Elspeth A. Revere
Vice President, General Program

Email: erevere at macfound dot org

Elspeth Revere is Vice President of the General Program, which awards about $50 million in grants each year for a variety of purposes. Her responsibilities include support for media in a technologically changing environment; a changing set of special initiatives – most recently an initiative on intellectual property and the public domain; arts and culture in Chicago; grants in response to special opportunities, and the Foundation's program of institutional grants.

Revere joined the Foundation as a program officer in 1991. She was promoted to Associate Director of the program in 1992, to Director in 1998 and to Vice President in 2006. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was President of the Woodstock Institute, a nonprofit policy research organization working to increase private sector investment in low-income neighborhoods, Director of Program Development for the city of Chicago's Department of Housing, and a Senior Planner in the Department of Development and Planning. She has also worked on community development projects in Guatemala.

Revere holds a master's degree in urban policy and planning from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.