| Recipient |
Discipline |
Initiative |
Amount |
Dated |
| Citadel Theatre Company |
Theater |
To refine its current strategic plan, focusing on buisness development and board member participation |
$10,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Young Chicago Authors |
Literature |
To improve evaluation methods and undertake a program evaluation: phase 1 of 3 |
$12,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| 3Arts, Inc. |
Visual arts |
To develop a marketing plan to strengthen organizational visibility |
$10,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Accessible Contemporary Music |
Music |
To evaluate and improve finanical management procedures |
$6,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Chicago Cultural Alliance |
Service |
To further develop its website to include a volunteer matching component |
$5,830 |
4/1/2010 |
| Chinese Fine Arts Society |
Multi-disciplinary |
To develop a strategic and business plan |
$6,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| DanceWorks Chicago Inc |
Dance |
To update its website to include statistical analysis and integration of social media |
$10,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Free Street Theater |
Theater |
To develop a strategic plan |
$15,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago |
Dance |
For leadership succession planning |
$7,500 |
4/1/2010 |
| Hinsdale Center for the Arts |
Multi-disciplinary |
For re-branding, specifically to develop a new name and a clearer market position |
$6,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Hyde Park Alliance for Arts & Culture |
Service |
To create a resource development plan |
$13,600 |
4/1/2010 |
| Jazz Institute of Chicago |
Music |
A new webiste that strengthens brand awareness and better integrates social networking activities |
$5,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Serendipity Theatre Collective |
Theater |
To re-design its website to reflect its new brand and strategic plan |
$12,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Chicago Jazz Philharmonic |
Music |
To develop media kits |
$10,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| League of Chicago Theatres Foundation |
Service |
For the League of Chicago Theatres, Arts Alliance Illinois, and Arts & Business Council of Chicago to explore ways in which their organizations might collaborate to better serve their constituents |
$15,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Theatre Building Chicago |
Theater |
To develop a transition strategy |
$10,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| The Actors Gymnasium |
Theater |
For board development |
$6,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Woodstock Motzart Festival |
Music |
To strenghten board leadership and buildingits fundraising capapcity |
$5,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Salt Creek Ballet |
Dance |
For board development and recruitment |
$7,400 |
4/1/2010 |
| Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral |
Music |
To assess the organization's current operating model and create a strategic plan to guide its future |
$15,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Porchlight Music Theatre of Chicago |
Theater |
To update marketing and fundraising technology |
$6,300 |
4/1/2010 |
| Open Studio Project |
Visual arts |
To expand partnerships |
$10,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Northshore Concert Band |
Music |
To analyze its audience data, conduct market research, and develop a marketing plan |
$10,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| Maywood Fine Arts Association |
Multi-disciplinary |
To evaluate its programs and develop ongoing aseessment tools |
$10,000 |
4/1/2010 |
| League of Chicago Theatres Foundation |
Service |
To create a community-wide theater patron database |
$10,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Beyondmedia Education |
Media |
For a program feasiblity assessment |
$9,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| eighth blackbird Performing Arts Association |
Music |
To develop a long range marketing plan |
$9,500 |
12/1/2009 |
| Chicago Public Art Group |
Visual arts |
To develop a strategic plan |
$10,750 |
12/1/2009 |
| Chicago Artists Coalition |
Service |
For an organizational assessment |
$9,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Jump Rhythm Jazz Project |
Dance |
For creation of a 20th anniversary work plan that increases its capacity in board development, fundraising and marketing |
$10,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Arts Alliance Illinois |
Service |
For the Illinois is My Muse campaign |
$9,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Arts & Business Council of Chicago |
Service |
To support Arts & Business Council Connect |
$5,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| American Theatre Company |
Theater |
To develop a social media marketing strategy |
$9,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Albany Park Theatre Project |
Theater |
To create a new board structure |
$13,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| 500 Clown |
Theater |
To redesign its website to support social media marketing |
$7,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Literature for All of Us |
Literature |
For market research and audience development activities designed to increase earned income |
