foundation grantmaking
The Exciting Philanthropic Prospect of Funding Nonprofits with Problems
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.