Grants and Contributions Higher Education and Grant Amount Scholarship in the Humanities Digital Humanities Georgia Institute of Technology $1,500,000 Atlanta, Georgia To support the continuation of work by the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center
University of Maryland at College Park 2,000,000 College Park, Maryland To support an integrated research and pedagogical model at the intersection of digital humanities and African American studies
University of Pennsylvania 2,000,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania To continue to support a program of digital humanities training and research for students, faculty, and surrounding institutional partners
University of Rochester 984,000 Rochester, New York To continue to support graduate training in the digital humanities
Vanderbilt University 1,500,000 Nashville, Tennessee To continue to support the Center for Digital Humanities in partnership with a select group of surrounding institutions.
Diversity in the Academy
Bates College 150,000 Lewiston, Maine To support a director of equity and inclusion education for one year while developing an ongoing strategy for campus-wide equity training
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Community MusicWorks 150,000 Diversity in the Academy: Providence, Rhode Island Latino/a Initiatives To support the documentation and dissemination of a model for antiracist praxis in classical music education University of California at Merced 525,000 Merced, California Davidson College 250,000 To support an undergraduate research program in the Davidson, North Carolina humanities and related fields for underrepresented students To support an initiative that will transform key campus and others interested in pursuing scholarly careers spaces (virtual, physical, temporal) into interactive sites for interrogating race and racism The University of Texas at San Antonio 500,000 San Antonio, Texas Lawrence University 750,000 To continue support for an undergraduate research program Appleton, Wisconsin for underrepresented and other students studying the human- To support underrepresented students in their ities and selected social sciences transition from high school to college
Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America 150,000 New York, New York Diversity in the Academy: Mellon Mays Un- To support planning for an expansion of college preparation, dergraduate Fellowship Program retention, and leadership development programs American Council of Learned Societies 6,759,000 New York, New York To support one annual cycle of program renewals at institu- Diversity in the Academy: Historically Black tions hosting the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: Colleges and Universities Barnard, Bowdoin, Brooklyn, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Hunter, Macalester, Dillard University 500,000 Oberlin, Queens, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Whittier, and New Orleans, Louisiana Williams Colleges; Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Emory, To renew support for the expansion of the university’s Harvard, Haverford, Heritage, Northwestern, Princeton, Rice, faculty development offerings and a revision of its general Stanford, Wesleyan, and Yale Universities; the Universities education curriculum of California at Berkeley, at Los Angeles, and at Riverside; the Universities of Cape Town, Chicago, New Mexico, Tougaloo College 614,000 Southern California, Texas at Austin, the Western Cape, and Tougaloo, Mississippi the Witwatersrand; the California Institute of Technology; To support faculty development and undergraduate research the City College of New York; The Claremont Colleges, Inc.; related to the Institute for the Study of Modern Day Slavery United Negro College Fund, Inc.; and Washington University in St. Louis Xavier University of Louisiana 500,000 New Orleans, Louisiana Social Science Research Council 2,881,000 To support the expansion of a community college student Brooklyn, New York transfer program and a summer bridge program To support the Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program
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Doctoral Education: Fellowships University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2,000,000 Champaign, Illinois American Council of Learned Societies 3,250,000 To support an initiative that enables graduate students at the New York, New York early stages of their program in the humanities to develop To support dissertation completion methodological approaches to thematic questions that require fellowships for graduate students in new forms of expertise and collaborative practice the humanities and social sciences Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 400,000 Princeton, New Jersey To continue support for a program of fellowships that fosters Doctoral Education: partnerships in higher education policy in different states Program Reform and Structure
American Council of Learned Societies 3,500,000 New York, New York Faculty: Research and Scholarship To support career diversity preparation for postdoctoral fellowships in government American Council of Learned Societies 2,750,000 and nonprofit agencies for humanities PhDs New York, New York To support a final round of the Frederick Burkhardt Brandeis University 750,000 Residential Fellowship program for recently tenured faculty Waltham, Massachusetts in research universities and liberal arts colleges To support curricular revision and expanded training opportunities in doctoral education Boston University 187,000 Boston, Massachusetts Columbia University 2,000,000 To support a New Directions Fellowship for James Uden New York, New York To support the development of graduate Columbia University 225,000 degree programs in a new African American New York, New York and African Diaspora Studies Department To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Trust and Mistrust of Science and Experts” Council of Graduate Schools 1,200,000 Washington, DC Duke University 225,000 To support the third phase of the PhD Durham, North Carolina Career Pathways project To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Language Discrimination in Fragile and New York University 1,500,000 Precarious Communities” New York, New York To support an initiative that incorporates Grinnell College 298,000 the public humanities into doctoral education Grinnell, Iowa To support a New Directions Fellowship for Vance Byrd
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Indiana University 225,000 Stanford University 37,962 Bloomington, Indiana Stanford, California To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative To support broader participation of US and European Study of Cultures entitled “Rigor: Control and Analysis scholars in a workshop at the university’s center in Beijing in Historical and Systematic Perspectives” entitled “China in the World: Rethinking International Regional Inquiry for the 21st Century” McGill University 224,000 Montreal, Canada Stellenbosch University 150,000 To support a New Directions Fellowship for Victor Stellenbosch, South Africa Muñiz-Fraticelli To support a colloquium for early-career scholars
Mount Holyoke College 240,000 University of Arizona 225,000 South Hadley, Massachusetts Tucson, Arizona To support a New Directions Fellowship for To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Catherine Corson Study of Cultures entitled “Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads” New York University 260,000 New York, New York University of California at Davis 215,000 To support a New Directions Fellowship for Zeb Tortorici Davis, California To support a New Directions Fellowship for Northwestern University 297,000 Meaghan O’Keefe Evanston, Illinois To support a New Directions Fellowship for University of California at Los Angeles 225,000 Anna Parkinson Los Angeles, California To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Northwestern University 225,000 Study of Cultures entitled “Sanctuary Spaces: Evanston, Illinois Reworlding Humanism” To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “The Black Arts Archive: University of Cambridge 225,000 The Challenge of Translation” Cambridge, United Kingdom To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study Rice University 229,000 of Cultures entitled “Histories of Artificial Intelligence: Houston, Texas A Genealogy of Power” To support a New Directions Fellowship for Aysha Pollnitz University of Colorado at Boulder 225,000 Boulder, Colorado Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 300,000 To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative New Brunswick, New Jersey Study of Cultures entitled “Deep Horizons: Making To support a New Directions Fellowship for Visible an Unseen Spectrum of Ecological Casualties Susanna Schellenberg & Prospects”
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University of Maryland at College Park 500,000 American Council of Learned Societies 2,000,000 College Park, Maryland New York, New York To support a research seminar entitled “Race/Ethnicity and To support a series of summer institutes that Gender Identity in a Shifting Cultural and Racial Climate: would explore innovative practices of equity African/Black Diaspora Academic and Public Discourse” and inclusion in the academy
University of Michigan 225,000 Council of American Overseas Research Centers 1,000,000 Ann Arbor, Michigan Washington, DC To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative To support collaborative research, interdisciplinary Study of Cultures entitled “Sites of Translation in the training, and professional development opportunities for Multilingual Midwest” artists and scholars in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
