Richard King Mellon Foundation's pandemic grantmaking package pairing health-innovation, nonprofit emergency relief, and economic-development grants in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The Richard King Mellon Foundation's pandemic response package organized its crisis grantmaking into three lines: health-innovation grants, emergency operating grants for struggling local nonprofits, and economic-development grants intended to prevent job losses and seed recovery. The health-innovation line funded drug repurposing, manufacturing of essential medical supplies, technology to slow the spread of disease, and vaccine research, while the economic-development line supported small-business relief across southwestern Pennsylvania, including its rural counties.
The package complemented the foundation's established grantmaking agenda in education, human services, economic development, and environmental conservation, and it invited the foundation's nonprofit partners across the region to apply for rapid emergency support.
