Annual Report 2017 2017 Grants
Mass Humanities awarded 73 grants totaling $418,618 to 36 towns and cities across the Program Activity Commonwealth. Mass Moments The Mass Moments website received a major upgrade in 2017. After a year of technological tinkering, historical Southeast research, and design development, $3,000 to the Center for Independent Documentary a completely revamped website was in Walpole for the Boston premiere and community unveiled in October. Sleek, modern, and panel discussion of the filmBirth of a Movement: accessible, the new site makes it easy to The Battle over America’s First Blockbuster explore the Commonwealth’s history $15,000 to the Center For Independent through quotes, photographs, and Documentary in Walpole for the creation of a stories highlighting important events. teacher’s guide and three short films that tell Visit massmoments.org. the stories of Native child removal, forced assimilation, and more
Open & Honest $3,000 to the Center for Independent A major program that took place in 2017 was Open & Honest, Documentary in Walpole for a screening funded by a special grant from the NEH. It consisted of and discussion of the documentary film The Man in the Cowboy Hat statewide organized readings of civil rights speeches and other short writings followed by open conversation on race, rights and $7,500 to Centro Communitario de the lasting legacy of American slavery. The program culminated Trabajadores in New Bedford for a project in a screening and discussion of The Harvest, a documentary that will create the oral histories of forty Central American immigrant workers film about one Southern town’s experience with public school desegregation and how it compared with Boston’s, at the $7,500 to the Duxbury Rural and Historical Hibernian Hall in Roxbury. Society for transition of the Bradford House Museum to focus on the stories of the The Clemente Course daughters who inhabited the house Socioeconomic circumstances should not stand in the way of an education in the humanities. In 2017 our Clemente Course continued to help ensure that disadvantaged students receive tuition-free, college-accredited instruction. Seventy-two such Abolitionist reenactors and local civil students graduated from our five Clemente Course sites, each rights organizations paired up to read the earning six transferable college credits. abolitionist Independence Day speech by Frederick Douglass in Brockton. Reading Frederick Douglass Twelve events across the state attracted more than 1,700 local residents to Reading Frederick Douglass readings. The famous abolitionist’s words echo across centuries with a message of equality and racial justice. As usual, some readings were complemented by parades, facilitated discussions, Douglass reenactors, songs from church choirs, and musical and dance performances.
Family Adventures in Reading (FAIR) FAIR became part of our grants program in 2017. Three FAIR grants were awarded, to Lawrence, Sharon and Plainville, each featuring storytellers delivering scholar-chosen children’s literature to audiences of children and their caretakers. Attendees kept the books they read, which means they continued to build literacy skills even after the FAIR ended.
Literature & Medicine Like FAIR, Literature & Medicine became part of our grants program in 2017. Two six-month-long reading and discussion programs were supported, one in Springfield and one in Amherst, offering healthcare professionals the opportunity to reflect on and improve their work. $500 to the Frederick Douglass Neighborhood Association in Brockton for a public reading and moderated discussion of Douglass’s speech known as “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
$1,300 to the New Bedford Art Museum for a morning-long event with facilitated discussion on the uses of art for com- munication with people with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia
$3,100 to New Bedford Ballet $3,000 to the Sharon for a facilitated discussion and Public Library for live performance of Esther’s a six-session Family Journey for fifth graders Adventures in Reading series with storyteller $15,000 to the New Bedford Karen Chace Fishing Heritage Center for an exhibit and oral histories $3,500 to Zeiterion Africano Center led a monthly series of humanities discussions and documenting 20th century labor Theatre in New Bedford cultural programs aimed toward, practices and social and labor for a scholar-facilitated dis- and developed with, Waltham’s contract negotiations in the cussion and a live theatrical African immigrant community. local fishing industry production of Lois Lowry’s The Giver to area students $9,115 to New Bedford for Hip less familiar with theatre History NB, a local history and The Irish Language Society conducted an interpretation project that uses Northeast oral history project exploring the importance hip hop to engage area middle of the Irish language among Irish $2,000 to the Amesbury immigrants in the Boston area. school students Carriage Museum for the creation of a catalog of their $6,095 to Lawrence Community $500 to the New Bedford collection of carriages and Works for a youth-led commu- Historical