Mapping Cultural Participation in Chicago - Cultural Policy Center

AcknowledgmentsWe thank the Joyce Foundation for its financial support of this research and individualstaff members for sharing their expertise throughout the research process. Specifically,we thank Ellen Alberding, foundation president; Michelle Boone, culture program officer;and Reginald Jones, former program officer at Joyce, now executive director of the SteansFamily Foundation.We thank Julia Perkins, principal of MBMD Consultants and a core member of the team.She worked as the Center’s community fellow, and her tireless efforts drove this projectthrough to its completion.We thank the University of Chicago, the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of PublicPolicy Studies, and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). We want to giveparticular thanks to Robert LaLonde, faculty member at the Harris School, and ColmO’Muircheartaigh, vice president at NORC and a faculty member at the Harris School. Weare indebted to the hard work and patience of Ned English, survey methodologist atNORC, who not only produced the maps included in this report, but also generated scoresof others. Their expertise led the analysis and conclusions we identify here. This studywould not have been possible without access to resources available through the universityenvironment.The current and former staff at the Cultural Policy Center played important rolesthroughout the two-year project. We thank D. Carroll Joynes, executive director, andLawrence Rothfield, faculty director, for their project oversight and support; researchassociate Diane Grams, whose project management kept the large volume of data secureand intact; and Wendy Norris, who began as a graduate research assistant and ended upleading the final editing and communications efforts. We also thank Katie Claussen,public events coordinator; Michael Washburn and Kimberly McCullough, former assistantdirectors for communications; and Stefanie White, former assistant director for publicinformation.We would also like to thank the following University of Chicago graduate andundergraduate research assistants for their dedication and hard work: Isabel Anadon,Erica Coslor, Evan Druce, Jessica Feldman, Stephanie Hughes, Ofurhe Igbinedion, AlainaJasinevicius, Sarah Lawrence, Christina Le, Emily Lehrer, Helen Li, Jeremy Mallory, EmilyO’Neill, and Rosemary Polanco. Their support, time, and analytical minds were importantcontributions to this project.We also thank our editing consultant John Whitman, whose skills transformed the ideasand labor of many into a uniform text.Finally, we thank the sixty-one organizations whose staff provided us with theirorganizational data. Without their involvement and trust, this project would not havebeen possible.—The Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago7