The 2025 ART Grant Recipients are listed below. Congrats to all!

UrbanTheater Company (UTC)
Walls Turned Sideways

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The 2025 ART Grant Recipients are listed below. Congrats to all!

Intonation Music
Kalapriya Foundation, Center for the Indian Performing Arts
Making a Difference Dancing (M.A.D.D.) Rhythms Organization
Pegasus Theatre Chicago
Territory NFP
The Era Footwork Collective

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The 2025 ART Grant Recipients are listed below. Congrats to all!

Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Foundation
Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange
Cultural Access Collaborative
Design Museum of Chicago
Folded Map Project
FreshLens Chicago
High Concept Labs
ILA Creative Studio

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The 2025 ART Grant Recipients are listed below. Congrats to all!

About Face Theatre
Africa International House USA
Aguijón Theatre
Architreasures
Ballet Folklorico de Chicago
Changing Worlds
Chicago Blues Revival
Chicago Mobile Makers
Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center

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Now in its third year, the ART partnership has awarded general operating funding to 156 nonprofits – all of which have annual budgets of less than $1 million and operate largely in traditionally underserved communities. Learn more: fieldfoundation.org/art 3/

As a five-year, $15 million partnership with @macfound.org the ART initiative is rooted in the belief that small and mid-sized arts and culture organizations – including social service groups and community organizers – are vital to Chicago's identity, economy, and social fabric. 2/

We're proud to help support our Journalism & Storytelling grant recipients in overcoming these challenges. And we're especially proud of Chicago News Weekly & Investigative Project on Race & Equity for their impactful work. Check them out! /end

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The discussion covered all aspects of launching a news business start-up — from the process of securing a nonprofit 501c3 designation or fiscal sponsor, to what keeps these news leaders up at night: the constant challenge of diversifying revenue, increasing staff and maintaining sustainability. 4/

Introduced by the Field Foundation's Director of Journalism & Storytelling Maudlyne Ihejirika, and moderated by The Chronicle of Philanthropy's Senior Writer Stephanie Beasley, the panel examined the challenges and rewards of building and maintaining a nonprofit newsroom in today’s industry. 3/

The leaders of these Chicago-based news outlets — Chicago News Weekly's Cheryl Mainor, and Wendy Wei from Investigative Project on Race & Equity — joined Stacy Palmer from @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social and Emily Holden from @floodlightnews.org on a national stage. 2/

This event, presented by WF Fund, kicked-off Inspired Generosity's Chicago Showcase at Impact House. WF Fund President Dilnaz Waraich opened and closed the event, encouraging all participants to continue the conversations and use “smiling as a form of generosity.” /end

The challenge in this moment, Maudlyne said, is to use the power of storytelling to humanize:

“Help those who do not look like you to care about those who do not look like them … to relate to, identify with, and understand that we are all one humanity. There is no distinction.” 3/

Maudlyne and guest speakers Tracy Baim (#PressForwardChicago), Rummana Hussain (@chicago.suntimes.com), and Nissa Rhee (@borderlessmag.bsky.social) explored the need to reshape media narratives to ensure accurate, fair, and contextual news coverage of underrepresented communities. 2/

This event, presented by WF Fund, kicked-off Inspired Generosity's Chicago Showcase. WF Fund President Dilnaz Waraich opened and closed the event, encouraging all participants to continue the conversations and use “smiling as a form of generosity.” /end
inspiredgenerosity.org/showcase/chi...

The challenge in this moment, Maudlyne said, is to use the power of storytelling to humanize:

“Help those who do not look like you to care about those who do not look like them … to relate to, identify with, and understand that we are all one humanity. There is no distinction.” 3/

Maudlyne and guest speakers Tracy Baim (Press Forward Chicago), Rummana Hussain (Chicago Sun-Times), and Nissa Rhee (Borderless Magazine) explored the need to reshape media narratives to ensure accurate, fair, and contextual news coverage of underrepresented communities. 2/