mass humanities spring 2015 edition
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The humanities open up doors for the people of Massachusetts like no other opportunity can. Read about how theater has touched the lives of formerly incarcerated women, consider how the humanities transcend class boundaries, and find out what top-tier programming awaits you in the coming months.TRANSCRIPT
In This Issue
Recent Grantspage 2
2015 Mass History Conferencepage 7
Jill Ker Conway, Humanistpage 8
On With Living and Learning (OWLL), a Boston-based or-ganization, received the maximum grant award for Hidden Faces in 2013. At the time, the Mass Humanities strategic initiative emphasized those projects that explored social issues as well as the history and promise of collective action to remedy them. The grant funded a nine-month project that began with a series of workshops for previously incarcerated women and culminated in a series of six sold-out perfor-mances co-produced by the Fort Point Theatre Channel.
“Mass Humanities took a chance on us,” Mary shares, “at a time when people weren’t talking much about this issue yet. I’ll forever be grateful for that. It is difficult to get funding for these programs since prison reform organizations don’t understand the impact of the arts and humanities. There is a big difference between OWLL’s programs and social services agencies, and
that is the bond. We are all women, we share a common humanity. Every one of these women has sat in my living room as my peer and producing Hidden Faces of Courage helped us to realize that.”
The catalyst for OWLL’s work lies in Mary’s transformative friend-ships. Years ago, her focus was on women living with HIV and she convened a small consciousness-raising group in her home. One woman who attended was
surly and closed-off; she sat wrapped in her puffy jacket, a hat slung low over her eyes and a cigarette protrud-ing from her mouth, saying little. She was HIV positive and straight out of prison but Laverne eventually opened up and shared her story. A bound-ary-crossing friendship between Mary and Laverne ensued. Mary with a Ph.D. and Laverne an 8th grade education, they defied the status quo and spoke openly about HIV and its effect on women, a challenging subject in most circles at the time but especially for the art world where women were—and remain—underrepresented.
They clarified an important aspect of their work one day over coffee when Laverne realized that all of the women they engaged had been in prison. Hidden Faces was first written to express this commonality and find ways for women in a similar situation to connect. Laverne, then in her twilight years, wanted to describe the pathways to prison, the women’s circumstances, and the root causes of incarceration. The play centered on her relationship with Mary but that soon shifted to a focus on family, a shared concern among the participants. “As Laverne was dying, she asked me to rewrite the play,” Mary explains, “she wanted it to be about living in the shadow of incarceration. These women are still in prison even though they’re on the outside. Hidden Faces became about mothers facing a dysfunctional reentry system and succeeding anyway.”
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The Theater of PossibilitySix previously incarcerated women found their voices through the Generational Legacy Project; now a few participants are getting advanced degrees and influencing state policy.
Women confront the challenges of their situation in discussion with a reentry worker.
Akiba and Mary share a thought at Generational Legacy’s first informal read.
A publication of Mass Humanities Spring 2015
Incarceration rates have leapt across the nation, and adapting to life after prison is an in-creasingly common experience. A play Mass Humanities recently funded, Hidden Faces of Courage, was penned by six women under the guidance of playwright Mary Cook Driscoll and offered us a glimpse at their stories. Driscoll’s co-authors intimately know the chal-lenges facing women leaving prison—they’ve done it themselves—and with her guidance, they have explored literature, film, and the true stories of other women like them to reflect on and discuss their personal experiences. The stories told within Hidden Faces are cast from this mold and explore the strength and resilience of women exiting prison. They must adapt to new circumstances, yet their connections to each other prove enduring.