Society for a sleighs facilitated reading of Douglass’s nity development project inves- tigating identities in Lawrence speech, “What to the Slave is $3,280 to the Boott Cotton through research, photography, $3,000 to Brandeis University the Fourth of July?” with Mills Museum in Lowell for and documentation for the facilitation of an art and poet Everett Hoagland the screening of a documentary architectural history program and discussion of the nature $500 to the New Lynn Coalition for residents and staff at retire- $2,150 to the Plainville Public and meaning of immigrant and for the seventh annual com- ment/assisted living facilities Library for a four-session Family refugee resiliency Adventures in Reading series munal reading of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” $15,000 to The Robbins House in partnership with a local $3,000 to The Community in Concord for the development bookstore Group in Lawrence for a six- of a multimedia, interactive session Family Adventures in Metrowest Boston educational program about $5,000 to the Rotch-Jones-Duff Reading series with storyteller $1,868 to the Bentley College civil rights from slavery to the House & Garden Museum in Nicolette Nordin Heavey Center for Business Ethics for a present day New Bedford to do research, three-session migration-themed historic documentation, and $500 to The Highlands discussion project for recent $2,000 to the Vine Lake interpretative writing about Coalition in Lynn for a Central American immigrants Preservation Trust in Medfield the house museum and its scholar-led discussion of civil in Waltham for the photographing and inhabitants rights, especially as reflected inventorying of 260 18th in American jazz $15,000 to Brandeis University century gravestones in $850 to Seaport Art Walk in for the creation and presenta- Medfield’s Vine Lake New Bedford for a discussion $5,000 to The House of Seven tion of a web-based exhibition Cemetery program on the history and Gables in Salem for an exhibi- on gender-based segregation in future of sustainable fisheries, tion, lecture series, and series the construction industry questions of ethical respon- of conversations related to the sibility, and the role of art in impact of labor, servitude, and prompting action slavery over four centuries Continued on next page
5 $2,000 to the University of $1,500 to the Greenfield Massachusetts Boston to Historical Society to inventory inventory the papers of Theresa- artifacts from three local India Young, noted fiber artist, businesses and explore educator, community organizer, connections between skilled and activist labor and buying power
Pioneer Valley $3,500 to Hatfield Historical $2,810 to Baystate Health Society for research on the Systems in Springfield for a society’s collection of business seven-month, ethics-based records, photos, and artifacts reading-and-discussion group from the local machine shop to for bedside care providers on the understand how it grew theme of patient-centered care and prospered
$1,800 to Baystate Health $6,000 to The Literacy Project MASS MoCA developed new public Systems for a six-session reading in Greenfield for memoir-writing humanities programs to complement an and discussion series for health workshops serving low-income exhibition by Taryn Smith, whose art professionals to support the and immigrant residents revolves around Russian culture and Russo-American relations. social and emotional aspects of patient care $15,000 to New England Public Radio for three sessions of a free $3,000 to Blues to Green in after-school program in journal- Huntington for a panel discus- ism, radio/web production, and On Equal Terms, a mixed-media sion on racial justice as it relates storytelling for high school installation previously funded by $2,000 to The History Project to the evolution of American students in Springfield and Mass Humanities, was reimagined in Boston for inventorying, pro- music at the Springfield Jazz Holyoke as a web-based exhibition about cessing, and digitizing the John gender-based segregation in the & Roots Festival construction industry. Quinn AIDS Memorial Books $7,500 to the Town of $1,935 to the Charlemont Williamsburg for the creation of $7,500 to the Irish Language Federated Church for a reading three wayside signs, a brochure, Society of Boston for an oral of Frederick Douglass’s speech, and a digital “story map” of the history project exploring the known as “What to the Slave is site of the 1874 Williamsburg importance of the Irish language the Fourth of July?” followed Reservoir Dam disaster among Irish immigrants in the by conversation and musical Greater Boston Boston area performance $3,000 to Traprock Peace Center in Greenfield for a one-day $15,000 to the Actors’ $7,500 to the Museum of public forum on the legacy and Shakespeare Project in $5,000 to Critical Connections African American History in contemporary relevance of Somerville for a series of in Longmeadow for a series of Boston for a series of events in Jane Addams public educational programs conversations exploring threats observance of the International for their upcoming all-female to civil rights and liberties of Day of