CIR Wins MacArthur Foundation Grant

The nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting was awarded $1 million for producing disseminating multimedia stories that engage the public and spark policy change.
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Berkeley, Calif.-based nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting today was awarded a $1 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The CIR is one of 15 organizations in six countries to receive the MacArthur Award For Creative and Effective Institutions, which honors groups that generate innovative and provocative solutions to problems in their fields. The nonprofit was picked specifically for producing and disseminating "multimedia stories to engage the public and spark policy change," the MacArthur Foundation said.

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The CIR “produces powerful stories, arming the public with thoroughly investigated facts and deep explanations of complex issues, such as the environment, immigration, government accountability, education, health, and campaign financing,” the foundation said of the nonprofit.

“The MacArthur honor is a tribute to our hardworking 39-person staff,” Robert Rosenthal, CIR’s executive director, said in a post on the organization’s website announcing the grant. “They are an incredible group of people who are committed to high quality journalism and finding new ways to engage and reach audiences.”

The CIR will use the grant to create a venture fund for new projects, strengthen its fundraising capacity, upgrade its technology, and establish a reserve fund for legal defense, the MacArthur foundation said.

The CIR and San Francisco-based nonprofit news site The Bay Citizen recently announced their intent to merge the two organizations.

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