From 2021 to 2023, Humanities in Place made 176 grants supporting 158 projects across multiple communities, representing 86 cities and a broad geographic reach.

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People love their histories, their legacies, their knowledge, their questions—and they want to share that…It is an ongoing learning opportunity.

Artist Hugh Hayden’s Brier Patch, installed on the North Vista at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC. Image courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks

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A new report out of Mellon’s Humanities in Place program shares early learning and fresh perspectives from an evolving field of practice: place-based grantmaking.

Humanities in Place

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What’s in a Place? More than Geography 

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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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" 

University Everywhere

Students walk through the campus of the University of Hawaii

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Grantmaking areas

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