Mellon Foundation has awarded $750,000 to University of California, Merced and its "Interwoven Futures" community partnership project. With a mission to invest in the San Joaquin Valley’s unique cultural, creative, and linguistic wealth, the project will engage the community through the Public Humanities Design Studio. Learn more at on.mellon.org/4gtshdZ
Mellon Foundation
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Largest supporter of the arts & humanities in the US. We invest in just communities & visionaries who connect us all.
About us
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Since 1969, the Foundation has been guided by its core belief that the humanities and arts are essential to human understanding. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive.
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- Philanthropic Fundraising Services
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- 51-200 employees
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- New York, NY
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- Nonprofit
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- 1969
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140 E 62nd St
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On the syllabus: New solutions to climate change 🌏 As thousands of students return to #collegelife this Fall, take a look at how the University of Hawaii at Manoa is bridging ethnic studies to environmental humanities. The Asia-Pacific region, home to more than 60 percent of the world’s population, is disproportionately affected by ecological catastrophes: sea level rise, ocean pollution, biodiversity loss, and more. A three-year initiative, supported by the Mellon Foundation, establishes the Environmental Humanities Environmental Justice (EHEJ) cluster at the university centered on #AAPI communities. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/3PRpjUJ 📷 Brendan George Ko for Mellon Foundation
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More than 150 film and audio reels from Richmond Police Department surveillance records will be made publicly accessible by Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as part of a new project documenting the Civil Rights Movement. The project is supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) as part of its “Recordings at Risk” program, with funding from the Mellon Foundation. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/4dxSvtD
VCU Libraries to preserve footage from Civil Rights Movement in Richmond
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"From Roots to Arts: Celebrating NYCHA’s Cultural Heritage" is an innovative artist-in-residency pilot program. With a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, this initiative by the Public Housing Community Fund, in collaboration with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and other city partners, expands art and culture narratives within public housing. 🎉 Congratulations to the 5 selected artists-in-residence! • Crystal Clarity • Tina Thompson-Pope • Tamra Cosby • Dominique Robinson • Corey Harrison Read more at on.mellon.org/3XhqGju
NYCHA Developments Receive $3 million for Free Arts Programs
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Join us on September 5 at 4pm ET for "Telling the American Story on Our Public Lands." RSVP for the free event at on.mellon.org/3M9pyIH Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior Deb Haaland joins Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander for a discussion about the reparative work Haaland leads on our public lands, the charge of stewardship for racial and environmental justice, and the role of Interior in telling the American Story.
Telling the American Story on Our Public Lands (Online) 9/5 at 4pm ET
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On this day in 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom began. Initially planned as a demonstration to spotlight economic inequalities, the goals of the march expanded to include calls for congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act, full integration of public schools, and enactment of a bill prohibiting job discrimination. More than 250,000 people gathered for a series of riveting speeches, closing with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his soaring declaration, "I Have a Dream." Today, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is located at 1964 Independence Avenue SW in Washington, D.C., referencing the year the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law. The memorial’s official dedication date of August 28, 2011 celebrated the 48th anniversary of the #MarchOnWashington. ⭐ How does our nation's commemorative landscape continue to shape our understanding of history? Mellon Foundation's #MonumentsProject fosters a more complete telling of who we are as a nation and who we can be in the future. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/3XNPQqG 📷 LuAnn Hunt
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Ear Hustle launched in 2017 as the first #podcast created and produced in prison, spotlighting the daily realities of life inside California’s San Quentin State Prison, shared by those living it. Learn how the team is building an audio space at the California Institution for Women and expanding stories from inside prison and from the outside, post-incarceration. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/4fNWbcl
Ear Hustle's new audio space is just the first step in a bigger plan
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"Dance is healing and spiritual, and I want every body to have access to that." 2024 Disability Futures Fellow Kayla Hamilton is a Bronx-based dancer, director, and educator. Learn about her new work exploring histories of Black disability, while imagining a liberated future. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/4fPshV7
Kayla Hamilton on Disability as Method and Access as Artistry
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Now a museum and cultural space, Hotel Metropolitan was the first Black-owned hotel in Paducah, Kentucky. The hotel provided a place of safety and refuge during racial segregation for guests such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Thurgood Marshall. The City of Paducah is a recipient of a $1.34 million Humanities in Place grant from the Mellon Foundation to support this museum of Black heritage in the US. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/3YKSvSw #MellonFoundation #GrantStory #HumanitiesInPlace #BlackBusinessMonth
The City of Paducah receives $1.34M grant to preserve the historic Hotel Metropolitan
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For more than 150 years, federally-funded schools separated Indigenous families and used brutal methods to try to assimilate Native children into white culture. A new oral history initiative is working to record the stories of still-living survivors and facilitate healing. Learn more about how the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and the U.S. Department of the Interior are working towards empowering survivors and memorializing this period of American history at on.mellon.org/4dHMcmX 📷 courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, Cumberland County Historical Society, and Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress