Part of the Mellon Foundation's Monuments Project, the $3 million grant is the largest-ever investment into #PublicArt programming in Boston. The supported programs include sculptural installations, murals, new media, augmented reality, theater, and socially and community-engaged practices. 📖 Learn more at on.mellon.org/3SSmi89
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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https://mellon.org/
External link for Mellon Foundation
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- Philanthropic Fundraising Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
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- Nonprofit
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- 1969
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140 E 62nd St
New York, NY 10065, US
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For more than 150 years, federally-funded boarding schools isolated Indigenous children from their families in efforts to erase Native languages and cultures. Learn how the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition and the U.S. Department of the Interior are creating space for survivors to share their stories and memorializing this period of American history. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/4dHMcmX #MellonFoundation #GrantStory #PreservingIndigenousHistory
Reckoning with the Devastating Legacy of Federal Indian Boarding School Policies
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With support from the Mellon Foundation, Mid-America Arts Alliance's Interchange program awarded $25,000 practice-based fellowships to 16 regional artists, providing vital resources for their socially engaged creative practices. 📖 Meet the cohort at on.mellon.org/3WApdn2
16 Artists Awarded Interchange Artist Grant to Ignite Social Change
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On this International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, let us all celebrate the ongoing work to preserve and center Indigenous histories and knowledge. The comprehensive teaching of Native American history is largely absent from the US education system. However, the state of Montana has implemented "Indigenous Education for All," a mandate requiring public schools to offer instruction about the Indigenous heritage and culture of the region. The University of Montana builds upon this groundbreaking mandate, providing a new model to incorporate Indigenous perspectives into higher education and the university's humanities curriculum. “Understanding the plight that my people went through to try and get their identity back—it’s been extremely emotional. I owe it to my ancestors to tell this story," says Wendy Hopkins, Scholar in Residence at University of Montana. 📷 Brendan George Ko for Mellon Foundation
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Mellon Foundation has awarded $5 million to Crossing Latinidades, the University of Illinois Chicago-led initiative which supports research in Latinx humanities, including history, art, and literature.
Mellon Foundation awards $5 million to Crossing Latinidades initiative
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On September 5 at 4pm ET, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland of U.S. Department of the Interior joins Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander for a discussion about the reparative work Haaland is leading on our public lands and the role of Interior in telling the American Story. Watch the livestream event; open to all with RSVP required. 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/ePCsqDnV
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Congratulations to the 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows! “These exceptional writers share the distinctive responsibility of advancing action, advocacy, and civic transformation in their communities through the power of poetry,” said Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/4frOcl0
Announcing the 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows
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Hunter College Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) received $6.4 million from Mellon Foundation to support its “Rooted + Relational” research initiative. “The Rooted + Relational Initiative comes out of years of scholarly research, community building, and a pressing need to reframe critical discourses in the field of Puerto Rican studies,” said CENTRO Director Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/3LQlq03
CENTRO awarded $6.4 million in Mellon Foundation funding
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"Mellon Foundation has awarded two grants totaling $3.4 million directed at preserving the historical narratives of Black communities in the United States." A $1.5 million grant to the Miami Center for Racial Justice will expand the center's Teach the Truth tours, while a $1.9 million grant to Detroit Sound Conservancy: A Nonprofit Community-Based Music Archive will fund the restoration of a historic neighborhood jazz club, Blue Bird Inn. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/4dhj4Tr
Mellon Foundation awards $3.4 million to preserve Black narratives
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Boyle County Public Library received a $1 million grant from Mellon Foundation for the creation of The Story Center, a five-year project to collect, preserve, and share stories of local life. The Story Center will open in Fall 2024 at Grayson's Tavern, housing a Memory Lab for digitizing historical records and an Oral History Studio for recording personal histories. 📖 Read more at on.mellon.org/46wUJa1 #MellonFoundation #GrantNews #CommunityStorytelling
The Boyle Country Public Library receives $1 million grant for creation of Story Center
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