grants
Projects and Grants Press Release
JLS responds to the needs of the community through its Grants Program. Junior League members earn grant income through their fundraising efforts throughout the year. Grants are awarded annually on a competitive basis to tax-exempt organizations. Among the hundreds of programs supported in the past are:
- Reading Is Fundamental,
- The American Red Cross,
- The Make a Wish Foundation
- The Central Illinois Food Bank,
- Kumler Neighborhood Ministries,
- The Parent Place, and
- The Parent Help Line.
Applications
Recent Grant Recipients
The Junior League of Springfield is proud to announce the 2006-2007 Grant recipients.
Central Illinois Chapter of the Autism Society of America
$2,000
In-home support and training: Eight weeks of in-home support and training to individuals with autism and their families. This involves a research-based best practice approach to develop an individualized program that helps to improve the lives of everyone involved.
Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Illinois Central Region
$500
Site-based mentoring program: Educational games and workbooks for the program, which matches elementary school students at Enos, Jane Addams, Feitshans, Ridgely and Vachel Lindsay with adult and high school-aged mentors.
Camp Care-A-Lot
$2,250
Camp support: Help Springfield area children to attend a free, one-week residential summer camp for economically and culturally disadvantaged children, which includes an opportunity to escape concerns about homelessness, abuse, neglect, despair and hunger and focus on teamwork, self-confidence, nonviolent problem solving and having fun. Grant will also help cover meals, room rent, supplies and craft items.
Feitshans Academy
$1,500
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports program: Funds to purchase and provide behavior intervention and support in an effort to optimize quality instruction, and to increase academic achievement during the 2007-2008 school year.
Capitol City Coalition’s Junior Police Academy
$1,250
Junior Police Academy: A week-long, character- and relationship-building summer camp for at-risk youth. This opportunity will allow them an outlet to enhance their self-esteem and refine personal skills, overall improving their chances to stay off the streets.
Saint Patrick Catholic School
$600
Summer program: This program helps primarily at-risk students in pre-Kindergarten through fifth grade strive for academic excellence. The summer program addresses conventional subjects such as reading, math, writing, and incorporates enrichment activities such as physical education and cultural experiences.
Reading is Fundamental
$1,500
Book program: To help purchase paperback books for elementary school children in 39 area public and parochial schools. The Reading is Fundamental program allows each student in the third through fifth grades to choose a free book three times a year, helping them develop a personal library and a lifelong love of reading.
Springfield Art Association
$500
Art Outreach: an art appreciation program offered in area schools at no charge to participants. Launched in 1972, Art Outreach is a volunteer-run program which, which provides critical arts and educational programming to approximately 64,000 school-aged children during the school term. These funds are vital as often Art Outreach is the only such arts and educational programming offered in the school.
The Junior League of Springfield is proud to announce the 2005-2006 Grant recipients.
Feitshans Academy
$1,500
Field trips: To allow 100 poverty-level kindergarten students to experience
10 different field trips, including arts performances at Sangamon
Auditorium, Lincoln Memorial Gardens, Washington Park, Adams Wildlife
Sanctuary, Henson-Robinson Zoo, Festival of Trees, Bank One, a fire station,
a farm, an apple orchard, and the botanical garden.
Grace Lutheran Food Pantry
$1,500
Food pantry: Money to purchase two full weeks worth of food for the volunteer-run food pantry, which serves approximately 1,000 needy families from Springfield and Sangamon County each month.
Reading is Fundamental
$1,500
Book program: To help purchase paperback books for elementary school children in 39 area public and parochial schools. The Reading is Fundamental program allows each student in the third through fifth grades to choose a free book three times a year, helping them develop a personal library and a lifelong love of reading.
Springfield Ballet Company
$1,400
Dance in Illinois: Help fourth graders from Sangamon and 11 surrounding counties experience a live, educational dance performance by the Springfield Ballet Company, designed to address the state Learning Standards Goals for Fine Arts at a time when arts education funding has been cut repeatedly.
Parent Help Line at St. John’s Hospital
$1,000
Good Samaritan Program: A program JLS helped originate back in 1996, which helps families in crisis by providing emergency needs, access to parent education and referral to various support services. The grant covered about 100 people from 25 families.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sangamon County
$630
Site-based mentoring program: Educational games and workbooks for the program, which matches elementary school students at Enos, Jane Addams, Feitshans, Ridgely and Vachel Lindsay with adult and high school-aged mentors.
Camp Care-A-Lot
$2,400
Camp sponsorships: Cover costs for up to 50 Springfield area children to attend camp for the first time, along with about five junior counselors who are former campers. This free, one-week residential summer camp for economically and culturally disadvantaged children includes an opportunity to escape concerns about homelessness, abuse, neglect, despair and hunger and focus on teamwork, self-confidence, nonviolent problem solving and having fun.
American Red Cross, Illinois Capital Area Chapter
$1,000.00
Project SafeSitters: To provide funding for low-income children to participate in Project SafeSitters
which includes first-aid/CPR/babysitters' training.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Springfield
$150.00
Boys and Girls Banc on Computers: To purchase 2 computers from the Computer Banc for members to do research projects and
papers, and to create materials.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Springfield
$175.00
Writer’s Workshop: To fund the Writer's Workshop, led by two of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Springfield middle
school youth, where poetry, stories and opinion papers are written.
Illinois Symphony Orchestra
$1,000.00
Children Attend ISO Performances: To provide funding so students in grades K-6 can attend ISO performances.
