Projects We've Funded 2001-07

Central Massachusetts

$10,000 to Worcester Historical Museum for an exhibition and panel discussions entitled, Got Food? Creating a Hunger-Free Community, about the 200-year history of Worcester County hunger relief programs. (2007)

$4,985 to American Antiquarian Society in Worcester for John Quincy Adams in Russia, a living history presentation on Adams’s service as the United States’ first ambassador to Russia, performed in Boston, Worcester, and Amherst.

$5,000 to the Worcester Art Museum toward Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home, an exhibition juxtaposing news photographs from the Iraq war with advertising images of American landscapes and domestic interiors. 

$5,000 to the Henry Lee Willis Community Center in Worcester for an exhibition of African sculpture and a series of lectures and workshops comprising the 2007 African American Festival Series. (2007)

$3,675 to the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum in Worcester for an afternoon program combining a living history presentation on Eleanor Roosevelt with a cantata based on her life and writings. (2007)

$2,000 to the Classical Association of New England in Worcester to provide partial scholarships to Massachusetts teachers to attend a summer institute which examines the concept of freedom in the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome. (2006)

$4,500 to the United Assyrian Association of Massachusetts in Worcester to mount an exhibition of documents, photographs, and memorabilia on the immigration of Assyrians to the United States. (2005)

$4,962 to the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum in Worcester to publicize and present an event exploring the life of Eleanor Roosevelt through a living history performance and a talk by an historian. (2005)

$5,000 to the Worcester Art Museum to present public programming and publish material in conjunction with an exhibition of works by artist Willie Cole, whose assemblages of found objects comment on the historical experience of African Americans. (2005)

$5,000 to the Willis Center Cultural Institute in Worcester to support an exhibition and series of public programs designed to raise awareness of the history of slavery in the Americas. (2005)

$5,000 to the Willis Center Cultural Institute in Worcester to support an exhibition and series of public programs designed to raise awareness of the history of slavery in the  Americas. (2005)

$5,000 to the Worcester Women’s History Project to support production and promotion of performances of Yours for Humanity – Abby, an original, one-woman play about Worcester abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Abby Kelley Foster. (2004)

$3,000 to the Worcester Art Museum for a program and gallery brochure exploring the historical context of an installation by artist Richard Yarde, a work based on a religious ceremony performed by African Americans during the slave era. (2003)

$300 to AfterSchool Partners in Newton in support of a one-woman show, Meet Lucy Stone, featuring Judith Black. (2003)

$250 to the Leominster Public Library for a reading and discussion series focusing on three accounts of physical and moral testing under extreme circumstances. (2003)

$4,000 to the Hillside Restoration Project/Boylston Historical Society to re-work and produce for school performances a one-man play about John Gough, the nineteenth-century temperance orator whose National Historic Landmark estate the applicant is engaged in restoring. (2002)

$2,750 to the Worcester Center for Crafts for a catalog and public programs associated with an exhibition of handcrafted contemporary chairs. (2002)

$2,500 to Old Sturbridge Village for a public symposium on Native American basketry. (2002)

$4,848 to the Worcester Public Schools for a professional development initiative to expose Worcester teachers to their students' varied cultures through the study of literature. (2002)

$3,875 to the Clark University Teachers Center for Global Studies in Worcester to train high school teachers to offer a year-long curriculum unit on contemporary world issues, which will culminate in a State House forum involving students, teachers, and legislators. (2002)

$2,500 to the Harvard Historical Society in Harvard for a Scholar in Residence project: "Captured in Clothes: The Legacy of Mary Olney Abbot," with scholar Deborah Saville. (2002)

$936 to the Friends of the Winchendon Public Library for Family Affairs, a five-part book discussion series. (2002)

$400 to the Friends of the Leominster Public Library for Autobiography: Writing and Memory, a four-part book discussion series. (2002)

$15,000 the Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State College for a project that will compile an oral history of the Italian-American communities of Fitchburg and Leominster and culminate in a public program and exhibition. (2001)

$1,000 to the Worcester Public Library for After Frost for a six-session reading and discussion program on late twentieth-century American poetry. (2001)