Funding List
Organization | City/Town | Grant |
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Guthrie Center | Great Barrington |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Great Barrington Description: to support the production of the weekly Troubadour concert series to help raise funds for the Guthrie Center community services. |
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Hadassah-Brandeis Institute | Waltham |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Waltham Description: for Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice, an ambitious, multidisciplinary exhibition that will look at abortion and reproductive justice through the lens of faith, bringing Jewish feminist artists into dialogue with artists from other faith communities and backgrounds. |
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Hadley Historical Society | Hadley |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Hadley Description: to support a multi-media public history program in Hadley for Cornstalk Fiddles: Soundscape and Place in 19th Century Hadley. |
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Haitian-Americans United | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for the Haitian-American Unity Parade, which is one of several events celebrating Haitian Heritage Month (May 1-31) and Haitian Flag Day in Massachusetts. |
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Hampden-Wilbraham Public Schools | Wilbraham |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Wilbraham Description: for "The Artist in Action Mural Project," a live-action mural experience incorporating visual storytelling, illustrating life cycles in nature within Green Meadows Elementary with an art festival showcase and unveiling for the community, featuring local mural artist John Matlock. |
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Harambee Learning and Cultural Center | Brockton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Brockton Description: to celebrate and educate about Juneteenth (June 19th, 1865) this historical event and its unique place in American history. |
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HarborArts | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: to support free walking mural tour experiences in East Boston to learn about the neighborhood's growing public art scene, the messages behind artworks, and the processes of creating public art. |
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Harvard Conservation Trust | Harvard |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Harvard Description: for the 2023 Destination:Nature Juried Art Show which supports the arts and environmental protection. |
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Harvard Museums of Science & Culture | Cambridge |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Cambridge Description: for Harvard Museums of Science & Culture’s Summer Solstice Celebration, a night of music, dance, creative activities, and gallery exploration, all free and open to the public. |
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Healing All Scars | Lowell |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lowell Description: for the Emerge Project, to add moments of cultural enjoyment to those impacted by Domestic Violence. |
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Heart In Art | Middleborough |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Middleborough Description: for a project to stage Middleborough's Chalk it up Art festival, May 18, 2024, in the back parking and surrounding walks of Middleborough's Town Hall to make art accessible for everyone and bring the community together. |
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Heart of Taunton | Taunton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Taunton Description: for an evening of authentic Portuguese food, pastries, wine, music, and dancing to celebrate the culture and heritage of the Portuguese community during Portuguese Heritage Month. |
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Heart of the Valley Chorus | Northampton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Northampton Description: for Heart of the Valley Chorus of Northampton, MA to enhance the lives of area residents in the Pioneer Valley through song - specifically barbershop harmony. |
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Helltown Players | Harwich |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Harwich Description: for a festival in Provincetown of short plays written by the Trustees of the Helltown Players. |
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Hestia Mural Restoration Collective | Northampton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Northampton Description: for the restoration of damaged portions of the mural "History of Women in Northampton, 1600-1980", copyright 1980, Hestia Art Collective, located in Northampton. Massachusetts. |
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Hilltown Arts Alliance | Plainfield |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Plainfield Description: for the Hilltown Open Studio Tour '23 taking place in the beautiful towns of Plainfield, Cummington, Worthington, and Chesterfield, featuring the work of over 20 visual artists. |
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HipStory, LLC | Cambridge |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Cambridge Description: for Boston Answering 2024 in Boston Massachusetts to offer a one day performance festival highlighting the breadth of the local Boston musical and artistic experience. |
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Holland Community Center | Holland |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Holland Description: for the 1st six-week "Holland's Hopping" Music Festival in Holland, MA. |
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Holland Cultural Council | Holland |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Holland Description: for the Holland Community Concert Series. |
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Hoop Hop | Chelsea |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Chelsea Description: to provide financial assistance for Hoop Hop, an event connecting the artist community with community organizations and youth through music and sports in Roxbury, MA. |
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Hoopla Productions | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: to support a shared storytelling event 2024 called Open Your Heart: Immigrant Voices Changing the Conversation. |
