The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation

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Front Cover: The Loop lakefront as seen in a photograph by Terry Evans from an exhibit of her work “Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait,” which traveled to Prague, Czech Republic. The exhibit was supported by the Driehaus Foundation.

This page:

Detail from the interior of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, in the 1883 Samuel M. Nickerson Mansion.

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T

hrough our grants,

The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation

seeks to improve the built environment,

to ameliorate the effects of low wages,

to enhance the city through the arts,

and to use investigative reporting to strengthen

our democracy. Interspersed through this

three-year report are quotations from a selection of

our grant recipients about their work.

We recognize the challenges they face every day,

applaud their skills and persistence, and take pride

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Th e B u i lt E n v i ron m e n t

In the introduction to his book

Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago

, Pulitzer

Prize-winning architectural critic Blair Kamin writes: “From highways to high-rises,

schools to subways, bridges to baseball parks, architecture refl ects our values and

our visions, and, in turn, it shapes just about everything we do. It is not a frill. It is

essential to the quality of life.”

Blair Kamin’s words echo our values. Believing that everyone deserves

good design, and that design can help enhance quality of life, our funding priority

has been to support programs that benefi t people in all neighborhoods. The social

aspects of architecture and design interest us along with the aesthetic concerns.

Chicago’s greystones and bungalows, and even its original public housing that

housed so many working-class and low-income people, were well-designed and

often beautiful homes. There are many examples as well of parks, schools, libraries,

and other public buildings that enhance their neighborhoods that still exemplify

what makes a livable community.

We have celebrated good design for ten years through The Richard H.

Driehaus Foundation Awards for Architectural Excellence in Community Design.

In the last decade, these awards have become one of the city’s most prestigious in

architecture. More importantly, they have acknowledged how good new design in

low- and moderate-income areas anchors the process of redevelopment and helps to

strengthen community pride.

Preserving history, however, is equally important to us. In 2006,

Chicago lost three Louis Sullivan buildings to devastating fi res: Pilgrim Baptist

Church, the Wirt Dexter Building, and the George Harvey House. Though we cannot

assist the many buildings that need restoration, the foundation does support the

organizations that provide advocacy, technical assistance, and educational programs.

We are working to re-establish the services once offered by Inspired Partnerships,

a nonprofi t group that helped congregations fi nd the most cost-effi cient ways to

maintain their buildings. Convening Landmarks Illinois and the national Partners

for Sacred Places, the foundation made a grant for a pilot project that worked

with thirteen congregations to provide skills seldom found outside of restoration

architectural circles. The successful pilot led us to provide a challenge grant to the

partnership in 2007 to start a permanent program in Chicago.

Richard Nickel photograph of the Troescher Building column detail with the Civic Opera House in the background. The Adler & Sullivan-designed Troescher was razed in 1978. The Driehaus Foundation supports publication of The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan, a book being compiled by the Richard Nickel Committee.

Erma Tranter

Friends of the Parks “Last year, Friends of the Parks ensured the safety

of 517 playgrounds, enlisted thousands of volunteers to clean and

green Chicago’s parks and forest preserves, and

initiated a tree-planting program, planting dozens of new trees in

Chicago’s parks. We empower citizens to take

ownership and pride in their parks and green spaces through volunteer

programs, public workshops, and lectures.”

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The Dining Room of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum. The Nickerson Mansion was one of the grandest homes built in nineteenth century Chicago.

Two N e w M u s e u m s

{The Richard H. Driehaus Museum} { Th e Nat i ona l P u b l i c H ou s i n g M u s e u m }

Since our last report, the foundation has been working to establish two very different

kinds of museums, both celebrating the housing and social history of bygone eras.

One museum remembers the splendor of wealth at the turn of the last century. The

other honors the American commitment to provide adequate housing for all.

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, which we funded in 2003–05, is

slated to open in 2008 in the former Samuel M. Nickerson Mansion. This museum

will display a collection of nineteenth-century art and decorative objects, from a

Tiffany punch bowl to a Roman sculpture of Cupid encountering Psyche.

But the backdrop to all the works of art will be the house itself.

The three-story, 24,000-square-foot mansion was called the Marble Palace when

completed in 1886. It has been restored to its earlier opulence to become, once

again, a building like no other in Chicago, and few others in the nation. The mansion

is replete with intricately carved wood, elaborately embossed walls, exuberant

chandeliers, and lavish sculptures. The history of the house is, in part, a history of

elegance and progress in Chicago. The Richard H. Driehaus Museum will delight the

eye and lift the spirit.

The other museum, the National Public Housing Museum, is a work

in progress, thanks to the dedication of many people, organizations, foundations,

and academic institutions. Inspired by New York City’s successful Lower East Side

Tenement Museum, the National Public Housing Museum will be a cultural asset

that explores what happened to the optimistic and democratic premise of public

housing: that everyone deserves decent housing. Intrigued in part because of our

interests in landmark preservation and in the working poor, the Driehaus Foundation

staff is involved with residents to save the John Holabird-designed Jane Addams

Homes building, which will house the museum. It will be a place that interprets

Chicago neighborhood history, art, music, and popular culture of the last seventy

years, the impact of social policy on housing policy and on architecture, and the

many changes in attitudes about affordable housing. Through the stories of actual

residents, visitors will encounter the lives of those rarely interpreted in museums.

