Rebuild Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming buildings and neighborhoods in South Side Chicago, sustaining cultural development and celebrating art.

In 2009, Theaster Gates founded Rebuild Foundation, aiming to collaborate with cities to transform vacant buildings into aesthetic and economical living and cultural spaces.

[3][4] The Stony Island Arts Bank holds different exhibits every month and preserves many artifacts important to Chicago's music history.

Rebuild Foundation directed the investment to the renovation of St. Laurence School in Chicago, which is based in the Stony Island Arts Bank.

[8] Dorchester Industries Apprentice Program[10] - South Side residents are given the opportunity to work along with local tradespeople, such as landscapers, contractors, masons, etc.

The Rebuild Foundation also coordinates some art programs with organizations like Little Black Pearl, a non-profit organization that works primarily in black communities on Chicago's South Side that works with urban youth to create a safe environment, positive role models, and provides rigorous programs and skill development activities and opportunities.

[15] The Black Cinema House is located on the South Side of Chicago and its purpose is to screen and discuss films made by the African American community.

[16] The Black Cinema House was created from an abandoned building in the Dorchester neighborhood of Chicago's South Side and took about a year to construct.

The BCH offers a video production class to the fifth graders at the South Shore Fine-Arts Academy in collaboration with the Community TV Network, a non-profit organization that focuses on youth and digital media.

[20] The Retreat explores how artists, performers, curators, historians and others play, pray, worship, commune, entertain, interrupt, celebrate, heal, mourn and invite unity.

The Listening House is a renovated South Side candy store that provides space for community programs and serves as an archive for Chicago institutions of older eras.