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Funding List - Fiscal Year 2012
Funding information for previous fiscal years is available from
MCC's Communications
Department.
826
Boston, Inc., Boston
Grant: $11,660
Project: Raising a Community of Writers in Roxbury's Egleston Square to expand existing Saturday teen programming by hiring authors and artists to offer weekly creative
writing workshops, resulting in a variety of high-quality publication projects ranging from graphic novels to podcasts.
Boston Neighborhood Network
Urban Edge
Center for Teen Empowerment
Rope-A-Dope Collaborative
Egleston Public Library
Actors'
Shakespeare Project, Cambridge
Grant: $10,000
Project: Incarcerated Youth at Play for youth in the care
of the Department of Youth Services and the Department of Social Services to develop social, pre-professional, literacy,
and artistic skills through Shakespeare.
Cathedral Church of St. Paul
The Theater Offensive
Germaine Lawrence School
MA Department of Youth Services
Unlocking the Light
Alternatives
for Community & Environment, Boston
Grant: $10,000
Project: Youth HEALS for a youth leadership program
that combines environmental education and youth development with community organizing. Youth HEALS will engage 30 - 50
urban youth in intensive after-school, hands-on environmental health learning.
T Riders Union
amplifyme,
Boston
Grant: $11,660
Project: Youth Media Institute to provide urban youth with
media arts education while creating quality prosocial media, healthy mentoring relationships, and opportunities for community
leadership and collaboration.
Fenway Community Health Center
Boston Public Health Commission
Emerson College Center for Diversity
Suffolk University
The Barr Foundation
Boston Globe Foundation, Inc.
Boston Neighborhood Network
New England Institute of Art
Artistic
Noise, Newton
Grant: $9,380
Project: Artistic Noise for girls in the juvenile justice
system to create, exhibit, and market autobiographical visual art, having their voices heard through a visual medium and
participating in a collaborative project with their peers and teachers.
Ghana ThinkTank
Wheelock College
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
MA Department of Youth Services
Spectrum Health Systems, Inc.
Artists
for Humanity, Inc., Boston
Grant: $10,000
Project: Arts Micro-enterprise for a paid
apprenticeship/leadership program that provides teens with hands-on
job training in the arts and enterprise under the mentorship of
professional artists. Public exhibition and sale of the young people's
artwork creates a forum for their voice.
Merida Meridian
Plymouth County District Attorney
Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Irish Immigration Center
Hunt Alternatives Fund
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Ballet
Rox, Boston
Grant: $10,000
Project: BalletRox Youth Program to provide in-depth arts
learning experiences to urban youth. Through dance instruction and performance opportunities, students develop focus,
confidence, and self-respect.
Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
Independent School
Bird Street Community Center
Boston Children's Chorus, Inc.
Project STEP, Inc.
Wheelock Family Theatre
JP/Rox
Barrington
Stage Company, Inc., Sheffield
Grant: $10,000
Project: Playwright Mentoring Project for an intensive,
six-month out-of-school theatre program for Berkshire County teens. Participants create a performance piece based on their
own stories in a safe and confidential environment and perform their work for the community.
Berkshire Juvenile Court
Counseling Center in the Berkshires
Lee Middle/High School
Berklee
College of Music, Boston
Grant: $10,000
Project: Berklee City Music-High School Academy (HSA)
for an intensive program for youth (grades 9-12) to develop musicianship by learning advanced skills, technique, and
composition.
Boston Arts Academy
Weston Public Schools METCO
Sociedad Latina
Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
Boston Latin Academy School
Boston Public Schools Arts
Roland Hayes Division of Music
Zumix, Inc.
Berklee College of Music
Write Boston
Bird
Street Community Center, Boston
Grant: $10,000
Project: Youth Arts Entrepreneurship for fashion design,
dance, and glass arts programs that connect middle school girls and boys with creativity and technical training alongside
small business development experience.
Diablo Glass School
Ballet Rox
Boston
Youth Symphony Orchestras, Inc., Boston
Grant: $9,380
Project: Intensive Community Program to provide rigorous
stringed instrument instruction to students (ages 6-18) who may not otherwise have access by providing the highest quality
ensemble training, private lessons, and use of an instrument.
Roxbury Community College
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Cambridge
Community Television, Inc., Cambridge
Grant: $10,000
Project: Youth Media Program for urban youth to develop
new skills and create media about themselves and their community in a safe and supportive environment.
Cambridge Educational Access
Cambridge Mayor's Youth Employment Prog.
Cambridge Community Services
Cambridge Housing Authority's Work Force
Central
Square Theater, Cambridge
Grant: $10,000
Project: Youth Underground Resident Teen Ensemble to
provide stipended opportunities for youth to create theater performances and community dialogues in partnership with
community-based organizations.
The Theater Offensive
The Community Art Center, Inc.
City
Stage Co., Inc., Boston
Grant: $10,000
Project: City Youth on Stage for a three-part program
(Teen Stages, Teen Assistants, and Stage Door Touring Troupe) for teens to develop acting, performing, and teaching skills
and then deliver public performances that reach 1,000 children annually.
