Grantee Profile
Chicago Public Library Foundation
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Grants to Chicago Public Library Foundation
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$450,000Active Strategy
2011 (Inactive Grant)
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of the national replication of YouMedia and application of the design principles to institutional change in the Chicago Public Library.
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$500,000Active Strategy
2010 (Inactive Grant)
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To expand the YOUmedia program to three Chicago Public Library branch locations.
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$1,050,000Active Strategy
2010 (Duration 3 years)
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of YouMedia@CPL (over three years).
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$70,000Active Strategy
2009 (Inactive Grant)
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of the YouMedia learning center's involvement in the official ceremony marking 2009 World Habitat Day in Washington, D.C.
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$495,000Active Strategy
2009 (Inactive Grant)
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To plan and implement a pilot digital media youth program in the Chicago Public Library that will serve to launch a Chicago learning network.
The MacArthur Foundation awarded Chicago Public Library Foundation $2,565,000 between 2009 and 2012.