:: The Cricket Island Foundation ::

Our Grantmaking

Support To Established Organizations

In 2006, the Cricket Island Foundation developed a strategic and engaged approach to grantmaking. Our regionally-based cohort model now allows grassroots and emerging organizations to collaborate with established organizations within a geographically focused cohort. We focus regionally in order to strategically develop local organizations, build partnerships with and among grantees, and promote collaborations with local funders. We believe that we can most effectively support the field of youth led social change by providing strategic, deep, and long-term support to a small number of established organizations that:

See themselves as part of a larger movement for youth voice and youth-led social change, and operate in this spirit of collaboration with other organizations and stakeholders working towards the same goals.
Consider themselves learning organizations that test ideas, identify challenges, and strive to improve organizational outcomes.
Can serve as anchor organizations and field leaders that can share lessons learned with allied organizations.

The following organizations received five year, general operating support grants:

Albany Park Neighborhood Council                                            Chicago, IL
Appalshop's Appalachian Media Institute                                  Whitesburg, KY
Chicago Freedom School                                                             Chicago, IL
Global Action Project                                                                      New York, NY
Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility                                                           Brooklyn, NY
InnerCity Struggle                                                                           Los Angeles, CA
Inner-City Muslim Action Network                                                Chicago, IL
Korean American Resource and Cultural Center                    Chicago, IL
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization                    Chicago, IL
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition                  Bronx, NY
Oakland Kids First                                                                          Oakland, CA
Oasis Center                                                                                   Nashville, TN
Telpochcalli Community Education Project                               Chicago, IL
Youth Together                                                                                Oakland, CA
Youth United for Change                                                               Philadelphia, PA
Young Women's Empowerment Project                                    Chicago, IL