Grantee tags Mississippi

Enduring Alliances: Jewish Refugee Scholars & Black Colleges in the South

Alliance of Ethics and Art, Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Original research/interviews reveal how Black colleges in the segregated South (1930s-60) saved the lives of Jewish Refugee Scholars and their families from the Nazi Holocaust by offering them jobs, after US quotas were met. These Enduring Alliances continue today. Read More

The Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange by Monique Verdin

Friends of A Studio in the Woods

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

The Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange builds structures with community at site-specific locations faced with environmental vulnerabilities across coastal South Louisiana - collecting and sharing community witness, indigenous pollinator and prairie seeds, data and maps. Read More