The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation approved the following grants on September 24, 2010 (all grants are to Chicago-area organizations unless noted otherwise):

For Arts:

-Arts Alliance Illinois: $15,000 for general operating support;

-Black Ensemble Theater:  $20,000 for general operating support;

-Lawyers for the Creative Arts:  $25,000 for each of two years for general operating support;

For The Built Environment:
-500 Years of the Illustrated Architecture Book: $10,000 to support a coalition of organizations sponsoring exhibits on architecture books that have shaped society;

-Archeworks: $25,000 for each of two years as a two-to-one challenge grant for general operating support;

-Chicago Art Deco Society: $15,000 to help with the first-ever Art Deco survey of Chicago;

-Doug Farr: $10,000 to support an exhibit at the Chicago Architecture Foundation that promotesgreen neighborhoods;

-Environmental Law & Policy Center: $20,000 matching grant to support their new eco-office in Chicago;

-The Experimental Station: $15,000 for general operations;

-Glessner House Museum: $14,900 to help finish restoration of the Isaac Scott exhibit room and the restoration of the parlor;

-Lakeview Action Coalition: $15,000 to support a community organizing campaign to ensure that the Children’s Memorial Hospital redevelopment plan includes affordable housing for economically and demographically diverse families and individuals;that it be environmentally responsible; and that historic buildings be preserved and re-used;

-Lane Tech Century Foundation/Lane Tech High School:  $25,000 matching grant to repair WPA sculpture in the Lane Tech garden;

-Syracure University School of Architecture (Syracuse, NY):  $10,000 to support the publications, "New Public Works," and "American City X";

-Unity Temple Restoration Foundation:  $10,000 to restore 8 art-glass lancet windows in Unity Temple;

-Wagging Tale Productions (Oregon City, Oregon); $8,500 To support marketing of and DVD creation for the documentary film, “Conserving Our Future: Sustainability Through Building Reuse”;

For Economic Opportunity for the Working Poor:

-Arise:  $7,500 for general operations of the Worker Center which addresses the needs of vulnerable workers through education, campaigns to improve workplace conditions, and public policy;

-Corporation for Supportive Housing:  $15,000 to support to learn from best practices from other cities.-Chicago Housing Initiative (CHI)/Jane Addams Senior Caucus: $25,000 to provide salary support for CHI’s Coordinator and for travel expenses for local tenant leaders to go to Washington DC;

-Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law: $50,000 to improve economic opportunities for Illinois working families through stronger “work supports” policies;

From the General funding category:

-Cambodian Association of Illinois: $25,000 for each of two years to partially fund the salary of the new executive director, to facilitate a smooth leadership transition and strategic planning with the help of consultants, and to support the transition of founder Khompha Seth to the new role as President;

-Illinois Humanities Council: $5,000 to support a performance festival associated with the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides;

-Nomadic Productions: $25,000 for the documentary film, "All The Difference;"

-Taproot Foundation:  $45,000 for general operating support for the Taproot Foundation in Chicago and to sponsor five Service Grants for Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grantees;

For Government Accountability/Investigative Reporting:

-American Independent News Network (formerly known as Center for Independent Media): $20,000 for coverage of The Working Poor;

-Center for Investigative Reporting:  $25,000 for general operating support towards Midwest reporting;

-Homelands Productions (Ithaca, NY):  $30,000 for support of “The Hunger Chronicles,” a radio and web-based investigative journalism project about the challenge to ensure that all people have access to adequate food;

-We The People Media:  $15,000 to support the print, television and web-based reporting for and by people from Chicago's low-income community;

For Museums:

Chicago Cultural Alliance: $25,000 for general operating support plus $10,000 matching grant with each new individual, foundation and corporate grant;