Remembrance of the $2,275 to Silverthorne Theater production of Julius Caesar vulnerable communities, effective Slave Trade and Its Abolition responses, and how such threats Company in South Hadley for two performances and post- $15,000 to Documentary affect the country’s social fabric $3,485 to the Somerville performance scholar-facilitated Educational Resources for Museum for a series of five discussions of Jean Dany preproduction work on a film $15,000 to Double Edge Theatre discussion events on Somerville’s Joachim’s Ta Voix Poete documenting current efforts to in Ashfield for a project engaging economic history held in public revive the apparel industry in the public about the history of spaces, from bars to social ser- $2,410 to the Veterans the U.S., including textile mills the town meeting and identity vice nonprofits Education Project in Amherst for in MA formation through community readings and a weekend-long a six-month Literature & $450 to Union Capital Boston in Medicine series $7,500 to Documentary cultural fair Roxbury for a presentation by Educational Resources in an author and civil rights leader Watertown for the creation $1,500 to Greenfield on the civil rights themes of the of a curriculum to accompany Community College for a last fifty years and the challenges the documentary filmOur weekly reading-and-writing of today Mockingbird, exploring group for probationers, Harper Lee’s novel probation officers, and judges $3,500 to the Unitarian on the subject of reentering Universalist Urban Ministry $15,000 to The Ground Truth society from prison in Roxbury for a reading of Project in Boston for a series Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s of audio documentaries provok- Riverside Church speech and ing discussion on the value of a screening and discussion of immigrant music, culture, and the documentary Passage at The Ashfield Town Spectacle experiences for the social life engaged the public about the St. Augustine: The 1964 Black of the Commonwealth history of the town meeting and Lives Matter Movement That identity formation through Transformed America community readings and a weekend-long cultural fair.
6 “ Clemente is about the humanities, but also about building community.”
$7,500 to the Western $3,500 to Pow! Wow! Massachusetts Writing Project Worcester for a film screen- at UMass Amherst for a summer ing and discussion event on camp for middle-school students Worcester’s history and the and professional development role of public art in community workshops for Springfield development teachers on engaging with local history through narrative writing $1,670 to Preservation Worcester for day trips to Central historically important local urban landscapes with students $15,000 to Casa Cultural of the University Park Dominicana of Worcester for Campus school an original theatrical production about the Dominican Republic $15,000 to the Worcester Art and Dominican immigrants Museum for an exhibit of in the U.S. photographs left by a local photographer that capture $6,500 to Clark University for an issues of African-American after-school poetry program for migration, community mem- low-income, multilingual middle- Inside the Clemente Course bership, and race relations school students with a thematic focus on migration $9,900 to the Worcester The Mass Humanities Clemente Course demonstrates the Center for Crafts for an humanities’ capacity to change lives. Ideally, Clemente graduates $3,000 to Fitchburg State exhibit with enhanced University for six discussion participate in their communities with a newly-realized sense of their programming that explores events of the “Community Read” own potential, but the going is not always easy. What follows are the cultural mosaic of the program centered on Robert modern folk art of north- profiles of 2017 Dorchester Clemente Course students, written by Putnam’s Our Kids: The eastern Brazil Academic Director Jack Cheng. “Clemente is about the humani- American Dream in Crisis ties,” said Jack, “but also about building community. I tell the $2,812 to Worcester $500 to Future Focus Media students that finishing the course is an individual achievement to Interfaith for a public in Worcester for a scripted poetry reading and be proud of, but getting through the year is always a team effort.” mock trial and post-performance conversation with poet discussion at the annual Naomi Shihab Nye on communal reading of “What to Euness began class somewhat tentatively. As the year progressed, defining the place of the Slave is the Fourth of July?” she’s found her voice and is asking more questions and offering immigrants in the more opinions. On philosophy, describing an Aristotelian concept American idea $7,500 to the Museum of Russian of moderation as virtue: “I feel like I’ve been a good person, but now Icons in Clinton to revamp the I feel like I have a better idea about how to be a good person.” museum’s audio folklore tour
Continued on next page Lorene is an older woman who works at a local gym for women. Lorene is worried about her abilities and I’m nervous about losing her. Her classmate Barbara sees her at the gym and has been giving her encouragement.
