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In response to the economic recession, the Driehaus Foundation created Chicago Performs!

The 2010 deadlines for the MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation will be Monday, March 1, for performing arts groups in theater, dance and music, and Tuesday, June 1, for all other arts organizations, such as visual and media arts; literary arts; interdisciplinary arts; special projects; museums, and service, policy or advocacy groups.  For more information and a link to the application, please click the tab "what we support."

On November 16, 2009, the board of The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation approved the following grants to non-performing arts groups as part of the MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.  At the end of each grant, we list the group’s MacArthur Fund category.

New Grants: 15 groups total for $45,000

Grant Decisions - November 16, 2009

The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation held a board meeting on November 16, 2009 and approved the following grants (all grants are to Chicago-area organizations unless noted otherwise):

For Arts:
-The Chicago Sinfonietta: $7,500 for transition to a new conductor as founding conductor retires for health reasons.
-Grantmakers in the Arts (Seattle, WA): $15,000 to support 2010 Annual Conference in Chicago;

For Built Environment:

2nd Year Payments of 2-Year Grants:
1) Lucky Plush                           =  10,000                
2) Curious Theater Branch           =  10,000
3) Trap Door Theater                 =    9,000
4) A Red Orchid Theater             =    8,000
5) The Seldoms                        =    8,000
6) Bohemian Theatre Ensemble    =    7,500
7) Same Planet Different World    =    7,500

Korean-American dancers in Humboldt Park. Singers strolling through the Art Institute. Slam poets on the streets. Dancers in Union Station. These are some of the ongoing events of Chicago Performs!, a series of summer and fall spectacles that are being staged in unlikely places around the city.

On August 6, 2009, the board of The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation approved the following performing arts grants for the MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation:

Groups new to this fund:
-500 Clown—$10,000 (for each of three years)
-Adventure Stage Chicago—$10,000 (for each of three years)
-Fifth House Ensemble—$5,000 (for each of two years)
-Hoperaworld—$7,500 for one year
-MPAACT—$10,000 (for each of two years)
-Teatro Americano—$5,000 (for each of two years)

The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation held a board meeting on August 6, 2009 and approved the following grants (all grants are to Chicago-area organizations unless noted otherwise):

For Arts:
-Arts & Business Council of Chicago: $30,000 for each of 2 years for general operations;
-Lawyers for the Creative Arts: $20,000 for general operations;
-Gene Siskel Film Center:  $12,500 for general operations
-Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation:  $15,000 for general operations

For the Built Environment: