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KLEO Community Family Life Center

Chicago, Illinois

Grants

2017 (1 year)
$215,000

Founded in 2007 in honor of a victim of domestic violence, and dedicated to eradicating all forms of violence, the K.L.E.O. Community Family Life Center (KLEO) serves 1,100 youths on Chicago's Southside. The organization operates five youth service programs that provide mentoring, job training, and educational services to residents in Chicago's Washington Park and South Shore neighborhoods. It is part of the City of Chicago’s One Summer Chicago program and the Mayor’s Mentoring Initiative. To strengthen its current programs and to provide a basis for expanding its services, the organization is embarking on efforts to improve its organizational infrastructure. With this award, KLEO repairs and enhances facilities; offers professional development training; adds capacity to offer science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programming; and creates a multi-media studio and corresponding programming.