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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!
| Enslaved in the Americas/African American Festival |
| Humanities portion of the 8th annual African American Festival in Worcester, MA, including an exhibition at the Worcester Public Library, lectures and a panel discussion. |
Willis Center Cultural Institute
Worcester, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Gloria Hall
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2004-12-10
amount: $5,000 |
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| Our Bondage/Our Freedom: Frederick Douglass & Hermann Melville - Exhibition |
| Exhibition using the 150th anniversary of Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and My Freedom and Melville's Benito Cereno as a starting point for exploring concerns such as the reach and limits of democracy, the nature of freedom, the role of race in the America and the place of the U.S. in the world. |
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, MA, Bristol County (Southeast)
project director: Candace L. Heald
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2004-12-10
amount: $5,000 |
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| The Playwright of Peaked Hill Bars |
| Exhibit on Eugene O'Neill in Provincetown. |
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| Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune Lecture Series |
| Lecture and discussion series investigating the political and artistic issues raised by MASS MoCA's exhibition Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune. |
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| Understanding Islam at Hingham |
| Reading and discussion program about Islam (formerly a council conducted program). |
Hingham Public Library
Hingham, MA, Plymouth County (Southeast)
project director: Kathleen Leahy
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grant type: Library Reading & Discussion
awarded on: 2004-12-06
amount: $500 |
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| The Mystery Novel as a Reflection of its Times |
| Reading and book discussion group examining mystery novels. |
Sturgis Library
Barnstable, MA, Barnstable County (Cape & Islands)
project director: Lucy Loomis
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grant type: Library Reading & Discussion
awarded on: 2004-11-30
amount: $1,000 |
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| Planning Grant: Hibernian Hall and Roxbury in the 20th Century |
| Funds to develop a plan for exhibits and related activities, as well as a strategy for obtaining funding for the Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall - a product of the overall rehabilitation of Hibernian Hall in Dudley Square, which has served as a center for community culture in Roxbury and Greater Boston. |
Madison Park Development Corp.
Roxbury, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Candelaria Silva
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2004-09-17
amount: $5,000 |
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| Maritime Trade between Salem, Massachusetts and India (1788-1845) |
| Development of a social studies curriculum material to present the flourishing trade that Massachusetts ports had with different ports of India for public schools. |
Meru Educational Foundation
Sharon, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)
project director: Vanita Shastri
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grant type: Project: K-12
awarded on: 2004-09-17
amount: $5,000 |
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| Jews and the Culture of the Tango |
| Two-part symposium open to the public on Jews and the Culture of the Tango, focusing on the tango as a rich repository of the worldview and social situation of Yiddish-speaking Jews in the first half of the 20th century, both in Argentina and Eastern Europe. |
Trustees of Boston University
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Thomas Glick
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2004-09-17
amount: $1,695 |
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| William Skinner and Sons Manufacturing Co. Interpretive Exhibit |
| Exhibit Production Grant to build an interpretive and interactive exhibit on the William Skimmer and Sons Manufacturing Company and their part in the US silk industry, 1850-1962. |
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| "Vincie N." Interpretive Exhibit |
| Development of an interpretive exhibit that will give insight into the culture of the people whose livelihood depended upon the Vincie N., a commercial fishing boat built in 1936 and fished by the same Gloucester family for over 50 years. |
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| History of Social Service in Lawrence, Massachusetts |
| Exhibit of artifacts and oral histories telling the story of the emergence of social service policy and delivery in Lawrence, Massachusetts. |
Family Service, Inc
Lawrence, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Kay B. Frishman
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2004-09-17
amount: $3,700 |
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| Understanding Islam - Jones Library |
| Reading and discussion series about Islam. |
Jones Library
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Beth Girshman
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grant type: Library Reading & Discussion
awarded on: 2004-06-22
amount: $500 |
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| The Lure of the West: Films and Literature |
| A reading and discussion series and film/discussion series to accompany an exhibit of American West artifacts. |
National Heritage Museum
Lexington, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Alice Promisel
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $3,500 |
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| The Villages of Montague: History and Memory in a New England Town |
| A videotaped oral history project about the five villages of Montague, produced in honor of Montague's 250th anniversary. The programs will air on a local access television station in late 2004. |
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| Monkey Dance Distribution Grant |
| The distribution grant will cover the production of a high school teacher's guide to accompany the documentary, design and printing of a poster to promote local screenings, and film festival entry costs. |
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| Discover Roxbury's Art and History |
| A series of five "moving lecture" bus tours highlighting Roxbury's history, art and culture, led by experts in their fields. |
The Bridges Program
Lexington, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Marcia Butman
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $4,000 |
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| Concord River Greenway History |
| An oral history project that will utilize interviews with residents of neighborhoods that abut the Concord River in Lowell. The end products will be a lengthy oral history document, a Concord River Greenway brochure, and historical signage. |
Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust
Lowell, MA, Middlesex County (Northeast)
project director: Kristin McCauley
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $3,600 |
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| Yours for Humanity--Abby, A One-Act Play |
| A one-woman play about Abby Kelley Foster. |
Worcester Women's History Project
Shrewsbury, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Linda B. Rosenlund
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $5,000 |
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| Website Design |
| The designing of a website for the Royall House, the only home in New England with preserved slave quarters. |
Royall House Association
Medford, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Fred Schlicher
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2004-06-11
amount: $1,680 |
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