M.E.R.C.Y. Communities
$1,000.00
Children’s Services: To provide funding for child-centered services and respite childcare services.
PECS - Lee School
$616.65
Picture Exchange Communication System: To purchase equipment needed to create cards for the Picture Exchange
Communication System.
SIU School of Medicine - Camp COCO
$900.00
Children’s Oncology Camp Organization (Camp COCO): To send 2 children with cancer and other blood-related disorders to camp.
Springfield Area Arts Council
$500.00
Annual Children’s Arts Festival: To fund performances and activities for the 20th Annual Children's Arts Festival in
September 2005.
Springfield Children's Museum
$1,308.35
New Computer System: To fund the purchase of a computer system (hardware and software).
St. Joseph School
$350.00
St. Joseph School Enrichment Program: To provide funding for curriculum and supplies for the Enrichment program
for all students in grades 1-5 and the Accelerated Learning students in grades 6-8.
St. Patrick Catholic School
$1,000.00
Summer School: To fund summer school activities including: academic instruction, breakfast and lunch,
computer class, swimming lessons, karate, and praise dance for students at-risk.
The Marrow Foundation
$1,000.00
Samuel S. Boutchee Fund: To fund costs associated with recruiting new marrow and blood cell donors.
The Springfield Project
$1,000.00
Project Education Success: To fund a new scholarship program designed to assist families of under-privileged children
with the costs of school activity fees, tuitions, physical exams, and supplies.
Sangamon-Menard Agriculture Education Partnership
$900.00
To provide a summer school program at Lincoln’s New Salem for students
throughout the Springfield area. It will educate students in grades K-4
about the farms that their food comes from and how to make healthy snacks
from these foods.
Sojourn Shelter and Services
$800.00
To assist Sojourn with their Prevention and Education Program by providing a
billboard with their hotline information.
Springfield Area Reading is Fundamental
$1,500
To purchase and distribute quality paperback books free to students in 3rd,
4th, and 5th grades enrolled in 39 participating
schools.
Springfield
Theatre Centre
$1,872.00
To provide transportation for classes from the predominantly lowest
elementary schools in District 186 to attend school performances of the
White Rabbit Series.
Springfield Urban League
$2,128.00
To provide an interactive technology-based literacy program for 3- to 5-year
old children who attend the SUL after-school program.
St. Patrick Catholic School
$800.00
To start up a summer school program for 60 K-4 grade student where at-risk
students will be helped to retain and to build upon basic skills in reading
and math during the traditional summer vacation.
Youth Service Bureau
$2,000.00
To fund parenting classes using the Love and Logic training module.
Participants in the classes are pregnant and parenting teens identified in
our community to be in need of these services.
$2800
“Summer Camping Program”, where funds will be used to sponsor a
weeklong camping experience for 6-10 year old children from low and
no-income families. The camp
provides positive role modeling, a loving environment and educational
experiences.
Central Illinois Food Bank
$2200
“Kid’s Café Project”, where funds
will be used for project enrichment, and to provide take home groceries to
impoverished, undernourished children.
Harvard
$1348
“You Can Get There From Here”, a highly research-based program to
educate
$1000
Breast Healthcare
Services, to help this start-up agency pay for treatment services for
un-insured or underinsured working women with breast cancer.
$800
“Transitional Living Program”, where funds will be used to add ten
beds to their program of mentoring and empowering young families to become
independent working families.
Prevent Child Abuse
$2332
Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention
Campaign Springfield Initiative. To provide brochures, posters and
billboards, to educate the Public to the Shaken Baby crisis and prevention.
$2000
“DREAM Support Program” to provide support and information to families whose children
have been diagnosed with cancer.
United Cerebral
Palsy’s
$1500
UCP Playground and Recreational Area where funds will be used for
establishing a fully handicapped accessible playground.
WSEC TV
$1,200
For St. John's Breadline Summer Reading Program to purchase books and workshop materials for children and their parents.
The Junior League of Springfield is proud to announce the 2001-2002 Grant recipients.
Contact Ministries
$1,500
To purchase a computer to link them with Lawrence Education Center and
Springfield School District #186.
First Day Fund
$450
To purchase school supplies for needy children
Illinois Early Childhood Intervention
$500
To enhance the library connection in the area of parent education with
the emphasis on raising children with disabilities and improving family
literacy.
Lincoln Land Community College Training and Education for Adults Program
(TEAL)
$608
To purchase one Second Step Curriculum for Pre-K and accompanying family
guide.
Sangamon Child Advocacy Center
$480
To obtain materials to prepare a workbook for children entitled "What's
My Job in Court".
SPARC
$1,500
To send children ages 5-15 years old with mental retardation, autism,
cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities to summer respite
camp.
$1,000
To purchase and distribute
quality paperback books to 3rd, 4th, and 5th
grade students in Springfield, Rochester, Chatham, Riverton, and
Pleasant Plains.
Springfield Ballet Company
$500
To assist with the cost of bringing "Dance Illinois" to 4th
grade children from a nine county area.
St. Patrick's Catholic Elementary School
$614.50
For the Student of the Month program to encourage excellence in school
work, behavior, attitude, and effort in the classroom.
United Cerebral Palsy Land of Lincoln
$1,234.85
For the purchase of a platform swing and training steps to help therapist
work with the children to improve their balance and strength.
Y.W.C.A.
$1,320
To assist with their programs.
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