Endeavor Health is committed to helping everyone in our communities be their best. We are proud to support these local partners through awards from our Community Investment Fund (CIF).
2024 partnerships
This year’s awards will support organizations and initiatives dedicated to behavioral health, violence prevention, housing and food insecurity, access to care and workforce development.
Primary focus: housing insecurity
Funded program: provide youth experiencing homelessness with emergency housing, case management and trauma-informed services at a new resource center
Communities: Naperville, Aurora
Duration: 2-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $570,000
Website: https://360youthservices.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: support teen-led programming to enhance confidence, belonging, vitality, coping, and leadership skills
Communities: Naperville, Aurora
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $189,000
Website: https://alivecenter.org/
Primary focus: workforce development
Funded program: inspire Evanston students and young adults through healthcare career exploration opportunities, in partnership with the City of Evanston, Evanston Township High School and iKit, the Evanston Work Ethic (WE) Program, Youth Job Center, Endeavor Health, and more
Communities: Evanston
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $600,000
Website: https://www.cityofevanston.org/government/departments/health-human-services/workforce-development
Primary focus: workforce development
Funded program: connect Lake County students and young adults with healthcare career exploration opportunities, in partnership with District 113 (Highland Park/Deerfield), District 116 (Round Lake), District 127 (Grayslake), College of Lake County, Rosalind Franklin University, University Center, Youth Build, and Lake County Workforce Development
Communities: Grayslake, Round Lake, Highland Park, Highwood , North Chicago
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2023
Award: $430,000
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: expand domestic violence support programs to end the cycle of abuse, including counseling, financial empowerment workshops, and family engagement outings
Communities: Chicago, Evanston
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $463,237
Website: https://betweenfriendschicago.org/
Primary focus: housing insecurity
Funded program: provide transitional housing for families facing homelessness and financial and life-skills coaching for long-lasting economic independence
Communities: Glen Ellyn
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $878,500
Website: https://bridgecommunities.org/
Primary focus: access to care
Funded program: provide those experiencing homelessness wraparound care to heal and recover through a Medical Respite program
Communities: Evanston
Duration: 2-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $400,000
Website: http://www.connect2home.org/
Primary focus: financial wellbeing
Funded program: expand medical debt relief and navigation of financial assistance programs, financial literacy education and coaching, and advocacy
Communities: DuPage County
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $759,333
Website: https://accessdupage.org/
Primary focus: housing insecurity
Funded program: support emergency housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness, including basic care such as food, clothing, and case management combined with intensive and stabilizing support to meet complex needs and help clients reach their long-term housing solution
Communities: Downers Grove
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $750,000
Website: https://dupagepads.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: provide a safe and inclusive space for children and their families to receive support and build a strong foundation for improved rehabilitation and overall health outcomes, improving family stability, and helping a child succeed at home, at school, and in their community
Communities: Villa Park
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $750,000
Website: https://www.easterseals.com/dfv/
Primary focus: food insecurity
Funded program: acquire and develop new location, growing capacity to provide healthy food and basic necessities to underserved communities
Communities: Elmhurst
Duration: 1-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $330,000
Website: https://www.eyfp.org/
Primary focus: access to care
Funded program: expand outreach, education, and support to facilitate access to primary care and timely preventive cancer screening
Communities: Lake County
Duration: 1-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $115,490
Website: https://equalhope.org/
Primary focus: access to care
Funded program: provide bilingual, bi-cultural and comprehensive medical care, mental health services, and prenatal care in Lake County
Communities: Highwood
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2023
Award: $600,000
Website: https://fenixclinic.org/
Primary focus: access to care
Funded program: expand health care access for the underserved including through a new pediatric practice at Greater Family Health’s Franklin Park location
Communities: Franklin Park
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $1,100,000
Website: https://greaterfamilyhealth.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: improve mental health and integration of youth who have experienced forced migration through school-based trauma-informed services and capacity building for caregivers and staff
Communities: Chicago
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $633,572
Website: https://www.heartlandalliance.org/program/marjorie-kovler-center/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: expand bilingual mental health education, counseling, case management, and health education programming, including support groups and dedicated outreach personnel
Communities: Highwood, Mundelein, Waukegan
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $1,854,000
Website: https://highwoodlibrary.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: Upskill staff and expand capacity to treat people experiencing complex trauma, especially those in the LGBTQ+ community
Communities: Chicago
Duration: 2-year
Year awarded: 2023
Award: $402,175
Website: https://howardbrown.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: provide school-based mental health counseling services to students and families with a focus on underserved populations
Communities: Aurora, Bolingbrook, Plainfield, Naperville
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $1,250,666
Website: https://www.ipsd.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: enhance mobile behavioral health crisis response, providing safe, accessible and 24/7 mental health services, navigation and follow-up
Communities: Elk Grove Village, Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Mount Prospect
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2023
Award: $600,000
Website: https://www.kennethyoung.org/
Primary focus: workforce development
Funded program: provide healthcare career exposure for teens including behavioral and mental health professions, Youth Mental Health First Aid training for adults, and teen Mental Health First Aid training for high school students
Communities: Aurora, Bolingbrook, Plainfield, Naperville
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $750,000
Website: https://kidsmatter2us.org/
Primary focus: workforce development
Funded program: renovate facility to enhance adult day services and launch new job training program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Communities: Warrenville
Duration: 1-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $300,000
Website: https://www.littlefriendsinc.org/
Primary focus: food insecurity
Funded program: promote increased access to food via mobile delivery, and extended evening and weekend hours for the pantry
Communities: Naperville
Duration: 1-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $297,000
Website: https://www.loaves-fishes.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: expand access to behavioral health care at LSSI's Welcoming Center, a walk-in community mental health clinic that provides counseling, crisis intervention, psychiatric serves, and follow-up to hospitalizations
Communities: Chicago
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $600,000
Website: http://www.lssi.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: increase access to treatment, follow‐up services, and recovery for behavioral health conditions and substance use disorders (SUD)
Communities: Naperville, Elmhurst
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $945,000
Website: https://hcenter.org/
Primary focus: access to care
Funded program: provide accessible, affordable, culturally sensitive primary, preventive and specialty medical, dental and behavioral healthcare to under-resourced, un/underinsured community members
Communities: Chicago, Evanston, Lincolnwood, Skokie
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $665,000
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: support training and development of peer mental health specialists to increase access to mental health services to the community
Communities: Naperville
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $609,428
Website: https://namidupage.org/
Primary focus: access to care
Funded program: reduce barriers to learning and increase potential for academic success through access to mental health services and support with housing, transportation, child care, access to care, and more
Communities: Naperville
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $750,000
Website: https://nef203.org/
Primary focus: violence prevention
Funded program: support gun violence prevention and response programming, including outreach, mentoring, mediation, advocacy, and financial literacy
Communities: Chicago
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $505,428
Website: https://www.onenorthside.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: expand access to affordable behavioral health services in eastern DuPage County through the newly established Outreach Counseling Center - York
Communities: Villa Park, Lombard
Duration: 2-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $674,533
Website: https://weareoutreach.org/
Primary focus: access to care
Funded program: increase access to vital resources for new immigrants and low-income residents, including food, clothing, and other social support services through intake and case management
Communities: Palatine, Rolling Meadows, Arlington Heights
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $430,408
Website: https://www.poc.news/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: expand services to treat substance use disorders and provide ongoing recovery support for Northern Cook County residents involved with the criminal justice system
Communities: Cook County
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2023
Award: $1,026,926
Websites: https://peerservices.org/ and https://www.tasc.org/tascweb/home.aspx
Primary focus: food insecurity