Marilyn began this class in 2013 but did not finish. She has been through hard times since, alluding to custody battles and lost periods of time. Things are much more stable now. She works at Daily Table (a low-cost grocer in the neighborhood) and occasionally brings extra food to class to give to other students. She helped Euness get a job at Daily Table.
Edward is a smart, confident young man. He has a street name as a graffiti artist, and his own body is covered in tattoos. A photographer, he was an avid student in art history class. On the bus on the way to the MFA, Eddie showed me that he had changed the lock screen on his cell phone to a photo of one of Michelangelo’s unfinished slaves.
Barbara moved back to Boston to take care of her ailing mother. She is smart but has trouble writing and doubts herself. As the months have gone by, Barbara has taken a motherly role to some of the other students, calling people when they haven’t shown up to class, and offering Mitchelle, who needed crutches, a ride to school. On Dorchester: “I wanted to get out, but now I’m back and I love it. You people [the Clemente program] are investing in Dorchester, in the people here.”
6 7 Piti Theatre Company put Mass Humanities Cape & Islands funding to use to pro- $1,618 to Aquinnah Cultural duce an original theatre MASS HUMANITIES production based on the 66 Bridge Street Center for a series of three Northampton, MA 01060 discussions based on an exhibit story of Dexter Marsh, creator of the world’s tel (413) 584-8440 of Wampanoag history first dinosaur museum fax (413) 584-8454 in 1846 masshumanities.org
Berkshire STAFF $11,350 to the Berkshire Hills Regional School District for a David Tebaldi series of programs designed to EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [email protected] heighten awareness of racism and other injustices through Tim Binkert lectures, film, and music $1,750 to the Susan B. Anthony $10,000 to Kartemquin COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST [email protected] Birthplace Museum in Adams Educational Films in Chicago $3,000 to Edith Wharton for a five-part speaker series for pre-production of the Carolyn Cushing Restoration, Inc. in Lenox for addressing the history of one-hour documentary ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT a forum on the role of poetry reform in the U.S. and its Loyalty By Another Name [email protected] during times of cultural and relevance today Deepika Fernandes political crisis $15,000 to Teddy Bear Films in FISCAL OFFICER Out of State San Francisco for preproduction [email protected] $9,845 to Flying Cloud Institute $4,750 to Fractured Atlas of a film on the pharmaceutical in Great Barrington for an Abbye Meyer in New York for an original viability of psychedelic drugs educational program to accom- DIRECTOR OF GRANTS theatre production celebrating and the historical and cultural pany a re-mounting of WAM [email protected] Greenfield’s 19th-century history contexts influencing how society Theatre’s Emilie: The Marquise regulates drugs Anne Rogers du Chatelet Defends Her DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS Life Tonight [email protected] Rose Sackey-Milligan SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER [email protected]
John Sieracki DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS [email protected] True Stories: Jeannemarie Tobin The 2017 Massachusetts Governor’s Awards in the Humanities ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT [email protected]
