2016 Competitive Grants
AIDS United
Washington, DC
$2,000 – General Operations
Bikes Not Bombs
Jamaica Plain, MA
$1,000 – Cycloville: Bicycle Industry in Kenya
Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
Boston, MA
$3,000 – General Operations
Boston Mobilization
Cambridge, MA
$1,000 – Sub/Urban Justice
Children’s Defense Fund
Washington, DC
$2,500 – Freedom Schools
Class Action
Jamaica Plain, MA
$1,000 – General Operating Support
Crossing the Waters Institute for Cultural Exchange, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$2,000 – General Operations
Ex-prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement
Worcester, MA
$1,250 – Jobs NOT Jails
Fenway Community Health Center
Boston, MA
$4,000 – Sidney Borum, Jr. Health Center
First Nations Development Institute
Longmont, CO
$1,000 – Native Youth and Culture Fund (NYCF)
Forestdale
Forest Hills, NY
$2,000 – Healthy Futures Pregnancy Program and in recognition of Anstiss Agnew’s
retirement as Executive Director
Gedakina, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$2,000 – Keepers of the Earth
Gift of Adoption Fund
Techny, IL
$5,000 – Adoption Assistance
Haley House, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Urban Agriculture at Haley House
Homework House Inc.
Holyoke, MA
$2,000 – Summer Readers & Leaders
Hoʻōla Nā Pua
Haleiwa, HI
$1,000 – Starfish Mentoring Program
Human Rights Watch
New York, NY
$10,000 – Defending the Rights of Children Worldwide
Mass Humanities
Northampton, MA
$1,000 – Family Adventures in Reading (FAIR)
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE)
Boston, MA
$5,000 – General Operations
Mothers for Justice and Equality
Roxbury, MA
$1,000 – Civic Leadership Academy
Native American Community Board
Lake Andes, SD
$2,000 – Yankton Sioux Language and Heritage Preservation Program
Nolumbeka Project, Inc.
Greenfield, MA
$2,000 – Indigenous Garden Development
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
New York, NY
$3,500 – La Onda Verde – Latino Outreach and Advocacy
Open Pantry Community Services
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – Emergency Food Pantry
Peace & Justice Center
Burlington, VT
$1,000 – General Operations
Peace Development Fund
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – The Sustainability Project
Peace First
Boston, MA
$1,000 – The Peace First Challenge
Perkins School for the Blind
Watertown, MA
$5,000 – Camp Abilities
Raising a Reader MA
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Raising a Reader Springfield
REACH Beyond Domestic Violence
Waltham, MA
$4,000 – Peers Against Violence
Rediscovery at JRI
Boston, MA
$1,000 – YouthHarbors
TEAM Jaffrey
Jaffrey, NH
$4,000 – Community Engagement & Strategic Planning
The Children’s Aid Society
New York, NY
$1,000 – Go! Healthy Youth Food Justice Program at Curtis High School
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
Hatfield, MA
$1,000 – Youth Summit on Hunger and Food Justice
The Gray House, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – Kids’ Club
The Performance Project
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – First Generation – Tenderness
The Possibility Project (Cities at Peace)
New York, NY
$2,250 – Saturday Youth Empowerment Program
The River Center
Peterborough, NH
$1,250 – Employment Resource Center
The Safina Center
Setauket, NY
$2,000 – General Operations
The Theater Offensive
Boston, MA
$1,250 – OUT In Your Neighborhood: Art for Social Justice
The Treehouse Foundation
Easthampton, MA
$1,000 – Youth Truth
Veterans Education Project
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – Veteran Sharing Experiences
We the Villagers
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – We The Villagers
Women’s Educational Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$2,000 – Healing Empowerment through Arts Learning Program
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$1,000 – Audience Accessibility Programming
Youth On Their Own
Tucson, AZ
$1,000 – YOTO Program
Total Competitive: $93,000
2016 Discretionary Grants
American Civil Union Foundation of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Massachusetts Education Fund
American Indian Institute, Inc.
Bozeman, MT
$1,000 – 2016 Elders & Youth Council
BAGLY
Boston, MA
$10,000 – General Operations
Dallas Foundation
Dallas, TX
$2,000 – Tommy Tranchin Fund
EcoVillage Network of Americas (ENA)
Moffat, CO
$1,000 – General Operations
Featherstone Center for the Arts
Oak Bluffs, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
Franklin Pierce University
Rindge, NH
$1,000 – Jaffrey-Rindge Camp QUEST
Friends of the Public Garden
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Restoration of White Memorial
GLAD Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
Boston, MA
$4,000 – General Operations
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
New York, NY
$2,000 – College Prep Programs
Helen Keller International
New York, NY
$1,000 – Eye Health Programs in the United States and Globally
Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School District
Rindge, NH
$1,000 – Destination Imagination
Juvenile Law Center
Philadelphia, PA
$1,000 – General Operations
Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
Cambridge, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives
MassEquality Education Fund
Boston, MA
$3,000 – General Operations
Miriam’s Kitchen
Washington, DC
$1,000 – General Operations
NEADS (National Education for Assistance Dog Services)
Princeton, MA
$5,000 – Boston Marathon Bombing Survivors’ Fund
Newton, Wellesley, Weston Committee for Community Living
Newton, MA
$10,000 – Paul T. Babson Jubilee House
Nipponzan Myohoji USA
Leverett, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives
Nonviolent Peaceforce
Minneapolis, MN
$1,000 – General Operations
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)
New York, NY
$10,000 – Biogems Programs and Operating Support
Park Theatre Restoration Project
Jaffrey, NH
$4,000 – General Operations
Peace Action Education Fund
Silver Spring, MD
$1,000 – General Operations
Point Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000 – General Operations
Share our Strength
Washington, DC
$1,000 – General Operations
Shelter from the Storm
Jaffrey, NH
$1,000 – General Operations
Sirius Community
Shrewsbury, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
South Africa Partners
Boston, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
South Bronx United
Bronx, NY
$2,000 – General Operations
Spaulding Rehab Hospitals
Boston, MA
$5,000 – General Operations – Boston
The Boston Foundation
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Equality Fund
The Meenakshi Foundation
Great Barrington, MA
$10,000 – In Support of girls’ education in South India and foundation outreach in
the United States
United Nations Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Model United Nations for Urban Schools
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000 – Serpentine Society Alumni Association LGBTQ Student Center
Voices Against Violence
Plymouth, NH
$2,000 – General Operations
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Callaway, MN
$1,000 – General Operations
Winsor School
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Student Scholarships
Women’s Refugee Commission
New York, NY
$1,000 – Detention and Asylum Programs
Total Discretionary: $122,000