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The Humanities are what we do when we reflect about our lives; when we ask fundamental questions of value, purpose and meaning. The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities is a humanities programming and grant making organization affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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Three graduation ceremonies in Massachusetts marked the end of a successful year for the Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free, community-based humanities course for low-income adults. The course has just completed its first year in Worcester and Boston and its third year in Holyoke. Sixteen members of the Worcester class received their certificates of completion on Thursday evening, May 30th, in the courtyard of the Worcester Art Museum. The Holyoke program honored its ten graduates on Monday evening, June 10th, at Wistariahurst, a historic house museum in the city. The Boston course, hosted by the Codman Square Health Center, honored its 21 graduates on Wednesday evening, June 12th, at the agency’s Technology Center.
For more information on the Clemente Course: www.mfh.org/specialprojects/clemente/
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The Foundation received a $22,000 grant from the United Way of Massachusetts Bay to support a new scholar-led reading and discussion program, Understanding Islam in the Greater Boston area. Libraries in other parts of the state will also offer the program beginning in the fall of 2002. Participants in Understanding Islam read four texts on different aspects of Islamic religion and culture and come together every two weeks to discuss the books int eh light of recent events.
For more information: call (413) 584-8440 or go to www.mfh.org/specialprojects/understanding/
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Over 400 people packed Wright Hall in Northampton on April 28th for the premier of Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness, and Survival, a Foundation-supported documentary film based on the memoir of the same title by Jay Neugeboren. After the screening, Jay Neugeboren read from his book, and his brother Robert read a poem he had written as a young man. On May 7, members of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Health Care, Joint Committee on Insurance, and the Mental Health Caucus viewed the film at the State House. With a grant from the Animating Democracy Initiative, a program of Americans for the Arts, MFH is organizing a series of other screenings and dialogues beginning with June 11 at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, June 19 at the M-POWER Convention in Worcester, June 20 at the Tewksbury Hospital, and June 27 at the annual NAMI convention in Cincinnati. For a calendar of scheduled events associated with Imagining Robert, go to the project’s website, www.imaginingrobert.org.
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At its March 2002 meeting, the Board of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities awarded $24,985 to Historic Northampton and $25,000 Primary Source, Inc. to support projects designed to improve humanities education in Massachusetts schools. At the June 2002 meeting, another $70,000 in major grants were awarded. One documentary film received $10,000 for distribution; one video project received a $10,000 pre-production grant. Three other public humanities projects received major grants ranging from $8,000 to $15,000.
For more about these projects and a list of small grants awarded from January-June 2002, go to www.mfh.org/newsandevents/press/prrelease/prjun02.pdf
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At its quarterly meeting in Northampton on June 14, 2002, the Foundation’s Board of Directors elected three new members: attorney JOHN BURGESS of Brookline, a Senior Partner at Hale & Dorr; DIANNE FULLER DOHERTY of Longmeadow, Director of the Springfield Enterprise Center; and KELLEY MCLENDON of Boston, Director of Charitable Trust Services at FleetBoston Financial Services.
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SMALL Grants (up to $5,000) -- Deadlines are the 1st business day of every month except August. Written drafts are required at least two weeks before the application deadline. Upcoming deadlines: September 2, 2002 (drafts due August 19, 2002) and October 1, 2002 (drafts due September 17, 2002).
MAJOR grants (up to $15,000, $25,000 challenge) -- Deadlines are the 1st business day of October and April. Written drafts are required at least four weeks before the application deadline. Upcoming deadlines: October 1, 2002 (drafts due September 3rd, 2002), April 1, 2003 (drafts due March 4, 2003)
Call or email a program officer in the MFH office nearest you to discuss your project.
For more information on our grants, go to www.mfh.org/grants.
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For information on humanities events in your region, go to www.mfh.org/newsandevents/calendar.
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