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American Modernism and Native American Art Advisory MeetingAmerican Federation of Arts$1500The American Federation of Arts plans to convene a meeting of scholars to assist the AFA in planning a major exhibition that will explore the relationship between Native American art and culture and twentieth-century modernism.ManhattanNYC
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Griffin's Tavern Informational BrochureEast Fishkill Historical Society$1000East Fishkill Historical Society, in partnership with the Hudson River Valley Institute, proposes the establishment of a Summer internship whereby a Marist College student researches and prepares an informational brochure about the historical significance of the Griffin’s Tavern site and the current preservation interest.Hopewell JunctionMid-Hudson
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Education Program Development for the Nicoll Grist Mill and Connetquot PreserveFriends of Connetquot$1500The Friends of Connetquot have restored the Nicoll Grist Mill to be a museum dedicated to increasing the public’s understanding of Long Island history. Their Vision Grant will be used to develop educational programs and materials for the Mill museum.OakdaleLong Island
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Troy Council for the HumanitiesTroy Boys & Girls Club$1500Troy Boys & Girls Club is looking to bring together institutions and leaders within the community to discuss strategies and venues in which we can start an effective humanities program at our Club, and build an endowment to fund its operations.TroyCapital Region
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Rochester Area Suffrage Centennial Alliance (RASCA)Friends & Foundation of the Rochester Public Library$1500Convening to bring local community partners together to plan, implement, and promote public programs and events commemorating the 2017 centennial anniversary and engage the Greater Rochester community in conversations about the history of the women's suffrage movement, its local impact, and its legacy.RochesterFinger Lakes
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Fast, Cool, Convenient: The Toxic Costs of New York LifeMuseum of the City of New York$5,000A series of three public lectures presented in partnership with the New York Academy of Medicine on the environmental and health costs of maintaining the preferred city lifestyle and we seek to cultivate a conversation between our diverse audiences.New York CityNew York City
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Discovering Ontario County — Stories from the Women's Suffrage MovementOntario County Historical Society$1500The purpose of this Vision Grant project is to create a dialogue between historical agencies in Ontario County to gather and discuss our community's stories about the Women's Suffrage Movement.CanandaiguaFinger Lakes
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The Women of Bedford Hills Correctional FacilityWorld Sound Foundation$1475This vision grant is to research and design a community engagement project about the women incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester, New York.Stone RidgeMid-Hudson
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African American Heritage on Long Island Travel PackageLong Island Arts Alliance$1500Support to brainstorm, research, and design a travel package to explore the African American heritage and Underground Railroad sites on Long Island.BrookvilleLong Island
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New York Humanities Girls Debate InvitationalNew York City Urban Debate League$1500Planning for a project to study, research, discuss, and debate a humanities topic relating to young women and culminating with a day-long debate tournament and workshop open to the public and targeting young women especially from underserved communities.BronxNYC
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The 'Why' Behind the WorkUniversity Settlement, New York$1500Planning to create a story project exploring the idea of work in the context of the Settlement House Movement, illuminating the agency's milestones as a testament to the humanity, generosity, and work it takes to achieve it.New York CityNYC
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Women WarriorsBuffalo & Erie County Naval & Military Park, Buffalo$1500Planning for a series of at least six unique presentations, plus a related exhibit and webpage of new ideas and information not commonly taught in schools or given widespread attention focusing on women in the military.BuffaloWestern NY
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Putting on the Ritz — the Roaring Twenties HotelHistoric Saranac Lake, Saranac Lake$1500Historic Saranac Lake proposes an exhibition exploring the cultural history of the 1920s through the context of a hotel of the era.Saranac LakeNorth Country
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The 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum: Its History, People and Legacies1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum$5000A series of events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the 1816 Meetinghouse that recall its history and that link its legacy to current social and moral issues of today.FarmingtonFinger Lakes
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225th Anniversary Lecture SeriesAlbany Institute of History & Art$5000To celebrate our 225th anniversary, and help our audiences gain a greater understanding of the early Republic, we will offer a program series in the fall of ‘16 that will explore American arts and culture at the end of the 18th century.AlbanyCapital Region
