A 2017 100&Change Finalist, Changing the Way We Care demonstrates family care is critical to preventing separation Sruti, a loving mother of two young children in India, experienced the devastating loss of her husband to complications from COVID-19 in May 2020. The severe financial impact of this loss nearly forced…

This summer, MacArthur Fellow Camilo José Vergara reached out to us. …

MacArthur Staff Yvonne Darkwa-Poku, Janice Dunbar-Travis, Kalle Eko, Phillis Hill, Ken Jones, and Hauwa Kazeem share their intellectual and emotional reflections on the Advancing Justice: Reparations & Racial Healing Summit in Ghana. Grantees funded by MacArthur’s Equitable Recovery Initiative convened in Accra, Ghana for the Advancing Justice: Reparations &…

Three groups foster filmmaking to break stereotypes, transform the way communities see themselves, and spark change. When 17-year-old aspiring filmmaker Kyra Higgins started brainstorming stories about rural Appalachia, her first ideas came from groups in her comfort zone. Then she spoke with other young people pursuing their dreams to make…

Our Nuclear Challenges program has made $5 million in final capstone grants. The 12 new grants will build on the 28 capstone grants announced previously by cultivating diversity, leading at the nexus of nuclear and climate risks, and preserving support for critical work in the nuclear field. …

The Safety and Justice Challenge is bringing together communities across the country to further efforts to reimagine and rebuild local criminal justice systems to reduce jail incarceration and eliminate racial disparities. In one of the largest expansions of the initiative since it began, the Safety and Justice Challenge is launching…

In 2017, HarvestPlus team members initially shed tears over missing their shot at $100 million to solve ‘hidden hunger’ in Africa. Five years later, the organization is becoming a global force in addressing malnutrition. HarvestPlus, the global program providing nutrient-enriched food crops to people suffering from malnourishment, has a specific…

Action for the Climate Emergency brings young people into the climate movement and creates a ‘rad’ social influencer and activist community. Surrounded by coal-fired power plants and other polluting, planet-warming industries, Tonyisha Harris remembers that kids in her Chicago South Shore neighborhood who did not have asthma were considered weird. …