2024 Grants
Healthy Water
Alliance for the Great Lakes: For general operating support
Center for Neighborhood Technology: For the Civic Innovation Hub
Clean Wisconsin: For its water programs
Cleveland Water Alliance: For water technology innovation
Current: To accelerate water technologies in Lake Michigan
Delta Institute: For the Soil Health and Farmland Valuation project
Ecology Center: For the PFAS Action Network
Environmental Law & Policy Center: To protect the Great Lakes from algae blooms and other pollutants and to oppose a toxic dredge dump along the Lake Michigan shoreline
FLOW (For Love of Water): To support Line 5 advocacy
Freshwater Future: For general operating support and re-granting to grassroots social justice environmental groups
Friends of the Chicago River: For the Greater Chicago Watershed Alliance
Metropolitan Planning Council: To support its Water Action Agenda
Midwest Environmental Advocates: For The People’s Law Project
Milwaukee Water Commons: For general operating support
National Wildlife Federation - Great Lakes Regional Center: To support the Healing Our Waters Coalition
River Alliance of Wisconsin: For its coalition building and policy agenda
Safe & Sound: For the Take Back My Meds coalition
Save the Dunes Conservation Fund: To implement the Northwest Indiana Lake Michigan Water Pollution Prevention Plan
Southeastern WI Watersheds Trust: To support the leaf management phosphorous reduction pilot
The Nature Conservancy in Illinois: For StormStorm
Windward Fund: For the Daybreak funder collaborative
Strengthening Learning Communities for Equity
Advance Illinois: For Advancing the Education Leadership Pipeline
Chalkbeat: For Chalkbeat Chicago
Leading Educators: To support efforts to accelerate student learning and develop teacher leaders
Loyola University Chicago: For the Men of Math Fellowship
National Equity Project: To establish an equity-centered community of practice with CPS Network 16
National Louis University: For the Academy for Local Leadership Chicago Fellow
New Leaders: To develop equity-focused leaders in Chicago Public Schools
NewRoot Learning Institute: For general operations
New Teacher Center: For Equity Change Agents
Surge Institute: For the Chicago Surge Fellowship
Teach Plus: For the Equity Change Agent program
Teachers Supporting Teachers: For Impact Teams in Chicago Public Schools
The Chicago Public Education Fund: For general operations
The Cleveland Avenue Foundation: For the 1954 Project
University of Chicago Network For College Success: For the High School Leadership for Equity initiative
University of Chicago Urban Education Institute: In support of the To&Through Middle Grades Network, the Cultivate Framework in CPS, and the Chicago Consortium on School Research Leadership Council
