Education
Enhancing Education Throughout Greater Pittsburgh
In 2018, the Mellon Foundation awarded 21 grants totaling $18,576,000 to primary and secondary schools and to colleges and universities. More than $12,000,000 was invested in capital projects, improving programs to attract students from beyond Pittsburgh. Of the $13,100,000 in funds granted to institutions of higher learning, $10,500,000 was awarded to schools in Pittsburgh while $2,600,000 supported regional institutions. More than $4,000,000 was granted to primary and secondary schools: $1,650,000 in Westmoreland County and $2,735,000 in Pittsburgh.
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Life Science Opportunities
The Citizen Science Lab
Featured Leader
Andre Samuel, Ph.D.
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Enhancing Education for Faculty, Staff, and Students
Valley School of Ligonier
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Improving Duquesne University’s Palumbo Donahue School of Business
Duquesne University
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Helping Families Save for College
Pennsylvania Treasury Department
2019 Grantees
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
to compete in the DARPA SubT Challenge
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
toward 18-month support to analyze programs that can aid in the assimilation of increased solar power and natural gas electric generation in western Pennsylvania
Education
Community College of Allegheny County Educational Foundation
toward support of a career readiness and employment program
Education
Community Empowerment Association, Inc.
toward two-year support of a career readiness and employment program
Education
The Kiskiminetas Springs School
toward support of annual scholarships and new marketing efforts
Education
Youth Opportunities Development
toward support of operations
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
toward support of operations of the Girls of Steel robotics after-school program
Education
Education Development Center, Inc.
toward two-year support to partner with The Citizen Science Lab to bring the Amgen Biotech Experience program to Pittsburgh
Education
Higher Achievement Program, Inc.
toward academic programs serving Homewood students
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Homewood Children's Village
toward support of operations ($800,000) and the In Class Today attendance intervention ($25,000)
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Sewickley Academy
toward three-year support of operations to strengthen Breakthrough's services for at-risk youth in the Pittsburgh region
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University of Pittsburgh
toward 18-month support to assess the feasibility of developing a life sciences cluster spanning from the Pittsburgh Vision Institute to Hazelwood Green
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University of Pittsburgh, Institute of Politics
toward two-year support of operations
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University of Pittsburgh
to send a team of undergraduate students to the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition
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Since 1947, the Richard King Mellon Foundation has invested in the future of southwestern Pennsylvania.
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