2014 Grants

  1. Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
  2. Culture, Education and Leadership Development
  3. Environment and Community Building
  4. The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists
  5. Memberships
  6. Discretionary Grants

 

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Accion East
$10,000 – Brazilian Business Initiative

The ArtCouncil Inc.
d/b/a Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue
$5,000 – Artadia Boston Awards

Businesses United in Investing Lending and Development (BUILD)
$10,000 – Youth Entrepreneurship

Center for Women and Enterprise
$7,500 – Entrepreneurship Training for Low-Income Women

Crittenton Women’s Union
$7,500 – Mobility Mentoring Services: Supporting Low-Income Women on their Journey to Self-Sufficiency

Interise
$5,000 – Boston StreetWise ‘MBA’

Mass Humanities
$3,000 – Clemente Course for the Humanities

More Than Words
$5,000 – Social Enterprise Job Training and Youth Development Program

Raw Art Works
$3,000 – Workforce Readiness Programming for At-risk High School Teens

Sociedad Latina
$7,500 – Workforce Development Expansion

Somali Development Center
$2,500 – Somali Girls Rise – Young Refugee Women

uAspire
$5,000 – uAspire Boston High School Advising Program

Upham’s Corner Community Center
$7,000 – Boys Glass Arts Entreprenuership

Year Up
$5,000 – General Operations

SUBTOTAL $83,000

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Culture, Education, and Leadership Development

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

America SCORES New England
$5,000 – America SCORES Boston Youth Development Programs

Apollinaire Theatre Company
$5,000 – Chelsea Youth Theatre

Associated Grant Makers 
$12,000 – Summer Fund

Babson College
$10,000 – POSSE Scholarship Fund at Babson College

BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life)
$5,000 – BELL After School and Summer

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
$7,500 – Early Access to College Program

Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston
$5,000 – Victory Generation Out of School Time Program (VG)

Boston Partners in Education, Inc.
$7,500 – Math Rules!, 2014-2015

Bottom Line
$5,000 – Boston Access and Success Programs

Cristo Rey Boston High School
$4,000 – General Operations

Dorchester Youth Collaborative
$5,000 – DYC Democracy Club

Families United in Educational Leadership
$5,000 – Deepening engagement with parents

Generations Incorporated
$7,500 – Read to Succeed Literacy Programs (Classroom Literacy & Reading Coaches)

Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
$7,000 – Paths to College and Careers Program (PCCP)

Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program
$3,000 – General Operating and Program Support

Julie’s Family Learning Program
$4,000 – Adult and Children’s Services

Let’s Get Ready – Boston
$7,500 – Let’s Get Ready Greater Boston

LA PINATA
$3,000 – General Operating Support

Playworks Metro Boston
$7,500 – Playworks Massachusetts: Education Energized

Project Hope
$5,000 – Project Hope’s Children’s Services

Rediscovery at JRI
$6,000 – YouthHarbors

South End Technology Center @ Tent City
$10,000 – Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn

Sportsmen’s Tennis Club
$5,000 – Generating Excellent Mentors (GEM) Program

Strong Women, Strong Girls
$5,000 – Strong Women, Strong Girls

Summer Search
$8,000 – Scholarships for Summer Outdoor Adventure and Academic Programs

Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center
$7,000 – Connections 2014

YMCA of Greater Boston
$10,000 – Boston Police Department Campership Fund

ZUMIX
$6,000 – Hands-On Youth Development Program

SUBTOTAL $187,500

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Environment and Community Building

Boston Natural Areas Network
$3,000 – 2014 Youth Conservation Corps

Franklin Park Coalition
$5,000 – Youth Conservation Crew

Groundwork Somerville
$5,000 – Somerville Food Network

Haley House, Inc.
$3,000 – McKinley Collaborative Garden

Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
$6,000 – Hyde Park Green Team

Victory Programs, Inc.
$5,000 – ReVision Urban Farm Food Security and Nutrition Education Initiative

SUBTOTAL $27,000

 

Special Emergency Grant

Boston Firefighter Credit Union
$5,000 – Lt. Walsh & Firefighter Kennedy Memorial Fund

SUBTOTAL $5,000

 

