The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation

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1 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Three-year Report

2 Front Cover: The Loop lakefront as seen in a photograph by Terry Evans from an exhibit of her work Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait, which traveled to Prague, Czech Republic. The exhibit was supported by the Driehaus Foundation. This page: Detail from the interior of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, in the 1883 Samuel M. Nickerson Mansion.

3 Through our grants, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation seeks to improve the built environment, to ameliorate the effects of low wages, to enhance the city through the arts, and to use investigative reporting to strengthen our democracy. Interspersed through this three-year report are quotations from a selection of our grant recipients about their work. We recognize the challenges they face every day, applaud their skills and persistence, and take pride in their accomplishments. 1

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5 The Built Environment Richard Nickel photograph of the Troescher Building column detail with the Civic Opera House in the background. The Adler & Sullivan-designed Troescher was razed in The Driehaus Foundation supports publication of The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan, a book being compiled by the Richard Nickel Committee. In the introduction to his book Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago, Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Blair Kamin writes: From highways to high-rises, schools to subways, bridges to baseball parks, architecture reflects our values and our visions, and, in turn, it shapes just about everything we do. It is not a frill. It is essential to the quality of life. Blair Kamin s words echo our values. Believing that everyone deserves good design, and that design can help enhance quality of life, our funding priority has been to support programs that benefit people in all neighborhoods. The social aspects of architecture and design interest us along with the aesthetic concerns. Chicago s greystones and bungalows, and even its original public housing that housed so many working-class and low-income people, were well-designed and often beautiful homes. There are many examples as well of parks, schools, libraries, and other public buildings that enhance their neighborhoods that still exemplify what makes a livable community. We have celebrated good design for ten years through The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Architectural Excellence in Community Design. In the last decade, these awards have become one of the city s most prestigious in architecture. More importantly, they have acknowledged how good new design in low- and moderate-income areas anchors the process of redevelopment and helps to strengthen community pride. Preserving history, however, is equally important to us. In 2006, Chicago lost three Louis Sullivan buildings to devastating fires: Pilgrim Baptist Church, the Wirt Dexter Building, and the George Harvey House. Though we cannot assist the many buildings that need restoration, the foundation does support the organizations that provide advocacy, technical assistance, and educational programs. We are working to re-establish the services once offered by Inspired Partnerships, a nonprofit group that helped congregations find the most cost-efficient ways to maintain their buildings. Convening Landmarks Illinois and the national Partners for Sacred Places, the foundation made a grant for a pilot project that worked with thirteen congregations to provide skills seldom found outside of restoration architectural circles. The successful pilot led us to provide a challenge grant to the partnership in 2007 to start a permanent program in Chicago. Erma Tranter Friends of the Parks Last year, Friends of the Parks ensured the safety of 517 playgrounds, enlisted thousands of volunteers to clean and green Chicago s parks and forest preserves, and initiated a tree-planting program, planting dozens of new trees in Chicago s parks. We empower citizens to take ownership and pride in their parks and green spaces through volunteer programs, public workshops, and lectures. 3

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7 Two New Museums {The Richard H. Driehaus Museum} {The National Public Housing Museum} The Dining Room of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum. The Nickerson Mansion was one of the grandest homes built in nineteenth century Chicago. Since our last report, the foundation has been working to establish two very different kinds of museums, both celebrating the housing and social history of bygone eras. One museum remembers the splendor of wealth at the turn of the last century. The other honors the American commitment to provide adequate housing for all. The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, which we funded in , is slated to open in 2008 in the former Samuel M. Nickerson Mansion. This museum will display a collection of nineteenth-century art and decorative objects, from a Tiffany punch bowl to a Roman sculpture of Cupid encountering Psyche. But the backdrop to all the works of art will be the house itself. The three-story, 24,000-square-foot mansion was called the Marble Palace when completed in It has been restored to its earlier opulence to become, once again, a building like no other in Chicago, and few others in the nation. The mansion is replete with intricately carved wood, elaborately embossed walls, exuberant chandeliers, and lavish sculptures. The history of the house is, in part, a history of elegance and progress in Chicago. The Richard H. Driehaus Museum will delight the eye and lift the spirit. The other museum, the National Public Housing Museum, is a work in progress, thanks to the dedication of many people, organizations, foundations, and academic institutions. Inspired by New York City s successful Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the National Public Housing Museum will be a cultural asset that explores what happened to the optimistic and democratic premise of public housing: that everyone deserves decent housing. Intrigued in part because of our interests in landmark preservation and in the working poor, the Driehaus Foundation staff is involved with residents to save the John Holabird-designed Jane Addams Homes building, which will house the museum. It will be a place that interprets Chicago neighborhood history, art, music, and popular culture of the last seventy years, the impact of social policy on housing policy and on architecture, and the many changes in attitudes about affordable housing. Through the stories of actual residents, visitors will encounter the lives of those rarely interpreted in museums. More than a museum, it will be a place for conversation, civic engagement, and active learning. Rosa Cabrera Center for Cultural Understanding and Change at the Field Museum The Chicago Cultural Alliance, formed in 2007, increases the visibility and impact of Chicago s rich cultural assets by strengthening partnerships between community-based cultural museums and centers and major institutions. These neighborhood groups enrich the cultural understanding of Chicago and improve the vibrancy of our diverse neighborhoods and communities. 5

