2017 Grants

Competitive Grants

America SCORES New England
$4,000 – Leadership in Action & Leadership Academy

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

Apollinaire Theatre Company
$4,000 – Apollinaire Play Lab

Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue
$2,000 – Art & Dialogue: Boston 2018

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
$12,000 – Summer Fund

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

Bird Street Community Center
$5,000 – Boys Glassarts Program

Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, Inc.
$4,000 – Victory Generation Program

Boston Coalition Young Man with a Plan
$3,000 – Young Man with a Plan Summer Program

The Boston Foundation
$5,000 – Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico Fund: for resettlement support in the Boston area

Boston Tax Help Coalition
$5,000 – Financial Check-Up Expansion

Boston Partners in Education, Inc.
$4,000 – Accelerate Math

Boston Private Industry Council, Inc.
$3,000 – Financial Literacy and Career Exploration Program

Bostonian Society Corp
$4,000 – Past Meets Present

Budget Buddies, Inc.
$4,000 – Girl’s LIFE (Learning Independence through Financial Education) Boston Pilot Program

Career Collaborative, Inc.
$4,000 – General operations

The Carrot Project
$4,000 – Deepening Roots, Growing Success: Next Steps

Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc.
$3,000 – Community Voices: Speaking Truth

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

Codman Academy Foundation
$5,000 – Camp Merrowvista Leadership Program

College Bound Dorchester, Inc.
$4,000 – College Connections Maritime Apprenticeship Pathway (MAP)

Community Farms Outreach
$3,000 – Learning Garden and Youth Crew Education Programs

Community Outreach Group Inc.
$2,000 – Training for Shepherds

Compass Working Capital, Inc.
$5,000 – Family Self-Sufficiency Program

Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation, Inc.
$5,000 – CinemaTec: Cultural Enrichment Through the Cinema Arts

Cristo Rey Boston High School
$5,000 – Corporate Work-Study Non-Profit Placement Subsidization

Cultural Survival, Inc.
$6,000 – The Cultural Survival Indigenous Artisans’ Summer Institute

Discovering Justice
$2,500 – Transforming Middle School Students into Trial and Appellate Lawyers

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
$5,000 – Job Placement and Re-Entry Program

East Boston Ecumenical Community Council
$5,000 – ASPIRING, College Bridge Program

Emmanuel Gospel Center
$3,000 – Making Youth Voices Heard

English for New Bostonians, Inc.
$5,000 – ESOL for Entrepreneurs

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

EVKids, Inc.
$5,000 – Growing Impact: Serving More Boston Youth in an Effective 1-on-1 Tutoring Program

Family & Childrens Service of Greater Lynn, Inc.
$4,000 – TEEN SCENE (TS)

Fractured Atlas, Inc.
$3,000 – A Sweet Fairytale: a food opera

Franklin Park Coalition, Inc.
$5,000 – Youth Conservation Crew

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

Gedakina, Inc.
$5,000 – Braiding Sweetgrass

Generations Incorporated
$5,000 – Expanding Early Literacy Interventions in Boston

Girls Incorporated of Lynn
$2,000 – ODYSSEY Program

Greater Boston Nazarene Compassionate Center, Inc.
$5,000 – Food Pantry

GreeningRozzie, Inc.
$4,000 – Healy Field Commnity Garden

Haley House, Inc.
$4,000 – Urban Agriculture

The Haven Project, Inc.
$4,000 – Catalyst

Hawthorne Youth and Community Center Incorporated
$4,000 – General Operations

Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
$5,000 – Paths to College and Careers Program

IC Foundation (Investors’ Circle)
$3,000 – Boston Local Network

Institute for Policy Studies
$5,000 – Jamaica Plain Forum and Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition

International Institute of Boston, Inc.
$5,000 – Refugee Employment Services

Inversant, Inc.
$5,000 – Engaging Families for Student Success in Revere

Jeremiah Program
$3,000 – Moving Young Single Mothers and their Children From Poverty to Prosperity in Boston

Jewish Vocational Service, Inc.
$5,000 – Pharmacy Technician Certification Training Program

Josiah Quincy Orchestra Program
$3,000 – General operations

Julie’s Family Learning Program, Inc.
$3,000 – Adult and Children’s Services

Margaret Fuller-Neighborhood House, Inc.
$5,000 – Youth Development and STEAM Initiative

Mass Mentoring Partnership, Inc.
$2,000 – Expanding Empowering Youth-Adult Relationships Across Greater Boston

