Endorsements and Funding
Endorsements
The Public Housing Museum has received endorsements from local universities, cultural institutions, and state preservation agencies, including:
- Roosevelt University
- Field Museum, Center for Cultural Understanding and Change
- Spertus Museum
- Chicago Metro History Education Center
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum
- Chicago Cultural Alliance
Funding
The National Public Housing Museum will be built with philanthropic, corporate, government, and public support. A growing coalition of funders has expressed interest in the Museum. To date, the Museum has received support for planning phase actvities totaling over $400,000. Our corporate and foundation supporters include:
- The Boeing Company
- The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Joyce Foundation
- Polk Bros. Foundation
- The National Trust for Historic Preservation
- The Partnership for New Communities
- The Chicago Community Trust
- Woods Fund of Chicago
- Alphawood Foundation
- LaSalle Bank
- Northern Trust
- Ariel Capital Management