Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support an online community of practice of art museum curators to further network, develop, and idea exchange regarding best practices for Artist Demographic Data, and create a best practices handbook, a first for the field

Art Collection Demographic Research

to support a strategic planning process for the Center for Curatorial Leadership

Center for Curatorial Leadership

to support the development, publication, and dissemination of an updated second edition of the Professional Practices for Art Curators handbook

Professional Practices for Art Curators in Non-Profits Handbook

to support the development of the Chinati Foundation Archives

Chinati Foundation archives

support of Sports Foundation, Inc., which sponsors recreational programs for youth, educational guidance and job training

Exclusive Support of Sports Foundation

for use by the Foundation Project toward costs of a study on more effective management of foundations

Foundation Project

to support expansion and diversification of four initiatives dedicated to the role of poetry in communities

The Poetry Foundation

to support the Theory of the Foundation Learning Collaborative

Theory of the Foundation

Theory of the Foundation Learning Collaborative

to support of completion of the study of the performance of foundations

to support a digitization pilot project focused on the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Collection

Digitizing and Providing Digital Access to the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Collection for Exhibitions and Programming at the Black Panther Party Museum

to support staffing capacity toward succession planning

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts

for support of a survey by the Japanese on Western practice in the fields of foundation work and corporate philanthropy

Japanese Survey on Western Foundation Work and Corporate Philanthropy

to support organizational capacity, development, communications and the TEP Talks

Leona Tate Foundation for Change

to support institutional partnerships between the Posse Foundation and a new group of colleges and universities

Posse at 30

to study standards of institutional effectiveness characterizing the 14 HBCU colleges and universities that receive direct support from the Foundation

Understanding HBCU Effectiveness

to support a joint effort by the Cunningham Dance Foundation and the OpenEnded Group to preserve a signature solo dance by Cunningham and the digital artwork derived from it

Preserving Merce Cunningham's Loops

for use by its Small Business International Trade Program in support of a collaborative project with the SEED Foundation in Budapest

East European Program

general support of its program in furnishing ocular tissue to eye banks, maintaining fellowship programs, surgical-teaching teams, and other services to opthalmologists both in this country and abroad

International Eye Foundation

toward costs of creating a Foundation for the Support of Local Democracy in Slovakia

Local Democracy Fdt

to support the pre-assessment phase of legacy planning for Meredith Monk and The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

Legacy Planning

to support further development of the Electronic Enlightenment database

Electronic Enlightenment [Voltaire Foundation]

to support the further development of an online database of correspondence that formed the basis of 18th-century philosophical, political, economic, and scientific debates

to support a meeting at which representatives from the Shoah Foundation and three research universities would identify the technical requirements for making Shoah’s online video oral history database accessible at the three institutions

Digital Access

toward costs of programs of ecological research and training

Hubbard Brook Research Foundation - Institutional Establishment 

general support of the Foundation's research and educational activities in the field of natural resources

General Support

to support a master planning process for The Chinati Foundation's land, buildings, and art

Master Plan Support

to support change capital, as part of the Foundation’s Comprehensive Organizational Health 

Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

to support an examination of the working relationships among foundations, institutions of education, and K-12 schools

Foundations and Education

to support planning for integration of digital humanities across the university

Laying the Foundation for the Digital Humanities

to support faculty development initiatives across 38 private historically black colleges and universities

UNCF/Mellon Foundation Faculty Career Enhancement Programs

toward costs of administering the Literacy Program which is jointly conducted by the two foundations

Literacy Program

to support the coordination of a strategy to provide legal resources, maintain a resource repository, and implement strategic communications for nonprofit organizations, including foundations, at risk of or facing challenges related to race-explicit work

Strengthening Philanthropy’s Ability to Withstand Political and Legislative Attacks on Racial Equity and Justice

to support the creation of a memorial to the individuals who were enslaved at Montpelier

Memorialization Project

to support the Onkyayun Oheki project with a focus on capacity building as well as food and cultural heritage programs

NDPonics

to support the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition Education Fund

Florida Rights Restoration Coalition Education Fund

to support seeding justice-minded humanities approaches to ethical computing in college and university curricula through an interdisciplinary phase two of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge

Responsible Computer Science Challenge: Humanities/Computing Collaboration Towards Just Tech Futures

to support research and implementation for the South Carolina preservation toolkit, the promotion of historic sites and organizations, and increased organizational staffing

Preservation Toolkit Initiative

to support change capital, as part of the Foundation's Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative

to continue support for the Kinfolk AR Monuments app and digital archive

Kinfolk Renewal

to support strategic planning needs for future installations of 1-800 HAPPY BIRTHDAY

1-800 Happy Birthday

to support legacy and archive planning for artist Michael Tracy

Artistic Legacy of Michael Tracy

to support engagement with Emmett Till’s story and sites in Mississippi

Emmett Till National Monument

to support the Indigenous Place Names Project, a movement to amplify Anchorage’s Indigenous identity along the Municipality of Anchorage's public trail system

Indigenous Place Names Project

to support the preservation, relocation and restoration of the Williamsburg Bray School and development of public programming

The Williamsburg Bray School

to support planning for the future of the organization's archive through assessment of Lambda's holdings and the potential ways it may support the existing network of queer literary archives

Future Memory: Literary Archives

to support Hurricane Fiona response in Puerto Rico

Hurricane Fiona Response

to support the King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival in 2022 and 2023

King Boston Embrace Ideas Festival

to support COVID-19 emergency response for Los Angeles arts and cultural organizations

Los Angeles Emergency Response

to support research on ways to strengthen support structures for individual artists

Support for Individual Artists

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 