Funded program: create a comprehensive PRC Wheaton Campus featuring an expanded food pantry and increased education and empowerment program space to better serve our neighbors and meet growing community needs
Communities: Wheaton
Duration: 2-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $627,000
Website: https://www.peoplesrc.org/
Primary focus: workforce development
Funded program: recruit, train and launch firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) careers with a focus on young adults and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Communities: Romeoville
Duration: 1-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $100,000
Primary focus: access to care
Funded program: expand mobile medical services in Lake County to improve health equity and long-term health outcomes, including screenings, educational sessions, vaccinations, point-of-care testing, conveniently delivered “on location” at trusted community organizations
Communities: Northern Lake County
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $1,750,050
Website: https://www.rfuclinics.com/services/caring-for-our-community/community-care-connection/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: remove critical transportation barrier to community-based services for children and families at risk and in need, including health care, counseling, job training, and support groups
Communities: Palatine
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $226,360
Website: https://www.shelter-inc.org/
Primary focus: access to care
Funded program: connect immigrant community in Will and DuPage counties to health insurance benefits and other available community resources to break down barriers to healthcare access through trusted team of health justice workers, navigators, and community health workers
Communities: Will & DuPage County
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $750,000
Website: https://www.ssipchicago.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: support construction of a recovery home for women and their children, including education and job training programs
Communities: Joliet
Duration: 2-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $300,000
Website: https://steppingstonestreatment.com/
Primary focus: financial wellbeing
Funded program: support the building of a new commercial hub for startups, small businesses, Black entrepreneurs and Evanston job creation
Communities: Evanston
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $500,000
Website: https://theauxevanston.com/
Primary focus: food insecurity
Funded program: support low-stigma food pantry, food rescue, mobile outreach, and navigation to public benefits and resources in Chicago
Communities: Chicago
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $504,250
Website: https://friendshipcenterchicago.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: support youth mental health and wellness programs through outreach, expanded team of bilingual parent navigators, transportation, and health care career pathway experiences
Communities: Villa Park, Lombard, Oakbrook Terrace
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $540,000
Website: https://tritownymca.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: create an accessible mobile unit to expand access to mental health services, reduce stigma, and raise awareness of behavioral health community resources
Communities: Evanston
Duration: 3-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $571,600
Website: http://www.tpoint.org/
Primary focus: food insecurity
Funded program: Expand access to healthy foods via community partner distribution enabled by ordering kiosks, storage lockers, and a refrigerated truck
Communities: Downers Grove
Duration: 1-year
Year awarded: 2024
Award: $151,600
Website: https://wscpantry.org/
Primary focus:access to care
Funded program: promote culturally responsive outreach, health and behavioral health education, health screenings, healthcare case management and navigation support for individuals in Lake County, including referrals which connect individuals to local social service and medical agencies
Communities: Northern Lake County
Duration: 2-year
Year awarded: 2023
Award: $379,993
Website: https://www.ywcachicago.org/
Previous awards
We are honored to have supported the work of the following community-based organizations in these past partnerships.
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: support renovation of a new behavioral health services facility in Waukegan for Lake County residents, especially Medicaid patients
Communities: Northern Lake County
Duration: 1-year
Year awarded: 2023
Award: $550,000
Website:https://www.josselyn.org/
Primary focus: food insecurity
Funded program: mobile food delivery program
Communities: Naperville
Duration: 1-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $325,500
Website: https://www.loaves-fishes.org/
Primary focus: behavioral health
Funded program: provide behavioral health services, including individual and group counseling sessions for Budlong Elementary in Chicago
Communities: Chicago
Duration: 1-year
Year awarded: 2023
Award: $120,000
Website:http://www.lssi.org/
Primary focus: workforce development
Funded program: Nursing Workforce Pathway Program
Communities: DuPage County
Duration: 1-year
Year awarded: 2022
Award: $93,000
Website: https://www.vnahealth.com/
Primary focus: access to care
Funded program: support new space and multilingual services for citizenship and English language classes, group and youth services and case management
Communities: Chicago
Duration: 1-year
Year awarded: 2023
Award: $500,000
Website:https://rccchicago.org/
