Competitive Grants
Accion East, Inc.
$3,000 – Brazilian Business Initiative.
The American Indian College Fund
$10,000 – The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation Tribal Scholarship Program
African Community Economic Development of New England
$2,000 – After School Academic, Social-Emotional, and Leadership Development Program.
America SCORES New England
$4,000 – Middle School Leadership in Action
Apollinaire Theatre Company
$4,000 – Apollinaire Play Lab
Asian American Civic Association, Inc.
$4,000- AACA Hire Values Youth Employment
Associated Grant Makers
$12,000 – The Summer Fund.
BalletRox
$3,000 – BalletRox Dance! Community Dance Program.
Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston
$4,000 – Victory Generation Out of School Time Program.
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
$3,000 – BCNC Youth Employment Program.
Boston Coalition Young Man with a Plan (fiscal agent The Prepratory Foundation Inc.)
$3,000 – Young Man with a Plan Summer Program.
Boston Educational Development Foundation f/b/o TechBoston Academy
$4,000 – Personal as Political Trip to the EJI Museum and Memorial (Alabama) – May 2019
Boston Landmarks Orchestra
$3,000 – Boston Landmarks Orchestra’s 2018 Season
Boston Tax Help Coalition
$5,000 – Boston Center for Youth and Families Financial Inclusion Partnership (BCYF/FIP)
BUILD – Greater Boston
$5,000 – Youth Entrepreneurship
Career Collaborative, Inc.
$3,000 – Career Collaborative Programming
Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston
$3,000 – 2019 Music Education Program
The City School
$4,000 – Pathways to Change
Codman Academy Foundation
$5,000 – Camp Merrowvista Leadership Program
Commonwealth Shakespeare
$4,000- “Romeo and Juliet” for Young Audiences
Compass Working Capital, Inc.
$4,000 – Compass Working Capital Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program
Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation
$5,000 – CinemaTec: Decoding America
Crossing The Waters Institute For Cultural Exchange, Inc.
$3,000 – CTWI Organizational Development: Website Design and Development Project
Cultural Survival, Inc.
$4,000 – Cultural Survival Indigenous Artisan Institute (“The Institute”)
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
$5,000- Job Placement for Returning Citizens
East Boston Ecumenical Community Council
$4,000 – ASPIRING Drop Out Prevention/College Bridge program
Eastie Farm
$3,000 – SCRAP: Saturday Community Resiliency Action Program
Emerson College d/b/a Arts Emerson
$3,000 – Student Matinee Series
English for New Bostonians
$3,000 – ESOL for Entrepreneurs (E4E)
Environment Massachusetts
$4,000 – Students for 100% Renewable Energy
Epiphany School
$5,000 – Expansion of the “First Bosses” Initiative of Epiphany School’s Graduate Support Program (GSP)
Friends of the Children-Boston
$5,000 – Friends-Boston Financial Literacy and Incentive-Based Savings Program
Gedakina, Inc.
$5,000- Braiding Sweetgrass
GreenRoots
$5,000 – Engaging Diverse Chelsea Residents and Youth Through Urban Agriculture
Haley House, Inc.
$3,000 – Urban Agriculture at Haley House
The Haven Project
$4,000 – Catalyst
The Hyde Square Task Force
$5,000 – Paths to College and Careers Program (PCCP)
Immigrant Family Services Institute, Inc.
$4,000 – PLUS After-School and Summer Program
Institute for Policy Studies
$4,000 – Jamaica Plain Forum and Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition
International Institute of New England
$5,000 – Refugee Employment Services
Inversant
$6,000 – Engaging Revere Families in Pursuit of Higher Education
Investors’ Circle
$3,000 – IC SVN Boston Local Network
Jeremiah Program
$4,000 – Promoting Self-Sufficiency and Prosperity
Jetpac Resource Center, Inc.
$4,000 – Jetpac Youth Civic Education Program
Jewish Vocational Service
$5,000 – Pharmacy Technician Certification Training Program
Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program
$2,000 – General Operating Support
Justice Resource Institute Inc.
d/b/a STRIVE Boston
$3,000 – STRIVE Forward Juvenile Justice Initiative
La Vida Inc.
$4,000 – Closing the Admissions Gap in Lynn, MA
Lena Park Community Development Corporation
$3,000 – Youth Development Program
Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House
$5,000 – Digital Literacy and Community Advancement
Maritime Gloucester
$4,000 – High School and College Internship Program
Mass Humanities
$3,000 – Clemente Course in the Humanities Dorchester
Merrimack Valley Project, Inc.
$4,000 – Immigrant Protection Campaign
Mothers for Justice and Equality
$3,000 – MJE Youth Peer Leadership Program
Mystic Learning Center, Inc.
