• $350,000Active Strategy

  2013 (Duration 1 year)

  Digital Media & Learning

  EVANSTON, ILLINOIS — To support FUSE, a program to engage young people in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields through easy-to-accomplish, hands-on exploratory challenges.

• $500,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 2 years, 3 months)

  Community & Economic Development

  EVANSTON, ILLINOIS — Northwestern University's Institute for Policy Research is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute that conducts research in many public policy areas, including law enforcement, criminal justice, and American policing. The Institute will evaluate a major reorganization and reform of the Chicago Police Department that seeks to engage public, private, and community leaders in creating a new model of policing for Chicago. Wesley Skogan, a preeminent scholar on police reform and the author of numerous studies of the Chicago Police Department, will lead the work.

• $3,900,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Housing

  EVANSTON, ILLINOIS — In support of the Research Network on How Housing Matters to Families and Children (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Northwestern University $4,750,000 between 2010 and 2013.