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The Joyce Foundation ANNUAL REPORT 2003 H OC FOUNDATION the JOYCE ANNUAL REPORT 2003 8646_cover_alt 6/27/04 10:57 AM Page 1 The Joyce Foundation ANNUAL REPORT 2003 THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2003ANNUAL REPORT THE JOYCE FOUNDATION 70 West Madison Street, Suite 2750 Chicago, Illinois 60602 Phone 312-782-2464 Fax 312-782-4160 E-mail [email protected] Website www.joycefdn.org “The lake is living water, ever in motion, and ever changing in color and in the form of its waves…. In every aspect it is a living thing, delighting man’s eye and refreshing his spirit.” ARCHITECT AND CITY PLANNER DANIEL BURNHAM, 1909 2 President’s Letter 4 Environment 28 Employment 29 Education 30 Gun Violence 31 Money and Politics 32 Culture 33 Grants Approved 49 Financial Statements 57 2004 Program Guidelines 2 PRESIDENT’S LETTER The Joyce Foundation ANNUAL REPORT 2003 3 As one of the nation’s largest environmental funders, the Joyce 2003 brought significant change and notable Our work in Gun Violence continued its achievements in several of the Foundation’s efforts to build a solid framework of information Foundation has for many years supported efforts to reduce threats other programs as well. A major victory came for determining new policies to reduce the in the Money and Politics arena, when the annual toll of gun deaths, which now stands to the health of the Great Lakes. Supreme Court upheld the landmark Bipartisan at nearly 30,000. The establishment in 2003 of Campaign Reform Act. The product of years of a National Violent Death Reporting System, Last year we learned, through polling, that a include protection from coastal pollution and work by a wide range of groups, many of them which will collect and analyze data from health vast majority of Midwest residents share our core sewer overflows that cause beach closings; Joyce grantees, the law has significantly changed and law enforcement, will be a valuable tool in belief in the importance of protecting the Great cutting toxic pollution so pregnant women the landscape for campaign finance, putting in developing more effective policies. Lakes. By a wide margin, they see the lakes and children can safely eat lake fish; protecting place new rules intended to insure the integrity In the Employment program, the presidential as part of their heritage, a beautiful natural against invasive species; and rebuilding damaged of elections. elections have provided a welcome focus on resource. They also understand that the lakes fish and wildlife habitat. Research demonstrates that there are two job creation. Joyce grantees have been active are vital to the region’s economy, providing This year, the Foundation’s annual report factors most likely to affect low-income children’s in pushing for more and better job training 150,000 jobs in shipping, and supporting focuses on the enormous importance of the success in school: participation in high-quality opportunities, especially for people entering a multi-billion dollar recreation industry. Great Lakes to the Midwest’s economic and pre-school, and exposure to high-quality teachers. the workforce or trying to move up the ladder Support from the public will be an important physical well-being, and outlines some of the The Foundation initiated new grantmaking from low-paid jobs. Innovative new programs factor in strengthening efforts to establish intense threats they face. Our agenda is to build directions in Education that will focus intensely designed specifically for difficult-to-place workers a Great Lakes Restoration plan. Like similar support for a coordinated, intensive effort to on these two issues. —long-time welfare recipients or returning efforts to fund the restoration of the Florida protect the lakes for the benefit of all of us, Complementing its long-time focus on ex-offenders, for example—are in place in several Everglades and Chesapeake Bay, there is growing including generations to come. building stronger and more diverse arts audi- locations in the Midwest, with Joyce support. support in Washington, D.C. and throughout ences, the Culture program launched a new We are proud of the achievements of our the region to leverage federal grants for a massive, awards program to support Midwest cultural grantees, and look forward to continued fruitful but necessary, clean-up effort. Urgent projects institutions to commission works by artists of partnerships in the coming year. color in dance, music, and visual arts. The high quality of the many applicants, and the enthusi- astic reception by the arts community, make us proud to have begun this new project and Ellen S. Alberding enthusiastic about its continuation in 2004. President The Joyce Foundation ANNUAL REPORT 2003 5 Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario: together, the Great Lakes are a vast freshwater sea at the heart of America, and a source of life, work, and refreshment for millions of people. But those millions of people in turn put enormous stresses on the lakes: pollution, climate change, destruction of wetlands, introduction of invasive species, and increasing demands for water. Great Lakes residents love their lakes, and are determined to protect them in the face of these threats. 