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HOPE Recovery Communities | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for a multi-disciplinary one-day festival, in Mattapan's Chez Vous Roller Rink, culminating in the production of a motivational video featuring youth and adults who are excited by the opportunity to create poetry and songs as we connect recovery from substance abuse-including alcohol-with gratitude and motivate others to ask for help. |
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Hopkinton Polyarts Committee | Hopkinton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Hopkinton Description: for the 49th Annual Hopkinton Polyarts Festival, which combines the arts, entertainment, food, and community. |
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Horace Mann Middle School | Franklin |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Franklin Description: for Franklin's Pen to Picture festival, celebrating graphic novels and the relationship between art and the written word. |
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Hull Council on Aging | Hull |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Hull Description: for Art For Your Mind, LLC, a selection of high-impact art history presentations, designed to educate, entertain and challenge the minds of its participants using vibrant, digital images that allow close observation of many different kinds of art. |
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Human Error Publishing | Wendell |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Wendell Description: to support the Gateway City Arts Word Festival in Holyoke. |
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Humphreys Street Studios | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for the neighborhood-wide twice annual Dorchester Open Studios. |
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Hyannis Film Festival | Barnstable |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Barnstable Description: for Hyannis Film Festival: Movies on Main. |
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Hyannis Public Library | Barnstable |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Barnstable Description: for Hyannis Public Library to host a comics convention–a Comic Festival–in Hyannis MA in partnership with The Cordial Eye Gallery and various artists inviting the community to learn more about comic book culture and creation. |
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Hyde Park Art Association | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for a series of eight concerts to be held at the Menino Arts Center in Fall of 2023 and Spring 2024. |
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Hyoomkloh | Amherst |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Amherst Description: for 'Artistic Messages: Wearable Expressions of Social Change,' a project promoting social awareness through visually captivating t-shirt designs, located in Amherst, MA. |
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Igbo Organization of New England | Randolph |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Randolph Description: to provide financial assistance for the Nigerian Igbo Day Festival, an annual cultural event organized by the Igbo Organization of New England (IONE), celebrating the heritage of the Igbo people of South Eastern Nigeria. |
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Imani Temple | Malden |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Malden Description: to inspire and motivate unity and individuality while encouraging young people to appreciate the diversity around them. |
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In the Spotlight | Springfield |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Springfield Description: for "Their Other Selves", a lecture series provoking hard-thinking, open-minded education, and discussion to bring the relatively recent horrors of mankind vs. mankind of the Holocaust to our present-day population. |
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India Association of Greater Boston | Burlington |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Burlington Description: for the Indian Day Dance and Musical Fest event at the Hatch Shell. |
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India Discovery Center | Lincoln |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lincoln Description: for the 2nd New England Folk Poetry and Oral Literature Festival. |
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Indian Community of Needham | Needham |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Needham Description: for an India Independence Day celebration, featuring the raising of Indian and US flags, singing of both Indian and US national anthems, dance performances, artists, and popsicles. |
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Indian Lake Community Association | Worcester |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Worcester Description: for an Arts in the Garden music/poetry series at the Community Teaching Garden Literacy Project, located in Worcester, MA. |
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Indian Orchard Citizens Council | Springfield |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Springfield Description: for 7th Annual IOCC Food Truck Festival, bringing local food trucks, musical talent and art to the community in the Indian Orchard neighborhood. |
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Instante Latino | Watertown |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Watertown Description: to celebrate Venezuela's Declaration of Independence for the growing Venezuelan and Latin American Communities in the greater Boston Area. |
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Instituto Cultural de Puerto Rico | Lawrence |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lawrence Description: for the 1st Bomba and Plena Typical Music and Dance Festival from Puerto Rico in Lawrence. |
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International Book Fair | Lawrence |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lawrence Description: for the XVII International Book Fair 2023 from October 20-22, 2023, at Northern Essex Community College, Lawrence, MA, dedicated to Ecuador with the slogan: tricolor of letters from the middle of the world. |
