GRANTMAKING IN CHICAGO

The MacArthur Foundation has deep roots in Chicago, where it is headquartered and where John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur lived. The Foundation seeks and seizes opportunities to work locally as an expression of its civic commitment to its home, and because being rooted in Chicago yields a deeper understanding of issues faced by urban areas and how to address them.

AT A GLANCE and expand Chicago’s stock of afford­ learning work, which aims to support able rental housing. The Foundation positive change in American education • Since 1978, MacArthur has invested also has played a major role in helping through innovative approaches to $940 million in Chicago. Grants have to ensure that Chicago’s historic plan to learning. supported nearly 1,100 organizations transform public housing high-rises into and individuals in the region. mixed-income communities is • Through its Models for Change initiative, successful. the Foundation has invested more than • Between 2002 and 2012, MacArthur $140 million in efforts to create models invested more than $200 million to • MacArthur awards more than $8 million of juvenile justice reform through work support community and economic annually to more than 200 arts and in key states, including Illinois. development and other activities in culture groups in the Chicago region, Chicago neigh­borhoods and to including theaters, dance groups, music • The Foundation’s policy research increase opportunities for low-income organizations, visual art programs, film initiative includes special projects on the individuals and families. centers, museums, and libraries. nation’s fiscal future—with a focus on states and localities, including Illinois— • In collaboration with partners in the • Chicago is home to three innovation and immigration-related issues in the region, MacArthur seeks to preserve sites for MacArthur’s digital media and Chicago area.

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COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MacArthur makes investments to improve conditions in Chicago neighborhoods, foster greater economic diversity, increase opportunity for low-income individuals and families, and develop new knowledge about effective responses to social and economic urban challenges. In Chicago, the central—and largest—of these initiatives is the New Communities Program, a coordinated effort by LISC/ Chicago to address a comprehensive range of issues to measurably improve quality of life, including employment, HOUSING ARTS AND CULTURE health, housing, and violence reduction. The Foundation’s interest in housing— The Foundation awards more than which is based on the premise that $8 million in annual support to more than Through LISC’s national office, the New decent, stable, affordable housing is 200 arts and culture groups in the Communities Program model is being essential to strong families and vibrant Chicago region, including theaters, implemented in sites across the country. communities—has focused primarily on dance groups, music organiza­tions, Complementary investments seek to the supply of affordable housing, funding visual art programs, film centers, reduce gun violence, improve access to direct investments in the preservation of museums, and libraries. Most of these and use of information technology and rental housing. Activities also include grants provide multi-year, general data, stimulate economic development, research on the relationship between operating support, allowing groups the and increase employment to improve housing and outcomes in areas such flexibility to fund ongoing work and take neighborhood conditions. as health, education, and employment, creative risks. and on policy reform that supports a Anti-violence efforts include support for stronger, more robust housing market The Foundation makes general operating the Chicago Police Department’s that meets the needs of all Americans. support grants directly to 50 large Violence Reduction Strategy, CureViolence institutions (those with budgets over In Chicago, The Preservation Compact (formerly CeaseFire), and the University of $2 million). Arts organizations with annual has brought together leaders from the Chicago’s Becoming a Man program, budgets between $500,000 and which has shown promising results in public, private, and nonprofit sectors to craft a new vision for Cook County: to $2 million are supported through the keeping middle-school students in school MacArthur Fund at the Prince Charitable and away from contact with the juvenile reverse the downward trend in Cook County’s affordable rental housing Trusts. Small groups, those with budgets justice system. supply. To achieve this ambitious goal, of less than $500,000, receive grants the Compact is implementing the through the MacArthur Fund at the The Foundation is investing more than comprehensive Rental Housing Action Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. $200 million over 10 years to improve Plan for Cook County, which includes Chicago neighborhoods, leveraged by initiatives designed to change the policy In addition, the Foundation supports LISC and local organizations with an environment and preserve and improve special, time-limited projects and initiatives estimated $500 million in additional existing affordable rental homes that that benefit a set of arts organizations or funding from other private and public might otherwise be lost to condominium the sector as a whole. Examples include sources. conversion, demolition, or rising costs. the International Connections Fund, which helps arts organizations advance their For more information visit For more information visit work by collaborating with peer organi­ www.macfound.org/ced or www.macfound.org/housing or zations abroad; the American Rhythm www.newcommunities.org. www.preservationcompact.org. Center, which provides shared rehearsal,

