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Frances Perkins, the first woman to hold a US Cabinet position, helped shape the New Deal and the policies that have affected millions of Americans.
Now, thanks to a $750,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation, the Frances Perkins Center in Maine will be able to tell her story further, the Portland Press Herald reports.
"The Mellon Foundation's support is a transformative catalyst for the Frances Perkins Center," says executive director Giovanna Gray Lockhart.
"It elevates us from a volunteer led, emerging organization to a leader in local, regional, and national education and dialogue on American heritage, culture, social justice, and economic security."
The center, which is based at Perkins' 12,000-year-old Homestead in Newcastle, is the first such organization in Maine to receive funds from the Mellon Foundation's Humanities in Place grant program, which "supports a fuller, more complex telling of American histories and lived experiences by deepening the range of how and where our stories are told and by bringing a wider variety of voices into the public dialogue," the foundation says on its website.
The center will use the funds to conduct two studies that the Maine State Historic Preservation Commission has recommended be carried out at the Homestead, as well as to hire a part-time archivist and full-time curator.
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