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Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Chicago, Illinois

Grants

2022 ( 8 months)
$50,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) is an independent, nonpartisan organization that provides insight on critical global issues, advances policy solutions, and fosters dialogue about what is happening in the world and why it matters to people in Chicago, the United States, and around the globe. With this X-grant, the CCGA partners with the Eurasia Group to disseminate and promote the new Global Impunity Index, which measures the degree of impunity of governments and other powerful actors around the world. Wide dissemination and promotion of the index will raise awareness about the new tool and spark important policy conversations and action on impunity and accountability.

2019 (1 year 10 months)
$426,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (the Council) is an independent, nonpartisan organization that provides insight—and influences the public discourse—on critical global issues. This project assesses the continued viability and acceptability of U.S. security guarantees to its allies. This award supports the Council to establish a task force of 15 former government officials from the United States, Europe, and Asia that will develop policy recommendations for the U.S. and allied governments to enhance assurance measures and strategies for reducing incentives for U.S. allies in Europe and Asia to acquire their own nuclear weapons, thus bolstering nonproliferation in both regions.

2018 ( 3 months)
$50,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization that provides insight and influences the public discourse on critical global issues. This award supports a regional meeting in Europe to explore issues of proliferation and deterrence. The Council will work with a regional partner to organize and host a convening. Outcomes include a better understanding of proliferation challenges in Europe.

2018 ( 9 months)
$178,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is an independent, nonpartisan organization that provides insight—and influences the public discourse—on critical global issues. This project examines the nuclear deterrence strategies of Japan, South Korea, and Australia in the context of increasing regional security concerns and questions about the U.S. commitment to extended deterrence. It is intended to navigate new thinking about addressing nuclear risks in the Asia-Pacific region.

2018 ( 3 months)
$43,700

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization that provides insight and influences the public discourse on critical global issues. This award supports a survey conducted in South Korea on nuclear nonproliferation and deterrence challenges in the Asia-Pacific. By collecting robust findings of South Korean attitudes on nuclear weapons issues, this award is designed to inform nuclear risk reduction policymaking on the Korea crisis.

2018 (1 year)
$150,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is an independent, nonpartisan organization that provides insight—and influences the public discourse—on critical global issues. This award supports the Council’s foreign policy opinion polling. It aims to generate new public knowledge on critical issues, and to inform and influence the policy and scholarly foreign policy discussion.

2018 ( 10 months)
$50,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (the Council) is an independent, non-partisan, international affairs organization that works to inform public discourse and policy about global issues. This grants supports a two-day strategic planning session with key stakeholders from across the United States, the Caribbean and Latin American region to map out a long-term strategy for systemitizing an evidence-based violence prevention network across the region. The session would be held in partnership with the US Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. The meeting will plan for the establishment of an ongoing forum or network to engage policymakers, researchers and practitioners to exchange evidence-based violence-prevention innovations.

2017 (2 years 2 months)
$200,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, founded in 1922, is one of the oldest and most prominent international affairs organizations in the United States. A project of the Chicago Council, Black Chicago Tomorrow envisions a vibrant African-American community in Chicago that benefits from and contributes to the region’s economy and society. Black Chicago Tomorrow draws on a board of civic leaders and industry executives to steer economic development initiatives, job creation, and business growth in low-income African-American communities. With this award, Black Chicago Tomorrow collaborates with community organizations in the south side neighborhood of Auburn Gresham to advance locally-developed business development plans.

2017 ( 9 months)
$10,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (the Council), founded in 1922, is one of the oldest and most prominent international affairs organizations in the United States. The Council's immigration program demonstrates the critical role of immigrants as drivers of economic growth and competiveness throughout the Midwest region. With this award, the Council commissions research into prior moments in U.S. history in which restrictive immigration policies negatively affected the economy in the Midwest. The research findings inform regional workshops on current immigration policy and the Midwest economy.

2016 (2 years)
$650,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, (Council) founded in 1922 as The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, is a leading independent, nonpartisan organization committed to influencing the discourse on global issues through contributions to opinion and policy formation, leadership, dialogue, and public learning. This award provides support for the annual Chicago Council Survey. Over the course of the award the Council expects to expand the scope, integrates the survey into other growing areas of its studies program, and increases accessibility to the data resulting from the survey. As in the past, it intends to help define critical shifts in American public thinking and form the backbone of several major works on public opinion and United States foreign policy.

2015 (1 year)
$150,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (the Council) is an independent, non-partisan, international affairs organization that works to inform public discourse and policy about global issues. This grant supports an exchange organized by the Council, in partnership with the World Bank and the University of Chicago Crime Lab, among other partners, to bring together researchers, policymakers and practitioners from seven countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and their counterparts in Chicago. The exchange will examine what has been learned about promising approaches to preventing youth violence in the Americas, promote cross-regional research partnerships, and explore the building of a research network to further the development of evidence-based policy responses to crime and violence in participating countries in these regions.