2014 Annual Reportpage 3
Berkshire$10,000 to the Mahaiwe Perform-ing Arts Center for the gathering of local oral histories from members of multi-generational working families in the Berkshire County area and the subsequent creation and perfor-mance of four short plays based on their stories ENA
$10,000 to Lift Ev’ry Voice to sup-port a summer youth program as part of the Biannual Lift Ev’ry Voice Festival, focused on African-Ameri-can identity in the Berkshire’s as well as the history and question of civil rights ENA
Boston$9,700 to the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library for an exhibition timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Boston’s resistance to the British Stamp Act of 1765, as well as a sum-mer teachers’ institute for teachers in the Boston Public School district
NSC
$10,000 to Central Square Theatre for community humanities program-ming to complement the play, Mr g, for underserved youth and young and working adults, including faith-based communities of color ENA
$5,000 for the Cambridge Forum to host a series of six public conversa-tions, entitled The Health of Democ-racy, that examine the proper role of government in promoting the general welfare of its citizens as well as shap-ing and overseeing the nation’s social contract NSC
$10,000 to Save the Harbor / Save the Bay to train summer program staff to engage new audiences in humanities storytelling about Boston Harbor and its historical denizens
ENA
$8,000 to the Friends of the Public Garden to support the annual history day on Boston Common, in which more than 1,000 fifth grade students participate ENA
$10,000 to the Fletcher Maynard Academy for a program engaging 25 young black men from grades three through five in nominating the home of local hero Suzanne Revaleon
Green for inclusion on the African American Heritage Trail in Cam-bridge ENA
$10,000 to the Institute for New England Native American Studies to convene Native groups in Boston, Worcester, Cape Cod Islands and South Coast, and Amherst in round-table discussions envisioning a new social contract between the Com-monwealth and its Native peoples
NSC
Cape & Islands$10,000 to the Cape Cod Communi-ty Media Center for preproduction of Stephano: The True Story of Shake-speare’s Shipwreck, a film project that will trace the life of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins as part of the Center’s “Hit and Run History” series Media
$1,000 to the Sturgis Library for Shaking Two Nickels Together, a reading and discussion group centered around the theme of income inequality
$5,000 to the Provincetown Theater Foundation for multi-lingual playbill essays and study for local high schools and community college classes illuminating the relationship between the Provincetown Play-house’s famous founders and the Portuguese fishing community on the theater’s 100th anniversary ENA
MASS HUMANITIES66 Bridge StreetNorthampton, MA 01060tel (413) 584-8440 fax (413) 584-8454www.masshumanities.org
STAFF
David Tebaldi EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Pleun BouriciusDIRECTOR OF GRANTS & PROGRAMS
Carolyn CushingASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Deepika FernandesFISCAL OFFICER
David MorganCOMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
EDITOR OF MASS HUMANITIES
Anne RogersSYSTEMS MANAGER
Rose Sackey-MilliganPROGRAM OFFICER
John SierackiDIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
AND COMMUNICATIONS
Jeannemarie TobinDEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT
Melissa WheatonADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT AND
GRANTS ADMINISTRATOR
Hayley WoodSENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER
Mass Humanities promotes the use of history, literature, philosophy, and the other humanities disciplines to deepen our understanding of the issues of the day, strengthen our sense of common purpose, and enrich individual and com-munity life. We take the humanities out of the classroom and into the community.
Mass Humanities, a private, nonprofit, educational organization, receives fund-ing from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; and private sources.
Several of the grants fall under special categories:
Recent Grants
Six short multimedia pieces will be the focus for a discussion series about the lives of detained immigrants in Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement’s new work.
The Emily Dickinson House in Amherst hosted a retreat for literary house professionals.
Hidden Faces evinced the power of the humanities to change lives. Each of the participants was treated like a theater professional and the requirements were steep: regular hours, public engagements, contract negotiations, and so on. Many of the women were able to shape their personal histories and present them to their family members for the first time. “They could tell the story in a non-threatening way and their families could hear it as a whole,” as Mary says, and one such case reunited one of the women with her estranged family. She has now joined OWLL’s board of directors—one of two participants who did—and is an advocate specializing in mental health issues. She is working with Mary on using the creative process in programs for women reentering after incarceration.
By the time of the Fort Point production, the women were transformed. The social isolation they had felt was melted away by their connection and their work on the play. “At the
cast party,” Mary recalls, “there were Ph.D.s and people exit-ing prison, but put them in the living room together and all that breaks down.”
Now, the influence of Hidden Faces reaches from personal rela-tionships to the State House. After one performance, an audi-ence member approached the director and crew about engaging legislators with the play. Two senators and two representatives were receptive and the crew was invited to stage a production on the grand staircase in the State House on May 21st. It will be an unusual performance, Driscoll notes, since usually the content is either about the women’s pathways to prison or their reentry, but the offi-cials want a full production, agreeing and confirming that the theater is a route to understanding.
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ENA: Engaging New Audiences Media SIR: Scholarship-in-Residence grant NSC: Negotiating the Social Contract SMOG: Social Media Outreach grant
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FROM THE DIRECTOR
Class and the Classics
As one of America’s taboo subjects, class permeates our social contract discussions yet only periodically takes center stage. Perhaps that is because it is a thorny issue, one that we prefer to gently set aside and politely leave undisturbed. The national creed that we are created equal serves to occlude class difference—we flatter our-selves that we’re a classless society—but also invites us to inquire after the idea of equality and its lived expression.
Indeed, it is no accident that the 40th anniversary celebrations Mass Humanities staged in 2014 were titled “Created Equal.” The commemoration coincided with the launch of our new thematic initiative, “Negotiating the Social Contract,” which draws from John Winthrop’s project to unify sentiment in the Puritan colony and imbue it with social cohesion. Winthrop’s concerns about class were a driver in his thinking about the social contract, as we recognize in our theme statement:
To Winthrop, “some must be rich, some poor, some high and eminent in power and dignity; others mean and in submission.” They needed, he felt, to ensure the cohesion of the community by allowing those differences in fortune—the pursuit of individual families’ wealth—while also securing the consent of the poor by sharing this wealth as needed.
If these sentiments rankle readers today, we likely owe the frustration to the egalitarian impulse behind the phrase created equal. Our social contract includes commitments to equality of opportunity and access but not outcome. The Clemente Course in the Hu-manities is our effort to elaborate on that promise, as it provides access to the humanities and opens a pathway to success for individuals in economically distressed communities.
