Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

matching grant for the Hagley Library to promote access to and use of its collections

Hagley Museum and Library

to support the cataloging of hidden collections

Cataloging Special Collections

for a matching endowment in support of costs of strengthening the care and management of library collections

Specialized Research Centers/Libraries

for its Regional Economic History Research Center

Regional Economic History Research Center

to support staff training and development initiatives

Professional Development and Training Program

matching endowment in suppon of core functions of its library

Independent Research Libraries Program - Part II

to support specific initiatives to strengthen the care of, and improve access to, research collections

Strengthening Care and Access to Research Collections

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

Exclusive Support of Sports Foundation

to support "We Are the Voices We Have Been Waiting For," a program of poetry, performance, and public humanities

We are the Voices

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Faculty Support

to support the development of a plan to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of the College’s academic program

Curricular Planning

to support a curricular planning process to enhance the academic excellence of its liberal arts program

Faculty development

to support the integration of the visual arts in teaching across the humanities and human sciences

Art Integration

matching endowment for a Presidential Discretionary Fund

Hewlett-Mellon Program

to support strengthening the humanities through language study

Strengthening the Humanities Through Language Study

to support the development of the Chinati Foundation Archives

Chinati Foundation archives

to support the Theory of the Foundation Learning Collaborative

Theory of the Foundation

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

Legacy Planning

Theory of the Foundation Learning Collaborative

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

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

Foundation Project

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

Theatre Inc.

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

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

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

The Poetry Foundation

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

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

East European 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 of completion of the study of the performance of foundations

to support the Right of Return fellowship program for formerly incarcerated artists and planning and capacity building for the Art and Advocacy Society

Art and Advocacy Society

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

toward costs of programs of ecological research and training

Hubbard Brook Research Foundation - Institutional Establishment 

to support the Inclusive Public Art Initiative

ZSR Inclusive Public Art Initiative

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

UNCF/Mellon Foundation Faculty Career Enhancement Programs

to assist the Eliot Feld Ballet in developing ways to increase earned and contributed income

Ballet Program

to assist the American Ballet Theatre in developing ways to increase earned and contributed income

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Modern Dance Program

to support staffing capacity toward succession planning

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts

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

1-800 Happy Birthday

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the Feld Ballet

to commission new choreographic work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for the repertoire of the American Ballet Theatre

to create new work, including fresh adaptations of existing pieces, for its repertoire

to support planning, including a detailed investigation of intellectual property rights issues, for the production of a series of broadcast-quality digital films documenting selected works of Merce Cunningham

Merce Cunningham Documentary

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

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

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" 