• $1,700,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  Digital Media & Learning

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — These two grants--this one and another to Community Funds, Inc.--renew support for donor-advised funds at the New York and Chicago Community Trusts to fund activities of the Hive Learning Network in the two cities. The Hive networks are communities of civic and cultural institutions dedicated to transforming the learning landscape, and creating opportunities for youth to explore their interests in virtual and physical spaces. These grants provide an additional year of support for the Hive networks, with resources to develop activities for youth, to carry out professional development for Hive educators, and to strengthen the Hive Networks as sites for testing innovations in learning.

• $250,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  Digital Media & Learning

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To fund new school- and teacher-led innovations in civics education in the digital age (over two years).

• $1,500,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  Digital Media & Learning

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — These grants will be used to expand resources at the Smart Fund at the Chicago Community Trust and at a similar fund for the New Youth City Learning Network at the New York Community Trust, which were established to support the collaborative activities of the members of Chicago and New York learning networks a centerpiece of the Foundation's digital media and learning initiative. The grants will provide resources for the networks for collaborative projects among participating civic and cultural institutions and to provide learning opportunities for more young people in the two cities. (Grant also made to Community Funds, Inc., #99432-0.)

• $1,000,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 4 years)

  Community & Economic Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of the Smart Chicago Trust Fund (over four years).

• $1,300,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Digital Media & Learning

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of the Smart Chicago Trust Fund for activities of the Chicago Learning Network.

• $500,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Housing

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of general operations for the Partnership for New Communities (over two years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Chicago Community Foundation $6,250,000 between 2010 and 2013.