More than a museum, it will be a place for conversation, civic engagement, and

active learning.

Rosa Cabrera

Center for Cultural Understanding

and Change at the Field Museum “The Chicago Cultural Alliance, formed in 2007, increases the visibility and impact of

Chicago’s rich cultural assets by strengthening

partnerships between community-based cultural

museums and centers and major institutions.

These neighborhood groups enrich the cultural understanding of

Chicago and improve the vibrancy of our diverse

neighborhoods and communities.”

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A rt s

In 2003, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation contributed a generous,

fi ve-year grant to support the artistic and cultural community in Chicago. MacArthur

asked the Driehaus Foundation and Prince Charitable Trusts to administer these

grants programs. In 2008, the MacArthur Foundation renewed and increased this

grant for another fi ve years.

The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus

Foundation has $660,000 in 2008 to distribute in grants to Chicago area arts and

culture organizations that operate on budgets of less than $500,000. For each of

the next four years, the MacArthur Fund will increase by $50,000. In addition, the

MacArthur Foundation has pledged an additional $150,000 per year — adding to

the Driehaus Foundation’s $150,000 — for each of fi ve years to support our Small

Theater and Dance Funding Program, which provides grants to theater and dance

troupes with annual budgets of less than $150,000.

In order to strengthen the capacity of local theaters and performing

venues, the MacArthur Foundation provided us with an additional $660,000

grant that helps performance spaces meet the City of Chicago’s building code

requirements. The Driehaus Foundation oversees this grant in close consultation

with both the City of Chicago and the League of Chicago Theatres. Seven theater

companies began to modify their spaces with grants in 2007. We hope to see these

theaters pass inspection and to help more theaters begin the process in 2008.

With these three grants, the MacArthur Foundation has pledged more

than $5 million in direct support for small local arts and culture organizations —

helping to sustain and strengthen a thriving urban arts community.

In our own arts category, we fund both arts organizations and

individual artists. One organization is the Sundance Institute, which holds a Summer

Theatre Lab for playwrights from around the country. In 2007, we hosted the

Sundance artistic team in Chicago to meet local theater artists and to conduct a

mini-playwriting workshop.

Ghrai Harrison, of Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, performs “Heaven.” The dance ensemble receives grants from The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

Nancy McCarty

Music Theater Workshop “By providing programs

that offer youth positive options for life

through powerful and inspiring musical theatre workshops and programs,

Music Theater Workshop contributes to the quality

of communities, the family unit, and the bright, diverse, and

artistic future for Chicago.”

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I n d i v i dua l A rt i s t Awa r d s

Georgia O’Keefe said, “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

We must nurture our artists so they will continue “to make us see,” and to stay

in Chicago to challenge, delight, infuriate, and inspire us. Therefore we began

the Individual Artist Awards. With these awards, we try to respond to the needs

of individual artists. These unrestricted $10,000 awards (increased to $15,000 in

2008) — given to twenty-two artists over the past seven years — are designed to

support and encourage excellence, artistry, focus, direction, maturity, and originality

in the visual arts. We have recently established a small emergency fund to allow the

award-winning artists to use a grant of up to $3,000 for professional or personal

needs — from transporting art work to galleries around the world to an emergency

dental problem.

S m a l l M u s e u m s a n d C u lt u r a l C e n t e r s

We believe museums can be powerful forums in which to appreciate rare buildings

and art and places to learn from history and engage in conversation about current

issues. This belief informs our commitment to the Nickerson Mansion and the

National Public Housing Museum. It is also why we fund small museums and

cultural centers. We are particularly inspired by the work of the Chicago Cultural

Alliance, a partnership of twenty-fi ve small cultural centers, historical museums

and societies. From the American Indian Center to the Ukrainian National Museum,

the Cambodian Museum and Memorial to the Victims of the Killing Fields to the

Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, these groups refl ect the richness of

life and culture in Chicago. Working together, they will reveal and honor the rich

diversity of Chicago.

G ov e r n m e n t Ac c ou n ta b i l i t y a n d

I n v e s t i g at i v e R e p ort i n g

We believe government needs to be held accountable, both by the established

stalwarts and by dedicated individuals. Our grants in government accountability and

investigative reporting have included such robust watchdogs as the Better Government

Association and the

Chicago Reporter

. But in these diffi cult days for the profession of

journalism, government monitors are turning up in many previously unforeseen

Untitled, 2006, by Nick Cave, winner of an Individual Artist Award for 2006. “So many people don’t dream anymore,” Cave recently said. “But I have an opportunity to bring dreaming into our lives.”

