Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support Social Impact Commons, the first, national incubator and shared services provider supporting the fiscal sponsorship community

Fiscal Sponsorship Incubation

to support the fiscal sponsorship ecosystem

Shifting the Narrative for Fiscal Sponsorship - Building Research & Advocacy Capacity

to continue support for the Arts + Social Impact Explorer 2.0

Arts + Social Impact Explorer 2.0

Social Impact Fund

to continue support for CultureWorks Commons Management

CultureWorks Commons Management

to support the establishment of CultureWorks Commons Management

to support a fellowship for system-impacted writers, in partnership with the Art for Justice Fund

Fellowships for System-Impacted Writers 

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 a study on the local economic impact of colleges and universities

Higher Education Economic Impact 

to support transitional expenses associated with the transfer of the Center for the Theater Commons from Washington Drama Society, Inc. (Arena Stage)

Center for the Theater Commons Transfer

to support a learning commons in the college's Johnson Library

Learning Commons

to support the creation of an arts and humanities commons

New Commons

to support an empirical study and analysis of the distinction between "commercial" and "noncommercial" in Creative Commons licenses

Defining "NonCommercial" Within the Context of Cultural Production

to continue support for the Latinx Theatre Commons

Latinx Theatre Commons

to support capacity building for the Latinx Theatre Commons

to support the Digital Humanities Commons at the Simpson Center for the Humanities

Digital Humanities Commons

to support planning for a learning commons

Planning for a Learning Commons

to support the development and implementation of an organizational, technical, and business plan for Humanities Commons

Humanities Commons - Phase III

to support a producer position for the Latina/o Theatre Commons

Latina/o Theatre Commons Producer

to support further development of the Digital Library of the Commons

Digital Library of the Commons II 

to support the core programs of HowlRound:  A Center for the Theater Commons; the Center for Performance and Civic Practice; and the Latina/o Theatre Commons

HowlRound: A Center for the Theater Commons; the Center for Performance and Civic Practice; and the Latina/o Theatre Commons

to support the dissemination phase of the Intrinsic Impact Study

Intrinsic Impact Study Dissemination

to support capacity building and programmatic expansion

Creative Producers

to support the Dream Machine project as the first phase of the Nonaverse, the Nona Hendryx legacy framework

Dream Machine and the Nonaverse

to support the development of a Digital Library of the Commons, and a series of planning studies that would define an agenda for research on the role of information in scholarly communications

Digital Library of the Commons

to support the Galaxy Leader Fellowship at Galaxy Gives

Galaxy Leader Fellowship

to support Represent Justice's Ambassadors Program

Represent Justice Ambassador Program

to support HowlRound, a knowledge commons by and for the theater community

HowlRound: A Knowledge Commons by and for the Theater Community

to support a study of the principal impact and outcomes of the Foundation’s faculty career enhancement program

Faculty Career Enhancement Program Impact Study

to support the development of a community of practice across the field of social dance

Social Dance for Social Change

to support emergency grants to small and midsized New York City-based arts and cultural organizations through the NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund

NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund

toward costs of a supplementary volume to the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

Social Science Quotations

toward editorial costs of a supplementary volume to the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

to support a study that measures the impact of digitization and online availability of journals on citations

Measuring the Impact of Digitization on Journal Citations 

to support a food and community-centering, social practice project by the People’s Kitchen Collective

People's Kitchen Collective

to support the Center for Social Science Research

Social Science Research

to endow the Social Progress Initiative and related community engagement work

Social Progress Initiative

to support the High Impact Humanities program to integrate undergraduate research, experiential learning, civic engagement, and career preparation initiatives

High Impact Humanities:  Connecting Curriculum, Community, and Careers for Student Success

to support research on the economic and social impact and value of museums

Economic and Social Value of Museums

to support the travel for a delegation of US theater artists, leaders, and scholars to participate in the 2007 World Social Forum

World Social Forum

toward costs of a conference on social science higher education in Eastern and Central Europe, in Salzburg in January 1997

EEP - Social Science Conference

to support the Social Impact of the Arts study in New York City

Culture and Social Wellbeing in NYC 2023-25

for an assessment of needs and the progress of reform in social science higher education in Eastern Europe

EEP - Social Science Higher Education )

to support the integration of digital resources into student and faculty teaching and scholarship

Academic Commons

to support the planning of a software system to enable professional networking, online collaboration, and digital publication across scholarly societies

Humanities Commons

to support development of a Web-based publication and communications platform for use by scholarly society members

MLA Commons

in support of a seminar and briefing report on the implications for immigrant families of state and Federal policy reforms

Immigrant Family Policy Issues

to support artist residencies, incorporation of the Queens Public Library within the musuem, and an interpretation fellow

From Museum to Commons

to support Making Black America:  African American Social Networks

Making Black America: African American Social Networks

to support planning work to be undertaken for the development of a research effort to examine the short- and medium-term effects of the 2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on charitable giving to the arts

Impact Study of the 2018 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act on Charitable Giving to the Arts (TCJA)

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" 