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9 Arts Ghrai Harrison, of Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, performs Heaven. The dance ensemble receives grants from The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. In 2003, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation contributed a generous, five-year grant to support the artistic and cultural community in Chicago. MacArthur asked the Driehaus Foundation and Prince Charitable Trusts to administer these grants programs. In 2008, the MacArthur Foundation renewed and increased this grant for another five years. The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation has $660,000 in 2008 to distribute in grants to Chicago area arts and culture organizations that operate on budgets of less than $500,000. For each of the next four years, the MacArthur Fund will increase by $50,000. In addition, the MacArthur Foundation has pledged an additional $150,000 per year adding to the Driehaus Foundation s $150,000 for each of five years to support our Small Theater and Dance Funding Program, which provides grants to theater and dance troupes with annual budgets of less than $150,000. In order to strengthen the capacity of local theaters and performing venues, the MacArthur Foundation provided us with an additional $660,000 grant that helps performance spaces meet the City of Chicago s building code requirements. The Driehaus Foundation oversees this grant in close consultation with both the City of Chicago and the League of Chicago Theatres. Seven theater companies began to modify their spaces with grants in We hope to see these theaters pass inspection and to help more theaters begin the process in With these three grants, the MacArthur Foundation has pledged more than $5 million in direct support for small local arts and culture organizations helping to sustain and strengthen a thriving urban arts community. In our own arts category, we fund both arts organizations and individual artists. One organization is the Sundance Institute, which holds a Summer Theatre Lab for playwrights from around the country. In 2007, we hosted the Sundance artistic team in Chicago to meet local theater artists and to conduct a mini-playwriting workshop. Nancy McCarty Music Theater Workshop By providing programs that offer youth positive options for life through powerful and inspiring musical theatre workshops and programs, Music Theater Workshop contributes to the quality of communities, the family unit, and the bright, diverse, and artistic future for Chicago. 7

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11 Individual Artist Awards Untitled, 2006, by Nick Cave, winner of an Individual Artist Award for So many people don t dream anymore, Cave recently said. But I have an opportunity to bring dreaming into our lives. Georgia O Keefe said, Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. We must nurture our artists so they will continue to make us see, and to stay in Chicago to challenge, delight, infuriate, and inspire us. Therefore we began the Individual Artist Awards. With these awards, we try to respond to the needs of individual artists. These unrestricted $10,000 awards (increased to $15,000 in 2008) given to twenty-two artists over the past seven years are designed to support and encourage excellence, artistry, focus, direction, maturity, and originality in the visual arts. We have recently established a small emergency fund to allow the award-winning artists to use a grant of up to $3,000 for professional or personal needs from transporting art work to galleries around the world to an emergency dental problem. Small Museums and Cultural Centers We believe museums can be powerful forums in which to appreciate rare buildings and art and places to learn from history and engage in conversation about current issues. This belief informs our commitment to the Nickerson Mansion and the National Public Housing Museum. It is also why we fund small museums and cultural centers. We are particularly inspired by the work of the Chicago Cultural Alliance, a partnership of twenty-five small cultural centers, historical museums and societies. From the American Indian Center to the Ukrainian National Museum, the Cambodian Museum and Memorial to the Victims of the Killing Fields to the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, these groups reflect the richness of life and culture in Chicago. Working together, they will reveal and honor the rich diversity of Chicago. William Rattner Lawyers for the Creative Arts Artists and arts organizations need knowledgeable and sophisticated legal advice. By providing pro bono legal services to all areas of the arts the visual, performing, entertainment and literary Lawyers for the Creative Arts nourishes Chicago s creative spark. Government Accountability and Investigative Reporting We believe government needs to be held accountable, both by the established stalwarts and by dedicated individuals. Our grants in government accountability and investigative reporting have included such robust watchdogs as the Better Government Association and the Chicago Reporter. But in these difficult days for the profession of journalism, government monitors are turning up in many previously unforeseen 9

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13 places. Jamie Kalven, a human rights activist and reporter, describes his work as being in the classic tradition of human rights reporting. Journalism that documents and addresses patterns of human rights helps to correct the failure of mainstream media and civic organizations to protect our most vulnerable residents. Mr. Kalven records his observations about alleged police misconduct against residents at the Stateway Gardens housing development on the Web at Economic Opportunity for the Working Poor The Beverly Hills Cycling Classic is a major event of the Driehaus-funded Beverly Area Planning Association. More than one hundred professional and elite amateur cyclists compete in the event through the hilly and historic Southwest Side neighborhoods of Beverly and Morgan Park. Our grants in this category are intended for organizations whose work affects large numbers of the working poor, those determined people who work regularly but rarely make enough money to move out of poverty. These workers account for onequarter of America s employed population. Often, with no access to traditional forms of banking and financial services, families are left vulnerable to unscrupulous lenders. Now the low-income families living on Chicago s South Side have another option: the South Side Community Federal Credit Union. Designed to serve the working poor 80 percent of its members have household incomes of less than $45,000 and 33 percent say they have never before had a bank account of any kind the credit union supports economic development in the inner city by helping families build assets and gain financial literacy, two key steps on the road to financial independence. General Our general funding category is the one we reserve for special opportunities that may not fit easily into another area of our grantmaking. Among those is our ongoing support of WBEZ for its Third Coast International Audio Festival. This annual effort to showcase the best radio documentaries and feature stories produced in all English-speaking countries connects Chicago to the world. In that same vein, we believe that our grant to help Terry Evans bring her photo exhibit to Europe will allow others around the globe to recognize the beauty of Chicago. One of the images from Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait graces the cover of this report. Calvin Holmes Chicago Community Loan Fund Chicago Community Loan Fund provides financial and technical assistance to make cost-efficient, attractive, environmentally friendly and health-conscious building design a natural choice for community developers in Chicago. Sustainable and well designed homes, community facilities, and other spaces critical for long term success improve the quality of life in our communities. 11

