INSTITUTO DEL PROGRESO LATINO $41,666 SPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING $42,000 GUARDIAN ANGEL COMMUNITY SERVICES $15,000 SOPHIA FUND FOR ADVOCACY ACCESS LIVING OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO $15,000 Mujer Avanzando provides a comprehensive system of integrated services in Career Development, Wealth Creation, Leadership, and Social Support Services to working Latinas in Chicago through a partnership between Instituto del Progreso Latino, Mujeres Latinas en Acción, and The Resurrection Project. ILLINOIS ACTION FOR CHILDREN $30,000 The Comprehensive Homeless Prevention Program works with participants of the Eleanor Network programs who have an immediate housing need. Spanish Coalition for Housing utilizes its network of landlords to identify potential housing solutions, including discussions with landlords regarding credit ratings and rental amounts. WOMEN EMPLOYED INSTITUTE $75,000 The Groundwork Domestic Violence Program (GDVP) and the Sexual Assault Services Center (SASC) serves victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Through the Hispanic Outreach Program (HOP), both GDVP and SASC reach out to Hispanic victims to provide crisis intervention, counseling, life-skills training, case management,referrals, and prevention education. HEALTH & DISABLILITY ADVOCATES $15,000 The New Empowered Fe Fe’s program strives to empower women and girls with disabilities to make decisions and become passionate, effective agents for systems change. Using hands-on advocacy training and creative expression, the program builds a sense of disability identity and pride. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES $7,500 Illinois Action for Children provides enhanced child care referral services to women enrolled in programs offered by the Eleanor Network at CFW grantees. JANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION $85,000 Complete the Degree is a collaborative effort to increase the number of low-income adults who have college credentials—including two-year degrees and certificates—of economic value. Through Complete the Degree, Women Employed intends to produce a long-term, substantial impact in Chicago by increasing the number of female college graduates in the area. YOUTH JOB CENTER OF EVANSTON $85,000 The Veterans Programs educates service providers and advocates through an ongoing series of six full-day Military Sexual Trauma (MST) training events. Health & Disability Advocates also works to identify and engage stakeholders to begin to build a coalition to tackle MST and other issues affecting a largely underserved female Veteran population. KOREAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES $15,000 Parents Organized to Win, Educate and Renew – Policy Action Council (POWER-PAC) is COFI’s cross-neighborhood leadership program which is a group of grassroots women who address the root causes of family poverty and strengthens economic security for low-income women and their children. ILLINOIS SAFE SCHOOLS ALLIANCE $20,000 The Women in Manufacturing Welding Program trains single low-income female heads of household to compete in high-paying, male-dominated trades through job training, workplace readiness, benefits screening, financial counseling and case management. KINZIE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION $125,000 The WILL program is a comprehensive, holistic approach to supporting young, working women move forward on their career path to economic self-sufficiency. The participants work with current employer and WILL job counselor to develop individualized employment plans. YWCA OF EVANSTON/NORTHSHORE $35,000 Kinzie Industrial Development Corporation provides an EMT training program with career pathways in the EMT/Paramedic/other medical fields through its relationship with Superior Ambulance Services. The primary focus of the EMT training program is to provide skills training, support during training and job placement assistance. THE LAW PROJECT $20,000 The Domestic Violence Prevention and Family Support Program provides survivors with crisis intervention and emergency assistance as well as skillbuilding to ensure long-term economic security. The organization also works to prevent abuse by conducting education and outreach efforts within immigrant communities, targeting Latina and Korean American women. KOREAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN NEED $25,000 The Alliance’s Youth Organizing & Leadership promotes the safety, suppport and healthy development of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth in Illinois schools and communities through advocacy, education, youth organizing and research. The programing strives to create systemic changes in schools/districts. LATINO UNION OF CHICAGO $7,500 The Women’s Economic Empowerment Program provides participants of the Eleanor Network programs with a community-based Basic Money Management program and topical on-hour workshops as needed. IRENE BAYRACH ANTI-VIOLENCE LEGACY FUND APNA GHAR $20,000 The Bilingual Domestic Violence Services program responds to Chicago-area Korean American and Asian American women and children experiencing domestic violence by offering comprehensive services and engaging in organizing, community outreach and education. LATINOS PROGRESANDO $15,000 The Law Project offers pro bono legal services that help women in Eleanor Network programs purchase their first home. METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION $25,000 The Latino Union collaborates with women day laborers, domestic workers, and other women workers to create just conditions in the workplace, home, and community. Its mission is accomplished by developing leadership from within the immigrant worker community, advancing feasible alternatives to the injustices immigrant workers face, and building the larger movement for immigrant worker rights. MIDWEST ACADEMY $20,000 MTO provides support to particpants of the Eleanor Network programs experiencing rental housing problems to help them stabilize their housing situation. PROJECT EXPLORATION $7,500 Apna Ghar (Our Home) provides culturally appropriate, multilingual services, including emergency shelter, to survivors of domestic violence with a primary focus on the South Asian and other immigrant communities. SARAH’S INN $20,000 The VAWA Project is part of Latinos Progresando’s flagship legal services program and focuses on immigrant victims of domestic violence, a population facing both unique and significant challenges. HAYMARKET CENTER $20,000 The Aging Justice Project is a yearlong intensive policy training program that will equip older women, their allies, and their organizations with the capacity to advocate successfully for policies that allow older women to age in place with dignity, economic security, and access to affordable health care. NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER $25,000, MULTI-YEAR GRANT The Services for Girls projects are science education programs designed specifically for girls. They merge research-based best practices for both youth development and science education into a model that engages girls and builds their capacity to pursue careers in science. SAINT ANTHONY HOSPITAL $36,000 The Supportive Services program provides comprehensive domestic violence services, in English and Spanish, to women in the western suburbs of Chicago. The services are offered at two satellite locations to reach Latina immigrant survivors (Partial funding provided by the General Fund). The Haymarket Center seeks to provide culturally competent health services to medically underserved pregnant and postpartum women and their children in residential and recovery home programs. MIDWEST ACCESS PROJECT $20,000 The Gender Justice Initiative is a program that seeks fundamental human rights protections for immigrant women, especially survivors of gender-based violence, persecution and trafficking, and detainees at risk of sexual abuse. SARGENT SHRIVER NATIONAL CENTER ON POVERTY LAW $10,000 THE GENERAL FUND GRANTEES BETWEEN FRIENDS $15,000 SAW 2.0 is a unique, holistic, employer-driven approach to career development that addresses the academic needs of Saint Anthony’s lowerwage employees as well as the social and emotional challenges they must overcome to be successful in a post-secondary educational setting. SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLAND’S FUTURE, FUTURE JOB SEEKERS PROGRAM $50,000 Between Friends provides counseling, court advocacy, a crisis line, a financial literacy program, case management, child care, and direct assistance to surviviors of domestic violence to help them rebuild their lives and move into safer and healthier situations. CENTRO ROMERO $20,000 Midwest Access Project seeks to expand women’s access to a full range of reproductive health services by training health care providers on abortion care, working to expand the network of trainers across the Midwest and educating the health care community and the general public. OPTIONS FOR YOUTH $15,000 The Women’s Law and Policy Project creates and advocates for public policies that advance economic justice and personal security for women and girls, particularly those living in poverty in Illinois. YOUTH OUTLOOK $15,000 Skills for Chicagoland’s Future connects unemployed job seekers with employers that are eager to hire. This approach provides job seekers with a direct pathway to employment by coordinating customized job training with employers and educational providers to equip job seekers with the skills that employers demand. SKILLS FOR CHICAGOLAND’S FUTURE $25,000 The Domestic Violence Project serves Latina survivors in the refugee immigrant population on Chicago’s northeast side, offering individual counseling, support groups, court advocacy and case management as well as training on finances and job skills. CHICAGO WOMEN’S HEALTH CENTER $25,000 The Subsequent Pregnancy Program focuses specifically on delaying a second pregnancy among teenage mothers. The program model connects young mothers with a with a Home Visitor and provides intensive health education and training. STORYCATCHERS THEATRE $15,000 Youth Outlook’s mission is to provide a safe, supportive, and respectful environment for adolescents, whether they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ). Youth Outlook is the only agency in the DuPage, Kane, and DeKalb counties dedicated to serving LGBTQ youth and improving the hostile institutional environments that they navigate daily (Partial funding provided by the General Fund). Skills for Chicagoland’s Future’s intensive six-month program centered on classroom training for women in one of the following growing areas: CISCO Networking; health information technology; Microsoft Certified Applications Specialist; Microsoft Certified Technology Specialit; Microsoft SharePoint; project management; social media and marketing; techinical sales; and web design and development. Women and transgender people receive gynecological care, alternative insemination, health education, acupuncture and counseling services in a respectful environment. The Center also engages in community outreach and education on women’s health in diverse communities. The Fabulous Females Program at the Illinois Youth Center (IYC)-Warrenville uses the performing arts to help incarcerated girls increase their capacity to make thoughtful life choices. The program serves as a gateway to therapy and has played an instrumental role in a gradual cultural shift at Warrenville. TEEN PARENT CONNECTION $15,000 The Doula Program empowers and supports pregnant teenage women in DuPage County through weekly home visits, education on pregnancy and childbirth, labor and postpartum support and connections to essential resources such as food, housing and medical care. 26 27