Grants Database
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Year
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Programs
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Amount
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Location
Minnesota Department of Human Rights
To engage police and community members following the determination of their investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department
$175,000
Minnesota Office of Higher Education
To support the salary of a full-time executive director for the Minnesota P-20 Education Partnership
$200,000
National Museum of Mexican Art
To create Pénjamo: A Road Trip Story, a play and theater project rooted in biography that expands the Mexican migration narrative to examine the themes of belonging to more than one place, which will be accompanied by a series of workshops for aspiring BIPOC writers and will culminate in a live reading of the finished work in Winter 2023
$75,000
Partnership for College Completion
To advocate for equity-based funding and other policies that help close race and income gaps in post-secondary enrollment and completion in Illinois
$100,000
Public Art Saint Paul
To commission Pramila Vasudevan to create Prairie/Concrete, a transdisciplinary project that will integrate choreography, community gardening, and plant-growth cycle to imagine new ways for audiences and artists to connect amidst environmental crisis and racial reckoning
$75,000
The Art Institute of Chicago
For the exhibition Himali Singh Soin: Static Range
$50,000
The HANA Center
To commission fiber and social practice artist Aram Han Sifuentes to create Citizenship for All, a community protest banner-making and immigrant justice project engaging multi-generations of Korean, Asian American, and multi-ethnic immigrant communities that will culminate in a public art installation in Chicago’s Albany Park
$75,000
University of Chicago
To support phase two of the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project
$400,000
University of Illinois
For its Discovery Partners Institute to support the Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative to study trends in dual enrollment participation across Illinois
$94,200
Vanderbilt University
For research in its Department of Economics focused on FAFSA verification, student loan repayment, the effect of free community college programs on four-year college enrollment, or other higher education issues the US Department of Education is currently focused on
$50,000
Asian Improv aRts Midwest
To provide unrestricted general operating support amidst COVID-19
$30,000
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc.
To inform the federal debate on extending Pell grant funding to short-term (i.e., 8-15 week) college programs
$60,000
Chicago Artists Coalition
To provide unrestricted general operating support amidst COVID-19
$50,000
Chicago Public Art Group
To support the commission of Santiago X’s Augment Earth, an interactive digital art experience and public app that layers Native histories, cultures, and languages onto the Northwest Portage Walking Museum
$75,000