The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently presented a “Capacity Building for the Humanities” grant of $100,000 to Elizabethtown College.

This is the second time that the Mellon Foundation selected the College as an award recipient in its “Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities” program area.

The College received $25,000 of funding from the organization back in 2006. While that award specifically financed Etown’s international programming endeavors, the larger amount given in September of this year supports the development of a stronger liberal arts curriculum.

According to the Foundation’s website, “The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation endeavors to strengthen, promote and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies.”

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation offers grants in various categories. In addition to the “Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities” section, the organization presented grants in other categories, such as “Arts and Cultural Heritage,” “Scholarly Communications” and “Diversity” this year.

Several other Pennsylvanian institutions, such as Juniata College, Susquehanna University and Carnegie Mellon University, also received grants from the Mellon Foundation last month.