– Out Now
We are excited to share with you our 2024 grant recipients.
Nolumbeka Project (Greenfield) to support the 11th Annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival and especially the work of the Youth Ambassadors.
Brew & Forge (Greenfield)
to sponsor two BIPOC fellows for the Witches & Warriors Retreat to further creative activism. Amplifying the collective power of writers and other artists to build capacity in movements for liberation, justice and survival.
Out Now (Springfield) to support of their work, especially for Queer Teens of Western MA and the Students Speak Project.
Piti Theatre (Shelburne Falls) to support their Valley Playwright Mentoring program for teenagers.
Amandla (Greenfield) to support a benefit concert for formerly incarcerated people.
Resilient Community Arts (Easthampton) to support its free art programming, Meals and Making: Creative Exploration at Open Pantry.
MNF Fall 2024 Grantees
The Compost Cooperative (Greenfield) to implement transformative justice solutions to foster equality and recovery from the damaging prison system. Racial Justice Rising (Greenfield) to support their Empowering Communities program.
Demilitarize Western Mass (Florence)
to support their ongoing peace building efforts.
The Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership (Springfield)
to support their classes their classes that teach movement building and organizing skills to address challenges that oppressed communities face.
Local Access to Valley Arts – LAVA, (Greenfield)
to support an event, “Songs of Resistance, Survival and Hope” (working title) that will feature a variety of local groups.
Eggtooth Productions (Greenfield) that will offer production of “Orlando” by Sarah Ruhl that will be a benefit for the LGBTQIA+ Youth Program at the Academy of Music in Northampton.
Emergency Grant
for vigil to honor the life of Sonya Massey (Springfield)
