Director, Peace

About the Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation is committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. Based in Chicago, with locations in India and Nigeria, we work with people around the world to explore new ideas, approaches, and models. We boldly invest in creative solutions to critical challenges, sparking hope for our future.

Programs

• Big Bets: Investing boldly across critical challenges.
• Enduring Commitments: Unwavering, deep, longstanding engagement.
• Awards: Funding the world’s ingenuity.
• Field Support: Reflecting diverse creative sector voices and sustaining the creative life of the city.

Recent Grants

• Echoing Green (New York, New York) - 2025: $300,000 in support of general operations.
• The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (Oakland, California) - 2025: $800,000 in support of general operations.
• Council on Foreign Relations (New York, New York) - 2024: $600,000 in support of its technology initiative.
• Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland) - 2024: $400,000 in support of the AI Accountability Lab.
• New Venture Fund (Washington, D.C.) - 2024: $2,000,000 to support the Catalytic Capital Consortium initiative.
• Toniic (Bend, Oregon) - 2024: $450,000 for general operating support.

Impact Investments

The Foundation makes impact investments to support initiatives that align with its mission, such as the Catalytic Capital Consortium and general operations of key organizations.

Latest News & Highlights

• Perspectives: Reimagining Peace: Introducing a Peace Program (July 22, 2026).
• Event: Defying Boundaries: MacArthur Fellows at 45 (January 1, 2026 - December 31, 2026).
• Press Releases: Committing $100 Million to Protect Democracy (March 12, 2026).
• Grantee Stories: Building a More Equitable AI Design for Underrepresented Languages (August 4, 2026).
• Grantee News: Fund Awards $5.5 Million to Strengthen the Chicago Region’s Social Safety Net (July 23, 2026).

MacArthur Fellows

The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits. Meet the 2025 MacArthur Fellows:

• Teresa Puthussery - Neurobiologist and Optometrist
• Margaret Wickens Pearce - Cartographer
• Kristina Douglass - Archaeologist
• Jason McLellan - Structural Biologist
• Ieva Jusionyte - Cultural Anthropologist
• Heather Christian - Composer, Lyricist, Playwright, and Vocalist
• Tuan Andrew Nguyen - Multidisciplinary Artist
• Jeremy Frey - Artist
• Nabarun Dasgupta - Epidemiologist and Harm Reduction Advocate
• Sébastien Philippe - Nuclear Security Specialist
• Matt Black - Photographer
• Craig Taborn - Improvising Musician and Composer
• Tommy Orange - Fiction Writer
• William Tarpeh - Chemical Engineer
• Lauren K. Williams - Mathematician
• Gala Porras-Kim - Interdisciplinary Artist
• Garrett Bradley - Artist and Filmmaker
• Kareem El-Badry - Astrophysicist
• Toby Kiers - Evolutionary Biologist
• Tonika Lewis Johnson - Photographer and Social Justice Artist
• Ángel F. Adames Corraliza - Atmospheric Scientist
• Hahrie Han - Political Scientist