The Shoestring (Fall 2022 Grantee)

“The Shoestring was founded in 2017 and grew out of the need identified by our early writers and editors for accessible, fair, and accurate journalism in Western Massachusetts, unbeholden to advertisers and unafraid of offering a critique of the powerful in our...

Connecticut River Defenders (Fall 2022 Grantee)

“Connecticut River Defenders is a nascent and informal group (“formalized” in 2022) of seasoned social justice activists from Franklin, Hampshire, and Hamden Counties. We came together as individuals over the past two years to bring attention to the urgent...

LAVA (Local Access to Valley Arts, Fall 2022)

“The Markham-Nathan Fund for Social grant will support the forthcoming project IndiVISIBLE: Celebrating Indispensable Agricultural Workers, Making Their Stories and Presence Visible “Franklin County, in western Massachusetts, is the most rural area of the...

Voices from Inside (Fall 2022)

“Voices from Inside is a non-profit organization based in Western Massachusetts. Founded in 1999, Voices From Inside provides writing groups with and for incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, as well as women in recovery. Voices From Inside workshops...