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$5 Million For Chicago Public Library Branch at Obama Presidential Center

Chicago Commitment
Leaders for a New Chicago
Human Rights
New Fund to Support Transitional Justice Efforts in Africa
Impact Investments
$150 Million in Catalytic Capital to Help Address Critical Social Challenges
Defending Human Rights in Mexico
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Chicago Stories

Rethinking Justice, via the Arts

Meet the 2018 MacArthur Fellows

25 Extraordinarily Creative People Who Inspire Us All
Vijay Gupta
Violinist and Social Justice Advocate
Grantees In the Media

Chicago Commitment
"Pop-up ‘Boxville’ Shipping Container Market Returns to Bronzeville"
Curbed Chicago

100&Change
"Who Wants $100 Million? MacFound’s Kristen Mack and Common Pool’s Jaison Morgan Discuss 100&Change"
Let's Hear It

Chicago Commitment
"What Is Bronzeville Without its Bronze Residents?"
Crain's Chicago Business

MacArthur Fellows
"At Historic Hearing, House Panel Explores Reparations"
The New York Times
Related fellow: Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015 MacArthur Fellow

Climate Solutions
"Yale Poll Finds Majority of Americans Think ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron and Other Fossil Fuel Companies Should Pay for Climate Change Damage"
Union of Concerned Scientists

Criminal Justice
"Liberating Criminal Justice Data: How a Florida Law Provides a Blueprint for the Nation"
ABA Journal
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