| 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
has 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.
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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