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Summer 2020 Newsletter

Dear partners and friends,

Our world is in a period of social, emotional and political upheaval. From the COVID-19 pandemic, to the global economic slowdown, to our nation's reckoning on race, this year has been extremely challenging to us all.

Our focus at the Joyce Foundation has been to support our grantees and our communities, to take care of our employees, and to find ways in which we can do more to help eliminate the structural racial inequities brought to the fore by this moment.

Racial equity long has been at the core of our work. For decades, we have pushed for better educational outcomes, safer streets and neighborhoods, clean and affordable drinking water and access to the vote, for Black and brown communities. We have supported artists of color and arts organizations led by people of color in recognition of the vital role they play in leading their communities toward progress.

But we know we must do more.

As you know, several Chicago neighborhoods were left with significant damage after the recent protests over the murder of George Floyd. These are communities of color that were already reeling from the COVID-19 crisis. We knew we needed to step up in a new way to help our neighbors. So in addition to contributing to city and state COVID-19 funds, we created a $1 million special fund to assist with recovery efforts. We also created a foundation-wide task force, bringing together our program and administrative staffs to help direct how best to distribute those funds. In a moment in which the call for equity has never been louder, it was important that everyone at Joyce have a voice in our response.

The task force recently completed its first round of grants to nine groups that are providing vital support to Chicago communities. In this message, you can learn more about them and several other initiatives we have undertaken to help address the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color.

We will continue to listen, learn and lean into this moment, as we work to respond to the challenges we face today while looking ahead to what we must do together to help create a future that is equitable and just for all.

Thank you for your partnership in this work.

Ellen Alberding
President
The Joyce Foundation

OUR RESPONSE

Since March, Joyce has taken the following steps to respond to the COVID-19 crisis:

1. Community Recovery

We established a special fund, led by Managing Director of Communications Kayce Ataiyero, to direct $1 million to Chicago communities most affected by COVID-19 and the impact of racial unrest.

The first round of grants, totaling $225,000, went to nine groups (some pictured above) led by people of color that are working to provide direct relief to the community, including food assistance, PPE, rent relief and small business recovery assistance:

Bright Star Community Outreach
Casa Central
I Grow Chicago
My Block, My Hood, My City
Grow Greater Englewood
Bickerdike Community Redevelopment
Teamwork Englewood
Roseland Christian Ministries
South Shore Works

2. Education Equity:

We contributed $250,000 to the Chicago Education Equity COVID-19 Response Fund, to address the medium and long-term COVID-19 challenges for Chicago schools, especially Black and Latinx students. Stephanie Banchero, director of Joyce's education and economic mobility program, was instrumental in organizing the fund.

3. Broadband Access:

We contributed $250,000 to "Chicago Connected," a plan to provide free high-speed internet to an estimated 100,000 children in low-income households across the city.

4. City/State Rapid Response:

We contributed $250,000 each to the Illinois COVID-19 Response Fund and the Chicago Community COVID-19 Response Fund. President Ellen Alberding is serving on the steering committee of both the city and state COVID relief funds, and Vice President of Programs and Strategy Darren Reisberg is serving on the state fund's Grantmaking Working Group.

5. Support for the Arts:

We contributed $125,000 to the Arts of Illinois Relief Fund, managed and administered by Joyce grantees Arts Alliance Illinois, 3Arts, and Arts Work Fund. Joyce grantees received $348,000 in AIRF relief funds with subsequent rounds of funding still to come.

6. Grantee stories:

We produced a storytelling project to highlight how grantees are stepping up, persevering and creating new paths forward through the crisis.

SUPPORTING ARTISTS

The Foundation this year increased its signature annual arts prize to $75,000, up from $50,000, including at least $25,000 for the artist(s). The boost was in recognition of the devastating impact COVID-19 has had on the arts sector, and the importance of supporting the critical work of artists of color, especially during this pivotal moment for our country.

Since 2003, The Foundation has awarded $3.7 million in grants to commission 69 new works.

The deadline for this year's Joyce Awards applications is September 14. A recording of our recent webinar featuring past Joyce Awardees and detailing the application process can be viewed here.

WE ARE HIRING

We are seeking applications for 3 job openings at the Foundation: Education & Economic Mobility Program Officer, Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform Program Officer, and Culture Program Director.

