Festivals Toolkit - A Guide for Improving Audience Development
Who is this toolkit for?, Where do I start?
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Grants of $1,500 are available to Massachusetts individual artists and independent teaching artists/humanists/scientists who have lost income as a direct result of COVID-19.
We ask "Five Quick Questions" of the Agency's newest staff member.
We spoke with teaching artists and scientists who shared their strategies and insights
What is Audience Engagement?, How to Get Started
This fiscal year Mass Cultural Council is investing $1.15 million into classrooms across the Commonwealth with 283 grants to support creative learning through the arts, humanities, and sciences for Massachusetts’ students.
Organizational support. The term is synonymous with those hard-to-find, but never enough, unrestricted operating funds. Funds that help the organization deliver on its mission by paying salaries, rent, the electric bill, and the all-important toilet paper order.
Case studies from 3 Massachusetts festivals
Samples of Demographic Analysis, Data Collection, Cancellation Communications and more
A quarterly report on our anti-racism work
The work of Rajaiah Jones and the Alumni Council shows the creativity and innovation they injected into our work as grantmakers
Provides major improvement grants to nonprofit cultural organizations, in recognition of their profound economic impact on communities across Massachusetts.
1,084 cultural organizations report $781M in lost revenue, 3,048 creative individuals cite $31.9M in lost income
Information to help answer the question, "If I receive a monetary grant, will it impact my benefits?"
A lifelong resident of Fall River, she served on the Council for nearly six years
Mass Cultural Council anticipates announcing the 2021 round of Cultural Facilities Fund grants this fall.
On Thursday the state House of Representatives approved a budget plan for the next fiscal year that calls for investing $16.6 million in the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Mass Cultural Council. The House proposal would add $533,000 for arts and cultural funding in Fiscal Year 2020, which begins July 1.