14 Our success as a foundation depends on the work produced by our grant recipients. Yet much of the work we fund, especially in our programs in arts and the built environment, is hard to measure. How are people changed by viewing a particular work of art? How is a neighborhood affected when a landmark building is saved? What are the benefits derived from a beautiful prairie? Although these questions cannot always be answered, they are important to ask. They animate the creative process, a blend of craft and faith, by which we seek to strengthen communities and enrich lives through our grants. Richard H. Driehaus President Sunny Fischer Executive Director 12

15 Grants 2005, 2006, 2007 Categories: The Built Environment Museums Arts Small Theater and Dance, Chicago Area MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture, Chicago Area Economic Opportunity for the Working Poor General Individual Artist Awards Government Accountability/ Investigative Reporting Board Members Discretionary Grants This list includes grants of $5,000 or more in aggregate with some exceptions. 13

16 The Built Environment BAccess Living, Chicago 2005: $25,000 to document and analyze the development of its new office, the first universally accessible building ACE Mentor Program of Chicago, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for Scholarship Program Support Archeworks, Chicago 2005: $19,500 to support Archeworks role in the collaboration with the Illinois Department of Human Services and Designs for Dignity to complete the Model Office Project The Archimedia Workshop, Chicago 2006: $25,000 to support the film Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City 2007: $25,000 for Phase Two of the Burnham film archi-treasures, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating Association for Preservation Technology International, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for scholarship fund Aurora University, Aurora, IL 2005: $50,000 to support the design for a new arts center Canal Corridor Association, Lockport, IL 2005: $50,000 for general operating Sally A. Kitt Chappell, Chicago 2006: $18,000 to support the book Urban Nature: A Guide to Chicago s Landscape Architecture Chicago Architectural Club, Chicago 2006: $10,000 to support the 2006 Burnham Prize design competition The Gary Comer Youth Center won the Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design in The center, at 7200 S. Ingleside Avenue, was designed by architect John Ronan. Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago 2005: $20,000 for exhibit Five Women Architects; $40,000 for start-up funding for the Association of Architecture Organizations; $15,000 for the exhibit Open: New Designs for Public Space 2006: $20,000 to support the Greystone Initiative 2007: $10,000 for The Strategic Advancement Initiative Chicago Art Deco Society, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine devoted to Art Deco Architecture in the Chicago area Chicago Historical Society, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for the Louis Sullivan Symposium Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago 2005: $5,000 for architecture and design content in the fall festival Home and Away 2006: $7,500 for architecture and design content in the fall festival Peace and War: Facing Human Conflict 2007: $5,000 for architecture and design content in the fall festival The Climate of Concern 14 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation / Grants Awarded 2005, 2006, 2007

17 Chicago Rehab Network, Chicago 2005: $20,000 to include design in public education campaign on affordable housing City Design Center at UIC, Chicago 2006: $10,000 to create a model for Greystone renovation at the North Lawndale Greystone Initiative 2007: $6,000 to support the Green Neighborhood Design Studio program Civic Blueprint, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for seed funding 2006: $20,000 for part-time Executive Director and continued start-up costs Community Task Force for Promontory Point (Hyde Park Historical Society, fiscal agent), Chicago 2005: $10,000 matching grant for organizing residents to preserve Promontory Point Congress For The New Urbanism, Chicago 2005: $35,000 for general operating 2006: $35,000 for general operating DePaul University/Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, Chicago 2005: $13,000 for planning the Centennial Celebration of Burnham and Bennett s 1909 Plan of Chicago Friends of the Windows, Chicago 2005: $5,000 for restoration of the Quigley Chapel windows Friends of the Chicago River, Chicago 2005: $20,000 for general operating and the 25th Anniversary design charette 2007: $15,000 to support the McCormick Tribune Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum Friends of the Parks, Chicago 2005: $35,000 for the Public Trust Research and Policy Program 2006: $35,000 for the Public Trust Research and Policy Program; $10,000 for the Last 4 Miles; $10,000 to support the Seed Grant Program 2007: $45,000 for the Public Trust Research and Policy Program; $10,000 to support the Seed Grant Program Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, Oak Park, IL Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, Chicago 2007: $15,000 to support a commemorative book to honor Garfield Park Conservatory s Centennial Glessner House Museum, Chicago Design Corps, Raleigh, NC 2006: $10,000 for bus shelter project Designer/Builder Magazine, Santa Fe, NM 2005: $7,500 for general operating ; $10,000 for capacity building 2007: $14,500 for general operating Dustin Griffin, Williamstown, MA 2007: $5,000 to support work on a scholarly edition of the writings of Walter Burley Griffin Edward W. Wolner, Muncie, IN 2005: $27,000 for book on Henry Ives Cobb 2006: $4,425 to complete the Cobb manuscript The Experimental Station, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating 2006: $15,000 for general operating 2007: $15,000 for general operating Filmmakers Collaborative, Waltham, MA 2006: $10,000 for film At Home in Utopia Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 2006: $5,000 for Dr. Lauren Weingarden s book on Louis Sullivan Foresight Design Initiative, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating 2006: $15,000 for general operating 2007: $15,000 for general operating Steps lead to the McCormick Tribune Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum, supported with a grant to Friends of the Chicago River. The museums are in the southwest bridge tower of the Michigan Avenue Bridge. 15

