The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation is proud to announce 62 new professional development and organizational vitality grants to support organizations working in the areas of the Built Environment, Arts and Culture, and Investigative Journalism for Government Accountability. These grants, totaling nearly $223,000, are dedicated to supporting opportunities for capacity-building and skill enhancement, as well as to nurturing and strengthening the well-being of those working within their organizations.
Congratulations to all the grant recipients!
A Red Orchid Theatre
$4,000 for registration and travel to the USITT conference in March 2025 and mentorship from two experienced designers in lighting and sound systems
Access Contemporary Music
$4,000 to hire consultants to provide training in capital campaign fundraising for staff and board leaders
Active Transportation Alliance
$4,000 to hire InDesign Web to assist staff with a website and communications audit and website redesign
Advocates for Urban Agriculture
$3,835 for evaluation training and travel/registration costs for staff to attend the Urban Soils Institute's conference in New York
Architreasures
$4,000 for fees for staff to attend somatic coaching and integration sessions in 2025
Arts Alliance Illinois
$4,000 for registration fees for all staff to participate in anti-racism training provided by Crossroads Antiracism
Better Government Association
$4,000 to hire Praxis to provide trainings for staff on DEIA topics and team building
Block Club Chicago
$4,000 for registration and travel costs for staff to attend three annual journalism conferences
Borderless Magazine
$4,000 for registration and travel costs for the editorial team to attend the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference
Chicago Cultural Alliance
$4,000 to hire a consultant to begin a strategic planning process with CCA's board of directors at their board retreat
Chicago Dance History Project
$2,999 for travel and registration costs for the executive director to attend the Aug 2025 Society of American Archivists annual meeting/conference
Chicago Dancemakers Forum
$4,000 to hire a consultant to provide leadership coaching for three staff members totaling 15 individual and five group sessions
Chicago Humanities Festival
$4,000 for travel and registration costs for the fundraising team to attend the 2025 AFP conference in Seattle, Washington
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
$4,000 for travel and registration costs for three CIPT staff members to attend the 2025 Festival Mondial des Théâtres des Marionnettes in France
Chicago Reader
$4,000 for a one-year subscription to the Nivati Employee Assistance Program for online wellbeing and mental health resources
Chicago Tap Theatre
$4,000 to hire a consultant to provide fundraising training and coaching for CTT's full-time staff and its board
Clinard Dance
$3,960 to hire consultants to provide artistic and management training for staff members
Congress for the New Urbanism
$4,000 for training fees for staff and board to learn project management, operations management, board leadership, and executive leadership
Edgar Miller Legacy
$3,897 for fees and related costs for staff to take museum studies, fundraising, and financial management courses from Northwestern's Museum Studies program
Experimental Sound Studio
$3,020 for travel and registration fees for staff to attend the 2025 Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology conference in Bogota
FACETS
$2,500 for costs to host and hire consultants to lead a staff and board retreat on leadership and interpersonal relationships and communication
Filter Photo, NFP
$4,000 to hire a consultant to audit and update Filter Photo's strategic plan
Friends of Historic Second Church
$2,500 for registration fees for staff take classes to enhance skills in designing/executing marketing materials and strategies from Northwestern University
Friends of the Chicago River
$2,175 for travel and registration costs for the watershed policy manager to attend the 2025 One Water Summit in Pittsburgh, PA
Full Spectrum Features
$4,000 for registration and travel expenses for three staff members to attend the 2025 National Council on Public History conference in Montreal
Glessner House
$1,450 for travel and registration costs for staff to attend the Interpreting Historic House Museums Today summit in Michigan
Growing Home, Inc.
