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Preference will be given to grant applicant organizations located within the Dunham Fund service area defined as the area lying within Kane, DuPage and Kendall Counties in Illinois . . . That area bounded on the north by Illinois Route 38, on the east by Illinois Route 59, on the south by U.S. Route 34 and on the west by Illinois Route 47.
Organizations ouside the service area may apply for grants, but proposed projects must demonstrate a significant impact in the Dunham Fund's service area.
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Dunham Fund Advisory Board
Stewart A. Beach
Wendy P. Hirsch
Ryan J. Maley
Janet B. Morcos
Michael J. Morcos
Mark E. Truemper
William B. Skoglund
Executive Director
Robert W. Vaughan
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DUNHAM FUND Grant Cycle
The Dunham Fund Grant Application process begins with a Letter of Inquiry, signed by the applicant organization's Board Chair and Chief Executive Officer. 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.
Rebuilding Together Aurora Year-Round Handyman Program; 2010 Dunham Fund grant recipient. | 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). Grant applicants may also be selected to make oral presentations of their projects to the Dunham Fund Board of Advisors.
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Rebuilding Together Aurora . . .
To encourage a grant recipient to seek program funding from other sources, the Dunham Fund provides matching grant opportunities . . .
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of Naperville sponsors and rehabs a home for RTA each April. Volunteers work on a home in Ward 7 on Kendall Street in Aurora. | Rebuidling Together Aurora's mission is to bring volunteers and communities together to improve the homes of low-income homeowners so that they may live in warmth, safety, and independence. Since its founding in 1993, the organization has done home repairs on over 270 homes, engaged over 2,500 volunteers in communtiy rehab efforts, and invested over $850,000 into essential home repairs for low-income families in Aurora.
The Dunham Fund recently awarded a grant of $10,000 to the organization's Year-Round Handyman Program with a matching challenge of $2 for every $1 of additional funding raised by RTA up to $15,000. This program provides smaller scale, more immediate repairs to low-income seniors and disabled homeowners, focusing on ADA modifications and fall prevention services as needed. RTA has partnered with Quad County Urban League's YouthBuild program that teaches youth, ages 16 to 24, construction trade skills in a classroom and real life setting. RTA has hired an independent contractor with thirty years of high school trade teaching to run the on-site implementation and work scope diagnosis for the projects.
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DuPage Children's Museum implements Kindergarten Math Initiative in Aurora School District 131
The Museum's "Feel a Pattern" exercise for kindergarten students | In its first grant making cycle for 2010, the Dunham Fund awarded a grant to DuPage Children's Museum to support the implementation of the Kindergarten Math Initiative (KMI) for all kindergarten classrooms in Aurora School District 131 during the 2010-2011 school year.
KMI is a school learning lab program at DuPage Children's Museum that uses a child-centered, hands-on approach to improve math literacy for kindergarten students and impacts later success in math. This program has been implemented and evaluated with over 13,000 kindergarten students in DuPage County over the last three years and in September 2009 won the Best Practice Award for the Association of Midwest Museums as "an excellent model for best practices for other museums in the Midwest."
Over 1,200 kindergarten students from District 131 will explore core math concepts, meet state and national learning standards and experience the wonders of looking at the world with math. The district's 27 classroom teachers will select one of two hands-on programs for their students for a one hour to ninety minute KMI learning lab at the Museum. The two programs are "Patterns, Strategies and Number Sense" and "GeoSpace". Over 175 parent volunteers will accompany the classes to the museum. The teachers will receive pre- and post-visit materials to extend the student's KMI experience to daily classroom activities.
This program will provide an invaluable and previously unattainable learning experience to the kindergarten students in an under-resourced school district.
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Meet the DUNHAM FUND Advisors . . .
Mark E. Truemper
 Mark Truemper currently serves as one of the Dunham Advisors. He is also a Senior Vice President in the Wealth Management Group at the First American Bank. Previously he worked at the Old Second National Bank's Wealth Management Group. Mark holds a BS degree in Finance from Northern Illinois University and is a Graduate of the School for Bank Administration.
He is a lifelong resident of Aurora, Illinois. Mark and his wife Pam have two daughters, one son-in-law and three grandchildren who also live in the Aurora area.
Mark had the privilege of working with John Dunham for over 25 years and was always impressed with his work ethic, devotion to his employees, and his desire to make Aurora a better place to live and to provide help to individuals who have worked to overcome hardships and want to make a difference in our community.
At the Dunham Fund we are trying to carry on John's life long dream of making the Aurora area a better place to live through providing seed money to fund innovative and collaborative programs that can lead to high-impact change in the community and long term funding of these programs through the ongoing funding commitment of both public and private sectors. We are fortunate to live in a community that has capable and effective agencies, who have demonstrated the ability to implement and administer these collaborative and innovative programs.
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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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