MacArthur Foundation

Leadership & Staff

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Debra Schwartz Director of Program Related Investments, MacArthur Foundation

• Managing Director, Impact Investments ('95→?)*

Valerie Chang Program Director MacArthur Foundation

• Managing Director Programs ('03→?)*

Andrew Young Policy Research NYU GovLab

• Network Coordinator, Research Network for Opening Governance ('14→?)

Stefaan Verhulst Policy Analyst on Technology and Innovation

• Chief of Research, Research Network Opening Governance ('13→?)

Jeff Ubois Program Officer MacArthur Foundation

• Program Officer ('11→?)*

Jonathan F Fanton President of the MacArthur Foundation; former president of the New School

• President (Sep 1 '99→?)

Julia M Stasch President of MacArthur Foundation

• Vice President for US Programs*

Cecilla Munoz Former Obama Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council

• Board member ('19→?) [+1]

• MacArthur Fellow 2000*

John Palfrey President of the MacArthur Foundation

• President*

Alaina Harkness Social Policy Urban Context / Governance

• Senior Program Officer, Cities ('09→'16)*

Board Members

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Olufunmilayo Olopade Physician, oncologist and geneticist

• Board member ('16→?)

Juan Salgado City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor; former CEO of Instituto del Progreso Latino

• Board member ('20→?)

James M Manyika Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

• Board member ('17→?)

Stephanie Bell-Rose Head, TIAA Institute; Former Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Former President, The Goldman Sachs Foundation

• Board member ('21→?)

Julie T Katzman Former EVP, InterAmerican Development Bank

• trustee ('12→?)

Daniel Huttenlocher Inaugural Dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing; former Dean, Cornell Tech

• Board member (Jan 1 '18→?)

Paul Klingenstein founder, Aberdare Ventures

• trustee ('13→?)

Martha L Minow Dean, Harvard Law School

• trustee ('12→?)

Donald R Hopkins Associate executive director for health programs at The Carter Center

• Board Member

Alan B Krueger Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Treasury

• Board Member

Donations

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Safety + Justice Challenge MacArthur Foundation Prison "Reform" Initiative, 5-Year $148 Million

• Donation/Grant · 148,000,000 USD

International Rescue Committee American branch of the European-based International Relief Association (IRA) founded in 1933

• an investor · 100,000,000 USD ('16)*

Sesame Street Predecessor of Sesame Workshop, Renamed 2000

• Donation/Grant · 100,000,000 USD ('17)*

Benefit Chicago Chicago Region Impact Investment Fund

• Grant · 50,000,000 USD ('16)

Collective Shift MacArthur Foundation Spinoff to Redesign Social Systems "For a Connect Age"

• Grant-Seed Money · 25,000,000 USD (Oct '15)

Sierra Club Environmental advocacy non-profit

• Grant · 15,000,000 USD ('15)

Vera Institute of Justice Social justice advocacy group

• Grants · 11,755,000 USD ('89→'17)

Pretrial Justice Institute

• Multiple Grants · 11,200,000 USD ('11→'19) [+1]

• Grant · 1,200,000 USD ('16)

Environmental Defense Fund Environmental advocacy group

• Grant · 10,000,000 USD ('15)

The Nature Conservancy The richest environmental advocacy org in US

• Grant · 10,000,000 USD ('15)

Holdings

Research Network on Opening Governance MacArthur Foundation Initiative to Use Big Data for Government Problem Solving

• Owner ('14→?)

Lever for Change John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation affiliate

• Owner

Child Organizations

Smart Chicago Collaborative

• project of (past)

Breakthrough Learning In A Digital Age Connie Yowell - MacArthur Foundation Set Up Learning Ecosystems

• Child Org ('09→?)*

Safety + Justice Challenge MacArthur Foundation Prison "Reform" Initiative, 5-Year $148 Million

• Child Org*

Digital Media and Learning Initiative Grant Making Program of the MacArthur Foundation

• 2004 ('04→'17)*

Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative Evidence-Based Program Promoting Lean Spending for Public Services

• Program ('11→?)

Members

Confluence Philanthropy Inc Oakland Based Membership Promoting International Deployment of Impact Capital

• Member

Memberships

US SIF (USSIF) Non Profit Hub Promoting Social Impact

• Member

Confluence Philanthropy Inc Oakland Based Membership Promoting International Deployment of Impact Capital

• Member

City Tech Collaborative

• Member

Funders for LGBTQ Issues Philanthropic Network

• Member

Media Impact Funders Social Impact Investment in Media

• Member

Living Cities Inc

• Member*

Games for Change Incubator to Use Video Games to Drive Social Change

• Partner

Impact Management Project Global Forum Building Consensus on Measuring Social Impact

• Advisor*

US Impact Investing Alliance Industry Led Organization to Catalyze Development of this Market

• Member President's Council ('17→?)*

Mission Investors Exchange Inc

• Sustaining Member ('17→?) [+1]

• Co-Founder ('05→?)*

Services & Transactions

Hive Chicago learning network founded 2009 by MacArthur Foundation

• Service/Transaction

Tucker Warren Partner, Hamilton Place; former communications director, FCIC

• Counsel

Miscellaneous Relationships

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CREO Syndicate A small, secretive, nonprofit club funded by climate-focused billionaires and elites

• Affiliation

W. Haywood Burns Institute Juvenile Justice Reform Non-Profit, San Francisco

• Affiliation

Climate Resilience Fund

• Affiliation

NetGain Partnership

• Affiliation

Vital Strategies Changes To Global Public Health Systems

• Contest*

Jose Luis Castro CEO Vital Strategies

• Partner*

Institute for Sustainable Communities

• Affiliation

CDC Foundation

• Affiliation

City of Chicago Midwestern city with more than 2.7 million residents on Lake Michigan

• Headquarters / Grant Focus

Stealth Assessment: Measuring and Supporting Learning in Video Games Gates Funded Study for MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Effort on Gamified Assessment

• Prepared for ('13→?)*