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Wrestling JerusalemCenter for the Arts at Ithaca, Inc. d.b.a. Hangar Theatre$5000Hangar Theatre presents WRESTLING JERUSALEM, following one man's journey to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Every performance will be followed by a facilitated post-show discussion.IthacaSouthern Tier
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The riverrun Global Film SeriesDepartment of English, University at Buffalo$5000The Global Film Series aspires to create a dialogue between local community and institutions of higher education in Buffalo through a selection of films that provide a better understanding of our present existence in the globalized networked world.BuffaloWestern NY
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Proust’s Muse SymposiumThe Museum at FIT$5000The Proust’s Muse Symposium explores the connections between fashion, the humanities, and the arts in turn-of-the-century France. Speakers will discuss fashion in a cultural and educational context.New York CityNYC
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A Grand Hotel: Check in to the Roaring TwentiesHistoric Saranac Lake$5000"A Grand Hotel: Check in to the Roaring Twenties" is an interactive museum exhibit exploring the cultural history of the 1920s through the context of a grand hotel of the era.Saranac LakeNorth Country
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Josephine Herrick ExhibitionJosephine Herrick Project$5000As part of its 75th anniversary, Josephine Herrick Project will implement an exhibition about its founder Josephine Herrick, a woman lost to New York history.New York CityNYC
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East Harlem Community Walking TourStreet Vendor Project, Urban Justice Center$5000A neighborhood walking tour that begins and ends at Vendy Plaza, the open air market at La Marqueta, a historic public marketplace in East Harlem. It explores the political and cultural history of the community where the market is located.East HarlemNYC
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‘Things to Do in New York City’: The Poetry Project at 50The Poetry Project$3000The Poetry Project marks its 50th anniversary in 2016–17 with a year-long series of events that look at its history and ongoing role in shaping contemporary poetry.New York CityNYC
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Once Upon a Place in Jamaica QueensNo Longer Empty (NLE)$5000Once Upon a Place will be held in conjunction with No Longer Empty's site-responsive exhibition The Not To Distant Village, on the art of storytelling in Jamaica, Queens.Jamaica QueensNYC
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Martinsburg DayLewis County Historical Society$3729An exhibit featuring the history of the General Walter Martin Mansion and re-enactors playing figures from Martinsburg's past during the annual Martinsburg Day celebration.LowvilleNorth Country
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Fort Greene Park and Walt Whitman Walking Tour ProgramFort Greene Park Conservancy, Inc.$5000A series of guided walking tours throughout Fort Greene Park and the surrounding neighborhoods in Brooklyn to connect local residents and visitors with the deep history and literary significance of the park and neighborhood.BrooklynNYC
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Finding and Interviewing Former Residents of the Area Demolished for the Empire State PlazaSUNY Albany, Department of History, Albany$1500A planning process to support the hire of a consultant to develop and implement a plan to reach out to and interview former residents of the 98 acres, targeting African American and low-income tenants.AlbanyCapital Region
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The World of Anna and Susan Warner: A Putnam HistoryPutnam History Museum, Cold Spring$1500The planning phase of a proposed exhibition exploring the history of Anna Warner (1827–1915) and Susan Warner (1818–1885) and their lives on Constitution Island.Cold SpringMid-Hudson
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Monday Evening LecturesThe Adirondack Museum$4400A lecture series presenting in-depth explorations of the themes and topics introduced in museum exhibitions as well as current events affecting the human and natural communities of the Adirondack Park.Blue Mountain LakeNorth Country
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North Country WorksNorth Country Public Radio – WSLU$5000A project to explore how work has created and sustained communities in the Adirondack North Country throughout history.CantonNorth Country
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Ulster County Women of NoteUlster County Historical Society$4530A series of touring panels on women of note from Ulster County and a re-enactment of a Suffrage March & Rally that will take place in 2017.KingstonMid-Hudson
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Local History Summer CampSyracuse University, Department of History$3150Local History Camp will encourage students to investigate how historically subordinated groups have struggled for rights, freedom, and self-determination.SyracuseCentral New York
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The Brethren's Workshop: Writing on the WallsMuseum of the City of New York$5000A series of three public lectures presented in partnership with the New York Academy of Medicine on the environmental and health costs of maintaining the preferred city lifestyle and we seek to cultivate a conversation between our diverse audiences.New York CityNYC
