This 3-Step Plan Calls for FY22 Budget Spending; Bond Authorizations; and Bills to Stabilize, Rebuild, and Provide COVID Relief to the Cultural Sector
Last year, CFF invested $14M in the planning and development of cultural buildings in Massachusetts. Take a look at the 2022 Annual Report to learn more about the program's economic impact.
Grants to Massachusetts nonprofit and municipal performing arts centers to spend on touring shows or touring artist fees
Creativity is in full bloom at three Springfield Housing Authority developments. Children at Duggan, Moxon, and Riverview Apartments are critically assessing and discussing a variety of art works, both classic and modern. And then, they are creating their own art inspired by their new way of seeing and reflecting on how artists create.
This program is the nation's most comprehensive effort to expand cultural access for low-income and working families.
This support for capital projects within the cultural sector is made possible through a program administered by Mass Cultural Council and MassDevelopment.
Achieving safe harbor during the current COVID-19 pandemic includes understanding how cash moves in and out of your organization week by week.
Learn how community input and development are important aspects of running a successful LCC
We are on the front lines of a war on poverty. Not necessarily a shortage of material wealth, although its distribution in America is both a consequence and contributor to the current distress. The poverty our field confronts every day is that which Robert Kennedy confronted while running for President in 1968. He contrasted the wealth represented in the nation’s gross national product with the wealth necessary to sustain a democracy and make life worth living.
Program-by-Program Contract Requirements
Cash flow projections, scenarios and budgets, and decision making amid crisis.
Mass Cultural Council is enlisting these artists to help us better infuse youth voice into the work of systemic, social change in Massachusetts.
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In 2018, Cultural Facilities Fund (CFF) awarded $9.3 million to cultural organizations in Massachusetts to support the maintenance and development of buildings. Take a look at the 2018 Annual Report to learn more about the economic impact of the Fund.
Grants of $5,000 for school-based projects that foster creative learning experiences in the arts, sciences, and humanities for K-12 students
Know who is eligible and the criteria which applicants must follow to be successful.
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We're gathering data from cultural organizations across the Commonwealth so that we can better communicate the necessary financial, human, intellectual, and social capital needed to fully recover from the coronavirus crisis.
For the millions of veterans who have served in the United States armed forces, creative expression has been a way to share, to heal, and to give meaning to their experiences. In 2018 the U.S. Conference of Mayors stated: “creative arts therapies and artist-directed programs have the potential to positively impact the healthcare spending concerns, quality of care issues, and healthcare needs of active military and veteran populations.” The Mass Cultural Council seeks to ensure that veterans across the Commonwealth have access to the arts, humanities, and sciences, and opportunities for creative expression, no matter their background. Below is a partial list ...
A monthly round-up of grants, technical assistance resources, and opportunities for creative and cultural organizations