing demand in rapidly changing Chicago neighborhoods. (2007)

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)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$395,000 to support the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (over two years). (2008)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$1,500,000 in support of an evaluation and cost-benefit analysis of Safer Return, a prisoner reentry demonstration in Chicago (over three years). (2007)