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OPPORTUNITY GRANTS

There are times when local nonprofit organizations need some help during situations where timeliness is of the utmost importance. These "Opportunity Grants" enable our staff to expedite small grant awards, usually $250-$2,000 range, without the need to go through the Foundation's semi-annual grant process. A new Opportunity Grant process requires an Opportunity Grant application to be turned in and requires the following guidelines:

For Opportunity Grant guidelines CLICK HERE.

For Opportunity Grant application CLICK HERE.

Opportunity Grants awarded in 2009 include:

Fox Valley Older Adult Services - Replace furnace  

$1,500

Northern Illinois University -Communiversity Posters
$496
American Cancer Society - Who wants to be a grantmaker contest - donation
$250
Safe Passage, Inc. - Who wants to be a grantmaker contest - donation
$250
Hope Haven -Continuum of Care requirement expense $500
Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School - Anniversary T-shirts $1,500
NIU-FCNS Child Development Lab - Improvements to sandbox $500
Latino Resource Center - Speaker fee for Rigoberta Menchu $1,000
Regional Access & Mobilization Project (RAMP), Inc. - Accessibility accomodations $2,000
TOTAL
$7,996.00

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