On October 15, following the very successful Melissa Wheaton forum at the Boston Public Library on fake news GRANTS OFFICER HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., the internationally and the dangerous attempt to delegitimize main- [email protected] renowned Harvard University professor, stream media, Mass Humanities recognized three Mass Humanities promotes the use author or co-author of twenty-one books, and humanist leaders with the 2017 Massachusetts of history, literature, philosophy, and creator of seventeen documentary films; the other humanities disciplines to Governor’s Awards in the Humanities. The annual deepen our understanding of the issues ceremony celebrates those whose public actions, SACHA PFEIFFER, a member of the of the day, strengthen our sense of grounded in an appreciation of the humanities, Boston Globe Spotlight Team whose common purpose, and enrich individual have enhanced civic life in the Commonwealth. The and community life. We take the stories on the Catholic Church’s cover-up humanities out of the classroom and professional lives of each of the 2017 recipients has of clergy sex abuse won them the 2003 into the community. been dedicated to uncovering and explaining truth. Pulitzer Prize for Public Service; The awardees included: Mass Humanities, a private, nonprofit, educational organization, receives DAVID STARR, the longtime publish- funding from the National Endowment er and then president of the Spring- for the Humanities; the Massachusetts field Republican and the driving Cultural Council, a state agency; and private sources. force in turning Springfield from a decaying downtown to a vibrant inner city in the ‘80s and ‘90s. 2017 Contributors
Contributors who gave in honor of recipients of the 2017 Governor’s Awards in the Humanities noted as follows:
National Endowment for the DS – In honor of David Starr Humanities: $908,425 HLG – In honor of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Massachusetts Cultural Council: $526,533 Carroll Family Fund $25,000+ DePrisco Jewelers Anonymous Michael and Suzanne Eizenberg May and James Houghton, in honor 2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Samuel I. Newhouse Andrew Helene of Alice DeLana CHAIR Foundation DS Polly and Charles Longsworth Julian Houston, in memory of Edgar James Burke Mike and Judy Manzo Bellefontaine HINCKLEY, ALLEN & SNYDER LLP $10,000+ Thomas and Michelle McCarthy Frederick and Marjorie Hurst DS Anonymous Raymond James Peggy Kemp VICE CHAIR Ellen Berkman The George I. Alden Trust Gail Reimer Brendan Krebs, in honor of HARVARD UNIVERSITY Community Foundation of Allen Rome, through the United Way Ronald Hertel Western Massachusetts of North Central MA, Inc. Raymond Kwasnick TREASURER Alfred and Sally Griggs David Tebaldi Lawrence History Center Ronald Hertel Hertel & Konish Wealth Emma Teng Susan and Drew Leff WELLS FARGO ADVISORS, LLC Management Group Perry Wu and Grace Kao Crawford Lincoln DS
CLERK Lowell Institute Jean MacCormack Bianca Sigh Ward William and Lia Poorvu $250+ Martha and Jeffrey McLaughlin NYSTROM BECKMAN & PARIS, LLP University of Massachusetts John Abromson Family Philanthropic Robert Meagher and Elizabeth Neave Amherst Fund Medtronic Mehmed Ali Vila B. Webber 1985 Brad and Jane Albert DS Abbye Meyer UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Charitable Trust Mehmed Ali Alejandra Miranda-Naon and LOWELL Wells Fargo Foundation in Altschuller Family Charitable Lee Oestreicher Glynda Benham cooperation with Wells Fargo Gift Fund Dale and Robert Mnookin STERLING Advisors Lawrence Ambs John and Kristin Montgomery, Anonymous in honor of Ronald Hertel Lauren Cohen $5,000+ Samuel Bacon Eileen and Joe Mueller PURE COMMUNICATIONS Anonymous Glynda Benham and Alan