MacArthur Foundation Offers $100 Million For DEI Tack

The MacArthur Foundation will let loose another $100 million to a single project in the third installation of its global 100&Change competition, which for the first time requires applicants to address diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) issues, the foundation announced), Alex Daniels of the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported for the Associated Press (AP).

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. I Image: MacArthur Foundation

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.

Four years later, Community Solutions, a US-based nonprofit that works to reduce homelessness, was awarded the nine-figure grant.

The new requirement that 100&Change participants incorporate DEI into their grant applications comes as various institutions nationwide have disbanded such efforts.

The US House of Representatives shuttered its office of diversity and inclusion in its latest budget. And, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 states have passed legislation opposing DEI efforts in colleges and universities since 2023.