Contest Seeks Applicants in Creative Technology

September 4, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in Chicago, is expanding its Digital Media and Learning Competition.

The foundation will again provide $30,000 to $250,000 to innovative projects that demonstrate the use of technology to encourage participatory learning in which people share ideas, comment on one another’s projects, and work toward goals together.

But the foundation has also added a new category in which young people ages 18 to 25 are asked to submit their ideas about the future of participatory learning. Winners will receive up to $30,000 each to do an internship at a sponsoring organization that will help them bring their ideas to fruition.

Applications are due October 15. Winners will be announced in April.

For more information: Go to http://www.dmlcompetition.net.

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.