Mellon Foundation awards $11.7 million for education, culture, justice
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has recently awarded several grants totaling more than $11.7 million focused on historic preservation, education, and justice programs in prisons and marginalized communities.
As part of its Higher Education in Prisons initiative, the foundation awarded grants totaling more than $5 million to seven programs to expand opportunities and increase resources for higher education in carceral environments. Recipients include Alliance for Higher Education in Prison (Denver); Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison (Ossining, New York); Loyola University New Orleans; Operation Restoration in collaboration with Tulane University (New Orleans); Pitzer College (Claremont, California); Unlocked Labs (St. Louis); and Villanova University (Villanova, Pennsylvania).
The New York-based American Council of Learned Societies will receive a $3.3 million grant renewal to expand its Digital Justice Grant Program, which helps advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice through projects that engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities.
The University of Washington’s Center for American Indian & Indigenous Studies was awarded a five-year, $2.3 million renewal grant in support of ongoing efforts to improve the recruitment, retention, and success of Native and Indigenous students, staff, and faculty across the university.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, will receive a $1.1 million grant will support completion of the current phase of restoration work on the Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church building and its conversion into an interpretive history center and to fund staffing and public programming, including the Du Bois Forum, a partnership with the African-American Trail Project at Tufts University.
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