Gaylord and Donnelley Foundation Grant

Gaylord and Donnelley Foundation Grant

Korean Cultural Center of Chicago recipient of Gaylord and Donnelley Foundation
GAYLORD AND DOROTHY DONNELLEY FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 12 COLLECTIONS PROJECTS TO BE FUNDED BY โ€œBROADENING NARRATIVESโ€ GRANT INITIATIVE TO ILLUMINATE UNDERREPRESENTED STORIES
Grants total $755,500 to 12 collecting organizations and five advisory groups in Chicago and the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
Grant recipients will receive a range of $10,000 to $150,000 to fund new projects The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation (the Foundation)โ€”which supports land conservation, artistic vitality, and regional collections for the people of the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and the Chicago metro areaโ€”Korean Cultural Center of Chicago (KCCoC) is proud to be one of the 7 recipients of the Foundationโ€™s groundbreaking โ€œBroadening Narrativesโ€ initiative in the Chicagoland area, which aims to fund specific collections projects that bring forward underrepresented stories.
Korean Cultural Center of Chicago (KCCoC) documented oral histories about the major influx of Korean Americans to Chicago after the passing of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act. The project, including a short film, increases accessibility to the Korean communityโ€™s history and expanded the KCCoCโ€™s vital collection documenting Korean immigrant experiences. โ€œThe majority of first-generation Korean immigrants to Chicago are aging, and the need to document their experiences is increasingly critical. These pioneers paved the way for those who followed, and documenting their stories is vital as their history weaves the tapestry of what Korean American identity is today. The project will capture a broad swath of experiences to present a diverse and multi-generational representation of Korean Americans in Chicago,โ€ says KCCoC Executive Director Kay Kihwa Rho.
์‹œ์นด๊ณ ํ•œ์ธ๋ฌธํ™”ํšŒ๊ด€์ด Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley (GDD) ์žฌ๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2023๋…„ ๊ทธ๋žœํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š” 7๊ฐœ ๊ธฐ๊ด€ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ์„ ์ •๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. GDD์žฌ๋‹จ์€ ์‚ฌ์šฐ์Šค์บ๋กค๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์˜ ๋กœ์šฐ์ปจํŠธ๋ฆฌ ์ง€์—ญ๊ณผ ์‹œ์นด๊ณ  ๋ฉ”ํŠธ๋กœ ์ง€์—ญ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์žฌ๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ์„œ, ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง€์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ํŠน์ • ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์— ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•œ๋‹ค.
์‹œ์นด๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ™”์›(KCCoC)์€ 1965๋…„ ์ด๋ฏผ ๋ฐ ๊ท€ํ™”๋ฒ•์ด ํ†ต๊ณผ๋œ ํ›„ ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ๋กœ ๋งŽ์€ ํ•œ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์œ ์ž…๋œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์ˆ  ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ํ•œ์ธ ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ํ•œ์ธ ์ด๋ฏผ์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜์—ฌ, ๋ฌธํ™”ํšŒ๊ด€์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฟ ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํ•œ์ธ์ด๋ฏผ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ 46,000๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ง€์›๊ธˆ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ตฌ์ˆ  ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์“ฐ์ด๊ฒŒ ๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.

โ€œ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ๋กœ ์ด๋ฏผ ์˜จ ํ•œ์ธ 1์„ธ๋Œ€์˜ ๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ นํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฌธ์„œํ™”ํ•  ํ•„์š”์„ฑ์ด ์ ์  ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์„ ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์€ ํ›„์„ธ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธธ์„ ๋‹ฆ์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ์—์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์„ธ๋Œ€์ ์ธ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํฌ์ฐฉํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€ ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ตœ๊ธฐํ™” ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์ด์žฅ์€ ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.