About Your McCormick Grant

The McCormick Foundation Journalism team is excited to work with you in supporting your work in journalistic excellence.  Please note that grant acknowledgement forms are being mailed via U.S. Postal Service. Please sign and return the forms via fax or e-mail as soon as possible.

In the meantime, we’ve prepared this tip-sheet with helpful deadlines, marketing and contact information below to assist you during your grant period.

Grant timeline

September 2011: Grant acknowledgement letters sent out

October 2012: Grant acknowledgement forms due

January 2012: Payments made

May 1, 2012: Letters of inquiry due for 2013 funding/renewals

November 2012: Common reporting forms distributed

January 2013: Common reporting forms due

January 2013: Second payments made (for multi-year grant recipients)

Press releases

Please use the following boilerplate language on your press releases to describe the McCormick Foundation:

About the Robert R. McCormick Foundation

The Robert R. McCormick Foundation is committed to fostering communities of educated, informed and engaged citizens. Through philanthropic programs, Cantigny Park and museums, the Foundation helps develop citizen leaders and works to make life better in our communities. The Foundation was established as a charitable trust in 1955, upon the death of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the longtime editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The Robert R. McCormick Foundation is one of the nation's largest foundations, with more than $1billion in assets. For more information, please visit www.McCormickFoundation.org

Should you wish to request a quote from the Program Director, Clark Bell, for use in a press release, please contact:

Aaron Smith

Administrative Officer

312-556-5063

asmith@mccormickfoundation.org

Should you need to reach a member of the McCormick Communications staff, please contact:

Abby Taylor

Senior Communications Officer

312-445-5066

ataylor@mccormickfoundation.org

Logo

Please use the attached logos for marketing purposes. 

Marketing

We’re more than happy to help publicize McCormick grant-related events, workshops, trainings and activities on our Web site, blog and social media. Please send us an e-mail about your event or project to jliao@mccormickfoundation.org or feel free to post directly on our walls or tweet at:

Facebook: McCormick Journalism

Twitter: @McCormickJrnlsm

Reporting

Completed forms are due the first week of January 2013. From time to time, we may ask for additional information and program updates and expect that you comply with requests promptly.

Program Contacts

Please send questions, program updates and information to:

Aaron Smith. 

Administrative Officer

312-556-5063

asmith@mccormickfoundation.org

We look forward to following your progress and wish you continued success. 

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