Manufacturing Renaissance
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Grants
14
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Total Awarded
$1,797,500
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Years
1990 - 2022
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Categories
Grants
2022 (1 year)
$50,000
Founded in 1982, Manufacturing Renaissance promotes the revival of manufacturing in Chicago as a means to build thriving and inclusive communities. With this award, Manufacturing Renaissance develops educational materials and holds a series of briefings in the Chicago metropolitan area for entities seeking opportunities to implement the 2021 federal infrastructure law. These include labor unions, manufacturers’ and contractors’ organizations, as well as entities that can help promote the new opportunities, such as community-based organizations and houses of faith. Manufacturing Renaissance’s goal is to ensure that the contracts and jobs generated through the implementation of the law are available to all interested parties.
2018 (2 years)
$400,000
Founded in 1982, Manufacturing Renaissance (MR) promotes the revival of manufacturing in Chicago as a means to build thriving and inclusive communities. The organization currently operates three programs: the Chicagoland Manufacturing Renaissance Council, a partnership that seeks a manufacturing revival in Chicago; Manufacturing Connect, a career pathways program for in- and out-of-school youths; and the Ownership Conversion Project that seeks to retain manufacturing companies at risk of closure. Support for the organization underwrites efforts to strengthen program performance, revenue generation and staff capacity. First, MR is updating its operation processes and data management to build performance management systems for its education and training programs. Second, the organization is developing a business plan to expand Manufacturing Connect as a fee-for-service vehicle to promote the MR model in other locations while generating revenue for the organization. A third component funds professional development for staff as the organization plans for a leadership transition.
2002 ( 11 months)
$50,000
To foster economic growth and workforce development among Chicago-area manufacturing businesses.
1999 (1 year)
$150,000
To support the Candy Institute.
1999 ( 6 months)
$75,000
To create jobs in low-income communities and an early-warning system to avert business closings.
1995 (3 years)
$450,000
To support the New Chicago Campaign and to assist in institutional capacity building (over three years).
1995 (1 year)
$125,000
To develop a school-to-work program for the Candy Institute.
1995 ( 7 months)
$40,000
To support a feasibility assessment and preliminary planning process for a proposed confectionery industry training institute.
1994 (1 year)
$187,500
To support the development and initial implementation of the New Chicago Project.
1992 (1 year)
$50,000
To support the national program of technical assistance and policy research regarding industrial retention and its role in local economic development.
1991 (1 year)
$12,000
To develop a national healthcare policy proposal that brings the local economic development perspective to the national discussion on healthcare alternatives.
1991 (1 year)
$150,000
To support the Chicago Industrial Retention and Development Project (over three years).
1991 (1 year)
$8,000
To support the conference "New Visions of Community Economic Development."
1990 (1 year)
$50,000
To support the Chicago Industrial Retention and Acquisition Project.
