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Grants Awarded Since 2000
Explore the Mass Humanities funded projects awarded from 2000 to the present. Browse by grant type, city, county, region or keyword search based on specific fields or all of them. Subscribe and receive news when grants are awarded.
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2010-08-04 |
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| "Marion Stoddart: The Work of 1000" Discussion Guide and Publicity |
| Discussion guide and publicity to promote screenings of the documentary "Marion Stoddart: Work of 1000." |
Documentary Educational Resources
Watertown, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Susan Edwards
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $5,000 |
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| Historic Journal of Massachusetts 75th Commemorative Issue and Online Access Archive |
| Support for the Historical Journal of Massachusetts' 75th commemorative issue and build a database of articles since 1990. |
Westfield State College Foundation, Inc.
Westfield, MA, Hampden County (CT Valley)
project director: Mara Dodge
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $5,000 |
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| People & Place: Oral Histories & Photographs of Ipswich Seniors |
| Creation of an oral history and photography exhibit about Ipswich during the first half of the 20th century. |
Ipswich Council On Aging
Ipswich, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Terri Unger
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $5,000 |
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| Historic Newton Aboliltion and Underground Railroad Exhibition |
| Updating of abolitionism exhibit to reflect current scholarship about the Underground Railroad. |
Newton Historical Society
Newton, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Melissa Westlake
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grant type: Project: Liberty & Justice For All
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $9,844 |
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| Prison Dogs |
| Preproduction work on Prison Dogs, a documentary featuring a program to train service dogs for veterans. |
Center For Independent Documentary
Sharon, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)
project director: Katherine Robinson
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grant type: Project: Media
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $10,000 |
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| Discovering the Treasures of Spectacle Island |
| Archaeological day trips to Spectacle Island for urban youth from communities surrounding the Boston Harbor |
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Bruce Berman
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $5,000 |
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| 4th Annual AIA-MOS Archaeology Fair |
| Annual AIA-MOS Archaeology Fair at the Museum of Science, featuring ancient technologies. |
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| The Scourge of New England: An Oral History of the Norfolk Prison Debate Team |
| Support to collect, transcribe, archive, and present oral histories of former Norfolk Prison debaters from the 1930s to the 1950s. |
Norfolk Historical Commission
Norfolk, MA, Norfolk County (Southeast)
project director: Natasha Haverty
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grant type: Project: Liberty & Justice For All
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $10,000 |
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| African Americans in Rural New England |
| Creation of a podcast, tour map, and online resources for African American sites in Old Deerfield. |
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Deerfield, MA, Franklin County (CT Valley)
project director: Timothy Neumann
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grant type: Project: Liberty & Justice For All
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $10,000 |
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| Remembering Galileo |
| Support for the public series, Remembering Galileo, including keynote speaker Dava Sobel. |
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| Boston Book Festival |
| The hosting of authors at the festival on October 16 in Boston. |
Boston Book Festival, Inc.
Cambridge, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Emily D'Amour Pardo
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $5,000 |
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| The Popular Romance Project |
| A documentary about romance fiction and its authors. |
Filmmakers Collaborative
Waltham, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Laurie Kahn
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $10,000 |
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| Voices from the Port |
| Ten audio segments based on interviews with a variety of workers in fishing and related industries. |
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| A Sailor's Life |
| A book about sailors in the U.S. Navy to accompany the exhibit, All Hands on Deck: A Sailor's Life in 1812. |
USS Constitution Museum
Boston, MA, Suffolk County (Greater Boston)
project director: Sarah Watkins
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $5,000 |
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| There's a Meeting Here Tonight! |
| A production about the Hutchinson Family Singers, who shared stages with leaders of the abolitionist, women's suffrage, and temperance movements. |
Revels Inc
Watertown, MA, Middlesex County (Greater Boston)
project director: Kay Dunlap
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grant type: Project: Liberty & Justice For All
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $5,500 |
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| Table for 10: The Art, History and Science of Food |
| A series of exhibitions and lectures about food in Pioneer Valley museums. |
Five Colleges, Inc
Amherst, MA, Hampshire County (CT Valley)
project director: Kevin Kennedy
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grant type: Project: Cultural Economic Development
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $10,000 |
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| Thoreau Country: Mapping Henry David Thoreau's Travels in Massachusetts |
| Support for research and the creation of entries for an interactive online map of Thoreau's travels through Massachusetts. |
Thoreau Society
Concord, MA, Middlesex County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Susan E. Gallagher
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grant type: Project: Cultural Economic Development
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $3,500 |
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| Mapping Leather: A Look at Peabody's Industrial Past |
| Creation of a Google Earth map of the leather industry in Peabody from 1939 through the 1990s, when the industry folded. |
City of Peabody
Peabody, MA, Essex County (Northeast)
project director: Merritt Kirkpatrick
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grant type: Project
awarded on: 2010-06-11
amount: $3,495 |
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| Beyond the Grave |
| Cataloging of gravestone inscriptions, conditions, and artwork in the four acre "Old Section" of Vine Lake Cemetery, dating back to 1651. |
Vine Lake Preservation Trust
Medfield, MA, Norfolk County (Metrowest Boston)
project director: Robert T. Gregg
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grant type: Research Inventory
awarded on: 2010-05-20
amount: $1,500 |
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