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IFF Announces Second Round of Funding, Additional $3 Million Awarded to Chicago’s Cultural Treasures Grantees

Before and after images of the outdoor play space at Hamilton’s Learning Center, a QFA grantee in East St. Louis.

Quality Facilities for All Initiative supports early childhood education facilities in East St. Louis, IL

Thought Leadership

November 08, 2023

Organizational Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Must Begin with Intentionality

A view inside Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, in Chicago, showing an exhibition featuring the work of celebrated artist Henry Darger.

September 21, 2023

Reimagining What a Modern Museum Can Be: A Conversation with ACLF Participant Debra Kerr, President and CEO of Intuit

Supporting a Broad Range of Chicago’s Dance Artists: A Conversation with ACLF Program Participant Joanna Furnans, Executive Director of Chicago Dancemakers Forum