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This is an archived program page from the MacArthur Foundation describing a past initiative; it has limited direct relevance to AI safety but provides context on philanthropic funding in technology and information governance.
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Summary
The MacArthur Foundation's MACEI (Media and Communications in the Era of Information) program page documents a past grantmaking initiative focused on media, communications, and information technology policy. The program supported research and advocacy related to how information systems shape society, with relevance to emerging technology governance.
Key Points
- •Past MacArthur Foundation program focused on media, communications, and information technology policy
- •Supported grantmaking in areas related to digital information ecosystems and their societal impacts
- •Relevant as background context for understanding philanthropic funding in technology governance spaces
- •MacArthur Foundation has been a significant funder in technology policy and governance areas
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# MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions
Grantmaking recognized exceptional grantee organizations that generated provocative ideas, reframed debates, and provided new ways of looking at persistent problems.
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### Summary
The MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions (MACEI) invested in key organizations that were existing grantees in our core areas of work. The award aimed to advance progress on some of society’s most important problems and help position these organizations for long-term impact.
**From 2006 to 2016, we made 102 grants totaling $67 million**.
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The MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions recognizes exceptional NGOs and helps ensure their long-term sustainability.
### Background
We began making institutional grants in 1997 to support operating reserves, endowment funds, infrastructure investments, and other purposes that help ensure the long-term sustainability of organizations. They were intended to be an investment in the future of the organization. For about 10 years, the Foundation made one or two such investments a year, mostly to larger organizations.
Beginning in 2006, this concept became the MACEI program. It expanded to include smaller organizations to recognize that smaller or emerging organizations often generate the most provocative ideas. MACEI awards recognized organizations that reframed the debate or provided a new way of looking at persistent problems. Some are particularly effective at delivering services or challenging existing paradigms.
MACEI combined the large and small institutional grants into a single program. As a result, the grant sizes ranged between $200,000 and $1 million, depending on the size of the organization. The purpose of these grants remained the same as the early institutional grants: to recognize exceptional grantees and help ensure their sustainability long into the future. While this separate area of work has sunsetted, lessons learned from MACEI have been incorporated and integrated into existing grantmaking programs.
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