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Grants Awarded Since 2000
Explore the Mass Humanities funded projects awarded from 2000 to the present. Browse by grant type, city, county, region or keyword search based on specific fields or all of them. Subscribe and receive news when grants are awarded. Interact with a state map of grants awarded!
| Jazz Reading Group at Dudley Library |
| Reading group examining literature about jazz and the social and cultural issues around it. |
Roxbury Action Program
Roxbury, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: John Kordalewski
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grant type: Library Reading & Discussion
awarded on: 2009-12-28
amount: $1,000 |
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| Parsons Paper Collection |
| Support to inventory the records of the Parsons Paper Company, the first paper mill in Holyoke. |
Holyoke Public Library
Holyoke, MA, Hampden County (CT Valley)
project director: Maria Pagan
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $1,500 |
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| Amherst Historical Society RIG |
| Support to inventory collections related to the history of soldiers, their families, and Amherst's participation in times of conflict. |
Amherst Historical Society
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Patricia J. Lutz
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $1,270 |
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| Benjamin Franklin Butler Cartoons |
| Support to inventory 19th century cartoons and prints about Lowell resident and owner of the Middlesex Company, Benjamin Franklin Butler. |
Lowell Historical Society
Lowell, MA, Middlesex County (Northeast)
project director: Martha Mayo
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $1,500 |
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| "The American Revolution" |
| Support for research, a film treatment, and a trailer for a documentary about the early years of the Boston radio station, WBCN. |
Filmmakers Collaborative
Waltham, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Bill Lichtenstein
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grant type: Project: Media
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $10,000 |
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| The Big Read: Boston - Fahrenheit 451 |
| Funding to purchase copies of the book Fahrenheit 451 for a citywide, "one book" project. |
WUMB Radio
Dorchester, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Patricia Monteith
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grant type: Project: Liberty & Justice For All
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $6,135 |
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| Mrs. Murray's Writing Closet |
| Support for planning an exhibition of the writing closet of Enlightenment author and early feminist Judith "Constantia" Sargent Murray. |
Sargent House Museum
Gloucester, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Barbara Silberman
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grant type: Project: Liberty & Justice For All
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $5,000 |
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| The Bread and Roses Project |
| Support for research, script writing, and the production of a trailer for The Bread and Roses Project documentary. |
Center For Independent Documentary
Sharon, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)
project director: Bernardo Ruiz
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grant type: Project: Liberty & Justice For All
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $10,000 |
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| Exposed at Work |
| Support for production of a play about the language-based health and safety struggles of immigrant day laborers in Somerville. |
The Welcome Project
Somerville, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Warren Goldstein-Gelb
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grant type: Project: Liberty & Justice For All
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $9,982 |
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| The 5th Annual Boston Muslim Film Festival |
| Support for the "Cultures in Conflict?" festival featuring controversial issues in the Muslim world. |
American Islamic Congress
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Lauren Murphy
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $4,120 |
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| TRUTH: A New Opera on the Life of Sojourner Truth |
| Support for writing of the libretto for a new opera entitled TRUTH, on the life of Sojourner Truth. |
Old Deerfield Productions, Inc.
Deerfield, MA, Franklin County (CT Valley)
project director: Linda McInerney
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grant type: Project: Liberty & Justice For All
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $10,000 |
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| The Harriet Jacobs Project |
| Support for educational materials and auxiliary programming to contextualize "Harriet Jacobs", a play based on the autobiographical narrative of a former slave who settled in Cambridge. |
Underground Railway Theater
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Debra Wise
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grant type: Project: Liberty & Justice For All
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $10,000 |
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| The Places Poems Make |
| Support for a workshop for Worcester high school teachers exploring connections between poetry and local history. |
Worcester County Poetry Association
Worcester, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Mark Wagner
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $4,750 |
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| Truro Archaeology: A Hands-On Exhibit |
| Support for planning a hands-on exhibit based on the society's collection of Native American artifacts, including a portable "suitcase" exhibit. |
Truro Historical Society
Truro, MA, Barnstable County (Cape & Islands)
project director: Deborah Minsky
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $2,500 |
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| The Reverend Hancock's Household: Early Colonial Life in Lexington |
| Support for planning a 2010-2012 archaeological exhibit at Buckman Tavern. |
Lexington Historical Society
Lexington, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Susan J. Bennett
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $5,000 |
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| Scribbling Women |
| Support for development of an audio dramatization of Elinore Pruitt Stuart's "Letters of a Woman Homesteader." |
Public Media Foundation
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Valerie Henderson
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grant type: Project: Media
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $5,000 |
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| Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America |
| Support for the research and development of a documentary film, "Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America." |
Western NY Public Broadcasting Association
Buffalo, NY
project director: Lawrence R. Hott
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grant type: Project: Media
awarded on: 2009-12-11
amount: $10,000 |
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| American Roots and American Voices |
| Reading and discussion program concentrating on the concept of the American experience, democracy, immigration and great literature. |
Reading Public Library
Reading, MA, Middlesex County (Northeast)
project director: Ruth Urell
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grant type: Library Reading & Discussion
awarded on: 2009-10-19
amount: $1,000 |
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| Back to the Future: A Sea Change Radio Series |
| Support for the radio series by Sea Change Radio, examining historical precedents for sustainable energy use in New England. |
The Trusteeship Institute
Shutesbury, MA, Franklin County (CT Valley)
project director: Francesca Rheannon
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2009-09-11
amount: $5,000 |
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| Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies |
| Funding for keynote speakers for a conference entitled, Adoption: Secret Histories, Public Policies. |
MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Sciences
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Sally Haslanger
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2009-09-11
amount: $5,000 |
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