William Rattner

Lawyers for the Creative Arts “Artists and arts organizations need knowledgeable and sophisticated legal advice. By providing pro

bono legal services to all areas of the arts — the

visual, performing, entertainment and literary — Lawyers for the

Creative Arts nourishes Chicago’s creative spark.”

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places. Jamie Kalven, a human rights activist and reporter, describes his work as

being in the classic tradition of human rights reporting. Journalism that documents

and addresses patterns of human rights helps to correct the failure of mainstream

media and civic organizations to protect our most vulnerable residents. Mr. Kalven

records his observations about alleged police misconduct against residents at the

Stateway Gardens housing development on the Web at www.viewfromtheground.org.

E c onom i c O p p ort u n i t y f or t h e

Wor k i n g Poor

Our grants in this category are intended for organizations whose work affects large

numbers of the working poor, those determined people who work regularly but

rarely make enough money to move out of poverty. These workers account for

one-quarter of America’s employed population. Often, with no access to traditional

forms of banking and fi nancial services, families are left vulnerable to unscrupulous

lenders. Now the low-income families living on Chicago’s South Side have another

option: the South Side Community Federal Credit Union. Designed to serve the

working poor—80 percent of its members have household incomes of less than

$45,000 and 33 percent say they have never before had a bank account of any

kind—the credit union supports economic development in the inner city by helping

families build assets and gain fi nancial literacy, two key steps on the road to fi nancial

independence.

G e n e r a l

Our general funding category is the one we reserve for special opportunities that

may not fi t easily into another area of our grantmaking. Among those is our ongoing

support of WBEZ for its Third Coast International Audio Festival. This annual

effort to showcase the best radio documentaries and feature stories produced in all

English-speaking countries connects Chicago to the world. In that same vein, we

believe that our grant to help Terry Evans bring her photo exhibit to Europe will

allow others around the globe to recognize the beauty of Chicago. One of the images

from “Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait” graces the cover of this report.

The Beverly Hills

Cycling Classic is a major event of the Driehaus-funded Beverly Area Planning Association. More than one hundred professional and elite amateur cyclists compete in the event through the hilly and historic Southwest Side neighborhoods of Beverly and Morgan Park. Calvin Holmes Chicago Community Loan Fund “Chicago Community

Loan Fund provides ﬁ nancial and technical

assistance to make cost-efﬁ cient, attractive, environmentally friendly and health-conscious building design a natural

choice for community developers in Chicago.

Sustainable and well designed homes, community facilities, and other spaces—critical

for long term success— improve the quality of life

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Our success as a foundation

depends on the work produced by our grant

recipients. Yet much of the work we fund, especially in our programs in arts and

the built environment, is hard to measure. How are people changed by viewing a

particular work of art? How is a neighborhood affected when a landmark building

is saved? What are the benefi ts derived from a beautiful prairie? Although these

questions cannot always be answered, they are important to ask. They animate

the creative process, a blend of craft and faith, by which we seek to strengthen

communities and enrich lives through our grants.

Richard H. Driehaus

Sunny Fischer

President Executive

Director

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Grants

2005, 2006, 2007

Categories:

The Built Environment

Museums

Arts

Small Theater and Dance,

Chicago Area

MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture,

Chicago Area

Economic Opportunity for the Working Poor

General

Individual Artist Awards

Government Accountability/

Investigative Reporting

Board Members’ Discretionary Grants

This list includes grants of $5,000 or more in aggregate with some exceptions.

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Access Living, Chicago 2005: $25,000 to document and analyze the development of its new office, the first universally accessible building

ACE Mentor Program of Chicago, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for Scholarship Program Support

Archeworks, Chicago

2005: $19,500 to support Archeworks’ role in the collaboration with the Illinois Department of Human Services and Designs for Dignity to complete the Model Office Project

The Archimedia Workshop, Chicago

2006: $25,000 to support the film Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City

2007: $25,000 for Phase Two of the Burnham film

archi-Treasures, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating

2006: $10,000 for general operating

Association for Preservation Technology International,

Chicago

2005: $10,000 for scholarship fund

Aurora University, Aurora, IL

2005: $50,000 to support the design for a new arts center

Canal Corridor Association, Lockport, IL 2005: $50,000 for general operating

Sally A. Kitt Chappell, Chicago

2006: $18,000 to support the book Urban Nature: A Guide to Chicago’s Landscape Architecture

Chicago Architectural Club, Chicago

2006: $10,000 to support the 2006 Burnham Prize design competition

Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago

2005: $20,000 for exhibit Five Women Architects; $40,000 for start-up funding for the Association of Architecture Organizations; $15,000 for the exhibit Open: New Designs for Public Space

2006: $20,000 to support the Greystone Initiative

2007: $10,000 for The Strategic Advancement Initiative

Chicago Art Deco Society, Chicago

2005: $10,000 for Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine devoted to Art Deco Architecture in the Chicago area

Chicago Historical Society, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for the Louis Sullivan Symposium

Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago

2005: $5,000 for architecture and design content in the fall festival

Home and Away

Peace and War: Facing Human Conflict

The Climate of Concern

The Built Environment

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The Gary Comer Youth Center won the Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design in 2007. The center, at 7200 S. Ingleside Avenue, was designed by architect John Ronan.

