The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation held a board meeting on March 28, 2007 and approved the following grants (all grants are to Chicago-area organizations unless noted otherwise).

For Arts:
1. Arts Work Fund for Organizational Development: $25,000 for re-grants to arts & culture organizations.

2. Sundance Institute (Beverly Hills, California): $24,500: $15,000 of which would support the July Theatre Lab in Utah, and $9,500 of which would support the first-ever Chicago convening.

For the Built Environment:
1. Archimedia Workshop: $25,000 to continue work on a movie about Daniel Burnham.

2. Friends of the Parks: $45,000 grant for support of the Public Trust Research and Policy Program, which includes the three-year-long initiative called “The Last 4 Miles.”

3. Midwest Office/National Trust for Historic Preservation: $25,000 for each of three years for “Cornerstones of Community.”

For Economic Opportunity
1. Emergency Fund: $25,000 for each of two years for the Financial Assistance Program.

For General funding:
1. The Chicago Reporter: $30,000 for coverage of government accountability.

2. Mason Productions (Los Angeles, California): $20,000 to help finish the film, “The Journey to Palomar.”

3. Taproot Foundation: $25,000: $15,000 of which is to provide service grants to three grantees, and $10,000 for general operating support.

4. Openlands: $15,000 to bring an exhibit of Terry Evans’s photographs to Prague.

For Government Accountability
1. Jamie Kalven: $20,000 for investigative reporting on patterns of police abuse and official denial in Chicago.