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The Joyce Foundation is a charitable foundation based in Chicago, Illinois in the United States and operating principally in the Great Lakes region.

The Foundation primarily funds organizations in the Great Lakes states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin).

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[edit] Programs

  • Education: Focuses on public schools in Chicago, Cleveland, and Milwaukee; concentrates on teacher quality, early childhood education, and “innovations,” primarily charter schools, small schools, and similar initiatives.
  • Employment: Focuses on workforce development, education, and job training for low-income workers.
  • Environment: Concentrates on environmental issues affecting the Great Lakes region, especially water and energy issues.
  • Gun violence: Funds research and advocacy to reduce gun deaths and injuries.
  • Money and politics: Supports research and advocacy around such issues as campaign finance and ethics reform.
  • Culture: Supports arts organizations, primarily in Chicago; its Joyce Awards also supports arts groups in other Midwest cities.

In 2005, the Joyce Foundation paid grants in the amount of $8,385,304 in its Environment program, $7,888,380 in its Education program, $6,302,775 in its Employment program, $3,056,117 in its Gun Violence Program, $2,818,105 in its Money and Politics program, and $1,427,350 in its Culture program. Source: The Joyce Foundation 2005 Annual Report, Page 45

Its work in gun policy has drawn criticism from some pro-gun advocates.[original research?]

[edit] History

The Joyce Foundation was created in 1948 by Beatrice Joyce Kean of Chicago, giving small grants mostly to hospitals and other health organizations. After her death in 1972 it inherited the bulk of her estate, growing in annual grant budget by two orders of magnitude and expanding its scope to cover educational and cultural institutions and by 1980 a wide variety of other concerns.

[edit] Mission Statement

The Joyce Foundation supports efforts to protect the natural environment of the Great Lakes, to reduce poverty and violence in the region, and to ensure that its people have access to good schools, decent jobs, and a diverse and thriving culture. We are especially interested in improving public policies, because public systems such as education and welfare directly affect the lives of so many people, and because public policies help shape private sector decisions about jobs, the environment, and the health of our communities. To ensure that public policies truly reflect public rather than private interests, we support efforts to reform the system of financing election campaigns.

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[edit] Criticism

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The Joyce Foundation has underwritten research into gun violence prevention since 1993. The focus of most of the funded research is on preventing gun violence.[this source's reliability may need verification] Almost all of this research directly or indirectly supports gun control and additional restrictions on gun ownership[2].[this source's reliability may need verification]

The Joyce Foundation also is a principal source of funding to many gun control organizations in the United States.[original research?] The most noteworthy of these is the Violence Policy Center[original research?], which received $4,154,970[2] between 1996 and 2006, and calls for an outright ban on handguns, semi-automatic and other firearms, and substantial restrictions on gun owners.[citation needed]


[edit] Governance

Current members of the board of directors of the Joyce Foundation are: John T. Anderson, Chairman, Ellen S. Alberding, President, Robert G. Bottoms, Michael F. Brewer, Charles U. Daly, Anthony S. Earl, Roger R. Fross, Howard L. Fuller, Carlton L. Guthrie, Marion T. Hall, Valerie B. Jarrett, Daniel P. Kearney and Paula Wolff.

The Joyce Foundation has a staff of about 27, whose names are listed on its website.

The Foundation's management and program staff consists of:

President Ellen S. Alberding

Vice President Lawrence N. Hansen

Vice President of Finance and Administration Deborah Gillespie

Director of Communications Mary O’Connell

Director of Investments Jane R. Patterson

Program Officers

Education Gretchen Crosby Sims, Program Manager John Luczak

Employment Whitney Smith, Program Manager Jennifer Phillips, Senior Program Officer

Environment Stephen Brick, Program Manager Margaret H. O’Dell, Senior Program Officer James Seidita

Gun Violence Roseanna Ander

Money and Politics Lawrence N. Hansen

Culture Michelle T. Boone

[edit] Past and present grantees

Since 1972, the Joyce Foundation has awarded approximately $555 million in grants.