The list of the job openings can be found on our website's Careers page. We would love your help spreading the word!

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The Joyce Foundation is thrilled to announce the hiring of three new program officers -- Quintin Williams, who will oversee our justice reform portfolio; Mia Khimm, who will lead our culture program, and Chibuzo Ezeigbo, who will oversee our college- and career-readiness portfolio.

The new program officers join the Foundation at a critical time for the work in their respective fields, made all the more urgent by the inequitable impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial reckoning in our nation. They will work with the program team to guide the Foundation's grantmaking in response to the immediate challenges of the moment, while helping chart a long-term course for equitable opportunity for our region.

"Quintin, Mia and Chibuzo bring a wealth of experience and perspective and a deep commitment to equity. They are great additions to the team and we are looking forward to having them bring their considerable attributes to bear on the work," said Joyce Foundation President Ellen Alberding.

Quintin Williams

Williams comes to Joyce from the Heartland Alliance, where he led its campaign for criminal justice reform in Illinois as a policy advocate, researcher, coalition builder and community organizer. His work included testifying before lawmakers in Springfield and mediating between business and community leaders after the recent racial unrest in downtown Chicago.

He is currently completing his doctoral thesis in sociology at Loyola University, examining how housing insecurity affects formerly incarcerated people as they re-enter society. He holds a master's degree in sociology from Loyola and a bachelor's degree from Concordia University. He also has campaigned for ending "permanent punishments" and restoring rights to people with criminal records.

Williams will join Joyce's Gun Violence Prevention and Justice Reform team, tasked with refining its reform initiatives to address the issues and ideas that have surfaced in the current reckoning over racial disparities and police reforms. His first day will be Nov. 2.

"I like to approach the world and my work from the perspective of possibility," Williams said. "I consider myself fortunate to be working alongside colleagues at The Foundation as we lean into this moment thoughtfully, passionately, and creatively."

Mia Khimm

Khimm has worked for 13 years across the nonprofit, philanthropic, academic, and commercial arts sectors in Chicago, developing collaborative cultural programs and partnerships. She currently is managing director at EXPO CHICAGO, where she provides strategic direction and operational oversight for the annual international exposition for contemporary & modern art at Navy Pier.

She was previously manager of strategic communications at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, worked at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and was a Rhodes Curatorial Fellow at the Art Institute of Chicago. Khimm has a master's degree in Art History from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

As Joyce's Culture Program director, effective Nov. 30, Khimm will collaborate with community leaders and other partners throughout Chicago and the Great Lakes region to advance The Foundation's culture grantmaking strategy, anchored in support of BIPOC-led organizations and artists. She also will oversee the Foundation's signature Joyce Awards.

"I am truly honored to join The Joyce Foundation," Khimm said. "I look forward to working with community partners on local recovery efforts with the goal of creating a more just and sustainable future for arts and cultural organizations, artists and local communities."

Chibuzo Ezeigbo

Ezeigbo is a data and research strategist with ample experience in K-12 education. She comes to Joyce from a fellowship with Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research and the Academy for Urban School Leadership, where she worked with Chicago principals and teachers to analyze data and develop strategies to help students succeed.

Prior to that, she served as the senior research manager at the University of Chicago Poverty Lab, overseeing the postsecondary education portfolio. She also worked in the Office of the Chicago Board of Education and at Chicago Public Schools. Ezeigbo holds a master's degree in education policy and management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a bachelor's degree in public policy studies from the University of Chicago.
This month, Ezeigbo joined Joyce's Education & Economic Mobility team, which supports policies aimed at increasing economic opportunities for low-income young people and young people of color through equitable access to schools and jobs. Her portfolio seeks to align K-12, higher education, and workforce systems and to expand dual credit and work-based learning opportunities.
"It's been a very rewarding first few weeks at Joyce," Ezeigbo said. "I'm honored to work with grantees and other partners to advance policies that help students of color and students from marginalized communities prepare for post-secondary success."

About the Joyce Foundation

The Joyce Foundation is a private, nonpartisan philanthropy that invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region. It supports policy research, development, and advocacy in Culture, Democracy, Education & Economic Mobility, Environment, and Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform, and focuses its grant making primarily in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. In 2020, it budgeted charitable distributions of $52 million on endowment assets of $1.1 billion.

