Micro Grant Recipients - Newton Community Pride

Newton Community Pride is pleased to support local organizations, artists, service projects and non-profits with a Community Micro Grant. These past grant recipients have provided the City of Newton with events and programs consistent with our mission to build community for all to enjoy through arts and culture programming, supporting beautification projects and promoting volunteerism.

Past Recipients:

2023 Spring Community Micro Grant Recipients

– India Day Celebration
– Indigenous Peoples Day Newton
– Music Mondays Summer Concert
– Newton Community Farm
– Newton Highlands Community Klezmer Dance Party
– Newton Theatre Company’s The Monologue Project: LGBTQ+ Voices
– Newton Piano Summit

2022 Fall Community Micro Grant Recipients
– Andromeda Belly Dance – Performance of Middle Eastern, North African, Hellenic, and Turkish dance
– Container Gardening Program – Beautification project providing container gardens for up to 40 residents of the Newton Housing Authority Horace Mann complex
– Don’t Forget Your Art – Event series designed to give artists & performers of varying experiences an opportunity to show their talent in public
– FenceART – Rotating public art project
– Haiku Newton – Public art and poetry project
– Interfaith Music Night – Gathering & music-centric celebration
– Kennard Park – Beautification project pulling invasive species+
– Newton Chinese Language School – Year of the Rabbit Lantern Celebration
– Service Stars – After-school service project
– Jamaal Eversley’s Slam Theatre

2022 Spring Community Micro Grant Recipients
– The Vault, NewCommunity Inc Welcome Mural
–Newton Nomadic Theater’s Hidden Shakespeare
– Newton Piano S ummit
–Newton PorchFest
– Newton Speaks; Voices of Our City
– Newton Theatre Company “Our Tears Are the Same Color”
– Nonantum Welcome Mural

2021 Fall Community Micro Grant Recipeients
– Bristol Park on Commonwealth Avenue Beautification
– Cappella Clausure, Inc. “Troubadours 2021”
– Cappella Clausura, Inc. and Newton Theatre Company Joint Project, “Mary Stuart”
– 4C Tree Project
– Indigenous Peoples Day Newton
– Jewish Arts Collaborative “Brighter Revealed”
– Juneteenth Celebration
– Newton Pan Asian Cultural Festival
– Service Stars, African Library Project
– Suzuki School of Newton Faculty Concert
– Welcome Home Afghan Refugee Program