Special Grants
Grants Awarded
| Year | Organization and Summary | Amount | Location | Description | |
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| 2024 | Lake County Regional Office of Education Foundation | $30,000 | Vernon Hills, IL |
This one-time grant to the Schuler Scholars Emergency Fund at the Lake County Regional Office of Education will support the nearly 550 current college students who lost scholarship funding when the Schuler Education Foundation abruptly ended its longstanding scholarship program. The funds would help cover tuition gaps, room and board, health insurance, and other emergency expenses for these students. |
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| 2024 | Jane Does Well | $4,000 | Wellesley, MA |
This grant is given in honor of Jennifer Stone |
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| 2024 | Pan-Mass Challenge | $6,000 | Needham, MA |
This grant is given in honor of Jennifer Stone |
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| 2024 | Pathways Foundation | $10,000 | Chicago, IL |
This grant is given in honor of Michael Conway. |
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| 2024 | Lawrence Hall | $80,000 | Chicago, IL |
Lawrence Hall is partnering with Chapin Hall to utilize a comprehensive literature review to inform and validate our ongoing approach to foster care services for our LGBTQ+ Young Adults. Through this process, if better practices are identified, we will incorporate those into our model and we will continue those identified as good. Our ultimate goal is to create a program model that can be replicated by other service providers across the country to positively impact the lives of LGBTQ+ Young Adults. |
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| 2023 | Community Justice | $80,000 | San Francisco, CA |
This grant allows the Foundation to support community violence prevention and respond to the critical issue of community violence, an issue that has impact on each of the Foundation’s geographies and priority populations — including youth and families — and the issues focused on through the Foundation’s grantmaking – including mental health, school safety and completion, and juvenile justice. |
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| 2023 | Accelerate Institute | $10,000 | Chicago, IL |
This grant is given in honor of Michael Conway. |
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| 2022 | Lamb’s Farm | $10,000 | Libertyville, IL |
This gift is given in honor of W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone and the 100th Anniversary of Combined Insurance. |
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| 2022 | One Roof Chicago | $10,000 | Chicago, IL |
This general operating grant is made by the Board of Trustees in honor of the service of Pamela Calvert on her retirement. |
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| 2022 | Capita Social Inc | $80,000 | Greenville, SC |
This grant allows the Foundation to address the timely issues of the environment, which impacts all issue areas funded by the Foundation, by supporting current early childhood grantees in a project that brings together experts in environment and early childhood to mobilize the early childhood sector to advance solutions to the environmental issues we face. |
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| 2022 | Accelerate Institute | $10,000 | Chicago, IL |
This grant is awarded in honor of Michael Conway. |