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Chicago Rehab Network, Chicago

2005: $20,000 to include design in public education campaign on affordable housing

City Design Center at UIC, Chicago

2006: $10,000 to create a model for Greystone renovation at the North Lawndale Greystone Initiative

2007: $6,000 to support the Green Neighborhood Design Studio program

Civic Blueprint, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for seed funding

2006: $20,000 for part-time Executive Director and continued start-up costs

Community Task Force for Promontory Point (Hyde Park Historical Society, fiscal agent), Chicago 2005: $10,000 matching grant for organizing residents to preserve Promontory Point

Congress For The New Urbanism, Chicago 2005: $35,000 for general operating

DePaul University/Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, Chicago

2005: $13,000 for planning the Centennial Celebration of Burnham and Bennett’s 1909 Plan of Chicago

Design Corps, Raleigh, NC 2006: $10,000 for bus shelter project

Designer/Builder Magazine, Santa Fe, NM 2005: $7,500 for general operating

2006: $10,000 for general operating; $10,000 for capacity building

Dustin Griffin, Williamstown, MA

2007: $5,000 to support work on a scholarly edition of the writings of Walter Burley Griffin

Edward W. Wolner, Muncie, IN 2005: $27,000 for book on Henry Ives Cobb

2006: $4,425 to complete the Cobb manuscript

The Experimental Station, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating

Filmmakers Collaborative, Waltham, MA 2006: $10,000 for film At Home in Utopia Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

2006: $5,000 for Dr. Lauren Weingarden’s book on Louis Sullivan

Foresight Design Initiative, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating

Friends of the Windows, Chicago

2005: $5,000 for restoration of the Quigley Chapel windows

Friends of the Chicago River, Chicago

2005: $20,000 for general operating and the 25th Anniversary design charette

2007: $15,000 to support the McCormick Tribune Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum

Friends of the Parks, Chicago

2005: $35,000 for the Public Trust Research and Policy Program

2006: $35,000 for the Public Trust Research and Policy Program; $10,000 for the Last 4 Miles; $10,000 to support the Seed Grant Program

2007: $45,000 for the Public Trust Research and Policy Program; $10,000 to support the Seed Grant Program

Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, Oak Park, IL 2006: $7,500 for general operating

Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, Chicago

2007: $15,000 to support a commemorative book to honor Garfield Park Conservatory’s Centennial

Glessner House Museum, Chicago 2007: $10,000 for general operating

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Holy Family Preservation Society, Chicago 2007: $5,000 towards repair of the church’s historic organ

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

2006: $300,000 over three years towards start-up of a program in landscape architecture

Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL

2006: $33,000 challenge grant for historic preservation on campus as laboratory for a model course

Landmarks Illinois (formerly Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois), Chicago

2005: $40,615 for the Driehaus Preservation Awards

2006: $17,000 to support the New Dollars/New Partners Program; $40,415 for the Driehaus Preservation Awards

2007: $57,500 for the Driehaus Preservation Awards

The Lincoln Park Conservancy, Chicago

2005: $25,000 for capacity building and general operating

Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago

2006: $10,000 to help match funds for the Save American Treasures grant to restore Carlson Cottage

Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Chicago

2005: $55,626 for the Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design

2006: $59,171 renewal grant

2007: $60,000 renewal grant

Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Chicago 2007: $15,000 to support the Lathrop Homes Training Series on historic preservation

Lost and Found Productions, Chicago

2007: $10,000 to help complete the editing of the film on Alfred Caldwell

Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago

2005: $45,000 for design of a model redevelopment program in Riverdale

Michigan Historic Preservation Network, Lansing, MI 2006: $15,000 to help match the Lilly Foundation grant for general operating

Midwest Office/National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chicago

2006: $25,000 for general operating; $25,000 for project support

2007: $25,000 for general operating; $25,000 for project support

Mineral Point Railroad Society, Inc., Mineral Point, WI 2006: $13,500 for the Children’s Room in the railroad museum

National Association for Olmstead Parks, Washington, D.C. 2007: $25,000 for strategic planning

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago

2005: $10,000 for the Richard Solomon Fund to support architectural journalism

Grant Park Conservancy, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for general operating

Healthy Schools Campaign, Chicago

2005: $23,700 to develop support for green school design

2006: $15,000 towards printing and dissemination of a manual on healthy schools

Heartland Alliance’s Design for Dignity, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for general operating

2006: $15,000 for Creating the Case that Design Matters; $25,000 for general operating

Hiptruth Productions, New York, NY 2007: $7,500 to support the film Green Granny Historic Chicago Bungalow Association, Chicago 2005: $45,000 to teach Chicago residents how to secure National Register designation for their bungalow districts

2006: $45,000 renewal grant

2007: $50,000 to create Bungalow Historic Districts, and support the awards for best bungalow restoration

Grants: The Built Environment—continued

The Driehaus Foundation joins the Historic Chicago Bungalow Association in giving awards for bungalow restoration, rehabilitation, and landscaping projects. This bungalow is in West Rogers Park.