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Irish Cultural Center of Western New England | West Springfield |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: West Springfield Description: to support the Harvest Music Fèis (Festival), which will attract Irish music lovers from throughout New England to the patio and spacious grounds of the Irish Cultural Center in West Springfield. |
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Irish Pastoral Centre | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: to Foster Social Inclusion and Belonging through Celebrating Irish Arts and Culture in Greater Boston. |
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Islamic Society of Greater Lowell | Chelmsford |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Chelmsford Description: for an Eid Celebration with the community, where all are welcome, taking place in Chelmsford. |
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Israel Folkdance Festival of Boston | Brookline |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Brookline Description: to support the Israel Folkdance Festival of Boston in Cambridge, MA. |
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J Enterprising Productions | Pittsfield |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Pittsfield Description: for Dances in Progress, a showcase and feedback session in Medford that features Greater Boston dancemakers' in-progress choreographic works. |
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Jamaica Plain Music Festival | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for the Jamaica Plain Music Festival, a free, annual, community event, featuring local musicians and artists. |
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Jameson Singers | Newton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Newton Description: for the public December Choral Concert at First Church in Cambridge, MA and Second Church in Newton, MA. |
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Jazz in the Berkshires | North Adams |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: North Adams Description: to support the presentation of a series of Jazz concerts at The Clark Art Institute and uphold our mission to be a contributing force in building cultural diversity, art education and economic growth in the Berkshires. |
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JazzBoston | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for the South Bay Jazz Festival, which will bring a free day of uplifting improvisational jazz to the staff and incarcerated public at the Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay. |
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Jazzhers | Needham |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Needham Description: to support the final concert of the Jazzhers 2023 Jazz Festival. |
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John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum | Barnstable |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Barnstable Description: for the JFK Hyannis Museum speakers series. |
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Jonathan Bayliss Society | Gloucester |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Gloucester Description: to support Walking Gloucester: In the Footsteps of Anastas, Bayliss, Ferrini, Garland, and Olson, a weekend of walks, talks, and readings exploring the writings and connections among five Gloucester authors. |
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Jurisdictional Music Department | Lynn |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lynn Description: to fund "After The Music Stops", an event where cultures can demonstrate, and explain the music, beat and sound of their culture that keeps them inspired even after the music stops. |
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K Sense Co LLC | Worcester |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Worcester Description: to the Center for Women & Enterprise for the Kommunity New Year Wellness event in Worcester. |
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Kabir Society of America | Cambridge |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Cambridge Description: for cultural events to celebrate and honor the literature and values propagated by Kabir Das, a 15th-century Indian poet saint, whose poetry is filled with messages of humanism, harmony, love, and bhakti and brings people together. |
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Kelly’s Music and More | Littleton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Littleton Description: for The Artists Workshop & Concert Series 2024 in which renowned artists will collaborate with gifted music students for a public concert which will enrich the cultural awareness of the citizens of Middlesex county and surrounding areas. |
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Kendall Square Orchestra | Concord |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Concord Description: for Kendall Square Orchestra (K2O)'s annual Fall concert at Sanders Theater, with a program centered on the theme of Courage & Heroism that will serve as an inspiration for the continued expansion and diversification of the classical music canon today. |
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KickBack Boston, LLC | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for One Day Only Fest. One Day Only Fest is a one-day musically activated experience that serves as a platform to amplify local and emerging artists within the city of Boston and New England. |
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Kidogo Productions | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for music concert series during the Summer and Fall seasons of 2023. |
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KlezCummington | Cummington |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Cummington Description: for KlezCummington, a weekend-long klezmer festival dedicated to the vibrancy of Ashkenazi Jewish culture, music, dance, language, and food traditions in Western Massachusetts. |
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Knighthorse Theatre Company | Scituate |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Scituate Description: to support free Shakespeare performances at the Baker's Field Pavilion in Wellfleet. |
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Knowhere Art | Oak Bluffs |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Oak Bluffs Description: to support "Creative Journey: The World of Teen Artists", an exhibition of works by the teens of Artists for Humanity. |
