Expand Massachusetts Stories grants support projects that collect, interpret and/or share narratives about the commonwealth, with an emphasis on the voices and experiences that have gone unrecognized, or have been excluded from public conversation.
Donor Name: Mass Humanities
State: Massachusetts
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/11/2022
Size of the Grant: $20,000
Details:
Funding Information
Applicants can request up to $20,000 in project funds.
Eligible Projects
Expand Massachusetts Stories Grants can fund a project at either the planning or implementation stage.
To be eligible, proposed projects need to:
- Have the goal of making narratives of Massachusetts accessible to Massachusetts residents at minimal cost to participants.
- Have a clear objective and completion date.
- Use the tools of the humanities—inquiry, contextualization, and/or reflection.
- Be supported by a humanities advisor.
- Primarily serve audiences outside of 4-year college faculty and students.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicant organizations must:
- Be a 501(c)(3) non-profit, fiscally-sponsored association or filmmaker, state or federally recognized tribe, or non-federal government organization.
- Serve Massachusetts residents.
- Be in compliance with state and federal regulations which bar discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and which require accessibility for persons with disabilities.
Fiscally sponsored applicants: Ad-hoc groups, filmmakers, and non-profit organizations without 501(c)(3) status must find an eligible 501(c)(3) organization to be their fiscal sponsor. Fiscal sponsors manage the grant funds and are identified in the application. They must also provide a signed fiscal sponsor agreement for upload in the online application.
For more information, visit Expand Massachusetts Stories Grants.
