$1 million more directed to boost local arts and culture
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts, Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Essex County Community Foundation, Greater Worcester Community Foundation
$1 million more directed to boost local arts and culture .... Over two years, Creative Commonwealth grants have focused on funding public art ... and when thoughtful and innovative, can bring...more

Essex County Community Foundation announces investment details
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Essex County Community Foundation
Essex County Community Foundation announced the details of a new $1.3 million investment in arts, culture and the creative ecosystem in...more

Peabody's children's museum push steals show at arts summit
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Essex County Community Foundation
The arts and culture summit at The Cabot celebrated the end of the first phase of the Essex County Community Foundation's Creative County...more

ECCF to announce $1.3M in grants to bolster region's arts and culture
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Essex County Community Foundation
... culture scene on the North Shore and injecting $1 million this time into a Creative County Initiative with The Essex County Community...more

MassDevelopment to create arts-based programming for Gateway Cities with $500k Barr ...
Foundation: Barr Foundation
MassDevelopment Tuesday announced new arts-based programming it will create through the agency's Transformative Development Initiative,...more

MassDevelopment to pilot arts development program in New Bedford; announces TDI grants ...
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts
MassDevelopment to pilot arts development program in New Bedford; .... a competitive grant program for art and other creative industry projects...more

Greater Worcester Community Foundation accepting applications for creative spark mini-grant ...
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Greater Worcester Community Foundation
The mini-grant program is one element of GWCF's Creative Worcester ... conditions that prepares local young children for success in school and...more

Borealis Philanthropy Awards $1.5 Million to Advance Racial Equity
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies
Borealis Philanthropy, a Minneapolis-based philanthropic intermediary, has announced grants totaling $1.5 million to seventeen...more

Soaring on the High C's: #NBCreative Courts, Commonwealth & Consortium converge for an ...
Foundation: Barr Foundation, Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts
By now, most readers will have seen in this newspaper or in person the massive outdoor art installation “Silver Current” in downtown's Custom...more

Brockton gets grant to design school for nontraditional students
Foundation: Barr Foundation
The one-year planning grant comes from the Barr Foundation in Boston, and was one of four grants awarded in June to create programs “for...more