National Public Housing Museum

The National Public Housing Museum will advance the work of its Entrepreneurship Hub, an innovative creative placemaking initiative that invests in the assets of Chicago's public housing communities. It will support the Hub's Social Justice Business School; its drop-in pro-bono business services feature providing support for HR, finance, marketing, web development, graphic design, and more; the resident-owned cooperative museum store, and its storytelling workshops. The Hub aims to educate the next generation of entrepreneurs within it public housing communities, leverage the power of the city's creative class, innovate new models of museum-community collaboration, and transform the public perception of public housing by empowering its inhabitants to tell their own stories, while engaging in workforce development and job creation for marginalized communities. By addressing the challenges of these communities through oral history, storytelling, and design thinking, the Hub works to reignite and support a legacy of creativity, self-sufficiency, and community wealth.