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation page 2 office, and teaching space for seven dance young people’s interests, often using and supported across geographic companies; and the Working Capital Loan digital and traditional media. locations. Fund, which provides small and medium- sized arts organizations access to capital. Chicago is home to three innovation sites For more information visit where it is possible to see con­nected www.macfound.org/education or For more information visit learning in action: www.youmediachicago.org. www.macfound.org/arts. • ChicagoQuest, the first of three planned 6–12th grade charter public schools where pedagogy and JUSTICE REFORM EDUCATION curriculum are based on the principles MacArthur’s juvenile justice initiative, Society is reinventing how knowledge is of game design and aim to engender Models for Change, seeks to create created, organized, accessed, and creative problem-solving, critical successful and replicable models of shared, with far-reaching implications for thinking, and productive collaboration; reform through investments in key states, including Illinois. The goal is to accelerate institutions of learning like schools, • YouMedia, a popular teen learning libraries, and museums. MacArthur’s space at the Harold Washington Public progress toward a more effective, fair, digital media and learning initiative aims Library that is the model for more than and developmentally sound juvenile to support positive change in American 35 similar spaces that are planned or justice system that holds young people education through connected learning, a in operation in museums and libraries accountable for their actions, provides for their rehabilitation, improves their life new framework for thinking about and nationwide; and chances, and manages the risk they supporting learning that promotes • The Chicago Hive Learning Network, pose to themselves and to the public. discovery, creativity, and critical thinking a group of civic and cultural organiza­ through activities and real-world experi­ tions working together in new ways to Illinois was chosen as one of four core ences that bring together academics and re-imagine how learning is organized states because of its strong juvenile justice leadership, potential for collabo­ ration, community and civic engagement, ongoing reform efforts, and receptivity to and readiness for change. The Foundation supports Chicago-based organizations working toward state-wide juvenile justice reform, including Northwestern University’s Children and Family Justice Center, the Community Justice for Youth Institute, and Youth Outreach Strategies.

Through 2012, the Foundation’s commit­ ment to juvenile justice reform through Models for Change totals to more than $140 million. The initiative is in a “legacy” phase designed to sustain momentum for reform by sharing and promoting successful models to critical reform audiences like law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, defenders, and legislators.

For more information visit www.macfound.org/juvenile_justice or www.modelsforchange.net.

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POLICY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS live here. Through its international grant­ The building was designated a Chicago MacArthur’s policy research initiative making programs, MacArthur provides Landmark in 1975 and a National Historic currently supports special projects support to organizations such as the Landmark in 1976. focused on the implications of an aging Chicago Council on Global Affairs; the society, the use of benefit-cost analysis to Field Museum; the Center for International An exhibit on the history and architecture promote effective policymaking, and the Human Rights at Northwestern University of the building is located in the arcade, country’s fiscal future, with a focus on School of Law, and the School of Social just west of the lobby. The exhibit, which states and localities including Illinois. It Service Administration at the University is free and open to the public, includes also provides operating support for a of Chicago. interactive kiosks and also features small group of national and Illinois-based information about the work and history policy organizations that work primarily of the Foundation. on fiscal issues. These organizations LIVING IN A LANDMARK produce rigorous research and analysis Completed in 1895, the 17-story Marquette For more information visit and translate that work to enhance its Building is one of Chicago’s earliest www.marquette.macfound.org. value to policymakers, the media, and the skyscrapers, and an example of the general public. This work has included renowned Chicago School of Architecture. support for the State Budget Crisis Task As the building’s owner, MacArthur was Force to help draw attention to the fiscal pleased to support its restoration and challenges that Illinois faces. preservation. Representative Grants

Research on U.S. immigration policy— The Marquette Building was designed by one of three initiatives within MacArthur’s the Chicago firm Holabird & Roche, Community and Economic migration work—is focused primarily on which designed many of the city’s early Development economic and fiscal impacts, including tall office buildings. These new “sky­ the benefits and costs of immigration at scrapers” had steel skeletons holding up CITY OF CHICAGO the federal and state levels. A small group facades of brick and ornamental terra $300,000 to support the development of of grants explores a set of immigration- cotta, making them look light compared a comprehensive data warehouse for the related issues in the Chicago area. For to their traditional masonry counterparts. City of Chicago (over two years). (2011) example, funding to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs supports its bipartisan Task Force on Immigration and U.S. Economic Competitiveness, which aims to enhance public understanding of immigration and its importance to the region’s economic future.

For more information visit www.macfound.org/policy.

CHICAGO’S WORLD-CLASS INSTITUTIONS Chicago is an international city, in its neighborhoods, in its commerce, in the work done by its educational research institutions, through the many international associations headquartered in the city, and in the global interests of many who

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation page 4 LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION $8,000,000 in support of the New Communities Program Testing the Model phase (over three years). (2012)

RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK $1,800,000 to support the Violence Reduction Strategy police reform demonstration in Chicago (over three years). (2012) effort to preserve affordable rental on its budget size: organizations with housing. (2012) budgets of $2 to $5 million receive UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CRIME LAB $52,500 per year; those with budgets of $500,000 to support the pilot phase of THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS $5 to $10 million receive $63,000 per year; Becoming a Man, an anti-violence $250,000 in support of the Community groups with budgets of $10 to $20 million research demonstration for middle- Life Program at Oakwood Shores receive $75,000 per year; and the largest school students in Chicago. (2012) mixed-income community in Chicago. organizations, with budgets over (2011) $20 million, receive $100,000 per year.

Housing DEPAUL UNIVERSITY Adler Planetarium $1,000,000 to support research, a Art Institute data clearinghouse, and coordination COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPO­ Black Ensemble Theater of public agencies that participate in RATION The Preservation Compact. (2010) Chicago Academy of Sciences, $1,050,000 in support of the stewardship Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of The Preservation Compact, a regional SARGENT SHRIVER NATIONAL Chicago Architecture Foundation CENTER ON POVERTY LAW Chicago Botanic Garden $300,000 to participate in The Chicago Children’s Choir Preservation Compact. (2010) Chicago Children’s Museum UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO HARRIS Chicago Cultural Center Foundation SCHOOL FOR PUBLIC POLICY Chicago History Museum $200,000 to study the impact of Chicago Humanities Festival childhood housing instability on health Chicago Opera Theater and education outcomes. (2010) Chicago Shakespeare Theater Chicago Sinfonietta Arts and Culture Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chicago Zoological Society, General Operating Support Grants Brookfield Zoo Court Theatre Direct Funding The 50 arts and culture grantees listed DuPage Children’s Museum below receive funding directly from the DuSable Museum of African American MacArthur Foundation. The amount of History support for each of these groups is based Facets Multimedia

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Field Museum Newberry Library Rhythm Project, Puerto Rican Arts Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust Northlight Theatre Alliances, and Silk Road Rising. Goodman Theatre Old Town School of Folk Music MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture Grant Park Orchestral Association Ravinia Festival at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Through a funding partnership with the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Steppenwolf Theatre Company Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Illinois Holocaust Museum Urban Gateways Foundation supports small arts Illinois Humanities Council Victory Gardens Theater organizations with general operating funds. In 2011, this Fund awarded 101 Joffrey Ballet WBEZ Alliance grants totaling more than $1 million in John G. Shedd Aquarium Writers’ Theatre new or renewed support to small arts and cultural organizations such as Albany Kohl Children’s Museum of WTTW Channel 11 Park Theater Project, Fulcrum Point New Greater Chicago WYCC-TV Channel 20, City Colleges Music Project, and Hedwig Dances. Lincoln Park Zoo of Chicago Lookingglass Theatre Company Small Theater and Dance Fund at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Lyric Opera MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture MacArthur co-funds the Small Theater Marwen at the Prince Charitable Trusts and Dance Fund with the Richard H. Through a funding partnership with the Driehaus Foundation. This Fund supports Merit School of Music Prince Charitable Trusts, the Foundation companies with budgets less than Morton Arboretum supports mid-sized arts organizations $150,000. In 2011, this Fund awarded 69 Museum of Contemporary Art with general operating funds. In 2011, this new or renewed grants to the smallest Fund awarded 42 grants totaling $1.2 theater and dance organizations such as Museum of Science and Industry million in new or renewed support to Mordine & Company, Rivendell Theatre National Museum of Mexican Art organizations such as the Chicago Human Ensemble, and Stage Left Theater.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation page 6 Digital Media and Learning Juvenile Justice NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CHILDREN AND FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO $395,000 to sustain Illinois Models for FOUNDATION CIVITAS CHILDLAW CENTER Change and to improve Illinois juvenile $1,500,000 in support of the Smart $1,000,000 to sustain Illinois Models for defender policy, practices, and services Chicago Collaborative for participation in Change and advance juvenile justice statewide (over two years). (2012) Chicago Hive Learning Network activities. system reform in the state. (2012) (2011) JOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION Policy Research CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY $150,000 to track and monitor the FOUNDATION implementation of reforms in the Illinois CIVIC FEDERATION $1,050,000 in support of YouMedia@CPL Department of Juvenile Justice as part of $825,000 in support of general Illinois Models for Change. (2011) (over three years). (2010) operations (over three years). (2011) JUVENILE JUSTICE INITIATIVE DEPAUL UNIVERSITY SARGENT SHRIVER NATIONAL CENTER $400,000 to sustain Illinois Models for $1,800,000 to implement a Chicago ON POVERTY LAW Change and to advance juvenile justice $250,000 in support of general Learning Network of schools, libraries, policy reform in Illinois (over two years). operations (over two years). (2010) museums, after-school programs, online (2012) communities, and the home (over three years). (2010) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO $950,000 to research the fiscal policy space of municipalities (over three years). (2012)

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Barry Lowenkron About the MacArthur Foundation Vice President The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and International Programs effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In [email protected] addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how Elspeth Revere technology is affecting children and society. Vice President Media, Culture & Special Initiatives For more information or to sign-up for news and event updates, please visit [email protected] www.macfound.org.

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Michael Stegman (on leave) Director Policy and Housing [email protected]

Connie Yowell Director Education [email protected]

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