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Multimedia Challenge Seeks Your Radical Ideas On Democracy

Posted 02.11.2013 | Impact

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...

The MacArthur Foundation Stole My Idea for a More Just, Verdant and Peaceful World

James Napoli | Posted 04.03.2013 | Comedy
James Napoli

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 Facts on U.S. Social Enterprise

Ben Thornley | Posted 01.08.2013 | Impact
Ben Thornley

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.

The Pioneering Impact Investor

Ben Thornley | Posted 12.22.2012 | Impact
Ben Thornley

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.

MacArthur Foundation Lays Egg

Steven Clifford | Posted 12.07.2012 | Comedy
Steven Clifford

I am resilient. I will recover from MacArthur's snub, as I do every year. But what message do they send to America's budding artists and scientists?

The Paris-Los Angeles Art Affair

Edward Goldman | Posted 12.05.2012 | Arts
Edward Goldman

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.

The Ugliness of the MacArthurs: The Reality Behind Artistic Jealousy

Jade Simmons | Posted 12.05.2012 | Arts
Jade Simmons

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?

MacArthur Genius Grants Announced

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 10.11.2012 | Arts

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: MacArthur Genius

Posted 12.01.2012 | Books

Junot DĆ­az and Dinaw Mengestu have been named MacArthur Foundation geniuses according to a tweet put out by their publisher, Riverhead Books, and an ...

The Cooler Bandits

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn | Posted 09.11.2012 | Arts
Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn

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.

Joining Lady Gaga's New Foundation To Build A Kinder World

Connie Yowell | Posted 04.30.2012 | Home
Connie Yowell

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.

15 Creative Nonprofits Get Huge Grants From MacArthur Foundation

AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 02.16.2012 | Impact

CHICAGO -- Fifteen organizations have been named recipients of the 2012 "Award for Creative and Effective Institutions" by the MacArthur Foundation an...

FoundED

Susan Sawyers | Posted 02.26.2012 | Impact
Susan Sawyers

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?

Can 'Work Of Art' Deliver?

Glen Helfand | Posted 12.16.2011 | Arts
Glen Helfand

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...

Digital Badges: The Great Equalizer?

Lydia Dobyns | Posted 12.21.2011 | Home
Lydia Dobyns

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.

'Genius Grants' Announced

AP | By CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 11.19.2011 | Chicago

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...

Two N.J. Principals With Vastly Different Views On Social Media In School

Liz Willen | Posted 05.27.2011 | Home
Liz Willen

Sheninger's embrace of social media was a big turnaround for a principal who had once banned cell phones.

Uncommon Genius

Jane Chafin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Jane Chafin

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.

MacArthur Foundation Surprises 11 Creative Nonprofits With Big Grants

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

CHICAGO — A group that promotes sexual health in India, a Chicago-based center that fights to end poverty and an environmental group in the smal...

Sargent Shriver's Chicago-Based Non-Profit Awarded MacArthur Grant

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

The prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 11 organizations recipients of the 2010 "Award for Creative and Effective Institut...

Toby Tannenbaum Talks About Getty's "Open Studio" Program

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Bettina Korek

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

Camille Utterback and the Technology of Interactive Art

Edward Lee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Edward Lee

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Meet The 2010 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

The famed MacArthur Fellows Program, which awards "Genius" grants to exceptional inventors, innovators and other creative types, has announced 23 new ...

What is David Macaulay Up To?

Monica Edinger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Monica Edinger

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...

Producing Sparks of Learning

Marsha L. Semmel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Marsha L. Semmel

For many of us, sparks of learning happened not only in the classroom, but in a garden, a park, and especially in a library or museum.