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Grants
Past Grants Awarded
Grant
East Falmouth, MA
Third Annual Reading Frederick Douglass FalmouthCape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center, Incmore
A community reading of Frederick Douglass’s speech on the meaning of the 4th of July with Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center, Inc
Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum and Cultural Center, Inc
East Falmouth, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $2,000
East Falmouth, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $2,000
A community reading of Frederick Douglass’s speech on the meaning of the 4th of July with The Helene Johnson and Dorothy West Foundation For Artists In Need
The Helene Johnson and Dorothy West Foundation For Artists In Need
Oak Bluffs, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $2,000
Oak Bluffs, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $2,000
Grant
Jamaica Plain, MA
Online Programs by the Loring Greenough HouseThe Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club, Inc. DBA The Loring Greenough Housemore
Supporting three online events: The Slavery and Servitude Roundtable An Evening with a Garden in the Woods Loring Greenough Interpretation Fellows Presentation
The Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club, Inc. DBA The Loring Greenough House
Jamaica Plain, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $1,500
Jamaica Plain, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $1,500
Grant
Andover, MA
Close Encounters by Andover Center for History & CultureAndover Historical Societymore
Supporting three online events: June Carmichael Fitzgerald, WWII WAVES and Parachute Rigger (1921- 2017) The Story of Allen and Mary Hinton - Entrepreneurs, Formerly Enslaved Addison B. LeBoutillier - Architect, Artist and Designer (1872 - 1951)
Grant
Amherst, MA
Reading Frederick Douglass Together and Committing Ourselves to Racial JusticeSouth Congregational Churchmore
A community reading of Frederick Douglass’s speech on the meaning of the 4th of July with South Congregational Church
Grant
Peabody, MA
"Online Programs by the Peabody Historical Society and Museum"Peabody Historical Society and Museummore
Supporting three online events: The Moses B. Paige Company: The Last of the Peabody Potteries Local 21's Quest for a Moral Economy Fire! Boston Burning
Peabody Historical Society and Museum
Peabody, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $1,500
Peabody, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $1,500
Grant
Plymouth, MA
400 Years Ago: Hybrid Lunch & Learn Series by Plimoth Patuxet MuseumsPlimoth Patuxet Museumsmore
Supporting three online events: Lunch & Learn: 400 Years Ago - A Look Back at Spring 1621 Lunch & Learn: 400 Years Ago - A Look Back at Fall 1621 Lunch & Learn: 400 Years Ago - A Look Back at Winter 1621
Supporting three online events: Midcentury Modern in Fitchburg: Carl Koch's Fitchburg Paper Building Uruguay's World Cup Victory of 1951: A look at Soccer history Experiencing Fitchburg's Abolitionist History
Supporting one online event: Living with the Atomic Bomb: 1945-1965
Supporting three online events: Author & Illustrator Talk: Twenty-One Steps - Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Solider The Cottingley Fairies: Doyle, Spiritualism, and a Hoax Plants Go to War
Wenham Historical Association & Museum, Inc.
Wenham, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $1,500
Wenham, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-05-17
amount: $1,500
Supporting three online events: The Global Future of Devens The Unseen Foe: Camp Devens in the 1918 Influenza Epidemic The Four Legacies of Edith Nourse Rogers
Supporting three online events: The Black Community in Revolutionary Cambridge Three Centuries of Black Cambridge How Have the Arts Mended Cambridge?
Grant
Arlington, MA
Virtual Programs Sponsored by the Old Schwamb MillOld Schwamb Mill Preservation Trust Incmore
Supporting three online events: Good as Gold: The Process of Gold Leafing a Frame. Boston Made: From Revolution to Robotics, Innovations that Changed the World The Artist's Enclave in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts
Old Schwamb Mill Preservation Trust Inc
Arlington, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Arlington, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Grant
Lenox, MA
Online Programs by The Mount, Edith Wharton's HomeEdith Wharton Restoration, Inc.more
Supporting three online events: Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present Library Conversations: Wharton’s Men
Supporting three online events: Traveling Back Down Littleton Rd (Rt. 110) with Geoff and Bob
Supporting three online events: Keynote Speaker: "From the Politics of Safety to Equal Protection for All" by Johanna Fernández There But for the Workers: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph “The Boiler Project" Revisited: What Does Safety and Justice Look Like in Lawrence Today?
Grant
Gloucester, MA
Online Programs by Maritime GloucesterGloucester Maritime Heritage Center, Inc. dba/Maritime Gloucestermore
Supporting three online events: Caulking with Evelyn Ansel Navigation with Amanda Madeira Knots with Michael DeKoster
Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, Inc. dba/Maritime Gloucester
Gloucester, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Gloucester, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Grant
Belchertown, MA
Online Programs by The Belchertown State School Friends AssociationBelchertown State School Friends Associationmore
Supporting three online events: Historical Overview of the Belchertown State School Book Talk with Kate Anderson: Images of America: The Belchertown State School Reflections on the Belchertown State School
Belchertown State School Friends Association
Belchertown, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Belchertown, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Supporting three online events: The Sheep at Gore Place What's Inside the Big Brick Building at Gore Place? A Virtual Guided Home Tour for Families My Farm at Waltham: Christopher and Rebecca Gore's country estate in Waltham
Grant
Salem, MA
Redefining Heritage: Relationships With Our Environment, Past and PresentEssex National Heritage Commission, Inc.more
Supporting three online events: Redefining Heritage: Garbage to Gardens Redefining Heritage: Impactful Interactions Redefining Heritage: Art for Awareness
Essex National Heritage Commission, Inc.
