New Major Grants Received

Supporting Creativity

Much of Columbia College Chicago’s most important work is made possible with the support of foundations, government entities, and corporations. Here are a few of the many projects and programs that received critical support from our foundation, government, and corporate partners in the 2006
fiscal year.

U.S. Department of Education

$1,292,102 for the Arts Integration Mentorship project in the Center for Community Arts Partnerships, Katrina student tuition support, Student Support Services, Title III Strengthening Institutions project, and Upward Bound


McCormick Tribune Foundation

$565,000 for Open Door Scholarships and two community outreach projects with high school journalism programs in the Chicago Public Schools


JP Morgan Chase Foundation

$456,000 for two programs in the Center for Community Arts Partnerships


Illinois Board of Higher Education

$282,000 for continuing support of the Creating the Critical Mass program in the Science Institute and the Bilingual Math project in the Education Studies Department, which prepares teachers to adapt standards-based mathematics instruction to meet the linguistic needs of English language learners enrolled in the Chicago Public Schools and the Summit, Illinois School District


Illinois Arts Council

$146,560 for the Asian Arts Center, the Center for Book and Paper Arts, the Center for Arts Policy, the Center for Community Arts Partnerships, the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, DanceAfrica Chicago, the Dance Center, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Story Week Festival of Writers


Chicago Community Trust

$131,500 for the Dance Center and the Center for Community Arts Partnerships


National Endowment for the Arts

$112,000 for the Center for Black Music Research, the Center for Community Arts Partnerships, the Dance Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography


Lannan Foundation

$90,345 for the exhibition of Vietnamese-American artist An-My Le at the Museum of Contemporary Photography featuring two photographic series that explore the military conflicts of the war in Vietnam and the current war in Iraq and Afghanistan


Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

$50,000 for the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Center for Black Music Research


National Peace Foundation

$36,861 for the Chicago Jazz Ensemble and an international student exchange with Russian jazz musicians


Elma Stuckey Poetry Board

$35,700 for an award presented annually by the English department
to two distinguished undergraduate poetry majors