Focusing on the issues facing our women

The Key to Economic Independence

My readers know that the Eleanor Foundation seeks to help female heads-of-households with in­comes between $10,000 and $40,000. But you may not know how the Foundation arrived at the $40,000 figure.

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The Eleanor Foundation in the Media

February 15, 2011


Eleanor Foundation research cited in Huffington Post article by Chicago women's advocate Rebecca Sive. (PDF)

Chicago Tribune, "Training Program Aims to Help Struggling Women Find Paths to Success" (PDF)

Medill Reports Chicago, "Needed: More Strangers, More Kindness" (PDF)

PNN Online, "Troubling Statistics on Single Working Women's Challenges" (PDF)

Chicago Sun-Times, "Pols forget about single mothers" (PDF)

Copyline News Magazine, "Eleanor Foundation Unveils Troubling Statistics on Single Working Women's Challenges" (PDF)

Lawndale News, "Troubling Statistics on Single Working Women" (PDF)

PNN Online, "Eleanor Foundation Awards $729,000 to 8 Chicago Nonprofits" (PDF)

Philanthropy Journal, "Eleanor Foundation gives $729,000"

ABC 7 Chicago, WLS-TV, "Report: Single mothers making due with less" (PDF)

Agence Free Press, "US report shatters stereotype of leeching single mom" (PDF)

Bay Ledge News Zone, "US report shatters stereotype of leeching single mom" (PDF)

Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ, "Report examines true identity of single mothers"

Community Beat, "Single working moms: these women are community assets"

Crain's Chicago Business, an end note on Greg Hinz's blog

Education News, "More single working mothers live in suburbs than cities" (PDF)

La Raza, "Single Mothers in Chicago (Madres Solteras en Chicago)" (PDF)

Lawndale News, "The state of single motherhood (Madres Solteras)" (PDF)

Singapore Straits Times, "Single mums not leeches" (PDF)

Times Union | 518 Moms, "Single mothers: portrait of self reliance"

Chicago Tribune, "An open home, heart light way out of despair" (PDF)

Philanthropy News Digest, "Eleanor Foundation Awards $1.27 Million to Support Working Women in Chicago" (PDF)

Progress Illinois, "Chicago Foundation Lends A Hand To Working Moms" (PDF)

Learn Kamilyn's Story


Unemployed and living in a shelter with her three children, Kamilyn asked for help. She found it at The Cara Program, an Eleanor Network partner. Now, Kamilyn works full-time, raises her family in a four-bedroom apartment, and goes to college. "You have to set an example for your kids. You're their Spiderman and their Superman. So if they see you defeated, they'll think they can't do anything themselves."

Read more of Kamilyn's story