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75 years of investing in the future of the Great Lakes Region.
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The Joyce Foundation supports the development of policies that both improve the quality of life for people in the Great Lakes region and serve as models for the rest of the country. We focus on today’s most pressing problems while also informing the public policy decisions critical to creating opportunity and achieving long-term solutions. The work is based on sound research and is focused on where we can add the most value. We encourage innovative and collaborative approaches with a regional focus and the potential for a national reach.
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It was an absolute thrill this year to highlight the work of #JoyceAwards honorees this year in commemorating the 20th anniversary of the awards. See below, the groundbreaking project of 2020 awardees Ty Defoe & Larissa FastHorse.
20th Anniversary Spotlight on Ty Defoe and Larissa FastHorse ✨ Their boundary-breaking comedy “For the People” centers on the stories and experiences of the #TwinCities Native community, in particular, the Dakota and Anishinaabe-Ojibwe people. As 2020 #JoyceAwards recipients, Ty and Larissa, alongside Guthrie Theater, brought this powerful vision to life. “For the People” follows a 20-something fighting to secure funding for an Indigenous wellness center. “Thanks to The Joyce Foundation, we were able to pursue a long term, truly collaborative process with the local Indigenous community. We do not believe that work about a community should be done any other way and appreciate the funding and time that the Joyce Awards gave us.” — Ty Defoe and Larissa FastHorse Last fall, “For the People” made Guthrie history as the first mainstage production written by Native playwrights about Native people. And on its final day, Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan officially declared it “For the People Day”! Follow along as we celebrate #JoyceAwards20 and our many honorees this year! 📸: Photos: Jaida Grey Eagle. Courtesy: Guthrie Theater. #LarissaFastHorse #TyDefoe #IndigenousArt #GuthrieTheater
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This year the Democracy team created "Democracy Desk" to highlight the work of grantee partners in the #GreatLakes region to ensure access to free and fair elections. The work of "Unlock Civics" launched by Chicago Votes and Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights is one of many inspiring features. ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gEPTEwWk
Democracy Desk: “Unlock Civics” Advocates Expanding Voting Rights and…
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Our Fall 2024 newsletter outlines much of the outstanding work of our grantees and staff in Q4. Click the link below to read all about it. Happy Holidays!
We recently awarded 116 grants totaling nearly $18 million in our latest round of funding across our six program areas -- Culture, Democracy, Education and Economic Mobility, Environment, Gun Violence Prevention and Justice Reform, and Journalism. Read more about the grantees and all of our current Foundation news and notes in our Fall 2024 Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gx9VFUiq
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ICYMI: Please enjoy this #JoyceAwards 20th Anniversary Spotlight on 2023 Joyce Awards honoree and multimedia artist Marisa Moran Jahn's mobile art installation at the National Public Housing Museum.
