Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support sustainability planning through capacity building for governance, staff, and collections, as well as through the development of a long-range digital strategy

Poets House: Foundations for the Future

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

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

toward the improvement of library services and to assist with the "Small Press Showcase" project

Library Services

to support the continuation of the local poets laureate initiative

Local Poets Laureate Fellowships

to continue support of the Local Poets Laureate Fellowship

Local Poets Laureate Fellowship 

to support an initiative that would enable 10 to 20 state or city poets laureate to offer programs that engage people with poetry around issues that are important to young people and others in their communities

Public Programming by Poets Laureate in American states and cities

to support required stabilization work for the opera house building and increased organizational capacity

National Opera House

to support the National Student Poets Program

National Student Poets Program

to support organizational and programmatic development, architectural documentation, and a strategic plan for the Coles House Project

Coles House Project

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

Legacy Planning

to support capacity building, completion of construction for artist housing, and programming for the August Wilson House 

August Wilson House

to support the build out of the August Wilson House backyard theatre and the renovation of 713 Cassatt Street for artist residency housing

for use by Japan House Gallery in support of the early planning costs of its publication program

Japan House Gallery Publictions Program

to support the creation of a new commemorative public artwork by Sara Ouhaddou at Elizabeth Berger Plaza highlighting the work of early Arab writers and poets who settled in New York City

Rabitah: Poets in the Park

to support the development of The Clifton House, a creative space based in the home of Maryland Poet Laureate Lucille Clifton, and its initial programming for aspiring and established writers

The Clifton House Launch and Programming

to support the interpretation of the Hutchinson House site, including research and exhibit installation, programming, and the hiring of a full-time director

Historic Hutchinson House

to support the historic Manor House renovation and expanded History & Heritage Department programming and staffing

Sylvester Manor House Rehabilitation and History & Heritage Department Expansion

to support research, planning, and pilot programming at the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley House Museum

Till House

to support a planning process that involves community engagement and arts programming for the Henry O. Tanner House

Henry Ossawa Tanner House

to support capacity building and a new fellowship program for the Poetry Coalition

Poetry Coalition

to continue to support capacity building and a fellowship program for the Poetry Coalition

Poetry Coalition 

toward costs of cataloguing and preserving its archive

Cataloguing Project

Publishing Program

toward support of its Affiliated Societies program

Affiliated Societies

in support of program to stimulate activities of its Affiliated Societies

to support the Literary Arts Emergency Fund

Literary Arts Emergency Fund

to support COVID-19 emergency response grants for nonprofit literary arts organizations

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Nonprofit Literary Arts Organizations

to support increased organizational capacity and programming for a neighborhood history project

Aspire House Neighborhood Histories Project

to assist the Cleveland Play House in producing earlier work that merits revival

Regional Theatre Program

for use by the Coalition of Manhattan Community Schools of the Arts toward costs of a study of ways to increase the effectiveness of the schools' collaboration with one another and with New York City public schools

Coalition of Manhattan Community Schools of the Arts

to support the assessment, conservation, cataloguing, and digitization of the collection

Critical Collections

General Support

toward the addition of new program space at its headquarters

New Program Space

to support new permanent exhibitions, interior preservation work, and new arts-related programming

Lewis Latimer House Museum

to assist in completion of a guest house at its farm in Sussex County, New Jersey.

New Guest House at the Hudson Guild Farm

to assist this community music school in renovating its new building

Renovation of New Building

to support a clearing house of profiles of National Endowment for the Humanities grants and a series of humanities town hall meetings

Clearing House of NEH Grant Profiles and Humanities Town Halls

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 continue support of the Meredith Monk Lineage Project

Meredith Monk Lineage Project

to continue support for the Meredith Monk Lineage Project

to support planning for the Meredith Monk Lineage Project

Meredith Monk Lineage Project Planning

to improve its publishing operations and organizational capacities, within a selective program to assist nine literary presses

Literary Publishing

to improve the effectiveness of its operations, within a selective program to assist nine independent literary presses

Small Press Program

to improve publishing operations and organizational capacities

Literary Publising Program

to support the needs of the community-based archive

Support for Community-Based Archives

support of Joint Supplemental Fund shared with member settlement houses

Fundraising

general support of this central federation which provides fund raising, joint programs, technical assistance and other services for its member settlement houses

to support Cleo’s Too kitchen and public exhibition space, honoraria for regional and national food heritage leaders, and associated food heritage programming

Preserving Black Regional Foodways

Joint Fundraising Program

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" 