*NEW* Mellon Just Futures Initiative
Posted: 8/19/2020 (Funding)
On August 17, the University of Washington received an invitation from the Mellon Foundation to submit proposals to a newly launched Just Futures Initiative. According to Mellon, this opportunity seeks to support multi-disciplinary teams that include scholars from the humanities, arts, and humanities-inflected social sciences with grants of up to $5 million with a 2-3 year duration to unfold visionary, unconventional, experimental, and groundbreaking projects in order to address the long-existing fault lines of racism, inequality, and injustice that tear at the fabric of democracy and civil society. This call for proposals seeks to support teams whose work focuses specifically on and addresses racial inequality and its many manifestations. Proposals will be prioritized that have a clearly defined workplan for collaboration, and that describe the ways they plan to enact that work. They must also include a description of proposed products from the work. These may (as in the case of some artworks) be ephemeral but they must in all cases be durably documented, discoverable, and accessible.
Turnaround for this opportunity is very tight with the deadline of Wednesday, September 23 at 9:00am. Please review all of the requirements, guidelines for team structures and possible use of funds found here: https://awmf.app.box.com/s/k4him3dmwwte3futfczr4krfalrkfa7q. Faculty members who are PIs on or are otherwise involved in current Mellon grants are welcome to apply for this new opportunity.
To support faculty in navigating Mellon’s complex online proposal submission system and encourage
Deadline: 09/23/2020