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foundation grantmaking

The Exciting Philanthropic Prospect of Funding Nonprofits with Problems

By Ruth McCambridge | February 15, 2019

The Rick Bayless Family Foundation has made its first three Stepping Stone Grants of $150,000 each to nonprofit Chicago-based theaters with issues.

Transparency

A Good Nonprofit Decision Badly Made is No Good at All

By Martin Levine | October 26, 2018

When and how should an organizational board share its thinking about organizational change and engage its stakeholders? How is it best to balance the efficient decision-making a closed-door process can offer against the potentially messier and more political nature of a wider process? Well, do you want a small mess now, or a big, angry one later?

Organizational Mismanagement

All Margin, No Mission? The Story of Chicago’s Better Housing Foundation

By Martin Levine | August 29, 2018

In Chicago, a nonprofit succeeds in collecting millions in housing development and management fees but fails to provide quality affordable housing.

digital media

Chicago Nonprofit Lifts Up History of Black Media

By Sean Watterson | June 12, 2018

As a growing number of museums diversify their collections to include works and collections from voices outside the historically Eurocentric canon, a Chicago nonprofit that digitally archives photos and articles from historically black newspapers is teaming with Google to reach a wider audience.

board resignations

Chicago’s DuSable Museum Rocked by Board and Staff Departures

By Ruth McCambridge | June 6, 2018

When an important nonprofit institution experiences waves of staff and board departures, serious questions will always be raised.

community backlash

Obama Foundation and the “Show Us” Nature of Community Control

By Martin Levine | May 18, 2018

The desire to use a popular “native son” former president to drive economic development in his home town is enmeshed in a struggle over who will decide how its impact is planned and controlled.

Barack Obama

Obama Foundation Announces Partnership with the Chicago Public Library

By Danielle Holly | May 7, 2018

The Obama Foundation moves one step closer to its goal of integrating a public library branch into its Jackson Park Presidential Center—but will it balance the gentrification the center is likely to bring to Chicago’s South Side?

Fundraising

In Chicago, Nonprofit Media Brings Equity Lens to South Side Stories

By Steve Dubb | April 24, 2018

In Chicago, as in much of the nation, a nonprofit journalism sector, despite less-than-stable funding, grows in prominence and has expanded in many creative directions, giving voice to many who would otherwise be voiceless in the public sphere.

gifts to nonprofit organizations

A $50 Million Gift with No Strings Attached? What It Took

By Erin Rubin | April 23, 2018

The Art Institute of Chicago has received a historic gift. What will they do with it?

Chicago

An 800-Family Chicago Housing Co-op Enters its Second Half-Century Going Strong

By Steve Dubb | April 18, 2018

Sometimes, when addressing affordable housing, it is helpful to recall the past. In Chicago, an old and sometimes forgotten model—the limited equity housing co-op—is making a comeback.

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