18 Grants: The Built Environment continued Holy Family Preservation Society, Chicago 2007: $5,000 towards repair of the church s historic organ Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago 2006: $300,000 over three years towards start-up of a program in landscape architecture Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 2006: $33,000 challenge grant for historic preservation on campus as laboratory for a model course Landmarks Illinois (formerly Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois), Chicago 2005: $40,615 for the Driehaus Preservation Awards 2006: $17,000 to support the New Dollars/New Partners Program; $40,415 for the Driehaus Preservation Awards 2007: $57,500 for the Driehaus Preservation Awards The Lincoln Park Conservancy, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for capacity building and general operating Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago 2006: $10,000 to help match funds for the Save American Treasures grant to restore Carlson Cottage The Driehaus Foundation joins the Historic Chicago Bungalow Association in giving awards for bungalow restoration, rehabilitation, and landscaping projects. This bungalow is in West Rogers Park. Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for the Richard Solomon Fund to support architectural journalism Grant Park Conservancy, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for general operating Healthy Schools Campaign, Chicago 2005: $23,700 to develop support for green school design 2006: $15,000 towards printing and dissemination of a manual on healthy schools Heartland Alliance s Design for Dignity, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for general operating 2006: $15,000 for Creating the Case that Design Matters; $25,000 for general operating 2007: $25,000 for general operating Hiptruth Productions, New York, NY 2007: $7,500 to support the film Green Granny Historic Chicago Bungalow Association, Chicago 2005: $45,000 to teach Chicago residents how to secure National Register designation for their bungalow districts 2006: $45,000 renewal grant 2007: $50,000 to create Bungalow Historic Districts, and support the awards for best bungalow restoration Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Chicago 2005: $55,626 for the Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design 2006: $59,171 renewal grant 2007: $60,000 renewal grant Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Chicago 2007: $15,000 to support the Lathrop Homes Training Series on historic preservation Lost and Found Productions, Chicago 2007: $10,000 to help complete the editing of the film on Alfred Caldwell Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago 2005: $45,000 for design of a model redevelopment program in Riverdale Michigan Historic Preservation Network, Lansing, MI 2006: $15,000 to help match the Lilly Foundation grant for general operating Midwest Office/National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chicago 2006: $25,000 for general operating; $25,000 for project support 2007: $25,000 for general operating; $25,000 for project support Mineral Point Railroad Society, Inc., Mineral Point, WI 2006: $13,500 for the Children s Room in the railroad museum National Association for Olmstead Parks, Washington, D.C. 2007: $25,000 for strategic planning 16 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation / Grants Awarded 2005, 2006, 2007

19 Perspectives Charter School, 1930 S. Archer Avenue, won the 2006 Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design. The school, designed by Perkins + Will, was honored by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation as part of the Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards. National Trust for Historic Preservation (National Office), Washington, D.C. 2005: $200,000 for Statewide Partnerships 2006: $40,000 for Statewide Initiative costs 2007: $40,000 for Statewide Initiative costs Neighborhood Development Collaborative, Washington, D.C. 2005: $6,500 for the Senior Housing Design Symposium Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, Chicago 2005: $50,000 for the Greystone Initiative; $12,500 for the Model Block rehab 2006: $50,000 for the Greystone Initiative Openlands Project, Chicago 2007: $15,000 to bring Revealing Chicago, the Terry Evans photography exhibit, to Prague; $11,000 for TreeKeepers program Partners for Sacred Places, Philadelphia, PA 2006: $40,000 for general operating; $7,500 to work with Landmarks Illinois to offer services in Chicago 2007: $30,000 for general operating; $20,000 for Chicago programs Pleasant Home Foundation, Oak Park, IL ; $5,000 matching grant Richard Nickel Committee, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for the archiving process 2007: $15,000 for the production and publication of the book The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan The Trust for Public Land, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for the Urban Parks Program The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2006: $15,000 for a book on the history of The Chicagoan magazine University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Fine and Applied Arts 2005: $10,000 for the exhibit Urban, Rural, Wild at I-space Gallery 2006: $10,000 to support the Design of Diversity Exhibition Viva Lundin Productions, Chicago 2007: $20,000 for production costs of the documentary film Jens Jensen: Harmonious World Windy City Press, Evanston, IL 2005: $13,000 to support publication of Lighthouses of Chicago Harbor: Their History, Architecture, and Lore Quinn Chapel AME Church, Chicago 2005: $20,000 towards fundraising costs 17

20 Museums A Cambodian Association of Illinois, Chicago 2005: $15,000 to support the salary of the interim director of the museum The Field Museum, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for Center for Cultural Understanding and Change; $30,000 for start-up costs of Chicago Cultural Alliance 2006: $25,000 for support of the Chicago Cultural Alliance s final phase of organizational development 2007: $15,000 to coordinate implementation of Chicago Cultural Alliance Top: A draft rendering of the proposed National Public Housing Museum. The museum will be housed in an abandoned Chicago Housing Authority building at West Taylor. Opened in 1938 as the first federal government housing project in Chicago, it was part of the Jane Addams Homes. The renovation is designed by the firm of Landon Baker Bone. Above: A photo mural is installed on the front facade of the vacant Chicago Housing Authority building that will be rehabilitated as the National Public Housing Museum. Indo-American Heritage Museum, Chicago 2007: $8,500 planning grant Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY 2005: $50,000 for restoration of the Irish apartment and German Saloon 2006: $50,000 renewal 2007: $50,000 renewal National Public Housing Museum (Heartland Alliance, fiscal agent), Chicago 2006: $15,000 for consultant fees to develop a plan for a museum of public housing The Peace Museum, Chicago 2005: $12,000 for general operating 18 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation / Grants Awarded 2005, 2006, 2007

