Competitive Grants

Alray Taylor Second Chance Scholarship Fund
$3,500 – Mentor Training and Support

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

Apprentice Learning
$4,000 – General Operations

The ArtCouncil Inc., DBA Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue
$2,000 – Artadia’s Boston Programs: the Boston Artadia Awards and Artadia Network

Ascendus (formerly Accion East, Inc.)
$2,500 – Small business Resiliency and Growth for Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Greater Boston

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

Backyard Growers
$2,000 – Backyard Growers to Strengthen, Sustain, & Spread Food-Growing Communities

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
$5,000 – Early College: Building Technical Career Pathways While Reducing Student Debt

Beyond Walls
$3,500 – Taking the Classroom to the Streets

Boston Baroque
$3,000 – Boston Baroque: 50th Anniversary Season

Boston Building Resources – Reuse Center
$3,000 – Reuse Center Operations

Boston Debate League
$2,000 – Empowering Youth Through After-School Debate

Boston Farms Community Land Trust
$5,000 – Supporting urban farms in Mattapan, Dorchester, and Roxbury

Boston Harbor Now
$5,000 – Harbor and Islands Education Experience Fund

Boston Missionary Baptist Community Center
$4,000 – New Generation Youth Program

Boston Music Project
$3,000 – Program Support with a Focus on Leadership Programming

Boston Partners in Education
$3,000 – General Operating Support

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

Boston Schools Fund Inc.
$3,000 – Leveling the Playing Field in Education for High-Need Students in Boston

Boston Scores
$4,000 – Leadership in Action

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston
$5,000 – Life After the Club (LATC)/Ready To Work (RTW) workforce readiness program

Breaktime United, Inc.
$3,500 – Operational Support for Young Adults in Breaktime Program

Budget Buddies
$5,000 – Expansion of Financial Empowerment Programs for Women and Teen Girls Living on Low Incomes

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

Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation
$2,000 – The Paul A. Castleman Policy Fellowship

Center for Women & Enterprise
$4,000 – Entrepreneurship Training for Low-Income Women
Central Square Theater
$3,000 – Youth Underground

Chica Project
$3,000 – General Operating Support for Chica Project

City Mission Inc.
$4,000- The Social Justice Internship Program (SJIP)

College for Social Innovation
$4,000 – Educating and Inspiring the Next Generation of Problem Solvers

Community Art Center, Inc.
$3,000 – Teen Programs

Cooperative Development Institute f/b/o Dorchester Food Co-op
$5,000 – Building the solidarity economy through a healthy food access and community ownership lens

Crispus Attucks Children’s Center
$2,000 – Preparing Children for School and Life – General Operating Support

Cultural Survival, Inc.
$5,000 – Building a Sustainable Program to Support Indigenous Entrepreneurship

Economic Mobility Pathways AKA EMpath (Crittenton Women’s Union)
$4,000 – Career Family Opportunity Program

Education Through Music- Massachusetts, Inc. (ETM-MA)
$3,000 – ETM-MA Music Education School Partnership Program 2022-2023 Academic Year

English for New Bostonians
$3,000 – Immigrant Economic Recover and Resilience

Environment Massachusetts Research & Policy Center
$4,000 – Students for 100% Renewable Energy

The Epiphany School, Inc.
$4,000 – Epiphany School’s Graduate Support Program

EVKids, Inc.
$4,000 – Inspiring Connections: Tutoring for Underserved Boston Youth

The Food Project
$4,000 – The Food Project’s 2022-23 Youth Programs

Friends of the Children-Boston
$5,000 – Friends-Boston Financial Literacy and Incentive Based Savings Program

Friends of the Community Growing Center
$2,000 – Nurtured by Nature: Cultivating Meaningful and Sustainable Connections Through an Urban Greenspace

Future Chefs
$4,000 – Future Chefs School to Career Programming

Girls’ LEAP
$2,000 – 2023 Girls’ Lifetime Awareness Empowerment Program (LEAP)

Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, Inc.
$4,000 – Summer Internship Program

Gloucester Stage Company, Inc.
$3,000 – Gloucester Stage Theater Education Programs

GreenRoots Inc.
$4,000 – Achieving Food Justice and Improving Public Health of Food-Insecure Residents in Chelsea

Haley House, Inc.
$4,000 – Urban Farming at Haley House

Haven Project, Inc.
$4,000 – The Haven Project Job Training Program

Hyde Square Task Force
$5,000 – Jóvenes en Acción/Youth in Action Program

International Institute of New England
$4,000 – Refugee Employment Services (RES)

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
$4,000 – Youth Empowerment to Prevent Extinction (YEPE)

Inversant
$4,000 – Inversant College Savings Match Program
Jeremiah Program
$4,000 – Economic Mobility through Postsecondary Education for Boston Single Mothers

LA PINATA – the Latin American Cultural Family Network, Inc.
$2,000 – Dia de Los Muertos Cultural Workshops & Community Event

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

Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts
$4,000 – Student Trainer Academic & Workforce Development Program

Literations
$4,000 – Boston Sustained Tutoring Program

Madison Park Development Corporation (MPDC)
$4,000 – 2023 Roxbury Community Garden Initiative

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

Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund
$4,000 – Civics in Action Internship Program

Merrimack Valley Project, Inc.
$4,000 – 2022 Latino Civic Engagement Campaign

Mothers for Justice and Equality
$4,000 – MJE Trauma Informed Youth Services

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

Mystic River Watershed Association
$4,000 – Using the Mystic River as a Living Laboratory

New Economy Coalition
$4,000 – New Economy Coalition’s Hybrid Annual Member Meeting & Massachusetts Regional Gathering

New England Center for Arts & Technology
$3,000 – Culinary Arts job Training Program

Pathways for Children, Inc.
$5,000 – School Age Care (SAC) Positive Youth Development Programming

Philanthropy MA
$12,000 – The Summer Fund

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
$4,000 – Arts-Based Teen Employment and Workforce Readiness Training for Underserved Youth

Root
$4,000 – Operating support for Root Youth Training and Employment Program and Community Catering Initiative.

SCORE Boston
$3,000 – Virtual Small Business Workshops

Seaside Sustainability, Inc.
$2,000 – Green Scholars Goes Digital (GSGD)

Shooting Touch Inc.
$2,000 – Shooting Touch Boston (STB) Program

Sisters Unchained
$3,000 – Sisters Unchained Programming

Sociedad Latina
$2,000 – Pathways to Success

South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation
$4,000 – South Boston NDC Community Park and Garden

Summer Search
$3,000 – Summer Experiences for Students

Theatrezone Inc. DBA Apollinaire Theatre Company
$2,000 – Apollinaire Play Lab

TSNE MissionWorks f/b/o The Carrot Project
$3,000 – Enhancing 1:1 Business Technical Assistance to Startup Farm & Food Businesses in Greater Boston

Union Capital Boston
$3,000 – Network Nights to Build Social Capital

Urban Farming Institute
$3,000 – Support for UFI’s Farmer Training Program

Urbano Project Inc.
$1,500 – Youth Artist Projects (YAP) and Artist Residencies (AiR)

Wellspring House, Inc.
$4,000 – Career Pathways at Gloucester High School (formerly WERC/Youth)

The Wiley Network
$5,000 – Expansion: Meeting the Need in Greater Boston

WriteBoston
$4,500 – Teens in Print: A citywide teen publication and after-school program

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

YMCA of Metro North
$3,000 – Enhancing OST (Out-of-School Time)

Youth Enrichment Services
$3,000 – YES Teen Leadership Corps

ZUMIX
$4,000 – Creative Youth Development Programs

TOTAL 2022 COMPETITIVE GRANTS: $362,000