University of Michigan 201,000 Prairie View A&M University 1,000,000 Ann Arbor, Michigan Prairie View, Texas To support a New Directions Fellowship for Leila Kawar To support a program of faculty development, recruitment, and retention in the humanities University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 267,000 Chapel Hill, North Carolina Queens College 500,000 To support a New Directions Fellowship for Shayne Legassie Flushing, New York To continue support for a faculty University of Pittsburgh 262,000 development and diversity initiative Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania To support a New Directions Fellowship for Mari Webel Tufts University 1,500,000 Medford, Massachusetts University of Washington 225,000 To support a faculty hiring initiative focused Seattle, Washington on building capacity in the new Department of To support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora Cultures entitled “Humanitarianisms: Migrations and Care through the Global South”
Graduate Education/ Early-Career Programs Faculty: Training and Renewal University of Pennsylvania 250,000 American Council of Learned Societies 2,000,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania New York, New York To support a program aiming to increase the number To support a continuation and augmentation of the of students from underrepresented backgrounds Scholars & Society Fellowships for tenured scholars that who are pursuing graduate education and integrating will strengthen public visibility and advising capability to film and video production into their research promote diverse career outcomes for humanities PhDs
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Native and Indigenous Studies University of Minnesota at Twin Cities 1,077,000 Minneapolis, Minnesota American Indian College Fund 2,500,000 To support an Environmental Justice, Place Denver, Colorado and Community project examined through the To renew support for programming to support high lens of Indigenous studies school-to-college transitions, transfers from two- to four-year institutions, and college retention for The University of North Carolina at Pembroke 950,000 Native American students Pembroke, North Carolina To support the creation of a pipeline to Amherst College 250,000 the professoriate program for under- Amherst, Massachusetts represented and other students To support enhanced scholarly and community access to the college’s Younghee Kim-Wait/Pablo Eisenberg Collection of University of Washington 1,820,000 published works by Indigenous authors from North America Seattle, Washington To support a program of undergraduate Brown University 750,000 research, graduate training, and teaching Providence, Rhode Island in American Indian and Indigenous studies To support undergraduate curriculum development for a concentration in Native American and Indigenous studies that would connect the curriculum to the Haffenreffer Museum Other
Five Colleges, Incorporated 2,500,000 Brooklyn Public Library 850,000 Amherst, Massachusetts Brooklyn, New York To support the development of Native/Indigenous studies To continue support for an associate in arts degree program for adults who have been McGill University 1,250,000 excluded or discouraged from participating Montreal, Canada in higher education To support a First Nations and Indigenous studies and community engagement initiative Climate Museum 500,000 New York, New York State University of New York at Buffalo 3,174,000 To support pre- and postdoctoral fellowships Buffalo, New York to develop content and outreach strategies To support the establishment of a department of related to climate change Indigenous studies Council of Graduate Schools 120,000 University of California at Riverside 1,000,000 Washington, DC Riverside, California To support an initiative to address the mental To support efforts to strengthen the fields of Native health challenges experienced by humanities and Indigenous studies through the California Center doctoral students for Native Nations
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GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES Grant Amount Grant Amount
Johns Hopkins University 1,720,000 Makerere University 800,000 Baltimore, Maryland Kampala, Uganda To renew support for the Baltimore Youth To support a research and public engagement Film Arts Program project on the arts and humanities
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1,000,000 University of Ghana 800,000 Cambridge, Massachusetts Accra, Ghana To support the further integration of the Center To support and enhance doctoral training in the humanities for Art, Science & Technology into the research culture of the university
The New School 125,000 South Africa: Public Humanities and Arts New York, New York To support a collaboration with the University University of the Western Cape 500,000 of Orange on the 400 Years of Inequality project Bellville, South Africa To support an advanced studies program Rice University 1,000,000 at the Centre for Humanities Research Houston, Texas To support humanities research, pedagogy, and local partnerships aimed at addressing the environmental justice challenges facing Houston Special Initiatives: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 50,000 Princeton, New Jersey Harvard University 1,000,000 To support the American History Initiative Cambridge, Massachusetts To continue support for a multidisciplinary program that investigates urban geographies and issues by supporting site- based research projects, interdisciplinary seminars, digital Other International Foci: publications, and other scholarly productions Research and Scholarship Harvard University 750,000 The Arab Council for the Social Sciences 1,000,000 Cambridge, Massachusetts Beirut, Lebanon To support the second round of an urban humanities To support strengthening the arts and humanities initiative at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and in the Middle East and North Africa Collection that focuses on the history of inequality and social injustice in urban environments Council for the Development of Social Science 750,000 Research in Africa Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1,000,000 Dakar, Senegal Cambridge, Massachusetts To support innovations in the humanities in To support development and sharing of materials African universities for the teaching of global architectural history
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Princeton University 1,000,000 Johns Hopkins University 1,880,000 Princeton, New Jersey Baltimore, Maryland To support courses, research, and cocurricular To continue support for Humanities for All, a partnership programs that advance the urban humanities program with the Community College of Baltimore County that promotes the transfer of community college students University of Michigan 1,000,000 to four-year institutions and innovative teaching practices Ann Arbor, Michigan in the humanities To support an urban humanities initiative that focuses on Detroit and urban inequality Phi Theta Kappa 350,000 Jackson, Mississippi To support undergraduate research opportunities for community college students through the Honors Special Initiatives: Community in Action program College-University Partnerships San Diego Community College District 1,200,000 The Community College of Baltimore County 2,000,000 San Diego, California Baltimore, Maryland To continue support for the transfer of students To continue support for Humanities for All, a partnership in the humanities to the University of California at program with Johns Hopkins University that promotes San Diego, and assure their successful completion the transfer of community college students to four-year insti- of the BA degree tutions and innovative teaching practices in the humanities University of California at San Diego 1,500,000 Community College System of New Hampshire 515,000 La Jolla, California Concord, New Hampshire To continue support for the transfer of San Diego Community To continue support for the New Hampshire College District students in the humanities to the university, Humanities Collaborative assure their successful completion of the BA degree, and provide new resources for the Equal Opportunity Services The Graduate Center of the City 3,150,000 Internship Initiative University of New York New York, New York University of New Hampshire 525,000 To continue support for a humanities teacher training Durham, New Hampshire and pipeline initiative in partnership with four New York To continue support for the New Hampshire City community colleges Humanities Collaborative
Iļisaġvik College 350,000 Barrow, Alaska To continue support for efforts to increase student transfer rates to four-year degree programs
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Special Initiatives: Ithaka Harbors, Inc. 400,000 Mellon Research Forum New York, New York To support convenings, scholarship, and publications Stanford University 1,000,000 that identify the research infrastructure needs of Stanford, California higher education in prison To support the second phase of a research study on purpose as a key outcome of students’ John Jay College of Criminal Justice 1,500,000 engagement with a liberal arts education New York, New York To continue to support the expansion of educational and reentry initiatives for current and formerly incarcerated students Special Initiatives: Prison Education and Reentry Marymount Manhattan College 800,000 New York, New York California State University, Los Angeles 750,000 To support prison education programs at the Bedford Los Angeles, California Hills and Taconic Correctional Facilities for Women To support a degree-granting program and reentry support for incarcerated and formerly New York Public Library 125,000 incarcerated students New York, New York To support capacity building and Columbia University 150,000 expansion by the Correctional Services’ New York, New York Reference-by-Mail Program To support the Center for Justice’s Beyond the Bars fellowships Northwestern University 1,000,000 Evanston, Illinois Community Partners 250,000 To support the expansion of educational Los Angeles, California opportunity for incarcerated people, including To support the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison the only postsecondary college in prison program for women in the state of Illinois Georgetown University 1,000,000 Washington, DC Sing Sing Prison Museum 150,000 To support the Georgetown Prison Scholars Program Ossining, New York To support the creation of a public museum Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, Inc. 600,000 on the history of Sing Sing prison Ossining, New York To support the coordination of higher education The State University of New York 750,000 programs and student support at correctional facilities Albany, New York throughout the Hudson Valley To support collaborative academic and institutional struc- tures that enable current and formerly incarcerated students to complete AA and BA programs accredited by colleges and universities in the state of New York
