What's Your Nature?

Become a Nature Up North explorer to share your encounters with wild things and wild places in New York's North Country. Post your wildlife sightings, landscape shots, photos from your outings, and even your organization's events!

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a non-for-profit corporation that focuses on making grants in five core program areas: Higher Education and Scholarship; Scholarly Communications and Information Technology; Art History, Conservation, and Museums; Performing Arts and; Conservation and the Environment. Their grantmaking philosophy is to "build, strengthen and sustain institutions and their core capacities" and in doing so to develop "thoughtful, long-term collaborations with their grant recipients". The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is supporting Nature Up North with two grants totaling $113, 658 to support the launch and establishment of the project.