Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the Fund’s plan to increase the number of American Indian students pursuing graduate degrees and academic careers, and to support professional development for faculty members at tribal colleges and universities

Training American Indian Educators

to support efforts to increase the number of doctoral recipients among faculty members at four-year institutions that are members of AICF, and to provide additional teaching and learning opportunities for faculty members at these institutions

Faculty Career Enhancement - American Indian Tribal College Fund

to continue programming that supports high school-to-college transitions, transfers from two- to four-year institutions, and college retention for Native American students

Native Pathways to College Phase III

to support the development of a survey of recent tribal college graduates

Tribal College Graduate Survey

to continue support for graduate degree completion fellowships for Tribal College and University faculty

Tribal College Faculty Development Initiative

to strengthen its capacity to raise funds

Tribal College Funds

to support the continuation of the Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship Program for tribal college faculty

Tribal College Faculty Career Enhanacement Program

to renew support for programming to support high school-to-college transitions, transfers from two- to four-year institutions, and college retention for Native American students

Native Pathways

to support a program to improve the rates of four-year-degree completion among Native Americans

Native Youth Pathways to College

to support publication of a two-volume series of manuscripts written by Mellon fellows at tribal colleges

AICF Tribal College Research Publication Series

to renew a program which promotes scholarly research by tribal college faculty members and students

Faculty Research Program

Faculty Career Enhancement Program

Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Program

to support tribal college and university students in need of emergency financial support due to the COVID-19 crisis

TCU Student Emergency Support

to support operational expenses and to strengthen the capacity to raise funds

Operating Support

to support operational expenses and to strengthen its capacity to raise funds

General Support

to support planning for a master’s degree completion fellowship program at tribal colleges and universities

TCU Master's Degree Completion

to support the Mellon Faculty Research Program

Masters Degree Fellowship Program

to renew support for the Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Fellowship Program

for use by Harvard Law School in conducting an American Indian Law Symposium

American Indian Law Symposium

for use by the National Museum of the American Indian to support conservation training

National Museum of the American Indian

for use by its National Museum of the American Indian in support of advanced training opportunities in the field of conservation

to support the continuation of advanced training opportunities in archeological and ethnographic conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian

in support of its Center for the History of the American Indian

Center for the History of the American Indian

to support the development of American Indian Studies on campus and statewide

Expanding American Indian Studies Programs in South Dakota

to endow its Advanced Training Program in Ethnographic and Archeological Conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian.

National Museum of the American Indian - Conservation Endowment

to support general operations at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts

Art Museum Futures Fund

President of the National Council for the Museum of the American Indian

to support the Native Language Program to implement a common Native language preservation strategy with a focus on capacity building at 37 tribal colleges

Native Language Program

to support new curriculum and pedagogy in the teaching of Native American and Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Liberal Studies Program

to support the development of a program of study in Native American Studies and advance the national conversation on the Indigenous boarding school experience with a focus on the history of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Native American Studies and the Carlisle Industrial Indian School

to support organizational capacity, the creation of a development office, the hiring of a development director, a development coordinator, and communications manager

Organizational Development at AICH

to support training programs on repatriation and protection of cultural heritage

Repatriation and Cultural Sovereignty

Native American Curatorial Fellowship

to support planning for a research center for the study, practice, and scholarship of contemporary Native arts 

Native Arts Research Center Planning Grant

to support the purchase and implementation of a new integrated library system

Migration to the Millennium - Integrated Library System

to continue support for the implementation of the Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts

Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts Implementation Grant

to support the museum’s repatriation and tribal consultation initiative, food sovereignty and Indigenous Garden project including a kitchen renovation, community outreach and programs, as well as culturally responsive rebranding and organizational capacity for the museum

Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Garden Project

to support staff capacity to enhance collections, archives management, and public accessibility

Collection and Archives Management

to support the Indigenous Nations and American Indian Studies/Social Sciences Program

Program Support

to support a comprehensive, network-wide assessment of the United Negro College Fund’s 39 member institutions

United Negro College Fund Network Assessment Initiative

to support the establishment of an Oral History Project as part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative

A Permanent Collection: The Department of the Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative

to support the Chair of Indian Studies for the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa

Indian Studies

to support the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, which distributes preservation support to important sites of African American history in the United States

African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

to support a full-time curator position, expanded public programming, and business planning

Nanticoke Indian Museum

to establish an artistic director's discretionary fund

Discretionary Fund

to support the Irene Hirano Inouye Memorial Fund for the Asian Pacific American Center’s directorship

Asian Pacific American Center’s Irene Hirano Inouye Memorial Fund

matching grant toward costs of curricular development and library automation at the American College ofThessaloniki

Curriculum Development and Library Automation for the American College of Thessaloniki

to support three Indigenous heritage and cultural events in New York and New Jersey, organizational capacity, and long-term sustainability efforts

Organizational and Programmatic Support at Redhawk Native American Arts Council

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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

Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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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" 