Karass Jeffrey Musman and Lynne Spencer Elliot Bostwick Davis Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP Ellen Berkman and David Bryant David and Kaye Nash MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Hutchins Family Foundation HLG Ben and Diane Birnbaum Peter Nessen DS McCarter & English LLP Linda Black Nancy Netzer and Robert Silberman Alice DeLana Lawrence Bobo New England Museum Association CAMBRIDGE $2,500+ Anne and David Bromer, in honor Martin Newhouse and Nancy Scott Donna DePrisco AbbVie Inc. of Jeffrey Musman Newhouse DEPRISCO JEWELLERS Elizabeth and Edmund Bacon Brown Rudnick LLP John Olver DS Big Y Foods DS Ruth Butler Parham Drabinski Giving Fund Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello Blue Cross Blue Shield of Carhart Family Foundation, in James Pease SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY Massachusetts honor of Lauren Cohen Piedmont Foundation, in honor of William M. Fowler, Jr. James Burke and Laura Sperber Ralph T. Cheng Family Fund Ronald Hertel NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Community Foundation of Lauren and Ian Cohen Russell and Jennifer Peotter Western Massachusetts DS Wendy and Richard Cohen, in honor Michael Potaski Alfred Griggs John and Marie Dacey of Lauren Cohen Tom Putnam and Phyllis Wentworth NORTHAMPTON Eastern Bank Charitable Andrew Cohn and Marcia Leavitt Gail Randall Andrew Helene Foundation Javier Corrales Erik Rosenthal DS RBS CITIZENS, N.A. Ronald and Colleen Hertel Alice DeLana, in honor of David Grannum and Kathleen Sant MIT Global Studies and Languages Tebaldi Joanne Sattley HLG Frederick Hurst Michael Pappone and Diane Dianne Fuller Doherty, in memory of Louise Sawyer AN AFRICAN AMERICAN POINT Savitzky Paul Spence Doherty John Sieracki OF VIEW Jack and Joan Regan Elizabeth and Chase Duclos-Orsello Bianca Sigh Ward and John Ward Michael Pappone Seyfarth Shaw LLP Ellen Dunlap and Frank Armstrong Paul B. Slate 2001 Trust GOODWIN PROCTER LLP William and Laura Shea Tom and Louise Dunn The Rochelle Slate 2001 Trust Ron and Nancy Slate Robert Feldstein John Spooner DS Marisa Parham Staples Foundation for Learning Robert Forrant John Stauffer and Deborah AMHERST COLLEGE Jill and Scott Sullivan William Fowler, Jr. Cunningham Thomas Putnam David C. Weinstein Fund Sandy and Nancy Fraze DS Bruce and Terri Stevens NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS WGBH Educational Foundation Janee and Paul Friedmann DS Kathie Stevens ADMINISTRATION HLG, DS Mary and Terry Fuller, in honor of Kathleen Stone and Andrew Grainger Ronald Hertel Cynthia Terwilliger Hilda Ramirez $1,000+ Otis and Barbara Gates HLG Kenneth and Linda Vacovec WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY Anonymous Alice Goldsmith Vacovec, Mayotte and Singer, LLP Gail Reimer The Susan A. and Donald P. Babson Fran Goodwin DS Frank and Judy Virnelli BROOKLINE Charitable Foundation Ross Grant William Wallace Sylvia Bacon Bruce Grinnell Robert Walsh, in honor of Jeffrey Ronald Slate The Barrington Foundation, Inc. Stacey Harvey Musman POET AND LITERARY CRITIC The Marshall and Deborah Berkman Herring Charitable Trust, in honor of Peter Whalen and Janna Ugone Kathleen Stone Family Charitable Trust Jill Sullivan Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation ATTORNEY AT LAW Edmund Bertschinger, in honor of the Dudley and Georgene Herschbach Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Clemente Course John Hill Dorr LLP Jill Sullivan John Burgess and Nancy Adams Hopkinton Historical Society Roy Wilsker SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY Emma Teng MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 