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CLINTON, MA - State Representative Harold P. Naughton, Jr. announced today that grants totaling $16,300 have been awarded to cultural organizations, schools, and communities in his district by the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC). These grants support a variety of cultural activities that benefit local residents. The announcement was made as part of a statewide funding program by the
MCC.
“The Massachusetts Cultural Council grants will be of great support to the arts, humanities, and sciences in my district and across the Commonwealth,” said Representative Naughton. “I am pleased to see the sufficient funding that has been approved and the significant impact it will have on our local cultural councils.”
Local recipients awarded grants include:
Boylston Cultural Council Cynthia DuVal, Chair
c/o Susan Boucher
556 Linden St.
Boylston, MA 01505
508/361-5026 |
$3,870 |
Clinton Cultural Council Patricia Ward, Chair
Town Hall, Selectmen's Office
242 Church Street
Clinton, MA 01510-1409
978/365-4120 |
$5,070 |
Lancaster Cultural Council Lauren Searcy, Chair
Attn: Kathleen Lamb
695 Main Street; Suite 1
Lancaster, MA 01523
978/365-3326 |
$3,870 |
Northborough Cultural Council Mitchell Gordon,
Chair
Town Hall
63 Main Street
Northborough, MA 01532
508/393-5040 |
$3,870 |
Northborough Cultural Council Mitchell Gordon, Chair
Town Hall
63 Main Street
Northborough, MA 01532
508/393-5040 |
$3,870 |
The grants were part of MCC’s $6.5 million statewide investment in the nonprofit cultural sector.
The agency announced grants statewide in the following programs:
-Cultural Investment Portfolio: $3.4 million
The Cultural Investment Portfolio comprises 382 nonprofit arts, humanities, and science
organizations across Massachusetts. These organizations connect children and adults to theatre, music, visual arts, and film; teach them about history, literature, and the natural environment; and introduce them to new languages and cultures. Cultural Investment Portfolio grants must be matched one to one, and range from $2,500 to $50,000.
-Local Cultural Council Program: $2.3 million
Local Cultural Councils (LCCs) comprise the most extensive public cultural funding network in the nation. They provide funding to every Massachusetts town and city through 329 local councils and more than 2,300 volunteers. The councils support local arts and history, fund school field trips, and sponsor local concerts and exhibitions. Grants to local councils range from $3,870 for the smallest towns to $74,270 for Worcester and $133,320 for Boston, according to a formula that reflects the state's local aid system.
-Creative Minds: Education in School and Out of School: $922,000
MCC works to ensure that all children have access to high-quality, creative learning experiences through grants, services, and advocacy for schools, communities, and nonprofit cultural organizations.
STARS Residencies place artists, scientists and other creative teachers in schools.
The Youth Reach Initiative makes grants to cultural and community-based organizations to support in-depth arts, humanities, and science programs for young people at risk.
Big Yellow School Bus is a partnership with the Bank of America Charitable Foundation that provides grants to help schools meet the transportation costs of educational field trips to cultural institutions in Massachusetts.
Poetry Out Loud is a national competition in which high school students memorize and perform poetry real poems and explore the dynamic aspects of slam poetry, spoken work, and theatre in their English and Drama classes.
-Partnerships: $380,000
The MCC will also provide annual grants to Mass Humanities, which supports public programs in history, literature, and other humanities disciplines to enhance and improve civic life in the Commonwealth; and the New England Foundation for the Arts for regional creative economy initiatives and programs for Massachusetts artists.
About the Massachusetts Cultural Council
The MCC is a state agency supporting the arts, sciences, and humanities, to improve the quality of life in Massachusetts and its communities. It pursues its mission through a combination of grants, services, and advocacy for nonprofit cultural organizations, schools, communities, and artists. MCC's total budget for the current fiscal year is $10 million, which includes annual grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and other sources. For more information, please visit
www.massculturalcouncil.org.
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