Project List

Organization	Region	Year	Grant Type
Ashfield Community Hall	Western	2022	Feasibility
Grant: $6,000 Location: Ashfield Description: for a feasibility study to address accessibility needs in the Community Hall.
Barbara and Eric Rudd Art Foundation	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $100,000 Location: North Adams Description: for facade and exterior protection and stabilization, and accessibility, environmental, and security system upgrades for the Berkshire Art Museum.
Becket Arts Center of the Hilltowns	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $40,000 Location: Becket Description: to add heating and cooling and electric system upgrades to the Becket Art Center's home in the historic Seminary Hall.
Berkshire Environmental Action Team	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $200,000 Location: Pittsfield Description: for the purchase a former community church to become BEAT's new Environmental Leadership & Education Center, and for an energy retrofit, making the building fully accessible, and restoring the adjacent stream bank and property with native plantings.
Berkshire Music School	Western	2022	Feasibility
Grant: $25,000 Location: Pittsfield Description: to study feasibility for accessibility, increasing program space, and repairing the campus's 150-year-old physical plant.
Blandford Historical Society	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $35,000 Location: Blandford Description: to replace exterior windows, upgrade fire safety systems, and consolidate the building's two small gender-separate lavatories into one ADA compliant facility.
Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $162,000 Location: Northampton Description: to acquire and renovate the 150-year-old Florence Congregational Church to create the Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity; a performing arts venue, spiritual center and community resource.
Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity	Western	2022	Systems
Grant: $7,000 Location: Northampton Description: for a systems replacement plan.
Buckland Historical Society	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $137,000 Location: Buckland Description: for the stabilization of an 18th century barn on the Wilder Homestead, including beam replacements, a restoration of the threshing floor, siding, and for a new stone foundation.
Clinton Church Restoration	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $117,000 Location: Great Barrington Description: for engineering plans and the final architectural design for the restoration and adaptive re-use of the former Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church into an African American heritage site and visitor center, which will educate the public about the life and legacy of civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois and the Berkshires' rich African American history.
Community Access to the Arts	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $46,000 Location: Great Barrington Description: for acoustic damping materials, to install a permanently mounted projection system, and new energy-efficient windows.
Community Music School of Springfield	Western	2022	Systems
Grant: $10,000 Location: Springfield Description: for a systems replacement plan.
Community Music School of Springfield	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $90,000 Location: Springfield Description: for a roof replacement.
Double Edge Theatre Productions	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $154,000 Location: Ashfield Description: for the final phase of renovations and expansion to the main theatre and performance venue, including egress, accessibility, fire & safety improvements, sight line and rigging improvements, and a new HVAC system.
Drama Studio	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $200,000 Location: Springfield Description: for code improvements and exterior repairs.
Earthdance Creative Living Project	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $80,000 Location: Plainfield Description: for roof repairs, renewable energy generation and storage systems, heating and cooling, and ventilation systems in the farmhouse and dance studios.
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $90,000 Location: Amherst Description: for foundation and exterior repairs, new entrance doors, outdoor lighting, new ionization systems, replaced cooling tower baffles, and to establish a well for landscape watering.
Friends of Franklin County Fairgrounds	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $70,000 Location: Greenfield Description: for improved walkways to allow guests full access to the historic cultural facilities.
Historic Northampton	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $106,000 Location: Northampton Description: to construct accessible public restrooms, a small kitchenette and prep room, storage room, dressing rooms and green room space.
Holyoke Community Media	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $200,000 Location: Holyoke Description: for the completion of the multi-phase renovations to the Community Media and Education Center.
Irish Cultural Center, of Western New England	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $200,000 Location: West Springfield Description: for renovations to a new fourth floor performance space, including new ceilings and flooring, staging, wall coverings, fire and public safety improvements, and electrical work.
IS183	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $27,000 Location: Stockbridge Description: for HVAC and lighting upgrades.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $200,000 Location: Becket Description: for the development of a conceptual design and scope for a new 21st century creation/performance space to replace the Doris Duke Theatre, which was destroyed by a fire in November 2020.
Jones Library	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $200,000 Location: Amherst Description: for upgraded mechanical systems and accessibility measures in the Burnett Art Gallery.
Lupa Game Farm	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $90,000 Location: Ludlow Description: to create accessible restrooms and install shading at the Lupa Zoo.
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $150,000 Location: North Adams Description: for roof replacements, electrical, plumbing, and heating systems updates, and for bathroom and kitchen remodeling and ADA upgrades at two artist housing facilities/
Norman Rockwell Museum	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $140,000 Location: Stockbridge Description: to upgrade paving on walkways, electrical systems and outdoor lighting, and for new HVAC condensers and monitoring systems, alarm and security system components, signage, and automatic doors.
Northampton Community Arts Trust	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $150,000 Location: Northampton Description: for lobby renovations, including the build out of a box office, concession area and an art gallery.
Performance Project	Western	2022	Feasibility
Grant: $22,000 Location: Northampton Description: to complete a feasibility study and begin the pre-development work necessary to advance The Performance Project's vision of a permanent facility to a design phase.
Shakespeare & Company	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $94,000 Location: Lenox Description: For an assisted listening device, sun shading, and for lighting and resurfacing of pathways, parking and restroom areas at the New Spruce Theatre, a 540-seat outdoor amphitheater.
Shea Theater Arts Center	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $50,000 Location: Montague Description: for updates to three restrooms and theatrical lighting.
Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $200,000 Location: Williamstown Description: to replace sections of the roof of the Research Center, and for a new central plant at the Lunder Center.
Westfield State University	Western	2022	Capital
Grant: $100,000 Location: Westfield Description: for seating and other crucial updates to the Dever Stage.