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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 organizations in the Chicago region, to ensure that Chicago’s historic plan • Since 1978, MacArthur has invested including theaters, dance groups, music to transform public housing high-rises nearly $1.1 billion in Chicago. Grants organizations, visual art programs, film into mixed-income communities is have supported more than 1,300 centers, museums, and libraries. successful. organizations and individuals in the • Chicago is home to three innovation • Through its Models for Change initiative, region. sites for MacArthur’s digital media and the Foundation invests in efforts to • Between 2002 and 2013, MacArthur learning work, which aims to support create models of juvenile justice reform invested more than $268 million to positive change in American education through work in key states, including support community and economic through innovative approaches to Illinois. learning. development and other activities in • The Foundation’s policy research Chicago neighborhoods and to • In collaboration with partners in the grantmaking includes special projects increase opportunities for low-income region, MacArthur seeks to preserve on the nation’s fiscal future—with a individuals and families. and expand Chicago’s stock of afford­ focus on states and localities, including • MacArthur awards more than $9 million able rental housing. The Foundation Illinois—and immigration-related issues annually to more than 200 cultural also has played a major role in helping in the 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 (www. newcommunities.org), a coordinated effort managed by LISC/Chicago to address a comprehensive range of issues Chicago Collaborative (over four years). good place to live, visit, and conduct to measurably improve quality of life, (2010) business. including employment, health, housing, and violence reduction. Complementary LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT investments seek to reduce gun violence, The majority of the funding takes the form CORPORATION improve access to and use of information of multi-year, general operating grants $8,000,000 in support of the New technology and data, and stimulate that provide a stable source of support to Communities Program Testing the economic development. organizations, giving them flexibility to Model phase (over three years). (2012) fund ongoing work and take creative risks. Efforts in public safety include support for The Foundation directly funds 51 large RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY institutions (those with budgets over $2 the Chicago Police Department’s Violence UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Reduction Strategy, evaluation of anti- million). Arts organizations with annual $1,800,000 to support the Violence budgets between $500,000 and $2 million violence programming targeted at keeping Reduction Strategy police reform kids in school and away from contact are supported through the MacArthur demonstration in Chicago (over three Fund at the Prince Charitable Trusts. with the juvenile justice system, and the years). (2012) University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, which Small groups, with budgets of less than $500,000, receive grants through the uses research methodologies pioneered UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CRIME LAB MacArthur Fund at the Richard H. in the medical field to evaluate programs $500,000 to support the pilot phase of Driehaus Foundation. intended to reduce crime and violence Youth Guidance’s Becoming a Man locally and across the United States. program, an anti-violence research demonstration for middle school students In addition, the Foundation supports MacArthur is also exploring new research in Chicago. (2012) special, time-limited projects and frameworks, institutions, and interventions initiatives that benefit a set of arts that can help other cities in the U.S. and • • • organizations or the sector as a whole. around the world make more informed Examples include the International decisions and address complex challenges ARTS AND CULTURE Connections Fund, which helps arts more effectively. The Foundation awards $9 million each organizations advance their work by year to more than 200 arts and culture collaborating with peer organizations For more information visit groups in the Chicago region, including abroad; the American Rhythm Center, www.macfound.org/ced. theaters, dance companies, music which is a rehearsal, office, and teaching organizations, visual art programs, film space shared among seven dance Representative Grants centers, museums, and libraries. These companies; and the Arts & Culture Loan groups generate economic, cultural, Fund, which provides loans through THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST educational, and community activity and commercial banks to small and medium $1,000,000 to support the Smart contribute to the city’s reputation as a sized arts organizations.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation page 2 Representative Grants Chicago Children’s Choir Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago Children’s Museum Chicago Direct Funding Lincoln Park Zoo The 51 arts and culture grantees listed Chicago Humanities Festival Lookingglass Theatre Company below receive funding directly from the MacArthur Foundation. The amount of Chicago Shakespeare Theatre Marwen support for each of these groups is Merit School of Music based on its budget size: organizations Chicago Symphony Orchestra Morton Arboretum with budgets of $2 to $5 million receive Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield Museum of Contemporary Art $52,500 per year; those with budgets of Zoo 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 Newberry Library million receive $75,000 per year; and the DuSable Museum of African American Northlight Theatre largest organizations, with budgets over History $20 million, receive $100,000 per year. Facets Multimedia Old Town School of Folk Music Field Museum Adler Planetarium Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust Steppenwolf Theatre Company Urban Gateways Art Institute of Chicago Grant Park Orchestral Association Black Ensemble Theater Hubbard Street Dance Chicago WBEZ Alliance Chicago Academy of Sciences, Illinois Holocaust Museum Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Illinois Humanities Council WTTW Channel 11 Chicago Architecture Foundation WYCC-TV Channel 20, City Colleges Chicago Botanic Garden John G. Shedd Aquarium of 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 shared, Prince Charitable Trusts, the Foundation Park Theater Project, Fulcrum Point New with far-reaching implications for institutions supports mid-sized arts organizations Music Project, and Hedwig Dances. of learning like schools, libraries, and with general operating funds. In 2013, museums. MacArthur’s digital media and this Fund awarded 48 grants totaling $1.6 Small Theater and Dance Fund at the learning initiative aims to support positive million in new or renewed support to Richard H. Driehaus Foundation change in American education through organizations such as the Chicago MacArthur co-funds the Small Theater connected learning, a new framework for Human Rhythm Project, Hyde Park Art thinking about and supporting learning and Dance Fund with the Richard H. Center, Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, and that promotes discovery, creativity, and Driehaus Foundation. This Fund supports Silk Road Rising. critical thinking through activities and companies with budgets less than real-world experiences that bring together MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture $150,000. In 2013, this Fund awarded academics and young people’s interests, at the Richard H. Driehaus more than 80 new or renewed grants to and their peers and peer culture, often Foundation the smallest theater and dance using digital and traditional media. Chicago Through a funding partnership with the organizations such as Clinard Dance is home to three innovation sites where it Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Theatre, Lucky Plush Productions, and is possible to see connected learning in Foundation supports small arts organi­ Stage Left Theater. action: zations with general operating funds. In • ChicagoQuest, a charter public school 2013, this Fund awarded more than 130 • • • where pedagogy and curriculum are

