Grants Database
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Year
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Programs
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Amount
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Location
Mandala Arts
To commission musician Sonny K. Mehta to create a series of performances that will merge the musical genres of Qawwali and gospel and bring together Chicago’s South Asian and Black communities
$75,000
MDRC
To build out its College Completion Strategy Guide on evidence-based practices to improve post-secondary outcomes, and to launch new qualitative research on promising practices to help part-time college students succeed
$300,000
Media in the Public Interest Inc.
To produce a series of broadcast stories about climate and energy solutions across the Great Lakes region, particularly targeting rural areas
$75,000
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
For a Senior Climate Policy Advisor
$400,000
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership
To develop policy and implement narrative change strategies to reverse racial inequalities in post-secondary access and success in Minnesota
$250,000
Minnesota Environmental Partnership
To support its Great Lakes and drinking water work
$300,000
Northwestern University
For the Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science to conduct an evaluation of Illinois’ intergovernmental partnership for violence prevention
$100,000
Partnership for College Completion
To advocate for an equity-centered public university funding formula and robust student protections in Illinois
$300,000
South Side Community Art Center
To support the programs and public engagement manager position
$50,000
The National Public Housing Museum
To commission Ecuadorian-Chinese artist Marisa Morán Jahn to create HOOPS, an outdoor recreation court, co-designed with Chicago residents that celebrates the important role of street games in the history of public housing
$75,000
The Project on Government Oversight Inc.
To support a census research project and report designed to improve state and local census participation for 2030
$118,500
The Rebuild Foundation NFP
To support a new exhibition by Joyce Awards Alumnus Theaster Gates at Stony Island Arts Bank
$50,000
University of Chicago
For its Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry to support Black contemporary artist vanessa german’s first solo exhibition in Chicago and the creation of a new, community-engaged body of work
$50,000
University of Illinois Foundation
For the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts to support Chicago designer and artist Norman Teague’s US pavilion installation for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale
$50,000
WISCONSIN DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN INC
To support its work to protect and expand voting rights and push for independent, nonpartisan redistricting
$180,000
Young Invincibles
To support student participation in higher education policy discussions in Illinois
$250,000