LisaJan 27
Anyway I broke all my generational curses and I righted the karma of my entire lineage. I did a bunch of stuff that #MacArthurFoundation can tell you about now.
IndieAuthors.Social NewsNov 6

News Summary: $50M Literary Arts Fund to Support Writers; Bluesky Surpasses 40M Users and Adds Dislike Feature

Like many stories as they first break, I don’t have full details of what a major new $50 million initiative will actually offer. But the Literary Arts Fund has committed to giving that much money to nonprofit organizations…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/literary-arts-fund/

#Bluesky #dislikefeature #LiteraryArtsFund #MacArthurFoundation #socialmediagrowth

News Summary: $50M Literary Arts Fund to Support Writers; Bluesky Surpasses 40M Users and Adds Dislike Feature

The new $50 million Literary Arts Fund will support nonprofits that help writers; Bluesky reaches 40 million users and adds a dislike feature.

The Self-Publishing Advice Center
ALLi Blog (unofficial)Nov 6
News Summary: $50M Literary Arts Fund to Support Writers; Bluesky Surpasses 40M Users and Adds Dislike Feature https://selfpublishingadvice.org/literary-arts-fund/ #MacArthurFoundation #socialmediagrowth #LiteraryArtsFund #dislikefeature #writergrants #Bluesky #News
News Summary: $50M Literary Arts Fund to Support Writers; Bluesky Surpasses 40M Users and Adds Dislike Feature

The new $50 million Literary Arts Fund will support nonprofits that help writers; Bluesky reaches 40 million users and adds a dislike feature.

The Self-Publishing Advice Center
MFennVT has movedOct 16
My initial thought on this #MacArthurFoundation announcement of a $500M push to build a "people-centered future for #AI" is too little, too late, but perhaps I'm being overly cynical? https://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/humanity-ai-commits-500-million-to-build-a-people-centered-future-for-ai
Humanity AI Commits $500 Million to Build a People-Centered Future for AI

Show threadAlan McConchieOct 10

The #MacArthurFoundation videos for Tonika Lewis Johnson and Margaret Wickens Pearce are excellent summaries of their work:

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2025/tonika-lewis-johnson

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2025/margaret-wickens-pearce

#Cartography #mapping #GeniusGrant #MacArthur #MacFound #MacArthurFellow #maps

Tonika Lewis Johnson

Documenting disparities in Chicago’s neighborhoods through participatory art projects that empower residents to confront and disrupt these inequities.

Adam CoffmanOct 8
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2025/lauren-k-williams
#MacArthurFoundation
Lauren K. Williams

Uncovering transformative connections between algebraic combinatorics and problems in other areas of math and physics.

VarietyOct 2, 2024

‘Reservation Dogs’ Co-Creator Sterlin Harjo Among 2024 MacArthur Genius Grant Recipients
#Variety #News #MacarthurFoundation #SterlinHarjo

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/sterlin-harjo-macarthur-genius-grant-reservation-dogs-1236162263/

Sterlin Harjo Among Winners of MacArthur Foundation's 'Genius Grants'

'Reservation Dogs' co-creator and showrunner Sterlin Harjo is among the 22 recipients of the MacArthur Foundation's 2024 'Genius Grant' fellowships.

Variety
Flipboard Culture DeskOct 1, 2024

22 "exceptionally creative people" will each receive no-strings-attached grants of $800,000, the MacArthur Foundation announced. @npr breaks down who's on the list, from disability justice activist Alice Wong to "Reservation Dogs" co-creator Sterlin Harjo.

Link: https://flip.it/yFh.lE

#Culture #Creativity #Arts #Television #MacArthurFoundation #ReservationDogs

Elisa CoghlanNov 4, 2023

MacArthur Foundation aims to boost local journalism with $500 million fund. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/press-forward-macarthur-foundation-local-news/675847/

#localNews #journalism #MacArthurFoundation #information

Why We're Rescuing Local News

It’s a brutally hard business and it doesn’t make money. But our democracy needs small-town papers.

The Atlantic
Laurie_SnyderSep 9, 2023

From the cradle of liberty, a new battle begins. "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and The Lenfest Institute for Journalism join Press Forward to fight the decline in local news coverage nationwide:

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/press-forward-lenfest-institute-journalism-philanthropy-american-democracy-20230907.html

#Journalism #freedomofthepress #FirstAmendment #PressForward #ThePhiladelphiaInquirer #TheLenfestInstituteForJournalism #MacArthurFoundation #KnightFoundation #WilliamAndFloraHewlettFoundation #CarnegieCorporation

How Philadelphia is helping lead a national movement to support local journalism and democracy

A coalition of 22 foundations will invest a half billion dollars to support local news. It is a national movement that Philadelphia helped inspire and that we should embrace, Jim Friedlich writes.

The Philadelphia Inquirer