The Children's Museum, Boston
Shakespeare & Company
ImprovBoston
Boston University School of Theater
Bowdoin College
Blackstone Community Center
Community
Adolescent Resource/Educ. Ctr., Holyoke
Grant: $11,660
Project: Paper City Poetry Project for instruction, poetry
anthology production, and public readings for pregnant and parenting teens designed to increase their awareness and love of
poetry; to inspire them to express themselves through poetry; and to present contemporary poetry to the public.
The Poetry Center at Smith College
Odyssey Bookshop Inc.
The
Community Art Center, Inc., Cambridge
Grant: $7,500
Project: Teen Media Program for teens to explore the
issues in their lives and seek to create positive change through media production as well as through the management of a
national festival for youth-produced films and videos.
MIT Office of Sponsored Programs
Underground Railway Theater
Community
Music School of Springfield, Springfield
Grant: $7,500
Project: Renaissance for a hip hop program for
court-involved boys and girls--remanded to DYS and determined to need secure residential treatment--that builds on
engagement and a sense of artistic competence.
Robert F Kennedy Children's Action Corps
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Environmental
Learning and Action Center, Boston
Grant: $7,500
Project: Teen Green Team (TGT) -- Mattapan for youth to
learn leadership, team-building, and science skills as they plan and execute community green projects.
Charles H. Taylor School
Gallivan Community Center
Express
Yourself, Inc., Beverly
Grant: $7,500
Project: Express Yourself! to support community youth
and young people from the Department of Mental Health to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary, culturally diverse arts program
that brings 17 isolated communities together to perform at the Citi Wang Theater.
Massachusetts Dept. of Mental Health
Montserrat College of Art, Inc.
Citi Performing Arts Center
Endicott College
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Gloucester
Maritime Heritage Center, Gloucester
Grant: $10,000
Project: Compass Science Instruction Initiative to provide
hands-on physical and life science experiences for 16-19 year old high school drop outs. Students become adept at utilizing
an inquiry-based approach to problem-solving as they earn science credits toward a high school diploma or equivalent.
Action, Inc.
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Hyde
Square Task Force, Inc., Boston
Grant: $10,000
Project: Ritmo en Acción to support an Afro-Latin and
contemporary dance troupe that builds the skills of youth while giving them the opportunity for self-expression and cultural
celebration.
The Theater Offensive
HYM LLC
RAW Art Works
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Inquilinos
Boricuas en Acción, Boston
Grant: $10,000
Project: IBA-Cacique Youth Learning Center for a holistic
arts education and youth development program that meets a range of 21st Century skills while fostering the development of
youth into creative, self-confident community leaders.
Youth Opportunities Program
UMASS Extension 4-H Youth & Family Dev.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Boston Center for the Arts, Inc.
Boston Youth Fund
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston Private Industry Council
Latin American Health Institute
The
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Grant: $11,660
Project: ICA/Fast Forward to support a year-long
afterschool film program in which 24 teens learn professional media skills to create fiction and documentary videos that
reflect the world around them.
Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
RAW Art Works
RYMAEC
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Massachusetts
Audubon Society, Lincoln
Grant: $10,000
Project: Stewardship Through Leadership to provide
year-round, out-of-school opportunities for Lowell youth to take part in the scientific study of local habitats, participate in
stewardship projects, and develop leadership skills.
Lowell National Historical Park
Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust, Inc.
Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell
Community Teamwork, Inc.
Sullivan Middle School
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Partners
for Youth With Disabilities, Boston
Grant: $10,000
Project: Access to Theatre for accessible afterschool and
summer performing arts programs, workshops, special events, classes, and leadership opportunities for approximately 50-60
youth with and without disabilities.
VSA Arts of Massachusetts, Inc.
Until Tomorrow Productions
Boston Center for the Arts, Inc.
The
Performance Project, Inc., Northampton
Grant: $10,000
Project: First Generation for an intensive, arts-based
youth leadership program that engages at-risk and refugee youth in research, reflection, artistic training, and dialogue that
encourages youth to have a public voice in their communities.
Springfield Adolescent Health Project
Rebecca M. Johnson School
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Springfield Department of Youth Services
Dragon's Den School of Martial Arts
Provincetown
Art Association and Museum, Provincetown
Grant: $9,380
Project: Art Reach for a 28-week arts program for area
teens. Participants will utilize creative strengths and critical thinking; participate in creative processes; determine individual
ambitions; and develop community connections.
Provincetown Police Department
Nauset Regional High School
Cape Cod National Seashore
Provincetown High School
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RAW
Art Works, Lynn
Grant: $10,000
Project: RAW Chiefs and Project Launch to help teens at
the critical juncture between youth and adulthood to envision and create positive futures. RAW Chiefs mentor younger artists
at RAW; Project Launch provides teens with one-to-one mentoring for college access.
Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
Zumix, Inc.
