• $375,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 1 year)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — DePaul University is the home of the Digital Youth Network and Chicago Hive Learning Network. Nichole Pinkard, DePaul professor, has been the lead partner in the design and implementation of YOUmedia, an innovative teen space at the Chicago Public Library created in 2009 to connect youth, books, media, and institutions throughout the city, and through the Chicago Hive Learning Network. This grant provides continuing support for digital mentors in their efforts to ensure that YOUmedia Chicago is a hub for Chicago youth and an exemplar for libraries and museums nationwide; and support for the Learning Network's program director.

• $1,800,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To implement a Chicago Learning Network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home (over three years).

• $475,000Active Strategy

  2009 (Inactive Grant)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To implement a learning network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home in Chicago.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded DePaul University $2,650,000 between 2009 and 2012.