TOTAL COMPETITIVE $302,500

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The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists (recipients mandated by donor)

Boston Lyric Opera
Boston, MA
$12,093

Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,014 – Northeastern Regional Auditions

Metropolitan Opera, Inc. 
New York, NY
$12,388 – Lindemann Young Artist Development Program

TOTAL SABOFEA $29,495

 

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Memberships

Associated Grant Makers
Boston, MA
$3,150 – 2014 Membership

Exponent Philanthropy
Washington, DC
$725 – 2014 Membership

Council on Foundations
Washington, DC
$1,230 – 2013 Membership

TOTAL MEMBERSHIPS $5,105

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Discretionary Grants

350.ORG
$1,000 – Strategic campaigns to force politicians to rise to the challenge of our time

Achieve
$1,500 – General Operating Support

Alzheimer’s Association 
$1,000 – For Research

American Cancer Society
$1,000 – Operating Support

American Friends of Christ Church
$8,000 – the Annual Fund operating costs
$4,000 – the Moritz Heyman Fund

American Friends Service Committee
$1,000 – Operating support

American Fund for Emmanuel
$12,000 – divided as needed between the Support Fund, the Gerard Evans Fund, and the Fund for Overseas Research.

Americans for Oxford, Inc.
f/b/o Wolfson College, University of Oxford, England
$2,000 – Graduate scholarships

Arlington Street Church
$5,000 – Building & grounds

Babson College
$1,000 – Operating Support of the Archive
$2,500 – PRIDE Alliance
$2,500 – OUT Network

BAGLY
$10,000 – To help meet $100,000 challenge match from the Kraft family’s foundation

Bay State Performing Arts
d/b/a Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
$10,000 – General Operating
$10,000 – Endowment
$1,500 – Travel Scholarships

Boston Arts Academy
$1,000 – Youth Scholarship “General Fund”

Boston Healthcare for the Homeless
$2,000 – Provision of essential resources to homeless families

Boston Public Library Foundation
$1,000 – Homework Programs at Branch Libraries

Boston Symphony Orchestra
$1,000 – Youth Programs

British Schools and Universities Foundation
f/b/o The Uppingham School, Rutland
$2,500 – Operating Support

Charles River Watershed Association
$1,000 – Clean-up of the river and kids programs

Children’s Aid Society
$1,000 – for the New York Times Neediest Families

Children’s Defense Fund
$1,000 – Freedom School programs

Clare College Cambridge
$2,000 – for studentships (for graduates) in honor of Professor Tony Badger’s retirement, Emeritus Master and Paul Mellon Professor of American History.

Corporate Angel Network
$2,000 – Provide children with cancer with transportation to and from treatment facilities

Cradles to Crayons
$2,000 – Operating

Crittenton Women’s Union
$2,000 – Horizon’s Transitional Housing Program

Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center
$2,000 – CMARS Program & Operating Support

Dana Hall School
$6,000 – Annual Fund

Deerfield Academy
$1,000 – Native American Alliance

Defenders of the Black Hills
$1,000 – Operating Support

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
$1,000 – General Operating Support

Elizabeth Stone House
$1,000 – Parent and Child Center

Emory University
$5,000 – Emory-Tibet Partnership (Operating support)
$1,000  – Undergraduate Scholarships

Environmental Defense Fund
$5,000 – Land, Water and Wildlife Program, Catalyst Group level

Esplanade Association
$1,000 – Planning and Support

Five College Program on Peace and World Security Studies
$2,500 – Operating support

Fonkoze USA
$2,000 – Haiti Relief

Friends of Copley Square
$1,000 – Operating Support

Friends of the Public Garden, Inc.
$1,000 – Operating Support

Friendship Home
$1,000 – General Operating Support

From the Top
$2,000 – Radio Program

Fund for Southern Communities
$1,500 – Grant Fund Pool
$1,000 – General Operating Support

Generations Inc.
$1,000 – Read to Succeed

Grassroots International
$2,000 – Operating Support

Haymarket People’s Fund
$5,000 – Grant fund pool

Historic Deerfield/SAB Fund
$3,000 – Children’s Programs

Human Rights Watch
$1,000 – Lois Whitman Fund
$3,000 – Childrens Rights Division
$2,000 – Disability Rights Division
$2,000 – Women’s Rights Division