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Kong Mountain Tea | Quincy |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Quincy Description: to enhance traditional culture understanding with a tea event, providing a platform for local tea lovers to explore tea culture and mindfulness in Burlington, MA. |
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Korean Cultural Society of Boston | Lexington |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lexington Description: to celebrate three generations of pianists of mostly Korean heritage with lasting impacts on the world's classical music scenes. |
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Kwong Kow Chinese School | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for the 2024 KKCS Lunar New Year Festival in Boston Chinatown. |
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Lafayette-Durfee Historical Foundation | Fall River |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Fall River Description: for presenting a Colonial 18th Century 12th Night Celebration to the Greater Fall River Area, free and open to the public. |
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LaunchSpace | Orange |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Orange Description: for the ReMaker Festival, which celebrates Earth Day by inspiring and educating festival goers to find novel ways to use makerspaces to reduce, repair, repurpose, and re-envision waste into creative, innovative, and functional items. |
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Lawrence Art House | Lawrence |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lawrence Description: to support a series of three "Community Dream" Pop-Ups in Lawrence, MA and Lynn, MA. |
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Lee Library | Lee |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lee Description: to create a series of four 2-hour evening sessions of community poetry, led by a professional storyteller/reader. |
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Lenox Community Center | Lenox |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lenox Description: for the Lenox Community Center (which also houses the Lenox Council on Aging) to host master jazz pianist Stephen Page in a series of four concerts incorporating various styles of jazz piano (ragtime, boogie boogie, swing, etc.) to boost the moods of seniors in particular, but also the general public. |
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Lexington Council for the Arts | Lexington |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lexington Description: to fund Lexington Laughs, a weekend of comedy events involving professional comedians and community members, including local high school students, participating in standup/improv open mic opportunities in Lexington, MA. |
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Lexington Pops Chorus | Lexington |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lexington Description: for the Lexington Pops Chorus 2024 Spring Concert. |
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LFOD Life | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for LOUDER, a hip-hop concert and celebration of Boston producers. |
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LGBTQ+ Youth org | Springfield |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Springfield Description: to support Out Now's third community mural supporting LGBTQ+ youth messages of positive self-esteem, empowerment, art and social justice, self expression and personal and collective liberation. |
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Lisa Olivieri Productions | Watertown |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Watertown Description: to support Massachusetts screenings of the documentary, Recovery City. |
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Listening, The Barre Integrated Health Center | Barre |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Barre Description: to support Community Through Art at Listening with group painting workshops, individual art creations and a community painting exhibit. |
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Living Art | Quincy |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Quincy Description: for a visual art program for teenagers. |
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Living Independently for Equality | Brockton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Brockton Description: for monthly entertainment at the Center. We hold monthly holiday parties for the low income disabled elderly adult. |
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Longmeadow Over 60 Club | Longmeadow |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Longmeadow Description: for the Longmeadow Over 60 Club classical music concert. |
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Looky Here | Greenfield |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Greenfield Description: to support Lovelight's Event, "A Mermaid Wedding" at Peskeompskut Park in Turners Falls, bringing magic and wonder to the children of Franklin County. |
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Lost Shoe Brewing and Roasting Company, LLC | Marlborough |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Marlborough Description: for an Oktoberfest festival in downtown Marlborough that brings the community together. |
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Love Art Collective | Springfield |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Springfield Description: for a local showcase for emerging creative talents connecting them from the local cultural sphere with the larger creative and art sphere of Massachusetts. |
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Lowell Chamber Orchestra | Lowell |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lowell Description: for Pride: A Rainbow of Repertoire, a project that celebrates the contributions of LGBTQ musicians to classical music. |
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Lowell Festival Foundation | Lowell |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lowell Description: for the 37th annual Lowell Folk Festival 2023 in Lowell, MA. |
