McHenry County Community Foundation
2007 Grant Recipients
A gift from the Dooley Family Fund is being gifted to this agency to assist with the
creation of a 6-week course titled Empowering the Adoptive Family. The program will
help adoptive and foster families provide care to children in McHenry County.
Expansion of a successful in-home child care program will now take place with a goal to
prevent long-term residential care for autistic children.
Volunteer training will allow for 25 citizens to serve abused and neglected children
during judicial proceedings in McHenry County.
Cartoon art instruction will be offered to court-supervised teens and at-risk children at the
Willow Brooke Resource Center in Woodstock.
The show will go on, thanks to this grant in support of stage equipment for productions
that are sure to encourage community participation of both children and adults in
McHenry County.
Funds will be used to purchase laptop computers to enhance activity kits for use in the
parental portion of the Head Start Spanish speaking family program.
Necessary textbooks and a PowerPoint projector will be furnished through this grant in
support of on-site financial literacy education to persons who are homeless, jobless or
challenged with developmental and/or mental disabilities.
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The organization has secured funding to hire a current consultant to work full-time.
Funds from this Community Foundation grant will allow expansion of patient assistance
and advocacy materials needed in support of the new position.
Volunteers for Faith in Action will soon have a Senior Transportation Options booklet to
distribute to area seniors with support of this grant that will make the production of the
booklet possible.
New and improved playground equipment will soon be available for park visitors thanks
to wise planning for future needs by the citizens of Fox River Grove. This grant is made
possible through the Fox River Grove Parks Fund.
A program titled Listening with the Whole Body will be created and offered to assist
young students living in Grafton Township who have sensory integration disabilities.
The Community Foundation will join in the community effort with this grant to support
the creation of an inpatient unit at Centegra’s South Street facility in Woodstock planned
to provide 24-hour care to Hospice patients.
Outreach Expansion is a new program that will double the pace of land protection efforts
at the Land Conservancy in order to take advantage of a one year tax benefit to
individuals donating land for conservation efforts.
Support for supplies to provide healthy, suitable horses for this unique therapeutic
program encourages improved development of clients.
This family support agency has coordinated assisted horse back riding lessons through
the Midwest Center for Children’s Development for the enjoyment and learning benefit
of its young adult members with severe and profound disabilities.
Created by a family who realized the need for a certified nursing curriculum at McHenry
County College, a fund was established to support the implementation of such a program.
We are beginning our third year in providing funds to the Friends of the McHenry
County College Foundation with the goal to soon offer students the option of a certified
nursing program. In two years, the college has received $187,540 in grant dollars for the
creation of this very special program.
This program provides music education numerous opportunities for the youth of
McHenry County.
Project Fresh Start offers a variety of professional classes for veterans who are displaced,
disabled, homeless or otherwise in transition.
Grants for camp opportunities will be available through the Northern Illinois Special
Recreation Association for individuals with mental and/or physical disabilities,
behavioral/emotional disorders and/or youth at-risk.
Recreational groups for parents and children with developmental delays ages 0 – 3 will
receive funds to provide programming needs in five different McHenry County locations
to ensure better family access.
Legal services for PADS clients will be offered through a pilot program resulting in
monthly office hours to meet with legal personnel at the PADS Day Center.
These funds will be used to assist with the purchase of a vehicle needed for client rides to
counseling and out-patient appointments.
The dream of new playground equipment will become reality for SEDOM students,
making all the apparatus handicapped accessible.
This grant offers help for case management and support services to the clients at the
newly opened emergency shelter located on Highway 14 in Woodstock.
An Easy-Stand can now be purchased for residents at Hearthstone Manor in Woodstock.
This device will allow residents who can stand for short periods the ability to transfer
themselves from one location to another without assistance from personnel.
This gift is in support of efforts through the Woodstock Congregational Unitarian Church
to participate in the McHenry County Public Action to Deliver Shelter, or PADS
program.
This donor-advised fund produced grant is in support of the Library’s Classical Music
Program, an annual librarian scholarship, and a genealogy subscription, all made possible
through the Carol & Minno Halma Family Fund.
This gift is in support of Christmas Clearinghouse coordinated by the Woodstock Rotary
Club. Christmas Clearinghouse provides food and gifts to needy families in Wonder Lake
and Woodstock during the holidays.
Provides defibrillators to our community – recipients to date: schools, public facilities
and recently County Sheriff’s vehicles, all in memory of Sara Schacht of Woodstock, a
vibrant young woman who died unexpectedly at the age of 17 of Sudden Cardiac Arrest
in January 2003.
For McHenry County students attending McHenry County College.
Graduate of Marian Catholic High School with plans to study Education.
All grant dollars gifted through the McHenry County Community Foundation during this
calendar year:
Total Grant Dollars gifted through the McHenry County Community Foundation to date:
