Clark McCain, Senior Program Officer reflects on The Coleman Foundation’s pivot to support entrepreneurship education in Chicago’s low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, and its strategy to grow a support network for them. Decades of support for entrepreneurship education and lessons learned from the UrbanMain pilot program shape the program.
The Coleman Foundation awarded 8 grants for a total of $1.5 million in July, August, and September 2021.
The Coleman Foundation bid a fond farewell to Mike Hennessy, and celebrated his 33 years of leadership.
The Coleman Foundation awarded twenty-three grants for a total of $1.75 million in April, May, and June 2021.
COVID-19 positive rates in Roseland and Washington Heights residents were sky high in January and February. The Coleman Foundation joined others in funding UChicago Medicine to provide a vaccine clinic at Woodson Library for anyone age 18 and older to help slow the spread of the virus in these communities.
Coleman Foundation funds community-based business support organizations to provide financial literacy training, but many entrepreneurs still don’t know they need it. A significant number of business owners in low and moderate-income neighborhoods were not able to access capital or apply for PPP loans. Learn more about what grantees are doing to address this financial literacy knowledge gap.
The Coleman Foundation named Thomas D. Trinley as CFO/COO.
The Coleman Foundation awarded ninety-three grants for a total of $1.59 million in January, February, and March 2021.
EDITION THREE: 2020 GRANTMAKING This was a year of doing our part to help grantees and members of our community get through the pandemic. The Foundation awarded $11.8 million in grants, including over $8 million as a response to COVID-19. Reflections On 2020 Letter from the CEO: Shelley Davis It’s hard to imagine a more …
This week Shelley Davis will take the helm of The Coleman Foundation. The Coleman Foundation invests about $8 million each year in programs that advance personal empowerment and well-being for residents of the Chicago Metro area. Shelley will succeed Michael Hennessy who began working with the Foundation in 1987 when he was an officer of …
