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The Driehaus Foundation: Built Environment Grant is sponsored by The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. This grant prioritizes preserving Chicago's historic architecture and protecting its parks and open spaces.
Awardees celebrate and preserve the unique character of its neighborhood design or design principles to directly address pressing issues in Chicago communities.
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Built Environment | Driehaus Foundation Ford Calumet Environmental Center. First place 2022 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design winner.
Photo credit: Tom Harris Photography A row of bungalow-style homes in the Brainerd neighborhood of Chicago, IL. Photo credit: Chicago Bungalow Association Williams Park Field House. First place 2021 Richard H.
Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design winner. Fountain of the Great Lakes sculpture and fountain by Lorado Taft. Photo credit: The Richard H.
Driehaus Foundation Ensuring healthy urban environments The built environment influences how we experience the world – the routes we travel, buildings we embrace, trails we bike, parks we visit, and the people we engage. It includes our homes, commercial districts, open spaces, streets, and sidewalks, and comprises the varied environments that make up our cities and towns.
Individually, these components are sometimes at odds with each other but collectively the design, scale, and use of materials impact our quality of life. The Driehaus Foundation works to ensure the built environment is enhanced by the preservation and reuse of historic places, community-driven planning, and sustainable and well-designed new buildings and landscapes.
These are key strategies for creating a sense of place that reflects an expansive and complex history and a shared future. We support organizations and projects that advocate for effective policies, undertake urban planning aimed at the preservation of Chicago’s historic built fabric, protect its parks and open spaces, and otherwise celebrate and preserve the unique character of its neighborhoods.
The Driehaus Foundation is committed to the idea that successful historic preservation, urban planning, and new architecture must be understood and undertaken as part of a decades-long continuum that endows a given city or town with a sense of place.
We focus our attention on organizations and projects that promote policies and outcomes in the following areas: Urban design and architecture Skills development in heritage trades, architecture, and design We support organizations that encourage public awareness of these areas through: While we support a limited number of statewide and national organizations, our funding is primarily focused on Chicago.
The Built Environment funding program does not support capital campaigns. bradwhite@driehausfoundation. org tel 312.
641. 5772, ext 109 Inquiry and Application Process Browse our recent Built Environment grants.
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Organizations and projects supporting historic preservation, urban design and architecture, placekeeping, urban agriculture, skills development in heritage trades, or urban open space, primarily in Chicago. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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The Fund for Women & Girls Grant Program is sponsored by The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC). The Fund for Women & Girls, an initiative of TFEC, makes grants to local nonprofit organizations in specific South Central PA counties. The grants support projects that advance the lives of women and girls by providing opportunities to address basic needs, develop economic self-sufficiency, and strengthen health and safety needs.
VGF grants will be used to develop and/or support community-based entities to recruit, manage, and support volunteers. CNCS seeks to fund effective approaches that expand volunteering, strengthen the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit and retain skill-based volunteers, and develop strategies to use volunteers effectively to solve problems. Specifically, the VGF grants will support efforts that expand the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit, manage, support and retain individuals to serve in high quality volunteer assignments.Applicants that receive funding under this Notice may directly carry out the activities supported under the award, or may carry out the activities by making sub-grants to community-based entities, supporting volunteer generation at these entities.). Funding Opportunity Number: AC-05-25-21. Assistance Listing: 94.021. Funding Instrument: G. Category: O. Award Amount: $6.1M total program funding.