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The Brooklyn Institute Shelter Initiative: Humanities for AllBrooklyn Institute for Social Research$5000A collaboration between BISR and Breaking Ground to offer a series of courses on Film and Philosophy, James Baldwin's Short Writings, and The Literature of Inequality to some of New York City's most under-served communities.BrooklynNYC
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Hanford Mills Museum Oral History Dialogue Panels and ProgramHanford Mills Museum$3380Hanford Mills Museum will partner with the Cooperstown Graduate Program to create ten exhibition panels to be used in conjunction with two oral history dialogue programs called "Water Resources and Farming" and "Water Power."East MeredithSouthern Tier
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Canal Model for Bicentennial ExhibitFriends of Schoharie Crossing$5000To celebrate the Erie Canal's Bicentennial in 2017, the Visitor Center at Schoharie Crossing will feature a new exhibit to tell the story of the canal's history and construction.Fort HunterMohawk Valley
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Defying Labels: Changing Roles, Changing ClothesLyndhurst National Trust for Historic Preservation$5000A major fashion exhibit at Lyndhurst, tells the story of the revolutionary changes in women's roles from 1880 to 1940 as reflected in their clothes.TarrytownMid-Hudson
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2016 Upstate New York WayzgooseGenesee Center for the Arts & Education$4990A celebration of printing, type and letterpress that includes a lecture and discussion program, a workshop presentation, a tour of local sites of interest for printing history enthusiasts and an exhibition by various letterpress, printing and type businesses.RochesterFinger Lakes
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Call the Drum Spirit: A Public Forum on Heritage PreservationLa Troupe Makandal, Inc.$2000A scholars panel during the Frisner Augustin Memorial Drum Festival.BrooklynNYC
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Music in GenevaGeneva Historical Society$4000An exhibit, series of podcasts, and zine exploring and celebrating Geneva's rich musical history.GenevaFinger Lakes
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Down Syndrome Awareness ProgramMuseum of disABILITY History$5000A program and exhibit exploring the cultural history of Down syndrome.AmherstWestern NY
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Vote Here! Vote Now!Schenectady County Historical Society$4000A public project bringing the community together in non-partisan space to talk about issues - political, cultural, civic, and democratic; historical and current.SchenectadyCapital Region
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When Sugar Hill Was Sweet: A Centennial Celebration of 409 and 555 Edgecombe AvenueWhile We Are Still Here$5000A series of free, open to the public events that will shed light on the historically rich dwellings that were home of such figures as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Joe Louis, Thurgood Marshall, Elizabeth Catlett, Shirley Graham Du Bois, and many others.New York CityNYC
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Creative Family Programs with Local ArtistsYoung Audiences of Western New York$5000A series of public programs that invite a dialogue about the region's cultural riches, ethnic and racial diversity, cultural experiences and history presented in libraries in remote counties across Western New York.BuffaloWestern NY
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Community Conversations: Racial and Cultural Equity for New York City's Diverse CommunitiesBrooklyn Historical Society$5000A six-program series discussing racial and cultural equity within NYC.BrooklynNYC
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Interpreting Old Cemeteries from a Historical and Cultural PerspectiveCatholic Cemeteries of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany$5000An educational program that includes art appreciation and history tours focusing on 19th and early 20th century monuments and mausoleums and the people they memorialize, gravestone restoration classes, open air painting and drawing classes and lectures on topics pertaining to local history.MenandsCapital Region
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Interactive Electronic Catalog for Fort Ontario's Visitor Center ExhibitionFriends of Fort Ontario$4900A new orientation exhibit and installation focusing on some 250 historic and archaeological objects reflecting the fort's history.OswegoCentral NY
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Richmond Hill Love LetterQueens Library$5000Richmond Hill Love Letter (RHLL) is a storytelling and discussion program aiming to strengthen community by exploring and solidifying identity in the neighborhood of Richmond Hill.Jamaica QueensNYC
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Shakespeare & Modern PoetryShakespeare Society$5000At this event, Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States, will lead the audience in a fascinating exploration of the influence of Shakespeare on important poets of the 20th and 21st centuries.New York CityNYC
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Sand Ground at St. John's: Faces of the Underground RailroadSt. John's University$5000An installation and series of public lectures designed to engage audiences in the past, present, and future of diversity on Staten Island.Staten IslandNYC
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Democratic Vistas: Voices of DemocracyWalt Whitman Birthplace Association$5000A series designed to activate diverse community voices in cross-cultural communication to share their individual experiential knowledge to promote critical thinking and to create new understandings about individual rights within a democracy.Huntington StationLong Island
