 Seeking an Executive Director
Help spearhead public humanities in MA
Mass Humanities is seeking an Executive Director to lead public humanities engagement with educational, cultural, government, business, and nonprofit leaders throughout the Commonwealth. The ideal candidate will be a passionate advocate for the humanities, a highly persuasive public communicator, and a proven leader.
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 David Tebaldi to Receive NEPR Arts & Humanities Award
"A leader in opening doors to the humanities for all."
Our great thanks to New England Public Radio for honoring Mass Humanities Executive Director David Tebaldi with the first ever Arts & Humanities Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of his 33 years of service. Join us in celebrating David and all the recipients of the 2018 Arts & Humanities Awards May 8 at the Log Cabin in Holyoke.
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 Women's History Month has begun!
Start with six terrific Mass Moments stories
Celebrate Women’s History Month with us this March. Here are events in the lives of six women from Massachusetts history that all took place in March, from the dramatic banishment of Anne Hutchinson in 1638 to Concord women casting their first votes in 1880. Enjoy!
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 Happy 200th, Frederick Douglass!
Opportunities abound to celebrate the bicentennial
With African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass's commitment to equal justice still unrealized in 2018, his words and life are as relevant as ever. Help him live on by planning a Reading Frederick Douglass public event for this summer, with help from a discussion grant (inquiry deadline April 9); encouraging high schoolers you may know to submit a short creative piece to our high school Douglass project competition this spring; and visiting the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Community site to get involved.
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 Upcoming Grant Deadlines
Start your proposals soon!
Mass Humanities grants support programs that use the humanities to deepen public understanding of current social, political, and economic issues, thereby enhancing and improving civic life. We offer three types of grants: project, local history, and discussion. The next inquiry deadline for local history and discussion grants is April 9. The inquiry deadline for project grants is March 26.
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 Introducing Our New Communications Specialist
Welcome Tim Binkert
Tim joins Mass Humanities with more than a decade of experience in non-profit communications. A humanities lover at heart, Tim is excited by the opportunity to spread the word about Mass Humanities far and wide. He received his B.A. in English and Philosophy from Syracuse University and a certificate in Professional Writing and Technical Communication from UMass Amherst. (We wish former Communications Officer Elena Marione
all the best in her new, full-time post!)
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 Protest and Citizenship in America
Changing the dialogue
With support from Mass Humanities, the Massachusetts Historical Society is hosting a free event in Boston this March that explores how groups through American history have used agitation to help change the dialogue about their position as citizens and how this history can help inform our views and reactions to the political climate we see today.
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 Think and Engage
March’s co-sponsored Harvard Book Store events include a discussion of the rise of populism and what we can do about it, the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the effect of automation on the poor in America, and more.
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 Bostonians Respond to Irish Famine
Boston not only rallied to support victims of the Irish famine, the city opened its doors to a flood of refugees. Within a decade, one in three residents were Irish, transforming the city's political, social, and cultural life and making Boston what it is today.
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 What's a "Good" Economy?
"When we reduce everything to the financial, we devalue the things that matter most." Excellent piece on how the arts and humanities make for richer lives and a better world, but cannot and should not be quantified purely in terms of dollars and cents.
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 Power to the Empathetic
What qualities do the best Google employees and teams have in common? Those closely associated with the humanities.
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 Humanities Calendar
We list some of the best humanities programming in the Commonwealth on our event calendar. See what's happening in March. Publish your organization's public humanities events!
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