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2024 Grant Listing

 

United States

Chicago, IL

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Adoption Center of Illinois

$7,500.00

 

ACI is an Illinois licensed adoption agency that has been providing adoption services throughout Illinois for over 35 years. To date, we have helped thousands of families come together through adoption. We are proud to provide comprehensive adoption services. Those services include domestic infant and agency-assisted adoptions; domestic home studies; outgoing adoption services; international home studies; adoption from foster care; and primary provider services.

 

Amate House

$1,000

 

Amate House’s mission is to develop young adult leaders into life-long social justice advocates who serve their communities while deepening their faith.

 

Bonaventure House

$2,500

 

Located near Illinois Masonic Medical Center and a member of the Ascension’s Health and Housing Alliance, Bonaventure House provides transitional and permanent supportive housing  for persons with HIV/AIDS who are in recovery and have experienced homelessness.

 

Breakthrough Urban Ministries 

$2,000

 

Breakthrough is a faith-based, non-profit organization that partners with people to build connections, develop skills, and open doors of opportunity. With a hyperlocal focus in Garfield Park, Breakthrough provides a myriad of services focused on a profoundly simple formula: people first.

 

Care for Friends

$3,500

 

Care for Friends provides fundamental food, clothing and healthcare programs for individuals in Chicago experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Their “no questions asked” policy removes the most common barriers to assistance and allows them to connect service providers with their guests. As a community hub, the trust and relationships they create with their guests help them build pathways out of homelessness. 

 

Chicago Jesuit Academy 

$117,500

Solar Funding: $398,898

 

Chicago Jesuit Academy is a loving and academically rigorous tuition-free Catholic elementary school for students and families from resilient communities impacted by historical disinvestment. They accompany their students and alumni from enrollment through the start of their careers as they develop their gifts and grow as men and women for others.

 

Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep 

Solar Funding: $996,047

 

Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep, a Catholic learning community, empowers young people of limited economic means to become men and women of faith, purpose and service. Through a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, integrated with a relevant work study experience, students graduate ready to succeed in college and in life.

 

Family Matters

$3,000

 

Family Matters partners with youth, families, and communities to cultivate a way of living in the world that develops strong relationships, meaningful communication, and safe environments  for courageous social change. They seek to build an equitable society for all.

 

Christ the King Jesuit College Prep 

Solar Funding: $839,102

 

Christ the King Jesuit College Prep, a Catholic school on Chicago’s West Side and a member of the Cristo Rey Network, challenges and inspires its young women and men through the integration of academics, work experience, and extracurricular activities to lead lives of integrity, faith, and servant leadership for the greater glory of God.

 

Franciscan Outreach

$3,500

 

Franciscan Outreach provides healthy meals, safe shelter and critical services that affirm the dignity of men and women who are marginalized and homeless and empower them to gain the stability they need to transition into permanent housing.

 

Growing Home

$5,000

 

Inspiring healthy living, economic opportunity, and community empowerment in Englewood, Growing Home believes everyone deserves to have a good job and everyone deserves to eat well.

 

Ignite

$3,000

 

Ignite stands with youth who are experiencing homelessness on their journey to a home and a future with promise.

 

Josephinum Academy of the Sacred Heart

$17,500

 

Josephinum Academy of the Sacred Heart offers a world-class approach to academic excellence combined with holistic, moral, and spiritual development in a college-preparatory environment at an affordable price to all girls in the heart of Chicago.

 

La Casa Norte

$1,000

 

La Casa Norte empowers youth and families, transforming communities through 21 years of service. La Casa Norte's mission is to serve youth and families confronting homelessness. They provide access to stable housing and deliver comprehensive services that act as a catalyst to transform lives and communities.

 

Lincoln Park Community Services

$2,500

 

LPCS brings communities together to empower individuals facing homelessness and poverty to secure stable housing and make sustainable life changes.

 

Loyola University | School of Nursing

$2,500

 

Each year, five million people make the pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, where a young Catholic peasant girl named Bernadette had visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858. The site is home to a spring believed to heal those who bathed in its water.  These pilgrimages could not be possible without the help of volunteers that assist the travelers — among them, Loyola’s own nursing students. On this trip, sophomore, junior or senior nursing students care for people from around the world who come to Lourdes to participate in the religious ritual of bathing in the healing waters of Lourdes.

 

Our Lady of Tepeyac High School

$10,000

 

Our Lady of Tepeyac High School is a Roman Catholic girls’ secondary school deeply rooted in the Little Village neighborhood that provides a multicultural educational experience, developing each young woman to her full intellectual and spiritual potential in an environment that values learning, linked to faith, family and community.

