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Submitted by Carmen Graciela D\u00edaz<\/a> on July 2, 2021<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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For the Mellon Foundation’s 2020 annual report, the foundation’s president Elizabeth Alexander reflects on how Mellon moved through the past year’s challenges due “to the institutional analysis in which we already had been engaged, examining and reframing our mission and values within a new strategic direction and rigorously clarifying which problems we were trying to solve with our grantmaking.” <\/p>\n

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Read the letter here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Image: Mellon Foundation website \/ Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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