What would you do with $100 million? There were nearly 2,000 proposed answers to that question since the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation launched its 100&Change competition. On Wednesday, the foundation announced that Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee would receive a $100 million grant over five years for their proposal to educate Syrian refugee children.

Together, the nonprofit organization behind the educational program Sesame Street and the global humanitarian relief organization will produce customized learning content; provide direct services through home visits; and bring play-based learning to child development centers, all in an effort to address the toxic stress that refugee children experience in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria.

But for a number of reasons, the significance of 100&Change extends far beyond the $100 million grant. From the scope of what is the largest early childhood intervention program ever created in a humanitarian setting, to the exposure and support provided to the other three finalists, who each received $15 million, the impact of this effort by the MacArthur Foundation is about more than money.

Read the full article about the $100 million grant earmarked for Middle East refugee education by Catherine Cheney at Devex International Development.