Chicago Foundation for Women
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Grants
15
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Total Awarded
$5,513,200
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Years
1987 - 2022
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Categories
Grants
2022 (3 years)
$225,000
The Chicago Foundation for Women (CFW) increases resources and opportunities for women and girls through grantmaking, leadership development, and public and grantee education. It serves as a central coordinating entity for individuals and institutions working to achieve gender equity in the Chicago area. CFW’s Women’s Leadership Development Initiative (WLDI) builds the leadership capacity of women who lead community-based organizations. This award supports the Willie’s Warriors Leadership Initiative at CFW, a part of its WLDI.
2020 ( 9 months)
$40,000
The Chicago Foundation for Women increases resources and opportunities for women and girls in the Chicago area through grantmaking, leadership development, and public and grantee education. It serves as the central coordinating entity for individuals and institutions working to achieve gender equity in the Chicago metropolitan area. This award enables the Chicago Foundation for Women to convene a series of webinars, coaching, and technical assistance opportunities in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.
2017 (4 years)
$1,000,000
The Chicago Foundation for Women increases resources and opportunities for women and girls in the Chicago area through grantmaking, leadership development, and public and grantee education. It serves as the central coordinating entity for individuals and institutions working to achieve gender equity in the Chicago metropolitan area. This institutional support award enables the Chicago Foundation for Women to seed its endowment and strengthen its fundraising, evaluation, and communications capacities.
2005 (1 year)
$10,000
In support of the Eleanor Petersen Legacy Fund.
1996 (2 years)
$1,000,000
To launch an endowment campaign (over two years).
1995 (1 year)
$30,000
To support the participation of Chicago women in the UN's Fourth World Conference on Women.
1994 (1 year)
$190,000
To support the capacity-building plan.
1994 (5 years)
$1,625,000
To support the Women's Health Initiative (over five years).
1993 (1 year)
$95,000
To support the Women's Leadership Development Initiative.
1993 (1 year)
$50,000
To support research and planning activities designed to help increase the funding base and overall capacity.
1992 (1 year)
$4,700
A technical assistance grant to support media training workshops and the planning and coordination of an issues forum for media and grantees in the Women's Health Initiative.
1991 (1 year)
$3,500
To support attendance of Women's Leadership Development Initiative representatives at the Association for Women in Development's international conference, "Learning Together/Working Together: A South-North Dialogue."
1991 (1 year)
$975,000
To support the Women's Health Initiative (over three years).
1990 (1 year)
$225,000
To support the Women's Leadership Development Initiative (over three years).
1987 (1 year 1 month)
$40,000
To plan and develop a multiyear grantmaking and technical assistance initiative, Building Generations of Women's Leadership.
