Two organizations that help young Chicagoans overcome challenges through mentorship and skill building will receive the 2021 MacArthur Annual Staff Award. Guitars Over Guns and Ladies of Virtue will receive $50,000 in general operating support for their work to help students become leaders who create positive impact in their communities.
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MacArthur President John Palfrey shares the values that drive how we work and discusses our commitment to be accountable to our values and to our community.
When I arrived at MacArthur in the fall of 2019, it was clear that values animate our Staff to carry out our mission. MacArthur’s…
René Celaya of Sesame Workshop and Marianne Stone of International Rescue Committee share lessons for early childhood interventions in crisis situations from Ahlan Simsim’s third year.
Year three of Ahlan Simsim put our program’s flexibility to the test. In February 2020, we debuted the first season of Ahlan Simsim, a…
This September and October, we recognize the impact of Hispanic Americans on the history and culture of the United States.
MacArthur Fellows of Hispanic or Latin American descent are tackling a number of issues in a wide range of fields, and have displayed exceptional creativity in the forty years of…
Urmi Sengupta, MacArthur Foundation, Chris Jurgens, Omidyar Network, and Adam Connaker, The Rockefeller Foundation write about the ambitions of the Catalytic Capital Consortium Grantmaking.
Today, we are excited to announce 14 new awardees of the Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) Grantmaking program. Selected from a robust pool of research proposals submitted…
Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a federal holiday to celebrate the original stewards of the present-day United States, and to commemorate their histories and cultures. We are connected to Indigenous people in our hometown of Chicago, which is situated on the lands of the Potawatomi people:
We are committed to partnering with and supporting Indigenous people and nations as they continue to advocate for and maintain sovereignty and self-determination, educational opportunity, economic development, healthcare, cultural preservation and promotion, and more.
Check out how some of our grantees and partners commemorated the day:
MacArthur is contributing $10 million to an international philanthropic initiative to reduce methane emissions around the world. The more than $200 million fund is the largest private pledge to date to address the powerful greenhouse gas that drives at least 25 percent of today’s warming.
It includes support for the Global Methane Pledge, spearheaded by the United States and European Union to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030 and 50 percent by 2050.
Black in AI started as an email to several people. Now it’s a global movement building pathways for Black people and other underrepresented communities.
The only Black engineer at the startup where she worked, Artificial Intelligence researcher Inioluwa Deborah Raji was shocked by the lack of concern over what she…
This weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times gave a fall rundown of the arts and culture scene in Chicago — dance, drama, and more — and featured many of the MacArthur Fellows and grantees that we support!
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These creative and inspiring individuals have shown exceptional creativity, and will each receive a $625,000, no-strings-attached grant.
This afternoon we announced the 2021 MacArthur Fellows! As MacArthur’s Cecilia Conrad said, “this class of 25 Fellows helps us reimagine what’s possible. They demonstrate that creativity has no boundaries. It happens in all fields of endeavor, among the relatively young and more seasoned, in Iowa and Puerto Rico.”
Here’s how the 2021 MacArthur Fellows reacted to the announcement:
