Exploring Democracy, Environmental Justice, and Social Justice – Nov 30

Posted by Mellon Foundation on November 7, 2023

Mellon Foundation issues call for concepts from higher learning institutions exploring democracy, environmental and social science

The Mellon Foundation has issued a call for concepts for Exploring Democracy, Environmental Justice, and Social Justice.

Through its Higher Learning grantmaking area, Mellon invites humanities-grounded ideas for research and curricular projects focused on any of three topics:

Cultures of U.S. Democracy: Projects considering the circumstances that enable U.S. democratic practices to flourish, including how those can best be achieved, nurtured, and sustained within an increasingly complex and fractured society.

Environmental Justice Studies: Projects that focus on specific systems (such as food, water, or health), ones that engage interrelated systems in a given community/locale, and ones that come at this topic through discrete analytical or disciplinary lenses.

Social Justice and Disciplinary Knowledge: Projects that best exemplify how specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary fields of study are equipped to reckon with social justice issues, given the particular investigative and analytical methods they deploy.

Envisioned projects should be achievable with contributions from Mellon of $250,000 to $500,000, with durations of up to three years.

This call is open to all accredited, nonprofit, four-year degree-granting institutions in the United States that offer liberal arts education. Mellon aims to support institutions with a demonstrated record of excellence in the humanities and particularly welcomes concepts from institutions that are minority-serving (MSIs) and/or have not received Mellon funding in the last five years.

Institutions interested in being part of the process or learning more are encouraged to register by November 30, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. For eligible registrants, applications will be due February 15, 2024, at 3:00 p.m.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Mellon Foundation website.

Deadline: November 30, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. ET (Registration)