• $45,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Chicago Humanities Festival, founded in 1989, creates opportunities for people of all ages to support, enjoy and explore the humanities. It fulfills this mission through its annual festivals, the fall Chicago Humanities Festival and the spring Stages, Sights & Sounds, focused on children and families. This grant will support the development of an ongoing working relationship between the Chicago Humanities Festival and its counterpart in Edinburgh, the Imaginate Festival. The goal of this project is to establish a working relationship for the first time between the only two festivals in the world that seeks to provide humanities-based programming to children and families.

• $50,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Chicago Humanities Festival is a three-week program of lectures, panels, roundtables, and performances that exposes its annual audience of 50,000 people to some of the humanities' foremost contemporary thinkers. This year's theme technology provides an opportunity for some of the Foundation's digital media and learning grantees to reach a new audience. This grant supports three programs: a Summer Institute for Teachers on new media literacies; a hub for information about the festival at the YOUmedia center at the Harold Washington Library; and an interactive session about the Quest to Learn school model and the soon-to-open new ChicagoQuest school.

• $250,000Active Strategy

  2009 (Duration 5 years)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of general operations (over five years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Chicago Humanities Festival $345,000 between 2009 and 2012.