Web Address

www.barrfoundation.org/index.html

Assets

$1,019,257,947 - 2006-12-31

Community Foundation beginning grant-application process
Foundation: Barr Foundation , Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts
The next step in the Boston-based Barr Foundation's investment in the arts is here. The Community Foundation of Southeastern...more

Community Foundation beginning grant-application process
Foundation: Barr Foundation , Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts
The next step in the Boston-based Barr Foundation's investment in the arts is here. The Community Foundation of Southeastern...more

Embrace Change: A Funder Guides Arts Organizations to Work Differently
Foundation: Barr Foundation
Connecting up art and social change is the hottest issue in arts philanthropy at the moment. Funders can't agree on much, but there's a growing...more

Pull It Together: A Call for a New Model of Social Change and "Systems Philanthropy"
Foundation: Barr Foundation , Levi Strauss Foundation, Packard Foundation
Is the old model for achieving social change broken? Sometimes it seems that way. Even as philanthropy expands and new funders make record...more

Grants Roundup: Barr Foundation Awards $30 Million for the Arts in Mass.
Foundation: Barr Foundation
Grants Roundup: Barr Foundation Awards $30 Million for the Arts in Mass. ... Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the...more

The Yard receives grants totaling $980K
Foundation: Barr Foundation
The Yard, a Chilmark-based nonprofit arts organization, has received grants from the Barr Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts totaling $980,000 to support its plan to become a year-round...more

Many Mass. arts organizations to benefit from Barr Foundation initiative
Foundation: Barr Foundation
For years, the Barr Foundation has asked how it could use its considerable grant-making muscle to encourage artistic risk-taking and enhance public engagement. On Tuesday, the foundation unveiled its...more

ValleyCreates Appoints Five Local Community Advisors
Foundation: Barr Foundation , Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
SPRINGFIELD — The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts' newly launched arts initiative, ValleyCreates, announced the appointment of five community advisors to support the initiative's core...more

Popping Up in Worcester: New creative space to open on Franklin Street
Foundation: Barr Foundation
The grand opening will feature live performances by the Southeast Asian Coalition's Lion Dance Team, the Joy of Music's Jazz Safari group and a poetry ... May 4, Worcester Arts Council Grantee...more

Foundation to invest $750K in arts
Foundation: Barr Foundation , Essex County Community Foundation
It will provide more than $750,000 in funding through its Creative County Initiative, thanks to a $500,000 grant from the Boston-based Barr Foundation and $250,000 raised by ECCF. The money will be...more