Grantee Profile
I Learn America
Grants to I Learn America
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$125,000Active Strategy
2011 (Inactive Grant)
Journalism & Media
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — In support of "I Learn America," a documentary film about immigrant integration from the perspective and experience of five immigrant high school students and their teachers.
The MacArthur Foundation awarded I Learn America $125,000 between 1978 and 2016.
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MacArthur Awards Documentary Film Grants
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I Learn America
At the International High School at Lafayette, a NYC public high school dedicated to newly arrived immigrants from all over the world, five teenagers strive to master English, adapt to families they haven't seen in ... More