The Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice will foster collaboration between the university s College of Arts and Sciences and College of Design in conjunction with the University of Idaho and Whitman College in Washington.
The Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice will foster collaboration between the university's College of Arts and Sciences and College of Design in conjunction with the University of Idaho and Whitman College in Washington.
The Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice will foster collaboration with other colleges in the region, officials said.
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Kali-Ahset Amen, of Johns Hopkins University, said efforts like this West Baltimore community mural a Black heritage/neighborhood beautification project done in collaboration with African American churches will be enhanced with Mellon funding.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Wednesday announced about $72 million in total grants for 16 different humanities-based projects focused on issues of racial justice.
The “Just Futures” grants of up to $5 million each will “support multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborative teams producing solutions-based work that contributes to public understanding of the nation’s racist past and can lead to the creation of socially just futures,” according to the foundation.
The University of Oregon has received a $4.52 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a new initiative envisioning a transformative.