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Leaders in Lake County partnered with The Chicago Community Trust in 2003 to create a permanent and endowed charitable resource that would meet the changing needs of the fast-growing county and benefit all its residents. Thus was born the Lake County Community Foundation.
Population growth in the county has exploded in recent years and with it has come a tremendous need for human services, health and education resources, environmental preservation, and other programs. The county is striving to deal with increased poverty and homelessness and to serve the needs of growing Latino and immigrant communities.
The Foundation focuses its grants on education, the arts, economic development, health, the environment and the needs of the county’s most vulnerable residents.
In 2006, 9 Lake County organizations received $81,500 from the Foundation. Some of our grants helped expand clinical services (The Lake County Haven), provided support for a mentoring program (Best Buddies Illinois) and paid for after-school programs (NICASA).
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