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Funding List - Fiscal Year 2009
Funding information for previous fiscal years is available from
MCC's Communications
Department.
Actors'
Shakespeare Project, Cambridge
Grant: $10,500
Project: Incarcerated Youth at Play to
work with girls, ages 12-17, who are incarcerated or in aftercare/probation
facilities, to explore language and relationships using Shakespeare,
and to share personal stories, develop group participation skills,
enhance artistic abilities, and create performances through movement,
voice work, and journal writing.
Collaborators: CAMP Amesbury, The Cloud Foundation,
Germaine Lawrence Inc., Hampshire Educational Collaborative
Alternatives
for Community & Environment, Boston
Grant: $11,200
Project: YouthHeals: An Environmental Science Initiative
for
Roxbury teens to gather, analyze, and communicate scientific
information resulting in enhanced scientific literacy, leadership
skills, and civic engagement.
Collaborators: JSI Research and Training Institute
Angkor
Dance Troupe, Inc., Lowell
Grant: $11,200
Project: Angkor Youth Program to provide
Cambodian American teens with instruction in Cambodian classical
dance and costume, youth development and leadership training, college
counseling, and part-time employment opportunities.
Collaborators: Lowell National Historical Park,
Lowell Community Health Center
Artists
for Humanity, Inc., Boston
Grant: $11,200
Project: Youth-run Arts Micro-enterprise
to employ city teens and partner them in small groups with professional
artists/designers and young artist mentors to design, create, and
sell art products.
Collaborators: Boston Globe Foundation Inc., Medical
Foundation, South Boston Art Association, South Boston Community
Health Center
ArtWorks
Partners for the Arts, New Bedford
Grant: $13,600
Project: Teen Mural Project to design and create
community murals and other public art projects thorugh which teens
gain a sense of accomplishment, confidence in their artistic ability,
and pride in the impact they can make in their community.
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Barrington
Stage Company, Pittsfield
Grant: $11,200
Project: Playwright Mentoring Project
for groups of teens to create
entirely youth-conceived and youth-written shows under the guidance
of professional playwrights, artistic mentors, and peer mentors
that tour area schools and community venues.
Collaborators: Berkshire County Juvenile Court,
Lee High School, Pittsfield Public Schools, Counseling Center in
the Berkshires, Southern Berkshire Regional Schools
Berklee
College of Music, Boston
Grant: $11,200
Project: Berklee City Music Saturday Upper School
to provide intensive course work, visits to artist clinics, and
ensemble instruction on Saturdays and after school for students
who have the talent, passion, and desire to learn advanced methodologies
of music.
Collaborators: ACT Roxbury, Boston Arts Academy,
Boston Public Schools Arts, Roland Hayes Division of Music, Weston
Public Schools METCO
Bird
Street Community Center, Dorchester
Grant: $13,600
Project: Workforce Development Arts Entrepreneurship Programs
for youth to learn fashion design, sewing, glass working, or dance
and then establish a small business to sell and market products.
Collaborators: Ballet Rox, Diablo Glass School
Boston
Youth Symphony Orchestras, Boston
Grant: $12,750
Project: Intensive Community Program to provide
rigorous string instrument instruction serving underrepresented
youth.
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Cambridge
Community Television, Cambridge
Grant: $11,200
Project: Youth Media Program to promote
healthy development by involving young people in activities designed
to enhance media production skills and career skills .
Collaborators: Cambridge Community Services, Cambridge
Educational Access, Cambridge Mayor's Youth Employment Program
Charlestown
Boys & Girls Club, Boston
Grant: $10,500
Project: Dance, Camera, Action! to introduce
youth to Latin American culture through dance and related art disciplines,
including filming performances in several venues for showings on
local public access television.
Collaborators: Ballet Monte Alban, Lesley University
Creative Arts Program
City
Stage Co., Boston
Grant: $13,600
Project: Teen Stages and Apprentice Touring Troupe
for teens to develop acting and performing skills that demonstrate
their skills to the broader community through public performance
as well as an apprentice program to serve emerging young professionals
as they transition between high school and college.