 

ReVive Center for Housing and Healing

$2,500

 

ReVive is a Chicago non-profit that meets people experiencing homelessness where they are, and expertly connects them with food, housing, income, healthcare, and community. They help people change their lives and end the cycle of homelessness.

 

San Miguel School

$5,000

 

The mission of San Miguel School is to transform the lives of its students, their families and communities through education, by touching hearts and inspiring minds.

 

St. Leonard’s Ministries

$2,000

 

Saint Leonard’s empowers formerly incarcerated men and women to lead whole and productive lives.

 

St. Nicholas Cathedral School

$10,000

 

The mission of St. Nicholas Cathedral School is to provide a unique learning environment where academic excellence and traditional values are affirmed and imparted. The school fosters a strong foundation of knowledge that encourages curiosity, inspires success, nurtures self-esteem, and builds character and discipline. We help students develop Catholic values, a respect for the individual cultural heritage, and community pride.

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The Boulevard

$3,500

 

The Boulevard of Chicago provides high quality, cost-effective medical respite care, holistic support and housing services to help ill and injured homeless adults break the cycle of homelessness, restore their health and rebuild their lives.

 

The Harbour

$3,000

 

The Harbour offers immediate, stable and safe housing to homeless young people and young mothers with children. Every day they provide nutritious meals; services and support for continued education and employment; and individual counseling to help break the cycle of homelessness.

 

The Night Ministry

$2,000

 

The Night Ministry is a Chicago-based organization whose mission is to provide human connection, housing support, and health care to members of our community who are unhoused or experiencing poverty.

 

YWCA Evanston/North Shore

$1,500

 

YWCA Evanston/North Shore is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. 

 

Everything we do is based on the belief that all women have the right to be safe and choose the direction of their lives. 

 

Our programs address the fact that far too many women experience violence, and lack economic security, and these issues disproportionately impact women of color. If we want to empower all women, we must also tackle racism. 

 

When all women are able to reach their full potential, our communities thrive. 

 

Africa

 

Kiwimbi International

Kenya

$5,000

 

Kiwimbi is a Swahili word meaning “ripple” or “small wave.” We see a world where all people are empowered through education to enrich their lives and reach their fullest potential. To achieve this vision, our mission is to partner with underserved communities to create educational opportunities through locally run libraries and community learning centers.

 

Caravan to Class

Mali

$5,000

 

Caravan to Class brings together the needs of children in villages in Africa, the hope and desires of their parents, the responsibility of the elders of the villages, the administrative capability of our partner non-governmental organizations, and our supporters to advance the cause of literacy in one of Africa’s most historically significant places.

 

Inkululeko

South Africa

$3,500

 

Inkululeko’s mission is to provide South African township youth with the skills, support and guidance necessary to apply, attend and succeed in university; to challenge the bigotry of low expectations for township youth; and to provide sustainable, positive change; student by student, generation by generation

 

Asia

 

Sunsar Maya

Nepal

$3,500

 

Sunsar Maya's mission is to help vulnerable women and children in Nepal build pathways out of poverty through holistic, community-based programs that promote education, mental health, and physical wellbeing. 

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Caribbean

 

Healing Arts Mission

Haiti

$3,500

 

Since 1999, Healing Art Missions has helped support the people of Haiti. Their focus is to provide partnership and funding to rural communities that lack access to basic resources, such as healthcare, education, employment, and clean drinking water. The lack of these resources creates the condition of structural poverty. HAM aspires to support Haitians by helping connect them with access to these fundamental human rights.

 

l'Ecole de Choix

Haiti

$3,000

 

From 2011 through 2024, the School of Choice / L'Ecole de Choix served Haiti through its high-quality elementary school and graduate education program for students in grades 1 through 13. 

 

While we graduated our final class of 6th graders in Summer 2024, we continue to provide this high quality leadership development education to young adults living in Haiti’s extreme conditions of poverty through our continuing academic excellence program for our Choix graduates, in service of our mission.

 

St. Elizabeth Basic School

Jamaica

$2,000

 

Saint Elizabeth’s Basic school introduces little children to the basics of math, reading and writing in a Christian setting. The dedicated principal and teaching staff encourage these youngsters to desire to learn new things and dream of possibilities for the future. The school provides the little ones with lunch each day.

 

Unlocking Communities

Haiti

$5,000 (2023 & 2024 grants)

 

Our Mission: To empower individuals and communities in Haiti to unlock their economic potential through entrepreneurial ventures. 

