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RDLF News: Issue 37
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Newly Elected Board Members
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We give a very warm welcome to our four new RDLF board members elected in February. Our team is thrilled to have new perspectives and experience to help guide the work at the Foundation.
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Dubbed “the leading national watchdog of state and local economic development subsidies,” from 1998 through mid-2026, Greg founded and directed Good Jobs First, a research and policy center promoting accountability in economic development and corporate social responsibility.
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Greg led the campaign for Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement 77 on Tax Abatement Disclosures, a landmark in U.S. municipal finance. It requires most localities, for the first time, to disclose how much revenue they lose to tax abatement programs.
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He wrote The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation (2005) and No More Candy Store: States and Cities Making Job Subsidies Accountable (1994). He is also a former national consultant against factory shutdowns, sleeping car porter, local union president, documentary filmmaker, and amateur labor historian.
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James R. Hellige is an estate planning, trust, and nonprofit organization lawyer, concentrating his practice on estate planning, probate, trust law, sophisticated charitable giving, and related areas of income, gift, estate, and generation-skipping taxation. James is a partner in Foley & Lardner LLP’s Estates & Trusts Practice.
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Mario F. García has over 40 years of experience in nonprofit management with specializations in organizational development and training. He currently serves as Executive Director of Onward Neighborhood House, a community based organization in the tradition of a settlement house serving immigrants and low income families of Chicago since 1893. Onward House assists families and individuals in need by providing access to a range of programs to create opportunities for long term success. During his tenure Mr. García has overseen the transition of Onward House from its origins in West Town to the Belmont Cragin community on the northwest side of Chicago while expanding the services offered.
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Prior to taking the Executive Director position at Onward Neighborhood House in 2004, Mr. García led his own consulting business, García Consulting. There, he consulted and trained on subjects of board development, team-building, strategic planning and leadership. He has worked with a variety of organizations that include community-based organizations, government agencies, social service agencies, professional associations and local school councils. Additionally, Mr. García worked for the Latino Institute, holding several positions that included senior consultant and director of leadership and organizational development. He is currently a member of Chicago’s Early Childhood Education CEO Roundtable, and a board member for the ACLU of Illinois, as well as a board member of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.
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Mr. García was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala and speaks fluent English and Spanish. He has a B.S. in Psychology from Loyola University of Chicago and an M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Illinois State University.
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Rozina Breen is an award-winning editor with a track record of audience growth, creative storytelling, and strategic partnerships.
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She is Director of Editorial at the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting where she leads worldwide editorial initiatives.
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A former editor-in-chief and CEO at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, leading strategic and digital transformation at the U.K.’s largest local-to-global investigative newsroom, Rozina also brings significant editorial leadership from the BBC, where she ran the U.K.’s largest network newsroom outside of London as head of news at BBC 5 Live.
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There she set a distinctive and creative current affairs agenda, overseeing the station’s news output, including political and business programming as well as a 24/7 breaking news operation. She commissioned an award-winning audio slate, including Brexitcast, You, Me and the Big C, The Sista Collective, and Hope High, which went onto win an Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils.
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Rozina also launched the DigiHub for the BBC World Service, developing and innovating global journalism for digital, social, and online platforms across multiple geographies including Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and Europe and growing BBC News’s digital footprint across the world.
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She has a reputation for multi-platform collaboration, innovation, and commissioning through a diverse lens.
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We're Hiring: Office Administrator
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The Reva and David Logan Foundation seeks a highly motivated, resourceful self-starter to join its small staff as a full-time Office Administrator. This position will provide critical administrative and operational support. The Office Administrator will be required to work in-person five days a week at our Uptown office.
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LOIs are Open
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It's the moment many people have been waiting for. We are currently accepting Letters of Inquiry. All applicants must complete the LOI Eligibility Questionnaire before they receive the access code for the LOI application. We are a small team—LOIs will close again once we reach capacity.
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Open Applications
- Healing Arts Chicago Summit Creative Producer 2026: The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) invites professional artists, producers, organizers, and production teams with a demonstrated history of event production and management qualifications to apply for this Creative Producer opportunity. The deadline to apply is March 27th at 12PM CT.
- 2026 Bridge Performance Incubator: The Bridge Performance Incubator offers a focused, 10-week program designed for ten artists ready to deepen their practice and engage in thoughtful dialogue within a community of peers. Open to artists across experience levels—from those exploring performance for the first time to those refining an emerging practice—the Incubator supports each artist’s journey from concept to final presentation. The deadline to apply is March 29th at 5PM CT.
- 2027 Creative Capital Open Call: The 2027 Creative Capital Open Call seeks proposals from individual artists in all 50 states for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature. The Creative Capital Award ($50,000) provides individual artists with unrestricted project grants for the creation of innovative, original, and imaginative new artistic works. The State of the Art Prize ($10,000) aims to recognize and support one artist from every U.S. state and inhabited territory. The deadline to apply is April 2nd at 2PM CT.
- Resilient Chicago Fund: This Request for Proposals is designed for organizations or partnerships that want to rethink, redesign or test new ways of delivering essential benefits and services within food, shelter, healthcare or safety systems. The Fund is especially interested in proposals that go beyond small adjustments and explore how services are structured, financed and delivered in practice. Proposals should show a willingness to challenge long‑standing assumptions and explore models that offer a better experience for the people who rely on these systems. The deadline to apply is April 17th at 11:59 PM CT.
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Democracy for Sale: “After the story was published, I expected serious repercussions. We had shown how easily Westminster can be infiltrated, and how cheaply. We had shown how former politicians trade on their political connections without doing due diligence on who is paying them ... I was wrong."
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Airwars: "The U.S. military’s admission would mark the first time a military has ever acknowledged civilian harm arising from AI-assisted strikes. Other nations have used AI technologies to identify targets for strikes – most prominently Israel during the war in Gaza – but have never officially accepted killing civilians in those strikes."
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Reveal News: "'Two veteran journalists set out to document Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health care system: hospitals attacked, medical workers killed, doctors detained and held for long periods without criminal charges. The BBC had commissioned the film. But their Palestinian sources in Gaza and the West Bank were skeptical."
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: "At first glance, he looks like a rising rapper courting controversy. Except Danny Bones is not real. He is an AI-generated persona ... We can reveal that some of its Danny Bones content was repurposed for the recent Gorton and Denton byelection campaign by the far-right party Advance UK, which paid the Node Project to produce its main campaign video."
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InvestigateEurope: "For some students, a false absence is a bureaucratic irritation. For others, it could threaten their family’s access to welfare. In Brazil, eligibility for the Bolsa Família program depends in part on school attendance, and in Paraná such records are now largely generated by an algorithm."
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We have an open call for content from our partners to highlight the brilliant work they're doing in the community. If you are a current grantee or partner with The Reva and David Logan Foundation, please send your content to Sabrina Boggs, Communications Coordinator at sabrina(at)loganfdn(dot)org. Please note that we will not share fundraising campaigns.
Thanks for reading, and see you next time!
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