21 Arts 3-D Chicago, Chicago 2005: $5,000 for Pier Walk : $5,000 for Pier Walk 2006 Artadia, New York, NY 2006: $15,000 to support awards for individual Chicago artists Arts & Business Council of Chicago, Chicago 2005: $20,000 for general operating 2006: $25,000 for general operating 2007: $25,000 for general operating Arts Work Fund, Chicago 2006: $25,000 for general operating 2007: $25,000 for general operating Black Ensemble Theater, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for The Democratic Vistas Forum Chicago Sinfonietta, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for audience development initiative 2006: $20,000 renewal 2007: $15,000 renewal Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago 2005: $7,500 for Subsidized Rental Theater Program 2006: $10,000 renewal 2007: $10,000 renewal Educational Film Center, Annandale, VA 2006: $37,500 for the film The Odyssey of Studs Terkel Evanston Community Foundation, Evanston, IL 2005: $12,500 for the Working Together project Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for general operating Joffrey Ballet dancers Calvin Kitten and Suzanne Lopez celebrate the company s fiftieth anniversary by recreating historic Joffrey moments in costume on the Navy Pier carousel in Chicago Composers Forum, Chicago 2007: $5,000 towards production of Musicircus HMS Media, Inc, Chicago 2005: $12,500 for the PBS television show The Chicago Dance Project Chicago Cultural Center Foundation, Chicago 2005: $5,000 for Artists at Work Forums 2006: $6,000 for Artists at Work Forums; $15,000 for Chicago Artists Resource Chicago Public Art Group, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for organizational development 2006: $25,000 for organizational development HotHouse, Chicago 2005: $20,000 for general operating 2006: $20,000 for general operating Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for Dance Audience Development Marketing Plan 19

22 Grants: Arts continued Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for 2005 Illinois Arts Legend Awards 2007: $15,000 for general operating Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for the Public Humanities Award 2006: $5,000 renewal Jane Addams Juvenile Court Foundation, Evanston, IL 2005: $8,000 for the JumpStart Program The Joffrey Ballet, Chicago 2005: $20,000 for general operating 2006: $20,000 for general operating Kelly & Yamamoto Productions (formerly Mother Lode Productions), Greenbrae, CA 2006: $10,000 to help cover cost of filming a documentary about Albany Park Theater Project 2007: $15,000 matching grant to continue work on documentary film about Albany Park Theater Project Lawyers for the Creative Arts, Chicago 2006: $20,000 for general operating 2007: $20,000 for general operating Links Hall, Chicago 2006: $15,000 for general operating 2007: $15,000 for general operating Mason Productions, Los Angeles, CA 2007: $20,000 to support a PBS broadcast of The Journey to Palomar Music Theatre Workshop, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for Fabulous Females Six: Breaking The Silence 2006: $25,000 renewal 2007: $25,000 renewal National Museum of Mexican Art (formerly Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum), Chicago 2005: $10,000 for the Sor Juana Festival 2006: $10,000 renewal 2007: $10,000 renewal Next Theatre Company, Evanston, IL 2005: $5,000 for Next Communities program 2006: $6,000 renewal 2007: $7,000 renewal Nomadic Pictures, Chicago 2005: $30,000 for the film Aimee s Crossing Performing Arts Chicago, Chicago 2005: $20,000 for 2005 PAC/edge Festival Redmoon Theater, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating; $6,000 for the Bridge Campaign 2007: $15,000 for general operating Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Chicago 2005: $5,450 for a Mabou Mines workshop Shanti Foundation for Peace, Evanston, IL 2006: $15,000 to plan conference Building Peaceful Communities Through the Arts 2007: $7,500 for conference Building Peaceful Communities Through the Arts Smart Museum of Art, Chicago 2005: $5,000 for Art and Sustainability Laboratory Sundance Institute, Beverly Hills, CA 2007: $15,000 to support the July Theatre Lab in Utah; $9,500 to support the first Chicago convening The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Washington, D.C. 2007: $20,000 for early work on the What s Out There web project The New Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago 2005: $10,000 for Dance Chicago 2006: $10,000 renewal 2007: $10,000 renewal Thodos Dance Chicago, Chicago 2005: $5,000 for New Dances 2006: $5,000 renewal 2007: $5,000 renewal Trinity Irish Dance Company, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for Different Dances, Different Drums tour Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, Oak Park, IL 2005: $15,000 for general operating University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Urbana, IL 2007: $5,000 towards Midwest production of Japanese Bunraku Theatre Juan Villa and Meighan Gerachis in the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble co-production of Elliot, A Soldier s Fugue. Rivendell is committed to serving as a stage for women artists playwrights, actors, directors, and designers. 20 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation / Grants Awarded 2005, 2006, 2007

