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Dunham Fund
supported the
Aurora Historical Society's 2011
Civil War Reenactment held
on July 2 & 3.
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High School Graduates!
Learn about
Dunham Scholarships
at the
Community Foundation
of the
Fox River Valley.
You can apply for college scholarships online in December of each year.
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Dunham Fund Advisory Board
Stewart A. Beach
Wendy P. Hirsch
Ryan J. Maley
Janet B. Morcos
Michael J. Morcos
William B. Skoglund
Mark E. Truemper
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North Central College inspires first generation college students to become teachers
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2011 Teach First Dunham Scholars: front, left to right, Jennifer Schermerhorn, Kaitlyn Anders; back, left to right, Juan Carlos Ayala, Abel Sanchez;
Not pictured, Michael Schwartz, Courtney Blake |
Teach First was developed by North Central College to recruit and retain first-generation students who aspire to be teachers and to provide the mentorship and resources to launch these students into a successful teaching career. This multi-faceted mission is fulfilled through partnerships with high-need elementary and secondary schools, where Teach First students engage in educational outreach projects, obtain field experience and complete teaching internships, and, in some cases, are hired as full-time teachers.
This Dunham funded Teach First program is in partnership with East Aurora School District 131 to encourage East graduates to pursue the field of teaching with the hope they will return to their home school district as teachers. North Central College will match this Dunham Fund grant to expand this program well into the Dunham Fund Service area. $75,000 of this grant will be allocated to establish North Central College's Dunham Scholarship Fund for First Generation College Students within the Fund's service area.
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Friends of Aurora After-School Programs
 This $150,000, two year Dunham Fund grant will expand and enhance the Friends of Aurora After-School Programs, administered by Communities In Schools, and its Hope for Tomorrow Reading Mentor Program, which currently provides reading instruction by trained high school and college mentors to over 250 elementary school children with little or no knowledge of the English language for 25 weeks after school during the school year and 6 weeks during the summer.
These mentors live in the same neighborhoods as the children they instruct and utilize specialized reading materials and offer take-home books during extended hours in area school libraries. The mentors are supported by consultation with a Friends of Aurora social worker. The program, offered at no cost to all students, has plans to expand to other sites. The grant will also provide scholarship support for new and seasoned reading mentors in the Peer to Peer Mentoring Program. The intent is to keep student mentors employed and continuing their education in high school and college.
Standardized test scores in reading are collected for each elementary school student and Accelerated Reader Quizzes are administered to monitor student progress. The mentors also keep count of the number of books taken home by each student.
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Nonprofit Leadership Training Opportunities
Donors Forum Nonprofit Sustainability Training
The Dunham Fund made a $5,000 grant to provide individual awards, up to $500, to Aurora area nonprofit organizations eligible to send management staff and board leadership to The Illinois Nonprofit Conference in Springfield, Illinois on October 19, 2011. This conference, entitled Vital Signs . . . Keeping Nonprofits Healthy in Uncertain Time and sponsored by the Donors Forum and goodWorksconnect.org, will feature keynote, Steven D. Zimmerman, CPA, MBA, co-author of Nonprofit Sustainability, and will address "Integrating Impact, Finance, and Leadership for a Healthy Organization". Twelve nonprofit leaders from AID, Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry, Aurora Public Library, Communities In Schools, Fox Valley Habitat For Humanity, Mutual Ground and Wayside Cross Ministries will attend from the Aurora area.
Guardian Quest Diversity Training
The Dunham Fund also provided funding for a three-day Diversity-Centered Leadership Class for strategically selected community representatives who will serve on a city-wide task force whose mission will be to design and oversee a community-wide focus and campaign to understand and celebrate diversity in the Aurora area. The class, held in July, is to be followed by the first Focus Group to discuss the development of the process to facilitate this ongoing diversity program.
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The Dunham funded class included representatives of the State, City, Police Department, schools and nonprofit organizations. |
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We hope you've enjoyed the fall issue of our newsletter. Join us on the Dunham Fund website to learn more about the grants and scholarships awarded by the Dunham Fund.
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