Through its Higher Learning grantmaking area, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites humanities-grounded ideas for research and curricular projects focused on any of three topics.
Donor Name: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/30/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Topics
- Cultures of US Democracy
- Projects that consider the circumstantial conditions that enable US democratic practices to flourish, including how those can best be achieved, nurtured, and sustained within an increasingly complex and fractured society.
- Environmental Justice Studies
- Projects that focus on specific systems (such as food, water, or health), ones that engage interrelated systems in a given community/locale, and ones that come at this topic through discrete analytical or disciplinary lenses.
- Social Justice and Disciplinary Knowledge
- Projects that best exemplify how specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary fields of study are equipped to reckon with issues of social justice, given the particular investigative and analytical methods they deploy.
- Funding Information
- Envisioned projects should be achievable with contributions from Mellon of $250,000 – $500,000, with durations of up to three years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organization
- To participate in this call for concepts, an organization must:
- The following institutions are not eligible to apply for funding, although they may be referenced as partners in applications:
- Institutions based outside the US and its territories
- For-profit institutions
- Fully online institutions
- Research institutes
- Special Focus Institutions, as defined by the Carnegie Classifications (This includes medical schools and centers and other health professions schools; engineering and other technology-related schools; business and management schools; arts, music, and design schools; law schools; and seminaries or seminary-like institutions.
- For more information, visit Mellon Foundation.