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Cancer Wellness Center
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: Cancer in the Classroom Cancer affects families with school-aged children. It causes great stress; families are isolated, dynamics and routines are disrupted. Kids just want to feel normal. When a child, parent, or sibling is diagnosed with cancer, schools can play a major role. Cancer Wellness Center respectfully requests $5,000 to partially support the Cancer in the Classroom program which helps schools to provide social and emotional instruction that normalizes the cancer experience for everyone involved. An annual seminar for 100 school districts and (an average of) 48 school consultations per year help reintegrate specific children touched by cancer into the classroom setting.
Chicago Youth Programs, Inc.
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: SCORE Tutoring I, II & III Chicago Youth Programs (CYP) aims to further develop curriculum and expand SCORE Tutoring, which serves Cabrini Green, Washington Park and Uptown, providing one-on-one academic tutoring for at-risk youth in grades 1-9. Youth are matched with trained graduate students and working professional volunteers. Children are bused to the program, which is held in donated space at four Chicago universities, two evening each week. Going beyond homework assistance, SCORE focuses on empowering tutors to utilize CYP-developed Concept PackagesEwhich cover grade-appropriate concepts (consistent with Illinois Learning Standards) that are critical to their studentsElong-term outcomes. Pre-tests identify weak areas and post-tests measure both the youths improvement and the tutors effectiveness.
Corliss High School
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: Girls Night Out Project Girls Night Out is a local initiative that began in April of 2006 at Corliss High School to counter the problem of girl-on-girlEviolence. Administrative and faculty collaboration created a plan to focus on the socio-emotional development of the female students at Corliss, their female relatives and friends, and how to create a bonding of all of the female stakeholders in the school community. All female students, faculty and staff, and female relatives of each group are invited once monthly to relax and have fun while addressing issues of anger, violence and how to develop into strong women who support other women.
Edward Foundation
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: Tech for Behavior Disordered Students This proposal requests funding for an expansion of services to meet a growing need. Funds will be used to purchase software for AlphaSmart laptop computers for use in an alternative, therapeutic school serving children who have behavioral disorders, learning disabilities and autism. These computers/software will help children to learn through their own individual optimal modes of learning, and prepare them to re-enter mainstream classrooms with technology skills on par with their peers.
Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
Amount Awarded: $4,003.00 Project: Architecture and Life: Focus on Japan The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust proposes to implement an arts-integrated program for underserved middle school students in Chicago Public Schools. The content centers on Japanese art and architecture and its influence on American architecture, specifically the Prairie style of Frank Lloyd Wright. The activities of this program include familiarizing students with basic concepts of architecture; using high-quality reproductions of Japanese prints, sculpture, ceramics and textiles during lectures and workshops; and field trips to Wrights Robie House and the Osaka Garden in Jackson Park. The project will conclude with a student display of their own Japan-inspired art work and writing.
Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: Origins of Now: ReBuilding Community The Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago (JASC) requests $5,000 to support Origins of Now: ReBuilding Community.E/i> To take place over the course of the JASCs 60th anniversary year, Origins will be an innovative, unprecedented multi-media project involving an on-site visual exhibit, a performance/lecture series, arts-in-schools residency activities and a video documentary, all implemented by a multi-organization collaborative directed by the JASC. Conceived and implemented by the Japanese America community, all activities will be multi-generational, with a major goal being to involve and engage young people with the JASC while advancing the understanding of the Chicago Japanese American experience.
Jefferson Elementary School
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: Classroom Newspaper Project The Classroom Newspaper Project will provide an authentic learning opportunity in reading, language arts, social science, and fine arts for fifth graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Chicago Heights. The program will also teach students how to use computer software, including word processing, spread sheets, and desktop publishing. The program will be held in conjunction with local newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and The Daily Southtown and grant funding will be utilized for updated computer equipment and for educational field trips.
Maywood Fine Arts Association
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: Books Alive Maywood Fine Arts Associations Books Alive program uses music and dance to bring to life stories and characters from childrens literature. Books Alive is performed by advanced dance students for young children at schools, recreation centers, libraries, and other venues throughout the Chicago area. Books Alive helps stimulate and instill in each child a love of books and reading at an early age. Many children in our communities are not introduced to reading before they enter school, but receive most of their early learning through television or video games. Books Alive introduces children to books through performances that are fun and engaging and especially appealing for children having difficulty learning to read.