9 $100+ Gail Leftwich Kitch William Bailey Tona Hangen James O’Hare Charles Alesi and Rita Lexington Historical Society Valerie A. Balint Anne Harrison, in honor Old North Church & Kappers Alesi Ramsay and Joan Liem Hosea Baskin and Sarah of Martin Luther King, Historic Site Virginia Alexander Lincoln Town Hall Buttenwieser Jr. Family Services of Rachel Onuf Paula Andrews and George David Little Lynne Bassett Springfield Nancy Orlando Hinchey Janice Litwin and Alan John Bell Rita Hashem David Ostrander Anonymous (2) Wichlei Thomas Bennett Laura Haston Otis Hill Farm April Antonellis Suzanne and Gregory Maas Rebecca Berkowitz Adi Heller Sonia Pacheco Andrew Ashforth Amy Macdonald Corinne Bermon Karen Herbaugh Shuangming Pang Georgia and James Barnhill Jean Maguire Susan Bernardy Guy Hermann Marie Panik Barbara Beall Albert Malo Ellen Berry Jennifer Hickinbotham, in Ellen and Stephen Parker, Sharon Bernard Manchester Historical Janet Beyer honor of Lauren Cohen in memory of Leonard and Jane Bernstein Museum Loretta Blake Sally Hild Charlotte Paley Lawrence Blum Loring Mandel DS Pamela Bobay Curdina Hill Monica Pelayo Elissa Boisvert Susan Mareneck Pleun Bouricius Ann Himmelberger Meghan Petersen Kristin Boudreau John Mayer Lucy R. Boyle Fund William Hosley Elizabeth Poland Jess Camhi Richard Meadow Virginia Breen Richard Howe Nicholas Pollard Edward Carhart, in honor Ellen Messer Robert Briere James Igoe Stan Prager of Lauren Cohen Ronald Milauskas, in honor Lora Brody Rebecca Ikehara Princeton Historical Society Carl Carlsen of Ronald Hertel Ryan Bruce Asher Jackson Christine Proffitt Martha Chayet, in memory Rebecca Morin Taylor Bye Juliet Jacobson Jennifer Pustz of Neil Chayet Lisa and Merritt Mulman, Jack Cadwell Mary Ann Johnson John Putnam Adam Cohen in honor of Jill Sullivan Claire Carlson Carolyn Keating Michael Quinlin Nancy Cook Bill Nigreen/Kathleen Justyna Carlson Traci Kim Ashlynn Rickord Nancy Coolidge McDermott Fund Nicole Casper Sheila Kirschbaum Joanne Riley David Cooper and Adelaide Lawrence O’Brien Eunice Charles Laura Kitchings Rochester Historical MacMurray-Cooper, in Kristin and Barry Pauline Cheng Lauren Kosky-Stamm Commission memory of their parents O’Connell, in honor Suzan Ciaramicoli Sophie Krop Anne Rogers Paul F. & Denise E. of David Tebaldi Curtis Cleaves Kristin Lacroix Diane Rogers Coughlan Charitable Gift Susan Porter Elaine Clements Lori Lang Wendyl Ross Trust, a Donor Advised Hilda Ramirez Ann Clifford Wendy Lement Steven and Leslie Rotman Fund of The U.S. Kathleen Reilly Bruce Cohen Kenneth Marc Liss David Ruggles Center Charitable Gift Trust Dolores Root Charitable Dayl Cohen Lois Lovins, in honor of Donna Russo Wendy Covell Fund Marcia Cooper Ronald Hertel James Rutenbeck Elizabeth Coxe Gloria Rosal Pat Costello Edward Lund G A. Ryan Carolyn Davies Steven Rothstein Susan Crimmins Kaethe Maguire Robert Salerno Rose Doherty Neal Salisbury Carolyn Cushing Cynthia Malm Louise Sandberg Robert Donaldson and Dea Savitzky John S. Dacey Meredith Marcinkewicz Barbara Search Judy Ober, in honor of Ellen Smith Bob Damon Martha Matlaw Michele Sedor Barbara Donaldson Snoell Fund Karen Davis Margaret Mayhew Senior Family Fund Dorchester Historical Elizabeth Spelman Ian Delahanty Daniel McCormack Sarah Shoemaker Society Scott and Jane Stearns DS Charan Devereaux Kara McCormack Catherine Shortliffe Susan and Westy Egmont Mary Steele Jennifer DiPersio Ruth M. McCormick Candelaria SIlva-Collins The Fairbanks House Stephenson Family Fund Elizabeth Hall Dubrulle Roger and Carol McNeill Lynn Smith Museum Patricia Suhrcke Kate Edney Giordana Mecagni Lori