The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation held a board meeting on March 17, 2010 and approved the following grants (all grants are to Chicago-area organizations unless noted otherwise):

For Arts:

-Chicago Foundation for Women: $15,000 for “Collaboration Through Community Art”, 25th anniversary mural project;

-The Dance Center of Columbia College:  $15,000 for The subsidized Theater Rental Program;

-Partisan Arts International:  $12,000 for public relations and marketing to promote the 2010 African Jubilee Series;

For the Built Environment:

-Art Institute of Chicago: $12,500 as a one-to-one matching grant for the exhibition, “After Louis Sullivan: Photographs and Fragments;”

-Chicago Architecture Foundation: $25,000 for general operating support;

-Chicago & North Western Historical Society:  $10,000 for production of a book on the architecture firm of Frost & Granger;

-The Cultural Landscape Foundation (Washington, D.C.): $30,000 to pay half of the salary of a project manager to oversee the web database, “What’s Out There;”

-Design Corps (Raleigh, NC): $15,000 for "SEED" project -- a project to create a network of designers and architects interested in social uses of the fields;

-Faith in Place: $25,000 as a one-to-one matching grant for a competition on “New Thoughts in Religious Architecture;”

-Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture: $22,500 a year for two years to support the advanced design studio;

-Metropolitan Planning Council: $25,000 grant for Placemaking Chicago;

-Openlands:  $15,000 for the Treekeepers Program;

-Preservation Chicago: $30,000 for general operating support to pay for part-time Executive Director;

-Viva Lundin Productions: $50,000 to complete documentary film, “Jens Jensen: Harmonious World;”

For Economic Opportunity for The Working Poor:

-Center for Economic Progress: $40,000 for General Operating

-Community Economic Development Law Project: $25,000 for Choose to Own Program;

-Eleanor Foundation:  $25,000 for services or for research;

-The Cara Program: $30,000 for general operating support;

-The Resurrection Project:  $15,000 for general operating support;

-Upwardly Global:  $15,000 for general operating support;

From The General funding area:

-Storycatchers Theatre:  $25,000 a year for two years for programs serving girls at Illinois Youth center in Warrenville;

-The Kindling Group:  $10,000 "The Calling," a documentary series and community engagement campaign for people of all faiths to enter the clergy;

For Government Accountability/Investigative Reporting:

-Chicago News Cooperative: $100,000 over two years to support a new business model to support vigorous investigative and public service journalism;

-Community Media Workshop: $25,000 each year for two years for general operating support;

-Radio Diaries (New York, NY):  $15,000 for general operating support;

-The Chicago Reporter: $60,000 over two years for major investigations;

For Museums:

-Chicago History Museum: $30,000 to support the Museum’s share of a collaboration with the Library of Congress on the Studs Terkel Center for Oral History Project;

-National Public Housing Museum:  $100,000 for general operating support.