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National Trust for Historic Preservation (National Office), Washington, D.C.

2005: $200,000 for Statewide Partnerships

2006: $40,000 for Statewide Initiative costs

2007: $40,000 for Statewide Initiative costs

Neighborhood Development Collaborative,

Washington, D.C.

2005: $6,500 for the Senior Housing Design Symposium

Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, Chicago 2005: $50,000 for the Greystone Initiative; $12,500 for the Model Block rehab

2006: $50,000 for the Greystone Initiative

Openlands Project, Chicago

2007: $15,000 to bring Revealing Chicago, the Terry Evans photography exhibit, to Prague; $11,000 for TreeKeepers program

Partners for Sacred Places, Philadelphia, PA 2006: $40,000 for general operating; $7,500 to work with Landmarks Illinois to offer services in Chicago

2007: $30,000 for general operating; $20,000 for Chicago programs

Pleasant Home Foundation, Oak Park, IL

2006: $10,000 for general operating; $5,000 matching grant

Quinn Chapel AME Church, Chicago

Richard Nickel Committee, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for the archiving process

2007: $15,000 for the production and publication of the book

The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan

The Trust for Public Land, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for the Urban Parks Program

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

2006: $15,000 for a book on the history of The Chicagoan

magazine

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Fine and Applied Arts

2005: $10,000 for the exhibit Urban, Rural, Wild at I-space Gallery

2006: $10,000 to support the Design of Diversity Exhibition

Viva Lundin Productions, Chicago

2007: $20,000 for production costs of the documentary film

Jens Jensen: Harmonious World

Windy City Press, Evanston, IL

2005: $13,000 to support publication of Lighthouses of Chicago Harbor: Their History, Architecture, and Lore

Perspectives Charter School, 1930 S. Archer Avenue, won the 2006 Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design. The school, designed by Perkins + Will, was honored by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation as part of the Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards.

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Cambodian Association of Illinois, Chicago

2005: $15,000 to support the salary of the interim director of the museum

The Field Museum, Chicago

2005: $15,000 for Center for Cultural Understanding and Change; $30,000 for start-up costs of Chicago Cultural Alliance

2006: $25,000 for support of the Chicago Cultural Alliance’s final phase of organizational development

2007: $15,000 to coordinate implementation of Chicago Cultural Alliance

Indo-American Heritage Museum, Chicago 2007: $8,500 planning grant

Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY 2005: $50,000 for restoration of the Irish apartment and German Saloon

2006: $50,000 renewal

2007: $50,000 renewal

National Public Housing Museum (Heartland Alliance, fiscal agent), Chicago

2006: $15,000 for consultant fees to develop a plan for a museum of public housing

The Peace Museum, Chicago 2005: $12,000 for general operating

Museums

Top: A draft rendering of the proposed National Public Housing Museum. The museum will be housed in an abandoned Chicago Housing Authority building at 1322-24 West Taylor. Opened in 1938 as the first federal government housing project in Chicago, it was part of the Jane Addams Homes. The renovation is designed by the firm of Landon Baker Bone.

Above: A photo mural is installed on the front facade of the vacant Chicago Housing Authority building that will be rehabilitated as the National Public Housing Museum.

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3-D Chicago, Chicago 2005: $5,000 for Pier Walk 2005

2006: $5,000 for Pier Walk 2006

Artadia, New York, NY

2006: $15,000 to support awards for individual Chicago artists

Arts & Business Council of Chicago,

Chicago

Arts Work Fund, Chicago 2006: $25,000 for general operating

Black Ensemble Theater, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating

Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College, Chicago

2005: $15,000 for The Democratic Vistas Forum

Chicago Composers Forum, Chicago 2007: $5,000 towards production of

Musicircus

Chicago Cultural Center Foundation, Chicago

2005: $5,000 for Artists at Work Forums

2006: $6,000 for Artists at Work Forums; $15,000 for Chicago Artists Resource

Chicago Public Art Group, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for organizational

Arts

Joffrey Ballet dancers Calvin Kitten and Suzanne Lopez celebrate the company’s fiftieth anniversary by recreating historic Joffrey moments in costume on the Navy Pier carousel in 2006.

