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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!
| The Holocaust: A Challenge to the Achievement of Liberty and Justice for All |
| A curriculum on the history and lessons of the Holocaust for high school and middle school students. |
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| "Uprising on King Street: The Boston Massacre" at the John Adams Courthouse |
| A two-year residency of the play at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston, a collaborative effort of Theatre Espresso and the Supreme Judicial Historical Society. |
Theatre Espresso
Jamaica Plain, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Derek Nelson
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grant type: Project: Liberty & Justice For All
awarded on: 2006-03-14
amount: $10,000 |
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| Research Inventory Grant - Westport Historical Society |
| To survey of the collection of the Westport Historical Society for artifacts and documents that relate to the history of the Society's headquarters, the Bell School, and its relationship with communities of Westport. |
Westport Historical Society
Westport, MA, Bristol County (Southeast)
project director: Jenny O Neill
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2006-02-21
amount: $1,000 |
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| Research Inventory Grant - Plainfield Historical Society |
| Inventory of the Dyer Collection, letters and materials relating to the relative and changing importance of a mixed economy and mixed land use in Plainfield over the past 200 years. |
Plainfield Historical Society
Plainfield, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Judy Williams
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2006-01-26
amount: $1,000 |
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| Research Inventory Grant - Southborough Historical Society |
| An inventory of Southborough Historical Society's 18th and 19th century collection of manuscripts and artifacts to support a lecture or exhibit relating to the history of Southborough's triphammer, used for pounding and shaping iron. |
Southborough Historical Society
Southborough, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Russell Horne
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2006-01-26
amount: $1,000 |
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| Research Inventory Grant - Westwood Historcial Society |
| Inventory of the Pickardt family collection, a family of German descent, who came from New York City to settle in Westwood, a rural farming community in the late 1800's, opened a business and influenced the Westwood and Islington communities from the 1880's to the 1950's. |
Westwood Historical Society
Westwood, MA, Norfolk County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Libby Johnson
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2006-01-26
amount: $1,000 |
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| Homecomings Project |
| A series of public lectures, exhibits, films, workshops, readings and seminars on the theme of Homecomings from war, ancient and contemporary. |
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Robert Meagher
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2006-01-20
amount: $5,000 |
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| "The Poets light but Lamps": A Viewing and Discussion of The Belle of Amherst |
| Public panel discussion following a screening of The Belle of Amherst as part of "A Little Madness in the Spring", the Emily Dickinson Museum's local annual celebration of National Poetry Month. |
Dickinson Homestead
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Cindy Dickinson
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grant type: Project: Media
awarded on: 2006-01-20
amount: $2,917 |
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| Left on Pearl: Women Take Over 888 Memorial Drive, Cambridge |
| Fundraising trailer for a documentary telling the story of the 1971 takeover of a Harvard University building, the surprise ending to that year's International Woman's Day march. |
888 Women's History Project, Inc.
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Susan Rivo
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grant type: Project: Media
awarded on: 2006-01-20
amount: $9,993 |
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| Ancient Fishweir Permanent Panels in Arlington Street Subway |
| Research to complete text research, caption writing and final design of four graphic display panels that will be permanently installed along the MBTA Arlington Street subway station waiting platforms. |
Touchable Stories, Inc.
Dorchester, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Ross Miller
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2006-01-20
amount: $3,060 |
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| Making a Living, Making a Life: Work and Its Rewards in a Changing America |
| A library reading and discussion series. |
Sturgis Library
Barnstable, MA, Barnstable County (Cape & Islands)
project director: Lucy Loomis
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grant type: Library Reading & Discussion
awarded on: 2006-01-10
amount: $1,000 |
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| Crime & the Cultural Landscape |
| A library reading and discussion series. |
Westwood Public Library
Westwood, MA, Norfolk County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Thomas P. Viti
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grant type: Library Reading & Discussion
awarded on: 2005-11-29
amount: $500 |
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| Sarah Chayes Lecture at Wellesley Free Library |
| Sarah Chayes' Lecture on the Arghand Project, a nonprofit agricultural cooperative in Kandahar, Afghanistan at the Wellesley Free Library |
Wellesley Free Library
Wellesley, MA, Norfolk County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Elise MacLennan
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grant type: Resource Center
awarded on: 2005-11-02
amount: $250 |
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| The "Mass Memories Road Show" Visits Dorchester |
| Three community documentation events as part of its Mass. Memories Road Show initiative, which invites residents to bring in documents that reflect their families' origins and arrival in Massachusetts. |
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| Becoming American Exhibit |
| An exhibition exploring the changing cultural and social landscape of the City of Newton tentatively titled "Becoming American: Immigration in 21st Century Newton." |
Newton History Museum
Newton, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Susan Abele
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $5,000 |
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| Curriculum Project: Immigration and Settlement in Watertown, 1630-2005 |
| Development of a curriculum Sourcebook to provide information and lesson ideas for a study of immigration and settlement in Watertown over the past 375 years. |
Primary Source
Watertown, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Anna Roelofs
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grant type: Project: K-12
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $1,000 |
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| John Greenleaf Whittier Bicentennial Exhibits |
| Bicentennial exhibition focusing on Whittier's abolitionist activities and an exploration of his thoughts were shaped by the women in his life: his mother, sister, Celia Thaxter, Lucy Larcom and Sarah Orne Jewett. |
Whittier Home Association
Amesbury, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Janet Howell
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $5,000 |
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| Wooden Synagogues: A Lost World Revisited |
| A traveling exhibition of 17th and 18th wooden synagogues from the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, focusing on the Zabludow and Gwozdziec Synagogues that were destroyed during the Nazi invasion in World War II. |
Handshouse Studio
Norwell, MA, Plymouth County (Southeast)
project director: Laura Brown
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $5,000 |
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| Planning and Development of Exhibit Series on Immigration in Holyoke |
| Research/planning for an exhibit series on the five major immigrant groups to Holyoke. |
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| Exhibition Planning Grant/Handled With Care |
| An exhibit examining the role of utilitarian objects created by the Shakers as pieces that transcended their function, becoming a vital part of religious expression, a manifestation of the Shaker quest for utopia and a concretization of the group's culture. |
Hancock Shaker Village
Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire County (Berkshire)
project director: Christian Goodwillie
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2005-09-10
amount: $5,000 |
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