2003 saw growing support for a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative that offers the potential to do just that. But the future of restoration efforts is uncertain. The challenge is enormous, but so is the responsibility: to protect the waters that sustain us, now and for future generations. 6 LIFE Life “In every aspect it is a living thing, delighting on the planet, containing 20 percent of the man’s eye and refreshing his spirit.” Daniel earth’s supply; 59 billion gallons are withdrawn Burnham wrote about Lake Michigan nearly a each day by communities and industries along century ago, but anyone who has stood on the their shores. shores or sailed the waters of Michigan and its The lakes’ water and related groundwater also sister lakes knows exactly what he was talking support the farms and orchards that are a vital about. For some 40 million people who live part of the region’s economy, as well as related near them, the lakes are a living presence. industries including food processing and brewing. That’s not just a metaphor. The lakes supply Food and fiber production constitute the single the one commodity that is essential to life: water. largest consumptive use of Great Lakes water. They are the largest source of fresh surface water The Joyce Foundation ANNUAL REPORT 2003 9 The regional economy crucially depends on But the lakes’ value goes well beyond the the lakes in other ways. Lake shipping is a $6 economic. In a highly populated region, the billion industry that moves nearly 175 million lakes offer the endless and indispensable possibility tons of goods each year. Water from the Great of connecting with nature. Birdwatchers trek to Lakes system drives hydroelectric generators Lake Michigan’s shores, where every year more and cools power plants providing electricity for than five million migrating songbirds make their homes and workplaces across northern and eastern seasonal journeys to the north and back again. United States. Meanwhile boaters, anglers, and Anglers fish for salmon, perch, walleye, and vacationers collectively pump billions annually other lake fish. Millions of others come to swim, into the region’s tourism industries. walk the beaches, ride bikes, sail, waterski, explore the dunes, watch the sun set or a storm come up, gaze unimpeded at the clouds or the stars. Family picnics, lakeshore festivals, summer vacations along the lakes inhabit our memories and our collective imaginations. Every day, year-round, and through the generations, the lakes affect our lives. But our lives also affect the lakes. The Joyce Foundation ANNUAL REPORT 2003 13 Dangers To any one individual on their shores, the lakes wetlands, and open them up to species that were seem vast and powerful beyond human scale. never meant to enter their waters. Together, But to the 40 million of us collectively, they those threats are fast reaching such a scale that are increasingly vulnerable. We take water out one USEPA official, speaking of Lake Michigan, of them, pour waste into them, heat the air spoke of “an orange alert”—a grave warning of over them, drain and pave their surrounding a grim future. 14 DANGERS The Joyce Foundation ANNUAL REPORT 2003 15 Growing demand for their water Three times in 2003, Milwaukee dumped Toxic pollutants make the competition for lake water more acute. Expanding populations are increasing demands partially treated sewage—up to 40 million Long-banned pollutants, such as PCBs, have In addition, climate change heightens the severity for water from both inside and outside the gallons of it—into Lake Michigan. In 2003, been declining, but they still lurk in the lake of storms, which in turn overstress sewage systems region, putting pressure on the Great Lakes. beach closings and swimming advisories for Lake sediment and remain concentrated in the tissues and intensify bacterial contamination. Nearby groundwater, which naturally replenishes Michigan beaches totaled 1473. Nearly a quarter of fish. Around the basin, 31 areas have been the lakes, is being depleted; southeastern of Great Lakes beaches are closed at least once labeled “toxic hotspots” because of contaminated Dead zone Wisconsin has pumped out so much ground- a year, making the problem more widespread sediments. Meanwhile, mercury emitted by For periods each summer, a large and growing water that Lake Michigan has begun to leak here than on any other U.S. coastline. power plants continues to settle on the lakes section of central Lake Erie becomes a “dead into the underground reservoirs, rather than the and make its way to fish populations. zone,” with insufficient oxygen to support most other way around. Chicago-area planners warn Invasive species forms of life.
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