Promise Grants support charitable community organizations that provide services to underserved and often dismissed populations in DeKalb County.
Donor Name: DeKalb County Community Foundation
State: Illinois
County: DeKalb County (IL)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 10/01/2022
Grant Size: not exceed $5,000
Details:
The purpose of the Promise Grant program is to inspire, educate, and empower individuals who may experience extraordinary challenges due to their ethnicity, immigration status, and abilities.
Priority Areas
Proposed projects will be reviewed on the basis of the following priorities:
- Increase participation of underserved populations in the center of community life
- Develop leadership skills in marginalized populations
- Increase understanding and tolerance
- Raise educational levels and enhance the quality of life
- Strengthen churches and other social institutions with the capacity to transform community perspectives
- Support early childhood literacy initiatives and literacy outreach for families with young children
- Nurture involvement and verbal interaction with babies and children prior to kindergarten
- Reach adults in an at-risk child’s environment through literacy outreach including but not limited to new mothers, pregnant teens, single parents, homeless parents, preschool teachers and aides, nurses, and baby-sitters.