In 2005 the Joyce Foundation awarded a total of $27,323,124 to 196 grantees. Those included 70 discretionary, membership, and employee matching grants, 35 environment grants, 25 education grants, 16 employment grants, 16 culture grants, 14 money and politics grants, 11 special opportunities grants, and nine gun violence grants[3].

A complete list of grants by The Joyce Foundation is available by program:

  • Education[4]
  • Employment[5]
  • Environment[6]
  • Gun Violence[2]
  • Money and Politics[7]
  • Culture[8]

[edit] Funding patterns

Joyce Foundation Funding Patterns
Joyce Foundation Funding Patterns

This is a mind map of Joyce Foundation funding[2] in the area of gun control. The map divides funding into several areas. You can click on the picture to view it in full size.[original research?]

[edit] Organizations funded by the Joyce Foundation

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These are a few of the organizations that are funded by the Joyce Foundation[2]:

  • Firearms Law Center (now Legal Community Against Violence)
  • Franklin County Prevention Institute
  • Handgun Epidemic Lowering Plan (HELP) Network
  • Indiana Partnership to Prevent Firearm Violence
  • Legal Community Against Violence (formerly Firearms Law Center)
  • Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
  • On-Target Coalition
  • Violence Policy Center: $4,154,970 between 1996 and 2006.
  • WAVE Educational fund

[edit] Research

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The Joyce Foundation funds policy-related research in its program areas. Examples:

A report from the Education Trust studied the impact of teacher quality on student achievement. The report, Teaching "Inequality: How Poor and Minority Students Are Shortchanged on Teacher Quality" offers some key findings of soon-to-be released research in three states – Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin – and major school systems within them. Schools in these states and districts with high percentages of low-income and minority students are more likely to have teachers who are inexperienced, have lower basic academic skills or are not highly qualified -- reflecting troublesome national teacher distribution patterns. Source: [1]

In a widely cited 2002 study, "Welfare to Work: What Have We Learned," the Foundation laid out the results of over $8 million in research it funded on the effects of the 1996 federal welfare reform on Midwest families making the transition to work. "The report shows that in the Midwest, as nationally, welfare rolls plummeted during the 1990s, and most of those who left welfare went to work. Work supports — such as child care, food stamps, and the Earned Income Tax Credit — have helped thousands of working families make ends meet. But many of the jobs recipients took are part time or short term, and wages are low. As a result, many working families still face serious economic hardships.” An update on findings of continuing research since 2002 was published in the Foundation’s September 2006 newsletter, Work in Progress. Source: [2]

In 2005 the Joyce Foundation partially funded a report from the National Wildlife Federation that documented problems with the Great Lakes including beach closings caused by bacteria contamination, rapid disappearance of the tiny shellfish diporeia that fish rely on for food, the resurgence of the Lake Erie "dead zone," and the widespread and sudden decline in native fish such as the yellow perch. Source: [3]

A 2006 study by the University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center found that participation in Chicago’s largest culture and arts institutions is highest among predominantly white, high-income communities in the metropolitan area. Source: [4]

A public opinion survey of people in five Midwest states, released in September of 2006, found that, "Although they generally don’t trust state government to do what is right, Midwesterners believe political and government reforms will make elected officials more responsive on key issues such as education, health care and jobs. And they are motivated to change the status quo: their concern about the influence of money in politics ranks on a par with concerns about schools, taxes and the economy. These are among key findings of a landmark new survey of public attitudes toward political reform in five Midwestern states, most of which are seen as key electoral battlegrounds in presidential elections: Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois and Minnesota." Source: [5]

In 2006, the Joyce Foundation funded a study by the Harvard School of Public Health that used telephone surveys and multivariate analysis to claim that states with a higher level of household firearms ownership had higher homicide rates. [9]

[edit] Law review symposia

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The Joyce Foundation has sponsored symposium issues of some law reviews, generally offering to pay for the symposium if an external editor is selected. The editor carefully solicits and chooses the articles to appear in the symposium. The Joyce Foundation then pays for the cost of copies to be distributed to judges and legislators. Law reviews that have cooperated in this manner include:

