the Active Children Excel Project provides after school tennis lessons to children in Dolton and Riverdale Elementary District 148.
Parent teacher mentors from the ACE Project gather for an end of the year celebration party. The ACE Project is a youth development nonprofit that teaches tennis to underserved youth in Riverdale and Dolton. Cook County awarded $3 million in starting block grants to support 31 smaller nonprofit organizations looking to expand and make infrastructure improvements, including five headquartered in the south suburbs, with many more serving Southland municipalities.
“Those various things often get underserved while the nonprofit is just surviving from one direct service grant to the next,” Das said.The project, which started in 2013 to provide after school tennis lessons to children in Dolton and Riverdale, began with a $4,000 equipment grant, Klumpner said. The the project quickly expanded to service youth in five elementary schools in Elementary District 148, offering a range of services including tennis lessons, academic assistance and arts and crafts.
Robert Sims, left, site coordinator, Dedra Burnett, program director, Melanie Stamps, program activities manager, and Sylvia Woodall, a parent mentor, practice a communication exercise during the ACE Project’s spring staff professional development seminar. “We’ve been an organization now for 11 years, and the back of the house is the least fortified … because we’ve always put all the money that we’ve had into our programs, into serving kids,” Klumpner said.
The grants came from a special purpose fund created by the county in November 2021 for equity and inclusion, which was designed to address historic disparities in marginalized communities in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.
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