Soloway Roseann Fitzgerald Third Colony LLC June Edwards Kate Melchior Deborah Sparrow Sheila Fitzpatrick Peter Torkildsen Wendy Englebardt Teri Melo, in memory of Wen Stephenson Linda and Stephen Greyser Margaret Traina Maribeth Eugene Sue Ann Vancho Matthew Stowell Dustin Griffin, in honor of The Trustees Angela Farias Gary S. Messinger Andrea Taupier Bruce Grinnell Alden and Virginia Vaughan Judy Farrar Marla Miller Bruce A. Taylor Annie Harris Anne Warner Peter Feinman Jonathan Mirin Earl Taylor David Harris and Janet Waters Farm Preservation, Ann Fields Denise Moehring Emily Thomas Walton Inc. Katina Fontes Anna Moir Debra Thomas-Britt Robert Harrison and Faith White Anne Forbes Jeffrey Monseau Will Twombly Marquis Jamison Jane Williams Joseph Ford, in honor of James Moran Uxbridge Free Public Bruce Herring, in honor of Window Woman of New Jack Cheng Ann Morgan Library Jill Sullivan England Susan Forgit Marnie Shure and Kevin Anne Valk Peter Hoffman, in honor of Margaret Wiseman Pamela Fox Morris Anthony Vaver Ronald Hertel Fruitlands Museums Linda Morse Donna Vinson The House of the Seven Up to $99 James Gardner, Jr. Eva Moseley John Warner Gables Settlement Lucy Allen Judith Garner Carolyn Mueller Melissa Wheaton Association Lee Ann Amend David Glassberg Kathleen Mulvaney John Whiting Susie Johnson, in honor of Amesbury Carriage Penina and Myron Glazer Stephen and Linda William Wilson Edward Carhart Museum Allison and Matthew Nathanson Elizabeth Wollman Kristin Jonash Anonymous (2) Godoff, in honor of Samantha Nelson Samantha Wood Jennifer Kalms Ellen Anstey Lauren Cohen Robert Nesson Ellen Zellner Linda and Bob Keefe Lori Austin Ilene Goldberg North Adams Historical Brita Zitin and Carolyn Kerry/Weinman Family Maud and Adrian Ayson Golden Ball Tavern Society, Inc. Gibney Charitable Trust Barbara Bacon, in honor of Museum North Andover Historical Alexa and Ranch Kimball David Tebaldi Kat Good-Schiff Society Fund Reginald Bacon Jayne Gordon North Brookfield Historical Meghan Bailey Karl Hakkarainen Society
10 2017 Financials
MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES, INC. STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION OCTOBER 31, 2017
ASSETS LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Current Assets Current Liabilities Cash 827,705 Regrants payable 192,851 Certificates of deposit 507,024 Accounts payable and accrued expenses 92,263 Grants receivable 266,125 Deferred revenue 2,280 Other accounts receivable - Prepaid expenses 20,332 Total Current Liabilities and Total Liabilities $287,394 Pledges receivable - within one year 150,150 Net Assets Total Current Assets $1,771,336 Unrestricted 871,930 Unrestricted–board designated 117,754 Capital Assets–At Cost Temporarily restricted 859,558 Leasehold improvements 32,032 Permanently restricted 1,769,303 Equipment 11,430 Computer software 7,910 Total Net Assets $3,618,545 Vehicle 12,498 63,870 Less – accumulated depreciation (62,857) TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $3,905,939
Total Capital Assets $1,013
Other Assets Investments 2,028,058 Cash – donor designated 101,311 Cash – board designated 4,221
Total Other Assets $2,133,590
TOTAL ASSETS $3,905,939
2017 GRANT DISTRIBUTION 73 grants totaling $418,618 in 36 MA towns and cities
CHANGES IN UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS (INCLUDING NET ASSETS RELEASED FROM RESTRICTIONS)
Federal 45% Foundations 6%
Corporations 3% State 26% Individuals 14% Revenue: $2,019,455
Other organizations 4% Other 2%
Fundraising 18% Grants and Programs 72% Expenses: $1,887,032
Administration 10%
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