The DuPage County Board and representatives from DuPage Foundation on October 8 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
• Easterseals 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