 

Our Vision: Putting economic power in the hands of Haitians to create an environment of self-respect and sustainability throughout communities in Haiti. 

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Central America

 

Central Honduran Education Fund

Honduras

$3,000

 

Empowering Hondurans through educational and leadership opportunities to grow as self-sufficient change makers in their communities

 

Centro Arte para la Paz/Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth

El Salvador

$4,000

 

The Center is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity St. Elizabeth and its mission is to create a culture of peace through the arts, promoting creativity, imagination and cultural exchange with the participation of children, youth and adults of Suchitoto, El Salvador and the surrounding communities.

 

Colegio Santa Elizabeth Seton/Sisters of Charity of New York

Guatemala

$1,000

 

Saint Elizabeth Seton Catholic School dedicated to the holistic and excellent education of students, focusing on the gospel of Jesus and the Setonian tradition

 

Cooperative for Education

Guatemala

$2,500

 

Cooperative for Education is dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education. Their educational programs strive to address the root causes of poverty in Guatemala, rather than merely treating its symptoms.

 

Gracia, Inc.

Guatemala

$5,000

 

Gracia’s mission is to economically empower young women in Guatemala. Economic Empowerment means young women are able to earn income, become financially literate, live independently, and stand up for themselves.

 

Nicaraguan Education Resource Center

Nicaragua

$5,000

 

CREA elevates Nicaraguans and their communities through literacy and learning.

 

Olancho Aid Foundation

Honduras

$2,000

 

The Olancho Aid Foundation is creating an economically sustainable community in Olancho Honduras that provides families an opportunity to stay well, stay together and an option to stay at home.  The Foundation accomplishes it’s work through a partnership with the Catholic Diocese of Juticalpa. It focuses on issues such as climate instability, education and access to clean water. 

 

Paramedics for Children

Honduras

$10,600 (2023 & 2024 grants)

 

Paramedics for Children International (PFCI) provides medical care, education programs, and disaster relief to children, families, and communities in Central America and beyond. They serve without regard to religious beliefs, gender, race, or ethnic background.

 

Un Mundo

Honduras

$4,000

 

Un Mundo is a not-for-profit organization that promotes dignity, community and self-sufficiency, facilitating access to education, health services and sustainable livelihoods amongst populations with scarce economic resources in the Cangrejal River watershed of northern Honduras. 

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International

 

Concern America

$3,500

 

We are an international organization led by the community. We work alongside community members, building upon their own knowledge and experiences so that they themselves become their own health care providers, engineers, teachers, and cooperative business members.

 

Franciscans for the World

$2,500

 

Franciscans For The World is a religious organization organized exclusively for charitable purposes to support and fund Franciscan missionary causes throughout the world through the generous help of benefactors.

 

Kino Border Initiative

$10,000

 

KBI’s mission is to promote humane, just and workable migration through:

 

• • Direct humanitarian assistance and holistic accompaniment of migrants

  • Education and encounter between migrants and others that transforms people and communities towards solidarity with migrants

  • Policy advocacy in Mexico and the US

 

Pedals 4 Progress

$3,500

 

The mission of Pedals 4 Progress is to empower sustainable economic development by recycling bicycles and sewing machines from the U.S. and shipping them to motivated people  in the developing world.

 

Spark Ventures 

$8,000

Solar Funding: $13,000

 

The mission of Spark Ventures is to provide sustainable solutions that lift communities out of poverty and empower future leaders. They do this by directing human and financial capital via sub-grants and strategic guidance to grassroots partners around the world who provide health, education, and social enterprise. By focusing their resources in areas of capacity building, business development and job creation, they seek to have a lasting and sustainable impact.

 

Strategies for International Development

$2,500

 

Strategies for International Development helps poor farmers graduate from poverty by helping them build successful farm businesses that increase their income. This includes conserving the natural resources upon which their agro-businesses depend and helping women play an equal role in building these businesses. 

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South America

 

Carmen Pampa Fund

Bolivia

$3,500

 

Carmen Pampa Fund generates financial and human resources to assist the growth and development of the Unidad Academica Campesina - Carmen Pampa (UAC-CP), a college serving impoverished rural families of Bolivia through education, research, production, and community projects.

 

Sacred Valley Health

Peru

$3,500

 

Sacred Valley Health is a community-based, public health non-profit formed in 2012 to improve access to healthcare in remote communities of Peru’s Sacred Valley. Our core purpose is to improve the health and well-being of these underserved, marginalized communities through a community health worker program that empowers local women with education, resources, professional development, and economic opportunities.

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