The Joyce Foundation described the Chicago-Kent Review symposium in its May 2001 newsletter:

THE CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE of Law hosted a symposium last fall in which leading scholars examined the history and meaning of the Second Amendment. The papers have just been published in a special issue of the Chicago-Kent Law Review. Included are examination of the intentions of the Founding Fathers, a history of legal interpretations of the Second Amendment, and accounts of the historical and philosophical context in which the Amendment was drafted. The courts and legal scholars have consistently interpreted the Amendment through the lens of its first clause — i.e., as guaranteeing the right of Americans to bear arms as part of a militia. It wasn't until the 1960s that a handful of scholars and gun advocates began claiming that the Amendment also guarantees an individual right to own firearms. In this volume, several scholars examine that contention in the light of the contemporary debates during the drafting of the Constitution, including the Founders' concern to protect the rights of states to organize militias. Source: Work In Progress, May 2001, [6]

[edit] Law review symposia controversies - Pro-Gun Rights Perspective

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In the case of the Chicago-Kent Law Review symposium issue, the external editor purposely solicited only one side of the debate. As Professor Randy Barnett of Georgetown University, who played a part in moving Chicago-Kent Law Review to a symposium model,

explains:

When I saw an announcement for the Second Amendment symposium funded by the Joyce Foundation, what immediately struck me was the completely one-sided composition of the contributors. So I contacted a former colleague of mine at Chicago-Kent and offered to participate as a commentator, provided I was given the same remuneration as other presenters. I also offered to recruit some other scholars who would represent some diversity of opinion. My erstwhile colleague said this was not possible. The first reason he offered for this was the supposed lack of civility between pro- and anti-individual rights scholars. When I objected to this reason, it became clear that this was not the real rationale. Later, Carl Bogus told me (as he has subsequently written elsewhere) that the lack of balance was intentional and meant to counter the overwhelming dominance of the individual rights position. The idea, he said, was to work out the alternative paradigm with scholars who were dissenters from the individual rights position and provide fresh thinking:

We felt that, for a variety of reasons, the collective rights model was under represented in the debate, and wanted to give scholars an opportunity to enhance or further illuminate the collective rights position. Sometimes a more balanced debate is best served by an unbalanced symposium. I did not, therefore, invite anyone who I knew subscribed to the individual rights model.

One consequence of this unbalanced view is that it creates a perception by those who have only seen this symposium issue that there is only one scholarly perspective on this subject.[dubious — see talk page]

[edit] Law review symposia controversies - Pro-Gun Control Perspective

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The Chicago-Kent Law Review symposium issue was devoted to new research on the collective rights model. The Fordham issue looked at a range of issues in the gun debate from different points of view. The Stanford issue also focused on new research on the Second Amendment and gun policy. The conferences from which the published issues emerged included scholars from the collective rights, individual rights, and new civic rights models.

[edit] Other academic publication support

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A similar approach is used in the field of public health. For example:

  • A $250,000 grant to the UCLA School of Public Health resulted in a special edition of Evaluation Review (Vol. 30, No. 3, June 2006)

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[edit] External links

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[edit] References

  1. ^ About us. The Joyce Foundation (2004). Retrieved on Error: invalid time.
  2. ^ a b c d e Gun Violence. The Joyce Foundation (2006). Retrieved on Error: invalid time.
  3. ^ (2005) The Joyce Foundation's 2005 Annual Report. The Joyce Foundation, 56, 45. 
  4. ^ Education. The Joyce Foundation (2006). Retrieved on Error: invalid time.
  5. ^ Employment. The Joyce Foundation (2006). Retrieved on Error: invalid time.
  6. ^ Environment. The Joyce Foundation (2006). Retrieved on Error: invalid time.
  7. ^ Money and Politics. The Joyce Foundation (2006). Retrieved on Error: invalid time.
  8. ^ Culture. The Joyce Foundation (2006). Retrieved on Error: invalid time.
  9. ^ States With Higher Levels of Gun Ownership Have Higher Homicide Rates. Harvard School of Public Health (2007). Retrieved on Error: invalid time.
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