CME Group Foundation 2011 Grants

Advance Illinois
$50,000 to support its work with the state’s lowest performing schools

Children First Fund, the Chicago Public Schools Foundation
$50,000 to support Career and Technical Education initiatives in business and IT

Communities in Schools Chicago
$35,000 to support presentation of the Yes You Can! violence prevention program in 30 Chicago Public Schools

Freedom to Learn Illinois
$100,000 over four years to support the development of an online network of school choice supporters

Illinois Network of Charter Schools
$50,000 to support implementation of its strategic plan

Prepared 4 Life
$50,000 to support the launch of Lemonade Day in Chicago

Reading Power
$15,000 to support a site specific tutor coordinator at South Elementary School in North Chicago

CME Group Foundation 2010 Grants

Chicago Children’s Museum
$33,000 in support of early math and science professional development workshops for charter school teachers and field trips for their students.

Chicago Foundation for Education
$25,000 in support of the development of early math and economics-specific Teacher Study Groups.

Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center
$70,000 over two years in support of the Future Founders program in two charter schools.

Children First Fund of the Chicago Public Schools
$45,000 in support of the Yes You Can! program in the CPS Violence Prevention Initiative schools.

Great Books Foundation
$25,000 in support of implementation of the Great Books curriculum in the middle grades at one Chicago Public School.

Illinois Network of Charter Schools
$54,000 in support of professional development, school services, the school sustainability audit pilot and the Yes You Can! program in four charter schools.

Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
$80,000 over two years in support of programming in four charter high schools.

Renaissance Schools Fund
$1,500,000 over two years in support of the charter school industry research and prospectus and start-up funds for the LEARN Charter Schools South Chicago campus.

CME Group Foundation 2009 Grants

After School Matters
$50,000 in support of professional development for youth workers and organizational teen violence strategy and protocol.

Children First Fund of Chicago Public Schools
$125,000 in support of the Chicago Public Schools Financial Literacy/Economic Education Initiative.

Renaissance Schools Fund
$500,000 in support of start-up funds for the Chicago International Charter Schools Altgeld Gardens campus.

School Choice Illinois
$25,000 in support of its public policy and outreach initiatives.

CME Group Foundation/CME Trust 2008 Grants

Children First Fund, the Chicago Public Schools Foundation
$100,000 in support of the Chicago Public Schools Social Sciences Blueprint Project.

Mouse, Inc.
$150,000 over two years in support of the expansion of TechCrew in the Chicago Public Schools

CME Trust 2006 Grants

After School Matters
$100,000 in support of the Tech 37 program

Big Shoulders Fund $300,000 over three years in support of the Patrons Program

Cabrini Connections, Tutor/Mentor Connection
$25,000 to support tutoring and mentoring programs

The Great Books Foundation
$470,000 over three years for the implementation of the Junior Great Books curriculum in five Chicago Public Schools

Mercy Home for Boys and Girls
$750,000 over three years in support of the Human Capital program

The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation
$50,000 in support of School Choice Activities in Illinois

Renaissance Schools Fund
$1.1 million over two years in support of the expansion of the Noble Charter School Network and the Perspectives Charter School Network

Youth Services of Glenview, Northbrook & Northfield
$25,000 in support of a capital campaign to build a new facility