PITTSBURGH (April 12, 2021) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation today announced that it has made a $500,000 gift to help save the former National Negro Opera Company House in Homewood – a once-proud national landmark that has been vacant 50 years and is dangerously close to collapse. “This property once was the center of […]
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Opportunity (Zones) Soon Will Come Knocking
PITTSBURGH (March 10, 2021) – The Richard King Mellon Foundation and Arctaris Impact Investors announce a $20 million joint commitment to invest in a unique program for the Pittsburgh region that will bring the transformational power of Opportunity Zones to dozens of economically distressed communities in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. “Private investment is the fuel of prosperity,” said Foundation […]
Richard King Mellon Foundation Unveils 10-Year Strategic Plan
PITTSBURGH (January 27, 2021) – In a Zoom presentation to the community today, the Richard King Mellon Foundation unveiled its new 2021-2030 Strategic Plan – a blueprint to invest more than $1.2 billion over the next decade – and invited ideas to bring the new strategies to life. “This Strategic Plan represents an historic opportunity to […]
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Richard King Mellon Foundation Awards Another $8.5 Million to Help Southwestern PA Persevere Through COVID and Surge in Recovery
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 […]
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 (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 […]
Richard King Mellon Foundation Grants $2.5 Million to 12 Regional Colleges and Universities to Help Them Reopen Safely; Enhance Online Learning
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 […]
Richard King Mellon Foundation Remembers the Late Richard P. Mellon
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 […]
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Richard King Mellon Foundation Hires Gonzalez, Promotes Ventress and Evans
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 […]
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Richard King Mellon Foundation Ups Its COVID-19 Commitment to $25 Million
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 […]
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Richard King Mellon Foundation Elects Sam Reiman to its Board of Trustees
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 […]
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