Past Grants Awarded

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 community based participatory research project into the experiences of the Ugandan immigrant community in Waltham, followed by public performances based on the findings.

A distribution grant for a documentary focused on the life of a Jewish teen living in Germany in the 1930s who was gradually targeted by the Nazis and eventually escaped to Britain and then to Massachusetts. The project produces a trailer and a curriculum guide, and includes 6 screenings, in order to build outreach to middle- and high school teachers.

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.

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.

Support for an exhibit and lectures making the historical connection between people gathering socially and people organizing for political change.

A permanent exhibit about the site of the most intense fighting on the first day of the American Revolution.

Creation of an expansive "family tree" exhibit.

Production of a 20-minute program on the suffrage movement in the U.S., with a focus on 1910-20, that will become part of EMK's rotating repertoire of daily programs.

A lecture series centered around "The Achievement Gap."

An exhibit on the relationships between Pilgrim settlers, Wampanoag peoples, and their shared environment. In addition to the exhibit, Plimoth Plantation will also hold public lectures.

A project with 20 underserved Pittsfield girls in an after-school science program that uses theater and humanities-based discussion to help them understand the production of scientific knowledge as a process shaped by social and cultural forces.

A pre-production film grant for a documentary on the experiences of four women from Voices From Inside, a Greenfield-based organization that facilitates writing groups for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women.

Two concurrent series of scholar-supported workshops in which Franklin County youth explore the social and historical context of their identity and develop a performance based on the workshops.

Inventory, organization, and digitization of items from the collection of photographer Winfried Sommerfeld.

A community reading and discussion of Douglass's speech on the meaning of the 4th of July.