$4,000 – Books of Hope
Mystic River Watershed Association
$4,000 – Uncoming a Hidden Migration
New Economy Coalition
$4,000 – CommonBound 2018
Pathways for Children, Inc.
$2,000 – Community Builders
Project Hope
$5,000 – Family Childcare and Business Enterprise
Raw Art Works
$3,000 – Arts-Based Teen Employment and Workforce Readiness Training for Underserved Youth
Rehearsal for Life
$4,000 – Youth Unscripted
Restoration Project
$4,000 – General Operating Support
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay
$4,000 – Youth Jobs and Leadership Development
Sociedad Latina
$5,000 – ¡Emprende! Youth Entrepreneurship Program
The Sontag Prize in Urban Education
$5,000 – Acceleration Academies in Greater Boston Area
South Street Youth Center
$4,000 – South Street Clubhouse
Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
$5,000 – 2019 Green Team
Strong Women, Strong Girls
$3,000 – Skills-building Mentor Program for Girls
Summer Search
$2,000 – Summer Outdoor Adventure and Academic Experiences for Summer Search Students
Transformative Culture Project
$7,000 – General Support
TSNE MissionWorks
f/b/o The Carrot Project
$4,000 – Deepening Roots, Growing Success: Next Steps
TSNE MissionWorks
f/b/o New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
$4,000 – Creating Interactive Online Risk Management Training Modules for Sustainable Farmers
uAspire
$3,000 – College Affordability Advising – Greater Boston
United Nations Association of Greater Boston
$3,000 – Inspiring the Next Generation of Civic Leaders Through Model UN
Victory Programs, Inc.
$5,000 – ReVision Urban Farm Food Insecurity Reduction and Nutritional Education Programming
Waltham Fields Community Farm
$5,000 – Learning Garden and Youth Crew Education
WEATOC, Inc.
$5,000 – WEATOC Peer Education Center
Wellspring House, Inc.
$4,000 – Wellspring Education Resource Collaborative for Youth or WERC/Youth
West Roxbury Academy
$4,000 – Restorative Justice Arts Education MakerSpace at WRA
WriteBoston
$3,000 – Teens in Print: A Citywide Teen Newspaper and After-school Program
YMCA of Greater Boston
$5,000 – Boston Police Department/YMCA Campership Program
ZUMIX
$2,000 – Hands On Youth Development Programs
TOTAL 2018 COMPETITIVE GRANTS: $340,000
Memberships
Associated Grant Makers
Boston, MA
$2,500
Council on Foundations
Washington, DC
$4,600
TOTAL MEMBERSHIPS: $7,100
The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists
Boston Lyric Opera
Boston, MA
$13,422
Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,565 – Northeastern Regional Auditions
$13,750 – Lindemann Young Artist Development Program
Discretionary Grants
350.ORG
$1,000 – Strategic campaigns to force politicians to rise to the challenge of our time
Alzheimer’s Association
$1,000 – For Research at the Massachusetts/New Hampshire Chapter
American Cancer Society, Inc
$1,000 – Operating Support
American Friends of Christ Church
f/b/o Christ Church, Oxford England
$10,000 – scholarships and student aid
American Friends Service Committee
$1,000 – Operating support
The American Fund for Emmanuel
f/b/o Emmanuel College
$10,000 – for the planning and implementation of new college capital projects to enable post-doctoral researchers to become part of the Emmanuel community
Americans for Oxford, Inc.
f/b/o Wolfson College, Oxford, England
$1,000 – for post-graduate scholarships and to partner with the CARA Fellowship Programme
Arlington Street Church
$5,000 – Building & Grounds
Babson College
$1,000 – Operating support of the archive
$5,000 – Pride Alliance & OUT Network
$15,000 – The Centennial Park Project
BAGLY, Inc.
$5,000 – Education on transgender rights
Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
$20,000 – General operations and endowment
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc.
$1,000 – Provision of essential resources to homeless families
Boston Landmarks Orchestra
$1,000 – in support of outreach and inclusion of diverse communities
$1,000 – Education & Outreach
$1,000 – Youth Programs
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
$1,000 – for general operations
British Schools and Universities Foundation
f/b/o the Uppingham School
$2,000 – scholarships and student aid
Cambridge in America
f/b/o Clare College, Cambridge, England
$1,000 – for post graduate scholarships
Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Inc.
$2,000 – General operations
Charles River Watershed Association, Inc.
$1,000 – Clean-up of the river and kids programs
Children’s Defense Fund
$1,000 – for the Holiday Match to fund programs aimed to help struggling and poor children in the NYC area and elsewhere in the USA
Commonwealth Zoological Corporation
d/b/a Zoo New England
$2,000 – General operations for Franklin Park Zoo and Stone Zoo
Corporate Angel Network Inc.