$4,000 for DiSC assessment and workshop fees for staff
Harris Theater for Music and Dance Millennium Park
$2,250 to hire a consultant to provide accessibility and inclusion training for Harris Theater resident companies
High Concept Labs
$4,000 to hire a consultant to provide at least 20 hours of executive coaching for the executive and artistic directors
Historic Pullman Foundation
$1,450 for registration fees for staff to take courses on developing, assessing, planning, and implementing interpretative programs
Honey Pot Performance
$4,000 to hire a consultant to provide nonprofit management training in budgeting, strategic planning, and payroll
Injustice Watch
$4,000 for costs to implement a two-day all-staff retreat to develop and plan future programs
Investigative Project on Race and Equity
$4,000 for 60 hours of executive coaching for the Executive Director from NPO Strategic Consulting
Invisible Institute
$4,000 for costs to implement an all-staff retreat with classes available to all attendees at Oxbow School of Art
Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago
$4,000 to contract two traditional Korean lion mask dance experts to train KPAIC artists
Landmarks Illinois
$4,000 for registration fees for staff to take trainings to improve advocacy, marketing, and communications
Latitude, Inc NFP
$2,000 to hire a consultant to provide three hours of success coaching for six staff members
League of Chicago Theatres Foundation
$4,000 to hire a consultant to lead strategic planning
MAKE Literary Productions
$4,000 to hire a consultant to help develop and codify a program selection process that increases cohort diversity, equity, inclusion, and balance
Mandala South Asian Performing Arts
$4,000 to hire a consultant to provide eight months of coaching and mentorship in non-profit management to the associate director
Mas Context, NFP
$3,700 for the executive director to visit CCA in Montreal and LIGA in Mexico City to learn from the organizations
Media Burn Archive
$4,000 for travel and registration costs for three staff members to attend the 2024 Association of Moving Image Archivists in Milwaukee, WI
National Preservation Partners Network
$4,000 to hire consultants to help develop and implement programs to help members more effectively address the needs of underrepresented communities
NeighborSpace
$4,000 for registration costs for NBSP staff to participate in a two-day online training with the Center for Conflict Resolution
NON:Op Open Opera Works
$4,000 to hire a consultant to train the board on fundraising and income diversification
Openlands
$4,000 for registration fees and related expenses for staff to take leadership and management courses
Preservation Maryland
$1,850 for registration fees and related expenses for the director to take Organizational Development courses from the Academy to Innovate Human Resources
ProPublica
$3,000 to hire consultants to teach three journalism workshops to Chicago based staff on writing and research
Public Media Institute
$4,000 to hire a consult to provide training and coaching on donor cultivation, major gifts, and using CRM software
Revolution Workshop
$4,000 to hire a consultant to assist with a comprehensive workplace wellness audit and staff training led by the National Alliance of Mental Illness
Shorefront Legacy Center
$4,000 for course fees and expenses for the executive director to attend nonprofit leadership and strategy courses at the Kellogg School of Management
South Side Weekly NFP
$3,390 for course fees for staff to take financial and project management courses at the University of Illinois and the Management Center
Spudnik Press Cooperative
$2,584 for course fees and expenses for the managing director to attend nonprofit management and fundraising courses at the Kellogg School of Management
Star Farm Chicago
$3,400 for staff site visits to two other farms get ideas for programming, outreach, audience engagement, business practice, and other technical support
Strategy for Access Foundation NFP
$4,000 to hire a consultant to help the organization's leadership develop and implement an organizational succession plan
Strong Towns
$4,000 for all staff DiSC assessment, training, and coaching
Synapse Arts
$3,250 for costs to host and hire a consultant to facilitate a staff retreat on consensus building, cultural competency, and Trauma Informed Practices
Territory NFP
$3,600 to hire Greater Good to provide training and consulting for staff to better understand its practices and impact to best serve its audience
The Paper Machete Group Inc. NFP
$3,000 to hire consultants to help develop community standards and policies for conduct and incident reporting for artists, staff, and collaborators
The Ruth Page Foundation
$3,160 to provide staff training on interpersonal communication and human resource and labor topics
University of Chicago, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
$4,000 for travel and registration costs for staff to attend the 2025 International Association of Blacks in Dance conference in Pittsburgh, PA
Urban Growers Collective
$4,000 to hire Hansra Consulting to train and certify new staff, board, and core partners in Conscious Ambassador Trauma Informed Care