$5,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Chicago a cappella |
Music |
To upgrade the organization's visual identity and ehance its online presence |
$12,500 |
12/1/2009 |
| A Red Orchid |
Theater |
To train and recruit the board of directors |
$5,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Still Point Theatre Collective |
Theatre |
To create a long0term strategy for cultivating indivdiual donors |
$5,900 |
12/1/2009 |
| Next Theatre Company |
Theater |
To develop a new brand identity and webiste to increase awareness of the theater |
$10,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Barrel of Monkeys Productions |
Theatre |
To implement a new brand identity and marketing effort |
$5,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| William Ferris Chorale |
Music |
To build its audience base and better marketing its next season |
$10,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Vivian G. Harsch Society |
Museum |
For an organizational assessment |
$6,500 |
12/1/2009 |
| The Dance COLEctive |
Dance |
To expand its board and improve governance practices |
$7,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Shanti Foundation for Peace |
Multi-disciplinary |
For a website |
$8,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Same Planet Different World Dance Theatre |
Dance |
For develop a stronger board of directors |
$10,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Youth Choral Theater of Chicago |
Music |
To develop singer recruitment videos |
$8,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Rock For Kids |
Music |
To develop a five year strategic plan |
$5,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Rivendell Theatre Ensemble |
Theater |
To develop a strategic marketing plan |
$7,500 |
12/1/2009 |
| Remy Bumppo Theatre Company |
Theater |
For analysis of its database to better focus its marketing efforts |
$10,000 |
12/1/2009 |
| Red Tape Theatre Company |
Theater |
To solidy its brand and reach a broader audience through a redesigned website |
$800 |
12/1/2009 |
| Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art |
Visual arts |
To increase board effectiveness |
$6,750 |
12/1/2009 |
| Village Players Theatre |
Theater |
For website upgrades |
$4,125 |
12/1/2009 |
| Audience Architects |
Service |
To implement an audience development campaign |
$15,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| Chicago Chorale |
Music |
For a strategic planning process that will lead to a sustainable work plan and governance model |
$10,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| Serendipity Theatre Collective |
Theater |
For Phase I of a re-branding and strategic planning effort |
$5,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| Arts & Business Council of Chicago |
Service |
To redesign its website |
$8,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| Archeworks |
Design / architecture |
To conduct an organizational assessment and develop a strategic plan |
$10,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| Ensemble Espanol Center for Spanish Dance & Music |
Dance |
To assess current board governance and to develop a plan to further strengthen the board of directors. |
$8,400 |
8/1/2009 |
| ClaySpace |
Visual arts |
To develop a strategic plan |
$9,500 |
8/1/2009 |
| Street-Level Youth Media |
Media |
To assist with new space development planning, following a fire at the organization’s site |
$10,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| Blair Thomas and Company |
Theater |
To assist three theater companies--Blair Thomas & Co, The Hypocrites and The House Theatre of Chicago--to plan for the hiring of a shared financial manager. |
$12,500 |
8/1/2009 |
| Classical Kids Music Education |
Media arts |
To lead board and staff through a first-time strategic planning process |
$15,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| PianoForte Foundation |
Music |
To create a marketing plan and train staff to implement it |
$10,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| Chicago Photography Center |
Visual arts |
To help the board transition from its hands-on role to one of policymaking and fundraising, and prepare the organization to successfully hire a new executive director. |
$10,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| Fulcrum Point New Music Project |
Music |
To redesign the website with updated features to enhance ongoing audience development strategies |
$10,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| Chicago Dramatists |
Theater |
To assess the strength of its earned income streams |
$10,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| The Seldoms |
Dance |
To revise its brand and deploy it in a marketing plan for tis FY10 season |
$9,000 |
8/1/2009 |
| Chicago Film Archives |
Media |
To create a three year technology plan |
$8,900 |
8/1/2009 |
| Open Eye Productions |
Theater |
For training in QuickBooks and other financial systems management |
$1,000 |
7/15/2009 |
| The Children's Museum of Oak Park (Wonder Works) |
Museum |
To develop fundraising capacity |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral |
Music |
To purchase a database system |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Maywood Fine Arts Association |
Multi-disciplinary |
To build an individual donor development program |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Inaside Chicago Dance |
Dance |
To develop a database program to better track its audience |
