Guidelines for reporting on your Mellon-funded project
Each year, Lafayette must submit to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation a comprehensive report detailing the successes (and sometimes challenges) associated with its generous grant, known on our campus as the Mellon STEAM Grant or the Mellon Global Arts Infusion Grant.
Please use the following guidelines to facilitate your own reporting, which will help the College paint a compelling picture for the Mellon Foundation.
Your report must include:
- An itemized budget detailing actual spending to date (and projected expenditures if the project is in progress)
- A narrative account of the project, which must include:
- How the project worked in the service of infusing the arts throughout campus
- How many students were directly involved
- An estimate of how many students were exposed to the project (a total of those actively involved and those indirectly reached or affected)
- A description of collaboration between faculty instructors across disciplines
- Whether the project will be repeated or worked into the curriculum
- If not, why?
- If so, how is it sustainable without grant funds?
- How the project has enhanced or enriched your teaching experience, and how that might affect your approach to teaching after the project’s completion
Where applicable, your report should also include:
- Photos, video, audio, or any other media that help illustrate the project
- This may be documentation of work being performed/developed and/or of the final output
- Press clippings, media coverage, social media initiatives, posters, programs, and other publicity materials (please provide as PDF files and, where appropriate, include URLs in addition to the PDFs)
- Supporting documents such as student reports, evaluations, surveys, feedback from visiting artists, etc.