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University of Puget Sound 1,000,000 University of Michigan 1,142,000 Tacoma, Washington Ann Arbor, Michigan To support a bachelor’s degree program To support the Institute for the Humanities for incarcerated women Gallery’s High Stakes Art programming
Special Initiatives: The System of Higher Education: Refugees and Forced Migration Consortia and Collaborations
The Council for At-Risk Academics 990,000 Council of Independent Colleges 2,670,000 London, United Kingdom Washington, DC To support two additional cycles of a To support teaching, learning, and community program for Syrian scholars in exile understanding of the continuing legacies of slavery in the United States The New School 730,000 New York, New York Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. 150,000 To support the work of the New University Ann Arbor, Michigan in Exile Consortium and a public lecture To support campus community teams series on the immigration narrative in the United States Michigan State University 2,500,000 East Lansing, Michigan University of Duisburg-Essen 1,500,000 To support the further development of a Essen, Germany Less Commonly Taught Languages consortium To continue support for scholars at risk at the across the Big Ten Academic Alliance with the Academy in Exile inclusion of Indigenous languages
University of California at Berkeley 1,800,000 Berkeley, California The System of Higher Education: To continue support for the International Centers and Institutes Consortium of Critical Theory Programs
New York University 2,000,000 University of Georgia 150,000 New York, New York Athens, Georgia To renew support for a center for the study To support a pilot of the Coasts, Climates, of ballet as an art form and its integration into the Humanities, and the Environment a research university environment Consortium program
New York Historical Society 1,000,000 New York, New York To support the Center for the Study of Women’s History
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University of Wisconsin at Madison 2,800,000 Bennington College 100,000 Madison, Wisconsin Bennington, Vermont To continue support for the Consortium of Humanities To support the creation of a pilot program designed to develop Centers and Institutes’ Global Humanities Institutes and administrative potential in humanities and arts faculty, with a the further diversification of their membership, nationally focus on providing training in higher education leadership and internationally Case Western Reserve University 100,000 Whitman College 900,000 Cleveland, Ohio Walla Walla, Washington To support the creation of a pilot program designed To support an initiative of the Northwest Five Consortium to develop administrative potential in humanities to build capacity for community-engaged learning in part- and arts faculty, with a focus on providing training nership with civic, cultural, educational, and government in higher education leadership agencies and institutions, and in collaboration with Lewis & Clark and Reed Colleges, the University of Puget Sound, and College of William & Mary 100,000 Willamette University Williamsburg, Virginia To support discretionary initiatives at the early stage of a Yale University 4,000,000 liberal arts college president’s career New Haven, Connecticut To support a collaboration of centers of race and Franklin & Marshall College 100,000 ethnicity in partnership with Brown and Stanford Lancaster, Pennsylvania Universities, and the University of Chicago To support discretionary initiatives at the early stage of a liberal arts college president’s career
The System of Higher Education: Lehman College 100,000 Institutional Leadership Bronx, New York To support the creation of a pilot program designed to develop Agnes Scott College 100,000 administrative potential in humanities and arts faculty, with a Decatur, Georgia focus on providing training in higher education leadership To support discretionary initiatives at the early stage of a liberal arts college president’s career Morehouse College 100,000 Atlanta, Georgia Amherst College 100,000 To support discretionary initiatives Amherst, Massachusetts at the early stage of a liberal arts To support the creation of a pilot program designed college president’s career to develop administrative potential in humanities and arts faculty, with a focus on providing training Mount Holyoke College 100,000 in higher education leadership South Hadley, Massachusetts To support discretionary initiatives at the early stage of a liberal arts college president’s career
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New York University 100,000 Trinity College 114,000 New York, New York Hartford, Connecticut To support the creation of a pilot program designed to To support a convening for women of color leaders develop administrative potential in humanities and arts faculty, with a focus on providing training in higher Union College 100,000 education leadership Schenectady, New York To support discretionary initiatives at the early stage Northwestern University 100,000 of a liberal arts college president’s career Evanston, Illinois To support the creation of a pilot program designed University of California at Berkeley 100,000 to develop administrative potential in humanities Berkeley, California and arts faculty, with a focus on providing training To support the creation of a pilot program designed to in higher education leadership develop administrative potential in humanities and arts faculty, with a focus on providing training in higher Prairie View A&M University 100,000 education leadership Prairie View, Texas To support the creation of a pilot program designed University of North Carolina at Asheville 100,000 to develop administrative potential in humanities Asheville, North Carolina and arts faculty, with a focus on providing training To support discretionary initiatives at the early stage of in higher education leadership a liberal arts college president’s career
Rice University 100,000 University of Pennsylvania 100,000 Houston, Texas Philadelphia, Pennsylvania To support the creation of a pilot program designed to To support the creation of a pilot program designed to develop administrative potential in humanities and arts develop administrative potential in humanities and arts faculty, with a focus on providing training in higher faculty, with a focus on providing training in higher education leadership education leadership
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark 100,000 University of Southern California 1,250,000 Newark, New Jersey Los Angeles, California To support the creation of a pilot program designed to To support a set of programs that provide graduate students, develop administrative potential in humanities and arts postdoctoral fellows, and faculty members with training faculty, with a focus on providing training in higher and experience in academic administration education leadership University of Utah 100,000 Swarthmore College 100,000 Salt Lake City, Utah Swarthmore, Pennsylvania To support the creation of a pilot program designed to To support the creation of a pilot program designed to develop administrative potential in humanities and arts develop administrative potential in humanities and arts faculty, with a focus on providing training in higher faculty, with a focus on providing training in higher education leadership education leadership
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Whittier College 100,000 College of William & Mary 1,000,000 Whittier, California Williamsburg, Virginia To support discretionary initiatives at the early To support teaching, scholarship, and community stage of a liberal arts college president’s career engagement around the legacies of slavery, freedom, segregation, racism, and reconciliation Williams College 100,000 in the college’s history Williamstown, Massachusetts To support discretionary initiatives at the early Federation of State Humanities Councils 150,000 stage of a liberal arts college president’s career Arlington, Virginia To support expanded efforts and additional resources to educate the public about the value of the humanities in American life The System of Higher Education: Public Humanities Federation of State Humanities Councils 1,750,000 Arlington, Virginia American Association for State and Local History 479,000 To support closer connections and partnerships Nashville, Tennessee between the humanities and journalism in fostering To support an initiative that studies the ways an informed citizenry and a democratic society Americans understand history, and to generate successful communication strategies about Hope College 800,000 the importance of history for public audiences Holland, Michigan To support community-based partnerships that American University 650,000 foster high-impact, cross-disciplinary, and Washington, DC experiential engagement with the liberal arts To support the Humanities Truck project, an initiative using a customized truck as a mobile platform for collecting, International African American Museum 1,500,000 exhibiting, preserving, and expanding dialogue around the Charleston, South Carolina humanities, and for teaching graduate students in the public To support building construction and a chief history program curatorial position
