Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the continuation of the local poets laureate initiative

Local Poets Laureate Fellowships

to continue support of the Local Poets Laureate Fellowship

Local Poets Laureate Fellowship 

to support an initiative that would enable 10 to 20 state or city poets laureate to offer programs that engage people with poetry around issues that are important to young people and others in their communities

Public Programming by Poets Laureate in American states and cities

in support of program to stimulate activities of its Affiliated Societies

Affiliated Societies

toward support of its Affiliated Societies program

toward costs of cataloguing and preserving its archive

Cataloguing Project

to support capacity building and a new fellowship program for the Poetry Coalition

Poetry Coalition

to continue to support capacity building and a fellowship program for the Poetry Coalition

Poetry Coalition 

to support the Literary Arts Emergency Fund

Literary Arts Emergency Fund

Publishing Program

to support COVID-19 emergency response grants for nonprofit literary arts organizations

COVID-19 Emergency Response Grants to Nonprofit Literary Arts Organizations

to support sustainability planning through capacity building for governance, staff, and collections, as well as through the development of a long-range digital strategy

Poets House: Foundations for the Future

to support the National Student Poets Program

National Student Poets Program

for a collaborative project with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to examine the recent development of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

to support the institution following losses incurred as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

to support the completion of a history of the National Academy of Sciences

A History of the National Academy of Sciences

toward the improvement of library services and to assist with the "Small Press Showcase" project

Library Services

to support the creation of a new commemorative public artwork by Sara Ouhaddou at Elizabeth Berger Plaza highlighting the work of early Arab writers and poets who settled in New York City

Rabitah: Poets in the Park

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

Historic Frames Initiative

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on Latin American plants

Latin American Plants Initiative

to support The Academy, a postgraduate educational initiative for orchestral musicians

The Academy

to provide seating, and lighting and sound equipment for the renovated ballroom at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Support for the Renovated Ballroom

to support the Orchestra Leadership Academy

Leadership Academy

to support dissemination of the results of the Foundation-funded Humanities Departmental Survey and Humanities in Our Lives Survey

Communicating Data about the Health of the Humanities

to support the development and strengthening of the Academy of Science of South Africa

Academy of Science of South Africa

to support a meeting of the Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

Council of Deans of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

for use of the American Academy in Rome toward support of its Fototeca project

Fototeca Project

for a study of "American Academic Culture in Transfonnation: The Past Fifty Years"

American Academic Culture

in support of a study of major American overseas research centers in the humanities

American Overseas Research Centers

Orchestra Leadership Academy

to support the collaborative work of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

Building Out the American Consortium of Academic Libraries Network

to support planning to expand access to the American Academy in Rome’s scholarly resources

Scholarly Collections Access

to endow a program of Academy initiated studies that address issues of significance to the nation

Academy Studies Endowment

Academy Fellow Endowment

to support the development of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

matching endowment in support of its library

Academy Library

to support the work and development of the American International Consortium of Libraries (AMICAL)

to support institutional collaboration within the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries

to support the activities of the International Centre for Theatre Research while in residence at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

International Centre for Theatre Research

to support the operations of the American International Consortium of Libraries (AMICAL) and to fund JSTOR and ARTstor subscriptions for AMICAL member institutions

to support the administration of a survey of the US public about knowledge of and engagement with the humanities

The Humanities in Our Lives

American International Consortium of Academic Libraries Leadership Initiatives

to support a survey of the US public about knowledge and engagement with the humanities and informational flyers on the state of the humanities in the public sphere

to support a conference to foster library and information technology collaboration among American universities in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

to support a second conference to foster library and information technology collaboration among American universities in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa

to support the organization of a commission to examine the nation’s system of education in the humanities and social sciences and recommend measures for strengthening it

Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences

to support the development of virtual walking tours related to sites of Japanese American incarceration in the Pacific Northwest

Beyond the Barbed Wire: Japanese American Stories of the Pacific Northwest

Producers Academy

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

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" 