DuPage Foundation awards over $1 million in Transformation Partnership grants

The DuPage County Board and representatives from the DuPage Foundation welcomed the recipients of $1.03 million in Immediate Intervention grants from the DuPage Community Transformation Partnership on Aug. 13.

The grants will help fund the work of 16 social service, not-for-profit organizations serving DuPage County residents in the areas of food insecurity, housing instability, mental health and substance use disorder. The following organizations were selected to receive funding:

Food Insecurity Grants: $197,000

• DuPage Senior Citizens Council: $70,000
• Hope’s Front Door: $20,000
• Milton Township Food Pantry: $22,000
• People’s Resource Center: $85,000

Housing Instability Grants: $473,144

• Catholic Charities: $113,700
• DuPagePads: $75,000
• ICNA Relief: $20,000
• Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans: $100,000
• WeGo Together for Kids: $34,444
• World Relief Chicagoland: $130,000

Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Grants: $362,633

• Alive Center: $19,700
• DuPage Health Coalition: $50,000
• Easter Seals DuPage & Fox Valley: $50,000
• Mercy Housing Lakefront: $51,933
• NAMI DuPage: $126,000
• Samara Care: $65,000

Project descriptions for each of the grantees are available here.