Tuesday, October 8, 2024 – the DuPage County Board and representatives from DuPage Foundation welcomed grant recipients who were awarded $3.37 million in Transformational grants by the DuPage Community Transformation Partnership (DCTP). The grants will help fund the work of 15 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:
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Grants: $ 2,761,315
- Alive Center: $98,000
- Easter Seals DuPage & Fox Valley: $322,200
- Glen Ellyn Children’s Resource Center: $100,000
- KidsMatter: $270,000
- Little Friends, Inc.: $241,000
- Metropolitan Family Services DuPage: $550,000
- Northeast DuPage Family and Youth Services: $398,500
- Outreach: $175,000
- Ray Graham Association: $223,615
- Serenity House Counseling Services, Inc.: $200,000
- Tri-Town YMCA: $183,000
Food Insecurity Grants: $155,410
- Neighborhood Food Pantries: $110,000
- People’s Resource Center: $45,410
Housing Instability Grants: $454,233
- Bridge Communities, Inc.: $223,620
- DuPagePads: $230,613
Total DCTP Transformational Grant Distributions: $3,370,958
Visit this link to see project descriptions for each of the grantees.
“The DCTP Transformational grant program was designed to create measurable impact in our communities and pave the way for solutions,” said DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy. “DuPage County and DuPage Foundation developed the partnership in response to the pandemic, providing both for our residents’ immediate needs, and to contribute to long term solutions, creating a positive impact even after the pandemic. The goal is to provide more service and better outcomes for people struggling with mental health and substance use problems, housing, and food insecurity. What we’ve found is that a whole community approach is crucial if we hope to tackle some of the most persistent and challenging issues we face in DuPage County.”
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.
DCTP Transformational grants are intended to support evidence-based programs focused on long-term solutions to build capacity, improve efficiency and ensure efficacy of programs.
“The DuPage County Board and DuPage Foundation had a shared vision of creating transformative, collective impact for our community at the start of this partnership, and we could not be more pleased with the results,” said DuPage Foundation President & CEO Mike Sitrick. “The challenges facing so many of our residents remain persistent and cannot be solved by either public or private intervention alone. Taking a ‘community approach,’ as Chair Conroy suggests, with our local government leaders, area businesses, private donors, and not-for-profits has the power to accomplish so much more as evidenced by the results we’ve achieved to date and will continue to see as these funds are put to work. I’m hopeful the DCTP will inspire future similar partnerships. It is already transforming our work at DuPage Foundation with our creation of new grant opportunities and the formation of a DuPage Funders’ Collaborative. The key to transformative change is collaboration.”
“The DuPage County Board and DuPage Foundation had a shared vision of creating transformative, collective impact for our community at the start of this partnership, and we could not be more pleased with the results,” said DuPage Foundation President & CEO Mike Sitrick. “The challenges facing so many of our residents remain persistent and cannot be solved by either public or private intervention alone. Taking a ‘community approach,’ as Chair Conroy suggests, with our local government leaders, area businesses, private donors, and not-for-profits has the power to accomplish so much more as evidenced by the results we’ve achieved to date and will continue to see as these funds are put to work. I’m hopeful the DCTP will inspire future similar partnerships. It is already transforming our work at DuPage Foundation with our creation of new grant opportunities and the formation of a DuPage Funders’ Collaborative. The key to transformative change is collaboration.”
The grants made Tuesday are the final DCTP grants to be made within the partnership established between the County and DuPage Foundation. Since 2022, a total of $10,450,000 in Immediate Impact and Transformational grants have been distributed to area not-for-profits. DuPage Foundation donor-advised fund representatives expanded the impact of this grant program by recommending an additional $450K to support Transformational projects. For more information, please visit dupagefoundation.org/DCTP.