Association of American Colleges and Universities 800,000 Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation 150,000 Washington, DC Washington, DC To support the Bringing Theory to Practice project’s focus on To support the commemoration of the Kerner student well-being, civic engagement, preparation for mean- Commission’s 50th anniversary ingful work, and democratic citizenship National Humanities Alliance Foundation 650,000 Barnard College 1,000,000 Washington, DC New York, New York To support initiatives to catalog, evaluate, and To support curricular development, research, and community disseminate publicly engaged humanities work engagement around the issues of immigration, poverty, and the rights of labor in New York City
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New College of Florida 750,000 University of Maryland, Baltimore County 125,000 Sarasota, Florida Baltimore, Maryland To support curricular and research initiatives that preserve To support collaboration with community local history, integrate social and racial justice work into artis- partners to develop a national model tic practice and teaching, and explore questions of special for engaging urban communities in public interest to community members humanities teaching and research
Occidental College 1,000,000 University of Miami 150,000 Los Angeles, California Coral Gables, Florida To support community-based arts education in To support the development of public programming underserved neighborhoods surrounding the college in conjunction with the Program in Africana Studies
Project Pericles, Inc. 500,000 University of Pittsburgh 1,500,000 New York, New York Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania To support a faculty and course development program To support a program in public humanities to incorporate civic engagement and community-based and community engagement learning into the humanities curriculum of 31 colleges and universities West Virginia University 250,000 Morgantown, West Virginia Rhodes College 900,000 To support the curricular integration of 100 Days in Memphis, Tennessee Appalachia, a digital community-based platform that To support a curricular and community-based initiative, in uses visual storytelling and social documentary to collaboration with health care providers, that focuses on the present the missing diverse voices of one of rural ways in which the humanities can address health disparities America’s most stereotyped regions related to race and income in the city of Memphis
Sarah Lawrence College 1,200,000 Bronxville, New York The System of Higher Education: To support civic engagement through the arts Research in Higher Education
Service Year Exchange, Inc. 100,000 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 275,000 Washington, DC Cambridge, Massachusetts To support planning for the development To support the administration of a survey of the US public of a Humanities Corps about knowledge of and engagement with the humanities
University of California at Davis 500,000 Brown University 100,000 Davis, California Providence, Rhode Island To support the Imagining America Leading and To support a faculty project led by Brown University’s Learning Initiative to develop a nationally adoptable provost on the future of work and its implications for set of guidelines for the valuing of publicly engaged higher education scholarship and pedagogy at universities and colleges
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Undergraduate Education: Curriculum Kenyon College 150,000 Gambier, Ohio Beloit College 250,000 To support humanities-based writing in science courses Beloit, Wisconsin To support integration of the curriculum and Pace University 585,000 cocurriculum through broad channels of inquiry that New York, New York connect a liberal education to meaningful careers To support an undergraduate writing program that develops diverse and inclusive voices in media and the performing arts Bennington College 1,000,000 Bennington, Vermont University of California at Los Angeles 350,000 To support the development of Building a Los Angeles, California Community Curriculum: A Complex Systems To support the development of curricular and research Approach to Food Insecurity initiatives in Middle East and North African studies
City College of New York 150,000 Vassar College 900,000 New York, New York Poughkeepsie, New York To support planning for a program of renewal To support community-engaged programs in the humanities and innovation in the humanities that encourage equitable collaborations with residents and organizations in the City of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, DePaul University 750,000 and the Hudson Valley Chicago, Illinois To support an initiative among faculty, Washington College 800,000 community organization leaders, and students Chestertown, Maryland to tackle significant issues through inter- To support the Chesapeake Heartland Project in public disciplinary collaboration in the humanities history, a collaboration with the local African American community, Kent County public schools, and the National Emory University 1,250,000 Museum of African American History and Culture Atlanta, Georgia To support undergraduate humanities curriculum revision to connect undergraduate students in the humanities to postgraduate Undergraduate Education: Pedagogy career opportunities Lehigh University 600,000 Grinnell College 1,000,000 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Grinnell, Iowa To support the integration of humanities pedagogy To support a curricular, experiential learning, and scholarship into technical disciplines and community engagement initiative that highlights the role of the humanities in addressing University of Michigan at Flint 600,000 societal challenges Flint, Michigan To support the development of a series of new humanities-oriented First Year Experience courses
132 133 Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant Amount Creation and Development of New Work: Artist Residencies
Alliance of Artists Communities $525,000 Providence, Rhode Island To support services to the field
The Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. 1,000,000 New York, New York To support the Master Artist Residency program
Clinton Community Christian Corporation 125,000 Clinton, Mississippi To support planning for the Sipp Culture Rural Performance/Production Lab
Gina Gibney Dance, Inc. 500,000 New York, New York To continue support for the Dance in Process residency program and a cash reserve fund
Henry Street Settlement 150,000 New York, New York To support the development of partnerships in Puerto Rico
Walker Art Center, Inc. 350,000 Minneapolis, Minnesota To continue support for the New American Dance Initiative
Creation and Development of New Work: Dissemination
Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Inc. 4,480,000 New York, New York To support the New York Theater Program
135 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE Grant Amount Grant Amount
Fractured Atlas, Inc. 100,000 Spoleto Festival USA 90,000 New York, New York Charleston, South Carolina To continue support for American Dance Recon To support the development of Rhiannon Giddens’s and the operations of American Dance Abroad Omar Ibn Said opera
National New Play Network, Ltd. 550,000 Washington National Opera 500,000 Washington, DC Washington, DC To continue support for the New Play Exchange To continue support for the development and production of new operas and related public programming
Creation and Development of New Work: Performance Development Curation, Conservation, and American Opera Projects, Inc. 300,000 Preservation: Higher Education Brooklyn, New York and Research To continue support for the development and continued life of new operas Jackson State University 450,000 Jackson, Mississippi Dance Service New York City, Inc. 86,000 To support staff and collections in the New York, New York Margaret Walker Center and the Council To support the New York Dance Rehearsal of Federated Organizations Civil Rights Space Subsidy Program Education Center
Glimmerglass Opera Theatre, Inc. 300,000 University of Kansas 650,000 Cooperstown, New York Lawrence, Kansas To support the development and production of new operas To continue support for the Integrated Arts Research Initiative The MAP Fund, Inc. 1,000,000 New York, New York To continue support for a regranting program for the creation and development of new work Curation, Conservation, and Preservation: Multi-Interdisciplinary Network of Ensemble Theaters, Inc. 700,000 Portland, Oregon Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation 100,000 To continue support for the Travel and Water Mill, New York Exchange Network program To support the development of Robert Wilson’s archives
New England Foundation for the Arts, Inc. 4,412,000 Fractured Atlas, Inc. 75,000 Boston, Massachusetts New York, New York To continue support for the National Theater Project To support the ArtsJournal archives
136 137 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE Grant Amount Grant Amount
Curation, Conservation, and National Museum of Mexican Art 500,000 Preservation: Museums Chicago, Illinois To support two termed curatorial assistants Anchorage Museum Association 600,000 Anchorage, Alaska New Orleans Museum of Art 1,000,000 To continue support for curatorial capacity New Orleans, Louisiana in contemporary Indigenous art and culture To support conservation capacity building
