Funding News

The Chicago Bar Association (CBA) has long provided general operating support to Equip for Equality, and in 2004 it granted another $2,500. This year, CBA, through its Emerging Issues Grant, provided an additional $20,000 to the Special Education Advocacy Clinic, seed money to begin planning and phasing in this new initiative that will address the advocacy needs of parents of children in special education programs. Equip for Equality needs to raise several hundredthousand dollars for the clinic's operation.

Initial three-year funding from seed grants for the Training Institute (from Chicago Community Trust (CCT), the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation and the Polk Bros. Foundation) is drawing to a close. While the Fry Foundation and CCT have a three-year limit on single-project funding, the Polk Bros. Foundation is continuing its support with a $40,000 grant for the project manager's salary and ongoing Institute programming.

In addition to the Polk Bros. Foundation's support for the Training Institute, Chicago Tribune Charities provided a $17,000 grant, and the Northern Trust Charitable Trust granted $5,000.

The Chicago Community Trust, through its Management and Organizational Development Grant program, is supporting Equip for Equality's strategic planning process with an $8,000 grant to fund a consultant who is helping the organization develop a five-year plan. Another program in the CCT, the Chicago Area Legal Services Foundation, has provided a second year of funding for the Latinos with Disabilities Advocacy Project through a $10,000 grant.

Alphawood Foundation has continued its ongoing operational support of Equip for Equality with a $7,500 grant.

Equip for Equality thanks all of its current foundation funders, who make so many of our programs possible.

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