Designs for Change
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Grants
13
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Total Awarded
$2,950,000
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Years
1982 - 2001
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Categories
Grants
2001 (1 year)
$150,000
To train and assist local school councils in principal evaluation and selection.
2000 (1 year)
$250,000
To train parents and community leaders in school improvement advocacy.
1999 (1 year)
$200,000
To support work with individual elementary schools to improve student achievement and for school reform policy and advocacy activities.
1996 (3 years)
$600,000
To support the Network for Leadership Development, which seeks to improve literacy as part of a strategy for improving Chicago's public schools (over three years).
1995 ( 5 months)
$50,000
To conduct (with the assistance of the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform) a Chicago school reform public information project by gathering and broadly disseminating research-based information about the successes and opportunities for success of school reform in Chicago.
1993 (3 years)
$600,000
To support the Network for Leadership Development Program Program, which assists 10 schools intensively, and for the city-wide Independent Reading Campaign (over three years).
1990 (1 year)
$300,000
To support the Chicago SCHOOLWATCH Program (over three years).
1989 (1 year 1 month)
$100,000
To develop and support the capacity of individuals and organizations working in the Chicago community to encourage and assist parents and community members as active participants in education and to encourage and prepare individuals for participation in local school council elections.
1988 (1 year 2 months)
$75,000
To support the Chicago SCHOOLWATCH Program.
1987 (1 year)
$50,000
To support the Reform Options Study, to assess the capacity of advocacy organizations to raise the achievement of all students in urban school systems.
1985 (1 year)
$225,000
To support the Chicago SCHOOLWATCH Program and to improve fundraising activities (over three years).
1983 (1 year)
$200,000
To support the Chicago Reading Campaign (over two years).
1982 (1 year)
$150,000
To support the Chicago Reading Campaign.