Cincinnati Museum Association 400,000 North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc. 750,000 Cincinnati, Ohio Raleigh, North Carolina To support the ancient Near East gallery To support the reinstallation of the permanent collection reinstallation project Oakland Museum of California 795,000 Five Colleges, Incorporated 800,000 Oakland, California Amherst, Massachusetts To support a study and planning process to To support a planning process for museum address knowledge management infrastructure data integration potential across the Five Colleges at the museum and Museums10 consortia The Philbrook Museum of Art, Inc. 500,000 The Frick Collection 450,000 Tulsa, Oklahoma New York, New York To support curatorial capacity for the Native To support a ResearchSpace pilot project for the American collections, as well as research support International Consortium of Photo Archives for the permanent collection
Gilcrease Museum Management Trust 500,000 The Phillips Collection 750,000 Tulsa, Oklahoma Washington, DC To support curatorial capacity for the Native To provide final support for the joint American collections, as well as research support position of chief curator and deputy for the permanent collection director of academic affairs
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc. 500,000 Purchase College, State University of New York 150,000 Boston, Massachusetts Purchase, New York To continue support for new models of community To support a study and planning process to and artistic engagement with historic art museum address archives and knowledge management collections and spaces infrastructure at the Neuberger Museum of Art
Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of 1,000,000 San Antonio Museum of Art 500,000 Miami-Dade County, Inc. San Antonio, Texas Miami, Florida To continue support for postdoctoral To support the creation of a Caribbean Cultural Institute curatorial fellowships
138 139 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE Grant Amount Grant Amount
University of Washington 1,000,000 Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network 1,000,000 Seattle, Washington Los Angeles, California To support conservation capacity building To support network building for arts engagement in the justice system
Georgetown University 400,000 Curation, Conservation, and Washington, DC Preservation: Performing Arts To continue support for the Lab Fellows program at the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics Dance/USA 450,000 Washington, DC Greater Washington Educational 425,000 To support the Archiving and Preservation Telecommunications Association, Inc. Fellowship Program Arlington, Virginia To support the PBS NewsHour’s “American The House Foundation for the Arts, Inc. 125,000 Creators” series coverage of arts and culture in New York, New York rural and small-town United States To support planning for the Meredith Monk Lineage Project Keshet Dance Company 1,000,000 Albuquerque, New Mexico Kronos Performing Arts Association 100,000 To support the New Mexico Arts and San Francisco, California Justice Network To support the planning phase of Kronos Capsules New York University 240,000 New York, New York To support a case study analysis of the New Public Value of the Arts: California Arts Fund’s body of work Arts and Civic Engagement OF/BY/FOR ALL, Inc. 1,000,000 Americans for the Arts, Inc. 425,000 Santa Cruz, California Washington, DC To support the Change Network program To continue support for the Arts + Social Impact Explorer 2.0 Prison Communities International, Inc. 863,000 Appalshop, Inc. 500,000 Purchase, New York Whitesburg, Kentucky To support capacity building for the To continue support for the Performing Our Future Rehabilitation Through the Arts program project and support for Art in a Democracy and the Reentry Toolkit
Arizona State University 450,000 Southern Methodist University 300,000 Tempe, Arizona Dallas, Texas To continue support for the Projecting To continue support for the Ignite/ All Voices initiative Arts Dallas initiative
140 141 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE Grant Amount Grant Amount
University of Texas at El Paso 150,000 Public Value of the Arts: El Paso, Texas Cultural Exchange To support Border Tuner/Sintonizador Fronterizo Arts Midwest 100,000 Minneapolis, Minnesota To support a final round of the National Public Value of the Arts: Arts on Campus Endowment for the Arts’ Performing Arts Discovery program The Pennsylvania State University 600,000 University Park, Pennsylvania To support initiatives that will more deeply integrate the performing arts in the research Sector Health: Art and Artists at Risk and pedagogical missions of the university Institute of International Education, Inc. 2,500,000 University Musical Society 600,000 New York, New York Ann Arbor, Michigan To continue support for the Artist Protection Fund To support initiatives that will more deeply integrate the performing arts in PEN American Center, Inc. 800,000 the research and pedagogical missions New York, New York of the university To continue support for the Artists at Risk Connection
University of California at Davis 600,000 Davis, California To support initiatives that will more Sector Health: Emergency Preparedness deeply integrate the performing arts in the research and pedagogical missions LYRASIS 2,300,000 of the university Atlanta, Georgia To continue support for Performing Arts Readiness University of Kansas 466,000 Lawrence, Kansas To support initiatives that will more deeply integrate the performing arts in Sector Health: Organizational Structure the research and pedagogical missions and Capacity Building of the university American Symphony Orchestra League 750,000 University of Washington 600,000 New York, New York Seattle, Washington To support equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives To support initiatives that will more deeply integrate the performing arts in the research Center Stage Associates, Inc. 100,000 and pedagogical missions of the university Baltimore, Maryland To support new artistic leader initiatives
142 143 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE Grant Amount Grant Amount
Coleman Center Board of the City of York Term 605,000 Grantmakers in the Arts 150,000 York, Alabama Bronx, New York To support change capital as part To support the organization’s annual conferences in of the Comprehensive Organizational New York City in 2020 and Puerto Rico in 2021 Health Initiative Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd. 276,000 Company One, Inc. 189,500 New York, New York Boston, Massachusetts To continue support for a multiyear residency To continue support for a multiyear residency with playwright Taylor Mac, as part of the National with playwright Kirsten Greenidge, as part Playwright Residency Program of the National Playwright Residency Program Jazz Institute of Chicago 300,000 Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc. 100,000 Chicago, Illinois New Haven, Connecticut To support the Jazz Links Fellowship To support new artistic leader initiatives Program and commissions for new jazz works by Chicago artists CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia, Inc. 450,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jazz St. Louis 300,000 To continue support for CultureWorks St. Louis, Missouri Commons Management To support a creative advisor
Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. 4,000,000 Marin Theatre Company 294,300 New York, New York Mill Valley, California To support artistic initiatives and To continue support for a multiyear residency capacity building with playwright Lauren Gunderson, as part of the National Playwright Residency Program Emerson College 500,000 Boston, Massachusetts Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc. 350,400 To continue support for the National New York, New York Playwright Residency Program To continue support for a multiyear residency with playwrights Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza, as part Fractured Atlas, Inc. 100,000 of the National Playwright Residency Program New York, New York To support capacity building for the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Inc. 1,000,000 Association for Heritage Preservation San Juan, Puerto Rico of the Americas To support core staff and program capacity building
Globalfest, Inc. 150,000 Native American Community Development Institute 835,000 Brooklyn, New York Minneapolis, Minnesota To support capacity building To support change capital as part of the Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative
144 145 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE Grant Amount Grant Amount
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Inc. 300,000 San Diego Repertory Theatre, Inc. 407,500 New Orleans, Louisiana San Diego, California To support capacity building and artistic To continue support for a multiyear residency and archival initiatives with playwright Herbert Sigüenza, as part of the National Playwright Residency Program New York Community Trust 500,000 New York, New York Signature Theatre Company, Inc. 1,000,000 To continue support for the Mosaic Network and Fund New York, New York To support the activation of SigSpace Opera Philadelphia 750,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation 845,000 To support a revolving, board-designated Durham, North Carolina cash reserve fund To support change capital as part of the Comprehensive Organizational Pangea World Theater 825,000 Health Initiative Minneapolis, Minnesota To support change capital as part of the The Theater Offensive, Inc. 820,000 Comprehensive Organizational Health Initiative Boston, Massachusetts To support change capital as part Perseverance Theatre Incorporated 221,100 of the Comprehensive Organizational Douglas, Alaska Health Initiative To continue support for a multiyear residency with playwright Vera Starbard, as part of the National Two River Theatre Company, Inc. 279,345 Playwright Residency Program Red Bank, New Jersey To continue support for a multiyear residency The Philadelphia Dance Company 420,000 with playwright Madeleine George, as part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the National Playwright Residency Program To support a leadership transition and capacity building as part of the Visual Arts Research & Resource 350,000 Comprehensive Organizational Center Relating to the Caribbean, Inc. Health Initiative New York, New York To support capacity building Portland Institute for Contemporary Art 100,000 Portland, Oregon Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company 100,000 To support the Global First Nations Washington, DC Performance Network To support new artistic leader initiatives
