Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support emerging and historically significant artists' archival and estate projects by hiring legal, editorial, and archival consultancy and to bolster long-term organizational capacity

Supporting Artistic Legacies 

to support Amir ElSaffar's exploratory work developing The Maqām Project

The Maqām Project 

to support the development of preservation services for new forms of digital publishing

Preservation Services for New Forms of Scholarship

to support sustainability planning for services to preserve new forms of digital scholarship

to support capacity through its first staff hires at Denniston Hill with plans to develop a durable, shared leadership model

New Leadership, New Forms 

to support dissertation seminars in the humanities

Dissertation Seminars - Intellectual History and Other Forms of History

for support of Theatre, Inc. (Phoenix Theatre), New York

Theatre Inc.

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on the effectiveness of Classroom, Inc.

Center for Reading & Language Skills - Classroom Inc. Research

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on Classroom Inc., an educational intervention that uses computer simulations

to support Zealous's storytelling initiatives

Zealous Inc.

in support of a computer-based course for high-school students in literacy and problem-solving skills

Classroom, Inc.

for use by its Center for Reading and Language Studies for research on Classroom Inc., an educational innovation that uses computer simulations to increase high school students’ literacy and to introduce them to work-related activities

Beth Morrison Projects Inc - Capacity Building

to support a collaborative project among public media stations to help shape the future of classical music on radio

Station Resource Group Inc - Classical Music Rising

to transfer from the Foundation to Ithaka Harbors, Inc. the title of real property

Property Transfer

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

Exclusive Support of Sports Foundation

to support transition costs related to a merger with American Music Center, Inc.

Merger with American Music Center

to support a program that maintains and expands the National History Center, Inc.'s nonpartisan congressional briefings

Congressional Briefings

to support planning for a strategic alignment with American Composers Forum and Meet the Composer, Inc.

Merger Planning

to support transition and start-up costs related to a merger with American Music Center, Inc.

Merger With American Music Center 

for use of MacDowell Colony, Inc., Peterborough, New Hampshire, a working retreat for composers and other artists

National Endowment for the Humanities

to support a curatorial fellowship program and the position of executive director at NXTHVN, Inc.

NXTHVN Curatorial Fellowships

to determine the feasibility of launching a new service, "DuraSpace," to serve academic libraries, universities, and other organizations in providing perpetual access to digital content in collaboration with DSpace Foundation, Inc.

DuraSpace 

to support the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, Inc. in its efforts to enhance its database of music bibliography

Indexing and Archiving

for construction and delivery of a mobile stage and shell for the City of New York (see also Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.)

Mobile Stage

to support post-production costs for Bridge Records, Inc.’s recording of two new American operas

Bridge Records' Printing and Pressing of Bastianello and Lucrezia

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 support an international organization of professional information schools

Curricular and Faculty Profiles of Members of iSchools, Inc.

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

Legacy Planning

toward costs of program development in off-campus study, in cooperation with the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest

Off-Campus Study

toward costs of program development in off-campus study, in cooperation with the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. and the Associated Colleges of the South

to support a workshop in which historians would explore how to incorporate different forms of scholarly arguments in the publication of digital scholarship

Workshop on Disciplinary Arguments and Digital History

matching endowment for support of exhibitions, catalogues, and other forms of publication

Matching Endowment

to support capacity building to grow its staff including development and communications teams

Nurturing Space for Asian American Writers 

to support the Project Inclusion fellowship program

Project Inclusion

to continue support for the Project Inclusion fellowship program

to support planning for the Project Inclusion diversity initiatives

to support the Project Inclusion diversity initiative

Project Inclusion - Conductor's Fellowship

to support organizational capacity for collaborations between New Orleans-based arts organizations working with incarcerated women and returned women citizens

Capacity Building

to support efforts to research, refine, and implement a tool that allows incarcerated students to access a portion of the journal collections hosted by JSTOR

Providing Access to Library Resources in Prisons 

to support higher education for currently and formerly incarcerated student​s (part of the Future of Higher Learning in Prison call for proposals)

Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support)

toward costs of developing a comprehensive writing curriculum appropriate to television and other forms of public communication

Writing Program

in support of a study of the costs of different forms of higher education that use technology

Virtual Postsecondary Educational Organizations Study

to support the commissioning and development of projects that involve live music or nontheatrical art forms

Commissions and New Multidisciplinary Work

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to support a faculty and course development program to incorporate civic engagement and community-based learning into the humanities curriculum of 31 colleges and universities

Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program in the Humanities

to support I wanna be with you everywhere, including to expand and continue a festival of, by, and for disabled artists and writers, and creating more studio time, research, and events, as well as compensating disabled organizers

I wanna be with you everywhere

Toward costs of providing training, technical assistance, and other forms of support to reproductive health projects in developing countries

Reproductive Health Projects

to provide training, technical assistance, and other forms of support to reproductive health projects in developing nations

General Support

to provide training, technical assistance, and other forms of support to reproductive-health projects in developing nations

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

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" 