2015 ( 9 months)
$200,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Council), founded in 1922 as The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, is a leading independent, nonpartisan organization committed to influencing the discourse on global issues through contributions to opinion and policy formation, leadership dialogue, and public learning. The award supports the Council's project to explore the feasibility of a U.S. policy initiative to develop a system of international accounting and control for the nations with nuclear weapons capable materials, including those in military use. It also determines the possibility of institutionalizing the Nuclear Security Summit process, rather than ending it with the 2016 Washington Summit meeting, as is currently planned.

2015 (2 years)
$325,000

In support of the Chicago Council Survey (over two years).

2015 (2 years 1 month)
$225,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (the Council), founded in 1922, is one of the oldest and most prominent international affairs organizations in the United States. The Council's immigration program demonstrates the critical role of immigrants as drivers of economic growth and competiveness throughout the Midwest region. An active Midwest Immigration Task Force of prominent civic, political, and business leaders produces issue briefs, evidence-based policy materials, and public events. The Council leverages the impact of these outputs, providing a neutral platform for informing the public, the media, and policymakers with data and research that is directly relevant to the Midwestern and national debates over immigration reform.

2013 (1 year)
$250,000

The grant will support the design, production, and dissemination of the Chicago Council’s 2014 survey of American public opinion on a range of U.S. foreign policy issues.

2013 (2 years)
$500,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs will leverage the success of its Midwest Immigration Task Force, which articulates the value of immigrants as drivers of economic competitiveness in the region. While the national debates over immigration reform carry strong momentum, Task Force members will lead public events in the Midwest with business and civic leaders; produce evidence-based policy papers that link immigrants to regional economic growth; track the evolving public opinion on immigration; and coordinate joint activities with a growing number of Midwestern business entities calling for immigration reform.

2013 (1 year)
$100,000

The University of Chicago Crime Lab uses rigorous research to generate evidence about the effectiveness of strategies to respond to youth violence. Crime Lab will use this grant to evaluate the City of Chicago’s Public Safety Action Committee, a five-year, $50 million effort launched by Mayor Emanuel and local business leaders to reduce violence by raising funds for and supporting proven or promising programs that serve high-risk youths. Crime Lab will build a comprehensive evaluation program beginning with research on pilot efforts being funded this summer, and lay the groundwork for ongoing evaluations over the initiative’s five-year term.

2012 (1 year)
$143,000

This grant supports a high-level, bipartisan Task Force on Immigration and Economic Competitiveness in the Midwest, made up of business, civic, religious, labor and civil society leaders to forge consensus around and build support for effective immigration policy at the state and national levels. Through the Task Force, along with a broader “Group of 500” civic and business leaders, the Chicago Council seeks to broaden support across the twelve-state region for constructive immigration policy change. The Task Force will produce a final White Paper articulating the Midwest’s stake in immigration and a path forward for immigration policy.

2012 (1 year)
$15,000

The grant will support the 2012 G8 Forum on Food Security.

2011 (1 year 7 months)
$500,000

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is the premier forum for discussion and analysis of world affairs in Chicago. The grant will support a series of activities around the G8 and NATO Summits that will be held in Chicago in May 2012, as well as the Council’s 2012 study of American public attitudes on global affairs and America’s role in the world.

2009 (1 year)
$250,000

To conduct a study in 2010 of American public attitudes on world affairs and the United States' role in the world (over one year).

2008 (1 year)
$100,000

In support of the 2008 Public Opinion Study.

2006 (4 years)
$1,000,000

In support of the Chicago Council 21st Century Fund (over four years).

2006 (2 years)
$150,000

In support of public opinion surveys in the United States, India, China, South Korea and Japan about international relations in Asia (over two years).

2005 (1 year 10 months)
$40,000

In support of a Task Force on Engaging American Muslims in the Foreign Policy Discourse.

2003 (3 years)
$450,000

For activities to raise the profile of global issues in Chicago (over three years).

2002 (4 years)
$1,000,000

To support a reserve fund and the Special Projects Fund (over four years).

2002 (1 year)
$175,000

To support a survey of American public opinion on U.S. foreign policy.

2001 ( 8 months)
$100,000

In support of public education and networking related to the September 11 attacks.

2000 (1 year 11 months)
$50,000

To support a seminar series co-sponsored with the New York Council on Foreign Relations (over two years).

1998 (2 years)
$230,000

To survey and analyze American public opinion on U.S. foreign policy (over two years).

1994 ( 11 months)
$100,000

To support a survey of American public opinion on U.S. foreign policy.

1989 (1 year)
$250,000

To support surveys of American public opinion on U.S. foreign policy (over six years).

1989 (2 years 2 months)
$120,000

In support of general operations (over three years).

1986 (1 year 1 month)
$80,000

In support of general operations (over two years).

1984 (1 year)
$300,000

To evaluate the present and potential contribution to public understanding of national and international security issues, and for exploration of new connections and interactions among constituencies (over three years).

1984 (1 year)
$70,000

In support of general operations (over two years).

1983 (1 year)
$35,000

In support of general operations.

1982 (1 year)
$360,000

To survey and analyze American popular and leadership opinion on U.S. foreign policy issues (over three years).