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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

After year of pandemic restrictions and budget cuts, Mellon Grant provides hope to Prison Education Project staff

After receiving a $980,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation leaders of WU’s Prison Education Project plan to expand the program.

Kasey Noss | Staff Reporter

University Libraries receive their largest grant to preserve documentary series

Washington University Libraries received a $550,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—the largest grant it has ever received. University Libraries will soon use the grant money to preserve Henry Hampton’s award-winning Civil Rights documentary “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965.

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