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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 the issues faced by urban areas everywhere and how to address them.

AT A GLANCE in the Chicago region, including also played a major role in helping to theaters, dance groups, music organi- ensure that Chicago’s historic plan to • Since 1978, MacArthur has invested zations, visual art programs, film transform public housing high-rises nearly $1.1 billion in Chicago. Grants centers, museums, and libraries. into mixed-income communities is have supported more than 1,300 successful. organizations and individuals in the • Chicago is home to three innovation region. sites for MacArthur’s digital media and • Through its Models for Change initia- learning work, which aims to support tive, the Foundation invests in efforts • Between 2003 and 2014, MacArthur positive change in American education to create models of juvenile justice invested more than $471 million to through innovative approaches to reform through work in key states, support community and economic learning. including . development, arts and culture, and other • In collaboration with partners in the • The Foundation’s community and activities in Chicago neighborhoods. region, MacArthur seeks to preserve economic development grantmaking • MacArthur awards $10 million annually and expand Chicago’s stock of afford- includes support for efforts to reduce to more than 300 cultural organizations able rental housing. The Foundation gun violence in Chicago.

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ARTS AND CULTURE The Foundation awards $10 million each year to more than 300 arts and culture groups in the Chicago region, including theaters, dance companies, music organizations, visual art programs, film centers, museums, and libraries. These groups generate economic, cultural, educational, and community activity and contribute to the city’s reputation as a good place to live, visit, and conduct COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC MacArthur is also exploring new research business. DEVELOPMENT frameworks, institutions, and interventions MacArthur makes investments to improve that can help other cities in the U.S. and The majority of the funding takes the conditions in Chicago neighborhoods, around the world make more informed form of multi-year, core grants that foster greater economic diversity, decisions and address complex challenges provide a stable source of support to increase opportunity for low-income more effectively. organizations, giving them flexibility to individuals and families, and develop new fund ongoing work and take creative knowledge about effective responses to For more information visit risks. The Foundation directly funds 53 social and economic urban challenges. www.macfound.org/ced. large institutions (those with budgets Historically, the program’s central initiative over $2 million). Arts organizations with in Chicago has been the New Communities Representative Grants annual budgets between $500,000 and Program (www.newcommunities.org), a $2 million are supported through the coordinated effort managed by LISC/ LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT MacArthur Fund at the Prince Charitable Chicago to address a comprehensive CORPORATION Trusts. Small groups, with budgets of less range of issues to measurably improve $8,000,000 in support of the New than $500,000, receive grants through Communities Program Testing the Model quality of life, including employment, the MacArthur Fund at the Richard H. phase (over three years). (2012) health, housing, and violence reduction. Driehaus Foundation. The Foundation has made complementary POLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH investments to reduce gun violence, In addition, the Foundation supports FORUM improve access to and use of information special, time-limited projects and $400,000 to support reform at the initiatives that benefit a set of arts technology and data, and stimulate Chicago Police Department (over two organizations or the sector as a whole. economic development. years). (2014) Examples include the International Connections Fund, which helps arts Efforts in public safety include support UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CRIME LAB organizations advance their work by for the Chicago Police Department’s $500,000 to support the pilot phase of collaborating with peer organizations Violence Reduction Strategy, evaluation Youth Guidance’s Becoming a Man abroad; the American Rhythm Center, of anti-violence programming targeted at program, an anti-violence research which is a rehearsal, office, and teaching keeping kids in school and away from demonstration for middle school students space shared among seven dance contact with the juvenile justice system, in Chicago. (2012) companies; and the Arts & Culture Loan and the University of Chicago’s Crime Fund, which provides loans through Lab, which uses research methodologies UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO commercial banks to small and medium pioneered in the medical field to evaluate COMPUTATION INSTITUTE sized arts organizations. programs intended to reduce crime and $500,000 in support of the Center for violence locally and across the United Urban Systems and Information Sciences For more information visit States. (over two years). (2013) www.macfound.org/arts.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation page 2 General Operating Support Grants Chicago Children’s Choir John G. Shedd Aquarium Chicago Children’s Museum Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Direct Funding Chicago The 53 arts and culture grantees listed Chicago Humanities Festival Zoo below receive funding directly from the Lookingglass Theatre Company MacArthur Foundation. The amount of Chicago Shakespeare Theatre support for each of these groups is Marwen based on its budget size: organizations Chicago Symphony Orchestra Merit School of Music with budgets of $2 to $5 million receive Chicago Zoological Society, Morton Arboretum $52,500 per year; those with budgets of Brookfield Zoo Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Science and Industry $5 to $10 million receive $63,000 per National Museum of Mexican Art year; groups with budgets of $10 to $20 DuPage Children’s Museum million receive $75,000 per year; and the DuSable Museum of African American Northlight Theatre largest organizations, with budgets over History Old Town School of Folk Music $20 million, receive $100,000 per year. Facets Multimedia Field Museum Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust Steppenwolf Theatre Company Urban Gateways Grant Park Orchestral Association Black Ensemble Theater for Music and Dance WBEZ Alliance Chicago Academy of Sciences, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Illinois Holocaust Museum WTTW Channel 11 Chicago Architecture Foundation Illinois Humanities Council WYCC-TV Channel 20, City Colleges of Chicago Botanic Garden Chicago

