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