MacArthur Foundation

🎉 Meet the 2024 MacArthur Fellows! These 22 exceptionally creative individuals redefine their fields with imagination and intention. They shift how we connect to one another, through our shared history and our stories. #MacFellow The 2024 MacArthur Fellows are: 🌾 Loka Ashwood, sociologist 💻 Ruha Benjamin, transdisciplinary scholar and writer 🎤 Justin Vivian Bond, artist and performer 📝 Jericho Brown, poet 🎧 Tony Cokes, media artist 📱 Nicola Dell, computer and information scientist 🎻 Johnny Gandelsman, violinist and producer 🎥 Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker 📖 Juan Felipe Herrera, poet, educator, and writer 📚 Ling Ma, fiction writer 📜 Jennifer L. Morgan, historian 🦎 Martha Muñoz, evolutionary biologist 📓 Shailaja Paik, historian 🪲 Joseph Parker, evolutionary biologist 🎨 Ebony G. Patterson, multimedia artist 🩰 Shamel Pitts, dancer and choreographer 📷 Wendy Red Star, visual artist 🎒 Jason Reynolds, children’s and young adult writer ⚖️ Dorothy Roberts, legal scholar and public policy researcher 🪐 Keivan Stassun, science educator and astronomer 🐋 Benjamin Van Mooy, oceanographer ♿ Alice Wong, writer, editor, and disability justice activist Learn more about the Fellows and their work on our website: https://lnkd.in/gGEsYSJY

We recently gathered at Kehrein Center of the Arts on Chicago’s West Side to share info about our Arts and Culture Loan Fund (ACLF), which aims to strengthen the financial capacity of small and medium-sized arts and culture organizations with loans to address cash flow shortages. Find out more 👇 https://lnkd.in/gT6asT-u

📰 Bold ideas wanted: Press Forward’s next grant round will invest up to $20 million in solutions that make it easier to start and sustain local news outlets. Rapid changes have impacted every aspect of the local news business, including how outlets produce stories, reach audiences, raise revenue and cultivate talent. Non-profits can now submit ideas that strengthen local news's essential infrastructure by addressing common challenges newsrooms face in: ▪️ Building Audience ▪️ Strengthening Operations ▪️ Cultivating Talented People & ▪️ Generating Revenue Learn more about #PressForward’s Open Call on Infrastructure! 🔗 pressforward.news/opencall

"To hear my words with music is logical, because as a poet, I’m already creating music, without music." #MacFellow Sandra Cisneros is collaborating with composer Derek Bermel on an opera-adaptation of her 1984 novel, “The House on Mango Street.” Visit Chicago Tribune to learn more about the opera, which premieres next year at The Glimmerglass Festival. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gSwAjz-Z

Ada Lovelace Institute recently explored how AI was used in elections in the first half of 2024 in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Portugal, South Africa, Indonesia, and Taiwan. Their tracking identified five categories of use and the types of disinformation it produced. Learn more about how AI is changing the political landscape. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gYbk99_k

Save the Date: Our Open Call on Infrastructure opens Nov. 13 and will support solutions to the shared challenges local outlets face in producing and disseminating the news. With technology evolving rapidly, local newsrooms are navigating new ways to create content, engage with audiences, secure revenue, and develop talent. Meanwhile, the dramatic decline in staffing at independent outlets has left many journalists and news leaders stretched thin. We’re particularly interested in ideas—either new or replicable—that can help make newsrooms more resilient and sustainable by addressing one of four key areas: 🔹Audience  🔹Operations  🔹People & 🔹Revenue. These ideas should strengthen the shared infrastructure at the local, regional, or national levels. Eligibility is limited to nonprofits. More details and the application will be available on our website starting Nov. 13. Register now for our first Information Session at 3 p.m. Nov. 22: https://bit.ly/4eaTIGO

Thinking of all Vets today, with gratitude. 🏠 Built for Zero shows when we come together and collaborate, even the complex issue of veteran homelessness becomes solvable. At MacArthur Foundation we’re proud to support the movement to solve homelessness. Learn more at Community Solutions, Inc. https://lnkd.in/gWhE_8Bc #HomelessnessIsSolvable #VeteransDay

The Just Home Project—a partnership between MacArthur and the Urban Institute—is expanding to more cities and counties to support community-driven efforts to break the link between homelessness and incarceration. $3 million in funding will directly support the work in selected communities, and $2.7 million will support the Urban Institute’s technical assistance work and its coordination of the program. Learn more about Just Home ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gRqyK9mt

We recently launched the West Africa Democracy Fund (WADF), along with partners Ford Foundation, Luminate, and Open Society Foundations, to help realize the democratic aspirations of West Africans. The $20 million fund will support activities that aim to increase citizen engagement with democracy and political transitions. Visit our website to learn more about the WADF. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gdn7Uptp

A new class at Yale Divinity School’s Center for Public Theology & Public Policy aims to prepare the next generation of ministers for public ministry and leadership. Taught by #MacFellow Rev. Dr. William Barber, the class encourages students to engage in social justice issues beyond the pews. Read more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gEM3FJYm