All proceeds from Piven fundraising events benefit the Piven Theatre Workshop, an acclaimed Chicago institution with 35 years of excellence in training children and adults in the theatre arts. Annually training 1,000 students and providing approximately $30,000 in need-based scholarships, Piven maintains an Equity theatre, a Performance Lab nurturing emerging artists, and extensive outreach and residency programs throughout the Chicago area. The Piven Family has been designated "Chicago's first family of acting," named Artists of the Year by the Chicago Tribune and Piven Theatre has been recently applauded as "the nation's foremost acting school for children" by Northshore Magazine.