20th Anniversary Spotlight on multimedia artist Marisa Morán Jahn’s mobile art installation, “HOOPcycle,” which celebrates the equal right to housing, infrastructure, and safe recreational spaces. ✨ Jahn, a 2023 #JoyceAwards recipient alongside The National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, worked with architect and MIT professor Rafi Segal to combine a tricycle and basketball, bringing the game’s MesoAmerican roots—a vertical rim— to the forefront. “I wanted to capture the laughter and joy of kids playing together that I experienced all around me when I lived in public housing as an adult. Receiving the Joyce Award enabled me to spend time creating artwork that centers this same levity and celebrates recreational equity.” — #marisajahn Inspiring connection through play, Jahn hosted public workshops leading to the creation of a ground mural, “OOPS,” on view alongside “HOOPcycle” in the parking lot of The NPHM, which is slated to open to the public in early 2025. Stay tuned as we celebrate #joyceawards20 and our many honorees this year! 📸: (1, 5, 7) Merawi Gerima, 2024 (2) Marisa Jahn, 2024 (3) Scott Shrigley (4) David MacMillan, 2024 (6) Andrea Crandall, 2024 (8) Lisa Yun Lee, 2024 #JoyceAwards #publicart #contemporaryart #marisamoránjahn #basketball #mesoamerica
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We're wrapping up our 20th anniversary celebration of the Joyce Awards with a fascinating Q&A with 2014 honoree Lynn Nottage— arguably the nation's most prolific living playwright, whose plays are routinely among the most produced on stages nationwide and abroad each year. One of those Tony-nominated plays Clyde's actually started as a Joyce Awards-winning commission with Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater called Floyd's! Click the link below to read all about the legacy of Floyd's and Clyde's, the importance of awards programs like the Joyce Awards in developing new artistic works, and Lynn's advice for young playwrights. We're proud to have a connection to Lynn and to the development of Clyde's, which has become a beloved and enduring artistic feat. Read the full Q&A here: https://lnkd.in/gRwmBmYU 📷 Headshot courtesy of Lynn Savarese Photography #JoyceAwards #Theater #LynnNottage
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Local #journalism is essential for keeping communities informed, engaged, and empowered. With the right safeguards, innovative public policies could have a significant impact in creating a better climate for news and information providers to succeed. Hugh Dellios, director of Joyce's Journalism Program, shares his insights on the importance of these efforts and how they’re helping to revitalize local news.
With wins from New Jersey to Illinois and California, Press Forward funders are continuing to invest in public policy solutions that expand access to local news - one of our four priorities. Our new post examines how three foundations — Skyline Foundation, The Joyce Foundation and Democracy Fund —approach their work. Expect more news soon on how #PressForward will approach public policy for local news in 2025. Thanks to Angelica Das, Jenny Montoya Tansey and Hugh Dellios for your insights!
How Public Policy, Led by the States, Moves the Needle for Local News | Press Forward
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After years of untreated sewage flooding streets, homes, and yards in Cahokia Heights, IL, a settlement was reached with the EPA and DOJ to begin addressing the issue. The city must invest $30M to repair its failing sewer system, which has violated the Clean Water Act and created significant public health and environmental risks. Joyce grantee Equity Legal Services, Inc. played a critical role in advocating for residents. Their efforts to document the issue, raise awareness, and push for accountability helped bring attention to the severity of the problem. While the settlement marks progress, significant work remains. Local officials must address the root causes of the sewer system failures to ensure meaningful and lasting improvements for the community. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gcDsEYCU #EnvironmentalJustice #PolicyWatch
Cahokia Heights, IL Settlement with DOJ and EPA Over Sewer System…
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20th Anniversary Spotlight on artist, writer, and educator Aram Han Sifuentes’s “Citizenship for All: Storytelling for Immigrant Justice through NongGi Making”—a project bringing together communities in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood through storytelling and hands-on artistic creation. Sifuentes, a 2022 #JoyceAwards recipient alongside HANA Center Chicago, has facilitated over 50 workshops where the public can learn a wide range of textile techniques to create protest banners modeled on traditional Korean “NongGi” flags, a symbol of political resistance with deep cultural and historical roots. “In these workshops, which are attended predominantly by first and second generation BIPOC immigrants and adoptees, we listen to participants share their stories. The support from the Joyce Award gave me a strong foundation to build this project on and really deepened my commitment to community-centered work. I feel so lucky to be working with such an incredible organization like HANA Center, whose mission and work I truly believe in.” — #AramHanSifuentes 🎥: Jonni Pepper #JoyceAwards #JoyceAwards20 #Community #AlbanyPark #KoreanArt #NongGi
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Join us at 11AM CST, 1/14/2025 with researchers Ali Rowhani-Rahbar & Elizabeth Weybright exploring handgun carrying habits among rural youth & gun violence prevention programming targeted to them. The latest in a series commissioned by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Register ⬇️ #MarkYourCalendars https://lnkd.in/gM9pmxFJ
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Violence Prevention Programming Focused on Rural Youth. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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