$2,000 – Provide children with cancer with transportation to and from treatment facilities
Dana Hall Schools
$10,000 – Annual Fund
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
$1,000 – General operations
Economic Mobility Pathways
$1,000 – Horizon’s Transitional Housing Program
Elizabeth Stone House Inc.
$2,000 – Parent and Child Center
Emory University
$1,000 – for undergraduate scholarships
$5,000 – Emory-Tibet Partnership (Operating support)
Environmental Defense Fund, Inc.
$5,000 – grant at the Catalyst Circle level for EDF Action work on climate change
Esplanade Association Inc.
$1,000 – Planning and Support
Five Colleges Incorporated
$2,500 – Program on Peace and World Security Studies (operating support)
Fonkoze USA
$2,000 – Haiti Relief
Friends of Copley Square Inc.
$1,000 – Operating support
Friends of the Public Garden
$1,000 – Operating support
Friends of the South Hadley Public Library System
$2,500 – General operations
From The Top, Inc.
$1,000 – Radio Program
Fund for Southern Communities
$1,500 – For the grant fund pool
Grassroots International
$2,000 – Operating support
Haymarket People’s Fund
$5,000 – Grant fund pool
Historic Deerfield Inc.
$5,000 – SAB Fund/Children’s Programs
Human Rights Watch, Inc.
$3,000 – Children’s Rights Division
Human Rights Watch, Inc.
$1,000 – Disability Rights Division
International Buddhist Center
$2,000 – General operations
Inversant
$1,000 – Learning Circles with Parents
La Piñata Latin American Cultural Families Network
$1,500 – Operating support
Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
$2,000 – Operating support
Massachusetts Audobon Society
f/b/o The Boston Nature Center
$1,000 – City youth programs
Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness
$5,000 – 2020 Focus, a youth enrichment and empowerment program
Massachusetts Historical Society
$1,000 – Teaching History Initiative
Miami University Foundation, Inc.
$5,000 – for the Ann Louise Wilkinson Scholarship
Mt. Toby Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends
$1,000 – Operating support
Museum of Fine Arts
$1,000 – Youth Programs
Museum of Science
$1,000 – Camp-in Program
New England Buddhist Vihara & Meditation Center
$3,500 – Meditation Building Fund
New Hampshire Public Broadcasting
$2,000 – Operating Support
Nipponzan Myohoji USA
$1,000 – Peace Pagoda, Leverett; Peace Pagoda, London
$1,000 – DC temple/dojo
Noble & Greenough School
$1,000 – Achieve Summer academic program
The Nolumbeka Project
$1,000 – General operations
Nonviolent Peaceforce
$1,000 – Protection of children in South Sudan
Partners Home Care
$1,000 – In Home Hospice Programs
Peace Action Education Fund
$3,500 – Support of the student network S.P.A.N.
Perkins School for the Blind
$2,000 – Early Intervention and Guide Dog Programs; Transition Program
Purple Heart Homes
$1,000 – Disabled Veterans Home Ownership Program
Red Tomato
$1,000 – Operating support
Rosie’s Place Inc.
$1,000 – Shelter/Job Training
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
$1,000 – for general operations and the “Know the Signs” violence prevention program
Sarvodaya USA
$1,500 – Sarvodaya Children’s Orphanage in Sri Lanka
$1,000 – Sri Tissapura Organic Model Farm and Training Center
$1,500 – Sarvodaya Suwasetha Girls Homes
Southern Poverty Law Center, Inc.
$1,000 – for the Annual Fund Campaign for operating expenses
Special Olympics, Inc.
$1,000 – General Operations for programs in NE and NH
Stanford University
f/b/o Stanford Fund for Undergraduate Education
$12,000 – for scholarships and student aid
Steps to Success
$1,000 – to establish the Jim Fund in honor of Jim Fitzgibbons
True Story
$2,000 – Operating support
Trustees of Deerfield Academy
$1,000 – Native American Alliance
University of Massachusetts Boston
$1,000 – For the exhibition program In Place: Local Ecologies of Eastern Massachusetts at the University Hall Art Gallery
University of Virginia Law School Foundation
$5,000 – for operating support and Law School scholarships where needed
Veterans Education Project Incorporated
$5,000 – Operating support
VietAid
$1,000 – General operations
Visual Arts Library
$1,000 – General operations
Warren J Plaut Charitable Trust
f/b/o The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice
$1,000 – The Resistance Center Fund
Wellesley Scholarship Foundation Inc.
$4,000 – 2,000 P&E; 2,000 S&D Scholarship Endowment
WGBH Educational Foundation
$2,000 – Children’s Programming
TOTAL 2018 DISCRETIONARY GRANTS: $230,000