Tuesday, August 13, 2024 – the DuPage County Board and representatives from DuPage Foundation welcomed grant recipients who were awarded $1.03 million in Immediate Intervention grants by the DuPage Community Transformation Partnership (DCTP). 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 DCTP was established in 2022 and is a $10 million grant program between DuPage County and DuPage Foundation to support social service not-for-profit organizations helping DuPage County residents.
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
Total DCTP Immediate Intervention Grant Distributions: $1,032,777
See project descriptions for each of the grantees here.
“The Immediate Intervention grant program was designed to have the highest level of impact in our communities and provide relief quickly to those in need,” said DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy. “Each year, the selection process allows us to effectively assess what the most pressing issues are in our County and direct our grant dollars directly to address those service or funding gaps. Collaborating with DuPage Foundation streamlines the process and ensures that we can make an important difference in these critical areas including mental health, substance use, housing instability, and food insecurity.”
In January 2022, the DuPage County Board executed an agreement to allocate federal funds received through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to DuPage Foundation for a multi-year grant program. The DCTP Fund will award $10 million in grants to address immediate and long-term needs in the community in response to the COVID-19 health emergency.
DCTP Immediate Intervention grants not only provide grantees financial resources to respond to the immediate needs of clients, they also allow agencies to quickly increase their organizational capacity to deliver efficient services and resources within the target service areas.
“We are incredibly proud of the impact this partnership is having on our community,” said DuPage Foundation President & CEO Mike Sitrick. “Despite being a county of tremendous resources, the needs in DuPage remain significant and urgent. We are honored to be leading with DuPage County in addressing them on behalf of our residents. The DCTP partnership is an outstanding example of the power of coordinated impact.”
The DCTP Committee is comprised of DuPage County and DuPage Foundation staff, Board members, and volunteers who review applications and select the grantees. To date, area not-for-profits have applied for and received funding for more than $6.8 million in Immediate Intervention and Transformational grants from the DCTP. For more information, please visit dupagefoundation.org/DCTP.
About the DuPage Community Transformation Partnership
The DuPage Community Transformation Partnership (DCTP) – a $10 million grant program between DuPage County and DuPage Foundation – supports social service not-for-profit organizations helping DuPage County residents in the areas of food insecurity, housing instability, mental health, and substance abuse. In 2022, the County Board voted to execute an agreement to allocate $10.6 million to DuPage Foundation in federal funds received through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for the grant program. The Foundation received $600,000 to administer the program and disburse the ARPA funds on behalf of the County. To date, more than $6.8 million has been awarded in Immediate Intervention and Transformational grants.
