The Joyce Foundation

We are pleased to share that Julie Morita MD has been appointed the Joyce Foundation's new President & CEO. She was selected following an extensive national search to replace longtime President and CEO Ellen Alberding, who is stepping down after 22 years in the role. Julie will join the Foundation on October 1. Julie was most recently executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), overseeing all programming, policy, research and communications activities. She also previously helped lead the Chicago Department of Public Health for nearly two decades, first as a medical director, then as chief medical officer before being appointed commissioner in 2015. “I am thrilled and deeply honored to step into the role of President at the Joyce Foundation. It is a tremendous privilege to lead an organization with such a remarkable legacy of positive impact,” she said. “I take seriously the responsibility of upholding the Foundation's values and am committed to working closely with the Foundation’s staff, partners, and Board to further its mission and vision.” Welcome, Julie! Read more below. #Leadership #Chicago #JoyceFoundation #President https://lnkd.in/gp3Jyk8R

There’s a strong correlation in Chicago between the flood of illegal guns and the volume of gun violence in our communities. What can we do to reverse this trend and eradicate this problem? Join us on Wednesday, September 11 for an impactful discussion on this issue with ATF’s Christopher Amon, Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly & University of Chicago Crime Lab’s Kimberley Smith, moderated by WTTW/Chicago PBS Brandis Griffith Friedman. “Crime, Guns & Solutions: What Are We Doing to Stop the Flow of Illegal Guns in Illinois?” is the 2nd program in Joyce’s 3-part series on reducing gun violence in Chicago, in partnership with City Club of Chicago and WTTW. Register at the link: https://lnkd.in/g4Dg-DEE #Chicago #PublicSafety #EndGunViolence #GunViolencePrevention

Congratulations to Gun Violence Prevention and Justice Reform Program Director Timothy Daly, who recently received the "Partner of the Year" Award from Safe States Alliance! Joyce has been pleased to fund and partner with Safe States, particularly around its important work to sustain and build out the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). NVDRS, developed with Joyce's support, is the nation's most comprehensive database on violent deaths, and a critical tool in understanding alarming trends, such as disparities in homicide rates. Learn more below. #PublicPolicy #PublicSafety #NVDRS #Philanthropy #Leadership

20th Anniversary Spotlight on Chicago-based actor, writer, and producer Sandra Delgado ✨ A recipient of the 2015 Joyce Awards with Teatro Vista Productions, her “smash hit immersive documentary theater” experience, “La Havana Madrid,” brings the iconic 1960s nightclub back to life through stories of the city’s Latin American immigrants. “Receiving the Joyce Award changed my life and shaped me into the writer I am today, dedicated to leaving a legacy of work that lifts up and preserves Latine stories, history, and music to bring together multicultural, multi-racial and multi-generational artists and audiences.” — #SandraDelgado This week, “La Havana Madrid” returns to Chicago at Pritzker Pavilion as part of Millennium Park's 20th Anniversary Celebration. Follow along as we celebrate #JoyceAwards20 and our many honorees! 🎥: Courtesy Teatro Vista, Goodman Theatre, and Sandra Delgado #JoyceAwards #TeatroVista #Chicago #theater

We are pleased to announce that we’ve been named Nonprofit Communications Awards finalists by Ragan Communications and PR Daily for “Best Advocacy or Awareness Campaign” for our monthly Lunch and Learn Gun Violence Prevention Webinar Series! Our Gun Violence Prevention and Justice Reform Program team created #LunchAndLearn in 2020 to highlight emerging gun violence research and best evidence-based practices to advance sensible gun policies. Since then we’ve hosted almost 40 webinars on topics ranging from concealed carry laws to emerging Community Violence Intervention strategies that have become a trusted resource and industry standard. We’ll find out in September if we won our category but having our work and its impact to create safer and more just communities nationwide recognized makes us feel like winners right now! Click the link below to learn more about our Lunch and Learch series, and to see our archive of webinars. #GunViolencePrevention #Philanthropy #PublicSafety #Leadership https://lnkd.in/gshtzxPC

We’ve been busy! Over the last few months we named a new President & CEO, bid a fond farewell to our retiring President & CEO, and hosted convenings, receptions and other high-impact special events that all advanced our mission and strengthened our partnerships throughout the Great Lakes region. We also awarded 84 grants totaling more than $13.2 million in our latest round of funding. Read about all of that and more in our latest newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gBm7BtNS #JoyceFoundation #Philanthropy #Leadership #News

As #Chicago gears up to host the #DNC next week we’re excited to announce our support for “Next Stop: Chicago” — a citywide initiative showcasing the incredible talent of our city’s artists and community-based organizations, with a particular focus on our vibrant communities of color. This project draws attention to infrastructure inequity while underscoring the ongoing need for economic investment and growth in our neighborhoods. With the nation’s eyes on Chicago during the DNC, this unique opportunity (August 15-22) gives locals & visitors alike the chance to engage with a diverse array of public arts and cultural events citywide. Click below to learn how you can join one of the free tours! #PublicArt #Culture #Investment #DNC2024 https://lnkd.in/gHb9pixG

More than 200 of you joined us last week for "Optimizing Crime Gun Intelligence," the latest installment of our #LunchAndLearn webinar series. With Understory Consulting researchers and Milwaukee Police Department Captain Phil Simmert, we learned more from the findings of our recent report about how ATF crime gun tracking tools like eTrace and NIBIN can disrupt the supply of crime guns, identify and apprehend offenders, and prevent future acts of gun violence. Also, how law enforcement can expand and strengthen using these tools nationwide. Click the link below to watch and share the webinar--it's a tremendous resource for jurisdictions nationwide in the effort to reduce gun crimes and increase public safety. We've also linked the report in the comments. #GunViolencePrevention #PublicSafety https://lnkd.in/g7cSnQDb

Spotlight on #2024JoyceAwardees Edra Soto and The Sculpture Center.✨ ”La Distancia” is an outdoor sculptural installation and immersive gallery exhibition addressing themes of displacement, diasporic identity, and cultural memory that integrates the vernacular architecture of Soto’s native Puerto Rico and personal ephemera contributed by community members into Cleveland’s urban landscape. “In the last 25 years, Cleveland’s Latinx community has nearly doubled; ‘La Distancia,’ through its many phases and its ultimate creation of a project archive, will allow this community to see themselves—and be seen—in a meaningful and intentional way.” — #EdraSoto “La Distancia” will engage local artists and community members and their contributions in both an outdoor installation and TSC’s indoor gallery space, juxtaposing and finding common threads between seemingly disparate lives. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4d72fLa 🎥: Art Docs #JoyceAwards #GreatLakesArts #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryArt #LatinxArt #TheSculptureCenter

Spotlight on #2024JoyceAwardees Katie Ka Vang and Theater Mu. ✨“Hmong Futures” is a new theater project illuminating the diverse stories of the Hmong diaspora in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, reflecting on the 50th anniversary of Hmong and Southeast Asian resettlement in the United States. “As a first-generation Hmong American, my worldview was largely shaped by my refugee parents' lived experiences related to trauma, political persecution, displacement, and poverty, and I hope my work is a vessel for myself and my community to co-create ideas that point toward liberation and transformation.” — #KatieKaVang The Twin Cities are home to the largest Hmong American population in the United States in a major metropolitan area, and the project will provide a forum for people to imagine a collective future of well-being and abundance, beyond survival. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gNrCpGdt 🎥: Art Docs #JoyceAwards #GreatLakesArts #Theater #TheaterMu #Hmong #SoutheastAsian