New England Foundation for the Arts
As a social impact organization, NEFA builds, sustains, and fights for arts and culture through grantmaking, partnerships, and advocacy in New England, the nation, and beyond. Founded in 1976, NEFA is one of six regional arts organizations established with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to strengthen the national arts infrastructure by cultivating the arts on a regional level. Today, NEFA’s programs are regional, national, and international in scope, and support artists and communities through grants and other opportunities in creating, presenting, and touring new work across a variety of performing arts disciplines and public art. Each program and project that is brought to life at NEFA is created with the underlying goal of building a stronger and more dynamic infrastructure for the arts. Convenings, network building, and online tools are essential complements to NEFA’s grantmaking. NEFA is a grantmaker, program initiator, aggregator of resources, and builder of creative partnerships among artists, arts organizations and funders. Our work is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England state arts agencies, foundations, corporations, and individual donors.www.nefa.org
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Sep 15, 2026
Amy HausmannGUEST
of how that works.
Amy HausmannGUEST
And one thing that I will say, I hope that this is the right time to bring it up, but when I first came to Maine, I visited Lisa at Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness for a conference of the New England Foundation for the Arts.
Amy HausmannGUEST
I wasn't even actually working yet.
Amy HausmannGUEST
I had actually took vacation from my job in New York and I came up for a conference and I got to meet everyone and it was wonderful.
Cassie WangGUEST
[laughs] NEFA grant.
Cassie WangGUEST
New England Foundation for the Arts is supporting this collaboration between, um, Mechanics Hall in Portland, Maine, and Boston Center for the Arts, where I have been developing this work.
Cassie WangGUEST
So- Awesome ... it's a cool partnership that is, like, emerging of different cities coming together to- Mm-hmm.
Emily HausslerGUEST
Yeah