The
Community Art Center, Inc., Cambridge
Grant: $8,000
Project: Teen Media Program for classes
in photography, video, and sound production, as well as production
of the "Do It Your Damn Self!" National Youth Film Festival, the
nation's oldest youth-curated, youth-run festival of youth-produced
film and video.
Collaborators: Underground Railway Theater
Community
Music School of Springfield, Springfield
Grant: $8,400
Project: Renaissance to teach the musical
and poetic elements of the hip hop culture so that incarcerated
youth, ages 12-18, learn to use poetry and rap, the elements of
beat production, and music recording as creative outlets and a healthy
means of self-expression.
Collaborators: Robert F Kennedy Children's Action
Corps
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Dorchester
Community Center for Visual Art, Dorchester
Grant: $13,600
Project: Dot Art Teen Program to provide young
people with year-round programming in the visual arts including
sequential education and the installation of final works in public
venues.
Collaborators: All Saints Parish, Ashmont Tire,
Boston Public Library - Fields Corner, Salvation Army Jubilee House
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Environmental
Learning and Action Center, Cambridge
Grant: $11,050
Project: Planet Protectors - Mattapan (PPM) tto
engage and involve Mattapan youth in dynamic science through the
use of investigation and research, using an expedition model where
teens explore questions and discover answers to an environment problem
in the community, resulting in teen-led community.
Collaborators: Urban Dreams
Express
Yourself, Inc., Beverly
Grant: $12,000
Project: Express Yourself! for collaboration
between young people from
the community and the Department of Mental Health in a
multi-disciplinary year-long arts program that culminates in a
performance on-stage at Boston's Citi Performing Arts Center.
Collaborators: Citi Performing Arts Center, Endicott
College, Massachusetts Dept. of Mental Health, Montserrat College
of Art, North Shore Music Theatre
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Federated
Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc., Dorchester
Grant: $11,200
Project: Art A La Carte for an interactive
arts education program that connects Boston young people with artists/educators
to obtain in-depth arts instruction, develop portfolios for college,
learn about career opportunites, and gain practical skills in gallery
and museum work.
Collaborators: African-American Master Artists
Program, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, Gloucester
Grant: $11,900
Project: Compass Science Instruction Initiative for weekly inquiry-based
life science and physical science instruction to high school
drop-outs who participate in the Compass Youth Program run by
Action, Inc.
Collaborator: Action, Inc.
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Hyde
Square Task Force, Inc., Jamaica Plain
Grant: $11,200
Project: Ritmo en Acción Youth Dance Project
for minority teens to receive rigorous instruction in Latin dance.
Youth then teach younger children in the community and perform publicly
for diverse audiences across Boston. In process, they receive academic
support and become active participants in organizing efforts to
improve life for themselves and their community.
Collaborators: Hacha & Machete Dance Company
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Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, Boston
Grant: $13,600
Project: Cacique Youth Arts Initiative for youth to develop concrete arts and leadership skills through Latin percussion, theater, dance, poetry, digital and visual arts, and social justice workshops.
Collaborators: Boston Center for the Arts, The
Cloud Foundation, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Juvenile
Rights Advocacy Project, Newton
Grant: $11,200
Project: Hear Us Make Artistic Noise (H.U.M.A.N.)
for a graphic arts and entrepreneurship program that provides an
opportunity for incarcerated and recently released girls to document
their lives and experiences, learn business skills, and earn stipends
from sales and commissions.
Collaborators: H.U.M.A.N. NY, Spectrum Health Systems,
Inc.
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Kidspace, North Adams
Grant: $13,600
Project: The Mona Lisa Project to offer teenage
girls the opportunity to explore a positive means of self-expression
and make helpful contributions to their community through "yogart"
(yoga training, art-making activities, and art-based dialogues)
and through mentoring younger girls.
Collaborators: Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute,
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams Public Schools,
Williams College Museum of Art
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Massachusetts Audobon Society, Lincoln
Grant: $11,550
Project: Exploring the Habitats of Lowell to build content knowledge of life/earth sciences through youth-directed study of local habitats in Lowell, and to develop leadership skills by working alongside mentors and planning a culminating project.