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis 100,000 St. Louis, Missouri To support new artistic leader initiatives
146 147 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE Grant Amount Grant Amount
Sector Health: Research National Association of Latino Arts & Culture 57,400 San Antonio, Texas Arab Fund for Arts and Culture 320,000 To support evaluation and planning for the next Beirut, Lebanon iteration of the Intercultural Leadership Institute To support the Knowledge Generation and Sharing Initiative Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc. 450,000 Stichting het Rijksmuseum 1,000,000 New York, New York Amsterdam, Netherlands To continue support for the Theatrical Workforce To support an international framework for Development Program conservation science
Training, Education, and Professional Special Initiatives Development: Art History
Columbia University 30,000 Case Western Reserve University 237,000 New York, New York Cleveland, Ohio To support scholarly symposia on African art To continue support for the Re-envisioning and Indigenous art Doctoral Education in Art History Program
Dartmouth College 500,000 Cleveland Museum of Art 262,500 Hanover, New Hampshire Cleveland, Ohio To support campus library and museum collaboration To continue support for the Re-envisioning Doctoral Education in Art History Program Smith College 380,000 Northampton, Massachusetts Courtauld Institute of Art 750,000 To support campus library and museum collaboration London, United Kingdom To support a faculty cluster hire in art of University of Texas at Austin 500,000 Africa and the African diaspora Austin, Texas To support campus library and museum collaboration The Graduate Center of the City 650,000 University of New York New York, New York To provide renewed support for object-centered training of Training, Education, and Professional Devel- doctoral students in art history opment: Administration Harvard University 440,000 International Society for the 250,000 Cambridge, Massachusetts Performing Arts Foundation To continue support for the Summer Institute for New York, New York Technical Studies in Art at Harvard Art Museums To continue support for the Global Fellowship Program
148 149 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE Grant Amount Grant Amount
Museum of Modern Art 1,240,000 Chicago Sinfonietta, Inc. 300,000 New York, New York Chicago, Illinois To support a final renewal for the Museum To continue support for the Project Research Consortium, an object-based training Inclusion fellowship program program in partnership with five regional graduate programs in art history Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra 800,000 Cincinnati, Ohio Philadelphia Museum of Art 256,500 To support a diversity fellowship program Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in collaboration with the University of To provide final renewal of support for Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music collaborative initiatives in art history graduate education John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2,000,000 Washington, DC University of Pennsylvania 243,500 To support planning and implementation Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of the Baltimore-Washington Musical To provide final renewal of support for Pathways Initiative collaborative initiatives in art history graduate education Johns Hopkins University 1,000,000 Baltimore, Maryland University of Texas at Austin 500,000 To support planning and implementation Austin, Texas of the Baltimore-Washington Musical To continue support for the Curatorial Fellowship Pathways Initiative Program at the Blanton Museum of Art Living Arts International, Inc. 150,000 New York, New York To support the strengthening of connections between Training, Education, and Professional cultural changemakers in the Mekong Region Development: Artists Settlement Music School of Philadelphia 2,500,000 Chamber Music America, Inc. 84,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania New York, New York To continue support for the Philadelphia Music To support professional development Alliance for Youth Artists’ Initiative and networking opportunities for Puerto Rican artists, presenters, and Sphinx Organization, Inc. 450,000 arts administrators Detroit, Michigan To support SphinxConnect Chicago Opera Theater 500,000 Chicago, Illinois University of California at Los Angeles 120,000 To support the Vanguard Emerging Los Angeles, California Opera Composer Residency Program To support the Dancing Disability Lab
150 151 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS Grant Amount
Training, Education, and Professional Development: Conservation
Smithsonian Institution 920,000 Washington, DC To continue support for undergraduate internships intended to diversify the applicant pool for graduate conservation programs
University of California at Los Angeles 900,000 Los Angeles, California To continue support for undergraduate internships intended to diversify the applicant pool for graduate conservation programs
Voices in Contemporary Art 300,000 New York, New York To support a training program to advance the stewardship of digital media collections
Training, Education, and Professional Development: Curatorial
Mississippi Museum of Art, Inc. 750,000 Jackson, Mississippi To support the museum’s role as academic hub among four colleges and universities in Jackson, Mississippi
Tougaloo College 200,000 Tougaloo, Mississippi To support further curricular engagement and art collection stewardship
The University of British Columbia 500,000 Vancouver, Canada To support a pilot training and internship program for Native and Indigenous students in museums
152 Scholarly Communications Grant Amount Access and Library Services: Community Archives
District Six Museum Foundation $508,000 Cape Town, South Africa To support capacity building for digital preservation infrastructure, staff, and collection maintenance
Duke University 49,500 Durham, North Carolina To support planning for the further development of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Digital Gateway
Give2Asia 70,000 Oakland, California To support the preservation of, and access to, an important cultural heritage archive in Cambodia
Northeastern University 650,000 Boston, Massachusetts To support the further development of the Boston Research Center
South Asian American Digital Archive 75,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania To support a fellowship program for creating new archival collections from historically marginalized groups of South Asian Americans
The University of Alabama 300,000 Tuscaloosa, Alabama To support a network of sites collecting materials for the Invisible Histories Project
University of Texas at Austin 700,000 Austin, Texas To support sustainability planning for post-custodial archives in Latin America
155 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Grant Amount Grant Amount
Access and Library Services: St. Croix Landmarks Society, Inc. 70,000 Community Archives Call for Proposals Frederiksted, Virgin Islands To support the needs of the community-based archive Esperanza Peace and Justice Center 100,000 San Antonio, Texas Texas After Violence Project 100,000 To support the needs of the community-based archive Austin, Texas To support the needs of the community-based archive Highlander Research & Education Center, Inc. 100,000 New Market, Tennessee The History Project, Inc. 80,000 To support the needs of the community-based archive Boston, Massachusetts To support the needs of the community-based archive Lambda Archives of San Diego 100,000 San Diego, California The Marian Cheek Jackson Center 95,000 To support the needs of the community-based archive for Saving and Making History Chapel Hill, North Carolina Los Angeles Poverty Department 100,000 To support the needs of the community-based archive Los Angeles, California To support the needs of the community-based archive United Houma Nation, Inc. 97,000 Golden Meadow, Louisiana Manilatown Heritage Foundation 50,000 To support the needs of the community-based archive San Francisco, California To support the needs of the community-based archive William Way LGBT Community Center 51,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania North End Community 60,000 To support the needs of the community-based archive Improvement Collaborative, Inc. Mansfield, Ohio To support the needs of the Warrior Women Project Archive Access and Library Services: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. 100,000 Disciplinary Services San Francisco, California To support the needs of the community-based archive Brandeis University 673,000 Waltham, Massachusetts South Side Community Art Center 100,000 To support the implementation of natural language Chicago, Illinois processing tools in archives To support the needs of the community-based archive Michigan State University 850,000 Southern California Library for 76,000 East Lansing, Michigan Social Studies & Research To support the further development of databases Los Angeles, California that identify enslaved people and others involved in To support the needs of the community-based archive the transatlantic slave trade
156 157 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Grant Amount Grant Amount
