Community & Economic Development

Recent Grants

Practice
Research Communication, and Documentation

Practice

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 Economic Progress (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of implementing and documenting elements of a strategic plan (over two years). (2005)

Chicago Project for Violence Prevention (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,200,000 to support efforts to reduce homicides and other violent crimes in Chicago neighborhoods (over four years). (2005)

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)

Council of State Governments, Eastern Regional Conference (New York, New York)
$45,000 in support of the planning, design, and initial implementation of the Illinois Reentry demonstration. (2005)

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)

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 Community 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)
$26,000,000 in support of the New Communities Program (over five years). (2007)

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)
$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)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Chicago, Illinois)
$70,000 in support of website development and training in content management for eight community organizations. (2005)

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)

National Center for Victims of Crime (Washington, D.C.)
$167,000 in support of a national panel on the ethical issues that may arise when using innovative technology to reduce crime and improve neighborhood safety (over nine months). (2005)

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)

Neighborhood Safety Initiative (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of a Neighborhood Safety Initiative. (2005)

New York City Economic Development Corporation (New York, New York)
$300,000 in support of comprehensive revitalization efforts in three low-income neighborhoods in New York and exchange with Chicago (over two years). (2005)

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

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)

Safer Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$200,000 to design Safer Return, a prisoner reentry demonstration in Chicago and Illinois communities. (2005)

Safer Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$106,000 in support of a Reentry Demonstration planning effort. (2005)

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)

Urban Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000 to design an economic analysis and evaluation of Safer Return, a prisoner reentry demonstration in Chicago and Illinois communities. (2005)

Research, Communication, and Documentation

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)

MDRC (New York, New York)
$2,500,000 in support of a comprehensive program of evaluation research in community development (over three years). (2005)

Metro Chicago Information Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$900,000 in support of the assembly and analysis of data about Chicago neighborhoods (over three years). (2005)

Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (Chicago, Illinois)
$360,000 in support of efforts to make community and public data accessible to community organizations for the purposes of neighborhood revitalization (over two years). (2005)

OMG Center for Collaborative Learning (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$23,000 in support of final manuscript preparation of Anatomy of an Initiative that Worked, a manual for comprehensive community developers (over six months). (2005)

Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (Chicago, Illinois)
$42,000 in support of an analysis of the decline in crime in Chicago over the past decade. (2005)

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.)
$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)