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 Community ImpactArts & Culture, Education and Environment Grants     May 17, 2012  
Arts & Culture, Education and Environment General Grants (Fall 2011) Minimize

Arts & Culture
 
   
College of DuPage Foundation
$15,000
To underwrite contract expenses of featured performers in the SchoolStage Series, a collection of curriculum-based performances targeted to students pre-k through 8th grade.  
   
DuPage Symphony Orchestra
 $3,500
To fund a promotional e-mail campaign, free admission for chamber music programs, honorariums for educational lecturers, concert hall rental, music purchases and musician fees.  
   
Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra Association
$2,500
To partially underwrite costs of a patriotic outdoor concert at Cantigny Park as part of a summer Symphony series.  
   
Fair Lady Productions, Inc.
$4,000
To purchase a wireless intercom system which allows backstage directors, lighting technicians and sound crew the ability to communicate during performances and rehearsals.  

Glen Ellyn-Wheaton Chorale
$2,000
To defray the costs of new music and the cost of performance permissions.  
   
Naper Settlement
$5,000
For financial assistance to enable schools which serve a high percentage of low-income children the opportunity to visit the outdoor history museum.  
   
One Voice - An Outreach Choir
$2,500
To fund scholarships, music purchases and the acquisition of a keyboard kit in support of the multi-generational teen outreach program.  
   
Salt Creek Ballet
$7,000
To support the Literacy through Dance program, a collaborative project with Westmont Community Unit School District 201.  
   
Senior Suburban Orchestra
$2,000
To fund outreach concerts to the musically underserved.
 
   
Spirito! Singers
$2,500
For general operating support of the Ragazze training ensemble for 5th-8th grade girls.  
 10 Grants      
$46,000
   
Education  

 
Assistance League of Chicagoland West
$2,500
To purchase English and bilingual children's books for 4-7 year olds to take home from school for continued enrichment.
 
   
CareNet Pregnancy Services of DuPage
$5,000
To fund a contract educator for the healthy relationship and pregnancy program offered at schools and in after-school programs.
 
   
Child's Voice School
$5,000
To support the school's Early Intervention Program which provides listening and spoken language services to young children with hearing loss.
 
   
Dare to Dream: Get Educated!
$2,500
To cover lunch costs for middle school Latinas and their mothers and the volunteers who participate in the annual Dare to Dream: Get Educated! conference which focuses on the value of higher education.  
   
DuPage Children's Museum
$7,500
To expand when Learning Comes into Play, a collaborative project with DuPage Head Start, Preschool for All and Pre-K at Risk programs, which are designed to nurture children's creativity and problem solving through integrated hands-on experiences.  
   
Educare of West DuPage
$15,000
To fund the purchase and installation of audio observation equipment in four classrooms and two observation rooms in its new West Chicago facility.  
   
Elmhurst College $7,500
To purchase supplies and equipment to support the STEM Education Outreach program to promote science, technology, engineering and math education.  
   
Elmhurst Heritage Foundation
$2,500
To establish a "Bus Fund" enabling children from DuPage schools the opportunity to visit the Churchville One-Room Schoolhouse for an all-day or half-day living history experience.  
   
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana
$5,004
To support the Healthy Living Initiative enabling 112 girls in Addison the opportunity to learn and develop skills which help them lead healthier lives.
 
   
Glen Ellyn Children's Resource Center
$7,500
To support the After School and Summer Literacy and Life Skills programs which develop English language, functional literacy and socialization skills.
 
   
KidsMatter
$4,500
To support the KidsMatter Student Job Fair which helps young students develop skills needed to succeed in the workforce.  
   
Kids Teen Rider
$2,500
To purchase fuel to transport kids and teens to and from the After School District 204 Enrichment Program.
 
   
Literacy DuPage
$5,000
Salary support for the customized tutoring programs which brings one-on-one tutoring to adult learners who need help learning to read, write, speak and understand English.
 
   
Robert Crown Center for Health Education
 $3,500
To support the implementation in West Chicago of Express Yourself!: A Girls Club, an after-school program designed to teach young girls self-esteem as they mature.
 
   
World Relief
$5,000
To partially fund After-School and Summer Enrichment Clubs for refugee children.
 
 15 Grants      
$80,504
   
Environment  
   
Churchville Middle School/Elmhurst District 205
$8,916
For supplies needed to transform an expanse of school property into an oak savanna.  
   
Clarendon Hills Park District
$2,500
To purchase plant materials and signage to enhance the wooded section of a newly acquired park district property.  
   
The Conservation Foundation
$15,000
To develop a final open space master plan of DuPage county to achieve a decades old vision of 20% open space, greenways and trails for people and wildlife.  
   
DuPage Environmental Summit
$2,000
For the 2012 Environmental Summit.  
   
District 181 Foundation
$2,500
To purchase educational materials focused on teaching sustainability as it relates to the water cycle.  
   
Fermilab Natural Areas
$7,500
For the restoration of a 35-acre degraded oak savanna.  
   
Morton Arboretum
$7,500
To support the Macgyver Program (Morton Arboretum Children's Garden Youth Volunteers) in which student volunteers are mentored to serve as Naturalists or Gardeners.  
 7 Grants      
$45,916
   
 Total Arts & Culture, Education and Environment Fall 2011 Grants:  32
$172,420
   
 

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