Michigan State University 695,000 Access and Library Services: East Lansing, Michigan Library Reorganization To support the further development and implementation of new methods for assessing Boston University 100,000 the nature and quality of scholarship in the Boston, Massachusetts humanities and social sciences To support the reorganization of the library’s executive team University of Houston 750,000 Houston, Texas James Madison University 150,000 To support the development of a Latinx studies Harrisonburg, Virginia digital humanities center To support the development of a partnership model for digital library support of Furious Flower, a living center for black poetry
Access and Library Services: Financial Health Access and Library Services: Digital Public Library of America 622,000 Linked Open Data Boston, Massachusetts To support the continued implementation OCLC, Inc. 2,436,000 of a sustainable business plan Dublin, Ohio To support the development of an infrastructure Nonprofit Finance Fund 1,000,000 to reconcile entities, such as names, for Linked New York, New York Open Data To support a pilot program that would assist a cohort of digital humanities organizations with developing adaptable and sustainable business models Access and Library Services: Shared Catalogs and Portals
Emory University 88,500 Access and Library Services: Atlanta, Georgia Global Collections To support the integration of the African Origins database into the Slave Voyages database Bibliothèque nationale de France 996,000 Paris, France To support the development of a digital library platform that would protect and increase access to at-risk cultural heritage records from the Middle East
158 159 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Grant Amount Grant Amount
Access and Library Services: University of Maryland at College Park 800,000 System-Wide Services College Park, Maryland To support the development of optical character Council on Library and Information Resources 1,200,000 recognition tools and services for Arabic scripts Arlington, Virginia To support general operations University of Wisconsin at Madison 500,000 Madison, Wisconsin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 70,500 To support collaborations among campus libraries Champaign, Illinois and museums To support the development of model language that would address privacy concerns in library Yale University 500,000 content subscriptions New Haven, Connecticut To support collaborations among campus libraries University of Northumbria at Newcastle 703,000 and museums Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom To support an international organization of professional information schools Access and Library Services: Use and Interoperability of Digital Primary Source Collections Access and Library Services: Technology for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Austrian National Library 443,000 Vienna, Austria Ghent University 744,000 To support the digitization and online publication of papyri Ghent, Belgium from the early Arab period To support an investigation of scholarly communications in the decentralized web The George Washington University 98,500 Washington, DC Library of Congress 1,000,000 To support the development of protocols for providing Washington, DC ethical access to archives that include documentation of To support a pilot project for making terrorist acts and human rights violations library collections available for computational research University of Oxford 890,000 Oxford, United Kingdom Northwestern University 200,000 To support the implementation of standards and practices Evanston, Illinois to improve the discovery of archival collections To support the further development of digital tools for the study of early modern texts
160 161 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Grant Amount Grant Amount
Electronic Publishing: Stanford University 1,150,000 Monograph and Long-Form Publishing Stanford, California To support the further development of a platform Abilene Christian University 103,000 for the publication and preservation of born-digital Abilene, Texas interactive scholarly works To support the digitization of out-of-print humanities titles and the dissemination of those titles on an open-access basis The University of British Columbia 490,000 Vancouver, Canada To support the further development of a prototype Brown University 172,000 infrastructure for the publication of multimedia books Providence, Rhode Island in Native American and Indigenous studies To support the digitization of out-of-print humanities titles and the dissemination of those titles on an open-access basis University of Connecticut 500,000 Storrs, Connecticut Indiana University 183,000 To support the further development of a studio for Bloomington, Indiana the collaborative design, development, and publication To support the digitization of out-of-print of digital scholarly projects humanities titles and the dissemination of those titles on an open-access basis Yale University 750,000 New Haven, Connecticut University of Kansas 129,000 To support the further development of the Art & Lawrence, Kansas Architecture Electronic Portal To support the digitization of out-of-print humanities titles and the dissemination of those titles on an open-access basis Electronic Publishing: Primary Sources Brown University 775,000 Providence, Rhode Island Bucknell University 1,000,000 To support the further development of university Lewisburg, Pennsylvania capacities to generate, publish, and preserve born- To support the pilot implementation of publishing digital scholarly works cooperatives for digital scholarly editions
New York University 527,000 Massachusetts Historical Society 1,000,000 New York, New York Boston, Massachusetts To support the development of preservation To support the pilot implementation of publishing services for new forms of digital publishing cooperatives for digital scholarly editions
162 163 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Grant Amount Grant Amount
University of Virginia 1,000,000 Preservation: Audiovisual Preservation Charlottesville, Virginia To support the pilot implementation of publishing Columbia University 750,000 cooperatives for digital scholarly editions New York, New York To support the preservation of audio and moving image collections
Electronic Publishing: Council on Library and Information Resources 2,807,000 System-Wide Innovation Arlington, Virginia To support a regranting competition for audio University of North Texas 1,200,000 and audiovisual preservation Denton, Texas To support the development of a trust for Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc. 106,500 the stewardship of usage data about open- Andover, Massachusetts access monographs To support improvements in audiovisual preservation productivity
Other Scholarly Communications: University of Calgary 760,000 Fellowships and Training Calgary, Canada To support the continued implementation of a preservation The Book Arts Press, Inc. 1,500,000 and digital asset management system for the audio archives Charlottesville, Virginia of a commercial recording company To support a fellowship program to advance the diversity of staffing and curatorial practice WGBH Educational Foundation 750,000 in special collections libraries Boston, Massachusetts To support the further development of an initiative to Duke University 360,000 preserve cultural heritage in audiovisual formats Durham, North Carolina To support the Research Triangle Scholarly Communications Institute Preservation: Book and Paper University of Pittsburgh 856,000 Preservation and Conservation Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania To support the continuation of a diversity HBCU Library Alliance, Inc. 88,500 program in information science Atlanta, Georgia To support the initial stage of fundraising efforts for the preservation of special collections
164 165 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Grant Amount Grant Amount
University of Kentucky 2,002,000 Preservation: Shared Print Lexington, Kentucky To support the digital restoration and representation New York Public Library 750,000 of the Herculaneum papyri New York, New York To support the refinement and extensibility of software that would improve shared-print collection management among library consortia Preservation: Preservation of Digital and Born-Digital Materials University of Virginia 110,000 Charlottesville, Virginia Columbia University 89,500 To support the development of strategies for New York, New York discovering and cataloging historically marked To support an exploration of the challenges for long-term copies of pre-1923 monographs preservation of web-based digital mapping projects
Rhizome Communications, Inc. 146,000 New York, New York To support sustainability planning for Webrecorder
Stanford University 300,000 Stanford, California To support planning for the further development of the ePADD email preservation software
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 45,000 Champaign, Illinois To support a project to define PDF/A as an archival container for email
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 857,000 Champaign, Illinois To support a regranting program that would help libraries and archives address the challenges of email archiving
University of Missouri at Columbia 250,000 Columbia, Missouri To support planning for the preservation of online news
166 167 Public Affairs Grant Amount Contributions
GrowNYC $30,000 New York, New York To provide general support
Democracy and Opportunity
Greater Washington Educational 150,000 Telecommunications Association, Inc. Arlington, Virginia To continue support for the “Race Matters” series on PBS NewsHour
Museum of the City of New York 150,000 New York, New York To support the exhibition Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers
Inclusive Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. 400,000 New York, New York To support an expansion of Lincoln Center Moments, a performance series for people with dementia and their care partners
Nonprofit Sector
Candid 1,500,000 New York, New York To support the integration of the Foundation Center and GuideStar USA, Inc.