Chicago Sinfonietta, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for audience development initiative

2006: $20,000 renewal

2007: $15,000 renewal

Dance Center of Columbia College,

Chicago

2005: $7,500 for Subsidized Rental Theater Program

2006: $10,000 renewal

2007: $10,000 renewal

Educational Film Center,

Annandale, VA

2006: $37,500 for the film The Odyssey of Studs Terkel

Evanston Community Foundation,

Evanston, IL

2005: $12,500 for the “Working Together” project

Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for general operating

HMS Media, Inc, Chicago

2005: $12,500 for the PBS television show

The Chicago Dance Project HotHouse, Chicago

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago,

Chicago

2005: $15,000 for Dance Audience Development Marketing Plan

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Chicago

2005: $10,000 for 2005 Illinois Arts Legend Awards

Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for the Public Humanities Award

2006: $5,000 renewal

Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation, Evanston, IL

2005: $8,000 for the JumpStart Program

Grants: Arts—continued

Juan Villa and Meighan Gerachis in the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble co-production of

Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue. Rivendell is committed to serving as a stage for women artists—playwrights, actors, directors, and designers.

The Joffrey Ballet, Chicago 2005: $20,000 for general operating

Kelly & Yamamoto Productions (formerly Mother Lode Productions), Greenbrae, CA

2006: $10,000 to help cover cost of filming a documentary about Albany Park Theater Project

2007: $15,000 matching grant to continue work on documentary film about Albany Park Theater Project

Lawyers for the Creative Arts,

Chicago

Links Hall, Chicago

Mason Productions, Los Angeles, CA 2007: $20,000 to support a PBS broadcast of The Journey to Palomar

Music Theatre Workshop, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for Fabulous Females Six: Breaking The Silence

2006: $25,000 renewal

2007: $25,000 renewal

National Museum of Mexican Art (formerly Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum), Chicago

2005: $10,000 for the Sor Juana Festival

2006: $10,000 renewal

2007: $10,000 renewal

Next Theatre Company, Evanston, IL 2005: $5,000 for Next Communities program

2006: $6,000 renewal

2007: $7,000 renewal

Nomadic Pictures, Chicago 2005: $30,000 for the film Aimee’s Crossing

Performing Arts Chicago, Chicago 2005: $20,000 for 2005 PAC/edge Festival

Redmoon Theater, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating; $6,000 for the Bridge Campaign

Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Chicago 2005: $5,450 for a Mabou Mines workshop

Shanti Foundation for Peace,

Evanston, IL

2006: $15,000 to plan conference Building Peaceful Communities Through the Arts

2007: $7,500 for conference Building Peaceful Communities Through the Arts Smart Museum of Art, Chicago 2005: $5,000 for Art and Sustainability Laboratory

Sundance Institute, Beverly Hills, CA 2007: $15,000 to support the July Theatre Lab in Utah; $9,500 to support the first Chicago convening

The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Washington, D.C.

2007: $20,000 for early work on the “What’s Out There” web project

The New Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for Dance Chicago

2006: $10,000 renewal

2007: $10,000 renewal

Thodos Dance Chicago, Chicago 2005: $5,000 for New Dances

2006: $5,000 renewal

2007: $5,000 renewal

Trinity Irish Dance Company, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for “Different Dances, Different Drums” tour

Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, Oak Park, IL 2005: $15,000 for general operating

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Urbana, IL

2007: $5,000 towards Midwest production of Japanese Bunraku Theatre

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Chicago Area

Jennifer Shin in The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, the breakaway hit by the Collaboraction Theatre Company.

500 Clown

Aguijon Theater Company

A Red Orchid Theatre

The Artistic Home Acting Ensemble

Attic Playhouse, Inc.

Ayako Kato

2007: $3,000 for EVE-Sound and Movement Ten Nights Dream III

BackStage Theatre Company

Barrel of Monkeys

2005: $7,000 to support “That’s Weird, Grandma”

Blair Thomas & Company

Blindfaith Theatre

Bohemian Theatre Ensemble

Breakbone Dance Co.

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble

2005: $7,000 for marketing

Chicago Tap Theatre

Citadel Theatre Company

City Lit Theater Company

Molly Brennan in 500 Clown Macbeth. The Chicago Tribune called the troupe “Chicago’s most dangerously arty clowns.”

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Kalapriya Foundation

2005: $7,500 for capacity building & the 3rd Asian Dance Festival

Kuumba Lynx

The Lira Dancers

Live Action Cartoonists

Local Infinities Visual Theater

Lucky Pierre

Lucky Plush Productions

2006: 8,034 for general operating

2007: 8,000 for general operating

Ma’at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre (MPAACT)

Mad Shak Dance Company

2006: $7,000 for general operating support

Margaret Morris

2007: $5,000 for Laying of Hands

Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company

MOMENTA

Mordine & Company

Nandanse

New Leaf Theatre

New Theater Collective

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Collaboraction Theatre Company

Concert Dance, Inc.