More Than Words, Inc.
$2,000 – Social Enterprise Youth Development Program

Mystic Learning Center
$5,000 – Books Of Hope

Mystic River Watershed Association, Inc.
$4,000 – Mystic River Herring Education Project

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing, Inc.
$5,000 – Green Youth Leadership Crew

New England Center for Arts & Technology, Inc.
$4,000 – Culinary Job Training Program

Pathways for Children, Inc.
$3,000 – School Age Care — Community Builders Enrichment Program

Philbrick Elementary School
$5,000 – Philbrick Habitat Garden

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Inc.
$2,000 – General Operating Support

Project Hope
$5,000 – Famly Childcare and Business Enterprise

Raw Art Works
$4,000 – Employment and Workforce Readiness Training for Underserved Youth

The Record Company, Inc.
$5,000 – Youth Recording Grant Pilot Program

Save the Harbor Save the Bay
$4,000 – Youth Employment and Leadership Development Program

Scholar Athletes
$3,000 – Boston Scholar Athletes Playbook

Sociedad Latina, Inc.
$5,000 – ¡Emprende! Youth Entrepreneurship Program

South Street Youth Center
$4,000 – South Street Clubhouse

Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
$5,000 – 2018 Green Team

SparkShare, Inc.
$5,000 – Refining and expanding the SparkShare 2.0 Youth Engagement Program

St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children
$3,000 – GRLZradio.org

Stoneham Theatre Corporation
$2,000 – Advanced young company Ensemble

Strong Women, Strong Girls, Inc.
$3,000 – Multi-generational mentoring

Summer Search
$3,000 – Outdoor Adventure and Academic Experiences

uAspire
$3,000 – College Affordability Advising

Union Capital Boston, Inc.
$3,000 – Diamond Leaders Fellowship Program

Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry
$2,000 – Believe in Success

United South End Settlements
$3,000 – Arts in Early Learning

University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc.
$3,000 – Saturday Camp

Urban Farming Institute of Boston
$4,000 – General operating

Victory Programs, Inc.
$5,000 – ReVision Urban Farm Food Insecurity Reduction and Nutritional Education Initiative

Vietnamese-American Initiative for Development, Inc.
$3,000 – Viet-AID Leadership Alliance (VALA)

Waltham Partnership for Youth, Inc.
$3,000 – Youth Work Collaborative

West End House, Inc.
$2,000 – Leadership & Career Development

WriteBoston, Inc.
$2,000 – Teens in Print Youth Journalism Program

YMCA of Greater Boston
$7,000 – Boston Police Department/YMCA Campership Program

ZUMIX, Inc.
$4,000 – Hands-On Youth Development Program

TOTAL 2017 COMPETITIVE GRANTS:  $369,500

 

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
$12,786

Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,302 – Northeastern Regional Auditions
$13,098 – Lindemann Young Artist Development Program

TOTAL SABOFEA:  $31,186

 

Discretionary Grants

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

Alzheimer’s Association, MA/NH Chapter
$1,000 – Research

American Cancer Society, Inc.
$1,000 – Operating Support

American Friends of Christ Church, Inc.
f/b/o Christ Church, Oxford England
$2,000 – Scholarships
$8,000 – General operations

American Friends Service Committee
$1,000 – Operating support

The American Fund for Emmanuel
f/b/o Emmanuel College
$10,000 – Planning and implementation of capital projects to enable 100 postdoctoral researchers to join the Emmanuel community

The American Fund for LSE
$1,000 – General operations of the London School of Economics

Americans for Oxford, Inc.
f/b/o Wolfson College, Oxford, England
$1,000 – Post graduate scholarships

Arlington Street Church
$5,000 – Building & grounds

Babson College
$2,500 – PRIDE Alliance
$2,500 – OUT Network
$3,000 – Operating support of the Babson family archives

Baker Ripley
$1,000 – Neighborhood Centers’ disaster relief services for those impacted by Hurricane Harvey

Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
$10,000 – General operating support
$10,000 – Endowment

Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Inc.
$1,000 – Provision of essential resources to homeless families

Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Inc.
$1,500 – Education & Outreach

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
$1,000 – Youth Programs

Bostonian Society
$1,250 – Blood on the Snow project

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
$1,000 – General operations

British Schools and Universities Foundation
f/b/o The Uppingham School
$2,000 – General operations and scholarships

Buddhist Vihara Society Incorporated
$1,000 – New meditation center in Gaithersburg, MD