The Clemente Course is our most recognizable cross-class program; professors from Harvard and other selective colleges lead classes in Brockton, Dorchester, New Bedford, and Worcester, uniting in a common enterprise two socio-economic ends of the Common-wealth’s social spectrum. One often hears about learning to “code switch” in conversation with Clemente students, and the degree to which a student can adopt new social cues, dress, or language—the markers of class—is the degree to which they understand themselves as changed persons. Whereas discussions of Socrates , Kant, or John Stuart Mill were previ-ously beyond the pale for the students, now they are part of the ongoing conversation about matters of ultimate concern that we call “the humanities.”
The Inspire Campaign to endow the Fund for New Communities is a multi-year initiative we’ve undertaken to ensure that programs like the Clemente Course continue to reach new audiences. But it is not only recently that Mass Humanities has sought to fund programs that serve a broad class spectrum. We’ve worked for decades to ensure that the contributions the humanities make to our civic life are available to all, and that the lessons we glean from them continue to inform and enlighten us as we strive to shape a better future.
Early in our organization’s history, we accepted a mandate to serve all of Massachusetts based on the understanding that the humanities are not exclusively for scholars and university students. We recognize that the humanities inspire people of all class backgrounds—and that the programs we fund and sponsor are enhanced by the diversity of class perspectives participants bring to them. Our differences are important to understand, as are the commonalities we bring to this shared endeavor.
The Clemente CourseFour hundred seventy four students have now graduated from our Clemente program, which provides students from disadvantaged backgrounds with the opportunity to earn tuition-free college credit. Forty more students graduated in 2014. The first cohort enrolled in courses at the newly established Worcester site, our fourth in the state.
Family Adventures in Reading (FAIR)Over 250 children attended FAIR with their adult caretakers in 2014; nearly every region of the state was served. The program pairs world-class children’s literature with profes-sional storytellers. The results are increased library use, higher literacy, and character-building conversations between generations. FAIR took place in 12 libraries this year, including a pilot program for preteens.
Literature & MedicineEuripides, David Sedaris, and Audre Lorde were all read and discussed by medical professionals in Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care this year. These and other authors gave attendees the opportunity to reflect on their work through the power of litera-ture. Lit & Med reached a landmark in 2014, having served over 1,000 partici-pants since its inception in Massachu-setts, including 70 this year.
The Public HumanistThe writers who support our foray into the digital humanities continued to generate exceptional content and give voice to many aspects of Mass Humanities programming, grant making, and administration. Thirty-five thought-provoking articles reached our audience this year.
Massachusetts HistoryRepresentatives from over 90 orga-nizations were drawn to our annual conference, a celebrated event for state historians. Public readings of “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro” were hosted in nine sites as part of our Reading Frederick Douglass program. Our digital almanac of state milestones and curiosities, Mass Moments, reached 3,554 subscribers daily.
Program Updates
Annual Report
2014
MASS HUMANITIES66 Bridge StreetNorthampton, MA 01060tel (413) 584-8440 fax (413) 584-8454www.masshumanities.org
STAFF
David Tebaldi EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Pleun BouriciusDIRECTOR OF GRANTS & PROGRAMS
Carolyn CushingASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Deepika FernandesFISCAL OFFICER
David MorganCOMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
EDITOR OF MASS HUMANITIES
Anne RogersSYSTEMS MANAGER
Rose Sackey-MilliganPROGRAM OFFICER
John SierackiDIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
AND COMMUNICATIONS
Jeannemarie TobinDEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT
Melissa WheatonADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT AND
GRANTS ADMINISTRATOR
Hayley WoodSENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER
Mass Humanities promotes the use of history, literature, philosophy, and the other humanities disciplines to deepen our understanding of the issues of the day, strengthen our sense of common purpose, and enrich individual and com-munity life. We take the humanities out of the classroom and into the community.
Mass Humanities, a private, nonprofit, educational organization, receives fund-ing from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; and private sources. 3
2014 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CHAIR
Ben BirnbaumBOSTON COLLEGE
VICE CHAIR
Nancy NetzerBOSTON COLLEGE
TREASURER
James R. BurkeHINCKLEY, ALLEN & SNYDER LLP
CLERK
G. Perry WuSTAPLES, INC.
jessie little doe bairdWÙPAN‚AK LANGUAGE RECLAMATION PROJECT
Ellen BerkmanHARVARD UNIVERSITY
Kathryn BloomCOMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT
Lauren CohenRUDER FINN
Javier CorralesAMHERST COLLEGE
Elliot Bostwick DavisMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
Alfred GriggsNORTHAMPTON
Andrew Peter HeleneRBS CITIZENS, N.A.