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation page 4 To achieve this ambitious goal, the Compact is implementing the compre­ hensive Rental Housing Action Plan for Cook County, which includes initiatives designed to change the policy environ­ ment and preserve and improve existing based on the principles of game design Representative Grants affordable rental homes that might and aim to engender creative problem- otherwise be lost to condominium solving, critical thinking, and productive THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY conversion, demolition, or rising costs. collaboration; FOUNDATION • YOUmedia, a popular teen learning $1,300,000 in support of the Chicago For more information visit space at the Public Hive Learning Network. (2013) www.macfound.org/housing or Library and six other branches that is the www.preservationcompact.org. model for more than 35 similar spaces CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY that are planned or in operation in FOUNDATION Representative Grants museums and libraries nationwide; and $2,000,000 in support of YOUmedia • The Chicago Hive Learning Network, a Chicago (over three years). (2013) COMMUNITY INVESTMENT group of civic and cultural organizations CORPORATION working together in new ways to DEPAUL UNIVERSITY $1,050,000 in support of the stewardship reimagine how learning is organized $1,500,000 to expand the Chicago of The Preservation Compact, a regional and supported across geographic Summer of Learning into a year-long effort to preserve affordable rental locations. learning experience. (2013) housing (over three years). (2012) DEPAUL UNIVERSITY In summer 2013, MacArthur, in partnership • • • $1,000,000 to support research, a with the City of Chicago and the Mozilla data clearinghouse, and coordination Foundation, piloted the first citywide use HOUSING of a new alternative accreditation tool The Foundation’s interest in housing— of public agencies that participate in called “open badges” to capture and which is based on the premise that The Preservation Compact. (2011) reward young people’s learning. More decent, stable, affordable housing is than 100 organizations participated, essential to strong families and vibrant SARGENT SHRIVER NATIONAL awarding more than 100,000 badges to communities—has focused primarily on CENTER ON POVERTY LAW nearly 30,000 youth. Building on the the supply of affordable housing, funding $300,000 to participate in The success of the summer pilot, MacArthur, direct investments in the preservation of Preservation Compact. (2013) the City of Chicago, and MacArthur rental housing. Activities also include grantee Digital Youth Network are expand­ research on the relationship between METROPOLITAN TENANTS ing the program to a year-round effort to various attributes of housing and out­ ORGANIZATION motivate young people’s learning, connect comes in areas such as health, education, $250,000 to develop a new web app that them to jobs and internships, and set and employment, and on policy reform will improve communications between them on a trajectory for success. Youth that supports a balanced national housing tenants and landlords to resolve typical will have opportunities to engage in policy and a stronger, more robust housing-related issues. (2013) learning and earn badges year-round for housing market that meets the needs of new skills and competencies they acquire all Americans. • • • through a range of programs at museums, libraries, parks, and schools, as well as In Chicago, The Preservation Compact JUSTICE REFORM through self-paced online learning at has brought together leaders from the MacArthur’s juvenile justice initiative, home. public, private, and nonprofit sectors to Models for Change, seeks to create craft a new vision for Cook County: to successful and replicable models of For more information visit reverse the downward trend in Cook reform through investments in key www.macfound.org/education. County’s affordable rental housing supply. states, including Illinois. The goal is to

