Projects We've Funded -- Outside Massachusetts

$10,000 to the Old Stone House of Brooklyn toward pre-production for a 90-minute film, Thomas Paine: Voice of the Revolution, exploring the life of the author of Common Sense. (Liberty & Justice for All Grant) (2007)

Detail from a 1792 British engraving of Thomas Paine surrounded by injustices, standing on morals, and appealing to the English to organize a republic. From the Library of Congress.

$10,000 to Women Make Movies in New York, NY, for pre-production of a documentary exploring the social and spiritual impact of English colonization on eastern Indians from the perspectives of their living descendants. (2007)

$10,000 to Kovno Communications in Berkeley, CA, for a feature-length documentary focusing on Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who released the Pentagon Papers. (2007)

$10,000 to the Maine Alliance of Media Arts in Portland to develop a script and trailer for a documentary film entitled Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul, which examines Thoreau’s influence on American literature and culture. (2006)

$10,000 to The Kindling Group in Chicago to develop a script and trailer for Identity Crisis, a documentary film on the life, work, and cultural influence of psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. (2005)

$1,000 to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation toward the publication of a book about the pioneering controversial Massachusetts archaeologist Roland Robbins, to be published by the University Press of New England in fall of 2004.

$5,000 to the New York Foundation for the Arts and filmmaker Peter Miller to support production of a one-hour film on Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the Italian immigrant anarchists who were at the center of an international cause celebre and the most famous legal case in modern Massachusetts history. (2003)

$20,000 to the Coruway Film Institute in Portsmouth, NH, and film maker William Rogers for production of Boys Home: The History of Fernald State School, a one-hour television documentary on the nation's oldest institution for people with developmental disabilities. (2002)

$10,000 to the New York Foundation for the Arts and filmmaker Peter Miller to develop a script for a feature-length documentary film about the Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and the controversy surrounding their trial and execution for the 1920 murder of two Massachusetts men. (2002)

$2,000 to the Classical Association of New England (CANE) in Hanover, New Hampshire to underwrite the costs of partial tuition scholarships for Massachusetts teachers attending the CANE Summer Institute on Roman culture. (2001)