“The $15 million from the #MellonFoundation will offset only a portion of the $65 million the state councils were set to receive this year from the #humanitiesendowment, as appropriated by Congress. But Elizabeth Alexander, the foundation’s president, said it would help preserve humanities programs, particularly in rural states without a robust base of private philanthropy.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/arts/mellon-foundation-humanities-endowment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

It may be spooky season, but preserving your station's materials doesn't have to be scary! 👻

Learn how to partner with the AAPB for free digitization services, thanks to the Mellon Foundation, in just six simple steps. 🎃📼

#PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting #Preservation #AAPB #Archives #MediaArchives #Digitization #MellonFoundation

Student government president welcomes donors designers builders to #AgnesScott hall. #leedcertified #solarpowered restoration of the first electrified building on #dekalbga

#mellonfoundation gift to tell the story of the artisans builders engineers of colour who made this place (including figuring out how to hang the bell)

I just want to know their purpose. Why?

Who, what, when, where, and why, as a matter of fact!

I refuse to believe it was a coincidental banding of brothers under some alleged canopy of #UAP and just happens to be a thing.

You believe it?

That one guy is a #Mellon as in #MellonFoundation #CarnegieMellon University, etc. Same guy. Same family at least.

You think he was hanging out on Blink 182's tour bus back in the 90's? Maybe he was. That's why they're all too hip to be square! #blink182

📣 Read all about it! In this new feature from the Mellon Foundation, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting takes center stage!🗞

Learn more about what goes into saving our nation's public media and the race against time: https://www.mellon.org/grant-story/reel-talk-saving-americas-public-media

#PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting #AAPB #archives #MediaArchives #PublicTV #Digitization #MellonFoundation

Professor #HenryLouisGatesJr earned his PhD at #CambridgeUniversity before moving to #CambridgeMA & “changing the way Black authors get read and the way Black history gets told”. The journey & the honours: https://magazine.alumni.cam.ac.uk/henry-louis-gates-jr/

#AfricanLiterature #MellonFoundation #ClareCollege #Harvard @africanstudies @litstudies

feeling lots of gratitude and appreciation from this collective effort, and grateful for the opportunity to learn from everyone. Major s/o to Beth and her amazing team for leading the charge and for devising ways of bridging the gap for new artists wanting to make a difference in the space.

#bmp #bethmorrisonprojects #produceracademy #opera #musicaltheater #edu #mellonfoundation #learning #producer #artist #academy

Join us as The Montpelier Foundation & Montpelier Descendants Committee jointly kick off the multi-yr #Memorialization Project funded by a $5.8 mil. grant from the #MellonFoundation.
Engage in panel discussions; experience #arts & #cultural exhibits; discover #local & #community orgs; visit the Montpelier #Archaeology or children’s activity table or take a specialty tour.
#Free & open to the public.
Visit https://buff.ly/3rIoRz1 for more.
#sschat #histodons #history @academicchatter

What is #MarcoOxford?

- New search functionality enabling search across(!) #manuscripts and #archives at Oxford
- New online descriptions from special collections for #OrientalMSS #EarlyModernMSS #MedievalMSS
- New online #TEI catalogue for #MedievalCharters and #MedievalSeals

FAMOUS (Finding Archives and MSS Across Oxford’s Unique Special Collections) is funded by #MellonFoundation

Project:
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/libraries/our-work/famous

MS Image:
Bodleian Library MS. Pococke 400, fol. 99a
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8face4cc-d7dc-4ec6-8315-64b8c171dd76/surfaces/62554176-a1a4-45e8-a165-431570d13125/

Thank you Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for generously supporting our Sawyer Seminar on “Imperiled Bodies: Slavery, Colonialism, Citizenship and The Logics of Gender-Based Violence,” led by Anita Hill & Harleen Singh w/ our WGS faculty. We are so excited for this opportunity! #MellonFoundation #genderbasedviolence

#UofTMississauga is launching a project entitled “Hidden Stories: New Approaches to the Local and Global History of the Book,” funded by the #MellonFoundation. The Mellon Foundation has given a $2.69 million grant to support the project, which involves 130 researchers— #humanists, #scientists, #librarians, #curators, conservators & others—from 60 institutions across the world.

https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/main-news/u-t-researchers-uncover-hidden-stories-found-centuries-old-books

Folks in this world may be interested to know about the #MellonFoundation funded Radical Librarianship Institute and accompanying community press @ #UCLA #InformationStudies. This will include a full fine press printing lab, too, to be used for UCLA #mlis courses and @calrbs! The Horn Press at UCLA will also emerge back onto the scene. Can’t wait to partner with many of you on this! https://seis.ucla.edu/news/mellon-foundation-grants-1.25-million-to-create-the-radical-librarianship-institute-at-ucla