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Our Response and Support for Grantees
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Carrying out our work with a sense of urgency and flexible approaches that enable us to apply what we are learning.
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Sharing the results of our grantmaking and the lessons we learn as we carry out our work.
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Philanthropy, Privilege, and Racial Justice

MacArthur Staff and President John Palfrey reflect on and share responses to racist events and the systems that uphold it.
Chicago Commitment
Responding to Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19
Mexico
Using Context to Break Systemic Human Rights Violations
Climate Solutions
Linking Climate Change to Catastrophic Weather Events, in Real Time
Challenging the Spread of Racism During COVID-19
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Announcing the Top 100 Proposals for $100 Million Grant

Meet the 2019 MacArthur Fellows

26 Extraordinary People Demonstrate the Power of Individual Creativity
Andrea Dutton
Geochemist and Paleoclimatologist
Grantees In the Media
"Massive Funding Has Been Donated to Help Fight the Coronavirus in Africa. This Nonprofit Is Trying to Keep Track of It."
CNN
Related Grantee: Connected Development Initiative
"Americans See Climate as a Concern, Even Amid Coronavirus Crisis"
The New York Times
Related Grantee: Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
"The New START Verification Regime: How Good Is It?"
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Related Grantee: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
"Bryan Stevenson on the Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests"
The New Yorker
Bryan Stevenson , 1995 MacArthur Fellow
"Commentary: Looting Isn’t The Answer, But Organizing Is"
Chicago Tribune
Related Grantee: My Block, My Hood, My City
"“I Cannot Sell You This Painting.” Artist Titus Kaphar on his George Floyd TIME Cover"
Time
Titus Kaphar, 2018 MacArthur Fellow
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