CHICAGO - a group that promotes sexual health in India, a centre of Chicago as the fighting to end poverty and an environmental group in a small Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan are among the 11 winners of the MacArthur Foundation in 2010 grants for non-profit organizations.
The price of $350,000 to $ 1 million, announced Wednesday recognize creative work "by organizatsions dealing with the faces of the humanity of the more difficult problems," said Bob Gallucci, Chairman of the Foundation based in Chicago.
Recipients of the 2010 "Award for Creative and effective Institutions" include an organization named for r. Sargent Shriver, former Director of the Peace Corps, who died Tuesday at the age of 95.
"We are very happy, enthusiastic and humiliated to winning this award," said John Bouman, President of the National Sargent Shriver Center on poverty Chicago law. The time of the announcement of the prize, which coincides with the death of the Shriver, is "tainted by irony", he said.
Prices are in groups with budgets under $ 5 million, as the San Francisco Bay Area Video Coalition, who teaches artists and filmmakers to use digital technology to inspire action-based.
"It's a huge lift," Executive Director Ken Ikeda, said the price of $ 1 million the coalition has received. "It is nothing that we aspire to nothing, that we have conceived, this is really a gift".
It have been awarded since 2006 by the same group which gives $500,000 non-cha?nes-attaché "genius grants" to individuals. They are aimed at organizations who have received help from the MacArthur Foundation, which not solicit or accept to put in nomination for the award.
The based at Chicago National Alliance of Latin American and the Caribbean communities had received support from MacArthur to study how Mexican and Salvadoran migrants generate revenues for public budgets of their country of origin when they send money back home. The group will use its new grant of $350,000 to build a reserve fund, said Executive Director Oscar Chacon.
"With the recession and growing anti-immigrant feelings, this encourages a group as we keep on, continue to move forward and to feel we are not alone in this difficult journey," Chacon said.
Other winners include training & Action Research for health, which promotes sexual health in Rajasthan, India; the Royal Society for the Protection of Nature in Thimphu, Bhutan; and tax Policy Center, Urban Institute in Washington.
The MacArthur Foundation is a private and independent group that has more than 5 billion dollars of assets. It presents approximately 220 million in grants per year.
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