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Massachusetts Cultural Council Awards $15,700 Grant to the Lloyd Center

The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), a state agency, has awarded the Lloyd Center for the Environment (Dartmouth, MA) a grant of $15,700 to support its Science Curriculum Reform and Development initiative. Financial support from the MCC’s Organizational Support Program enables the Lloyd Center to provide science programs to schools that might not otherwise be able to afford them, such as the public elementary schools in Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Fall River, and Westport. With school budgets as tightly restricted, as they are today, the Lloyd Center’s ability to provide interactive and effective science teaching has proven to be particularly important.

Awarded through a competitive process, this grant signifies that the Lloyd Center for the Environment provides a high level of quality in its programs, community service and administrative ability. This award is intended to fund two innovative Lloyd Center environmental science curricula, the fifth-grade Turn-the-Tide and the third-grade Feathery Focus education programs, both of which have proven to be highly successful over the past three years. Working in collaboration with each school system’s Director of Science Curricula, Lloyd Center staff ensures that town-specific issues become an integral part of each program.

The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) has a budget of $13 million, including $12 million from the state of Massachusetts and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wallace Foundation, and other sources. Its funds reach every community in Massachusetts. The mission of the MCC is to promote excellence, education, access and diversity in the arts, humanities and interpretive sciences in order to improve the quality of life for all Massachusetts residents and to contribute to the economic vitality of our communities. The not-for-profit cultural industry is a $4.2 billion economic impact in the state.