$3,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago |
Dance |
To develop and implement a staffing plan for its new facility |
$7,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| 3Arts, Inc. |
Visual arts |
To train the board in fundraising |
$5,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Silk Road Theatre Project |
Theatre |
For continued support of its audience engagement strategy. |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Puerto Rican Arts Alliance |
Multi-disciplinary |
Completion of its $2.5 million capital campaign |
$5,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Accessible Contemporary Music |
Music |
To redesign its visual identity, including its website |
$7,500 |
4/8/2009 |
| Center for Immigrant Resources and Community Arts |
Theater |
For the Theater Subscription Project |
$7,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Cerqua Rivera |
Theater |
To purchase and implement a new database system |
$6,240 |
4/8/2009 |
| International Contemporary Ensemble |
Music |
For an marketing, publicity and audience development initiative that incorporates new media |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art |
Visual arts |
To expand marketing, communications and branding activities in order to increase membership among younger, more diverse audiences |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Storycatchers Theatre |
Theatre |
To assist the organization with a name change that will accurately reflect its missions and programs. |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| TimeLine Theatre Company |
Theater |
To develop and implement strategies to increase single ticket buyers into long term multiple ticket buyers |
$9,250 |
4/8/2009 |
| Youth Choral Theater of Chicago |
Music |
To develop a marketing plan |
$8,500 |
4/8/2009 |
| ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation |
Visual arts |
To undertake a comprehensive examination of the organization in order to improve effectiveness and efficiency. |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Chicago Composers Forum |
Music |
To plan and facilitate a membership meeting to evaluate the organizations position in the new music community and determine future efforts. |
$1,200 |
4/8/2009 |
| Blair Thomas and Company |
Theater |
To develop a work plan for implementing a recently completed strategic plan |
$9,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Fund for Innovative TV |
Media arts |
To redesign its website |
$10,400 |
4/8/2009 |
| Hedwig Dances |
Dance |
To assess its market position and develop a marketing plan in conjunction with its 25th season |
$9,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Neighborhood Writing Alliance |
Literature |
For strategic planning |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Kalapriya |
Dance |
For strategic planning |
$5,500 |
4/8/2009 |
| Guild Complex |
|
To conduct an assessment of the organization that will result in goals and actions step for the next three years |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Congo Square Theater Company |
Theater |
To develop a strategic plan and establish a development office. |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Teatro Luna |
Theater |
To assess current strengths, aspirations, and areas for growth |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Changing Worlds |
Multi-disciplinary |
To develop a technology plan |
$10,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Woman Made Gallery |
Visual arts |
Creation of new operating systems, policies, and procedures |
$5,000 |
4/8/2009 |
| Arts Alliance Illinois |
Service |
To support a study of Chicago's arts service organizations. |
$15,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Independent Feature Project/Chicago |
Media |
For strategic planning |
$1,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Kindling Group, The |
Media arts |
To create a strategic plan. |
$6,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Theatre Building Chicago |
Theater |
To develop a strategic plan |
$5,500 |
12/9/2008 |
| Next Theatre Company |
Theater |
To develop a five year strategic plan. |
$9,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Swedish American Museum |
Museum |
To update its strategic plan |
$9,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Hyde Park School of Dance |
Dance |
To assess the organization's capacity to acquire and manage new space |
$5,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Chicago Public Art Group |
Visual arts |
To purchase a fundraising database. |
$7,800 |
12/9/2008 |
| City Lit Theater Company |
Theater |
To develop a strategic plan. |
$12,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Teatro Vista...Theater with a View |
Theater |
To enhance branding and develop a marketing plan |
$7,500 |
12/9/2008 |
| Lifeline Productions |
Theater |
To continue board development activities |
$10,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Chicago Gay Mens Chorus |
Music |
To increase its appeal among mainstream audiences and broaden and diversify its audience |
$10,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Pros Arts Studio |
Multi-disciplinary |
For organizational coaching during its leadership transition. |
$10,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Bohemian Theatre Ensemble |
Theater |
To develop a new database management system. |