Collaborators: Bartlett Community Partnership School, Citizen Schools, Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust
Medicine
Wheel Productions, Inc. , Boston
Grant: $11,200
Project: Medicine Wheel Youth Program
to transform the lives of young people by enabling them to become
part of a creative artistic community: they create their own individual
and group projects and installations; lead groups of young people
and adults in projects; and gather the work of over a thousand people
into major public installations throughout the year.
Collaborators: AIDS Action Committee, Cushing House
Adolescent Drug Treatment, Edwards Middle School
Multicultural
Youth Tour of What's Now, Boston
Grant: $11,200
Project: Youth Guide Development Program
to build essential skills and community ownership by hiring teens
as Youth Guides to research local and personal history and then
teach what they learn to the public through walking tours and interactive
workshops.
Collaborators: Fenway Community Development Corporation,
Youth Advocacy Project
Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, Boston
Grant: $8,400
Project: Teen Arts Council for an in-depth
look at the educational and professional avenues available in the
museum and art world.
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New
England Aquarium, Boston
Grant: $11,200
Project: New England Aquarium Teen Internships Program
for teens to learn about aquatic and environmental science and related
career paths, work with scientists, and present what they learn
to the visiting public.
Collaborators: Museum of Science, North Cambridge
Catholic High School, Zoo New England
New
World Theater, Amherst
Grant: $11,200
Project: Project 2050 for a cross-cultural
program that uses hip-hop-based arts education and civic dialogue,
including performances, community-based workshops, and youth exchanges,
to explore and respond to contemporary issues.
Collaborators: American Friends Service Committee,
Youth Leadership in the Arts, The Connections Program
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OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center, Roxbury
Grant: $13,600
Project: NIA Dance Troupe for young people to receive
extensive dance performance experience and training in all aspects
of arts management and program development.
Collaborator: Roxbury Community College Back to Top
Partners
for Youth With Disabilities, Boston
Grant: $11,200
Project: Access to Theatre for an inclusive
theatre arts program that creates opportunities for youth with and
without disabilities to develop creative expression, leadership,
and employment skills while experiencing the transformative power
of working in a theatre ensemble.
Collaborators: Until Tomorrow Productions, VSA
Arts of Massachusetts, Boston Center for the Arts
The Performance Project, Inc., Northampton
Grant: $13,600
Project: First Generation for first generation youth to participate in family history research, dialogue with elders, and artistic training that culminates in a multi-lingual performance within the community.
Collaborators: Rebecca Johnson School, Springfield Adolescent Health Services, Western Area Dept. of Youth Services
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown
Grant: $13,600
Project: YouthReach Afterschool Program for in-depth, sustained arts programming that includes cultural and environmental mapping of the town and seashore, a community portrait painting project, a web site design project, and individual youth-designed projects.
Collaborators: Provincetown Police Department, Provincetown Public Schools
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RAW
Art Works, Lynn
Grant: $11,200
Project: RARE Artists Project to join
arts education with youth leadership development for city teens,
for teens to assist staff in leading art groups for younger children,
and to help teens navigate and succeed in the college application
process.
Collaborators: Massachusetts College of Art and
Design, North Shore Community College, TRIO Educational Opportunity
Center
ROCA,
Inc., Chelsea
Grant: $13,600
Project: Essencia Latina to nurture and showcase the artistic talents of Chelsea young people, transforming their energies away from risky behaviors and toward hope, self-respect, cultural pride, and physical, emotional, and mental health.
Collaborator: Phunk Phenomenon Dance Company
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Seeds
of Solidarity, Orange
Grant: $13,600
Project: Seeds of Leadership Garden: Youth Cultivating a Hopeful Future for youth to gain knowledge in soil and plant science, nutrition, health, and renewable energy by working in a solar greenhouse and organizing recycling and composting initiatives.