Ronald B. HertelWELLS FARGO ADVISORS, LLC
Lindsey KiangCHESTNUT HILL
Leila W. KinneyMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Lucia Z. KnolesASSUMPTION COLLEGE
James LopesSOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF LAW
Jeffrey MusmanSEYFARTH SHAW, LLP
Robert PuraGREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Tom PutnamJOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Bianca SighNYSTROM BECKMAN & PARIS LLP
Lisa SimmonsMASSACHUSETTS OFFICE OF TRAVEL & TOURISM
John StaufferHARVARD UNIVERSITY
Kathleen StoneATTORNEY AT LAW
Ken VacovecVACOVEC, MAYOTTE & SINGER, LLP
Suzanne Frazier WilkinsEXECUTIVE COACH
Administration 16%
Grants and Programs 66%Fundraising 18%
Expenses: $1,414,558
The Inspire Campaign to establish the permanent Fund for New Communities and meet the NEH Challenge by July 2016
Pledges and payments as of April 2015
$250,000+National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant: up to $425,000To be matched by $1,275,000 from other sources
$100,000+John Burgess and
Nancy AdamsCommonwealth of
MassachusettsThe Paterson Historical
Fund
$25,000+Jean BeardJames and Laura BurkeRonald and Colleen
Hertel
$10,000+Anonymous (2)Lisa BaskinEllen Berkman and
David BryantDianne F. and
Paul DohertyAlfred and Sally GriggsCarolee HowellSusan and Drew LeffPolly and Charles
Longsworth
Jeffrey Musman and Lynne Spencer
John and Joan ReganWilliam SchawbelDavid and Peggy StarrJohn StaufferKenneth and Linda
VacovecKatherine and Phillip
VillersG. Perry Wu
$1,000+Ned and Elizabeth BaconSanford and Elizabeth
BeldenBen and Diane BirnbaumKathryn Bloom
Bruce Bullen and Maria Krokidas
John CarrollCitizens Bank
FoundationRichard and Wendy
CohenJill Ker ConwayJavier CorralesJohn and Marie DaceyAndrew HeleneLucile HicksLindsey Kiang and
Anne-Marie SoulliereLeila KinneyLucia and Thomas
KnolesCharles LidzJean MacCormack
Susan Mikula and Rachel Maddow
Cullen and Anna Marie Murphy
Michael Pappone and Diane Savitzky
Richard and Marcie Sclove
William and Laura SheaLisbeth TarlowDavid TebaldiCynthia TerwilligerDavid Weinstein
Up to $999Lawrence AmbsGlynda BenhamPleun BouriciusRuth Butler
Lauren and Ian CohenElliot Bostwick DavisJohn DineenAbaigeal DudaAlexa and Ranch
KimballJames LopesSonia and Angel NietoMarisa ParhamTom PutnamJohn Sigel and
Sally ReidBianca Sigh WardLisa SimmonsLauren SloatKathleen Stone and
Andrew GraingerSuzanne Frazier Wilkins
2014 FinancialsMASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES, INC. STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION OCTOBER 31, 2014
ASSETS
Current AssetsCash 1,095,487Grants receivable 93,405Other accounts receivable 15,440Prepaid expenses 36,732Pledges receivable - within one year 10,745
Total Current Assets $1,251,809
Capital Assets–At CostLeasehold improvements 32,032Equipment 11,430Computer software 7,910Vehicle 12,498 63,870Less - accumulated depreciation (50,533)
Total Capital Assets $13,337
Other AssetsInvestments 10,926 Cash – endowment – donor designated 1,215,505 – board designated 104,238Pledges receivable – within one year 86,708 – after one year 103,359
Total Other Assets $1,520,736
TOTAL ASSETS $2,785,882
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Current LiabilitiesRegrants payable 88,051Accounts payable 30,677Deferred revenue 50,000Accrued expenses 54,916
Total Current Liabilitiesand Total Liabilities $223,644
Net AssetsUnrestricted 654,335Unrestricted–board designated 104,238Temporarily restricted 409,700Permanently restricted 1,393,965
Total Net Assets $2,562,238
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $2,785,882
Revenue: $1,509,851Individuals 11%State 24%
Foundations 5%
Other organizations 3% Interest <1%
Corporations 2%
Federal 54%
CHANGES IN UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS (INCLUDING NET ASSETS RELEASED FROM RESTRICTIONS)
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Boston$9,707 to the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library to develop and implement a multi-lingual exhibit of census-based maps of Boston telling the story of recent immigration in the city ENA
$10,000 to Theatre Espresso to create multi-lingual playbills for the company’s Road to Tolerance cycle of five plays, to be presented to Bos-ton Public School students ENA
$10,000 to the Museum of African American History to create, run, and evaluate two four-day sum-mer institutes for 60 Boston-area teachers on the theme of women in African American history ENA
$4,900 to the American Islamic Congress to supply the Boston Muslim Film Festival with speakers, scholars, and publicity materials for its seventh annual presentation
$10,000 to the Pluralism Project for Religion Refocused, a partnership with upwards of ten faith-based groups of diverse traditions uniting to host five film-and-discussion events on civics and religion ENA
$3,970 to In Good Company for performances of The Golden Door, a new musical play on the im-migration history of Boston, and honoraria for a humanities scholar and panelists for post-performance talk-backs in three communities
$10,000 to the American Repertory Theater for The A.R.T. of Hu-man Rights, interactive seminars, theatrical productions and public conversations exploring art and hu-man rights CCCC