Salem, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Salem, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Supporting three online events: CHALLENGER: Soaring with Christa McAuliffe A Sign of the Times: WWI Poster Collection Murder & Mayhem in MetroWest Boston Book Launch
Supporting three online events: Lunchtime Conversation: Our Favorite Things Lunchtime Conversation: Caring for Historic Clothing Collections Lunchtime Conversation: Plymouth’s Industrial Past
Grant
New Bedford, MA
Online Programs by New Bedford Whaling MuseumNew Bedford Whaling Museum (Old Dartmouth Historical Society dba)more
Supporting three online events: Local History Guild Part 1: How to Paint a Poem: Call for Poets Part 2: Ryder Renditions: An evening with Ryder and other poets
New Bedford Whaling Museum (Old Dartmouth Historical Society dba)
New Bedford, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
New Bedford, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-04-29
amount: $1,500
Grant
New Bedford, MA
"Women's Work: At Sea, On Shore, At Home, In the Community by New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center"New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, Inc.more
Supporting three online events: Women in the Wheelhouse, Women on Deck: Female Fisherpoets Round Robin Mothers, Wives, and Daughters: Stories from Fishing Families Virtual Dock-u-mentary: A Fish Story - Women as Industry Advocates
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, Inc.
New Bedford, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
New Bedford, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Grant
Newburyport, MA
Online Programs by the Museum of Old NewburyHistorical Society of Old Newburymore
Supporting three online events: Tom Denenberg: Wallace Nutting and the Invention of "Old America" George Schwartz: Collecting The Globe Colleene Fesko: Working title Martin Johnson Heade and the American Landscape
Historical Society of Old Newbury
Newburyport, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Newburyport, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Grant
Boston, MA
Online Programs by The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ HistoryThe History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Bostonmore
Supporting three online events: LGBTQ Immigration and Migration from the 1950s to Today “CURED” Documentary Screening “When I Knew:” An LGBTQ Storytelling Event
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
Boston, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Boston, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Supporting one online event: Hatfield History Comes Home: Rediscovering the Lost Slides of L.H. Kingsley
Supporting two online events: Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardner The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress
Grant
Pittsfield, MA
Online Programs by Berkshire County Historical SocietyBerkshire County Historical Societymore
Supporting three online events: Samuel Harrison Performance Mr. Noble Melancholy Moby-Dick Virtual Read-A-Thon
Berkshire County Historical Society
Pittsfield, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Pittsfield, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Grant
Jamaica Plain, MA
Online Programs by the Jamaica Plain Historical SocietyJamaica Plain Historical Societymore
Supporting one online event: Remarkable Photos of Leon Abdalian
Jamaica Plain Historical Society
Jamaica Plain, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $500
Jamaica Plain, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $500
Supporting three online events: Urban Displacement in Boston, Past and Present: Urban Renewal Urban Displacement in Boston, Past and Present: Evictions Urban Displacement in Boston, Past and Present: Anti-Displacement Strategies
Supporting three online events: A Taste of Old Colony History -- Wheat Bars A Taste of Old Colony History -- Blueberry Pie A Taste of Old Colony History -- Pizza
Grant
Yarmouth Port, MA
Online Programs by the Historical Society of Old YarmouthHistorical Society of Old Yarmouthmore
Supporting three online events: “This Land is Their Land" “Whaling Captains of Color; America’s First Meritocracy” by Skip Finley, historian. Stories Behind the Stones
Historical Society of Old Yarmouth
Yarmouth Port, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Yarmouth Port, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Grant
Falmouth, MA
"Safer at Home virtual talks with the Falmouth Museums on the Green"Falmouth Historical Society, Inc.more
Supporting three online events: Lew Paper, “In the Cauldron” Christopher Skaife, "The Ravenmaster" Joseph Bagley, "Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them"
Falmouth Historical Society, Inc.
Falmouth, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Falmouth, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Grant
Longmeadow, MA
Online programs by Longmeadow Historical SocietyLongmeadow Historical Societymore
Supporting three online events: The Caged Man of Buckland The Durability of a Kennedy: JFK at War, 1937-1945 Marion Turner
Grant
East Boston, MA
Online programs by The East Boston Museum and Historical SocietyEast Boston Museum and Historical Societymore
Supporting three online events: History of the shipping industry in East Boston From Abolitionists to Suffragettes Architecture of East Boston.
East Boston Museum and Historical Society
East Boston, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
East Boston, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Grant
Sheffield, MA
Online Programs by the Sheffield Historical SocietySheffield Historical Societymore
Supporting two online events: Extending the Growing Season in Home Gardens WWII on the Homefront
Supporting two online events: Virtual Lecture of Old Sturbridge Village’s Textile Collection Virtual Tour of New England on Parade Exhibition
Grant
Hadley, MA
Online Programs by Porter-Phelps-Huntington MuseumPorter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation, Inc.more
Supporting three online events: “Entangled Lives:” A conversation on women and work at the PPH house in the past and the present. School Letters: Teaching with the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Family Papers Clifton Johnson: A Search for the Heart of America Picture Show and Lecture by William Hosley
Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation, Inc.
Hadley, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
Hadley, MA
project director:
awarded on: 2021-03-29
amount: $1,500
For the creation of interactive story maps of two recent Pao Arts Center projects, Inside Chinatown and Love Letters, that will be featured on the Pao Arts Center website.
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
Boston, MA
project director: Cynthia Woo
awarded on: 2021-03-26
amount: $5,000
Boston, MA
project director: Cynthia Woo
awarded on: 2021-03-26
amount: $5,000