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Ten PNY Members Sign NYTimes Ad Calling for Dialogue, Promoting #ReasonsForHope

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08/01/2016

The recent killings of people and police officers in communities across the country have stirred feelings of discord and despair, and left Americans wondering how we'll find a way forward.

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Mellon Foundation Awards Wilson College $100K to Strengthen Writing Instruction

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07/25/2016

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Wilson College a $100,000 grant to strengthen writing instruction for students, especially those in their first year.

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Mellon Foundation Gives $1M to Launch Iterative Learning Fellowship

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07/08/2016

The grant builds on the recent success of the Mellon Foundation-funded Arts@TheCore initiative from 2012.

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Mellon Foundation Gives $1.5M To Conserve African Art Collection

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07/07/2016

The significant award will help launch VMFA’s newly conceived center for advanced study in art conservation.

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21 Jun 2016

ComNetworkNY Kick-Off: Cocktails and Conversation

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6:00pm to 8:00pm

If you’re interested in meeting other communications professionals, learning about great work in the social sector, and having a good time, join us as we kick off ComNetworkNY! In cooperation with Philanthropy New York, we want to be the go-to group...

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Ford, Rockefeller, Mellon, Bank of America Are Just a Few of the Donors to New African American Museum

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05/25/2016

Ford, Gates, Rockefeller and Mellon foundations, General Electric and Walmart, Oprah Winfrey and Samuel L. Jackson, the NBA and the NFL donated to the new museum in Washington, D.C.

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Mellon Grant Aims to Leverage Linked Data for Enhanced Information Access

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04/28/2016

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Stanford a $1.5 million grant to support library initiatives that develop and advance the use of linked open data.

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Mellon Foundation Contributes to 'THATcamp' on Humanities and Technology

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04/21/2016

THATCamp is a national series of events promoting digital humanities – broadly defined as the use of technology in the research and teaching of humanities.

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Artists, Investors and Innovators Join Together to Launch Upstart Co-Lab

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04/14/2016

Upstart is funded by Ford Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Surdna Foundation with in-kind support from the F.B. Heron Foundation. Upstart is a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants $5.6M to Enable Residencies for Playwrights

Release Date:

04/11/2016

What that means, in a profession that is notoriously short on financial remuneration, is that the designated playwrights will receive full-time salaries and benefits for three years, along with “artistic development funds’’ that they can use for...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Jane Mendillo and L. Rafael Reif to its Board of Trustees

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04/11/2016

Ms. Mendillo and President Reif will offer wise leadership, grounded in deep and broad experience, as well as steadfast commitment to the Foundation's core constituencies in the humanities, arts, higher education, and cultural organizations," said...

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With Help from Mellon Foundation, the National Gallery Celebrates 75 Years

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04/08/2016

The National Gallery of Art is such a fixture in Washington that it’s hard to remember that it didn’t open until 1941, thanks to the vision of Andrew Mellon.

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Mellon Foundation Awards Guggenheim $3M Endowment For Conservation

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03/25/2016

The Guggenheim Museum’s conservation department has received a $3 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support its conservation efforts. The grant will endow a position of deputy director and chief conservator and a new...

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Mellon Grant Aims to Raise $75 Million for National Gallery

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03/18/2016

The National Gallery of Art announced a $30 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Thursday that could bring the Smithsonian museum two and a half times the pledged amount, reports The Washington Post.

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Mellon, Ford and NYCT Support WNYC Series on Gentrification

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03/03/2016

WNYC's 'There Goes the Neighborhood' takes an in-depth look at gentrification in Brooklyn and the integral role that race plays in the process.

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New Joint NEH & Mellon Foundation Fellowship Encourages Digital Research in the Humanities

Release Date:

03/01/2016

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the two largest funders of humanities research in the United States, announced a new joint fellowship opportunity to support high-quality “born digital” research in...

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Mellon Funds Efforts to Bring Medieval Works to the Digital World

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02/24/2016

Lehigh, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania are leading a project, called Bibliotheca Philadelphienis, that will digitalize the largest regional collection of medieval and early modern manuscripts in the country.

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With Mellon Support, Smithsonian to Create National Art Database

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02/22/2016

The Smithsonian American Art Museum, and 14 institutions from around the country, are building a shared, and searchable, online database that could spur research and scholarship about American art.

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Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA Establishes New Center to Study Indigenous Art

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02/16/2016

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia announced a grant of $815,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will be utilized to create a research center for the study of the indigenous art of Australia and the Americas at The...

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