$4,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Childrens Theatre of Elgin & Fox Valley |
Theater |
To upgrade its website. |
$10,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Chicago Cultural Alliance |
Service |
To assess its technology needs and build its technological capacity to best serve its members. |
$12,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Circle Theatre |
Theater |
To acquire database software. |
$7,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Orion Chamber Ensemble |
Music |
To redesign its website |
$9,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Open Studio Project |
Visual arts |
For marketing strategy development |
$10,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| Glessner House Museum |
Museum |
To work with board and staff to develop a new business model |
$10,000 |
12/9/2008 |
| CollaborAction Theatre Company |
Theater |
For board recruitment and diversification |
$6,700 |
12/9/2008 |
| Lira Ensemble |
Multi-disciplinary |
To bring its website up to date |
$9,500 |
12/9/2008 |
| International Music Foundation |
Music |
For Phase III of board development |
$3,500 |
12/9/2008 |
| Theater Oobleck |
Theater |
To build greater visibility and brand image |
$7,500 |
7/30/2008 |
| Lucky Plush Productions |
Dance |
To develop a marketing plan in conjunction with its 10th anniversary season |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| ANIMA - Young Singers of Greater Chicago |
Music |
To update the website to increase visibility, as part of a organizational name change |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Audience Architects |
Service |
To develop online class registration for TakeChicagoDance.com and to make enhancements to SeeChicagoDance.com |
$15,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Bella Voce |
Music |
To redesign website as part of reframing of marketing efforts |
$7,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Concert Dance |
Dance |
For re-branding and strategic communications |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Village Players Theatre |
Theater |
To develop a fundraising plan |
$9,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Arts Alliance Illinois |
Service |
For Phase II of a re-branding initiative |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| PianoForte Foundation |
Music |
To develop and implement a fundraising plan |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| MPAACT - Maat Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre |
Theater |
To redesign its website to better reflect its brand |
$9,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| The Utopian Theatre Ensemble |
Theater |
To raise awareness of its work through an updated website |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| ThreeWalls |
Visual arts |
To develop a marketing plan |
$4,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Snow City Arts |
Visual arts |
To develop a new strategic plan |
$5,500 |
7/15/2008 |
| Fulcrum Point New Music Project |
Music |
To develop and launch a new marketing / media relations plan focusing on audience development |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| The Dance COLEctive |
Dance |
To develop a marketing plan |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Porchlight Music Theatre of Chicago |
Theater |
To develop a major donation campaign and board solicitation skills development |
$5,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Beyondmedia Education |
Media |
To reconfigure its database system to improve reporting, financial management and to free up staff time |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago |
Dance |
To upgrade its data management system, as part of a larger audience development effort |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Congo Square Theater Company |
Theater |
To strengthen its financial management systems |
$7,600 |
7/15/2008 |
| About Face Theatre Company |
Theater |
To overhaul its website, related to audience outreach |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Chicago Human Rhythm Project |
Dance |
To expand its individual donor base and increase revenue from individual gifts. |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Unity Temple Restoration Foundation |
Design / architecture |
For executive coaching and financial and database review |
$4,500 |
7/15/2008 |
| Peoples Music School |
Music |
For board development |
$6,800 |
7/15/2008 |
| Chicago Dramatists |
Theater |
To strengthen board fundraising and for board expansion |
$8,500 |
7/15/2008 |
| Silk Road Theatre Project |
Theatre |
To further upgrade individual giving appeals |
$10,000 |
7/15/2008 |
| Ballet Chicago |
Dance |
To develop a marketing plan designed to increase audience attendance at student performances |
$6,250 |
4/8/2008 |
| Ensemble Espanol Center for Spanish Dance & Music |
Dance |
To develop individual and corporate fundraising strategies |
$10,000 |
4/8/2008 |
| The Neo-Futurists |
Theater |
For organizational coaching and organizational planning |
$10,000 |
4/8/2008 |
| Woman Made Gallery |
Visual arts |
To document the organization’s internal operations |
$10,000 |
4/8/2008 |
| The Seldoms |
Dance |
For a media and marketing campaign |
$7,000 |
4/8/2008 |
| The Hypocrites |
Theatre |
For a branding initiative |
$6,500 |
4/8/2008 |
| Same Planet Different World Dance Theatre |
Dance |
To develop a strategic plan with its newly formed board of directors |