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Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race | Lowell |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lowell Description: to help fund the 2023 Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race which will take place on September 16th, 2023. |
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Lowell Makes | Lowell |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lowell Description: for Mill City Skill Share, an all-ages Open House event located at Lowell Makes, to promote education and opportunities for making, skills training, arts and artisan projects, creativity, and community within Lowell and the greater Merrimack Valley. |
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Lynn Music Foundation | Lynn |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lynn Description: for the Lynn Hip Hop Wall of Fame to hold the "Hip Hop in the Park" event at Frederick Douglass Memorial Park. |
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Lynn Vocational Tech. Institute School | Lynn |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lynn Description: for a panel presentation of four industry professionals from various media fields to address expertise in reporting, editing, producing, and acting. |
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Lynnfield Cultural Council | Lynnfield |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lynnfield Description: to support the Lynnfield Fourth Annual Multicultural Celebration. |
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Lyracle | Quincy |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Quincy Description: for our 2023-2024 concert series to take place in Greater Boston. |
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M.I.N.D – My Ideas Never Die | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: to support M.I.N.D's "World Changers: Creative Entrepreneurship and a Collaborative Society" event, featuring art vendors, performers, and panelists exploring various topics, including AI, land, and healthcare equity. |
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Madison Park Development Corporation | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for the "An Evening in...", a multidisciplinary series at Hibernian Hall to promote cross-cultural understanding. |
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Magic Soul House | Woburn |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Woburn Description: for the Magic Soul House Open Studio Events - Art Jam Sunday. |
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Major League Sounds | Worcester |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Worcester Description: to keep the hope alive with music. |
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Makanda Project | Milton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Milton Description: for a series of three jazz concerts by the Makanda Project, with additional community participation components, free to the public in Roxbury MA. |
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Malden PorchFest | Malden |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Malden Description: for Malden Porchfest - a citywide celebration of music and community across Malden’s eight wards. |
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Malden Pride | Medford |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Medford Description: for The Nonprofit Incubator, acting as the fiscal agent, to hire interpreters for the speaker program for Malden's "Pride in the Park". |
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Mandorla Music | Milton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Milton Description: to help cover production costs for the first annual David Chesnut Jazz Festival at the Eustis Estate in Milton, MA. |
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Manship Artist Residence and Studios | Gloucester |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Gloucester Description: for Firefly Fiesta, including a multi-generational firefly workshop and book reading, local astronomy club event, bug scavenger hunt, and artists in residence creating work inspired and/or informed by their interactions with the resident scientist/intern. |
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Marathon Quilters Guild | Hopkinton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Hopkinton Description: for the Marathon Quilt Guild bi-annual quilt show, with the theme "Sewing Mends our Souls". |
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Marion Art Center | Marion |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Marion Description: for the 9th annual Cuttyhunk Plein Air Festival, 2024. |
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Marstons Mills Historical Society | Barnstable |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Barnstable Description: for an original play to be written and performed, a fundamentally historical fiction with comedic overtones, depicting past historical events and individuals within the history of the Village, founded in 1648. |
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Martha’s Vineyard Center for the Visual Arts | Oak Bluffs |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Oak Bluffs Description: for the three Arts District Strolls in Oak Bluffs to support local island artists who can showcase their work. |
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Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School | West Tisbury |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: West Tisbury Description: for the music and dance performance of Senegalese performers for the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School and the Island community. |
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Mass Arts Center | Mansfield |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Mansfield Description: for the Mass Arts Center's Fall Arts Festival, featuring artists from around southeastern Massachusetts. |
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Massachusetts Archaeological Society | Middleborough |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Middleborough Description: for the Wampanoag Heritage Fair and efforts to engage the public with First Nations history in Massachusetts. |
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Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness | Danvers |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Danvers Description: to support an Indigenous Native American Dance Presentation and Workshop in Waltham in recognition of Nat'l Native American Heritage Month. |
