The president of the Mellon Foundation is shifting its mission beyond the arts and humanities to focus more on social justice—and changing American philanthropy in the process
Elizabeth Alexander never expected to go into philanthropy. Now she’s in her third year as the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest supporter of the humanities and the arts in the U.S.
, where she’s quickly applied her vision to foster a more just society. “There was nothing wrong with [the foundation’s] work,” she says, “but to focus it around the question of, how does each grant, every penny, contribute in some demonstrable way to a more fair and just society? What does that look like?”
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