$10,000 |
4/8/2008 |
| Chicago Chamber Musicians |
Music |
To increase audience development through enhanced online capabilities providing access to all of CCM's recorded programs and program notes. |
$10,000 |
4/8/2008 |
| Pros Arts Studio |
Multi-disciplinary |
To develop a leadership succession plan |
$2,500 |
4/8/2008 |
| Archi-Treasures Association |
visual arts |
For board training, executive coaching, and creation of a resource development plan |
$9,700 |
4/8/2008 |
| Storycatchers Theatre |
Theatre |
For staff development and succession planning |
$10,000 |
4/8/2008 |
| Links Hall |
Multidiscipline |
To develop and implement a new fundraising plan and redesign its website |
$10,000 |
4/8/2008 |
| Elgin Childrens Chorus |
Music |
For a website redesign to improve communications with parents, local teachers, our alumni, and board |
$10,000 |
4/8/2008 |
| International Music Foundation |
Music |
To undertake the second phase of a board development project |
$6,900 |
4/8/2008 |
| Chicago Composers Forum |
Music |
To create an integrated marketing and development plan |
$10,000 |
4/8/2008 |
| Puerto Rican Arts Alliance |
Multi-disciplinary |
For continued support of capital campaign strategy development, ongoing campaign planning, related board training and prospect research |
$10,000 |
4/8/2008 |
| Chicago Dancemakers Forum |
Service |
For an organizational planning process, resulting in a new business plan. |
$10,000 |
12/15/2007 |
| McCord Gallery & Cultural Center |
Multi-disciplinary |
To develop and expand the board of directors |
$10,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| Accessible Contemporary Music |
Music |
To create a board development plan |
$2,500 |
12/10/2007 |
| Luna Negra Dance Theater |
Dance |
To develop a three year strategic plan |
$10,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| The Actors Gymnasium |
Theater |
To develop a marketing plan |
$9,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| Arts & Business Council of Chicago |
Service |
For a website re-development project to meet the objectives of a newly developed marketing plan |
$10,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| Changing Worlds |
Multi-disciplinary |
To create an individual giving plan |
$10,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| Chicago Jazz Philharmonic |
Music |
To develop an organizational strategic plan |
$6,200 |
12/10/2007 |
| Chicago Tap Theatre |
Dance |
To identify, recruit and train new board members |
$6,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| Independent Feature Project/Chicago |
Media |
To re-design its website to better serve its constituency in a way that streamlines and minimizes administrative maintenance |
$10,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| International Contemporary Ensemble |
Music |
To develop an individual giving plan |
$7,500 |
12/10/2007 |
| Lifeline Productions |
Theater |
To implement the second phase of its board development / fundraising consultancy |
$10,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| Literature for All of Us |
Literature |
To develop an on-line fund development plan |
$5,400 |
12/10/2007 |
| Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak |
Dance |
For leadership development through one-on-one coaching |
$3,500 |
12/10/2007 |
| Natya Dance Theatre |
Dance |
To redesign the website |
$10,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| Poetry Center of Chicago |
Literature |
To conduct an organizational assessment |
$8,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| Pros Arts Studio |
Multi-disciplinary |
For fundraising training and to develop program evaluation protocols |
$10,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| Silk Road Theatre Project |
Theatre |
To support development of materials for a co-marketing initiative with Next Theatre Co. |
$5,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art |
Visual arts |
To develop an annual giving plan |
$10,000 |
12/10/2007 |
| Hedwig Dances |
Dance |
To develop and implement a plan to grow its Board |
$4,500 |
12/8/2007 |
| Mordine Dance Theatre Company |
Dance |
For the development of a marketing initiative in conjunction with its 40th anniversary season |
$7,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| Music Arts School |
Music |
To develop a marketing and public relations plan |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| Northshore Concert Band |
Music |
To design a major gift and annual fund campaign |
$2,500 |
8/20/2007 |
| Pegasus Players |
Theater |
For a demographic study of potential audiences and to develop a marketing plan driven by this study |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| South Chicago Art Center |
Multi-disciplinary |
For a fund development plan |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| Maywood Fine Arts Association |
Multi-disciplinary |
For marketing and brand identity development |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| Guild Complex |
Literature |
For board development and recruitment |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| Chicago Photography Center |
Visual arts |
To assess challenges and opportunities facing the organization and develop a plan for addressing them |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| The Dance COLEctive |
Dance |
For development of a strategic business plan |
$6,800 |
