The American Library Association gets a massive grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to address key issues in libraries; Florida librarians and educators struggle with pernicious new 'parental rights' laws; and two more states introduce new library e-book bills.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
Good news for theatermakers and audiences alike: Broadway World has reported that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a two-year, one-million-dollar grant to TCG Books, the largest independent trade publisher of dramatic literature in North America. The grant will, according to Broadway...
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[ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-10-22 18:01:30 UTC ]
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has provided $3.5 million to support the establishment of the Literary Arts Emergency Fund, which will support nonprofit literary publishers and organizations with $5,000-$50,000 emergency grants.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
A group of private foundations led by the J. Paul Getty Trust is set to purchase the complete photography archive of Johnson Publishing—which comprises some 983,000 photographs and 3.35 million unprocessed negatives from Ebony and Jet magazines dating back to 1948—after submitting a winning $30...
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[ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-07-25 17:18:02 UTC ]
A four-year, $1,205,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support continued development and expansion of a program designed to diversify academic publishing, and will directly affect six presses.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Foundation will conduct a study of translation in the United States. The study will be funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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[ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Birkbeck, part of the University of London, has been awarded a grant of $741,000 (£476,372) to “cement and expand a new model for open-access publishing in the humanities disciplines”.
The grant, from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, will go towards the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) platform...
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[ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]