With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Initiatives build on the research collaboration model of CHCI’s Global Humanities Institutes (GHIs). Since 2018, GHIs have supported interdisciplinary approaches and multinational partnerships focused on global issues such as the crises of democracy, advocacy for climate justice, the legacies of extractivism, the complexities of migration, and issues of language and translation.

Initiatives maintain the core principle of excellence in international collaboration while seeking to support a larger number of projects originating from the CHCI membership, and providing a more flexible platform to feature a wider range of member-driven projects, from local programs to large-scale, multinational research projects. CHCI Initiatives mobilize the rich potential that exists within the global humanities community at large to its full extent to address pressing global challenges.