$1,500 to the Appalachian Moun-tain Club to scan and inventory 1,000 photographic prints of New Englanders enjoying the outdoors between 1930-1950 RIG
Berkshire$5,000 to the City of Pittsfield to research, design, and install Work + House an exhibit focused on work-ers’ housing in the city’s industrial past that began with the paper and textile mills
Cape & Islands$500 to the Sturgis Library for Odd Couples, a four-part reading and discussion group exploring the works of four pairs of authors who were known to have a complicated relationship with one another
Central$10,000 to the Worcester Historical Museum to mount an original play and a county-wide reenactment of the events of September, 1774, when the local British government was overthrown by weaponless militia-men CCCC
$1,500 to the Westminster Histori-cal Society to inventory negatives and photographs taken at Gar-dener’s Colony for the Insane during the 1950s and 1960s and reproduce them in print for researchers and online for the public RIG
$1,500 to Northborough Historical Society to inventory 12 boxes of ar-tifacts and records from the Proctor Comb and Button Manufacturing Company, a significant industry in the town from the mid-1800s into the early 1900s RIG
Connecticut Valley$5,000 to the Northampton Acad-emy of Music for the production of a new, original play, The Mildred Files about a scandal involving the Academy’s past interim director as part of a multi-year series of events and productions focused on women in the performing arts ENA
$10,000 to Straight Ahead Pictures for an online exhibit and curriculum using the story of Anne Sullivan (Helen Keller’s famous teacher and Agawam, MA, resident) to tell the story of disability rights and poverty advocacy CCCC
$5,000 to Old Deerfield Productions for the production of two perfor-mances of an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
$4,334 to the Sons & Daughters of Hawley to host the Sanford Tavern Archaeology Field Training Pro-gram, a summer camp for budding archaeologists from underserved area high schools ENA
$9,248 to the Committee for Northampton to bring 75 Com-monwealth Academy students to Sojourner Truth’s Florence abolition and slavery walking tour, which will be adapted with age-appropriate educational materials and online resources ENA
Metro-west Boston$5,000 to Gore Place Society to finalize improvements to their acces-sibility measures for sight-impaired visitors, including experiential interpretation, and for a workshop sharing the Society’s best practices
Northeast$5,000 to the Tsongas Industrial History Center at UMass Lowell to produce a short film about historical discrimination against the Irish in Lowell that will be incorporated into fourth grade curricula
Southeast$5,000 to the Hull Lifesaving Mu-seum to produce and install outdoor signage to help visitors interpret the history of the precarious entrance to Boston Harbor as viewed from Stony Beach in Hull
$10,000 to the Center for Inde-pendent Documentary to support the development of the film Seams, a poetic oral history of women’s experiences of the conflict between Britain and Ireland Media
$5,000 to the Fall River Histori-cal Society to document the oral histories of women textile industry workers and/or their descendants during the 1910-1940 period
$3,160 to the Foxborough Regional Charter School for a reading and discussion series for fathers and their five-to-nine year olds using picture books from the syllabus of the Mass Humanities Family Adven-tures in Reading program
$3,000 to the Community Econom-ic Development Center of Southeast Massachusetts to research recorded discussions with the local fishing community and prepare the materi-als for archival storage and public access SIR
Out of State$10,000 to the Community Media Productions Group for pre-pro-duction of a one hour television documentary on the untold story of women clerical workers organizing for pay equity, advancement, and recognition Media
$4,150 to Fractured Atlas for a residency to produce the local his-tory theatre piece Mill, Mountain, River: A Child’s Eye View of Olde Colraine alongside third and fourth graders in Colrain, MA
$25,000 to the Maysles Institute to produce the James Baldwin Trans-media Project, a series of events combining film, live performances, and conversations with community leaders and humanities scholars on Baldwin’s life, work, and message of equality P2
2014 Grants CCCC: Crisis, Community, and Civic Culture ENA: Engaging New Audiences RIG: Research Inventory grant
SIR: Scholarship-in-Residence grant P2: Public Squared grant Media
Several of the grants fall under special categories:
$10,000+John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library and Museum
$5,000+Gourmet CaterersNorthern Light
Productions
$2,500+New England Public
Radio, in honor of Jill Ker Conway
$1,000+Glynda BenhamEllen BerkmanWilliam Swanson, in
honor of Jill Ker Conway
$250+American Antiquar-
ian SocietyBen BirnbaumKen BurnsRuth ButlerJavier CorralesKevin CullenElliot B. DavisJoseph J. Ellis
Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades
Alfred GriggsThomas GroomeEdward M.
Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
George KruppMadelaine and
Roberto Marquez
Cullen MurphyMuseum of Fine Arts Michael PapponeG. Perry Wu
$100+Lauren CohenAndrew HeleneRonald HertelLindsey KiangLucia KnolesJames Lopes
Jeffrey MusmanThomas PutnamLisa Simmons
Up to $99jessie little doe bairdKathleen Banks
NutterJames BurkeMichelle CoughlinAlice DeLanaElizabeth
Duclos-Orsello
Kayla HavelesKathryn JacobLeila KinneyCliff McCarthyRebecca MlynarczykJenny O’NeillMichael PapponeRobert PuraBianca Sigh WardKathleen StoneKenneth Vacovec
In-KindDonations Fair market value
$20,000+McMullen Family
Foundation, in honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
$10,000+The George I. Alden
TrustAnita and Joshua
Bekenstein Charitable Gift Fund, in honor of Hubert E. Jones
Community Foundation of Southeastern MA
Hertel & Konish Wealth Management Group
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, in honor of Jill Ker Conway
The Lynch Foundation, in honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
Smith College, in honor of Jill Ker Conway
University of Massachu-setts Dartmouth
$5,000+Blue Cross Blue Shield
of MassachusettsBoston Private Bank
& Trust CompanyAdams-Burgess
Charitable Fund of Fidelity Charitable
Comcast CorporationJill Ker ConwayEastern Bank Charitable
FoundationFidelity InvestmentsJohn and Maureen
Harrington, in honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Lindsey Kiang and Anne-Marie Soulliere
Museum of Fine Arts- In honor of Malcolm Rogers
Staples Foundation for Learning
Gregory Torres and Elizabeth Patullo
Vacovec, Mayotte and Singer, LLP
Vila B. Webber 1985 Charitable Trust
Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, in honor of Hubert E. Jones
$2,500+AnonymousPaul and Edith Babson
FoundationElizabeth Bacon Trust,
in honor of Georgia Perkins Ashforth
Ellen Berkman and David Bryant
The Boisi Family Foundation, in honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
The Boston Foundation
Cooley Dickinson Health Care, in honor of Jill Ker Conway
Joseph Corcoran Family Charitable Foundation, in honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
John and Marie DaceyRonald and Colleen
HertelMuseum of Russian IconsJeffrey Musman and
Lynne SpencerMichael Pappone and
Diane SavitzkyPartners Healthcare
SystemUnited Way of North
Central MA, Inc., for Allen Rome
Seyfarth Shaw LLPUniversity of
Massachusetts Boston
$1,000+Karen Ansara, in honor
of Hubert E. JonesThe Susan A. and Donald
P. Babson Charitable Foundation
The Barrington Foundation, Inc.
Glynda Benham and Alan Karas
Ben and Diane BirnbaumKathryn R. Bloom
Charitable TrustBoston University
School of Social Work, in honor of Hubert E. Jones
David J. BromerJohn J. CarrollRhonda Cobham-SanderCommunity Foundation
Of Western Massachu-setts (FAIR grant)
Community Foundation Of Western Massachu-setts, in honor of Jill Ker Conway
Javier CorralesRichard K. Donahue,
in honor of Jill Ker Conway
Goizueta Family Charitable Gift Fund of Fidelity Charitable
Roberto S. GoizuetaAlfred and Sally GriggsAndrew HeleneHertel Family FundDarcy ImmermanLeila W. KinneyPolly and Charles
LongsworthJohn Maguire, in
honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
Thomas and Michelle McCarthy
Monica Sadler, in honor of Malcolm Rogers
Saint Michael’s CollegeKathleen Stone and
Andrew GraingerLisbeth Tarlow, in honor
of Malcolm RogersDavid TebaldiLaurel Thatcher UlrichFrank VirnelliG. Perry Wu and
Grace Kao
$250+Charles and Rita
Kappers Alesi Anonymous (3) jessie little doe bairdMr. and Ms. James
BarnhillPamela Berger, in
honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
Kathryn R. BloomMelissa BoisselleWayne and Jacqueline
Budd Fund of Fidelity Charitable
James R. BurkeRuth ButlerLisa CahillLauren and Ian CohenRichard and Wendy
CohenDaniel R. and Judith R.
CoquilletteC. Michael and Janet M.
Daley, in honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
Alice DeLanaSara DelanoPhoebe Dent Weil,
in honor of Jill Ker Conway
Elizabeth A. Duclos- Orsello, Ph.D. and Chase Duclos-Orsello, Ph.D.
Ellen Dunlap and Frank Armstrong
Harron EllensonJoseph J. Ellis and
Ellen WilkinsJulia FaberCecilia A. Farrell, in
honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
Margaret and Jeff FlaggNewell Flather, in honor
of Hubert E. JonesTerry FullerKathryn and David
GibsonGary GoshgarianGreenfield Community
CollegeDennis B. HaleLucile P. Hicks, in honor
of Malcolm RogersJohn E. HillJohn HornorAnne P. Jones, in
honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
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KnolesBrian J. KonishSusan and Drew LeffRoberto and Madelaine
MarquezRobert MeagherCullen MurphyNancy Netzer and
Robert SilbermanJohn J. Neuhauser,
in honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
Martin J. Newhouse and Nancy Scott
Sonia and Angel Nieto, in honor of David Tebaldi
Dr. John J. and Barbara O’Connell, in honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
Mark F. O’ConnorHarold PetersenRobert PuraGail T. RandallKathleen RawlinsRobert E. RileyLaura Roberts and
Ed BeloveStanley C. RosenbergSusan RothenbergElizabeth SanchezSant Family Realty TrustStanley F. and Kay L.