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Where We Stand: The Intersection of Neighborhoods and Public ArtArtBridge$2800Two panel discussions bringing together local residents, small business owners, artists and community leaders to address issues concerning how art can be a positive force in neighborhoods like the South Bronx, East New York and Brownsville.New York CityNYC
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5th Annual Brooklyn Folk Arts Day: Preserving and Demystifying Ritual and Ceremony in BrooklynBrooklyn Arts Council$4200A forum for Brooklyn based artists/practitioners of public sacred rituals, and the broader public, to discuss the complex and sometimes controversial life these creative impressions take on when carried into the public sphere of an urban metropolis like New York City.BrooklynNYC
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harlem is… DowntownCommunity Works$5000A series of public programs surrounding the installation of an exhibit featuring a 25-foot timeline that traces the history and cultural roots of Harlem from the 17th century to the present.HarlemNYC
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Epic Forum Series: Remix Festival of Youth VoicesEpic Theatre Ensemble$5000Epic Theatre Ensemble hosts the Forum Series after each performance where the audience has a chance to discuss issues raised by the production with the artists from the show and invited humanities scholars who bring a unique perspective on the material.New York CityNYC
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Leading the Charge: The Ongoing Legacy of Anthony and DouglassGeva Theatre Center$5000A free community symposium that features the speeches of Anthony and Douglass with an interactive panel discussion to follow. Feedback from this event will be used in the development of a new play telling the story of these rich figures in Rochester history.RochesterFinger Lakes
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WHM Film Series: Honoring Women in Public ServiceLittle Theatre Film Society$5000A Women’s History Month film series with community discussions will be hosted on Sundays throughout the month of March in partnership with WXXI and SBAI.RochesterFinger Lakes
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The Fabric of Emancipation and Cuff Philipse: A Legacy in DocumentsMorris-Jumel Mansion$4050A series of exhibits, community discussions, and family events exploring the history of Harlem’s African-American cultural identity from the 17th century to the present through the story of Cuff Philipse.New York CityNYC
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Audio TourAmerican Maple Museum$5000An audio tour featuring interview excerpts and first-hand accounts of what life is like for maple producers in upstate New York.CroghanNYC
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Poetry Town Hall TourBronx Council on the Arts$5000A reading and discussion series showcasing emerging and established poets to connect residents by addressing environmental and social justice issues such as wildlife conservation, immigration, LGBT equality, feminism, literary history, racism and social transformation through the arts.BronxNYC
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Catskill Mountains Audio Driving ToursCatskill Center for Conservation and Development$5000Two audio driving guides designed to encourage travelers to experience the region's rich artistic and cultural heritage with public radio-style exposition of cultural and environmental features along the way, told by local experts in those areas.ArkvilleSouthern Tier
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Incorrigibles - A Screening and Community ConversationConjunction Arts$4950A one-day event that will include the screening of a film featuring the stories of the women who were at the NYS Training School followed by a community conversation at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn.BrooklynNYC
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BLACKOUT: Through the Veiled Eyes of Others. Racist Memorabilia from the Collection of William Berry, Jr.CORA Foundation$5000An exhibit and series of community engagement programs looking at the way Africans and African-Americans have been stereotyped throughout history.SyracuseCentral NY
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Freeport WatersLong Island Traditions$5000Long Island Traditions, City Lore and the Village of Freeport are collaborating on a trail of artful signage that highlights the first-person stories and history of Woodcleft Canal, a.k.a. The Nautical Mile.Port WashingtonLong Island
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Performance Space 122 Lower East Side History Month Mobile TourPerformance Space 122$5000A free self-guided mobile tour that tells the unique story of contemporary performance in the Lower East Side drawing audiences to the physical location and providing participants with original interviews and new media culled from our digital archives.BrooklynNYC
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International Hall of Fame Exhibit PlanningAmerican Maple Museum$1,500The American Maple Museum houses the International Maple Hall of Fame. Currently, the Hall of Fame consists of photos and plaques. We are planning to turn the Hall of Fame into an actual exhibit that tells a story behind each individual inductee.CroghanNorth Country
