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Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund Open for Application

Dec. 20, 2006

Dear Friends,

The Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund, featuring grants to cultural organizations for facility improvement, expansion, and restoration, is now receiving applications.

Cultural organizations seeking these grants must submit of letter of intent to apply to the Massachusetts Cultural Council on or before Feb. 1, 2007. Applications must be received by the MCC by March 15, 2007.

The full guidelines for this exciting program—one of the most innovative in the nation—are available at:

www.massculturalfacilities.org

(If the link does not work, please paste the link into your browser.)

We thank Speaker Sal DiMasi and Senate President Robert Travaglini for their leadership in making the cultural facilities fund a centerpiece of the 2005 economic stimulus bill. The Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund is the culmination of several years of work by Rep. Dan Bosley, Senator Jack Hart and Senator Stan Rosenberg in conjunction with an advocacy campaign organized by MAASH, the Boston Foundation and the MCC. We also thank Chairman Eric Turkington and all the members of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development for their critical support.

A full draft of the MCC/MassDevelopment press release about the new program is available online.

Thanks to all who helped advocate for this significant new funding program.

Sincerely,

Dan Hunter

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