23 Small Theater and Dance, Chicago Area 500 Clown 2005: $6,500 for general operating 2006: $6,500 for general operating 2007: $8,000 for general operating Jennifer Shin in The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, the breakaway hit by the Collaboraction Theatre Company. Aguijon Theater Company A Red Orchid Theatre 2005: $8,000 for general operating 2006: $8,000 for general operating The Artistic Home Acting Ensemble 2006: $6,000 for general operating Attic Playhouse, Inc. 2006: $4,000 for general operating 2007: $4,000 for general operating Ayako Kato 2007: $3,000 for EVE-Sound and Movement Ten Nights Dream III BackStage Theatre Company 2006: $5,000 for general operating Barrel of Monkeys 2005: $7,000 to support That s Weird, Grandma Blair Thomas & Company 2005: $7,000 for general operating 2007: $7,000 for general operating Blindfaith Theatre Bohemian Theatre Ensemble Breakbone Dance Co. Buffalo Theatre Ensemble 2005: $7,000 for marketing 2006: $7,000 for general operating Chicago Tap Theatre 2006: $4,000 for general operating Citadel Theatre Company 2007: $3,000 for general operating City Lit Theater Company 2005: $4,000 for general operating Molly Brennan in 500 Clown Macbeth. The Chicago Tribune called the troupe Chicago s most dangerously arty clowns. 21

24 Grants: Small Theater and Dance, Chicago Area continued Neil Giuntoli portrays Mayor Richard J. Daley in Hizzoner: Daley the First at the Prop Theater, 3502 N. Elston Avenue. The bio-drama, written by Giuntoli, has played to packed houses since early Clinard Dance Theatre 2006: $8,000 for general operating 2007: $8,000 for general operating Collaboraction Theatre Company 2005: $8,000 for general operating 2006: $7,000 for general operating Concert Dance, Inc. 2006: $5,000 for general operating Corn Productions 2005: $3,000 for general operating 2007: $3,000 for general operating The Curious Theatre Branch 2005: $8,000 to support the year-long Beckett Festival 2007: $6,000 for general operating The Dance COLEctive 2006: $6,000 for general operating Dance>Detour 2007: $3,000 for general operating DanceLoop Chicago 2005: $3,000 for capacity building Dog & Pony Theatre Company 2006: $4,000 for general operating DOG, a theater company 2005: $4,571 to support the creation of new work Dream Theatre Company 2005: $4,000 for general operating 2006: $5,000 for general operating Eclipse Theatre Company 2006: $7,000 for general operating 2007: $7,000 for general operating The Gift Theatre Company 2006: $6,000 for general operating 2007: $6,000 for general operating Gingarte Capoeira 2005: $3,000 for general operating 2006: $5,000 for general operating Goat Island 2005: $7,000 for general operating Greasy Joan and Company 2006: $5,000 for general operating Griffin Theatre Company 2005: $6,000 for general operating 2007: $6,000 for general operating Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance Ensemble 2007: $4,000 for general operating The Hypocrites 2005: $10,000 for general operating Infamous Commonwealth Theatre 2005: $3,000 for general operating 2006: $4,000 for general operating Instruments of Movement Kalapriya Foundation 2005: $7,500 for capacity building & the 3rd Asian Dance Festival Kuumba Lynx The Lira Dancers 2006: $4,000 for general operating Live Action Cartoonists 2005: $4,000 for general operating Local Infinities Visual Theater 2005: $3,000 for general operating 2006: $4,000 for general operating Lucky Pierre 2005: $3,000 for general operating 2007: $4,000 for general operating Lucky Plush Productions 2006: 8,034 for general operating 2007: 8,000 for general operating Ma at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre (MPAACT) 2005: $8,000 for general operating 2006: $8,000 for general operating Mad Shak Dance Company 2005: $6,000 for general operating 2006: $7,000 for general operating support Margaret Morris 2007: $5,000 for Laying of Hands Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company 2005: $6,000 for general operating MOMENTA 2005: $7,000 for general operating 2006: $7,000 for general operating Mordine & Company 2005: $7,500 for general operating Nandanse 2006: $4,000 for general operating New Leaf Theatre 2006: $4,000 for general operating New Theater Collective 2006: $1,500 for general operating 22 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation / Grants Awarded 2005, 2006, 2007

25 New World Repertory Theater 2006: $3,500 for general operating 2007: $4,000 for general operating Oak Park Festival Theatre 2006: $4,000 for general operating Oracle Productions Piven Theatre Workshop 2006: $4,000 for general operating Plasticene 2006: $8,000 for general operating Profiles Theatre 2005: $6,000 for general operating 2006: $6,000 for general operating Prop Theater Group 2005: $7,500 for general operating Provision Theater Company Quest Theatre Ensemble Rivendell Theatre Ensemble 2005: $7,500 for general operating 2006: $7,500 for general operating 2007: $7,699 for general operating Shattered Globe Theatre 2005: $6,000 for general operating ShawChicago Theater Company 2005: $7,500 for general operating Silk Road Theatre Project 2005: $4,000 for general operating Speaking Ring Theatre 2005: $3,000 for general operating Sprung Movement Theatre 2006: $3,675 for general operating Steep Theatre Company 2005: $4,000 for general operating 2006: $5,000 for general operating Still Point Theatre Collective 2006: $5,000 for general operating The Sweat Girls 2006: $5,000 for general operating Theater Oobleck 2005: $6,000 for general operating Theatre Building Chicago 2005: $7,500 for the musical theatre program 2006: $5,000 renewal 2007: $7,500 renewal Trap Door Productions 2005: $6,000 for general operating The Utopian Theatre Asylum 2005: $7,000 for general operating 2006: $7,000 for general operating 2007: $8,708 for general operating Uma Productions 2006: $4,000 for general operating Valerie Alpert Dance Company 2005: $3,000 for general operating Viaduct Arts Coalition 2006: $5,000 for general operating Same Planet Different World Dance Theatre 2005: $6,000 for general operating 2006: $6,000 for general operating 2007: $7,000 for general operating Schadenfreude Theater Company 2005: $7,000 for general operating Seanachai Theatre Company 2006: $6,000 for general operating 2007: $7,000 for general operating The Seldoms Serendipity Theatre Company Lucky Plush Productions has premiered twenty-seven original works since it was formed in This is from Cinderbox 18. Strawdog Theatre Company 2006: $6,000 for general operating 2007: $6,000 for general operating Teatro Luna 2005: $5,500 for general operating Teatro Vista: Theater with a View 2005: $6,000 for general operating Walkabout Theatre Company 2006: $6,000 for the production of The Coast of Chicago Zephyr Dance 23

