Grant Recipients
Grant recipients are community-based organizations that partner with Northwestern University to address racial inequities in areas like health equity, economic and social empowerment, and children and youth learning. Explore the impact of these partnerships by searching for previous recipients below, or filter by year or program category to see how we're working together to create positive change.
| Project Title | Northwestern Partner | Community Partner | Project Description | Category | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Perfect Vision Campaign | Feinberg Ophthalmology | Experiences That Matter | Mobile tour (clinic) that brings free vision health resources to Black and LatinX communities in the Chicagoland area; focusing on children aged 3-18. | Health Equity | 2023 |
| Advancing A New Narrative Through Native Representation and Culturally Responsive Programs | Center for Native American and Indigenous Research | Mitchell Museum | The project provides culturally responsive services to EPL while offering the public and Native youth access to authentic literature and programs. | Children and Youth Learning | 2023 |
| CSIDPAR (Chicago Summer Institute for the Development of Physicians and Researchers) | Feinberg Gastroenterology | I Am Abel | CSIDPAR is an innovative mentoring, immersion pipeline program that prepares underrepresented students. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2023 |
| Deepening B&B's Partnership for Progress: Empowering Racial Justice Advocates in Evanston Schools | Leadership Development & Community Engagement, Student Affairs | Books & Breakfast | Deepening the work of systems change in Evanston's District 65 by empowering Racial Justice Advocates at the local school and district-wide levels. | Children and Youth Learning | 2023 |
| Health Equity in Southwest Chicago | Feinberg Osher Center | Cultivate Collective | Cultivate Collective and the Feinberg Osher Center seek to implement community health programming coinciding with the launch of our new development in Fall 2023. | Health Equity | 2023 |
| Improving Access to Palliative Care for African Americans in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago | Palliative Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine | Bright Star Community Outreach | Reduce disparities in palliative care and focus on the needs and experiences of adolescents and young adult family members of people with serious illness. | Health Equity | 2023 |
| Music, Movement & Memory: Providing Access to Families Across Chicago | Feinberg Mesulam Center | Lorenzo’s House | Lorenzo's House and NU Mesulam Center will partner to bring inventive quality-of-life programs to Black and Latinx families with younger-onset dementia. | Health Equity | 2023 |
| Rebuilding Black Girlhood: Programming, Partnership, and Research with Black Girls | Psychology Department | Distinctively Me | Teen TEE is a strengths-based curriculum designed to create affirming spaces to nurture healthy relationships and identities among teen Black girls. | Children and Youth Learning | 2023 |
| Supporting Chicagoland’s Black Archives: Black Metropolis Graduate Assistantships | Center for Civic Engagement | Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) | Black Metropolis Graduate Assistants increase capacity at Chicagoland's Black archives and support projects that preserve and amplify Black histories. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2023 |
| Universal Screening for Speech & Language Disorders in Evanston Early Childhood Centers | PedzSTAR Lab | Childcare Network of Evanston | This partnership will increase critical resources to support early detection of speech and language delays in young children in our community. | Children and Youth Learning | 2023 |
| We Shouldn't Have Laws We Don't Talk About: The Registry and Banishment Archives | Public Interest Program | Chicago 400 Alliance | Formerly-incarcerated homeless people will produce media archives to educate lawmakers on the toll that conviction registries take on poor Black men. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2023 |
| YW Tech Lab and Portfolio Project | Computer Science Department | YWCA Evanston/North Shore | Removing racial barriers that prevent the equitable representation of Black and brown women in the tech field and empowering minority entrepreneurs. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2023 |
| A B & B Partnership for Progress: Empowering Racial Justice Advocates in Evanston School District 65 | Leadership Development & Community Engagement, Student Affairs | Books & Breakfast | Partnering for systems change in Evanston's District 65 by empowering Racial Justice Advocates at the local school and district wide levels. | Children and Youth Learning | 2022 |
| Black Queer Equity Index | Evaluation, Data Integration and Technical Assistance Program | Lighthouse Foundation | Further development of the Black Queer Equity Index (BQEI), a tool to assess barriers to equity experienced by Black Queer Chicagoans and highlight organizational pathways to positive change. | Health Equity | 2022 |
| Bringing Health Equity to Chicago’s Southwest Side | Osher Center for Integrative Health, Feinberg School of Medicine | Cultivate Collective | An evaluation partnership to inspire a healthier Southwest Chicago. | Health Equity | 2022 |
| Building Beloved Community Through Dismantling Racism in Evanston | Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications | Second Baptist Church | Developing and implementing intergenerational workshops and race solidarity circles. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2022 |
| Embodying Latinx Cultures, Narratives, and Performance Aesthetics | Latina and Latino Studies Program, Weinberg | Mudlark Theater | Create bilingual identity-based curricula with Latinx youth, educators, performers, and scholars, based on diasporic performance traditions. | Children and Youth Learning | 2022 |
| Equity & Empowerment for Evanston Families | Athletics | Equity & Empowerment for Evanston Families | Help young Evanston Black males find their passion and purpose through participation in an intensive summer camp and year-round programming. | Children and Youth Learning | 2022 |
| Improving Access to Palliative Care for African Americans in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago | Palliative Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine | Bright Star Community Outreach | Understand and improve disparities in palliative care for African American patients living with serious illness. | Health Equity | 2022 |
