Author: Rob Howard

PITTSBURGH (December 8, 2020) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation has awarded a third round of COVID grants totaling nearly $8.5 million. The foundation’s final COVID grant of the year was $250,000 to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh to acquire the cold-storage systems required to distribute and administer the vaccine. Total grants by the Foundation to fight […]

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PITTSBURGH (December 17, 2020) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation has made a $2 million investment in an online lending platform to help high-achieving students from low-income families to go to the very best schools they can – the schools with the greatest opportunity for positive, life-changing outcomes. The investment in San Francisco-based Sixup blends the Foundation’s longstanding […]

Read More… from Richard King Mellon Foundation Invests $2 Million in Innovative Venture to Enable Promising Low-income Students to Attend the Best Colleges and Universities They Can

PITTSBURGH (August 19, 2020) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation has allocated $2.5 million in grants to 12 regional colleges and universities to help the schools to reopen safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and to expand their online learning offerings. “Our regional colleges and universities are essential engines for growth – for the students who […]

Read More… from Richard King Mellon Foundation Grants $2.5 Million to 12 Regional Colleges and Universities to Help Them Reopen Safely; Enhance Online Learning

PITTSBURGH (August 5, 2020) – Richard P. Mellon, who passed away July 27 at age 81, served nearly half a century on the board of the Richard King Mellon Foundation and more than a quarter-century as its Chairman before his retirement 10 years ago. Richard P. Mellon was many things to the younger Mellon family […]

Read More… from Richard King Mellon Foundation Remembers the Late Richard P. Mellon

PITTSBURGH (July 6, 2020) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation has strengthened its program team, adding Gabriella Gonzalez as a new Program Officer, and promoting Lynne Ventress to Program Officer and Grace Evans to Senior Program Associate.  The Foundation also promoted two key grants and information technology administration staffers, Lisa Reed and Nikki Pirain. “The […]

Read More… from Richard King Mellon Foundation Hires Gonzalez, Promotes Ventress and Evans

PITTSBURGH (July 2, 2020) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation has approved an additional $10 million in funding for COVID-19 recovery efforts, on top of its $15 million aid package announced in April. The additional $10 million includes a new $2.5 million higher-education initiative, aimed at helping area colleges and universities to safely reopen this […]

Read More… from Richard King Mellon Foundation Ups Its COVID-19 Commitment to $25 Million

PITTSBURGH (June 24, 2020) – The Board of Trustees of the Richard King Mellon Foundation has elected Foundation Director Sam Reiman to serve as a fellow Trustee. Reiman, 42, who was appointed the Foundation’s Director, its top staff leadership position, on Jan. 1, 2019, now also will serve as a member of the Foundation’s governing […]

Read More… from Richard King Mellon Foundation Elects Sam Reiman to its Board of Trustees

PITTSBURGH (June 22, 2020) – When the Richard King Mellon Foundation issued a “Request for Ideas,” to solicit new initiatives to help spur Southwestern Pennsylvania’s economic recovery from the pandemic, Foundation Director Sam Reiman anticipated a strong response. But when the deadline for those ideas arrived, Reiman and the Richard King Mellon Foundation team were […]

Read More… from SW PA Steps Up with Hundreds of Ideas for COVID-19 Economic Recovery

PITTSBURGH (May 15, 2020) – Safely jump-starting the economy in the wake of COVID-19 will require significantly enhanced testing capacity for the virus. But there are not yet enough tests available – particularly in the underserved communities that need them most.  An unlikely alliance is coming together to start solving that quandary. The Allegheny County […]

Read More… from A Novel Effort for a Novel Virus

PITTSBURGH (April 21, 2020) — The Trustees of the Richard King Mellon Foundation have awarded $3.15 million in emergency operating support grants to 44 Southwestern Pennsylvania nonprofit organizations to continue their important work amid the impacts of COVID-19.  The emergency grants are a key component of a $15 million package to combat the pandemic, approved […]

Read More… from Richard King Mellon Foundation Awards $3.15 Million in Emergency Grants to 44 Southwestern PA Nonprofits