PROGRAM ON HUMAN AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Grants Authorized 2005

Through a partnership with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, this MacArthur grantmaking seeks to revitalize 16 Chicago neighborhoods. Community partnerships are focused on improving public safety, increasing employment and economic security, enhancing student performance, and stimulating economic development. The Foundation also supports community development on a national scale through its investment in Living Cities: The National Community Development Initiative, which channels funds from financial and philanthropic organizations and the federal government to support community development in 23 U.S. cities.

Center for Economic Progress, Chicago, Illinois
$800,000 in support of the Earned Income Tax Credit–Promoting Prosperity Project (over two years).

$250,000 in support of implementing and documenting elements of a strategic plan (over two years).

Chicago Project for Violence Prevention, Chicago, Illinois
$1,200,000 to support efforts to reduce homicides and other violent crimes in Chicago neighborhoods (over four years).

Coalition for Environmentally Safe Communities, Falls Church, Virginia
$20,000 in support of an independent advisory panel to the East Baltimore Revitalization Project.

Council of State Governments, Eastern Regional Conference, New York, New York
$45,000 in support of the planning, design, and initial implementation of the Illinois Reentry

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Chicago, Illinois
$250,000 in support of the Illinois New Americans Immigrant Policy Executive Order project (over two years).

Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
$70,000 in support of website development and training in content management for eight community organizations in the New Communities Program.

MDRC, New York, New York
$2,500,000 in support of a comprehensive program of evaluation research in community development (over three years).

Metro Chicago Information Center, Chicago, Illinois
$900,000 in support of the assembly and analysis of data about Chicago neighborhoods (over three years).

National Center for Victims of Crime, Washington, D.C.
$167,000 in support of a national panel on the ethical issues that may arise when using innovative technology to reduce crime and improve neighborhood safety (over nine months).

Neighborhood Safety Initiative, Chicago, Illinois
$250,000 in support of general operations.

New York City Economic Development Corporation, New York, New York
$300,000 in support of comprehensive revitalization efforts in three low-income neighborhoods in New York (over two years).

Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, Chicago, Illinois
$360,000 in support of efforts that make community and public data accessible to community organizations for the purposes of neighborhood revitalization (over two years).

OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
$23,000 in support of final manuscript preparation of Anatomy of an Initiative that Worked, a manual for comprehensive community developers (over six months).

Safer Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
$106,000 in support of a reentry demonstration planning effort.

$200,000 to design Safer Return, a prisoner reentry demonstration in Chicago and Illinois communities.

Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities, Chicago, Illinois
$42,000 in support of an analysis of the decline in crime in Chicago over the past decade.

Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.
$150,000 to design an economic analysis and evaluation of Safer Return, a prisoner reentry demonstration in Chicago and Illinois communities.

Global Kids helps young people of diverse backgrounds develop the knowledge, skills, and experience they need to succeed in the workplace and to participate in the shaping of public policy. A new program engages more than 400 youngsters in online discussions and written essays about how they use digital media in their everyday lives.

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