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Supporting Nonfiction Media Makers from Diverse Backgrounds
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Supporting creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world.
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Awarding $10 Million to Help Strengthen Chicago Organizations and Prevent Violence

What's New
Semi-Finalist Perspectives
100&Change
Working Together to Grow Small Ideas
In The Media
MacArthur Fellows
"Wagner, Incest, and “Game of Thrones”"
The New Yorker
Related fellow: Alex Ross
In The Media
Journalism & Media
"For At-Risk Boys Facing Racism, Poverty in Rural South, What’s Next?"
Salon
In The Media
Journalism & Media
"‘Raising Bertie’ Paints Portrait of Hope and Hardship for Three Young Men"
PBS NewsHour
From the field
Chicago Commitment
An Introduction to the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities
In The Media
100&Change
"Podcasts: What $100 Million Could Do"
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
In The Media
MacArthur Fellows
"Revis and Vandermark Start a Storm at Green Mill"
Chicago Tribune
Related fellow: Ken Vandermark
In The Media
MacArthur Fellows
"Vijay Iyer On Jazz's 'History Of Defiance,' His Influences And Playing In A Sextet"
NPR
Related fellow: Vijay Iyer
In The Media
MacArthur Fellows
"Gig Alert: Dafnis Prieto Big Band at The Jazz Standard"
WNYC
Related fellow: Dafnis Prieto
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Eight Bold Solutions to Compete for $100 Million Grant

Proposals address challenges ranging from eliminating needless blindness to educating children displaced by conflict, in places from Nigeria to Nepal to the United States.

Meet the 2016 MacArthur Fellows

23 Extraordinarily Creative People Who Inspire Us All
Sarah Stillman
Long-Form Journalist
Perspectives - Tara Magner
Chicago Responds to Federal Immigration Orders
Nuclear Challenges
Awarding $4.4 Million to Reduce Nuclear Risks
On Nigeria
Nearly $9 Million to Advance Accountability and Reduce Corruption in Nigeria
Daniel Huttenlocher Elected to Chair MacArthur Board of Directors
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