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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!
| Coexist and Teaching about Human Dignity |
| A program designed to engage new audiences in four public high schools to reflect on moral and ethical themes: responsibility to others, the meaning of human dignity, relationships that foster human flourishing, and respect and honor for difference. |
Center For Independent Documentary
Sharon, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)
project director: Adam Mazo
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grant type: Project: Engaging New Audiences
awarded on: 2012-03-09
amount: $10,000 |
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| Hilltowns History Conference and Fair |
| A Franklin County history happening, to be held at Colrain Central School. The daylong event will consist of a free history fair with activities and booths for all ages presented by organizations and individuals from around the county, as well as an indoor history conference with about 20 breakout sessions. |
Mary Lyon Foundation, Inc.
Shelburne Falls, MA, Franklin County (CT Valley)
project director: Susan Samoriski
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grant type: Project: Engaging New Audiences
awarded on: 2012-03-09
amount: $5,000 |
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| Generational Legacy Project |
| A nine-month project, beginning with a series of workshops for previously incarcerated women, culminating in performances to be produced by the Fort Point Theatre Channel. |
On With Living and Learning
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Michael Ricca
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grant type: Project: Crisis, Community, & Civic Culture
awarded on: 2012-03-09
amount: $10,000 |
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| Salem's Franco-American History: Transcribing, Translating and Developing Thematic Guide to Oral History |
| Transcription and translation of 20 videotaped oral histories of former and current Franco-American residents of Salem. |
Salem State University
Salem, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Susan Edwards
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grant type: Scholar in Residence
awarded on: 2012-03-09
amount: $3,000 |
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| It Happened Here: Our Towns in the American Revolution |
| A collaborative statewide interactive Web exhibit featuring materials on the Revolutionary War from as many localities in Massachusetts as will participate. |
Martha's Vineyard Museum
Edgartown, MA, Dukes County (Cape & Islands)
project director: Nancy Cole
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2012-03-09
amount: $5,000 |
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| My Farm at Waltham Winter Multimedia Outdoor Tour at Gore Place |
| Production of a mobile device audio/video tour of the grounds of Gore Place in Waltham, the Federal estate of Governor Christopher Gore (1758-1827). Gore used his summer place as a productive farm and as a place to experiment with agricultural methods. |
Gore Place
Waltham, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Tamar Agulian
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2012-03-09
amount: $5,000 |
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| How We Live Today: Challenges of Globalization |
| Eight public discussions on the ramifications of the global economy, which will also be broadcast via public radio and podcasts. The discussions will focus on global engagement in military, political, and economic terms. |
Cambridge Forum
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Patricia Suhrcke
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grant type: Project: Crisis, Community, & Civic Culture
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $5,000 |
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| The Carlos Vega Collection of Latino History in Holyoke |
| Inventory of the papers of Carlos Vega, one of Holyoke's most vocal and prolific Latino activists. |
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| Inventory of Nylander Papers |
| Inventory of the Robert H. Nylander Collection of research notes and maps related to the original Iron Work Farm land grant and the extant Jones-Faulkner Homestead and Jones Tavern for a permanent exhibition on the extent and evolution of the Jones and Faulkner land holdings throughout the town of Acton and nearby communities. |
Iron Work Farm In Acton
Acton, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Anne Forbes
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $1,500 |
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| Medford Circa 1855 |
| Cataloguing of materials relating to Medford during the transitional ante-bellum period, c. 1855. |
Medford Historical Society
Medford, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Barbara Kerr
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $1,500 |
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| 1763 Peace of Paris Commemoration Planning Phase |
| An exhibit and public programming on the historical legacy of 1763 Peace of Paris treaty to coincide with its 250th anniversary in 2013. Credited with ending the last in a series of international conflicts known as the French and Indian wars, the treaty shaped the roles of Britain, France, and Spain on the North American continent and is seen as the precursor to the American Revolution |
Bostonian Society
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Donald C. Carleton
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $4,925 |
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| StoriesLive 2012 |
| A series of assemblies and classroom workshops that teach teenagers about public speaking and storytelling techniques, and culminates in a competitive story slam, a live event with judges and prize money for finalists. |
Massmouth, Inc.
Brookline, MA, Norfolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Norah Dooley
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grant type: Project: Engaging New Audiences
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $10,000 |
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| Homefront & Battlefield Exhibition Implementation |
| An exhibit that will explore the relationship between textiles/textile artifacts and the escalation of conflict during the Civil War and its aftermath. The exhibit will display slave cloth, soldier bandages, and the noose used to hang John Brown, among other key objects. |
American Textile History Museum
Lowell, MA, Middlesex County (Northeast)
project director: Diane F. Affleck
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grant type: Project: Crisis, Community, & Civic Culture
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $10,000 |
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| The Temperamentals |
| Two post-performance forums during the run of The Temperamentals, a play about the founders of one of the first gay rights organizations in the pre-Stonewall United States. The grant will also support interactive elements for audiences attending. |
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Nora Long
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grant type: Project: Crisis, Community, & Civic Culture
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $3,500 |
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| The Meaning of the Highlands Neighborhood Today |
| An out-of-school program for six to 10 teens that will explore the rich history of the Highlands neighborhood (the one-time home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass), and lead to a video-theatre piece based on oral history interviews with residents. |
The Highlands Coalition
Lynn, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Wendy Joseph
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grant type: Project: Engaging New Audiences
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $10,000 |
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| The Amherst Survival Center Music Project |
| A series of 12 lunchtime concerts at the Center that will feature world music and accompanying lectures about that music. |
Amherst Survival Center
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Bob Weiner
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grant type: Project: Engaging New Audiences
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $4,764 |
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| African Americans in Early New England Project: A Crisis of Conscience and Memory |
| A podcast and printed tour of African-American sites in the village of Old Deerfield as well as K-12 online lessons that will illuminate the history of local slavery in Old Deerfield. |
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| Troilus & Cressida |
| Free public events and participatory programs for diverse audiences pertaining to the production of Troilus & Cressida. |
Actors' Shakespeare Project
Somerville, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Lori Taylor
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grant type: Project: Engaging New Audiences
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $5,000 |
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| Boston Busing/Desegregation Project: Can We Talk? |
| A series of public education forums that examine Boston's desegregation history and its current public education needs in order start an informed conversation among various constituencies about public school quality and equality. |
Union of Minority Neighborhoods
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Donna Bivens
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grant type: Project: Crisis, Community, & Civic Culture
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $10,000 |
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| Julien Hudson Exhibition; Lecture Series |
| A lecture series, art history course, children's program, and a series of radio interviews to accompany its exhibit on Julien Hudson. Hudson was an early American portrait painter of African descent who explored race and the South in his work. |
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Honee Hess
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2011-12-09
amount: $5,000 |
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