• $338,300Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  Community & Economic Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — This grant to the University of Chicago funds a joint research initiative, co-led by scholars at the University of Chicago and Harvard University, on Neighborhood, Organization, and the Future of the City. A group of leading scholars with expertise on the social, physical, and organizational dimensions of urban areas will undertake a series of interdisciplinary working meetings, symposia, and publications in an effort to establish a research agenda and launch focused projects on promising new topics and methodologies, and thus spur a new wave of research on neighborhoods and the social and political organization of the contemporary American city.

• $500,000Active Strategy

  2013 (Duration 1 year)

  Digital Media & Learning

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Game Changer Chicago Design Lab (GCC Lab) is a new research initiative at the University of Chicago that taps staff, students, and faculty to work with youth to create digital stories, trans-media games, and new media art projects related to the social and emotional well-being of urban youth. With this grant, the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab will work with the Chicago Hive Learning Network, Mozilla Foundation, Born This Way Foundation, and the MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics to create experiences that engage young people in learning through their interest in improving their communities and schools.

• $600,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 3 years)

  Migration

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — This grant to the School of Social Service Administration will support a longitudinal study of the economic, educational, and social trajectories of young undocumented immigrants who are granted work permits under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The results will inform future policy debates over regularizing the status of undocumented immigrants by presenting credible evidence of the benefits and costs of doing so.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded University of Chicago $1,438,300 between 2010 and 2013.