| IMPACT
Chicago actively
seeks grants from sponsoring organizations to help fund special
programs
and assist us in achieving our mission of making our self-defense
programs
accessible to women of all economic, racial/ethnic, and social
groups.
 Verizon
Wireless Foundation
IMPACT received a Verizon Wireless Foundation grant to offer
on-site
IMPACT
workshops in collaboration with organizations serving women and girls
who
have experienced domestic violence and to offer Core Program
scholarships
to women and girls from each organization. IMPACT partnered with
Between Friends (www.betweenfriendschicago.org),
Heartland Alliance (www.heartlandalliance.org),
JCARES (www.jwi.org), Jewish
Child and Family Services (www.jcfs.org), Korean
Women in Need (www.kanwin.org), and
Rogers Park Community Council (www.rogerspark.org).
Richard
and Elizabeth
Ross Foundation
The
Richard and Elizabeth Ross Foundation provided scholarships and
supported
the development of the Teen IMPACT program.
McGowan
Gin Rosica
Family Foundation
The McGowan
Gin Rosica Family Foundation provided
generous
funding to IMPACT Chicago for self-defense training in community
organizations
for two years in a row. The first year of funding made it possible for
IMPACT to purchase a set of portable mats and to offer on-site,
customized
workshops at Apna
Ghar, Family
Matters, and Uptown
Center Hull House. In addition, this
donation
allowed IMPACT to offer Core Program scholarships for two women at each
of these organizations.
The
second year of funding made it possible for IMPACT to offer
on-site,
customized workshops at five locations: Apna Ghar, Arab
American Action Network, Family Matters, Jewish
Children's Bureau, and Uptown Center Hull House. The grant
allowed
IMPACT to offer additional training through the Core Skills Series,
Core
Program, and customized workshops for one or more members of these
organizations.
Irwin
W. Steans
Center for Community-Based Service Learning
Through
the efforts of Clara Orban, Department of Foreign Languages at DePaul
University
and a member of the IMPACT Chicago grant-writing committee, students
participating
in the Irwin W. Steans Center for Community-Based Service Learning
program
are providing translating and interpreting services in Spanish and in
Arabic
for IMPACT programs at community organizations.
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