The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation held a board meeting on May 1,
2008 and approved the following grants (all grants are to Chicago-area
organizations unless noted otherwise).

For Arts:

Artadia (New York City): $15,000 in 2008 + $10,000 in 2009 for their awards program for individual artists in Chicago.

Britton Bertran: $15,000 planning grant to study a Foundation-supported art gallery.

The Dance Center of Columbia College: $10,000 renewal grant for the Subsidized Theater Rental Program.

The Reconstruction Room: $3,000 for PA system and projector for their performing arts series.

Thodos Dance Chicago: $5,000 for New Dances 2008.

For Built Environment:

Chicago Public Art Group: $2,500 to conduct a structural survey of the Stranger's Home Church, in order to save a significant mural painted by William Walker.

Logan Square Neighborhood Association: $6,500 for a series of training programs for Lathrop Homes leaders to work to preserve the complex.

Save The Mount (Lenox, MA):  $10,000 for emergency campaign to save Edith Wharton's estate.

The Mies van der Rohe Society:  $10,000 for a remounting of 1956 IIT exhibit on the architecture of Louis Sullivan.

For Economic Opportunity for the Working Poor:

National Student Partnerships (Washington, D.C.):  $10,000 for support for student volunteers to bring access to services, opportunities for employment, self-sufficiency and personal success to the working poor in Uptown.

Woodstock Institute:  $15,000 for Building Assets by Reducing Predatory Automobile Title Loans and to implement community-based reform principles.

For General Funding:

Global Donors Network: $7,500 for general operating support.

Museum of Contemporary Phenomena:  $9,000 for "The Glue Factory," an exhibit on the common fear of growing old.

Vivian G. Harsh Society:  $15,000 for archival materials to handle donations of historic items from Chicago African-Americans .

For Small Theater & Dance:

Najwa Dance Corps:  $5,000 for general operations.