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MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture grants totaling more than $1.2 million in EDUCATION at the Prince Charitable Trusts new or renewed support to small arts Society is reinventing how knowledge is Through a funding partnership with the and cultural organizations such as Albany created, organized, accessed, and Prince Charitable Trusts, the Foundation Park Theater Project, Fulcrum Point New shared, with far-reaching implications supports mid-sized arts organizations Music Project, and Hedwig Dances. for institutions of learning like schools, with general operating funds. In 2013, libraries, and museums. MacArthur’s this Fund awarded 48 grants totaling Small Theater and Dance Fund at the digital media and learning initiative aims $1.6 million in new or renewed support to Richard H. Driehaus Foundation to support positive change in American organizations such as the Chicago MacArthur co-funds the Small Theater education through connected learning, Human Rhythm Project, Hyde Park Art and Dance Fund with the Richard H. a new framework for thinking about Center, Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, and Driehaus Foundation. This Fund supports and supporting learning that promotes . companies with budgets less than discovery, creativity, and critical thinking MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture $150,000. In 2013, this Fund awarded through activities and real-world at the Richard H. Driehaus more than 80 new or renewed grants to experiences that bring together Foundation the smallest theater and dance organi­ academics and young people’s interests, Through a funding partnership with the zations such as Clinard Dance Theatre, and their peers and peer culture, often Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Lucky Plush Productions, and Stage using digital and traditional media. Foundation supports small arts organi­ Left Theater. Chicago is home to three innovation sites zations with general operating funds. In where it is possible to see connected 2013, this Fund awarded more than 130 • • • learning in action:

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation page 4 more robust housing market that meets the needs of all Americans.

In Chicago, The Preservation Compact has brought together leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to • ChicagoQuest, a charter public school home. Cities of Learning programs have craft a new vision for Cook County: to where pedagogy and curriculum are also been initiated in five additional cities reverse the downward trend in Cook based on the principles of game design around the United States. County’s affordable rental housing and aim to engender creative problem- supply. To achieve this ambitious goal, solving, critical thinking, and productive For more information visit the Compact is implementing the collaboration; www.macfound.org/learning. comprehensive Rental Housing Action • YOUmedia, a popular teen learning Plan for Cook County, which includes space at the Public Representative Grants initiatives designed to change the policy Library that is the model for more than environment and preserve and improve 35 similar spaces that are planned or in DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING existing affordable rental homes that operation in museums and libraries THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY might otherwise be lost to condominium nationwide; and FOUNDATION conversion, demolition, or rising costs. • The Chicago Hive Learning Network, $1,300,000 in support of the Chicago a group of civic and cultural organiza­ Hive Learning Network. (2013) For more information visit tions working together in new ways to www.macfound.org/housing or reimagine how learning is organized CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY www.preservationcompact.org. and supported across geographic FOUNDATION locations. $2,000,000 in support of YOUmedia Representative Grants Chicago (over three years). (2013) In summer 2013, MacArthur, in partner­ ship with the City of Chicago and the DEPAUL UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY INVESTMENT Mozilla Foundation, piloted the first $1,500,000 to expand the Chicago CORPORATION citywide use of a new alternative Summer of Learning into a year-long $5,000,000 in an impact investment to accreditation tool called “open badges” learning experience (over two years). create a new loan product for long-term to capture and reward young people’s (2013) financing of low- and moderate-income learning. More than 100 organizations rental buildings in Cook County (over ten participated, awarding more than • • • years). (2013) 100,000 badges to nearly 30,000 youth. HOUSING SARGENT SHRIVER NATIONAL CENTER Building on the success of that pilot, The Foundation’s interest in housing— ON POVERTY LAW MacArthur, the City of Chicago, and which is based on the premise that $450,000 to participate in The Preservation MacArthur grantee Digital Youth Network decent, stable, affordable housing is Compact and ensure tenant and com­ have expanded the program to a year- essential to strong families and vibrant munity participation in preserving round “City of Learning” program to communities—has focused primarily on affordable rental housing in Cook County motivate young people’s learning, connect the supply of affordable housing, funding (over two years). (2015) them to jobs and internships, and set direct investments in the preservation of them on a trajectory for success. Youth rental housing. Activities also include ELEVATE ENERGY have opportunities to engage in learning research on the relationship between $100,000 to develop a road map for and earn badges year-round for new various attributes of housing and Illinois and other states interested in skills and competencies they acquire outcomes in areas such as health, improving the energy efficiency of their through a range of programs at museums, education, and employment, and on multifamily housing stock. (2014) libraries, parks, and schools, as well as policy reform that supports a balanced through self-paced online learning at national housing policy and a stronger, • • •