| Partnering to Co-design a Facilitator Training Program for Women in Re-entry | Segal Design Institute, McCormick School of Engineering and The Writing Place | WIND (Women Initiating New Directions) | Developing Bridge program to help formerly incarcerated women become facilitators for workshops to empower other at-risk women in the community. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2022 |
| YW Tech Lab and Portfolio Project | Department of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering | YWCA Evanston/North Shore | Removing racial barriers that prevent the equitable representation of Black and brown women in the tech field and empowering minority entrepreneurs. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2022 |
| A Desert Oasis: Prescribing Healthy Food and Education to Improve Kidney Health in Black Communities | Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine-NUGoKidney | Endeleo | Mitigate a perfect storm of food deserts and kidney disease in Black communities with informed choices that improve kidney health. | Health Equity | 2021 |
| Amplifying Black Voices on Educational Equality in Evanston | Department of African American Studies | STEM School Evanston | Amplify the voices of Black Evanston residents in devising community-directed redress of ongoing racialized educational harm and inequities. | Children and Youth Learning | 2021 |
| An Interactive Geographic Information System (GIS)-based Map and Inventory of Environmental Justice Areas in Evanston | Environmental Justice Evanston, Citizens' Greener Evanston | Develop a pilot GIS-based mapping tool and inventory of Evanston's environmental assets and liabilities to help address environmental injustices. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2021 | |
| Black Male College Completion | Environmental Justice Evanston, Citizens' Greener Evanston | Develop a pilot GIS-based mapping tool and inventory of Evanston's environmental assets and liabilities to help address environmental injustices. | Children and Youth Learning | 2021 | |
| Supporting Chicago's Black Archives: CCE-BMRC Fellowship | Northwestern's Center for Civic Engagement | Black Metropolis Research Consortium | Increase capacity at Chicagoland's Black archives and support projects that preserve and amplify Black histories and legacies. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2021 |
| Chicago Summer Institute for the Development of Physicians and Researchers | Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology | I Am Abel Foundation | An innovative mentoring, immersion pipeline program that prepares underrepresented students in STEM, MCAT Prep and Pre-Clinical Readiness. | Economic and Social Empowerment, Health Equity | 2021 |
| Child Welfare Leadership Training Institute | Black Administrators in Child Welfare Illinois | Provides mentoring to child welfare leaders. Program components include a leadership practicum and seminars. | Children and Youth Learning | 2021 | |
| Co-Creating a Local and Resilient Food System on Chicago's Southwest Side | Star Farm | Grow and distribute culturally relevant produce to communities without access through fun and informative pop-ups. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2021 | |
| Empowerment Through Financial Literacy | Monster Education Foundation | Mentor underserved inner-city students on financial literacy through a collaboration with business experts. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2021 | |
| Entrepreneurial Bridge and Small Business Incubator Program | Kellogg School of Management | Youth Job Center | Engage youth in an entrepreneurial program that serves as a catalyst to increase racial equity and wealth building locally. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2021 |
| Evanston’s Restorative Justice Community Court | Bluhm Legal ClinicCenter for Negotiation and Mediation | James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy | Lay the foundation for Evanston's Restorative Justice Community Court as an alternative to the (in)justice system for emerging adults. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2021 |
| HCC Community Arts Program | Harmony Community Cares | Provide academic enrichment and the arts to youth in North Lawndale Chicago via dance, spoken word/theater, music, and summer cultural enrichment. | Children and Youth Learning | 2021 | |
| Kids Create Change: Studio 3 | Kids Create Change | In Spring 2021 Kids Create Change is opening Studio 3, a community art studio and gallery that will center the art and stories of BBIPOC and young people. | Children and Youth Learning | 2021 | |
| Opportunity Us: Research Project for and by Black and Latina Women of Transgender Experience | Evaluation, Data Integration and Technical Assistance Program | Howard Brown Health | Launch participatory research examining COVID-19's impact on Black and Latina women of transgender experience. | Health Equity | 2021 |
| Partnering through a Bridge Program to Empower Formerly Incarcerated Women | WIND: Women Initiating New Directions | A Bridge program, co-designed by WIND and Northwestern University, will help formerly incarcerated women achieve independence and learn to empower others like them. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2021 | |
| Project LEAP: Literacy Empowerment Access Partnership | Child Language Lab | Northwestern University Settlement | A new multi-generational model of parent-school collaboration that will bridge early literacy home and school practices for Black and Latinx children. | Children and Youth Learning | 2021 |
| Responding to Trauma with Evanston Early Childhood Programs | The Family Institute at Northwestern | Evanston Early Childhood Council | Making trauma-informed care equitably accessible in early childhood can help improve health, educational and life outcomes for our youngest learners. | Children and Youth Learning | 2021 |
| Restorative Housing Justice and Advocacy | Open Communities | Aims to address racist housing policies and acknowledge racial harm. A restorative justice lens will lead this community-driven process. | Economic and Social Empowerment | 2021 | |
| Societal and Community Awareness Learning Exercises to Unleash Power (SCALE-UP) Project | Gads Hill Center | Develop a scalable, trauma-informed social justice-focused curriculum for Black and Latinx school-aged youth. | Children and Youth Learning | 2021 | |
| Supporting and Seeding Leaders | Office of Community Education Partnerships | Chicago Learning Exchange | Deepen current and future mentors' efforts to catalyze critical education in youth learning. | Children and Youth Learning | 2021 |
| Young, Black & Lit's Lit Year Program | Young, Black & Lit | Partner with schools to provide students with 15 books with Black characters per school year to help build home libraries. | Children and Youth Learning | 2021 |