American Council of Learned Societies

About American Council of Learned Societies

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 81 scholarly organizations, formed in 1919. As a leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, ACLS supports the creation and circulation of knowledge to advance understanding of humanity and human endeavors, with a focus on improving the human experience.

Products & Services

Fellowship & Grant Programs:ACLS offers fellowships and grants to support scholars across all fields of the humanities and social sciences.

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program:A program aimed at supporting undergraduate students in the humanities and social sciences.

Community College Humanities Initiative:An initiative to advance humanities education and scholarship at community colleges.

Doctoral Futures Initiative:A program to assess and reimagine humanities graduate education.

Fellowship and grant programs

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies

Specialties

Humanistic Scholarship Advocacy for Humanities Academic Network Connections Support for Scholars Digital Scholarship Humanistic scholarship support Advocacy for humanities and federal research funding Connecting academic networks and member societies Strategic growth initiatives for the academy

Funding History

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#	Type	Amount Fields	Date Fields	Investors
1	RT: Grant T: - FT: Grant	A: 1000000 MR: - FA: $1 Million FAN: 1000000	D: 2026-07-08 FD: 2026-07-08	1 investors
2	RT: Grant T: - FT: Grant	A: 500000 MR: - FA: $500,000 FAN: 500000	D: 2025-08-29 FD: 2025-08-29	1 investors
3	RT: Grant T: - FT: Grant	A: 3300000 MR: - FA: 3.3 million FAN: 3300000	D: 2023-05-25 FD: 2023-05-25	1 investors

Grant Latest

2026-07-08

$1.0M

1 investor (Pro only)

Grant 2025-08-29

$500K

Grant 2023-05-25

$3.3M

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Growth Metrics

+45%

Employee Growth

YoY

3.2x

Funding Growth

Last Round

12

Markets

Operating

10K+

Customers

Active

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Team & Leadership

J

Joy Connolly

ACLS President

J

Joy Connolly

President, July 2019-Present

P

Pauline Yu

President, 2003-2019

F

Francis Oakley

Interim President, 2002-2003; Chair, 1993-1997

J

John H. D’Arms

President, 1997-2002

S

Stanley N. Katz

President, 1986-1997

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