Corn Productions

The Curious Theatre Branch

2005: $8,000 to support the year-long Beckett Festival

The Dance COLEctive

Dance>Detour

DanceLoop Chicago

2005: $3,000 for capacity building

Dog & Pony Theatre Company

DOG, a theater company

2005: $4,571 to support the creation of new work

Dream Theatre Company

Eclipse Theatre Company

The Gift Theatre Company

Gingarte Capoeira

Goat Island

Greasy Joan and Company

Griffin Theatre Company

Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

The Hypocrites

Infamous Commonwealth Theatre

Instruments of Movement

2005: $5,000 for general operating Neil Giuntoli portrays Mayor Richard J. Daley in

Hizzoner: Daley the First at the Prop Theater, 3502 N. Elston Avenue. The bio-drama, written by Giuntoli, has played to packed houses since early 2006.

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New World Repertory Theater

Oak Park Festival Theatre

Oracle Productions

Piven Theatre Workshop

Plasticene

Profiles Theatre

Prop Theater Group

Provision Theater Company

Quest Theatre Ensemble

Rivendell Theatre Ensemble 2005: $7,500 for general operating 2006: $7,500 for general operating 2007: $7,699 for general operating

Same Planet Different World Dance Theatre

2005: $6,000 for general operating 2006: $6,000 for general operating 2007: $7,000 for general operating

Schadenfreude Theater Company

Seanachai Theatre Company

The Seldoms

Shattered Globe Theatre

ShawChicago Theater Company

Silk Road Theatre Project

Speaking Ring Theatre

Sprung Movement Theatre

Steep Theatre Company

Still Point Theatre Collective

The Sweat Girls

Lucky Plush Productions has premiered twenty-seven original works since it was formed in 1999. This is from “Cinderbox 18.”

Strawdog Theatre Company

Teatro Luna

Teatro Vista: Theater with a View

Theater Oobleck

Theatre Building Chicago

2005: $7,500 for the musical theatre program

2006: $5,000 renewal

2007: $7,500 renewal

Trap Door Productions

The Utopian Theatre Asylum

Uma Productions

Valerie Alpert Dance Company

Viaduct Arts Coalition

Walkabout Theatre Company

2006: $6,000 for the production of

The Coast of Chicago

Zephyr Dance

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MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture,

Chicago Area

Chicago Brass Band Association

Chicago Dance and Music Alliance

Chicago Dramatists

Chicago Film Archives

Chicago Filmmakers

Chicago Human Rhythm Project

Chicago Moving Company

Chicago Theatre Company

The Chicago Jazz Philharmonic

Circle Theater of Forest Park

Collaboraction

Congo Square Theatre Company

Deeply Rooted Productions

Eighth Blackbird

Experimental Sound Studio

The Actors Gymnasium

AfriCaribe

Albany Park Theater Project

Anchor Graphics

Archeworks

Asian Improv aRts Midwest

Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians

Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council

Barrel of Monkeys

Bronzeville Children’s Museum

Chicago a cappella

Chicago Artists’ Coalition

Chicago Ballet Russe Foundation

Chicago Blues Museum

2005: $10,000 for general operating Vanessa Valecillos and Ricardo J. Garcia of Luna Negra

Dance Theatre. The company specializes in dance by Latino choreographers.

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Free Street Programs

Fulcrum Point New Music Project

Glen Ellyn Children’s Choir

Guild Complex

Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing

Hedwig Dances

Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center

The House Theatre

International Center for Deafness

International Contemporary Ensemble

International Music Foundation

Intuit

National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum

Natya Dance Theatre

Neighborhood Writing Alliance

The Neo-Futurists

Next Theatre Company

Open Studio Project

Opera Theatre North

Involvement Advocacy

Jazz Institute of Chicago

Jump Rhythm Jazz Project

Korean American Resource and Cultural Center

Lampo

Live Bait Theater

L’Opera Piccola

Luna Negra Dance Theater

Jesus Matta and Ana Ovando in Albany Park Theatre Project’s production of God’s Work. The ensemble of young artists write, choreograph, compose, and stage original plays based on stories of immigrant and working-class Americans.

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Pegasus Players

The Poetry Center

Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago

Puerto Rican Arts Alliance

Raven Theatre

Grants: MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture, Chicago Area—continued

Rembrandt Chamber Players

Rush Hour Concerts

Salt Creek Ballet

Scrap Mettle Soul

Split Pillow

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TimeLine Theatre Company’s Chicago premiere production of Dolly West’s Kitchen. From left are: Kat McDonnell, Cliff Chamberlain, Aaron Golden, Sara Hoyer, Niall McGinty, Danica Ivancevic, Joshua Rollins and Mark Richard. Scenic design is by Brian Sidney Bembridge.

Three Walls

TimeLine Theater Company

Unity Temple Restoration Foundation

Wonder Works:

Children’s Museum of Oak Park

Young Chicago Authors

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Chicago Jobs Council, Chicago 2005: $12,500 towards strategic planning

2006: $10,000 for implementing strategic plan

Community Economic Development Law Project, Chicago

2006: $15,000 for legal costs of home ownership opportunities through “Choose To Own” program

2007: $15,000 renewal

Deborah’s Place, Chicago

2005: $5,000 for Irene’s Daytime Support Center

Emergency Fund, Chicago

2005: $20,000 to support the Financial Assistance Program

2006: $20,000 renewal

2007: $25,000 renewal

Growing Home, Inc., Chicago 2005: $25,000 for general operating

Inspiration Corporation, Chicago 2005: $10,000 to support merger efforts between The Employment Project and Inspiration Corporation

2007: $15,000 to provide direct service grants to the working poor

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Teachers and students prepare food at St. Leonard’s Ministries, 2100 W. Warren Boulevard. Founded in 1954, the center teaches skills—such as food preparation and construction—to men and women who have been released from prison. It helps them rebuild their lives.

