Driehaus Foundation

An art-led movement to undo racism.

We are in the midst of uprisings and demands for change that have already yielded long-overdue changes across our society and our sectors. Enrich Chicago is grateful to individuals on the front lines who have catalyzed this change and put their bodies on the line for the collective good of African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA)/Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) people and our city. Enrich is here to ensure that stakeholders in the arts and culture sector move past statements of solidarity and catalyze their institutional initiatives for long-term, anti-racist change in the arts and culture sector.

Toward this end, Enrich Chicago is interested in harnessing this energy for change by supporting the Driehaus Foundation’s community of grantees to facilitate opportunities for anti-racist learning, capacity building, and accountability. Taking our lead from ALAANA/BIPOC communities, we will:

• Build a shared vocabulary and analysis of race, systemic racism, and the ideology of white supremacy;

• Understand and unpack racial socialization, individual complicity in systems of inequity, and deepen a critical analysis that leads to liberated leadership, and;

• Extend critical analysis to strengthen a culture of equity that ultimately supports the actualization of anti-racist vision within and across institutions