8/20/2007 |
| Lucky Plush Productions |
Dance |
For development of a flip-book marketing campaign |
$9,500 |
8/20/2007 |
| Lawyers for the Creative Arts |
Service |
To design a major gift and annual fund campaign, which includes development of a new website |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| International Music Foundation |
Music |
To build an expanded and more strategically involved board of directors |
$5,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| A Red Orchid |
Theater |
To acquire software and training to facilitate the company's tracking of patrons and donors |
$4,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| CircEsteem |
Other |
To conduct a fundraising audit and develop a five-year fundraising plan |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| Chicago Composers Forum |
Music |
For an organizational assessment |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| The House Theatre of Chicago |
Theater |
For financial practices consulting |
$2,500 |
8/20/2007 |
| Chicago Human Rhythm Project |
Dance |
To upgrade its website to support growth initiatives |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| Silk Road Theatre Project |
Theatre |
To develop and implement an individual giving program |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| Beyondmedia Education |
Media |
To develop a video sales strategy |
$10,000 |
8/20/2007 |
| Zephyr Dance Ensemble |
Dance |
To develop a marketing plan |
$6,500 |
4/15/2007 |
| American Theatre Company |
Theater |
To develop and implement an annual fund campaign |
$6,700 |
4/15/2007 |
| African American Arts Alliance |
Service |
To conduct research on audience needs and interests |
$5,600 |
4/15/2007 |
| Rivendell Theatre Ensemble |
Theater |
To strengthen board governance and fundraising capacity |
$4,200 |
4/15/2007 |
| Steckman Studio of Music |
Music |
To recruit and train board members |
$3,900 |
4/15/2007 |
| Straw Dog Theatre Company |
Theater |
For the purchase of and training in new database software |
$2,500 |
4/15/2007 |
| Street-Level Youth Media |
Media |
For board development |
$4,200 |
4/15/2007 |
| Teatro Vista...Theater with a View |
Theater |
To strengthen board governance and fundraising capacity |
$5,500 |
4/15/2007 |
| ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation |
Visual arts |
To upgrade its website as part of an expanded public relations effort |
$10,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| TimeLine Theatre Company |
Theater |
To conduct audience research |
$10,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Walkabout Theater Company |
Theater |
To enlarge, energize and focus board efforts |
$5,400 |
4/15/2007 |
| Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago |
Dance |
To develop a transition plan to guide the organization through two physical moves |
$9,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago |
Dance |
For audience development research |
$8,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Neighborhood Writing Alliance |
Literature |
To conduct a Journal of Ordinary Thought reader survey |
$10,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| The Neo-Futurists |
Theater |
For strategic planning |
$7,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Next Theatre Company |
Theater |
To purchase, install and train staff on new integrated marketing, fundraising and box office software |
$6,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Adventure Stage Chicago |
Theater |
A one-time grant to develop a corporate sponsorship program |
$7,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Porchlight Music Theatre of Chicago |
Theater |
To train current board of directors and develop board expansion strategy |
$4,800 |
4/15/2007 |
| Theatre Building Chicago |
Theater |
To strengthen board governance, and board expansion |
$6,400 |
4/15/2007 |
| Chicago Public Art Group |
Visual arts |
For website re-design and development of an on-line public art resource center |
$9,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Chicago Chamber Musicians |
Music |
For website upgrades necessary to support an audience development effort |
$10,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Chicago Dramatists |
Theater |
To conduct audience demographic research |
$8,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Chicago Film Archives |
Media |
To develop a five-year business plan |
$5,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| GayCo Productions |
Theater |
To develop a three-year business plan |
$4,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Chicago Moving Company |
Dance |
To upgrade its website in support of organizational growth |
$5,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Deeply Rooted Productions |
Dance |
To train and expand the current board of directors |
$5,400 |
4/15/2007 |
| Blair Thomas and Company |
Theater |
To upgrade its website to compliment a new marketing effort |
$6,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Free Street Theater |
Theater |
To improve financial management practices |
$6,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Fulcrum Point New Music Project |
Music |
For Board development, planning and executive transition |
$10,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Chicago Artists Coalition |
Service |
To create an audience development and marketing plan |
$10,000 |
4/15/2007 |
