The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) has awarded Open Door Arts a supplemental unrestricted grant in the amount of $2,250 from its Cultural Investment Portfolio Grant Funds Safe Harbor Initiative. Open Door Arts will use funds to continue to provide the arts as a powerful tool for people with disabilities to use towards voicing their ideas and desires as citizens in this changing world. We are so thankful to the Massachusetts Cultural Council and their continued faith in our work.

The Boston Cultural Council has awarded Open Door Arts, an affiliate of Seven Hills Foundation, with a $5,000 grant for general operating support. ODA’s innovative, research-based programs support students, educators, artists, and cultural organizations to foster learning, promote inclusion, and provide outlets for artistic expression and creative voice.

W.R. Berkley Corporation Charitable Foundation at the request of Acadia Insurance has awarded Seven Hills ASPiRE! with a $3,500 grant. These amazing funds will go towards teaching ASPiRE! participants with disabilities about raised bed gardening and hydroponics as a potential career track in addition to increasing their knowledge about healthy eating. Thank you so much to W.R. Berkley Corporation Charitable Foundation and Acadia Insurance for this incredible support!

The students at Stetson School have reviewed and selected this spring’s grant recipients of the Stetson School Community Giving Fund, that distributes $10,000 annually, given to non-profit organizations, municipalities, or other community initiatives within the Town of Barre and/or other towns located in the Quabbin Regional School District that support community social good.