Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to augment the resources available for revolving loans under the National Historic Preservation Fund

National Historic Preservation Fund

for a program of empirical studies of the relation of historic preservation to certain critical urban problems

Historic Preservation - Urban Problems

to establish national guidelines and standards for the care, protection, preservation, and educational or interpretive uses of historic houses and their collections

Historic Houses Guidelines

toward support of its National Preservation Revolving Fund

National Preservation Revolving Fund

toward costs of developing alternative models for relations among national, state, and local historic preservation organizations

Pennsylvania and Vermont Project Models

to support the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, which distributes preservation support to important sites of African American history in the United States

African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

to support a conference on the state of recovery of New Orleans in the context of historic and cultural heritage

New Orleans Historic and Cultural Recovery

in support of a project on the optimal operating relationships among national, state, and local preservation organizations

Planning and Analysis

to support staff capacity, programs for presidential sites in Virginia, a national regranting program, and a convening for the new Descendant Stewardship & Leadership Initiative

Descendant Stewardship & Leadership Initiative

to support the African American Cultural  Heritage Action Fund’s grantmaking, programs, marketing, expanded technical assistance for prospective grantees, and three signature preservation projects

to support the Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative for Historically Black Colleges and Universities

NTHP HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative

to support the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund's grantmaking program, and to enhance the Fund's organizational capacity 

toward establishing a revolving Endangered Properties Fund

Endangered Properties Fund

for use by its Center for Puerto Rican Studies toward costs of organizing and making accessible the historical archives of the Puerto Rican migration to the United States, 1930-1993

Historical Archives of the Puerto Rican Migration to the United States, 1930-1993

to support the United States World War I Centennial Commission in developing educational resources and digital learning materials to accompany the creation of a National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC

World War I Educational Content

to support the launch and implementation of a fellowship program for disabled
cultural practitioners living and working in the United States, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation

Fellowships for Disabled Arts Practitioners

Publications of the 17th Annual Byzantine Congress

General Support

United States Artists Fellowships

for use by its Food Research Institute to support continuation of the Joint United States-Mexico Project

Joint United States - Mexico Project

to continue support for the implementation of a fellowship program for disabled cultural practitioners living and working in the United States, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation

Disability Futures

to support an Andrew W. Mellon fellowship for visual and performing artists within the United States Artists fellowship program

USAI Mellon Fellowships

to support public dialogues about the evolution and impact of mass incarceration in the United States

States of Incarceration: A National Dialogue of Local Histories

Waterlands Preservation

to support the development and presentation of a national training program in the conservation and preservation of audiovisual media

Preservation Training for Sound and Video Collections

to develop new curricular materials on Canada for American students

Curriculum Project

in support of its waterlands preservation efforts

to support a project to embed the study of race, racialization, and resistance in the undergraduate curriculum

Race, Racialization, and Resistance in the United States

for a research project on the state of dance preservation in this country

Dance Preservation

matching grant for its Permanent Land Preservation Fund

Land Preservation Fund

toward construction of a Midshipmen Activity Center at the United States Naval Academy

Midshipmen Activity Center Construction

towards costs of a project to place volumes of The Library of America series in public libraries around the country

The Library of America

to continue support of the expansion and implementation of the Monument Removal, Relocation, and Re-Interpretation Toolkit

Monuments Toolkit

to support the development of a toolkit to inform decisions about the display, interpretation, removal, or relocation of monuments associated with oppression

Monument Removal, Relocation, and Re-Interpretation Toolkit

to support seminars that examine the historical and cultural sources of significant contemporary developments

Sawyer Seminars - Constitutional Design and the Politics of Difference in Mexico, Canada, and the United States

toward its Permanent Land-Preservation Fund

to support the assessment of early American nitrate film in The Netherlands

Evaluating Early American Films in the Netherlands: Laying Groundwork for a New International Preservation Partnership

for general support of its activities which provide, in addition to special projects, objective information about China

for general support of activities which include, in addition to special. projects, provision of objective information about China

to support an initiative to catalogue the Royal Academy of Arts' collection of historic frames

Historic Frames Initiative

for a program to place volumes of The Library of America series in public libraries

Library of America

to support the restoration of the historic A. G. Gaston Motel coffee shop and dining room, and the construction of related support and exhibition spaces

Restoring the Historic A. G. Gaston Motel - The Community Gathering Place

to support research, editorial, and related costs for publishing projects consistent with the core mission of the Library of America series

for use as endowment of a volume of the Library of America series

Henry David Thoreau Volume

support of the Association which acts as the official accrediting agency for graduate and professional theological education

to support editorial development of an anthology of African American poetry, and public events that will engage communities around the country with this poetic tradition

Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters

support of a study grants program for faculty and staff of member theological schools

Theological Study Program

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 