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Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra | Worcester |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Worcester Description: to support a Brazilian Jazz Concert and Festival in Worcester's Institute Park. |
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Mattapoisett Museum | Mattapoisett |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Mattapoisett Description: for “Mattapoisett’s Hidden Histories and Invisible Industries” a series of four walking tours in Mattapoisett, MA that will explore both historic and contemporary local cottage industries that you might not see unless you know where to look. |
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Maynard Cultural District | Maynard |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Maynard Description: for the third annual Maynard Jazzfest, a day of free public performances by multiple jazz groups to be held in June 2024 to celebrate jazz in the heart of Maynard’s Cultural District by bringing together musicians and music fans from throughout New England. |
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Mayor’s Worthy Cause | Taunton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Taunton Description: for Woman's History Celebration 24 in Taunton, MA, to support women in our community, both past and present, with cultural performances, speakers, food, and festivities. |
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Medway Cultural Council | Medway |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Medway Description: for the Second Annual Diwali Festival in Medway, MA. |
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Medway Marches | Medway |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Medway Description: for Medway Marches' 4th Annual Juneteenth Celebration, to promote BIPOC culture in Medway through multiple performances, speakers, and BIPOC owned business. |
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Mel O’ Drama | Quincy |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Quincy Description: to provide financial assistance for a youth musical production of 'James & The Giant Peach' this July in Boston, offering students the best possible experience in sets, costumes, lights, sounds, and all production aspects. |
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MelroseKind | Melrose |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Melrose Description: for a community viewing of the musical Come From Away with keynote speaker Kevin Tuerff, who was a passenger in a plane that landed in Gander on 9/11, inspiring the musical. |
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Men of Melanin Magic | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for Frolic on the Beach in South Boston. |
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Metropolitan Waterworks Museum | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for a free, one-day festival at the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum in Boston, MA that celebrates water and water heroes by educating the public about water issues and the people who work to combat them. |
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MetroWest Writers Guild | Marlborough |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Marlborough Description: to support the Metrowest Writers' Guild's end-of-year literary extravaganza and the launch of Fiddlehead Folio, the Guild’s printed annual journal. |
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MF Dynamics | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for a live presentation of Maria Finkelmeier's "Melody Figments," an immersive, music and digital art experience at Roundhead Brewing Company in Hyde Park. |
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Miclot | Ashland |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Ashland Description: for a chamber music concert series in Boston and Malden to bring free concerts to the Greater Boston areas. |
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Midday Movement Series | Somerville |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Somerville Description: for the Midday Movement Series ("MIDDAY") to provide invigorating programming to bring visibility to the local professional dance sector, including 10 months of low-cost contemporary dance classes and open rehearsals with local contemporary dance artists, culminating in three free dance showcases presented in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville, MA. |
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Middleborough Public Library | Middleborough |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Middleborough Description: to cover a portion of the costs to digitize copies of the Middleborough Gazette which date back to the 1800s. |
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Middleborough Tourism Committee | Middleborough |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Middleborough Description: for a festival to celebrate the beginning of herring season at Oliver Mill Park on the Nemasket River in Middleborough during the largest river herring run in Massachusetts at the height of spawning season that includes local musicians, artisans, ecological education and native tribal demonstrations. |
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Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes & Drums | Salem |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Salem Description: to support the Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes and Drums Festival, a daylong festival that aims to expand and diversify the fife and drum community. |
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Midori Creativity | Westport |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Westport Description: to coordinate and present Meditations on Landscape III, an innovative and moving text-imagery exhibition featuring local writers and photographers from Westport and the SouthCoast area, capturing meaning and beauty, and exploring the connections between creativity and landscape. |
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Ming Hui Academy Boston | Cambridge |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Cambridge Description: to support the Lunar New Year Festival 2024 at the Cambridge Public Library in February 2024, promoting cultural diversity and understanding in the community. |
