A Peek Behind the Curtain: MacArthur’s $100M Grant Competition

Ruth is the founder and Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

Cecilia Conrad is managing director at the MacArthur Foundation, where she leads the MacArthur Fellows Program, the MacArthur Awards for Creative and Effective Institutions, and 100&Change, a competition for a single $100 million grant to help solve a critical problem of our time.