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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!
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| Hit and Run History: The Columbia Expedition |
| Creation of a website and social media campaign for its public television series, The Columbia Expedition, which chronicles the exploration credited with jumpstarting the Massachusetts economy after the Revolutionary War. |
Cape Cod Community Media Center
South Yarmouth, MA, Barnstable County (Cape & Islands)
project director: Andrew G. Buckley
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grant type: Project: Social Media Outreach Grant
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $10,000 |
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| StoriesLive - Storytelling and High School Story Slam Project |
| Storytelling programs in 10 public high schools that will enhance intellectual skills and public speaking and culminate in a regional "story slam" competition. |
Massmouth, Inc.
Brookline, MA, Norfolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Norah Dooley
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grant type: Project: Engaging New Audiences
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $10,000 |
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| Time Traveling Through Franklin Park |
| Creation of two tours and a brochure about Frederick Law Olmsted's Franklin Park, known as the "Jewel of the Emerald Necklace." |
Franklin Park Coalition
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Lanae Handy
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $5,000 |
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| The Carlos Arredondo Project |
| Production of a trailer for a film that explores the concept of patriotism, with focus on the story of Carlos Arredondo, a Costa Rican immigrant whose oldest son Alexander died in combat in the war in Iraq. |
Center For Independent Documentary
Sharon, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)
project director: Janice Rogovin
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grant type: Project: Media
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $10,000 |
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| From Cultural Conflict to Common Ground |
| A series of events designed to raise consciousness on the realities and impact of war, particularly those relating to the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
Veterans Education Project
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Rob Wilson
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grant type: Project: Crisis, Community, & Civic Culture
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $9,350 |
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| The David Walker Memorial Project |
| An educational forum directed at the city's youth concerning the life and work of David Walker, a pioneering figure in the abolitionist movement and precursor to Frederick Douglass. |
Community Change, Inc
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Paul Marcus
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grant type: Project: Engaging New Audiences
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $5,000 |
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| Left on Pearl: Women Take Over 888 Memorial Drive, Cambridge |
| A social media coordinator will expand awareness of the documentary film "Left on Pearl: Women Take Over 888 Memorial Drive, Cambridge", which explores 1970s feminist activism in Boston. |
888 Women's History Project, Inc.
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Susan Rivo
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grant type: Project: Social Media Outreach Grant
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $10,000 |
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| What's the Big Idea? |
| Development of the pilot segment of a film series for middle school classrooms that will use situations from popular movies to explore issues involving ethics and moral choices. |
Northampton Arts Council
Northampton, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Julie Akeret
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grant type: Project: Media
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $10,000 |
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| Mother of All Strikes: Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 Centennial Exhibit |
| Development of a permanent multimedia, multilingual exhibit on the Bread and Roses Strike. The exhibit will be mounted at the Everett Mill, where the historic strike began. |
Lawrence History Center/Immigrant City Archives
Lawrence, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Barbara Brown
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grant type: Project: Crisis, Community, & Civic Culture
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $10,000 |
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| Tories, Timid or True Blue? Teacher Workshop |
| Teacher workshops that train middle and high school educators to use a website that will allow them, and ultimately their students, to work with primary source documents from the Revolutionary War period. |
Old North Foundation
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Elisabeth Nevins
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grant type: Project: Crisis, Community, & Civic Culture
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $4,000 |
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| Henry Wilson Exhibit |
| Reinvention of the exhibition on the important, but unheralded, abolitionist politician, Henry Wilson. The exhibit will feature new interactive materials and become more accessible to children |
Natick Historical Society
Natick, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Jennifer Hance
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $5,000 |
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| Lowell Speaks of Jack: An Audio Tour of the City Through the Life and Works of Jack Kerouac |
| Audio archive of 175 interviews concerning acclaimed writer and native son, Jack Kerouac. The project will result in a permanent oral history walking tour in Lowell. |
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| Nonviolent Movements in The Modern World Professional Development Teacher Institute |
| Teacher training on the history of nonviolent movements. The program will show how such movements advance the cause of human rights and dignity as well as provide educators with tools to create better learning environments in their classrooms. |
Center for Nonviolent Solutions
Worcester, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Paul S. Ropp
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grant type: Project: Crisis, Community, & Civic Culture
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $10,000 |
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| Academy of Music School Day Series |
| Two performance education programs designed for elementary and middle school children. The programs will be based on the plays" Freedom Train" (on the life of Harriet Tubman) and "Three Cups of Tea" (about Greg Mortenson's mission to build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan). |
Northampton Academy of Music, Inc.
Northampton, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Debra J'Anthony
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grant type: Project: Engaging New Audiences
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $5,726 |
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| Community Nights & Conversations |
| A series of panel discussions that will follow the performances of four plays during the company's Winter Festival: "Cymbeline","Antony & Cleopatra", and two contemporary plays, "The Hotel Nepenthe" and "Living in Exile". The grant will also subsidize free community performances and open rehearsals. |
Actors' Shakespeare Project
Somerville, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Lori Taylor
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grant type: Project: Crisis, Community, & Civic Culture
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $5,000 |
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| The Banjo Project: The Story of America's Instrument |
| Enhancement of the website and social media campaign for "The Banjo Project: The Story of America's Instrument", a film to premiere on PBS that traces the compelling intersections of art, the humanities, race, and class that the banjo represents. |
Center For Independent Documentary
Sharon, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)
project director: Marc Fields
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grant type: Project: Social Media Outreach Grant
awarded on: 2010-12-10
amount: $10,000 |
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| Rediscovering the Classics |
| Library reading and discussion program. |
Sturgis Library
Barnstable, MA, Barnstable County (Cape & Islands)
project director: Marcella M. Curry
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grant type: Library Reading & Discussion
awarded on: 2010-12-07
amount: $500 |
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| Coppola Collection Inventory |
| Inventory of the Coppola Collection of archival materials (1868-1908), a collection newly acquired from the Coppola family that will augment an exhibition at the E.N. Jenckes General Store, the Historical Society's museum. |
Douglas Historical Society
East Douglas, MA, Worcester County (Central)
project director: Pattie McNulty
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2010-11-30
amount: $1,500 |
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| Boston's GLBT History |
| Documentation and exhibition of Boston's GLBT History, to inventory the records of three transgender-related organizations as part of its Transgender Initiative. |
The History Project
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Andrea Gray
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2010-11-30
amount: $1,500 |
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| Textile Collection |
| Organization and inventory its textile collection, assess it for programming use, and identify clothing and accessories that represent styles commonly worn in the 1930s and 1940s. The work will result in an exhibit on the 1930s work of LIFE photographer Hansel Mieth. |
Scituate Historical Society
Scituate, MA, Plymouth County (Southeast)
project director: Carol Miles
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2010-11-30
amount: $1,500 |
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