Mass Humanities awards $1.2M in culture sector recovery grants
7/11/2023
by MassLive
NORTHAMPTON — Mass Humanities on Tuesday announced that 35 state groups organizations will receive $1.2 million in grants, the largest single disbursement in the agency’s history.
Mass Humanities is the commonwealth’s leading funder of humanities programs. The 2023 Staffing Recovery Grants will go to nonprofit organizations to sustain and expand the work hours of current employees or to hire new staff to help restore and grow programs across the state.
Awards ranged between $16,000 and $40,000 and were targeted at groups with budgets of $500,000 or less, and five or fewer full-time equivalent employees.
In the Connecticut River Valley, grant recipients included the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation of Hadley, $40,000; Local Access to Valley Arts (The LAVA Center) in Greenfield, $40,000; Nueva Esperanza of Holyoke, $40,000; the Cummington Cultural District, $24,960; and Klez Cummington, $16,000.