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Location: 61 W Superior St, Chicago, 60654 IL
EIN: 36-2490808
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Grant Applicant - applied in 2025
The Foundation's grant program is new. Despite being new, it operated with outdated practices. They do listen to feedback because something changes and is updated each year. Talk with other funded organizations. The Foundation does answer emails and take phone calls and seems willing to listen.
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2025
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The Foundation started a grant program with outdated advice. Fortunately, the process gets updated each year, so they seem to listen. Its equity funding area is by invitation only, which is counter intuitive and likely jeopardizes its own efforts to address unfair and illegal disparities in poetry fields.
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To have started with outdated practices means they have spent time and effort to update them: resources that could have gone to poets and poetry organizations. The panelists remain anonymous which raises a lot of transparency questions around who makes decisions and if those folks actually represent the community. They need to hire from the community served - this may help ensure their work remains connected to the need and the experience of poets and poetry nonprofits.
Hire from the community. Read Vu Le and Nonprofit AF and implement recommended award practices. Disclose panelists making grant decisions. Build meaningful relationships with the community.
So far, changes are in the right direction.
Grants for multiple orgs - all funded differently. Several years.
So far, they update their grant process in response to feedback.
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