SchlozmanHarry A. SherrJohn SierackiBianca Sigh Ward and
John WardLisa SimmonsRon and Nancy SlateFrank SousaVincent and Mary Alice
Stanton, in honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
Bruce StevensKathie StevensPatrice TodiscoKenneth and Linda
VacovecRose-Marie Van
Otterloo, in honor of Malcolm Rogers
William M. and AlisonVareika
Mary Walsh and Daniel Hurley
James M. Weiss, in honor of J. Donald Monan, S.J.
Margaret A. Wiseman
$100+Michele AldrichLawrence AmbsAlbert AndersonPaula AndrewsAnonymous (2)Corinne BermonLeonard and Jane
BernsteinCarl CarlsenNicole B. CasperAndrew CohnWendy CovellCarolyn CushingMargaret DaleCarolyn DaviesMarian A. DesrosiersKatherine DomotoDavid L. EntinLuise ErdmannAllen W. FletcherJayne GordonCarol H. GreenStephen and Linda Grey-
ser FundSusan HaffCharlie Harak, in honor
of David TebaldiDavid J. HarrisKathleen HickeyDianne HoaglinFlorentine Films/Hott
Productions, Inc.Paul F. KellyPatricia KennedyAlexa and Ranch
Kimball FundMarie King
Gail L. KitchBarbara C. KohinBrian D. LapointeG. Ramsay and
Joan LiemAnn LisiPriscilla LittleJanice LitwinJames J. LopesAlbert MaloMichael ManzoBarbara MathewsRoger C. and Carol B.
McNeillEllen MesserRobert S. Molloy, in
honor of Perry WuCecily O. MorseLinda MorseJanet MouldingBill Nigreen/Kathleen
McDermott FundKristin and Barry
O’ConnellPeter S. O’ConnellNancy OrlandoSherry Penney Livingston,
in honor of Hubert E. Jones
Stuart PeterfreundGwendolyn
Quezaire-PresuttiJanice RahimiGail T. ReimerJames C. ReynoldsDolores RootLarry RosenbergJames Shorris, in memory
of Earl ShorrisEllen M. SmithDavid and Peggy StarrCynthia TerwilligerRuth ThomasianWilliam and Caroline
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honor of Jack ChengRobert ForrantWalter FrazeAlan GageDavid GlassbergPenina GlazerJocelyn GouldKarl HakkarainenElizabeth HarlowElna HeadbergNicolette HeaveyScarlett HoeyAlan HoffmanBrece HoneycuttRebecca IkeharaJuliet JacobsonJessica JohnsonMary Ann JohnsonJennifer KalmsJuliana KooJames LaughlinBruce LaurieWendy LementDeborah J. LeonardPaula LuptonKathleen MajorKaren ManzJudith MarshallMartha MayoKilmer McCullyDonna McDanielMary McDonaldAlfred McKeeMary Beth MeehanNancy MeehanJames D. MoranEva S. MoseleyGuy MusGrace G. NewcomerJames M. O’HareEllen Parker, in honor
of Catherine LugarKristin PattenLorna and Dale PetersonLori PriceThomas PutnamJonathan RaltonPatricia RaubNichols ReganChristine ReynoldsBarbara Robbins,
in memory of David Robbins
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2014 Contributors Unrestricted and temporarily restricted donations
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The 2015 Mass History Conference
Chew on This: Presenting the history of food in Massachusetts
Monday, June 1, 2015
9:00 AM – 4:30 PMHogan Campus Center, College of Holy Cross, Worcester
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CHAIR
Nancy NetzerBOSTON COLLEGE
VICE CHAIR
James BurkeHINCKLEY, ALLEN & SNYDER LLP
TREASURER
Jeffrey MusmanSEYFARTH SHAW, LLP
CLERK
Ellen BerkmanHARVARD UNIVERSITY
Glynda BenhamMEGAWAVE CORPORATION
Lauren CohenPURE COMMUNICATIONS
Javier CorralesAMHERST COLLEGE
Elliot Bostwick DavisMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
Alice DeLanaCAMBRIDGE
Elizabeth Duclos-OrselloSALEM STATE UNIVERSITY
Alfred GriggsNORTHAMPTON
Andrew HeleneRBS CITIZENS, N.A.
Ronald HertelWELLS FARGO ADVISORS, LLC
Lindsey KiangBROOKLINE
James LopesSOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL
OF LAW
Michael PapponeGOODWIN PROCTER LLP
Marisa ParhamAMHERST COLLEGE
Thomas PutnamJOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL
LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Bianca Sigh WardNYSTROM BECKMAN & PARIS, LLP
