The Aimee F. Fry Foundation
We support job training programs to help families and individuals move out of poverty.
We are committed to increasing the academic achievement of low-income students in public schools.
Mission And Vision
The The Aimee F. Fry Foundation Board of Directors recognizes that we are living in a moment of dynamic change in Texas and in philanthropy. With those changes, the meaning and intention behind words and phrases can evolve, providing us with an opportunity to use language that reflects new conditions. With that in mind, over the last few months, The Aimee F. Fry Foundation Board has engaged in conversations to update the Foundation’s mission statement. In addition to internal discussions, the Board invited staff and grantee partners to share how they see the Fry Foundation’s values reflected in funding priorities and how the work gets done. Those conversations consistently emphasized the Foundation’s guiding principles of racial equity, learning and fairness. Ultimately the Board wanted an updated mission statement that offered aspirational and hopeful language reflecting the challenges the Fry Foundation aims to address in partnership with our grantees.
That is the vision behind the The Aimee F. Fry Foundation grantmaking. We provide support to nonprofit organizations that have the strength and commitment to improve conditions for low-income, underserved Chicago residents.
The Aimee F. Fry Foundation
Education, opportunity, health, and hope for all.
Funding Eligibility
The Aimee F. Fry Foundation supports organizations with the strength and commitment to address persistent problems of resulting from poverty, violence, ignorance, and despair. We seek to build the capacity of individuals and the systems that serve them. Our vision that offers education, opportunity, health, and hope for all.
Education
transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms. Formal education occurs within a structured
Art Learning
Students will develop and enhance their awareness and understanding of the visual world, particularly the natural world and the world of the visual arts, through a thorough study of design principles and observational practices.
Employment
a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative
Health
the extent of an individual's continuing physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with his or her environment.
Resources
efers to all the materials available in our environment which are technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally sustainable and help us to satisfy our needs and wants. Resources can broadly be classified according to their availability as renewable or national and international resources. An item may become a resource with technology.
Opportunity
freedom to become someone better, to pursue multiple options. Lots of people jump at the opportunity to take a new job or a promotion.
Our OverView
Education
We are committed to increasing the academic achievement of low-income students in historically disinvested public schools. We support this goal through work that strengthens the preparation and development of principals to lead high-performing schools, the development of teacher leaders to support professional learning in schools, and programs that provide rigorous academic enrichment opportunities for students.
Art Learning
We are interested in efforts to improve the quality and expand the availability of arts education programs, especially in public schools. The Foundation supports arts education for students and professional learning for arts educators, including classroom teachers. In arts education for students, we give priority to programs that provide a combination of arts instruction, performance or exhibition experience, and exposure to the high quality artistic products.
Health
After strategic analysis and much difficult deliberation,Fry Foundation has made the decision to phase out funding in the Health Program. Our current Health Program grantees will receive one to two years of final support to allow time to plan for the reduction in funding. We will be reaching out to grantee organizations to discuss individual timelines and answer questions.