Competitive Grants

A Better City Initiative, Inc.
$4,000 – Energy and Environment: Engaging Business in Supporting Extreme Heat Solutions within Greater Boston

Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation
$5,000 – Youth Development

American Indian College Fund
$10,000 – The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation Tribal Scholarship Program

Artisan’s Aslyum
$3,000 – Artisan’s Youth Education and Mentoring Programs

Ascendus (formerly Accion East, Inc.)
$2,500 – COVID-19 Relief and Recovery for Immigrant Businesses in Boston

Asian Community Development Corporation
$4,000 – A-VOYCE (Asian Voices of Organized Youth for Community Empowerment)

Backyard Growers
$4,000- Backyard Growers’ Building Community Through Food Access

BalletRox
$3,000 – BalletRox Dance! Community Dance Program

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
$4,000 – Increasing Pathways to Grow Tech Talent & Increase Equity

Beyond Walls
$3,500 – Taking the Classroom to the Streets: Weaving Public Art into Cross-Curricular Learning

Boston Chamber Music Society
$2,000 – Teaching Artist Project at Somerville High School

Boston Children’s Chorus
$4,000- BCC Artistic Excellence and Social Inquiry Program

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
$4,000- BCNC Youth Employment Program

Boston Cyberarts, Inc
$3,000- Technology and Environmental Data Literacy – Public Art Project

Boston Missionary Baptist Community Center
$3,000- New Generation Youth Program

Boston Music Project (formerly the Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program)
$3,000- General Operating Support

Boston Partners in Education
$3,0000- General Operating Support

Boston Police Athletic League
$4,000- G.R.O.W. (Girls Reflecting Our World)

Boston Schools Fund Inc.
$4,000- Creating Equity and Access for High-Need Students in Boston

Boston Scores
$4,000- Leadership in Action

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston
$2,000- Learning Support Center program

Breakthrough Greater Boston
$4,000- Full STEAM Ahead

Breaktime United, Inc.
$4,000- Empowering young adults experiencing homelessness to build sustainability in their lives

Budget Buddies
$3,000- Expansion of Virtual Financial Empowerment Programs for Low-Income Women and Teen Girls

BUILD – Greater Boston
$4,000- BUILD’s Youth Entrepreneurship Program

Building Audacity
$2,000- Say Their Names

Casa Myrna Vasquez
$4,000- Building Economic Stability for Youth in Transition from Abuse

Center for Women & Enterprise
$4,000- Entrepreneurship Training for Low-Income Women

City Mission Inc.
$3,000- Social Justice Internship Program

Codman Academy Foundation
$4,000- Codman Square Micro Healing Forest

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
$4,000- Stage2: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Community Art Center, Inc.
$2,000- Teen Media Program

Community Service Care f/b/o South Street Youth Center
$4,000- South Street Clubhouse

Cooperative Development Institute f/b/o Dorchester Food Co-op
$4,000- Building the solidarity economy through a healthy food access and community ownership lens

Cultural Survival, Inc
$4,000- Cultural Survival Entrepreneurship Workshops for Indigenous Artists

Discovering Justice
$4,000- Discovering Justice Student Leadership Program

English for New Bostonians
$3,000- English for New Bostonians: Economic Recovery

Entrepreneurship for All (Lowell)
$4,000- EforAll / EparaTodos (Lowell)

Entrepreneurship for All (Roxbury, MA)
$4,000- EforAll Roxbury: Addressing Racial Income Disparities through Inclusive Entrepreneurship Training

EVKids, Inc. (formerly Earthen Vessels)
$4,000- Inspiring Connections: Tutoring for At-risk Boston Youth

Family & Children’s Service of Greater Lynn 
$2,000- 2021 General Operating Expenses

Friends of the Children-Boston
$3,000- Friends-Boston Financial Literacy and Incentive Based Savings Program

Girls Incorporated Lynn
$2,000- ODYSSEY : After school Academic and Leadership Development Programs for at-risk middle school girls

Girls’ LEAP
$5,000- Lifetime Empowerment Awareness Program (LEAP)

Gloucester Fund f/b/o Cape Ann Farmers Market
$4,000- Building a Resilient Market Post-Covid

Haley House, Inc.
$3,000- Urban Farming at Haley House

Horizons Greater Boston
$2,500- Literacy Support

Hyde Square Task Force
$4,000- Jóvenes en Acción/Youth in Action Program – Education

Institute for Policy Studies -Boston Office
$5,000- Boston Affordable Housing and Jamaica Plain Forum

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
$5,000- Youth Empowerment to Prevent Extinction (YEPE)

Inversant
$4,000- Inversant: Breaking Barriers to College Access and Success

Jeremiah Program
$4,000- Economic Mobility through Postsecondary Education for Boston Single Mothers

