• $400,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 2 years)

  Community & Economic Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Woodstock Institute, a Chicago-based research and advocacy organization, is a national expert on issues of fair lending and financial system reform. This grant funds research on issues of ongoing concern to the community development field--post-recession lending and foreclosure practices, access to financial services, and retirement savings and asset building--and the development of a web-based data platform that will simplify the sharing of its database and research, and increase public access to its data. Woodstock also will produce a series of briefs and briefings to present its research to a broad audience of policymakers, practitioners, and researchers.

• $85,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Inactive Grant)

  Community & Economic Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Woodstock Institute is a Chicago-based nonprofit that uses applied research, policy analysis, technical assistance and public education to promote fair lending practices and financial system reform on behalf of low-income people and communities. This grant will enable Woodstock to acquire and preserve a large catalog of historical data about Chicago and its neighborhoods and to maintain it for public access. Securing and maintaining access to this database is essential to serving the ongoing data needs of Foundation grantees and other foundations and organizations working in or concerned about Chicago neighborhoods.

• $275,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Policy Research

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of general operations (over two years).

• $250,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Community & Economic Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To collect and analyze data and to provide technical assistance as part of the Foreclosure Prevention and Mitigation Project (over two years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Woodstock Institute $1,010,000 between 2010 and 2013.