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JUSTICE REFORM LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Economic Competitiveness, which aims MacArthur’s juvenile justice initiative, CIVITAS CHILDLAW CENTER to enhance public understanding of Models for Change, seeks to create $495,000 to secure and sustain progress immigration and its importance to the successful and replicable models of under Illinois Models for Change and region’s economic future. reform through investments in key states, advance juvenile justice system reform in including Illinois. The goal is to accelerate the state. (2014) For more information visit progress toward a more effective, fair, www.macfound.org/policy. and developmentally sound juvenile NATIONAL JUVENILE DEFENDER justice system that holds young people CENTER Representative Grants accountable for their actions, provides for $500,000 to target outreach to new their rehabilitation, improves their life professional and policy groups and to CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL chances, and manages the risk they support the diffusion of Models for AFFAIRS pose to themselves and to the public. Change resources and innovations. $500,000 in support of the Immigration (2015) Task Force (over two years). (2013) Illinois was chosen as one of four core Models for Change states because of its • • • strong juvenile justice leadership, SARGENT SHRIVER NATIONAL CENTER potential for collaboration, community POLICY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ON POVERTY LAW and civic engagement, ongoing reform MacArthur’s policy research initiative $450,000 in support of general efforts, and receptivity to and readiness currently supports special projects operations (over three years). (2012) for change. The Foundation supports focused on the use of benefit-cost Chicago-based organizations working analysis to promote effective policy­ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF toward state-wide juvenile justice reform, making and fiscal challenges facing the GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC AFFAIRS including Northwestern University’s country with a focus on states and $375,000 in support of the Fiscal Futures Children and Family Justice Center, the localities including Illinois. It has provided project (over two years). (2013) Community Justice for Youth Institute, operating support for a small group of and Youth Outreach Strategies. national and Illinois-based policy • • • organizations that work primarily on fiscal The initiative is currently focused on issues. These organizations produce CHICAGO’S WORLD-CLASS sustaining momentum for reform by rigorous research and analysis and INSTITUTIONS sharing and promoting successful translate that work to enhance its value to Chicago is an international city, in its models to critical reform audiences like policymakers, the media, and the general neighborhoods, in its commerce, in the law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, public. This work has included support work done by its educational research defenders, and legislators. for the State Budget Crisis Task Force to institutions, through the many international help draw attention to the fiscal associations headquartered in the city, For more information about the challenges facing Illinois. and in the global interests of many who Foundation’s juvenile justice work, visit live here. Through its international www.macfound.org/juvenile_justice or Research on U.S. immigration policy— www.modelsforchange.net. one of three initiatives within MacArthur’s grantmaking programs, MacArthur migration work—is focused primarily on provides support to organizations such Representative Grants economic and fiscal impacts, including as the Chicago Council on Global the benefits and costs of immigration at Affairs; the Field Museum; the Center for JOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION the federal and state levels. A small group International Human Rights at Northwestern $177,000 to monitor and assist in the of grants explores a set of immigration- University School of Law, and the School implementation of reforms in the Illinois related issues in the Chicago area. For of Social Service Administration at the Department of Juvenile Justice as part of example, funding to the Chicago Council University of Chicago. Illinois Models for Change. (2013) on Global Affairs supports its bipartisan Task Force on Immigration and U.S. • • •

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation page 6 LIVING IN A LANDMARK which designed many of the city’s early An exhibit on the history and architecture Completed in 1895, the 17-story Marquette tall office buildings. These new “sky- of the building is located in the arcade, Building is one of Chicago’s earliest scrapers” had steel skeletons holding up just west of the lobby. The exhibit, which skyscrapers, and an example of the facades of brick and ornamental terra is free and open to the public, includes renowned Chicago School of Architecture. cotta, making them look light compared interactive kiosks and also features As the building’s owner, MacArthur was to their traditional masonry counterparts. information about the work and history of pleased to support its restoration and preservation. the Foundation. The building was designated a Chicago The Marquette Building was designed by Landmark in 1975 and a National Historic For more information visit the Chicago firm Holabird & Roche, Landmark in 1976. www.marquette.macfound.org.

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STAFF About the MacArthur Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and Julia Stasch effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. President In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, the Foundation works to defend human [email protected] rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society. Elspeth Revere Vice President, Media, Culture & For more information or to sign up for news and event updates, please visit Special Initiatives www.macfound.org. [email protected] John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Andy Solomon 140 S. Dearborn Street Vice President, Public Affairs Chicago, IL 60603-5285 [email protected] Phone: (312) 726-8000 TDD: (312) 920-6285 Valerie Chang E-mail: [email protected] Interim Managing Director, U.S. Programs [email protected] wwwmacfound.org. macfound.org twittertwitter.com/macfound.com/macfound Stephanie Platz Interim Managing Director, youtube.com/macfoundyoutube.com/macfound International Programs [email protected]

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