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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants: How to Win Funding

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the largest philanthropic supporter of the arts, culture, and humanities in the United States, managing an endowment of roughly $8 billion and distributing hundreds of millions annually.

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Mellon Foundation: the humanities and public scholarship framing

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funds humanities scholarship and the arts. Frame your proposal as advancing humanistic inquiry and public engagement with the humanities, not as arts programming alone.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funds higher education in the humanities, the arts, humanities scholarship, and civil society organizations engaged with humanistic inquiry. If your proposal is 'we will produce an arts festival,' that is arts programming, and Mellon may decline it. If it is 'we will explore how public art can illuminate community history and foster civic dialogue,' that is humanities-informed arts, and Mellon may fund it. The humanities…

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