Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support network building for arts engagement in the justice system

Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network

to support a pilot in New Mexico of replication strategies

to support Create Justice:  A National Network for Youth Justice Through the Arts

Create Justice:  A National Network for Youth Justice Through the Arts

General Operating Support

to support a robust network of arts advocacy groups and organizations that serve individual artists and communities

Resilient networks for arts advocacy

to continue support for the Philadelphia Music Alliance for Youth Artists’ Initiative

Philadelphia Music Alliance for Youth Artists' Initiative

to support initiatives that promote the success of the Second Chance Pell program and the importance of postsecondary education for incarcerated people

Second Chance Pell Program and Expanding Access for Incarcerated Students

to provide support for ongoing assistance to the college-corrections partnerships participating in the Second Chance Pell pilot to ensure successful program implementation and statewide coordination, and to build strategies for improved enrollment and persistence rates for incarcerated students of color

to support new leadership and continue support for the Change Network

OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

to support the creation of a high-quality literary journal which will publish works by incarcerated writers and be staffed by incarcerated editors

Beyond Bars: A Literary Magazine by and for the Incarcerated and Their Support Communities

to support the New Mexico Arts and Justice Network

New Mexico Arts and Justice Network

to support theatre programs, organizational capacity, and space improvements at the Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts & Cultural Justice

We Will Dream: New Works Festival at the Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice 

in support of the development of the "American Arts and Letters Network," an effort to increase coordination among electronic resources in the arts and the humanities

American Arts and Letters Network

for affiliation with the Research Libraries Information Network

Research Libraries Information Network Affiliation

to renew support for the Baltimore Youth Film Arts Program

Baltimore Youth Film Program

for research on youth employment and on the relationship between unemployment rates and inflation

Youth Employment

to continue support for a conservation science research network among museums

Network Initiative for Conservation Science

to support the National Youth Orchestra 2

National Youth Orchestra 2

to identify successful schoolbased programs for "at-risk" youth and to outline policies for their wider use

At Risk Youth

to support a research and training initiative devoted to building capacity for prison library services

Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People

to support staffing for a new community-focused public space design network, local partner trainings, and subgrants to community partners for their respective projects 

Place Design Network

to continue support for the Travel and Exchange Network program

Travel and Exchange Network

to support a feasibility study for a national youth orchestra in partnership with the Yale School of Music

National Youth Orchestra Feasibility Study

to support the development and launch of the Baltimore Youth Documentary and Film Arts Program

to continue support for efforts to make JSTOR available to all Higher Education in Prison programs now operating in the United States

Scaling Access to JSTOR for Incarcerated Students 

support of a survey of youth attitudes by Daniel Yankelovich, Inc. sponsored and financed by a group of foundations for which the JDR 3rd Fund handles administrative matters

Youth Attitudes Survey

to assist in the construction of a youth center in Harlem

Youth Center Construction

to support a scientific research network among New York area museums

for use by the Literacy Research Center towards costs of a conference "Literacy Among Black Youth"

Literacy Among Black Youth

to continue support for a research and training initiative devoted to building capacity for prison library services

Bridge Grant: Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People

to support the Valuing Incarcerated Scholars through Academia program

Valuing Incarcerated Scholars through Academia (VISTA)

to support the Touring and Exchange Network

Touring and Exchange Network

to support planning for a touring and exchange network

Artist-to-Artist Touring and Exchange Network

to support the pilot phase of an artist-to-artist touring and exchange network

Network of Ensemble Theaters/Touring and Exchange Network Initiative

to support the Justice Scholar Strategy Network

Justice Scholar Strategy Network

for research and other activities concerned with the prevention of adolescent pregnancy

Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention

in support of research and interventions to improve reproductive health services for adolescents in developing countries

Adolescent Reproductive Health

to support pathways initiatives for musicians from underrepresented communities

Philadelphia Music School Alliance for Youth Artists' Initiative

to continue support for a coalition effort of mid-sized arts organizations in New York City

Collaborative Arts Network New York

to support the planning and launch of an alumni network for Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship recipients

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - Alumni Network

in support of research and other activities concerned with prevention of adolescent pregnancy

toward the purchase of building to house its activities, which include providing education, job training, recreation and leadership for youths in East Harlem.

Building Purchase

for exploration of arts programming for cable television

Arts Programming for Cable Television

for a project to develop arts programming for cable television

Building Artists' Power: Liberation & Joy in Arts Presenting

to support a fellowship program for performing arts leaders

Fellowships for Performing Arts Leaders

Education, training, and retraining opportunities for minority youth

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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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

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

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" 