ECF’s 2012-13 Responsive Grant applications are in! 61 organizations have requested a grand total of $622,549. This is the grant program that Dance Marathon proceeds help support, and in which DM leadership takes an active role as members of our Grants Committee. (Mercifully, the selection process really gears up after weekend-of!) Save the date: the big event announcing [...]
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Focus on ECF: Nurturing new leaders
We’re Here for Good Leadership Strong communities need strong leadership. The visionaries who started the Foundation saw a future where leaders from diverse Evanston communities worked together. They created Leadership Evanston to make that happen. This year’s signature Leadership Evanston class is our 20th! More than 500 people have graduated. 77% of them still live and/or [...]
Focus on ECF: At the heart of Evanston’s economy
Did you know that nonprofits account for over half the jobs in Evanston? Or that 8 of 10 biggest employers are in the nonprofit or public sector? Nonprofits don’t just provide the safety net of our community – economically speaking they are woven into its fabric. Nonprofits contribute mightily to civic, cultural and economic life in [...]
Focus on ECF: “Every child ready for kindergarten”
ECF Is Giving All Our Kids a Strong Start The achievement gap between low-income students and their more affluent peers has troubled Evanston’s schools for years. Under a challenge from the Grand Victoria Foundation’s Communityworks initiative, in 2003, The Evanston Community Foundation convened Evanston residents seeking solutions and launched Every child ready for kindergarten, Every youth ready for work. [...]
Announcing our 2011 spring responsive grants — a record $200,500!
Last week we had the great privilege of announcing the recipients of Evanston Community Foundation’s 2011 Responsive Grants. Though it’s just a fraction of our annual grantmaking, which in turn is just one element of our mission, this spring funding cycle is our original—dating to 1987—and probably still our best-known grants program. We believe its reach [...]
ECF and NU: key partners in two community collaborations
“We are Evanston; those who came before and laid the initial foundation, those who were born here and those who came from far and near – all of us will leave our mark for those who will follow.” – from Conversations: Here and Now by Indira Freitas Johnson Although we’re best known for making grants to [...]
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The state budget crisis has hit many nonprofit organizations hard, especially those that depend heavily on public funds in order to meet basic human needs. The Chicago Tribune reported recently that Illinois ranks dead worst in the rate of late payments to nonprofit human service providers, and behind only two other states in failing to make the full [...]
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