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accelerate progress toward a more JOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION immigration and its importance to the effective, fair, and developmentally sound $177,000 to monitor and assist in the region’s economic future. juvenile justice system that holds young implementation of reforms in the Illinois people accountable for their actions, Department of Juvenile Justice as part of For more information visit provides for their rehabilitation, improves Illinois Models for Change. (2013) www.macfound.org/policy. their life chances, and manages the risk they pose to themselves and to the LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Representative Grants public. CIVITAS CHILDLAW CENTER $495,000 to secure and sustain progress CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL Illinois was chosen as one of four core under Illinois Models for Change and AFFAIRS Models for Change states because of its advance juvenile justice system reform in $500,000 in support of the Immigration strong juvenile justice leadership, the state. (2014) Task Force (over two years). (2013) potential for collaboration, community and civic engagement, ongoing reform • • • SARGENT SHRIVER NATIONAL CENTER efforts, and receptivity to and readiness ON POVERTY LAW for change. The Foundation supports POLICY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS $450,000 in support of general Chicago-based organizations working MacArthur’s policy research initiative operations (over three years). (2012) toward state-wide juvenile justice reform, currently supports special projects focused including Northwestern University’s on the use of benefit-cost analysis to UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF Children and Family Justice Center, the promote effective policymaking and fiscal GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC AFFAIRS $375,000 in support of the Fiscal Futures Community Justice for Youth Institute, challenges facing the country with a project (over two years). (2013) and Youth Outreach Strategies. focus on states and localities including Illinois. It also provides operating support • • • The initiative is currently focused on for a small group of national and Illinois- sustaining momentum for reform by based policy organizations that work CHICAGO’S WORLD-CLASS sharing and promoting successful primarily on fiscal issues. These organi­ INSTITUTIONS models to critical reform audiences like zations produce rigorous research and Chicago is an international city, in its law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, analysis and translate that work to enhance neighborhoods, in its commerce, in the defenders, and legislators. its value to policymakers, the media, and work done by its educational research the general public. This work has included institutions, through the many international MacArthur is exploring various options to support for the State Budget Crisis Task associations headquartered in the city, address the phenomenon of overuse and Force to help draw attention to the fiscal and in the global interests of many who misuse of incarceration and its negative challenges facing Illinois. live here. Through its inter­national grant- effects on individuals, families, commu­ making programs, MacArthur provides nities, and society at large. Research on U.S. immigration policy— support to organi­zations such as the one of three initiatives within MacArthur’s Chicago Council on Global Affairs; the For more information visit migration work—is focused primarily on Field Museum; the Center for International www.macfound.org/juvenile_justice or economic and fiscal impacts, including Human Rights at Northwestern University www.modelsforchange.net. the benefits and costs of immigration at School of Law, and the School of Social the federal and state levels. A small group Service Administration at the University Representative Grants of grants explores a set of immigration- of Chicago. related issues in the Chicago area. For ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF example, funding to the Chicago Council • • • JUVENILE JUSTICE on Global Affairs supports its bipartisan $480,000 to secure and sustain programs Task Force on Immigration and U.S. made under the Illinois Models for Economic Competitiveness, which aims Change initiative (over two years). (2012) to enhance public understanding of

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

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STAFF About the MacArthur Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and Barry Lowenkron effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In Vice President, International Programs 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 Julia Stasch E-mail: [email protected] Vice President, U.S. Programs [email protected] wwwmacfound.org. macfound.org Valerie Chang twittertwitter.com/macfound.com/macfound Director, Policy Research [email protected] youtube.com/macfoundyoutube.com/macfound

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