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MacArthur Award for Effective and Innovative Institutions

Birdhouses, credit Patrick Barry, The New Communities Program

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MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, 2007

 

Expanding on its tradition of encouraging individual creativity and building effective institutions to help address some of the world’s most challenging problems, the MacArthur Foundation selects a group of small non-profit organizations around the world for this prestigious award each year.  Winners are awarded up to $500,000. 
Read more about the award.

The 2007 award winners are:

 
  • Woodstock Institute
  • Increasing and protecting financial assets of low-income people and communities
    (Chicago, Illinois)
 Related Documents:

PRESS RELEASE: MacArthur Announces 2007 Winner of Award for Creative & Effective Institutions (March 29, 2007)

Award Winners 2006

"The Importance of Institutions," remarks by Jonathan Fanton at the Chicago Donor's Forum Luncheon (June 22, 2006)

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