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Over Here, Over There: America and World War ISt. Paul's Church National Historic Site$2,700This exhibition will utilize text, prints, artifacts, photographs, sound and video to explore the American experience in World War I, coinciding with the centennial of American entry into the Great War.Mt. VernonMid-Hudson
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Two Hundred Years on the Erie CanalWestern NY Library Resources Council$4,325Through creation of an online exhibit and a complementary traveling exhibit, WNYLRC and its peer councils will celebrate and stimulate community discussions around the bicentennial of this landmark event - the start of construction on the Erie Canal.BuffaloWestern NY
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YIVO Jewish Culture SeriesRiverdale Temple$4,000YIVO Jewish Culture Series are public lectures presented at Riverdale Temple in partnership with the YIVO Institute for Jewish ResearchBronxNYC
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Walking the Steel: From Girder to Ground ZeroIroquois Indian Museum$5,000Exhibition and programming showcasing the longstanding cultural tradition of iron-working in Haudenosaunee communities, the contributions of these individuals in the recovery efforts at 9-11, and the construction of the new Freedom Tower.Howes CaveMohawk Valley
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Community Connections: Using the Power of Film to Lead Intentional LivesCinema Arts Centre$5,000Community Connections is a documentary screening and discussion program in which relevant guest speakers lead deep explorations of films’ topics through the lens of how our daily choices can affect change, in our own lives and in the world around us.HuntingtonLong Island
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Finally Got The News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979Interference Archive$5,000Finally Got The News is an exhibition, publication and event series that uses original print ephemera to showcase how social movements in the 1970s developed innovative aesthetic and community journalism techniques to advocate for social justice.BrooklynNYC
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Poets & Passion: Picture This - Sights & Sounds: Visual and Verbal (Re)Imagining of the Contemporary CaribbeanCaribbean Cultural Theatre$5,000An investigation of the place, identity and belonging through the words and images of contempory Caribbean writers who are also visual artists.BrooklynNYC
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Unheard Voices of Long Island's Living History/ Digital Humanities Archive/Repository of 20 years of giving voiceHerstory Writers Workshop$1,500Herstory Writers Workshop (Herstory) seeks grants for strategic planning of an online digital humanities archive/repository of literary narratives presented in digital formats in innovative ways to bring these stories alive to a universal audienceCentereachLong Island
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Adirondack Centennial: Votes For WomenEssex County Historical Society$1,500Celebrating the Centennial of Women' Suffrage in New York by collecting & documenting Adirondack Women who made it happen. Preserving the history of Inez Milholland, a Suffrage leader.ElizabethtownNorth Country
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Social Reform Movements in the 19th Century in the Champlain Canal Region of New York StateLakes to Locks Passage, Inc.$1,500The project will design humanities programs with themes related to the social reform movements in the communities along the Champlain Canal at the center of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century.Crown PointNorth Country
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Seneca Falls: The Foundation towards National EqualityThe National Women's Hall of Fame$1,500The National Women’s Hall of Fame seeks funding to work with the NPS Women’s Rights National Historic Park —both in Seneca Falls, NY—to strategize about how best to frame their town’s role in the birth of the women’s suffrage movement.Seneca FallsFinger Lakes
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Conversation and Lecture SeriesAcademy of American Poets$5,000We aim to engage an audience who might not normally attend a poetry event, and to showcase that poetry provides a unique creative lens through which one can express individual experience and one’s relationship to the communal.New York CityNYC
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EVERYDAY/ COMPULSIVE PRACTICE: Art, AIDS, Survival - Public Program SeriesVisual AIDS$5,000Visual AIDS presents EVERYDAY/ COMPULSIVE PRACTICE: Art, AIDS, Survival, a series of panel discussions and film screenings that will highlight the work of diverse and under-recognized artists.New YorkNYC
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Blown Up and Cut Out: A Poster History of a Downtown Theatre CommunityLa MaMa Experimental Theatre Club$5,000La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will host a series of free events in conjunction with an exhibition of theatre posters on view in the spring of 2017.New York CityNYC
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Exhibit PlanningShelter Island Historical Society$1,500Exhibits are being planned for the grand opening of the Havens House Museum campus and Education Center in Summer 2017.Shelter IslandLong Island
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Spotlight ForumEpic Theatre Ensemble$1,500Spotlight Forum gathers playwrights and human rights workers together to explore the most challenging questions in the field of human rights and discuss how theatre can illuminate those questions for a general audience.New York CityNYC