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Funding List

Organization City/Town Grant
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Holland Cultural Council
Holland
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Holland

Description: for the Holland Community Concert Series.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Human Error Publishing
Wendell
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Wendell

Description: to support the Gateway City Arts Word Festival in Holyoke.

Humphreys Street Studios
Boston
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Boston

Description: for the neighborhood-wide twice annual Dorchester Open Studios.

Hyannis Film Festival
Barnstable
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Barnstable

Description: for Hyannis Film Festival: Movies on Main.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

India Discovery Center
Lincoln
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Lincoln

Description: for the 2nd New England Folk Poetry and Oral Literature Festival.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jazzhers
Needham
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Needham

Description: to support the final concert of the Jazzhers 2023 Jazz Festival.

John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum
Barnstable
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Barnstable

Description: for the JFK Hyannis Museum speakers series.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kidogo Productions
Boston
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Boston

Description: for music concert series during the Summer and Fall seasons of 2023.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kwong Kow Chinese School
Boston
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Boston

Description: for the 2024 KKCS Lunar New Year Festival in Boston Chinatown.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lexington Pops Chorus
Lexington
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Lexington

Description: for the Lexington Pops Chorus 2024 Spring Concert.

LFOD Life
Boston
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Boston

Description: for LOUDER, a hip-hop concert and celebration of Boston producers.

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.

Lisa Olivieri Productions
Watertown
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Watertown

Description: to support Massachusetts screenings of the documentary, Recovery City.

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.

Living Art
Quincy
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Quincy

Description: for a visual art program for teenagers.

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.

Longmeadow Over 60 Club
Longmeadow
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Longmeadow

Description: for the Longmeadow Over 60 Club classical music concert.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lowell Festival Foundation
Lowell
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Lowell

Description: for the 37th annual Lowell Folk Festival 2023 in Lowell, MA.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lynnfield Cultural Council
Lynnfield
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Lynnfield

Description: to support the Lynnfield Fourth Annual Multicultural Celebration.

Lyracle
Quincy
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Quincy

Description: for our 2023-2024 concert series to take place in Greater Boston.

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.

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.

Magic Soul House
Woburn
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Woburn

Description: for the Magic Soul House Open Studio Events - Art Jam Sunday.

Major League Sounds
Worcester
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Worcester

Description: to keep the hope alive with music.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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".

Marion Art Center
Marion
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Marion

Description: for the 9th annual Cuttyhunk Plein Air Festival, 2024.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Medway Cultural Council
Medway
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Medway

Description: for the Second Annual Diwali Festival in Medway, MA.

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.

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.

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.

Men of Melanin Magic
Boston
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Boston

Description: for Frolic on the Beach in South Boston.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mohawk Trail Concerts
Shelburne
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Shelburne

Description: for high-quality classical chamber music in Western Massachusetts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Montague Public Libraries
Montague
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Montague

Description: for Falls Fest in downtown Turners Falls.

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.

Morrill Memorial Library
Norwood
$2,500

Grant: $2,500

Location: Norwood

Description: to support the 2023-2024 Norwood Sustainability Series.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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