Music Institute of Chicago
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: Exploring Cultures through Arts and Myth Exploring Cultures through Arts and Myth are free partnerships with Chicago Public Schools. Each partnership offers learning experiences for students grades K-8 (80-100 students per day) at Music Institute of Chicagos Evanston Campus. Hands-on workshops (visual art, drama, movement, classical music, jazz, opera and blues) explore the language of the arts and how arts tell stories, thereby helping us understand different cultures. Each day has two concerts by professional artists. Teacher support materials are provided. Teacher training is available to develop integrated arts curriculum in their classrooms to meet state standards. The program helps schools comply with Least Restrictive EnvironmentErequirements for special needs children.
Pros Arts Studio
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: The Pilsen Project The Pilsen Project will engage students at Jungman Elementary School in the education process, promote literacy, and introduce the power of drama. Artists from Pros Arts Studio will partner with sixth, seventh, and eighth grade teachers in a multi-arts residency that will enhance Language Arts and Social Studies curriculum. Students will explore their neighborhood (Pilsen on Chicagos Lower West Side) discovering in its Bohemian past (including the schools namesake, Czech Joseph Jungman) connections to their own lives. Their research will inspire an original inter-disciplinary play that will cross cultures and deepen their understanding of their community and its history.
SEDOL Foundation
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: Early Childhood Family Reading Project The Early Childhood Family Reading Project will offer parent training and materials to expand language, literacy, and child/parent communication. Training for parents will take place during three Parent Involvement Days, presented by the Special Education District of Lake County staff. Parents will be given books and activities to take home. Cyd Lash Academy students will participate in the project by developing and producing childrens picture books, bilingual as needed, for preschool children that will be given to the parents at the trainings. Academy students will also identify sources for books and donations to increase the lending libraries.
Shanti Foundation for Peace
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: Peacemakers Program at King Laboratory School In response to the violence that has plagued Evanstons King Lab School, Shanti Foundation has been asked to implement its highly regarded Peacemakers Program in the 7th and 8th grade classrooms in the 2006-07 academic year. Utilizing existing classroom curriculum and engaging multiple intelligences, this program involves students in a communal experience of art-making and in this deliberate process, fosters the concepts of understanding, respect, conflict, point-of-view, diversity, inclusiveness, and collaboration. The larger community will be involved through a multicultural potluck dinner, school in-services, and performances at the school and at the city-wide Young Evanston Artists festival.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Amount Awarded: $5,000.00 Project: Steppenwolf for Young Adults Steppenwolf for Young Adults reaches out with programming that is uniquely suited to student audiences and embodies the kind of uncompromising and provocative work that characterizes Steppenwolfs offerings for the general public. Each season it uniquely creates two full-scale professional productions specifically for student audiences, ages 12-19. Through the Subscriber Schools Program it engages a core group of students and teachers in the public schools, providing low- and no-cost tickets to the productions and free in-school residencies with a Steppenwolf teaching artist that utilize the productions for young adults as a springboard for standards-based curricular enrichment.
St. Scholastica Academy
Amount Awarded: $3,779.00 Project: Writing and Math Lab Technology In Fall 2005, St. Scholastica Academy opened what may be the only Writing Lab in a Chicago Catholic high school. We seek to expand the Lab, and include math and computer software. A majority of our entering freshmen score under the 50th percentile on the language section of our entrance exam. Over 60% of SSA students are from minority backgrounds. Our focus is not just to admit students, but to support them, have them graduate, and go on to college. Maintaining our record of 100% college admissions will be strengthened by this initiative and will set an example for other institutions. |
| 2006 U.S.-Japan Partnership Grants |
| Location | Amount | Project Title | |
| Chicago Japanese American Council | Chicago | $10,000.00 | General Operating Support |
| Illinois Association of Teachers of Japanese | Illinois | $5,000.00 | Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference |
| Japan America Society of Chicago | Chicago | $10,000.00 | General Operating Support |
| Japan America Society of Chicago | Chicago | $2,500.00 | Anime Festival |
| JCCC | Chicago | $21,889.87 | JCCC Educational Exchange Program (JEEP) |
| KCC Japan Education Exchange | Chicago | $2,500.00 | Graduate Fellowship Program |