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$100 Million for Equity: MacArthur’s New Big Bet and Mandate

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Alex Daniels Ryan Donnell, Sesame Workshop The first 100&Change challenge was awarded in 2017 to a collaboration between Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee to provide educational programming to refugee children in the Middle East.

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MacArthur Offers $100 Million For One Good Program

The NonProfit Times

MacArthur Foundation’s $100 million 100&Change competition has launched with roughly 1,000 nonprofits expected to vie for the winner take all award. The award will be announced in late 2025. There were 800 applicants for the 2021 competition and 1,400 for the first award in 2017. Round Three of the John D.

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

The overwhelming majority of government grants are awarded by a panel of outside reviewers, including 80% of the grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over 90% of those awarded by the National Science Foundation or NSF (Bendiscioli, 2019). What other options are there? This remains controversial.

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The Maui wildfires: A record in disaster philanthropy, an opportunity to ‘get it right’ 

Candid

Only 2017 saw a higher total during this 10-year period, with $266.4 million awarded in response to non-epidemic disasters including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and the earthquake in Mexico. In 2017, Candid and CDP tracked pledges totaling $531 million for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. funders contributed $266.2

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Start 2017 by Building Your Tech Skills and Community

Tech Soup

Tuesday, January 3, 2017. Wednesday, January 4, 2017. Friday, January 6, 2017. Tuesday, January 10, 2017. Wednesday, January 11, 2017. Thursday, January 12, 2017. Friday, January 13, 2017. Saturday, January 14, 2017. Monday, January 16, 2017. Wednesday, January 18, 2017.

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Foundation giving and payout in 2022: What changed and what’s next?

Candid

From 2015 to 2019, the annual change in grant dollars ranged from a high of 7% in 2017 to less than 0.1% Source: Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, 2017–2023. The median foundation awarded 4% more grant dollars. (We The survey focuses on large foundations because they account for the vast proportion of grant dollars awarded.

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

If all pledges are fulfilled, $272 million is significantly more than was pledged for all storms in some yearsincluding 2017 (which saw Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria), when just $255.7 Funders that have yet to award grants might consider investing in capacity building and resilient rebuilding. And thats just two of 2024s storms.

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