Collaborators: Athol High School, Clearview Composting, Ralph C. Mahar Regional School District
Shakespeare
& Company, Lenox
Grant: $8,000
Project: Shakespeare in the Courts Project
for a diversion program for young offenders in the Berkshire Juvenile
Court system to perform Shakespeare and learn to keep their commitments
and work together, acquire new skills, and express their thoughts
and feelings.
Collaborators: Berkshire County Juvenile Court
Sociedad Latina, Roxbury
Grant: $13,600
Project: Sonic Life Program designed to encourage creativity and develop artistic skills through in-depth training in music production, lyric writing, and instrumental lessons.
Collaborator: Berklee College of Music
Somerville
Arts Council, Somerville
Grant: $8,000
Project: Books of Hope to empower and
boost the self-esteem of a diverse group of Somerville youth through
writing, publishing, performing, and selling books.
Collaborators: Somerville Housing Authority, Center
for Teen Empowerment, Mystic Learning Center
South End Technology Center @ Tent City, Boston
Grant: $13,600
Project: Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Program to
engage a critical mass of young people in emerging science and technology.
Youth catalyze cultural change in the community and explore what
is possible to achieve using role models, project-based learning,
and the support of MIT scholars.
Collaborator: MIT Media Laboratory
Spontaneous
Celebrations, Inc., Jamaica Plain
Grant: $11,200
Project: Festival Arts After School Program
to engage young people as active members of their community by empowering
them as artists, performers, and leaders through active participation
in the creation of annual festivals where they learn artistic traditions
from many different cultures, including their own.
Collaborators: Beyond the Fourth Wall, The Food
Project
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The
Theater Offensive, Cambridge
Grant: $11,200
Project: True Colors: Out Youth Theater Troupe
for an educational theater program developed to serve lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender young people and their allies.
Collaborators: Boston Glass, BAGLY Inc.
Trinity
Boston Foundation, Boston
Grant: $9,100
Project: Street Potential: a program of the Trinity
Boston Counseling Center to help young people recently
released from incarceration to learn self-expression, build self-esteem,
and acquire the life skills necessary to make a positive transition
to adulthood through building artistic skills and creating music.
Collaborators: The Cloud Foundation, MA Dept. of Youth Services, Roxbury Youthworks, Solutions for Economic Empowerment
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Underground
Railway Theater, Cambridge
Grant: $11,200
Project: Youth Underground for a teen-driven
program that uses theater to connect Cambridge young people with
their community and offers participants stipend positions.
Collaborators: Area IV Youth Center, The Community
Art Center Inc.
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Worcester
Center for Crafts, Inc., Worcester
Grant: $8,110
Project: Teen Apprentice Program (T.A.P.)
for at-risk high school students to explore, experience, and concentrate
in a craft medium, and to learn through artistic processes the skills
needed to become successful and creative adults.
Collaborators: Burncoat Senior High School, Claremont
Academy, Doherty Memorial High School, North High School, South
High School, University Park Campus School, Worcester Public Schools,
Worcester Technical High School
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Youth
Action Coalition, Inc., Amherst
Grant: $11,200
Project: Video Vanguards for young people
to brainstorm and investigate social issues of interest to them,
dissect and critique mainstream media, and develop their own video
productions that address issues they identify.
Collaborators: Community Partnerships for Social
Change, Food for Thought Books, Amherst Community Television, American
Friends Service Committee, UMass Amherst Info. Technology Office
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Zoo
New England, Boston
Grant: $11,200
Project: Zoo New England's ZooTeen Program
to introduce city teens to zoo and conservation-oriented careers
in a safe, structured, and professional learning environment.
Collaborators: Boston Youth Fund, Franklin Park
Coalition, Franklin Park Tenants Association, New England Aquarium
Zumix,
Inc., East Boston
Grant: $11,200
Project: HANDS-ON Youth Development Program
to provide a series of linked activities designed to provide broad-based,
in-depth experience in music and technology for young people, including
instrumental instruction, creative technology, songwriting, and
performance.
Collaborators: New England Institute of Art, Berklee
College of Music, Excel Academy Charter School
Total: $549,460
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