Editing MacArthur Foundation (section)

==Specific funding and projects==
===Stalker Human Rights Film Festival===
{{Progressivism}}The foundation awarded a total of around $850,000 in six separate grants to the [[Russian Guild of Film Directors]] between 2005 and 2014 to support the [[Stalker (film festival)|Stalker Human Rights Film Festival]] in [[Moscow]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Moscow Guild of Theater and Screen Actors | website=MacArthur Foundation | date=22 November 2021 | url=https://www.macfound.org/grantee/moscow-guild-of-theater-and-screen-actors-39243/ | access-date=4 September 2022}}</ref>

===100&Change===
In June 2016, the foundation requested "proposals promising real progress toward solving a critical problem of our time in any field or any location". The winning proposal would receive a $100&nbsp;million grant. Almost 2,000 proposals were submitted. In December 2017, the foundation announced that the winning proposal was submitted by the [[Sesame Workshop]] and the [[International Rescue Committee]]. The grant was applied to the education of Middle Eastern refugee children.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Steve |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-sesame-wins-macarthur-100-million-dollar-grant-challenge-1221-story.html |title=Sesame Workshop child refugee plan wins first MacArthur $100M challenge |date=December 20, 2017 |access-date=December 20, 2018 |work=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>

===The Just Home Project===
In May 2022, The MacArthur Foundation, partnered with the Urban Institute announced the launch of a housing stability program designed to break the links between housing instability and jail incarceration. The Just Home Project will provide the communities of Charleston County, South Carolina, Minnehaha County, South Dakota; The city and county of San Francisco; and Tulsa County, Oklahoma with $5 million in grant funding to create a unique plan to bring together government officials, non-profit partners, and impacted communities members to develop innovative approaches to this issue. MacArthur has awarded $3.2 million in support of the work in the selected communities and an additional $1.8 million will support the Urban Institute's technical assistance work.<ref>{{cite journal|date=20 May 2022|url=https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/macarthur-foundation-urban-institute-launch-housing-stability-program|title=MacArthur Foundation, Urban Institute launch housing stability program|journal=Philanthropy News Digest|access-date=20 May 2022}}</ref>