26 MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture, Chicago Area The Actors Gymnasium AfriCaribe Albany Park Theater Project 2005: $12,500 for general operating 2006: $12,500 for general operating 2007: $12,500 for general operating Anchor Graphics 2005: $12,500 for general operating 2006: $10,00 for general operating Archeworks 2005: $15,000 for general operating 2006: $15,000 for general operating 2007: $15,000 for general operating Asian Improv arts Midwest 2005: $7,500 for general operating Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians 2005: $10,000 for general operating MChicago Brass Band Association Chicago Dance and Music Alliance 2006: $5,000 for general operating Chicago Dramatists 2005: $12,500 for general operating 2006: $12,500 for general operating 2007: $15,000 for general operating Chicago Film Archives Chicago Filmmakers 2005: $7,500 for general operating Chicago Human Rhythm Project 2005: $7,500 for general operating Chicago Moving Company 2005: $10,000 for general operating Chicago Theatre Company 2005: $15,000 for general operating Vanessa Valecillos and Ricardo J. Garcia of Luna Negra Dance Theatre. The company specializes in dance by Latino choreographers. Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council Barrel of Monkeys Bronzeville Children s Museum 2007: $15,000 for general operating Chicago a cappella 2005: $7,500 for general operating Chicago Artists Coalition 2005: $7,500 for general operating Chicago Ballet Russe Foundation Chicago Blues Museum 2005: $10,000 for general operating The Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Circle Theater of Forest Park 2005: $10,000 for general operating Collaboraction Congo Square Theatre Company 2005: $10,000 for general operating Deeply Rooted Productions 2005: $10,000 for general operating 2007: $12,500 for general operating Eighth Blackbird 2005: $7,500 for general operating Experimental Sound Studio 2006: $5,000 for general operating 24 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation / Grants Awarded 2005, 2006, 2007

27 Free Street Programs 2005: $10,000 for general operating Fulcrum Point New Music Project 2005: $7,500 for general operating Glen Ellyn Children s Choir 2005: $10,000 for general operating 2006: $12,500 for general operating 2007: $12,500 for general operating Guild Complex 2005: $12,500 for general operating Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing Hedwig Dances 2005: $10,000 for general operating Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center 2005: $10,000 for general operating The House Theatre 2005: $10,000 for general operating 2006: $12,500 for general operating 2007: $12,500 for general operating International Center for Deafness International Contemporary Ensemble 2005: $7,500 for general operating International Music Foundation 2005: $15,000 for general operating 2006: $15,000 for general operating 2007: $15,000 for general operating Intuit 2005: $15,000 for general operating 2006: $15,000 for general operating 2007: $15,000 for general operating Jesus Matta and Ana Ovando in Albany Park Theatre Project s production of God s Work. The ensemble of young artists write, choreograph, compose, and stage original plays based on stories of immigrant and working-class Americans. Involvement Advocacy Jazz Institute of Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating 2006: $15,000 for general operating 2007: $15,000 for general operating Jump Rhythm Jazz Project 2006: $5,000 for general operating Korean American Resource and Cultural Center Lampo 2005: $7,500 for general operating Live Bait Theater L Opera Piccola Luna Negra Dance Theater 2005: $10,000 for general operating National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum Natya Dance Theatre 2005: $10,000 for general operating 2007: $12,500 for general operating Neighborhood Writing Alliance 2005: $20,000 for general operating 2006: $20,000 for general operating 2007: $17,500 for general operating The Neo-Futurists 2005: $12,500 for general operating 2006: $12,500 for general operating 2007: $12,500 for general operating Next Theatre Company 2005: $12,500 for general operating 2006: $12,500 for general operating 2007: $15,000 for general operating Open Studio Project 2006: $5,000 for general operating Opera Theatre North 25

