Competitive Grants

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

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

Apprentice Learning
$5,000 – Career Exploration for Middle School Students

Asian Community Development Corporation
$3,000 – A-VOYCE (Asian Voices of Organized Youth for Community Empowerment)

Backyard Growers
$5,000 – Aiding & Advancing our Core Garden Programming

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
$5,000 – Advanced Standing Associate Program (ASAP): Full-time Dual Enrollment for High School Seniors

Boston Building Resources – Reuse Center
$5,000 – Reuse Center Operations

Boston Debate League
$5,000 – After-School Debate Program

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

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

Boston Schools Fund Inc.
$3,000 – Partnering with Educators to Accelerate Knowledge (PEAK)

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
$2,000 – Intensive Community Program

Boston’s Higher Ground
$5,000 – Surround Care Coalition Out of School Time program

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston
$7,500 – Life After the Club (LATC)/Ready To Work (RTW) workforce readiness program

Breaktime United, Inc.
$5,000 – Operational Support for Young Adults in the Breaktime Program

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

The Carroll Center for the Blind
$3,000 – Comprehensive Vision Services for Youth with Blindness or Low Vision

Casa Myrna Vasquez
$5,000 – Youth Economic Stability Program

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

Center for Women & Enterprise
$5,000 – Entrepreneurship Training for Low-Income Women

Chica Project
$4,000 – Supporting chica project’s 2023-2025 Strategic Plan Rollout

Clean Water Fund
$5,000 – Supporting the Next Generation of Climate Leaders

Codman Square Health Center
$4,000 – Promoting Equity, Economic Empowerment & Healthcare Careers in Codman Youth Summer Intern Program

College for Social Innovation
$5,000 – Educating and Inspiring the Next Generation of Problem Solvers

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

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 Young Children for School and Life – General Operating Support

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

Emerald Necklace Conservancy
$5,000 – Building Community in Boston’s Largest Park System

English for New Bostonians
$5,000 – ESOL Strategies for Immigrant Economic Mobility

EVkids Inc.
$5,000 – Inspiring Connections: Tutoring for Underserved Boston Youth

Found in Translation
$4,000 – Language Access Fellowship Medical Interpreter Certificate Training and Job Placement

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

Future Chefs
$5,000 – Future Chefs: FC Delivers

Girls’ LEAP
$5,000 – 2024 Girls’ Lifetime Awareness Empowerment Program (LEAP)

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

GreenRoots Inc.
$5,000 – Achieving Food Sovereignty and Food Justice through Community-led Urban Agriculture

Haley House
$4,000 – Thornton Street Farm

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

Interise
$5,000 – Scaling Minority- and Women-owned Small Businesses through Procurement

International Institute of New England
$5,000 – IINE-Boston’s Comprehensive Career Services for Refugees and Immigrants

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
$5,000 – Youth Empowerment to Prevent Extinction

Jeremiah Program
$5,000 – Economic Mobility through Postsecondary Education for Boston Single Mothers

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

Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts
$3,000 – Student Trainer Workforce Development & Academic Enrichment Program

Literations (formerly Generations, Incorporated)
$5,000 – Boston Sustained Tutoring Program

Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund
$2,000 – Civics In Action Internship Program

Merrimack Valley Project, Inc.
$2,000 – Immigrant Education Campaign

More Than Words
$2,000 – More Than Words General Operating

Mothers for Justice and Equality
$5,000 – MJE Trauma Informed Youth Services

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

Mystic River Watershed Association
$6,000 – Using the Mystic River as a Living Laboratory

New Economy Coalition
$6,000- New Economy Coalition’s 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 – Pathways School Age Care Program

Philanthropy MA
$12,000 – Summer Fund

Raising a Reader MA
$5,000 – 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 NS, Inc.
$5,000 – Culinary Training and Alumni Employment Program

Sisters Unchained
$5,000 – Sisters Unchained Transformative Leadership Program

Sociedad Latina
$3,000 – Pathways to Success

Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
$4,000 – Green Team Youth Jobs and Environmental Stewardship Program

Strong Women, Strong Girls
$3,000 – SWSG, Boston, General Operating Support FY24

Summer Search
$3,000 – Transformative Summer Experiences for High School Students

Theatrezone Inc. d/b/a Apollinaire Theatre Company
$5,000 – Apollinaire Play Lab

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

Union Capital Boston
$2,000 – UCB Community Leadership Development Training Program

Waltham Fields Community Farm
$5,000 – Education and Enrichment Programs

Wellspring House, Inc.
$4,000 – Career Pathways & Mentor Program at Gloucester High School

Women’s Money Matters
$2,000 – Expansion of Financial Wellness Programs for Women Living on Low Incomes

WriteBoston
$5,000 – 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
$5,000 – Healthy Kitchen & Garden Program

ZUMIX
$4,000 – Hands On Creative Youth Development Program

TOTAL 2023 COMPETITIVE GRANTS: $333,500