Disagree with the President on foreign policy? Have better ideas on averting the fiscal cliff? Well, here's your chance to throw your in your two cent...
You can imagine how I feel every time I hear a Public Broadcasting underwriting announcement in which those big shots at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation claim my vision as their own.
The Great Social Enterprise Census is open for business and will provide the data needed to support sustainable growth and job creation in this emerging sector of the economy. If what your enterprise does, or how and why you do it, is motivated by social purpose, now is the time to join a movement.
Impact investing is not for the faint of heart. The practice is unconventional and unpredictable. It requires key actors to step outside their comfort zones, in underdeveloped markets.
Big commercial art fairs have multiplied to the point that today, no one can say precisely how many take place around the world each year. Hundreds? No, more like thousands.
Let me first say there's nothing truly ugly about the MacArthur Genius grants. In fact, they're downright beautiful. They're the modern-day patron with no strings attached. So what makes them ugly?
Winners for the The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship -- commonly known as the "genius awards" -- were leaked today on the New ...
Junot DĆaz and Dinaw Mengestu have been named MacArthur Foundation geniuses according to a tweet put out by their publisher, Riverhead Books, and an ...
What this film has is the vast emotional power of truth and the ability to make people understand the true burden that the criminal justice system places on our most disadvantaged citizens.
A virtual army 19 million strong on Twitter and 48 million strong on Facebook, Lady Gaga's supporters are primed and excited, and through her new Foundation, they can get the help they need to make a real-world difference for themselves and their communities.
CHICAGO -- Fifteen organizations have been named recipients of the 2012 "Award for Creative and Effective Institutions" by the MacArthur Foundation an...
Today's favorable income tax rates make it attractive for the mega-rich to give their dollars away. But how much of this private funding for social good wields influence over public policy?
We all yearn for great figures in art, politics and culture, yet we are resigned to their impossibility. The hugely influential Steve Jobs was honor...
It's time to "blow-up" our antiquated college admissions process. The archaic ritual of getting into college by SAT/ACT scores and GPAs has outlived its usefulness.
CHICAGO -- A Chicago skyscraper architect, a New York City children's choir founder and a North Carolina scientist who studies how to prevent sports-r...
Author Shekerjian interviewed 40 "geniuses" for this book, all of whom had one thing in common: they each received a call one day informing them that they would receive a large amount of money, no strings attached.
The prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 11 organizations recipients of the 2010 "Award for Creative and Effective Institut...
Since joining the Getty Museum in 2008 as assistant director for education, Toby Tannenbaum has expanded its efforts to get contemporary artists involved in education projects. The most recent, Open Studio, is a set of free, online art lesson plans
The famed MacArthur Fellows Program, which awards "Genius" grants to exceptional inventors, innovators and other creative types, has announced 23 new ...
The children book creator David Macaulay is a genius. Really. A recipient of one of the coveted MacArthur Fellowships, the so-called Genius Awards, h...