Recently Awarded Grants

June 2007

Greater Boston Area

$10,000 to the Center for Independent Documentary in Sharon (Liberty & Justice for All Grant)
For development of Peacemaking Circle, a film examining the application of a Native American method of interactive conflict resolution in the criminal justice system.

$10,000 to 888 Women’s History Project, Inc. in Cambridge
(Liberty & Justice for All Grant)
Toward writers, consultants, and technicians to complete the production of the documentary film, Left on Pearl: Women Take Over 888 Memorial Drive.

$10,000 to Theatre Espresso in Boston    
(Liberty & Justice for All Grant)
To support 18 performances of Uprising on King Street: The Boston Massacre, an interactive historical drama, for Boston school children at the John Adams Courthouse.

Southeastern Massachusetts, the Cape and Islands

$9,320 to the Community and Economic Development Center of Southeastern MA in New Bedford
(Cultural Economic Development Grant)
Toward the fourth annual Working Waterfront Festival, which draws 12,000 in September. The focus this year is on women’s role in the fishing industry.

$3,090 to Falmouth Historical Society 
(Cultural Economic Development Grant)
For Living Off the Land in Falmouth, Then and Now, a new trolley tour focusing on agricultural history and contemporary farming in Falmouth.

$10,000 to Harwich Junior Theatre, Inc.
(Liberty & Justice for All Grant)
For pre-production of a film on the survival of two Jewish, art-student resistance workers in 1940s Berlin, and the recent meeting of Nina Schuessler with her mother’s friend in Berlin.

$5,000 to Spinner Publications, Inc. in New Bedford 
(Liberty & Justice for All Grant)
For Branded on My Arm and in My Soul, a memoir compiled from oral history interviews with the late Abraham Landau, a Holocaust survivor and long-time New Bedford resident.

$1,050 to Peabody Institute Library       
To support an exhibit about the role Danvers women played in Civil War relief efforts entitled, In the Spirit of Clara Barton: Almira Fales and the Women of South Danvers. 

Central Massachusetts

$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. 

$7,500 to the Plainfield Historical Society 
(Liberty & Justice for All Grant)
For print guides to six family-friendly outdoor experiences designed to engage visitors in discovering the cultural and natural history of Plainfield.

Outside Massachusetts

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

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