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🚨 We're hiring two positions to expand @rcfp's Local Legal Initiative, which provides journalists free legal services to pursue investigative stories in their communities. ➡️ Minnesota LLI attorney ➡️ LLI staff attorney View the positions and apply: #ft" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">rcfp.org/work-at-rcfp/#…

Op-ed in today's @chicagotribune from our President & CEO Julie Morita: My parents were interned in camps for Japanese Americans. We can avoid repeating that national sin by choosing discourse and actions that unite rather than divide us. chicagotribune.com/2026/02/19/opi…

The Joyce Foundation mourns the passing of Board Member Emeritus & @DePauwU President Emeritus Robert G. Bottoms. Dr. Bottoms served as a Joyce board member for 26 years, retiring in 2023. He will be missed. Read our full remembrance ⬇️ joycefdn.org/news/in-rememb…

We note with sadness the passing of former Joyce Foundation President & Board Member Emerita Charles U. Daly on January 21. He was 98. He was Foundation president from 1978-1986 & Board member until 2019. Read more in our remembrance linked here. ⬇️ joycefdn.org/news/in-rememb…

Today @UVACooperCenter released the first-ever comprehensive report on data centers in the #GreatLakes region, illuminating the rapid growth, and environmental & economic impact of these facilities. We're pleased to support this research. ⬇️ tinyurl.com/bdzm5c2b

The Joyce Foundation is proud to be a founding funder of this promising initiative designed to strengthen @ChiPubSchools policies & help advance the best conditions for student success. chicago.suntimes.com/2026/01/09/chi…

ICYMI: Senior Policy Advisor Kate Buchanan discusses findings from the latest KIDS Report and what the data tell us about where support is most needed to ensure all Illinois' young children are school ready. hubs.la/Q03ZMz8T0 #kindergarten #education #ECE #Illinois

Join our Thursday, 1/8 webinar at Noon CST discussing new research exploring the relationship between law enforcement and community cooperation in homicide investigations, and how that impacts homicide clearance rates. Registration link below. joycefdn-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Promising data that rebuts a challenging national narrative. This progress is bolstered cross-sector collaboration & investment in Community Violence Intervention (CVI). More below, including an op-ed from our Senior Program Officers Louisa Aviles & Quintin Williams.

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful and safe holiday. We look forward to following up with you when our offices reopen on January 2, 2026.

A timely and thoughtful issue that also features op-eds from Joyce Education & Economic Mobility Program Officer Chibuzo Ezeigbo and our board member Russ Kavalhuna, president of @WesternMichU. #HigherEducation #StudentSuccess

Click below to view our recent webinar in partnership with @macfound exploring research to better understand the intersection of intimate partner violence (IPV) and and firearm violence, and how it disproportionately impacts African American women. joycefdn.org/webinars/gun-v…

Congratulations to the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors & Premiers on a new multi-year initiative to strengthen the region’s water management institutions by “future proofing” the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Water Resources Compact and Agreement. ⬇️ gsgp.org/projects/water…

We are pleased to welcome Courtney Lundquist as our new Program Officer in the Education & Economic Mobility Program, overseeing the Foundation's Post-Secondary Success portfolio. She will join the Foundation in January. #HigherEducation #StudentSuccess

Click below to see the latest webinar from our Environment Program's Data Center Initiative exploring trends on community response to emerging data center development in the Great Lakes region. ⬇️ #Environment #DataCenters joycefdn.org/webinars/respo…

Congratulations to our senior accountant Arun Zachariah, one of only 36 professionals nationwide selected for @AICPA Leadership Academy. More here: tinyurl.com/94bh5tjw

Our Fall newsletter includes a reflective & uplifting message from our President & CEO Julie Morita, along with details about the 114 grants totaling more than $23 million we awarded in our latest round of funding, and other key program notes. ⬇️ tinyurl.com/92pw9pev

Still time to register for our Wednesday, December 3 webinar (11AM CST) on intimate partner violence and gun violence. This webinar is part of our Building Safe+Just Communities series, in partnership with @macfound. ⬇️ joycefdn-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

New policing series from @wttw examines @Chicago_Police progress implementing the 2019 consent decree that mandates broad police reform. We're proud to support this project-an intersection of 2 of our core programs: Journalism & Justice Reform. 👇 news.wttw.com/policing

We're excited to announce Soledad Adrianzén McGrath as our new Gun Violence Prevention and Justice Reform Program Director. Soledad was most recently executive director of Northwestern's Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science (CORNERS). Welcome!