| Evanston Symphony Orchestra |
Music |
To implement an electronic marketing initiative |
$5,500 |
4/15/2007 |
| Jazz Institute of Chicago |
Music |
To upgrade its website |
$8,500 |
12/15/2006 |
| Woman Made Gallery |
Visual arts |
Website upgrade to automate process for artist submissions, juror review and on-line exhibits |
$4,050 |
12/15/2006 |
| Kartemquin Educational Films |
Media arts |
For board development and expansion as part of a larger leadership succession plan |
$8,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak |
Dance |
Implementation of marketing and fundraising plans |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Pros Arts Studio |
Multi-disciplinary |
For strategic planning and staff training in fundraising |
$7,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Ragdale Foundation |
Multi-disciplinary |
To conduct executive director and board succession planning and develop a staff and board leadership development/retention plan |
$6,724 |
12/15/2006 |
| Arts & Business Council of Chicago |
Service |
To enhance its data management system |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Open Studio Project |
Visual arts |
For a re-braiding and website development project |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art |
Visual arts |
To redesign its membership marketing program and to promote Intuit to new audiences |
$9,500 |
12/15/2006 |
| Changing Worlds |
Multi-disciplinary |
To develop a five-year strategic plan |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Voice of the City |
Multi-disciplinary |
Marketing, branding and website redevelopment |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Storycatchers Theatre |
Theatre |
For a website redesign |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Same Planet Different World Dance Theatre |
Dance |
To develop an Integrated fundraising and marketing plan for its 10th anniversary season |
$6,724 |
12/15/2006 |
| Jazz Institute of Chicago |
Music |
To upgrade its website |
$8,500 |
12/15/2006 |
| Puerto Rican Arts Alliance |
Multi-disciplinary |
For capital campaign strategy development, ongoing campaign planning, related board training and prospect research |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Arts Alliance Illinois |
Service |
For a re-branding initiative |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Shanti Foundation for Peace |
Multi-disciplinary |
To develop a fundraising plan and conduct board development training |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Emerald City Theatre Company |
Theater |
To develop an individual donor and foundation fundraising plan and to train board in fundraising |
$8,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| CollaborAction Theatre Company |
Theater |
Strategic planning, revenue development and audience development |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Archi-Treasures Association |
visual arts |
To develop a five-year strategic plan |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Chicago City Theatre Company/ Joel Hall Dance Center |
Dance |
To develop improved financial management systems and procedures |
$2,800 |
12/15/2006 |
| Glessner House Museum |
Museum |
Board training and development |
$7,500 |
12/15/2006 |
| Hedwig Dances |
Dance |
For an e-commerce consultancy to build the company's ability to better target marketing efforts |
$7,500 |
12/15/2006 |
| UMA Productions |
Theater |
For the second phase of website enhancement and expansion of e-mail communications program |
$4,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Remy Bumppo Theatre Company |
Theater |
For strategic planning |
$10,000 |
12/15/2006 |
| Lucky Plush Productions |
Dance |
To hire an organization coach to assist with board develoment, budget planning and development planning |
$9,900 |
8:01:09 AM |
| International Music Foundation |
Music |
To redesign the website in oder to provide a more comprehensive presentation of the organization's brand. |
$5,000 |
8:01:09 AM |
| Union Street Gallery |
Visual arts |
To update is website to accommodate an online artists submission and jury process |
$10,000 |
8:01:09 AM |
| ThreeWalls |
Visual arts |
To refine financial management systems |
$6,700 |
8:01:09 AM |
| The Utopian Theatre Ensemble |
Theater |
To create a social networking fundraising and audience development strategy |
$9,500 |
8:01:09 AM |
| Raven Theatre Company |
Theater |
To assess the effectiveness of its current marketing efforts |
$3,000 |
8:01:09 AM |
| Oak Park River Forest Childrens Chorus |
Music |
To rename and rebrand the Chorus to better reflect the geographic areas it serves |
$6,750 |
8:01:09 AM |
| MPAACT - Maat Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre |
Theater |
To create a model season marketing program |
$12,000 |
8:01:09 AM |
| Kuumba Lynx |
Multi-disciplinary |
To evaluate its programs |
$11,000 |
8:01:09 AM |
| Mordine Dance Theatre Company |
Dance |
To assess and prepare a strategic approach to building earned revenue |
$10,000 |
8:01:09 AM |
| Links Hall |
Multidiscipline |
For a feasibility study related to a potential relocation |
$5,500 |
4:08:09 AM |
| FIFTH HOUSE ENSEMBLE |
Music |
For a fundraising / development effort |
$6,645 |
4:08:09 AM |
| ShawChicago Theater Company |
Theater |
To expand its audience development strategies. |
$7,000 |
5/9/908 |
| William Ferris Chorale |
Music |
To enhance its website |
$8,100 |
7/2/128 |
