Artists nourish our economies, communities, and collective spirit.

Explore “Artists as Catalysts” at Mellon.
mellon.org/ideas/artists-…

Places can invite opportunities to uncover the past in ways that challenge and unite us.

Explore “Public Places‚ Public Stories” at Mellon. mellon.org/ideas/public-p…

The NPS-Mellon Foundation Humanities Fellowship is helping sites across the US increase their storytelling capacities. mellon.org/grant-story/on…

“I viewed the fellowship as laying an imaginary literary net.” mellon.org/voices/a-borde…

A century-old landscape garden in DC is changing our understanding of the history of place. mellon.org/grant-story/cu…

At Mellon, we believe in the power of many voices and many discourses.

Explore “Multivocality.” mellon.org/ideas/multivoc…

'The Philadelphia rowhouse once owned by the jazz musician will be restored through funds provided by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.' nytimes.com/2024/03/05/rea…

Lucille Clifton’s children have reclaimed the century-old Baltimore house where their mother wrote some of her greatest work. mellon.org/grant-story/a-…

Join us on 3/19 as Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander speaks with journalist Michele Norris about Norris’s new book, “Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity.”

Register for the free, virtual Mellon event: on.mellon.org/49L1INe

The Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative invests in jailhouse lawyers—incarcerated justice advocates—as a core strategy for ending the cycle of incarceration. mellon.org/grant-story/re…

“We're doing this work because we want to live and we want to live well and enjoy life with the people that we love.” – Nse Ufot, CEO of The New Georgia Project mellon.org/grant-story/li…

RaceB4Race brings together scholars of color across disciplines and institutions to examine issues of structural racism in premodern history, literature, and culture. mellon.org/grant-story/ra…

Wideman Davis Dance Company is creating residencies in cities across the South that involve local communities and engage live audiences in intimate antebellum histories told through dance. mellon.org/grant-story/ex…

The JXN Project is helping tell the story of the nation’s first vibrant, urban neighborhood founded by Black Americans, Jackson Ward. mellon.org/grant-story/th…

The “Afro-American” is the only publication of its kind owned by the same family for its entire history and is the oldest Black-owned business in Maryland. mellon.org/grant-story/ho…

What can you do with a PhD? Meet a news editor, museum president, community organizer, and others making waves with their doctorate degree. mellon.org/article/where-…

“We're doing this work because we want to live and we want to live well and enjoy life with the people that we love.” – Nse Ufot, CEO of The New Georgia Project mellon.org/grant-story/li…

RaceB4Race brings together scholars of color across disciplines and institutions to examine issues of structural racism in premodern history, literature, and culture. mellon.org/grant-story/ra…