• $400,000Active Strategy

  2013 (Duration 7 months)

  Digital Media & Learning

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Chicago Public Library's main library is the home of YOUmedia, an innovative space where teens access library resources, technology, and in-person and online mentors. Created in 2009 with Foundation resources based on findings from Foundation-funded ethnographic research, YOUmedia has attracted widespread attention from libraries, museums, and out-of-school providers around the country and abroad, many of whom are eager to replicate the space and its programs. This grant provides continuing support for existing YOUmedia services at the main branch and three branch libraries in Chicago as they plan for long-term sustainability.

• $450,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Inactive Grant)

  Digital Media & Learning

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of the national replication of YouMedia and application of the design principles to institutional change in the Chicago Public Library.

• $500,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Digital Media & Learning

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To expand the YOUmedia program to three Chicago Public Library branch locations.

• $1,050,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Digital Media & Learning

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of YouMedia@CPL (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Chicago Public Library Foundation $2,400,000 between 2010 and 2013.