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Envisioning Justice Grants for Individuals

Hero EJ Grants for Individuals
Amount

Up to $5,000

For

Individuals

Open

Apr 18, 2025
9:00am

Deadline

Jun 30, 2025
5:00pm

These project-based grants support individuals such as educators, organizers, artists, and others who use the arts and humanities to work toward a truly just society. Research projects, podcasts, grassroots publications, and public performances are just a few of the impactful initiatives we fund to create understanding about mass incarceration and its impact on communities in Illinois. By supporting those doing this important work, we build more affirming, engaged, and empowered communities.

EJ Gallery Vershawn Sanders Ward 2018

Artist Vershawn Sanders-Ward performs at an Envisioning Justice event (2018)

EJ grants individual speaker

Artist Mykele Deville addresses a crowd of Envisioning Justice collaborators and partners at an event (2019)

Contact Us

Tony Pizarro
Program Manager

ejustice@ilhumanities.org
(312) 374-1565

Grantee Partner Spotlight

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Photo by Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago.

Melissa Amelia Pavlik

Inside Voices: Finding Freedom in Creativity within Illinois Prisons

The Mud Theatre Project and Melissa Amelia Pavlik received Illinois Humanities Grants to support their unique work in promoting the arts as an opportunity to build community and trust, inside and out. Learn more about their work.

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