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Dunham Fund
Grant Application
The Dunham Fund Grant Application process begins with a Letter of Inquiry. Dunham Fund grants have been made for as little as $5,000 and are currently limited to $1M annually. Organizations seeking Dunham Fund support may submit a Letter of Inquiry on February 1 or June 1 during two annual grant cycles.
The Letter of Inquiry will be reviewed and an Invitation to Apply will be extended by the Dunham Fund to selected organizations. These organizations will be asked to complete a grant application to be submitted by the first business day in May (Grant Cycle I) or October (Grant Cycle II).
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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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Dunham Fund supports Patient Education at Provena Mercy Medical Center
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Chairman, Stewart Beach, presents Dunham Fund grant to Provena Mercy's Capital Campaign Chairs, Dr. Tom and Trudy Huberty, at Mercy's Centennial Gala on May 21, 2011. |
Dunham Fund Chairman, Stewart Beach, presented a grant to Provena Mercy Medical Center at the hospital's Centennial Gala on May 21, 2011. In Mr. Beach's words, "When John C. Dunham, Aurora businessman and philanthropist, created the Dunham Fund, his intention was to use his personal resources to assist others in the Fox Valley to attain heights they may not have attained without the benefit of such assistance. As a man with an entrepreneurial spirit, he wanted to create a more comfortable, safer place for mankind to live and prosper. Since Mr. Dunham's death in 2006, the Dunham Fund's Board of Advisors continues to honor his legacy through annual grant making and scholarship programs which enhance the quality of life of our area citizens through educational programming and community development."
The Advisory Board feels that the Medical Center's Century of Powerful Healing Room Renovation and Privatization Project is important to the community. The Fund's lead gift of $205,000 to the hospital will provide a state-of-the-art, technologically-advanced delivery system for educational televised programming that will be easily accessible 24 hours a day to the patient in his private room and to health care providers throughout the hospital. The educational hardware and software will be used to orient, instruct, and discharge the patient with information specific to his medical condition and will be an integral part of the physician's treatment protocol for individual patients, with a direct link to their electronic medical records. The TGER-7 system will also be utilized for the ongoing education and training of the hospital's health care professionals. The Dunham Fund Advisors believe that this project will enable Provena Mercy Medical Center to continue to provide quality healthcare to better-informed patients and care providers well into the next century.
Mr. Beach also commented that Mr. Dunham had spent some time at Mercy during his later years and that he and the Advisors that visited John were very impressed with the compassionate and quality care provided at the medical center. The Dunham Fund has also provided scholarship support to Provena Mercy and other local hospitals and health care organizations through its Dunham Nursing Scholars program and health education program grants.
View a video about Provena Mercy's Century of Powerful Healing
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Dunham Fund announces
2011 Dunham Scholars
View the Beacon News Recognition Ad
The 2011 Dunham Scholarship recipients are Michael Bass, West Aurora High School, attending Northern Illinois University; Carolina Galindo, Rosary High School, attending Loyola University; Robert Lauzen, West Aurora High School, attending Dartmouth College; Gerardo Paleo, East Aurora High School, attending Washington University; Joseph Reckamp, Batavia High School, attending Vanderbilt University; and Alejandra Saldana, East Aurora High School, attending Harvard University.
The Dunham Scholrship Fund has been created within the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley. The Dunham scholarships are based upon academic excellence and financial need. All fields of study are considered. Special consideration is given to students who have displayed extraordinary character and outstanding initiative in overcoming personal obstacles to achieve their educational goals. In 2011, the Dunham Scholarship Fund provided six $30,000, four year scholarships to students residing in the Fund's service area and attending: Aurora Central Catholic High School, Aurora Christian School, Batavia Senior High School, East Aurora High School, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Marmion Academy, Metea Valley High School, Mooseheart High School, Rosary High School, Waubonsie Valley High School or West Aurora High School.
High School seniors may apply for 2012 scholarships from December 2011 through January 2012 at www.communityfoundationfrv.org.
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Meet the DUNHAM FUND Advisors . . .
Wendy P. Hirsch
 Wendy Hirsch has worked in property management for Prestbury Subdivision and for a condo association of airplane hangars in the Aurora area for the past eighteen years and for a large shopping center in Toledo, Ohio in the past. She has had a variety of additional work experiences as a financial analyst for Dun and Bradstreet, as a production secretary and coordinator for several movies, and loves working in retail sales and has done so on a part-time basis for many years.
Wendy has volunteered for Between Friends Food Pantry in Sugar Grove, Senior Services of Kane County, and Friends of Child Advocacy, Kane County. She enjoys scrapbooking and is currently working on compiling and creating "scrapbooks of appreciation" for people to gift to the family and friends of the critically ill.
Wendy feels "very fortunate to have been chosen by John and Judy Dunham to sit on the Board of Advisors of the Dunham Fund. It is a real privilege to help our community in any way possible."
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We hope you've enjoyed the summer 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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