The Theater Offensive
North Shore Community College
Medicine Wheel Productions, Inc.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
The
Revolving Museum, Inc., Lowell
Grant: $11,660
Project: Artbotics for a collaborative program between
The Revolving Museum and UMass Lowell targeted at Lowell teens which utilizes project-based learning through a curriculum
that combines computer science, engineering, and visual design.
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Middlesex Community College Lowell
Lowell High School
UMASS Lowell Center for Work, Family
Roca,
Inc., Chelsea
Grant: $10,000
Project: Essencia Latina to showcase the
artistic talents of youth through dance and community-building,
transforming their lives away from high-risk behaviors and toward
cultural inclusion, self-respect, physical health, and emotional
well-being.
Phunk Phenomenon Dance Company
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Seeds
of Solidarity Education Center, Orange
Grant: $9,060
Project: SOL (Seeds of Leadership) Garden-- Youth Cultivating a Hopeful
Future to inspire leadership among North Quabbin youth as they use their bodies, minds, and hearts to
cultivate food and a hopeful future. Low-income youth develop skills and efficacy, transforming personally and invigorating
their community.
Athol-Royalston Regional Schools
Ralph C. Mahar Regional High School
Shakespeare
& Company, Lenox
Grant: $7,500
Project: Shakespeare in the Courts to support, as an
alternative to sentencing, court-involved youth to understand their own feelings, respect themselves and others, collaborate,
keep commitments, and develop self-confidence through the rehearsal and performance of a Shakespeare play.
Berkshire Juvenile Court
Sociedad
Latina, Boston
Grant: $7,500
Project: Music Clubhouse for music education, instrument
lessons, and career exploration for urban youth ages 8-21 in Roxbury and Mission Hill. Youth develop musical skills and
talents, explore different cultures, and learn new methods of self-expression.
Berklee College of Music
Maurice J. Tobin Arts Magnet School
Mission Hill School
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Roxbury Tenants of Harvard
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary
Tobin Community Center
Music and Youth Initiative
Somerville
Arts Council, Somerville
Grant: $7,500
Project: Books of Hope to support youth to find
recognition, artistic achievement and self-expression through writing as a way to turn youth into the authors of their own lives
as well as their own books.
Mystic Learning Center, Inc.
Somerville Housing Authority
Center for Teen Empowerment
South
End Technology Center @ Tent City, Boston
Grant: $10,000
Project: Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn to generate a
critical mass of Boston youth fundamentally engaged with emerging technology and science whose accomplishments
catalyze cultural change in the community.
Franklin Park Tenants Association
MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten
Roslindale Community Centers
Center for Bits and Atoms
Timothy Smith Network
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Teen Voices, Boston
Grant: $11,660
Project: SHOUT! and Boston Girls Writing Community for
a journalisim mentoring and leadership program for teen girls that results in the publication of Teen Voices magazine, which
has a readership of 45,000.
Freelance Players, Inc.
Boston Public Schools
Boston Public Health Commission
Society of Women Engineers at MIT
The
Theater Offensive, Cambridge
Grant: $10,000
Project: True Colors Out Youth Theater for an educational theater program that provides arts instruction and leadership training to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth
and their straight allies, ages 14-22.
RAW Art Works
Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
Boston Glass
Actors' Shakespeare Project
Underground Railway Theater
BAGLY, Inc.
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UrbanArts
Institute at MA College of Art, Boston
Grant: $11,660
Project: The URBANO Project for a collaborative program
that empowers urban teens, professional artists, and community members to effect social change through the exhibition and
performance of new works of art.
The Institute of Contemporary Art
Violence Transformed
Centre Pompidou
TransCultural Exchange, Inc.
Boston Cyberarts, Inc.
Ballet Rox
Artists in Context
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Worcester
Youth Center, Worcester
Grant: $11,660
Project: Seeing Ourselves Successful for a program for
urban youth to learn about community engagement and to work for social change; to connect and experience in-depth training
by professional artists and translate their community beliefs into public presentations.
Worcester Public Library
Worcester Art Museum
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Youth
Action Coalition, Inc., Amherst
Grant: $7,500
Project: Video Vanguards to work with youth of color and
allies fusing media arts with social justice education and community engagement. Youth develop a deeper sense of identity,
skills in media arts, and engagement in their community.
Capacidad Summer Program
Academic Computing
Free Press
Hampshire College Film/Photography Dept.
The Media Education Foundation
Amherst Community Television, Inc.
Food for Thoughts Books
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Zoo
New England, Boston
Grant: $9,380
Project: ZooTeens to provide youth with life and
professional skill development and opportunities to realize their full potential through science education and environmental awareness.
Boston Youth Fund
Franklin Park Coalition
Zumix,
Inc., Boston
Grant: $10,000
Project: HANDS-ON Youth Development Program to
support personal guidance, self-assessment, and leadership development in urban youth through focus on four distinct
areas: songwriting and performance, instrumental music, creative technology, and radio.
Excel Academy Charter School
Berklee College of Music
New England Institute of Art
Curtis Guild School
Total: $419,860
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