The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation held board meetings on February 4 and 5 2009 and approved the following grants (all grants are to Chicago-area organizations unless noted otherwise):

For Arts:

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (New York, NY): $5,000 to support the company's Chicago performances at the Auditorium Theater, April 1 – April 5, 2009;

Kelly + Yamamoto Productions (Greenbrae, CA): $15,000 for the documentary film on Albany Park Theater Project;

Next Theatre Company:  $7,500 for Next Communities, which forges links among Evanston and Chicago’s diverse communities, using theater as the connection;

Redmoon Theater:  $15,000 for general operations

For the Built Environment:

Chicago Architecture Foundation: $25,000 for general operations;

Foresight Design Initiative:  $15,000 for general operations;

Glessner House Museum:  $14,500 for consultants to create a new business model for the museum, and to help fix-up an upper-story room that will display a collection of decorative arts from the 1870s and 1880s;

Openlands Project:  $10,000 for the TreeKeepers programs;

Public Art Committee of the Oakwood Shores Working Group:  $15,000 to hire a fundraising consultant in order to build a statue to civil rights leader Ida B. Wells near the site of the demolished Ida B. Wells housing project;

For Economic Opportunity for the Working Poor:

The Resurrection Project:  $15,000 for general operations;

Women's Business Development Center:  $10,000 to work with prospective and existing child care entrepreneurs;

Woodstock Institute:  $15,000 to protect lower-income borrowers from abuses common among high-cost consumer loan products in Illinois through research and policy development;

From the General funding area:

Illinois Center for Violence Prevention:  $5,000 for their work on child abuse prevention.

Third Coast International Audio Festival: $100,000 grant plus $50,000 matching grant in 2009; $75,000 grant in 2010; and a $50,000 grant in 2011.