Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a diversity fellowship program in collaboration with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Graduate Fellowships

to support efforts to increase organizational capacity

ICYOLA Capacity Building

to continue support of pathways initiatives for musicians from communities underrepresented in concert music professions

to support a diversity fellowship program in collaboration with the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles

to support the development of a community archive and public art installation that document and elevate the lives of Indigenous immigrant communities in the Westlake area of Los Angeles, California

MARKINGS: Inscribing Community and Immigrant Stories in Westlake

to support a memorial to the victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles

Mellon Monuments Project - Memorial to the 1871 Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles

supplemental award for permanent endowment of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphony Orchestra Program

in support of the project "Ethnic Los Angeles"

Immigrant Research - Ethnic Los Angeles 

to support the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles Institute and Centennial Scholars programs

YOLA Institute and Centennial Scholars

to strengthen artistic, administrative, and fiscal aspects of the institution, within a selective program to assist 15 small orchestras

Small Orchestra Program

to support planning, research, design, and the installation of physical markers and the creation of digital content to highlight Los Angeles’ diverse historic places

HistoricPlacesLA Revealed

to support the activities of the memory lab at Los Angeles Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: Los Angeles Public Library

in support of artistic and administrative initiatives

Chamber Orchestra Program

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

Los Angeles Emergency Response

to support artistic and administrative initiatives

to strengthen its administrative capacity

to support the National Youth Orchestra 2

National Youth Orchestra 2

to support the Million Dollar Hoods project, which seeks to archive historical documents, oral histories, and ephemera in order to chronicle the many impacts of policing and mass incarceration in Los Angeles

Million Dollar Hoods-Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration

to support the preservation, activation, and expansion of "The Great Wall of Los Angeles," one of the country’s largest monuments to interracial harmony through civic engagement and muralist training

The Great Wall of Los Angeles

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 a program to integrate the Los Angeles arts community with the college curriculum

Los Angeles Integrated Arts Program

to support Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition with development staffing and sustainability grants to its membership

Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition

matching grant to develop ways of increasing earned and contributed income

Period Instrument Orchestras

to embed the urban humanities program into UCLA graduate and undergraduate curricula in a sustainable way and develop a new emphasis on urbanism in Los Angeles and Mexico City

Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities

toward costs of participation in the orchestra forum

Orchestra Forum

to support research and design for the creation of a community archive, public library exhibit and programs, and public artwork in Los Angeles’ Westlake enclave that is inclusive of the histories and experiences of its diverse immigrant communities

MARKINGS: Inscribing Community and Immigrant Histories in Westlake

to support collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to provide object-centered training of doctoral students in art history

Art History Graduate Education

to support the semi-permanent installation of a monument to South Central

A Monument to South Central, sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles 

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 a convening of orchestra executives who are planning the implementation of programs modeled on El Sistema

El Sistema Conference

to assist in the construction of a youth center in Harlem

Youth Center Construction

to support a degree-granting program and reentry support for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students

Prison Education and Graduation Initiative

to continue to support a degree-granting program and reentry support for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students

to renew support for the development of innovative humanities curriculum, including the development of a social justice curriculum

EPIC II: Social Justice Curriculum

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

Literacy Among Black Youth

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

At Risk Youth

to support the final stage of the Naming the Lost Memorials project

Naming the Lost Memorials

to support a pilot in New Mexico of replication strategies

Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network

to support a three-dimensional, virtual reality computer model of the Roman Forum

Virtual Reality - History of Architecture

to support the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 10% Increase

for use by its Graduate School of Management toward costs of research and publication comparing practices and methods of U.S. and Japanese business and industry

Graduate School of Management - Japanese Business

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments, entitled "Disputation:Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University"

Sawyer Seminars - Disputation: Ways of Arguing In and Out of the University

to support the Off Grand Initiative and a new artist-in-residence

Off Grand Initiative and Artist-in-Residence

in support of Sawyer Seminars on historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures

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" 