Cambridge in America
f/b/o Clare College, Cambridge, England
$1,000 – Post graduate scholarships

Center for Khmer Studies
$1,000 – General operations

Chamber of Orchestra of Boston, Inc.
$1,500 – General operations

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

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

Dana Hall Schools
$10,000 – Annual Fund

Defenders of the Black Hills
$1,000 – General operations

Dexter Southfield
$5,000 – The Rainbow Café (GSA)

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
$1,000 – General operations

Economic Mobility Pathways
$2,000 – Horizon’s Transitional Housing Program

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

Emory University
$1,000 – Undergraduate scholarships
$5,000 – Emory-Tibet Partnership

Environmental Defense Fund
$5,000 – (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 – General operations

Friends of the Public Garden
$1,000 – General operations

Friends of the South Hadley Public Library System
$2,500 – The Building Fund and general operations

From The Top, Inc.
$2,000 – Radio Program

Fund for Southern Communities
$1,500 – For the Grant Fund Pool

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Inc. (GLAD)
$2,000 – General operations

Grassroots International
$2,000 – General operations

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

Helen Keller International
$1,000 – Leadership work to prevent blindness and providing eyeglasses to children in the USA

Historic Deerfield Inc.
$5,000 – SAB Fund and Children’s Programs

Human Rights Watch
$1,000 – Children’s Rights Division, for the Lois Whitman Fund
$1,000 – Disibility Rights Division

Huntington Theater Company
$1,000 – Youth programming

International Buddhist Center
$2,000 – Educational work with youth

Jefferson Society Inc.
$1,000 – General operations

La Piñata Latin American Cultural Families Network
$1,500 – General operations

Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
$2,000 – General operations

Massachusetts Audubon Society
f/b/o The Boston Nature Center
$1,000 – City youth programs

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

Massachusetts Historical Society
$1,000 – Teaching History Initiative

Miami University Foundation, Inc.
$5,000 – Ann Louise Wilkinson Scholarship

Mt. Toby Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends
$1,000 – General operations

Museum of Fine Arts
$1,000 – Youth Programs

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

New England Buddhist Vihara & Meditation Center
$4,000 – Meditation Building Fund

New Hampshire Public Broadcasting
$2,000 – General operations

Newton Cultural Alliance
$1,250 – in support of the Allen House’s historic relationship with the Myrtle Street Baptist Church

Nipponzan Myohoji USA
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Leverett
$500 – Peace Pagoda, London
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Sri Lanka
$2,000 – Washington DC and Maryland projects

Noble & Greenough School
$1,500 – Achieve Summer academic program

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

Oxfam America
$1,000 – For work in Puerto Rico

Partners Home Care
$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
$1,000 – Transition Program

Purple Heart Homes
$1,000 – Disabled Veterans Home Ownership Program

Red Tomato
$1,000 – General operations

Remote Area Medical
$1,000 – Mobile clinics and disaster relief, especially in Puerto Rico

Rosie’s Place Inc.
$1,000 – Shelter and Job Training

Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
$1,000 – General operations

Sarvodaya USA
$3,000 – Sarvodaya Children’s Orphanage in Sri Lanka

School Year Abroad
$1,000 – General operations

Southern Poverty Law Center
$1,000 – for the Annual Fund Campaign for operating expenses

Special Olympics, Inc.
$2,000 – General operations for programs in NE and NH

Stanford University
f/b/o The Stanford Fund for Undergraduate Education
$10,000 – for scholarships at the President’s Level Fund in honor of the class of 1973’s 45th reunion (Class of 1973)
$1,000 – The Stanford Fund for Undergraduate Education (class of 2007)
$1,000 – The Stanford Fund for Undergraduate Education (class of 2010)

Threshold Foundation
$2,000 – for the general pool

True Story Theater
$2,000 – General operations

Trustees of Deerfield Academy
$1,000 – Native American Alliance

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

University of Virginia Law School Foundation
$5,000 – General operations and Law School scholarships where needed

Veteran’s Education Project Incorporated
$5,000 – General operations

Visual Arts Library
$1,000 – General operations

Wellesley Scholarship Foundation Inc.
$1,000 – Paul and Edith Babson Scholarship Endowment
$1,000 – Susan and Donald Babson Scholarship Endowment

WGBH Educational Foundation
$2,000 – Children’s Programming

Zoo New England
$1,000 – General operations for Franklin Park Zoo
$1,000 – General operations for Stone Zoo

TOTAL 2017 DISCRETIONARY GRANTS:  $230,000