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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Higher Education, Education in Prison, Incarcerated Youth
Deadline: Aug. 21, 2020 (Registration) | Aug. 28, 2020 (Applications)
“The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites proposals from organizations and programs in the United States and its territories that focus on the future of higher learning for incarcerated students. These grants will provide support to prison education providers and to organizations that analyze and support that work who seek to expand or stretch in this moment of pandemic-generated crisis and national reckoning on questions of race and justice—and beyond. We seek proposals from organizations who are imagining and implementing visionary educational practices; who are interrogating the linkages between education and liberation; and who place the humanities at the center of their work.
This competition is open to prison education programs that confer university or college credit towards degree-granting programs, and to organizations whose mission includes the analysis and support of higher education in prison. Transferrable credit-granting programs are also eligible. We will also consider proposals that include opportunities to support the continuum of education post-release. Through this call, Mellon seeks to engage existing grantees and to broaden our commitments within the field. We seek applications that put bold ideas into practice in order to further the Foundation’s commitment to the dignity and humanity of every incarcerated individual.”
Funder: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Eligibility: “U.S. nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations with a demonstrated record of success with prison education and an established prison education or affiliated program that has been in operation for two or more years.”
Amount: $250,000 – $1,000,000
Contact: Link.
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