An Illinois prison watchdog group and a Montana organization that tracks campaign contributions in 50 states are among the nine winners of the 2015 MacArthur Foundation grants to nonprofit groups.
The John Howard Association of Illinois and eight other nonprofits are receiving the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions grants ranging from $350,000 to $1 million, the Chicago-based foundation announced Thursday.
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In Mexico City, Asistencia Legal por los Derechos Humanos, known as ASILEGAL, works to protect people treated unfairly by Mexico’s justice system, and is a MacArthur award recipient.
Awards also went to New York-based Firelight Media, which assists minority filmmakers with their documentary projects, and Forest Trends in Washington, D.C., a pioneer in calculating the market value of watershed protection, biodiversity habitat and carbon storage.
