The Center for Social Solutions is pleased to announce the recent hire of Dr. Jessica Cruz, who will serve as managing director for the Mellon Foundation-funded project, “Crafting Democratic Futures.”
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CIC Announces Partnership to Address Racial Inequities
Project to Offer University/Community-Based Racial Reparations Solutions
Rutgers- Newark Joins National Mellon Foundation Project to Address Racial Reparations
Three School of Arts & Sciences-Newark Faculty will lead Rutgers-Newark initiatives as part of a multi-institution project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to facilitate community-based solutions in Newark and cities nationally
Emory Joins National Mellon Foundation Research Project to Address Racial Reparations
Emory scholars will work with community partners in Atlanta to assess the toll that slavery, Jim Crow and its modern iteration have taken on the Black community, then work to craft policy recommendations for reparations to address those losses.
Rutgers-Newark, Community Partners Joins University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions to Explore Racial reparations
Multi-institution project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to facilitate community-based solutions in Newark and cities nationally
Mellon Foundation Awards More Than $72 Million to Ensure “Just Futures”
New York, NY – January 13, 2021 — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts and humanities in the US, announced today that grants totaling more than $72 million have been awarded to winners of its Just Futures Initiative—supporting teams of scholars who are studying past periods of crisis and disruption……
Mellon Foundation Awards CSS, University Partners $5M Grant
Part of the Foundation’s ‘Just Futures’ Initiative, the Project Addresses Reparations Through Community-Institutional Partnerships