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MAS Context receives a 2024 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grant

July 17, 2024

We are excited to announce that MAS Context has received a 2024 grant from The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. The grant from the Built Environment funding program provides general operating support over the next two years.

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“Welcome to Tribuneville” by Klaus, 150 N Riverside Plaza, Chicago, 2024. © Michael Salisbury. Courtesy of 150 Media Stream and MAS Context.

We are very thankful to The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation for their multiyear support of our work. Their institutional and economic support is invaluable to producing our programs and publications. MAS Context received the support of The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2023 and we are thrilled to receive their support again.

Founded in 1983, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation is committed to enriching the lives of all Chicagoans by improving the built environment, cultivating a robust and diverse arts and culture ecosystem, and supporting investigative journalism that fosters transparency, accountability, and effective government.

This July, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation awarded 29 grants, totaling over $2.5 million, to support organizations working in the areas of Arts and Culture, the Built Environment, and Investigative Journalism for Government Accountability.

For more information about the list of projects supported this year, please visit driehausfoundation.org/news/2024/driehaus-foundation-announces-july-2024-grant-awards.

Thank you very much to Brad White, Senior Program Director of the Built Environment funding program, and the board of The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation for their support of MAS Context.