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Mohawk Trail Concerts | Shelburne |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Shelburne Description: for high-quality classical chamber music in Western Massachusetts. |
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MOHI Parivar | Holliston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Holliston Description: for MOHI Diwali Extravaganza to bring the community together by showcasing the beauty and extravagance of the festivities. |
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Monkeyhouse | Malden |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Malden Description: for the Malden Dance Mile, an outdoor festival created to inspire Malden residents to move with meaning by presenting the work of local choreographers from a diverse range of backgrounds, ages, and styles. |
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Monson Cemetery Commission | Monson |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Monson Description: for members in the town of Monson, who are buried in the cemeteries, to come back to life through a historic locally written script to let the audience know what life was like in the town while they were alive. |
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Monson Summerfest | Monson |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Monson Description: for Monson Summerfest, a free family event that brings dance, music and highlights the diversity of the local craft persons in the area. |
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Montague Public Libraries | Montague |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Montague Description: for Falls Fest in downtown Turners Falls. |
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Moonbox Productions | Cambridge |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Cambridge Description: to celebrate the incubation and creation of New Works with a community-wide theatre festival. |
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Morrill Memorial Library | Norwood |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Norwood Description: to support the 2023-2024 Norwood Sustainability Series. |
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Morse Institute Library | Natick |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Natick Description: for the second year of the Morse Institute Library's fREADOM Art installation, which celebrates the right to read and Banned Books Week, and expands this installation into the NPS schools. |
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Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust | Athol |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Athol Description: for the Nipmuc Cultural Celebration which will educate about the history of the Nipmuc in the region of the Quabbin, uplift their culture, and celebrate that they have returned to their homeland in Petersham / Nichewaug. |
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Movement Arts Cape Cod | Brewster |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Brewster Description: to continue producing Open Movement Arts Fairs in Brewster, MA, and throughout the region, with local professionals, free and open to an all-ages and inclusive public. |
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Muddy River Arts | Brookline |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Brookline Description: for Brookline Porchfest 2023, an afternoon festival which celebrates music and builds community. |
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Multiverse Concert Series | Burlington |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Burlington Description: to support Climate Hope Concert: a celebration of climate science, activism and music. |
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Munroe Center for the Arts | Lexington |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Lexington Description: for the May Arts Festival, celebrating spring through Lexington's community arts and culture. |
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Museum and Community of Leo’s Art | Dedham |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Dedham Description: for a program of weekly arts & crafts classes/sessions at the Mother Brook Arts and Community Center in Dedham, MA, for neuro-diverse individuals and their families. |
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Music, Arts and Fashion Productions | Newton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Newton Description: for the Boston Annual Ukrainian Festival, featuring a wide range of performances, exhibitions, crafts, vendors and events. |
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Music from Land’s End Wareham | Wareham |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Wareham Description: for Music from Land's End Wareham, an eclectic chamber music festival accessible to all audiences, featuring internationally acclaimed artists. |
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Music on the Hill Roxbury | Boston |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Boston Description: for summer music sessions that will be held weekly on Saturday mornings atop historic Highland Park in the Fort Hill neighborhood. |
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MV Times Corporation | Tisbury |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Tisbury Description: for Islanders Write, which brings together writers of different genres and publishing professionals on Martha's Vineyard for free panel discussions and workshops focused on the art, craft, and business of writing. |
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NACHMO Boston | Brookline |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Brookline Description: to Monkeyhouse, acting as the fiscal agent, for NACHMO Boston’s celebration of National Choreography Month. |
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Narluga Arts | Northampton |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Northampton Description: to support a concert and workshops of traditional world music and dance, including Son Jarocho (Mexico) and Klezmer (Ashkenazi Jewish). |
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Nauset Interfaith Association | Orleans |
$2,500 |
Grant: $2,500 Location: Orleans Description: to support the closing event and celebration of a year of programs on the Outer Cape (Cod) led by members of the Mashpee and Aquinnah Tribes of the Wampanoag Nation. |