Jewish Vocational Service (JVS)
$5,000- JVS Pharmacy Technician Training Program

La Vida Inc.
$3,000- Expanding Equity in Higher Education for Lynn, MA

Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts
$3,000- Level Ground Student Trainer Program

Literations
$4,000- Sustained Tutoring Program

Madison Park Development Corporation (MPDC)
$4,000- 2022 Roxbury Community Gardens Initiative

Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House
$5,000- Leader’s of Today Peace Academy

Mass Humanities
$3,000- Clemente Course in the Humanities Dorchester

Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund
$4,000- Civics in Action Intenrship Program

MEDIAGIRLS
$3,000- #REALMEDIAGIRL Licensing Program

Merrimack Valley Project, Inc.
$4,000- Merrimack Valley COVID-19 Education Campaign

Mothers for Justice and Equality
$4,000- MJE Youth Second Chance Program

Museum of African American History
$3,000- Expanded Youth Involvement at MAAH

Mystic Learning Center, Inc.
$4,000- Books of Hope

Mystic River Watershed Association
$5,000- Using the Mystic River as a Living Laboratory

New Economy Coalition
$5,000- New Economy Coalition’s Annual Member Meeting

New England Center for Arts & Technology
$4,000- Culinary Arts Job Training Program

Pathways for Children, Inc.
$3,000- The 5 Cs of Positive Youth Development

Philanthropy MA
$10,000- Summer Fund

Playworks New England 
$4,000- Restoring access to safe, healthy play for vulnerable children through the Playworks Coach Program

Project Hope
$4,000- Project Hope Family Childcare Network (FCC)

Raising A Reader MA
$4,000- Raising A Reader Massachusetts (RAR-MA) Metro Boston

Raw Art Works
$3,000- Arts-Based Teen Employment and Workforce Readiness Training for Underserved Youth

Rehearsal for Life
$4,000- Youth Unscripted

RISE Academy
$3,000- RISE Academy summer program

Root
$5,000- Root Youth Job Training Program

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
$5,000- Year of the Tiger Performance Art Series on The Greenway in Chinatown Boston

SCORE Boston
$3,000- Virtual Small Business Workshops

Shooting Touch Inc.
$5,000- Shooting Touch: Boston (STB) Program

Sociedad Latina
$4,000- ¡Emprende! Youth Entrepreneurship Program

Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
$4,000- Green Team youth Jobs and Environmental Stewardship Program 2022

SparkShare
$5,000- The SparkShare Network: Empowering the next generation of problem solvers

Speak for the Trees
$3,000- Educating and empowering the next generation of stewards for Boston’s Urban Forest

Summer Search
$3,000- Summer Experiences for Students

Suzuki Institute of Boston
$2,000- General Operating

The Food Project
$4,000- Renewing Youth Leadership: 2021-22 Youth Programs, Greater Boston

The Haven Project
$4,000- The Haven Project Job Training Program

The Trust for Public Land
$5,000- Breaking Walls and Building Opportunities: Urban River Access & Nature Trail Community Stewardship

Theatrezone Inc. DBA Apollinaire Theatre Company
$5,000- Apollinaire Play Lab

TSNE MissionWorks f/b/o The Carrot Project
$4,000- 1:1 Business Technical Assistance to Startup Farms in Greater Boston

uAspire
$4,000- College Affordability Advising for Low-Income Youth in Greater Boston

Union Capital Boston
$4,000- Virtual and In-Person Network Nights Program

United Nations Association of Greater Boston
$3,000- Remote Civic Education Programs for Low to Moderate Income Area Schools

Urban Farming Institute
$4,000- Urban “Agripreneurship”: Building Economic Opportunity in Boston’s Communities of Color

Victory Programs, Inc.
$5,000- ReVision Urban Farm Food Security and Urban Agriculture Education Project

Vietnamese-American Initiative for Development, Inc. 
$5,000- Youth Leadership Development Program

Waltham Boys & Girls Club
$2,000- Career Launch/Junior Staff

Waltham Fields Community Farm
$4,000- Educational Programs at Waltham Fields

Waltham Partnership for Youth
$3,000- Career Exploration and Training Program

Wellspring House, Inc.
$4,000- Wellspring Educational Resource Collaborative (WERC/Youth)

WriteBoston
$3,500- Teens in Print: A citywide teen newspaper and after-school program

YMCA of Greater Boston
$8,000- Boston Police Department/YMCA Campership Program

YMCA of Metro North
$3,000- Demakes Family YMCA Healthy Living Café & Teaching Kitchen

Young Audiences of Massachusetts, Inc. (YAMA)
$3,000- Expanded Arts Access Residencies

TOTAL 2021 COMPETITIVE GRANTS TO DATE: $402,000