• $150,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  Media

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Chicago Community Trust is the Chicago region's community foundation. It supports efforts that improve the quality of life and the prosperity of the people of the Chicago region. This grant will support the Community News Matters initiative, a grantmaking program to expand the gathering and dissemination of local news and community information in the Chicago by identifying and supporting the best entrepreneurial, community-oriented, online, niche news and information projects. In addition, the grant will help support work to develop new ways to distribute and advertise this reporting and to help these innovative local news projects achieve self-sustainability.

• $100,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Media

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To support the Community News Matters initiative, a grantmaking program to expand the gathering and dissemination of local news and community information in the Chicago region.

• $500,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Community & Economic Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of the Unity Challenge 2010.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Chicago Community Trust $750,000 between 2010 and 2013.