America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston Receives $500,000 Richard King Mellon Foundation Grant
(Saint Paul, MN) — February 13, 2023 – The Richard King Mellon Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to Twin Cities PBS (TPT) to support production of season two of “America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston.” The grant will support production of six new primetime PBS episodes and related educational resources. The Foundation was created in 1947 by Richard King Mellon, president and chairman of Mellon Bank, a conservationist and leading