Huntington Theatre Company
$1,500 – August Wilson Monologue competition

International Buddhist Center
$2,000 – Educational work in the US and Sri Lanka

International Rescue Committee (NYC)
$2,000 – Work with disabled refugees worldwide

International Rescue Committee (UK)
$1,000 – Work with Syrian refugees

La Piñata
$1,500 – Operating support

London School of Economics
$1,500 – LSE Centennial Fund

Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
$2,000 – Operating Support

MA Center for Native American Awareness
$5,000 – Youth enrichment and empowerment program 2020 Focus

Massachusetts General Hospital
$500 – Alan D. Hilgenburg, MD, Lecture in Thoracic Aortic Disease
$500 – Thoracic Aortic Disease research

Massachusetts Historical Society
$2,000 – The Peter Gomes Memorial Book Prize fund

Miami University Foundation
$10,000 – The Ann Louise Wilkinson Scholarship

Mt. Toby Monthly Meeting 
$1,000 – General Operating support

Museum of Fine Arts
$1,000 – Youth Programs

Museum of Science
$1,000 – Camp-in Program

Mystic Seaport
$1,000 – Children’s Education Programs

Natural Resources Defense Council
$5,000 – The campaign to stop the killing of elephants for the ivory trade, and work on water and climate change issues (in honor of President Frances Beinecke ‘s retirement)

NC FIELD Inc.
$1,000 – Campaign to eliminate child labor in tobacco

New England Buddhist Vihara & Meditation Center
$1,000 – General Support
$1,000 – The Meditation Building Fund
$500 – Parking Lot Maintenance

New England Disabled Sports
$1,000 – N.E. General Operations (as needed)

New Hampshire Public Television
$2,000 – Operating Support

Newton Cultural Alliance
$1,000 – Restoration of the historic Nathaniel Allen House in West Newton

Nipponzan Myohoji USA
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Leverett
$500 – Peace Pagoda, London
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Sri Lanka
$2,000 – Operating support

Nonviolent Peace Force
$1,000 – Protection of children in South Sudan

Oxfam America
$1,000 – General Operating Support

Partners Homecare & Hospice
$1,000 – In Home Hospice Programs

Peace Action Education Fund
$2,500 – Support of the student network S.P.A.N.

Perkins School for the Blind
$1,000 – Early Intervention and Guide Dog Programs

Phillips Academy
$5,000 – the Richard Babson ’76 Fund

Purple Hearts Homes
$1,000 – Veterans Home Ownership Program

Reach Out and Read
$1,000 – Boston Programs

Red Tomato
$1,000 – Operating support

Rosie’s Place
$1,000 – Shelter/Job Training

Sarvodaya USA (projects in Sri Lanka)
$1,000 – Sarvodaya Orphanage
$500 – Playgrounds
$500 – Permanent Housing
$1,500 – Sarvodaya Children’s Orphanage

School Year Abroad
$1,000 – General Operating

South Hadley Public Library
$2,500 – The Building Fund

Special Olympics
$2,000 – General Operations for programs in NE and NH

Stanford University
$10,000  – the President’s Fund
$5,000 – the Stanford Endowment Fund for Undergraduate Scholarships

Sunburst Youth Academy Foundation
$1,000 –Sunburst Cadets in the Sunburst Program

University of Virginia
$1,000 – Jefferson Literary & Debating Society for their endowment of Room #7

University of Virginia Law School Foundation
$2,500 – Operating Support

Veteran’s Education Project
$5,000 – Operating support

Visual Art Library, Inc.
$1,000 – General Operating Support

Walnut Hill School
$1,000 – Operating

Washington Buddhist Vihara 
$1,000 – Educational work in Sri Lanka and in the U.S.

Wellesley Scholarship Foundation
$1,000 – P&E Scholarship Endowment
$1,000 – S&D Scholarship Endowment

WGBH
$2,000 – Children’s Programming

Zing Foundation f/b/o Arts Rising
$2,000 – Operating support

TOTAL DISCRETIONARY  $255,000

 

2014 GRAND TOTAL $592,100

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