Program Areas
For the past 8 years, the Evans Family Foundation has focused on two core objectives.
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Legal aid, reproductive justice, community organizing and training.
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Each student receives what they need to develop to their full academic and social potential.
Grantees
Ernestine’s Daughter
Ernestine’s daughter takes a harm reduction and nonjudgmental approach so that people needing services feel compassionate care and support. Their staff, survivors of human trafficking, can better relate to women as they understand the recovery journey. Thus, Ernestine’s daughter can access the targeted population and encourage their entry into substance treatment.
GoodKidsMadCity-Englewood
Brings young community members together to build unity, nurture healing, and create a thriving community. Throughout the process, GKMC-E will collect data that will document real change and growth in the fight against violence in the Englewood community. In addition, GKMC-E will shift and frame the narrative on urban violence by amplifying the voices of those directly impacted.
Edovo
A non-profit organization providing educational, vocational, and rehabilitative curriculums and content to incarcerated people. At Edovo, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive, so fundamental learning should always be available at no cost to the incarcerated Learners we serve. We strive to create rehabilitative-focused correctional environments that lower recidivism, increase safety inside and outside correctional walls, and drive positive outcomes for incarcerated people and their families.
Gyrls in the H.O.O.D
They are the leading Chicagoland nonprofit organization that provides Black gyrls with the reproductive resources, social support services, and sexual health education they need to make informed and responsible choices.
Project OneTen
Supports Black & Brown boys during the critical transition to high school through targeted coaching, our research-based curriculum, and a solid community of peers and caring adults.
Foster Progress
Empowers Illinois youth currently or formerly in foster care to attain a college degree and transition into adulthood successfully by providing mentorship, advocacy, and educational opportunity.
Healing to Action
Promotes the individual and collective transformation of survivors through an eight week leadership program that builds relationships between survivors, facilitates their collective healing from trauma, and provides training so survivors can organize against structural barriers that perpetuate gender-based violence.
2024 giving
In 2024, the foundation awarded $450,000 in grants to create access to education and justice for people in the Chicago community.