Parish Partner Grants 2023-2024

2023-2024

Parish Partner Grant

Recipients

Episcopal Charities is pleased to announce our next cohort of parish grant recipients. These parishes have proposed plans to engage their communities in dynamic ways, and we are excited to support them throughout this year. 
  

Episcopal Church of the Atonement – Chicago New Grantee! 

ECRA Community Needs Assessment 

The Edgewater Community Religious Association (ECRA), of which Episcopal Church of the Atonement is part, will implement a community needs assessment survey that will be distributed in the Edgewater and Rogers Park neighborhoods of Chicago. The purpose of this survey is to identify the shared current needs of the neighborhood, so that Church of the Atonement can establish meaningful relationship with their neighbors and address the concerns most relevant in their community.

 

St. Paul Episcopal - DeKalb New Grantee!     

Fostering Food Security and Fellowship

St. Paul Episcopal--in partnership with Northern Illinois University's Institute for Environment, Sustainability, and Energy (ESE) and in interfaith collaboration with area houses of worship, ministries, and community organizations—seeks to grow its existing gardens to combat food injustice, precarity, and insecurity. The enhanced St. Paul Gardens would be a nexus of learning, outreach, and community-building for all ages, abilities, and needs.

St. Ann's Episcopal Church – Woodstock Second Year Grantee

Momentum in McHenry

Through this grant, a Faith Leaders Collaborative of a variety of faith communities will continue to assess the social, human, and justice-basedneeds of the most vulnerablepeople of McHenry County.  This assessment will help St. Ann’s and the collaborative to organize and address theseneeds in order to provide workable solutions. 

 

St. James Episcopal Church - West Dundee Second Year Grantee

Little Fox Learning Center

A parish-sponsored tutoring service for after school and other available times to serve local students impacted or experiencing loss of momentum in basic learning skills. Staffed by professionals, specialists and trained volunteers, they willplace particular emphasis on providing tutoring to at risk students in our area who were negatively impacted by Covid, remote learning, or other issues. 

 

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe - Waukegan Second Year Grantee

Love Notes

With the Episcopal Charities grant, Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe will continue their work with the  Love Notes Project. This Educational program aims to address the high incidences of pregnancies in young girls within the Waukegan community. It engages five groups of adolescents in a curriculum to develop and maintain healthy relationships with their families, at school, among their friends, and within intimate relationships.