Lisa SimmonsMASSACHUSETTS OFFICE OF TRAVEL
AND TOURISM
Ronald SlatePOET AND LITERARY CRITIC
John StaufferHARVARD UNIVERSITY
Kathleen StoneATTORNEY AT LAW
Kenneth VacovecVACOVEC, MAYOTTE & SINGER LLP
G. Perry WuSTAPLES, INC.
Central$10,000 to the Grace Land Conservation Trust to support the development of an educational and informational program focusing on the economic and civic history of local agriculture by telling the stories of 6 farms in 6 towns in the region served by the Trust NSC
Connecticut Valley$4,695 to the Emily Dickinson Museum for a one-day confer-ence for staff members of New England’s literary house museums, entitled Creative Spaces: The Pres-ervation, Interpretation, and Future of Historic Literary Sites
$3,000 to the Hatfield Historical So-ciety to employ a scholar to evaluate and organize materials and develop a searchable, descriptive database of the Museum’s medical collection from the early 1900s SIR
$2,500 to the Four Rivers Charter Public School for 11th graders’ dramatic reading of the voices of selected human rights leaders in a theatrical performance of Voices From Beyond the Dark by Ariel Dorfman
$9,750 to The Literacy Project for memoir writing workshops for 75 adult basic education students in five western Massachusetts class-rooms ENA
$5,000 to Historic Northampton for an archaeological dig at the 1719 Parsons House, to which area third and fourth grade students and the public will be invited
$5,000 to the Massachusetts Inter-national Festival of the Arts for a conversation between jazz legend Archie Shepp and students from Sci-ence and Technology of Springfield and Holyoke High Schools on how social and political current events impact the direction of contempo-rary music
$5,000 to the Charlemont Federated Church for The Charlemont Forum, a series of summer lectures offered by scholars, legal experts, and city officials, with contributions from recent immigrants to the Common-wealth on the history of immigration in the U.S.
Metro-west Boston$3,500 to TC Squared Theatre Com-pany for performances of their play, The Great War Theatre Company: Messengers of Bitter Truth, at 6 Boston area high schools
$10,000 to the Filmmakers Collab-orative, in support of a social media campaign to launch a multimedia electronic book depicting the history of China’s One-Child Policy and the experiences of two adopted Chinese-American girls who visited their place of birth SMOG
Northeast$5,000 for the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Re-search at UMass Lowell to develop and implement an exhibit with pro-gramming focusing on Portuguese immigration to Lowell, beginning in the early twentieth century
$5,000 to Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell to support programs for girls 10 and older learning about the famous Lowell Mill Girls through history lessons, site visits, and walking-and-pho-tography tours ENA
$4,000 to Lawrence Community Works for the Reel Talk Film series, a three-part moderated film-and-discussion program with underserved Lawrence youth
Southeast$10,000 to the City of Brockton, Mayor’s Office of Community Engagement, for a community conversation on historic ap-proaches to social contract negotiation and achieving citizen rights and freedoms, and signage marking approaches to the subject by notable historical figures ENA
$5,000 to the Old Colony Historical Society to support an exhibit to focus on the Skinner department store in downtown Taunton at the turn of the twentieth century as part of the Society’s revitalized community engagement efforts ENA
Out of State$10,000 to Community Initia-tives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement to document the stories of detained immi-grants in six short audio/video pieces and to present those in four moderated community film-and-discussion programs
NSC
$10,000 to Insight Produc-tions for the development of a trailer and a written treatment for a documentary about the security measure in American public schools of arming teachers Media
Several of the grants fall under special categories:
ENA: Engaging New Audiences Media SIR: Scholarship-in-Residence grant NSC: Negotiating the Social Contract SMOG: Social Media Outreach grant
Continued from page 2Recent Grants
Join us to experi-ence food in Massachusetts public history this June at the 2015 Mass His-tory Conference at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. The conference has long been consid-ered the premiere networking and skill-sharing opportunity for histo-rians of our state culture. Through hands-on examples, workshops, food demonstrations, and more, at-tendees will explore questions about what we grow, what we eat, and what it all means.
Filmmaker Ian Cheney will pres-ent this year’s keynote address. The Northampton-based director is the creator of The Search for General Tso (2014) and King Corn (2007). He is also co-founder of Food Corps, a nationwide team of AmeriCorps leaders who bring nutrition educa-tion and healthy food to school kids. Ian spoke with the hosts of WAMC’s Ideas Matter, a radio program on the public humanities available at masshumanities.org.
Registration for the Mass History Conference is now open at our website: masshumanities.org
66 Bridge Street, Northampton, MA 01060
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Progress: More than $1 million has been given as of April 2015. The funds are being invested, with gains to be allocated toward the 2016 operating budget.
Massachusetts has an abundance of institutions that offer a wide variety of humanities programs, from our world-class colleges and universities to small historical societies and museums that stud the landscape. Even so, thousands of our fellow residents have limited access to them due to so-cial, economic, geographic, and other reasons.
We have made great progress in recent years to expand our programs, like the Clemente Course in the Humanities, and to strengthen our fundraising to benefit underserved com-munities. Through our annual fund and the Inspire Campaign, many have joined the ranks of our supporters, and our ongoing supporters have given even more. We are extremely grateful.
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“ Opportunities for rising up and the wisdom needed along the way—these are the essentials of civilization that Mass Humanities provides, and that I support as a donor.”
—Jill Ker ConwayAUTHOR, HUMANIST
FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT OF SMITH COLLEGE 1975-1985