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MacArthur Award for Effective and Innovative Institutions

2008 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions

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.  Those with operating budgets of $1 million or less are awarded a $350,000 grant. Those with operating budgets between $1 - $2.5 million receive a $500,000 award.
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The 2008 award winners are:

  • Juvenile Law Center
  • Building a Fairer and More Effective Juvenile Justice System
    (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • Project Match
  • Supporting and Encouraging Self-Sufficiency
    (Chicago, Illinois)
  • Sangath
  • Transforming Community Health and Mental Health Programs
    (Goa, India)
  • Tany Meva Foundation
  • Balancing Conservation and Human Needs on the "Eighth Continent"
    (Antananarivo, Madagascar)

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