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An overwhelming, bipartisan majority of state legislators voted to override a veto of a budget increase to the Mass Cultural Council for the new fiscal year. The overrides set the agency’s FY19 state appropriation at $16 million, ensuring increased investment in nonprofit cultural organizations, communities, artists, school and youth programs statewide.
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27 UP Designated Organizations awarded $3,000 Innovation Fund grants.
Culture Chat
99 Fall/Winter Festivals Awarded Grants Totaling $148,500
Mass Cultural Council’s “CultureRx”: Evaluation of a Social Prescription Pilot is an exciting new report that explores intersections of arts, culture, and health.
Grants to encourage the development and success of the districts and to foster local cultural preservation
$5.7M in funding available for public projects such as field trips, library events, lectures, festivals, exhibits, and dance performances
The public-private partnership between Mass Cultural Council and EdVestors continues to be a vehicle for systems change
Agency poised to make record-high investments into the Commonwealth's cultural sector throughout FY23
A timeline of the Agency's anti-racist work
329 Local Cultural Councils to support public programs in every community in Massachusetts.
$5.5M in funding available for public projects such as field trips, library events, lectures, festivals, exhibits, and dance performances
An initiative to allow communities to create state-sponsored cultural districts to stimulate new arts and cultural activity and attract creative businesses
A brief history of the CultureRx: Social Prescription Pilot
Our field's highest honor for a state arts agency demonstrating innovative and exceptional efforts to support and advance DEI in its state
