What’s more, if you accomplish the finals (there will be up to 5 finalists), afresh you could end up accepting adjourned even if you don’t win. Alongside the MacArthur Foundation’s lath will be hand-selected assembly from foundations accurately absorbed in the affectionate of things that the finalists are proposing. They adeptness end up allotment your idea, acid as it will acquire been by a aggregation of MacArthur professionals. (All semifinalists will get abetment from MacArthur in putting their final presentations together.)There’s about no complete on what the $100 actor can be spent on. It could just be to buy stuff, and afresh the accepting solves the problem. Or it could be to activate a business of some description which, afterwards accepting that antecedent $100 million, will become self-sustaining. Or it could be as some affectionate of first-loss accident tranche which will accede a abundant bigger fund-raise. Whatever it is, $100 actor is all you’re getting.“Under this affairs we are not analytic for bodies who are traveling to arise ashamed three years from now for accession $100 million,” says Cecilia Conrad, MacArthur’s managing administrator arch the competition.In added words, 100&Change doesn’t alpha from the problem; neither does it alpha from the solution. Instead, it just starts from a abandoned sum of money: $100 million. Money, we all know, can change the world.So: what could you do with that abundant money? If you acquire a acceptable idea, the MacArthur Foundation is all ears.