Chicago Foundation for Women
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Grants
16
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Total Awarded
$5,778,200
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Years
1987 - 2025
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Categories
Grants
2025 (3 years)
$265,000
Established in 1985, Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) promotes the safety, health, and economic vitality of women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals through grantmaking and leadership development. The CFW Women’s Leadership Development Initiative (WLDI) encompasses several programs that empower women as Chicago-area leaders. Board Member Boot Camp prepares them to serve effectively on nonprofit boards, and Media Training enhances their ability to craft and deliver compelling messages. Core Concepts Coaching brings together 15 organizations each year for individualized instruction in areas such as fundraising and financial management. The WDLI cohort-based programs support the personal and professional growth of women who lead movements for systems change. CFW works to recruit participants to its leadership programs from nonprofits with an emphasis on the arts, economic development, and/or community safety and violence prevention sectors.
This award provides general operating support to Chicago Foundation for Women as part of MacArthur’s Advancing Leadership program.
2022 (3 years)
$225,000
The Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) increases resources and opportunities for women and girls through grantmaking, leadership development, and public and grantee education. It serves as a central coordinating entity for individuals and institutions working to achieve gender equity in the Chicago area. CFW’s Women’s Leadership Development Initiative (WLDI) builds the leadership capacity of women who lead community-based organizations. This award supports the Willie’s Warriors Leadership Initiative at CFW, a part of its WLDI.
2020 ( 9 months)
$40,000
The Chicago Foundation for Women increases resources and opportunities for women and girls in the Chicago area through grantmaking, leadership development, and public and grantee education. It serves as the central coordinating entity for individuals and institutions working to achieve gender equity in the Chicago metropolitan area. This award enables the Chicago Foundation for Women to convene a series of webinars, coaching, and technical assistance opportunities in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
2017 (4 years)
$1,000,000
The Chicago Foundation for Women increases resources and opportunities for women and girls in the Chicago area through grantmaking, leadership development, and public and grantee education. It serves as the central coordinating entity for individuals and institutions working to achieve gender equity in the Chicago metropolitan area. This institutional support award enables the Chicago Foundation for Women to seed its endowment and strengthen its fundraising, evaluation, and communications capacities.
2005 (1 year)
$10,000
In support of the Eleanor Petersen Legacy Fund.
1996 (2 years)
$1,000,000
To launch an endowment campaign (over two years).
1995 (1 year)
$30,000
To support the participation of Chicago women in the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women.
1994 (1 year)
$190,000
To support the capacity-building plan.
1994 (5 years)
$1,625,000
To support the Women's Health Initiative (over five years).
1993 (1 year)
$95,000
To support the Women's Leadership Development Initiative.
1993 (1 year)
$50,000
To support research and planning activities designed to help increase the funding base and overall capacity.
1992 (1 year)
$4,700
A technical assistance grant to support media training workshops and the planning and coordination of an issues forum for media and grantees in the Women's Health Initiative.
1991 (1 year)
$3,500
To support attendance of Women's Leadership Development Initiative representatives at the Association for Women in Development's international conference, "Learning Together/Working Together: A South-North Dialogue."
1991 (1 year)
$975,000
To support the Women's Health Initiative (over three years).
1990 (1 year)
$225,000
To support the Women's Leadership Development Initiative (over three years).
1987 (1 year 1 month)
$40,000
To plan and develop a multiyear grantmaking and technical assistance initiative, Building Generations of Women's Leadership.
