Grantees

Join us in welcoming our new grantees. Field Foundation Board Members and Life Directors met on September 21st and approved our latest round of grantees. These organizations represent our grantmaking model of Community Empowerment through Justice, Art, and Leadership Investment and align with our priorities of funding organizations that are working on root causes of issues, exploring creative enterprise, redefining narrative and storytelling and leading Chicago to new places. We are so honored and proud to support this group of organizations!

Advancing Leadership

Alliance of the Southeast

American Indian Center of Chicago

Arab American Action Network

Cabrini Green Legal Aid

Chicago Latino Theater Alliance

Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives

Chicago United for Equity

Circles & Ciphers

Enrich Chicago

HANA Center

Inner-City Muslim Action Network

Latino Policy Forum

Latinos Progresando

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

The Simple Good

Sister Survivor Network

Soutside Together Organizing for Power

Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation

United Congress of Community

Workers Center for Racial Justice

Join us in celebrating our new grantees. On May 16th, the board members and life directors of the Field Foundation met and approved our latest round of grantees in our new grantmaking model Community Empowerment through Justice, Art, and Leadership Investment. This portfolio demonstrates organizations that are lifting new voices, developing community agency, and exploring creative enterprise. We are extremely honored to support this tremendous group of organizations!

3Arts, Inc

Centro Trabajandores Unidos: Immigrant Workers’ Project

Chicago Art Department

Free Write Arts & Literacy NFP

Chicago Torture Justice Center

Collaboraction Theatre Company

Free Lunch Academy

Free Street Theater

Asian American Advancing Justice-Chicago

Latin United Community Housing Association

Arts Alliance Illinois

Latino Union of Chicago

Silk Road Rising

Sisters in Cinema

True Star Foundation

Forefront

TAG Foundations, Inc.

Chicago Park District

Chicago Housing Initiative

Navy Pier

ProPublica

Mandala South Asian Performing Arts

Chicago Urban League

Open the Circle

First Defense Legal Aid

Leadership Greater Chicago

Role Model Movement Inc, NFP

Faith in Place

Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality: ONE Northside

Northwest Side Housing Center

Join us in celebrating all our newest grantees featured below! In this grant cycle, we officially implemented our new guidelines in Justice, Art and Leadership Investment programs that support our mission of community empowerment. This portfolio demonstrates organizations working on policy and advocacy, building non-traditional art spaces and partnerships, and revealing hidden inequities and talents by amplifying community voices. We’re proud to support this tremendous group!

Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP)

United Congress of Community & Religious Organizations

Chicago Workers’ Collaborative

Urban Juncture

Forward Momentum Chicago

Affinity Chicago

Kuumba Lynx

Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance

Albany Park Theater Project

Chicago Community Bond Fund

Chicago Food Policy Action Council

Chicago Public Media

City Bureau

Urban Gateways

Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Deeply Rooted Dance Theater

DuSable Museum of African American History

eta Creative Arts Foundation

Free Spirit Media

Garfield Park Community Council

Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights 

Warehouse Workers for Justice

Kartempquin Films

Invisible Institute

Mujeres Latinas En Accion

OPEN Center for the Arts

Red Clay Dance Company, Inc.

Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU of Illinois

Restoring the Path

Surge Institute

The University of Chicago Office of Civic Engagement & Civic Leadership Academy