Thank You to all the Charities who
Participated in the Sun Shine Project!
We had amazing participation in the Chicago Sun-Times Charity Trust's Sun Shine Project which awarded up to $500,000 in grants to charities in the Chicago region that support youth in education, art and civic engagement.
Below is a list of all the amazing organizations who helped the sun shine in our community:
* Winners are bolded & italicized
- 826CHI
- A Safe Haven Foundation
- Adult and Child Therapy Services
- After School Matters
- Alliance for Community Peace
- Association House of Chicago
- Barrel of Monkeys
- Bernie's Book Bank
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago
- Blue Sky Bakery and Cafe
- Boys and Girls Club of Lake County (BGCLC)
- Brickton Art Center
- Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (BPNC)
- Carlson Community Services
- Casa Central
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
- Center on Halsted (COH)
- Changing Worlds
- Chicago Area Runners Association (CARA)
- Chicago Cares
- Chicago Children's Advocacy Center
- Chicago Children's Choir
- Chicago Children's Theatre
- Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH)
- Chicago Commons Association
- Chicago Composers Orchestra
- Chicago Dance Institute
- Chicago Lights
- Chicago Public Library Foundation
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- Chicago Scholars Foundation
- Chicago Youth Centers
- Children's Memorial Hospital
- Children's Museum in Oak Lawn
- Clearbrook
- Columbia College Chicago: Columbia Links
- Common Threads
- Communities In Schools of Chicago (CISC)
- Dreaming Tree Foundation
- East Village Youth Program
- EPIC Academy
- Erie Neighborhood House
- Evanston Dance Ensemble
- Family Focus
- Family Matters, Inc.
- Follow My Lead Youth Music and Life Foundation
- Foundation153
- Free Spirit Media
- Gilda's Club Chicago
- Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana
- Girls in the Game
- Greater Chicago Food Depository
- Green Star Movement
- Griffith Tutoring
- Habilitative Systems, Inc.
- Heartland Health Outreach Refugee Health Programs
- Illinois Education Foundation (IEF)
- Illinois Press Foundation
- Institute for Positive Living
- Jobs For Youth/Chicago
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- Kids Have Hope
- Lazarus Jones Save Our Children Campaign
- LEAD (Linking Efforts Against Drugs)
- Leap Learning Systems
- Lincolnway Special Recreation Foundation
- Little Buds Theatre Company
- Little Company of Mary Hospital (LCMH)
- Louis L. Valentine Boys and Girls Club of Chicago
- Love To Serve, Inc. Tennis and Education Foundation
- Marcy-Newberry Association, Inc.
- Marwen
- Maywood Fine Arts (MFA)
- Mentor Teacher Brother (MTB)
- Mercy Home for Boys and Girls
- Merit School of Music
- Metropolis School of the Performing Arts
- Midtown Educational Foundation
- National Hook-Up of Black Women, Inc- Joliet Chapter
- National Runaway Switchboard
- National Veterans Art Museum (NVAM)
- Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE Chicago)
- Old Town School of Folk Music
- Open Books
- Osmosis Education Mentoring Initiative
- People's Music School
- Project Education Plus
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- Project: VISION, Inc.
- Rainbows For All Children
- Reading In Motion
- Red Clay Dance Company, Inc.
- Restoration Ministries, Inc.
- Rock For Kids
- SitStayRead (SSR)
- Snow City Arts
- South Chicago Art Center
- South Shore Arts, Inc.
- South Suburban Family Shelter
- Southwest Youth Collaborative
- Starlight Children's Foundation Midwest
- Step Up Women's Network
- Suicide Prevention Services of America
- Sunshine Gospel Ministries
- Swish Dreams Sports and Educational Foundation
- Teen Writers and Artists
- The Allendale Association
- The CareLink Foundation
- The Caring Place Inc.
- The National Public Housing Museum (NPHM)
- The Night Ministry
- TradeWinds Services, Inc.
- Urban Gateways: Center for Arts Education
- Western Golf Association/Evans Scholars Foundation
- World Relief Chicago
- WTTW11
- Young Chicago Authors
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