28 Grants: MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture, Chicago Area continued Orion Chamber Ensemble 2006: $5,000 for general operating Pegasus Players 2005: $17,500 for general operating 2006: $15,000 for general operating 2007: $15,000 for general operating The Poetry Center 2005: $12,500 for general operating 2006: $12,500 for general operating Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago 2005: $12,500 for general operating 2006: $12,500 for general operating 2007: $15,000 for general operating Puerto Rican Arts Alliance Raven Theatre 2005: $7,500 for general operating Rembrandt Chamber Players 2006: $5,000 for general operating Rush Hour Concerts Salt Creek Ballet 2005: $7,500 for general operating Scrap Mettle Soul 2005: $10,000 for general operating Split Pillow Stage Left 2006: $5,000 for general operating 2007: $6,250 for general operating Three Walls TimeLine Theater Company 2005: $12,500 for general operating 2006: $12,500 for general operating 2007: $12,500 for general operating Unity Temple Restoration Foundation Wonder Works: Children s Museum of Oak Park 2006: $12,500 for general operating 2007: $12,500 for general operating Young Chicago Authors 2005: $12,500 for general operating 2006: $12,500 for general operating TimeLine Theatre Company s Chicago premiere production of Dolly West s Kitchen. From left are: Kat McDonnell, Cliff Chamberlain, Aaron Golden, Sara Hoyer, Niall McGinty, Danica Ivancevic, Joshua Rollins and Mark Richard. Scenic design is by Brian Sidney Bembridge. 26 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation / Grants Awarded 2005, 2006, 2007

29 Economic Opportunity for the Working Poor Institute of Women Today, Chicago 2006: $5,000 for general operating National Student Partnerships, Washington, D.C. Opportunity International, Oak Brook, IL 2005: $40,000 divided among loan programs in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America; $9,000 to cover the cost of the awards for the 2005 President s Forum 2007: $40,000 towards costs of the awards for the 2007 President s Forum Teachers and students prepare food at St. Leonard s Ministries, 2100 W. Warren Boulevard. Founded in 1954, the center teaches skills such as food preparation and construction to men and women who have been released from prison. It helps them rebuild their lives. EChicago The CARA Program, Jobs Council, Chicago 2005: $30,000 for general operating 2005: $12,500 towards strategic planning 2006: $10,000 for implementing Career Advancement Network, strategic plan Chicago 2006: $7,500 to support arts project Community Economic Development Law Project, Chicago Center For Economic Progress, 2006: $15,000 for legal costs of home Chicago ownership opportunities through Choose To 2005: $25,000 for general operating Own program 2006: $25,000 for general operating 2007: $15,000 renewal 2007: $30,000 for general operating Deborah s Place, Chicago Chicago Area Fair Housing 2005: $5,000 for Irene s Daytime Support Alliance, Chicago Center 2006: $5,000 to support advocacy campaign, Putting the Choice in the Housing Emergency Fund, Chicago Choice Voucher Program 2005: $20,000 to support the Financial Assistance Program Chicago Community Loan Fund, 2006: $20,000 renewal Chicago 2007: $25,000 renewal 2005: $10,000 to support the community lending program Growing Home, Inc., Chicago 2006: $10,000 to support community 2005: $25,000 for general operating lending and technical assistance programs for 2006: $20,000 for general operating good design 2007: $10,000 renewal Inspiration Corporation, Chicago 2005: $10,000 to support merger efforts between The Employment Project and Inspiration Corporation 2007: $15,000 to provide direct service grants to the working poor Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for project to monitor and shape utility policies affecting the working poor 2007: $15,000 to support access to utility service for low-income households South Side Community Federal Credit Union, Chicago 2007: $15,000 for general operating Southwest Women Working Together, Chicago St. Leonard s Ministries, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for establishing programs in the new Barlow Employment Center 2006: $25,000 for training programs; $25,000 for Employment Retention Program Women Employed Institute, Chicago 2006: $5,000 for planning and implementation; $25,000 matching grant for Career Coach program 2007: $25,000 for planning and implementation Women s Self-Employment Project, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating Woodstock Institute, Chicago 2005: $12,500 to encourage mainstream credit unions to enroll more low-income members 2006: $12,500 renewal 2007: $15,000 to support project Building Assets by Reducing Predatory Automobile Title Loans 27

30 General Beverly Area Planning Association, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for general operating Beyondmedia, Chicago BoardSource, Washington, D.C. 2006: $10,000 to support the 2006 BoardSource Leadership Forum: Set Your Sights on Exceptional Governance Center for Effective Philanthropy, Cambridge, MA 2007: $10,000 to support Chicago conference: Assessment to Action: Creating Change Donors Forum of Chicago, Chicago 2005: $15,000 for the Leadership Fund 2006: $10,000 renewal 2007: $10,000 renewal A crowd attends the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago. The festival, created by Chicago Public Radio in 2000, honors the most creative and compelling audio work produced worldwide with the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Global Donors Network (Donors Forum of Chicago, fiscal agent), Chicago 2005: $5,000 general operating 2006: $5,000 general operating 2007: $5,000 general operating NeighborSpace, Chicago 2005: $25,000 for NeighborSpace Handbook: A Guide & Resource Manual for Protecting Places The New Press, New York, NY 2007: $10,000 to support an outreach campaign designed to enlarge the audience for and encourage a wider appreciation of Studs Terkel and his work; $5,000 for general operating The Springboard Foundation, Chicago Taproot Foundation, Chicago 2006: $10,000 for start-up funds; $15,000 for service grants for three Driehaus Foundation grantees in : $15,000 for service grants; $10,000 for general operating The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee, Chicago Tibetan Alliance of Chicago, Chicago 2007: $10,000 to support the Dalai Lama Chicago event WBEZ, Chicago 2005: $100,000 for Third Coast International Audio Festival 2006: $100,000 renewal 2007: $100,000 renewal 28 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation / Grants Awarded 2005, 2006, 2007