The Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation announced this week that it will provide $25 million in seed funding for a new nonprofit charged with building on the foundation’s decade of major investments in digital-media-based learning and “connected cities.”
MacArthur Foundation, and Chief Operating Officer Jessica Lindl, who most recently headed the games-and-analytics nonprofit GlassLab.
The pair’s first project, called, aims to connect schools, businesses, libraries, museums, and city leaders in efforts to build new “ecosystems of …