• $600,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 2 years)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — For 10 years, LISC/Chicago has managed the New Communities Program, which provides a strong platform for community development in Chicago by planning, implementing, and connecting a comprehensive array of activities to increase affordable housing, reduce violence, and improve financial conditions in neighborhoods. This grant provides transition support for two program initiatives: the Near North Unity Program, an effort to support community building and reduce violence around the former Cabrini-Green public housing development site; and the Smart Communities Program, a five-neighborhood demonstration that aims to increase the availability and use of information technologies by residents and businesses.

• $8,000,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)/Chicago is a leading community development intermediary that since 2003 has led the New Communities Program, the Foundation-supported initiative to revitalize 16 low-income Chicago neighborhoods. This grant supports the next phase of the initiative, a test of the comprehensive model developed and implemented in phase one that seeks to achieve measurable changes in key indicators of quality of life and community vitality: employment, economic development, violence reduction, and housing development. Funding also will be used to develop better tools for data acquisition and analysis to inform program choices, and performance management systems to improve project execution.

• $100,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Chicago office of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a national community development intermediary that manages the Foundation-supported New Communities Program, which is an effort to revitalize 16 Chicago neighborhoods, and Metropolis Strategies, a civic organization that works to improve regional planning on a wide range of issues, including criminal justice reform, transportation, and economic development, will undertake a joint effort to investigate possible strategies to promote business corridor revival and business expansion that also serve to link neighborhoods to new employment opportunities.

• $225,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of summer youth programs to reduce violence in Chicago.

• $255,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To enhance technology capacity in five New Communities Program neighborhoods in Chicago.

• $200,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To support business and industrial area planning for neighborhoods in the New Communities Program.

• $455,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To support violence reduction efforts in a Chicago neighborhood.

• $1,050,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To support the Centers for Working Families in Chicago.

• $225,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To work with the Chicago Public Library to implement YouMedia in schools and to participate in a Chicago Learning Network.

• $291,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To support a more fair and equitable property tax assessment system in Cook County, Illinois.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Local Initiatives Support Corporation $11,401,000 between 2009 and 2012.