Economic Opportunity for the Working Poor

The CARA Program, Chicago 2005: $30,000 for general operating

Career Advancement Network,

Chicago

2006: $7,500 to support arts project

Center For Economic Progress,

Chicago

Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance, Chicago

2006: $5,000 to support advocacy campaign, Putting the “Choice” in the Housing Choice Voucher Program

Chicago Community Loan Fund,

Chicago

2005: $10,000 to support the community lending program

2006: $10,000 to support community lending and technical assistance programs for good design

2007: $10,000 renewal

Institute of Women Today, Chicago 2006: $5,000 for general operating

National Student Partnerships,

Washington, D.C.

Opportunity International,

Oak Brook, IL

2005: $40,000 divided among loan programs in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America; $9,000 to cover the cost of the awards for the 2005 President’s Forum

2007: $40,000 towards costs of the awards for the 2007 President’s Forum

Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Chicago

2005: $15,000 for project to monitor and shape utility policies affecting the working poor

2007: $15,000 to support access to utility service for low-income households

South Side Community Federal Credit Union, Chicago

Southwest Women Working Together, Chicago

St. Leonard’s Ministries, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for establishing programs in the new Barlow Employment Center

2006: $25,000 for training programs; $25,000 for Employment Retention Program

Women Employed Institute, Chicago 2006: $5,000 for planning and

implementation; $25,000 matching grant for Career Coach program

2007: $25,000 for planning and implementation

Women’s Self-Employment Project,

Chicago

Woodstock Institute, Chicago 2005: $12,500 to encourage mainstream credit unions to enroll more low-income members

2006: $12,500 renewal

2007: $15,000 to support project Building Assets by Reducing Predatory Automobile Title Loans

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International Audio Festival in Chicago. The festival, created by Chicago Public Radio in 2000, honors the most creative and compelling audio work produced worldwide with the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.

Beverly Area Planning Association, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating

Beyondmedia, Chicago

BoardSource, Washington, D.C.

2006: $10,000 to support the 2006 BoardSource Leadership Forum: “Set Your Sights on Exceptional Governance”

Center for Effective Philanthropy, Cambridge, MA 2007: $10,000 to support Chicago conference: “Assessment to Action: Creating Change”

Donors Forum of Chicago, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for the Leadership Fund

2006: $10,000 renewal

2007: $10,000 renewal

Global Donors Network

(Donors Forum of Chicago, fiscal agent), Chicago 2005: $5,000 general operating

2006: $5,000 general operating

2007: $5,000 general operating

NeighborSpace, Chicago

2005: $25,000 for NeighborSpace Handbook: A Guide & Resource Manual for Protecting Places

The New Press, New York, NY

2007: $10,000 to support an outreach campaign designed to enlarge the audience for and encourage a wider appreciation of Studs Terkel and his work; $5,000 for general operating

The Springboard Foundation, Chicago 2006: $10,000 for general operating

Taproot Foundation, Chicago

2006: $10,000 for start-up funds; $15,000 for service grants for three Driehaus Foundation grantees in 2006

2007: $15,000 for service grants; $10,000 for general operating

The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee, Chicago 2007: $10,000 for general operating

Tibetan Alliance of Chicago, Chicago

2007: $10,000 to support the Dalai Lama Chicago event

WBEZ, Chicago

2005: $100,000 for Third Coast International Audio Festival

2006: $100,000 renewal

2007: $100,000 renewal

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Individual Artist Awards

2005 Emerging: $10,000 to Sumakshi Singh Established: $10,000 to Darrel Morris $10,000 to Christine Tarkowski 2006 Emerging: $10,000 to Paola Cabal Established: $10,000 to Nick Cave $10,000 to Julia Fish 2007 Emerging:

$10,000 to Philip von Zweck Established: $10,000 to Gaylen Gerber $10,000 to Judy Ledgerwood Sumakshi Singh Darrel Morris Christine Tarkowski Paola Cabal Nick Cave Julia Fish

Philip von Zweck

Gaylen Gerber

Judy Ledgerwood

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Government Accountability /

Investigative Reporting

Better Government Association, Chicago

2005: $30,000 to support the position of Chief Investigator; $5,000 for the George Bliss Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism

2006: $35,000 renewal

2007: $30,000 for investigative internship program; $5,000 for the George Bliss Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism

Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc., San Francisco, CA 2005: $30,000 for Midwest Investigations Venture Fund

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