DuPage Community Transformation Partnership

About the Program

Category: Human Services (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

DuPage County, in conjunction with the DuPage Foundation, created the DuPage Community Transformation Partnership, a $10M grant program designed to address both immediate and long-term needs in the areas of food insecurity, housing instability, mental health, and substance use disorder. By forming the partnership with a community foundation, DuPage County was able to leverage the expertise and capacity of private philanthropy in order to advance the County's mission to respond to the pandemic and its subsequent economic impact. Formally created in February of 2022, the DCTP issued two rounds of grants in 2022. Immediate intervention grants, those proposals that addressed urgent needs with immediate implementation, resulted in 18 agencies receiving just over $1.1M. Transformational grants, those proposals that outlined increases in capacity, efficiency, or otherwise transformed service delivery systems, resulted in 17 agencies receiving just under $3.9M for a 2-year period. The Partnership will issue an additional round of immediate intervention grants in 2023, and a final round of transformational grants in 2024.