GRANTS

Our grantmaking supports nonprofits, organizations and communities across Massachusetts who are enriching lives and strengthening our society through the humanities.

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in grants awarded (2024)
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of EMS projects led by people who identify as BIPOC (2024)
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ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTED (2024)
SPOTLIGHT

This grant offers up to $20,000 for projects that collect, interpret and/or share narratives about the commonwealth, with an emphasis on the voices and experiences that have gone unrecognized, or have been excluded from public conversation. This year, our theme focuses on legacies of the American Revolution.

GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

Expand Massachusetts Stories: Promises of the Revolution

This grant offers up to $20,000 for projects that collect, interpret and/or share narratives about the commonwealth, with an emphasis on the voices and experiences that have gone unrecognized, or have been excluded from public conversation. This year, our theme focuses on legacies of the American Revolution.

Application Opens
March 10, 2025
Deadline
June 9, 2025
Expand Massachusetts Stories: Story Forward

This grant offers up to $20,000 for projects that collect, interpret and/or share narratives about the commonwealth, with an emphasis on the voices and experiences that have gone unrecognized, or have been excluded from public conversation. "Story Forward" is available only to previous EMS grantees (or current grantees in good standing) to build on or advance their original projects.

Application Opens
March 10, 2025
Deadline
June 9, 2025
Reading Frederick Douglass Together

Reading Frederick Douglass Together grants offer up to $2,000 for public readings and discussions in Massachusetts of the orator's famous address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Application Opens
December 16, 2024
Deadline
April 4, 2025

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Grant Program
  • READING FREDERICK DOUGLASS TOGETHER
  • 2020 SUPPORT GRANTS
  • BRIDGE STREET SPONSORSHIPS
  • DIGITAL CAPACITY GRANTS
  • DISCUSSION
  • EXPAND MASSACHUSETTS STORIES
  • RESEARCH INVENTORY GRANT
  • MAJOR
  • MASS HUMANITIES CARES ACT
  • MASS HUMANITIES SHARP GRANTS
  • MINI
  • MUSEUM ON MAIN STREET (MOMS) CROSSROADS
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  • PROJECT-THE VOTE
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  • PUBLIC SQUARED
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  • STAFFING THE HUMANITIES - YEAR 2
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