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WINTER 2020 NEWSLETTER

Dear Partners,

The Joyce Foundation is pleased to announce the last round of grants for 2020: In December, we have awarded 110 new grants totaling nearly $15 million to nonprofits and other organizations. These grants recognize the innovative ideas and hard work of these organizations in addressing the unique challenges our communities face at a difficult time.

Below are a few grant recipients in each of Joyce's programs, highlighting some of the key issues we are prioritizing in 2021. Please click on the links below to learn more about their work.

Also in this newsletter: An update on our equity investment program and on our fund to help Chicago neighborhoods recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

We thank all of our grantees for your efforts and partnership this year, and wish you the very best in the year to come.

The Joyce Foundation

NEWLY APPROVED GRANTS

Culture
Asian Improv aRts Midwest, Black Ensemble Theater, Chicago Sinfonietta, Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, and South Side Community Arts Center, $30,000 each for one year in general operating funds, to support BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving arts organizations through the COVID-19 economic downturn. In 2020, the Foundation awarded a total of $2 million to support BIPOC artists and art organizations.

Democracy
Michigan Nonprofit Association, $250,000 for one year, to promote community engagement in Michigan's first-ever independent political redistricting process in 2021, built on the state's 2019-2020 census engagement, and Voices for Racial Justice, $120,000 for one year, to focus on civic engagement in redistricting and other issues among people of color in Minnesota.

Education & Economic Mobility
Council of Chief State School Officers, $500,000 for one year, to work with nonprofits to provide technical assistance to school districts and schools in Illinois and Minnesota to help with re-opening and learning loss post COVID-19 pandemic.

Education Counsel, LLC, $156,000 for four months, to investigate how Congress could use its authority to more fully remedy racial inequality in higher education, and the Resources Legacy Fund, $100,000 for one year, to support the Student Borrower Protection Center's efforts to reduce racial disparities in student loan repayment.

University of Utah's Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, $99,000 for 15 months, to convene researchers and develop a research agenda on how dual credit/dual enrollment programs can improve college access and completion for students of color and students who face structural barriers to social and economic progress.

Environment: Climate Solutions and Great Lakes Water Quality
Environmental Health Watch, $120,000 for two years, for capacity building and community driven advocacy on local and state lead and water policy in Ohio, and to defend existing investments from expected budget cuts due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund, $300,000 for two years, for a statewide education and outreach campaign to support strong, equitable clean energy policies and reduce global-warming and carbon pollution in collaboration with communities and other groups across Illinois.

Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform
Columbia (University) Justice Lab, $216,905 for 18 months, for a national research project on youthful offender laws in order to inform systemic emerging-adult justice reforms, with the aim of reducing harmful impacts and racial disparities resulting from involvement in the adult justice system.

The Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence, $50,000 for one year, to implement a plan to reduce domestic violence homicide in Cook County by dispossessing firearms from domestic abusers, and the Institute for Women's Policy Research, $50,000 for three months, to plan a new project to provide mentorship and technical assistance for public officials tasked with dispossessing domestic abusers of firearms in the Great Lakes region.

Special Opportunities
Vera Institute of Justice, $300,000 for two years, to support and expand the Safety & Fairness for Everyone (SAFE) Initiative, which provides legal services to immigrants facing the devastating consequences of detention and deportation.

EQUITY INVESTING

The Foundation has launched an initiative to advance racial equity in our investment program with a $100 million commitment to seed the next generation of diverse investment managers. With this commitment, we seek to address the capital gap experienced by this segment of emerging firms to catalyze growth and create scalable investment management platforms. The new initiative, a multi-year effort, will add another dimension to the Foundation's inclusive investing approach, complementing the Foundation's current roster of diverse managers.

Read more here.

COMMUNITY RECOVERY

An all-staff Foundation task force is distributing $1 million in relief funding to support BIPOC-serving community organizations on Chicago's South and West Sides. The fund is aimed at helping to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which exacerbated underlying issues of systemic racism and inequality in these communities.

Here are some of the latest grant recipients, with links to learn more about them:

Affinity Community Services
Assata's Daughters
Breakthrough Urban Ministries
Center on Halsted
Cradles to Crayons
Enlace Chicago
The Faith Community of St. Sabina
The Firehouse Community Arts Center of Chicago

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