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Ailsa Mellon Bruce
Ailsa Mellon Bruce (June 28, 1901 – August 25, 1969) was a prominent American socialite and philanthropist who established the Avalon Foundation.
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Aluka
Aluka was an online digital library focusing on materials about Africa.
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Andrew Mellon
Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 – August 26, 1937), sometimes A.W., was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician.
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Artstor
Artstor is a non-profit organization that builds and distributes the Digital Library, an online resource of more than 2 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, and Shared Shelf, a Web-based cataloging and image management software service that allows institutions to catalog, edit, store, and share local collections.
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Bollingen Foundation
The Bollingen Foundation was an educational foundation set up along the lines of a university press in 1945.
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Conservation biology
Conservation biology is the management of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions.
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Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage
The conservation-restoration of cultural heritage focuses on protection and care of tangible cultural heritage, including artworks, architecture, archaeology, and museum collections.
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Don Michael Randel
Don Michael Randel (born December 9, 1940) is an American musicologist, specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Spain and France.
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Earl Lewis
Earl Lewis is the founding director of the Center for Social Solutions and professor of history at the University of Michigan.
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Elizabeth Alexander (poet)
Elizabeth Alexander (born May 30, 1962) is an American poet, essayist, playwright, and the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2018.
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Higher education
Higher education (also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education) is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.
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Humanities
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture.
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Information technology
Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise.
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John Edward Sawyer
John Edward Sawyer (1917 – 1995) was a prominent academic and philanthropic administrator.
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JSTOR
JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a digital library founded in 1995.
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Library
A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing.
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List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts
The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts.
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List of wealthiest charitable foundations
This is a list of wealthiest charitable foundations worldwide.
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Mellon family
The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential American family from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Museum
A museum (plural musea or museums) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.
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Nathan M. Pusey
Nathan Marsh Pusey (April 4, 1907 – November 14, 2001) was a prominent American university educator.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Open Library of Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities is a non-profit open access publisher for the humanities and social sciences, led by the academics Dr.
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Paul Mellon
Paul Mellon (June 11, 1907 – February 1, 1999) was an American philanthropist and an owner/breeder of thoroughbred racehorses. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was co-heir to one of America's greatest business fortunes, derived from the Mellon Bank created by his grandfather Thomas Mellon, his father Andrew W. Mellon, and his father's brother Richard B. Mellon. In 1957, when Fortune prepared its first list of the wealthiest Americans, it estimated that Paul Mellon, his sister Ailsa Mellon-Bruce, and his cousins Sarah Mellon and Richard King Mellon, were all among the richest eight people in the United States, with fortunes of between 400 and 700 million dollars each (around $ and $ in today's dollars). Mellon's autobiography, Reflections in a Silver Spoon, was published in 1992. He died at his home, Oak Spring, in Upperville, Virginia, on February 1, 1999. He was survived by his wife, Rachel (a.k.a. Bunny), his children, Catherine Conover (first wife of John Warner) and Timothy Mellon, and two stepchildren, Stacy Lloyd III and Eliza, Viscountess Moore.
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Performing arts
Performing arts are a form of art in which artists use their voices or bodies, often in relation to other objects, to convey artistic expression.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.
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Private foundation
A private foundation is a legal entity set up by an individual, a family or a group of individuals, for a purpose such as philanthropy or other legal economic object.
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Scholarly communication
Scholarly communication is the process by which academics, scholars, and researchers share and publish their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community and beyond.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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William G. Bowen
William Gordon Bowen (October 6, 1933October 20, 2016) was President Emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation where he served as President from 1988 to 2006.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_W._Mellon_Foundation