169 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS Grant Amount
Candid 75,000 New York, New York To provide general support
Candid 50,000 New York, New York To support the GuideStar Philanthropic Partners program
Nonprofit New York 75,000 New York, New York To provide general support
Philanthropy New York, Inc. 40,000 New York, New York To support the organization’s membership program
170 Presidential Initiatives Grant Amount Strategy: Embrace, Understand, Promote, and Preserve a Broad Range of the Multiplicity of Stories
The Barack Obama Foundation $2,500,000 Chicago, Illinois To support the development of the Obama Presidential Center Museum collection and plans for the museum’s inaugural art installations
Central Park Conservancy, Inc. 150,000 New York, New York To support the maintenance of monuments in the northern half of Central Park, including the monument to replace the removed monument to J. Marion Sims
City Lore, Inc. 200,000 New York, New York To support the Race, Space, & Mobility in America engagement campaign in connection with the release of Driving While Black, a documentary film by Ric Burns
City Parks Foundation 150,000 New York, New York To support the maintenance of statues in the eastern part of Prospect Park, including the newly commissioned monument to Shirley Chisholm
March on Washington Film Festival 300,000 Washington, DC To support the festival’s core operations
The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City 250,000 New York, New York To support the creation of a new monument in Central Park in honor of the Lyons family
Museum Associates 500,000 Los Angeles, California To support the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s conservation and restoration of the Watts Towers
173 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVES Grant Amount Grant Amount
Museum of Food and Drink 150,000 Strategy: Support Institutions that Speak Brooklyn, New York From and to a Broad and Diverse Public, and To support African/American: Setting the Nation’s Table, Are Intentionally Accessible and Welcoming an exhibit to be held in 2020 at the Africa Center Arab Community Center for 750,000 National Trust for Historic Preservation 5,000,000 Economic & Social Services Access Washington, DC Dearborn, Michigan To support the African American Cultural Heritage To support the Arab American National Museum’s Action Fund’s grantmaking program, and to enhance Artists + Residents program, and the museum’s the Fund’s organizational capacity capacity more generally
New York Public Library 750,000 Artspace Projects, Inc. 150,000 New York, New York Minneapolis, Minnesota To support the Schomburg Center for Research in Black To support the development of the Artspace Culture’s acquisition of the Harry Belafonte archive Feasibility Study and Arts Market Study for Creative Space and Mixed-use Affordable Artist New York Shakespeare Festival 250,000 Housing in San Juan, Puerto Rico New York, New York To support the Public Theater’s revival of the Beta-Local, Inc. 230,000 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered San Juan, Puerto Rico Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf To support staff infrastructure and regranting to other arts spaces and projects Northeastern University 750,000 Boston, Massachusetts Foundation for Society, Law, and Art in South Africa 500,000 To support the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Stamford, Connecticut Project as it expands and professionalizes its archive To support a fund for curatorial and conservation of incidents of racial terror needs of the Constitutional Court in South Africa
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates, Inc. 1,800,000 Los Angeles County Department of 1,750,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Arts and Culture To support the launch and implementation of the Public Los Angeles, California Art & Civic Engagement Capacity Building Initiative in To support a new Civic Artist Development Initiative three American cities On Being Project 75,000 Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. 750,000 Minneapolis, Minnesota New York, New York To support the expansion of poetry across To support #AfricaNoFilter’s efforts to produce the Project’s platforms and the launch of the nuanced, complex, and accurate stories about the Poetry Unbound podcast African continent
174 175 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVES Grant Amount Grant Amount
Productora Angeles Del Fin, Inc. 500,000 Strategy: Support the Leaders with San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico Active Interpretive Visions of How To support the development of Nido Cultural, to Shape and Enliven our Intertwined a platform to support shared services for artistic Human Experience and cultural production in Puerto Rico, designed and implemented by Inversión Cultural The Academy of American Poets, Inc. 4,500,000 New York, New York Rutgers, The State University 1,500,000 To support the continuation of the local of New Jersey at Newark poets laureate initiative Newark, New Jersey To support jazz and poetry programs The Art Council, Inc. 150,000 developed in collaboration with the Brooklyn, New York New Jersey Performing Arts Center To support the For Freedoms Festival, a national conference and partner convention The Underground Museum, Inc. 600,000 Los Angeles, California Borealis Philanthropy 1,000,000 To support core operations and consultants Minneapolis, Minnesota who can enhance programmatic and oper- To support the creation of a pooled fund to carry ational capacity while the museum develops out grantmaking in connection with the Presidents’ an optimal staffing plan Council on Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy
United Way of Greater New Haven, Inc. 900,000 The Juilliard School 500,000 New Haven, Connecticut New York, New York To support a curatorial fellowship program To support new presidential initiatives designed and the position of executive director at NXTHVN, Inc. to reinvigorate the conservatory
University of Chicago 100,000 NEO Philanthropy, Inc. 100,000 Chicago, Illinois New York, New York To support an initiative honoring To support ArtChangeUS’s fifth and final year Professor Allison Davis of programming
Visual Arts Research & Resource 300,000 United States Artists, Inc. 3,000,000 Center Relating to the Caribbean, Inc. Chicago, Illinois New York, New York To support artist fellowships To support the development of Corredor Afro (African Pathway), a social justice creative United States Artists, Inc. 750,000 cultural arts project in Loíza, Puerto Rico Chicago, Illinois To support the launch and implementation of a fellowship program for disabled cultural practitioners living and working in the United States, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation
176 177 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVES Grant Amount Grant Amount
Women Make Movies, Inc. 125,000 Los Angeles County Public Library Foundation 100,000 New York, New York Downey, California To support the national distribution of Trilogy Films’ To support the Creative Cultivation Project at documentary about Vernon Jordan Claremont Library
Rhodes University 726,000 Grahamstown, South Africa Honoring Grants: Special Grants To support collaborative and individual grant efforts among Made in Honor of Departing several South African universities to expand their inclusive Foundation Trustees or Officers professoriate initiatives
Amherst College 250,000 Stellenbosch University 834,000 Amherst, Massachusetts Stellenbosch, South Africa To support Cultivating Effective Citizens: To support collaborative and individual grant efforts among An Amherst College Public Scholarship Project several South African universities to expand their inclusive professoriate initiatives DePauw University 100,000 Greencastle, Indiana University of Cape Town 773,000 To support a Writer-in-Residence Fellowship Cape Town, South Africa at the Prindle Institute To support collaborative and individual grant efforts among several South African universities to expand their inclusive Harvard University 1,000,000 professoriate initiatives Cambridge, Massachusetts To support the Civics Initiative University of Chicago 250,000 Chicago, Illinois Harvard University 500,000 To support the Black Metropolis Research Consortium Cambridge, Massachusetts in its efforts to enhance the online portal into its collections To support a program of Ethics Pedagogy Fellows database and to grow its community of donors of Black history material iCivics 250,000 Cambridge, Massachusetts University of KwaZulu-Natal 681,000 To support the development of the CiviXNow! Coalition Westville, South Africa To support collaborative and individual grant efforts among King’s College Cambridge 250,000 several South African universities to expand their inclusive Cambridge, United Kingdom professoriate initiatives To support The Andrew W. Mellon Junior Research Fellowships University of Pretoria 834,000 Pretoria, South Africa To support collaborative and individual grant efforts among several South African universities to expand their inclusive professoriate initiatives
178 179 GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS Grant Amount
University of the Western Cape 834,000 Bellville, South Africa To support collaborative and individual grant efforts among several South African universities to expand their inclusive professoriate initiatives
University of the Witwatersrand 834,000 Johannesburg, South Africa To support collaborative and individual grant efforts among several South African universities to expand their inclusive professoriate initiatives
West Sussex County Council 100,000 Chichester, United Kingdom To support Transatlantic Ties, a project providing access to and educational programs based on the Sussex Declaration and other American archives housed in the West Sussex Record Office
180