The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation held a board meeting on July 13, 2009 and approved the following grants (all grants are to Chicago-area organizations unless noted otherwise):

For Arts:

-Access Living:  $5,000 to support a partnership with the Harris Theater to present the Chicago premiere of Dame Evelyn Glennie, deaf percussionist, with the Sao Paulo Orchestra;

-Chicago Humanities Festival:  $10,000 to convert architecture presentations from past Humanities Festivals to their new website;

-Emergence Dance Theater:  $10,000 for Dance Chicago 2009;

-"Louder than a Bomb": $12,000 for a film about a poetry slam for inner city kids;

For the Built Environment:
-Archi-treasures:  $10,000 for general operating support;

-Congress for the New Urbanism:  $10,000 for Connected Networks Initiative which educates Congress and pushes for including urban streets, avenues and boulevards in Federal and state highway projects;

-Eighteenth Street Development Corporation:  $5,000 for the Historic Preservation Initiative, to get more Pilsen residents to rehabilitate their homes according to National Register standards;

-Friends of the Chicago River:  $15,000 for the Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum;

-Historic Chicago Bungalow Association:  $6,000 for The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Best Restored Bungalows to take place October 17 at Merchandise Mart;

-Norwood Park Historical Society:  $6,000 matching grant for a project to restore, print and frame up to 20 historic photographs of Norwood Park as well as publish a book, Norwood Park: The Village Years, devoted to Norwood Park history;

-Public Allies:  $10,000 for a partnership with Archeworks;

-University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture:  $6,000 to document the networking and entrepreneurship of architectural organizations, relationships to funders, government, NGOs, clients, and each other;

-University of Chicago Press:  $4,000 to pay for illustrations for the 2010 book, Marion Mahoney Reconsidered;

-Ted Wolner; $15,000 to support the writing of the book, Skyscraper Romances from the Great War through the Great Depression;

For Economic Opportunity for the Working Poor:
-Inspiration Corporation:  $15,000 for the Working Poor Direct Service Fund;

From the General Funding area:
-Umoja Student Development Corporation:  $4,000 emergency grant to help with moving expenses;

From Museums:
-History Makers:  $15,000 for “Agents of Change” interactive exhibit at 1900 S. Michigan, which is an interactive, permanent exhibit to show African American leaders;

-National Museum of Mexican Art:  $10,000 for the Sor Juana Festival.