Past Grants Awarded

A discussion of voting rights and experiences with voting, focusing on past and present immigrant communities, with residents of The Point neighborhood in Salem

A lecture and discussion event with civil rights activist and author Rodney Hurst and legal scholar David Harris.

Daylong programming for a multi-generational audience on the history of women's suffrage, including coverage of the contributions of the African American community, and a travelling exhibit on the history of suffrage in the Berkshires.

Design and implementation of a professional development series for K-12 social studies teachers that will include a one-day seminar (run twice) and a three-part webinar series on historical and contemporary challenges to expanding and protecting voting rights in the United States, each through a humanities lens.

A series of free activities and programs for The Vote: A Divided Movement that Brings Us Together.

Support for a humanist to research in women's suffrage documents and history to provide materials creating a script and discussion format for four shows.

Multiple community events, lectures, facilitated discussions, book groups, documentary screenings, hands-on projects, and performances centered around the history of voting rights.

Support for training on reproductive justice and engaging in dialogue across differences, to prepare WAM staff to facilitate post-show discussions, develop a post-production community dialogue event, and create playbill and educational lobby materials.

Support for the distribution phase of the Borderland documentary

A series of public events in Holyoke highlighting the literary, social, and historical importance of the Diary of Anne Frank.

A community-based oral history project, "The Untold History of Bhutanese Americans in Western Mass."

An exhibition to center around narratives of home, community, and intergenerational resilience.

A three-part series, in partnership with the New Bedford Whaling Museum's (NBWM) Lighting the Way Project (LTW), that explores the subject of voting rights in our community.

A special half-day conference under the umbrella of the Kennedy Library Forums featuring three forums on the history and current relevance of the suffrage movement.

Training, collection, sharing and archiving of oral histories from the first families who moved twenty-five years ago on to the largest community land trust in Boston called Dudley Neighbors, Inc. (DNI).

A series of six online teacher professional development workshops on teaching civics content related to the new Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework, with a focus on how Lowell's underrepresented groups have fought, and continue to fight, for an equitable electoral process.

Development of school curriculum on "Partners in Protest: Massachusetts Working Women and their Struggle for the Vote" for eighth-grade civics classes in commemoration of the national woman suffrage centennial.

3 free public lecture and discussion events and one book discussion in coordination with an exhibit on the 18th-century writer and advocate for women's equality, Judith Sargent Murray.

Development of school curriculum on "Partners in Protest: Massachusetts Working Women and their Struggle for the Vote" for eighth-grade civics classes in commemoration of the national woman suffrage centennial.

A series of three public events focused on how we respond to art from different time periods.

A panel discussion on Mass Rock Against Racism's history and the role of music in youth movements.

A series free Shakespeare seminars at the Northampton Senior Center, Kinney Renaissance Center, and Christopher Heights Assisted Living.

A series of 6 post-performance panel discussions connected to 6 productions at the New Repertory Theatre

A series of four discussions of works by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., each chosen to be in dialog with a national or international holiday.

A community engagement and discussion project focused on Leverett's industrial history and historic landscape.

A documentary film and discussion series with a unifying theme focused on what it means to be human.

A series of four discussions, with four communities in Southeastern Massachusetts, of Paul Cuffe's history and legacy.

Four panel discussions and a lecture centered on the relationship between images and words in graphic storytelling.

A series of three symposia on the theme of witch hunts through the lens of CST's production of The Crucible.

A public discussion of hip-hop and international youth culture, featuring AfH's teen artists and Global Artists in Residence, and scholar Elizabeth Rosner.

Two public events for middle and high school students and their parents on bachata music, a form of music that has changed in form and reputation from its Afro-Caribbean roots to its growing popularity in the U.S.

A weekly reading and discussion series with topics on global issues chosen by the non-partisan Foreign Policy Association.

A series of four free panel discussions exploring the history of six public housing sites in Boston.

A film series about celebrating the role of faith in our lives, along with training for high school youth enrolled in a community service program to lead discussions of the films.

A reading and discussion series for health professionals to support the social and emotional aspects of patient care.

A Scholar in Residence Grant to conduct archival research and ethnographies on race, racism, and the experiences of people of color in the Massachusetts Council of Churches.

Production of a finding aid and index for 100 issues of The Trail Maker magazine from 1933-1942.

A reading and discussion group for Bedford VA staff working with veterans.

A public programming series designed to complement STC's October production of "The Diary of Anne Frank". Anne's voice, in her search for identity as a child of an oppressed minority in dangerous times, is iconic.

Creation of a documentary that explores the institution of marriage and the couples whose own marriages have broken new ground, including the first same-sex couple to obtain a marriage license in the U.S., and an interracial couple who wed overseas because of anti-miscegenation laws in their home state.