2019 Competitive Grants
American Indian Institute, Inc.
Bozeman, MT
$1,000 – The 42nd Annual International Elders and Youth Council
Arab American Family Support Center
Brooklyn, NY
$1,000 – General operations
Arise for Social Justice
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – Organizing, Advocacy, and Empowerment for Springfield’s Homeless Families
Arms Control Association
Springfield, MA
$2,000 – Reducing Nuclear Dangers in the Trump Era
Asset Builders of America, Inc.
Madison, WI
$2,000 – General Operating Support
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
New York, NY
$2,000 – General operating support
BAGLY, Inc. (Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth)
Boston, MA
$10,000 – General operating support
Bay State Performing Arts. Inc aka Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
Boston, MA
$4,000 – 2018-2019 BGMC Season
Bethany Christian Services of Northern New England
Candia, NH
$7,000 – NH Safe Families for Children (SFFC)
Bikes Not Bombs, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$1,000 – Women’s Bike Project at Cycloville: Empowering Women and Youth Through Bicycles
Boston Mobilization
Cambridge, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Washington DC
$1,000 – General operations
Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!)
Eugene, OR
$1,000 – Cooperative Gardening to increase food security and improve livelihoods in Boustane Lo, Senegal
Centro Obrero Del Fronterizo
El Paso, TX
$1,000 – General operating support
East Michigan Environmental Action Council f/b/o Native Justice Coalition
Detroit, MI
$1,000 – General operating support
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center f/b/o Domesticas Unidas
San Antonio, TX
$1,000 – Domestic Working Training and Education Program
Families in Transition – New Horizons
Manchester, NH
$5,000 – General operating support
Fenway Community Health Center
Boston, MA
$4,000 – Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center for youth age 12-29
First Nations Development Institute
Longmont, CO
$1,000 – Native Youth and Culture Fund (NYCF)
Gift of Adoption Fund
Techny, IL
$7,000 – To support the adoption of two vulnerable children into permanent, loving families
Global Ecovillage Network – U.S.
Moffat, CO
$1,000 – General operating support
Groundswell International
Washington, DC
$1,000 – Improving the Food Security, Incomes and Nutrition of Women-Led Families in Central Nepal
Haley House, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Urban Agriculture at Haley House
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
New York, NY
$4,000 – General operations for College Quest
Hilltown Village Inc. DBA It Takes a Village
Cummingham, MA
$1,000 – Comprehensive Postpartum Support Model
Homework House Inc.
Holyoke, MA
$1,000 – Summer Readers & Leaders 2019
Honor the Earth
Callaway, MN
$1,000 – Murals, Gardens & Horse Program
International Rescue Committee
New York, NY
$5,000 – General operations for Refugee Resettlement Support Services
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE)
Newton, MA
$7,000 – To support the adoption of two vulnerable children into permanent, loving families
MassEquality Education Fund
Boston, MA
$4,000 – LGBTQ senior empowerment
MIRA Coalition f/b/o Berkshire Immigrant Center
Pittsfield, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Miriam’s Kitchen
Washington, DC
$2,500 – General operating support
Mothers for Justice and Equality
Roxbury, MA
$1,000 – Civic Leadership Academy – You Matter and Financial Literacy Trauma Informed Training
Native American Community Board
Lake Andes, SD
$2,000 – Yankton Sioux Language and Heritage Preservation Program
Natural Resources Defense Council
New York, NY
$1,000 – Latin outreach – the La Ona Verde
NEADS Inc.
Princeton, MA
$5,000 – Service Dog Training Costs
Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala/NISGUA
Oakland, CA
$1,000 – Guatemala Accompaniment Project (GAP)
New American Pathways
Atlanta, GA
$2,089 – English at Home Program
New Hampshire Peace Action Education Fund f/b/o Peace Project
Concord, NH
$1,000 – The River Cried, “Mni W’Coni!” Educational Film Project Operating Support
Nipponzan Myohoji – New England Sangha f/b/o Crossing the Waters Institute for Cultural Exchange, Inc.
Leverett, MA
$2,000 – Website Development and Youth Ambassadors Program
Nolumbeka Project, Inc.
Greenfield, MA
$1,883 – Wissatinnewag: Assessing Ancient Artifacts/Seeding the Future
Open Pantry Community Services, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – Emergency Food Pantry (EFP)
OutRight Action International
New York, NY
$5,000 – General operating support
Peace First, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Peace First Challenge
Perkins School for the Blind
Watertown, MA
$5,000 – Sports and Fitness Outreach Courses for Public School Students who are Blind
Point Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000 – General operating support
Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Access to Justice for Asylum Seekers
Raising a Reader MA
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Raising a Reader Pioneer Valley
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
Newtown, CT
$2,000 – General operations
Share Our Strength
Washington, DC
$7,000 – No Kid Hungry – Massachusetts
Shelter from the Storm
Jaffrey, NH
$1,000 – General operating support
South Bronx United Soccer Club
Bronx, NY
$2,000 – General operations
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, Inc.
Hatfield, MA
$1,000 – SNAP Outreach and Enrollment Assistance Program
The Gray House, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – Adult education program support
The Northeast Organic Farming Association / Massachusetts Chapter
Barre, MA
$1,000 – NOFA/Mass Food Access Program
The Performance Project
Northampton, MA
$1,000 – First Generation
The Possibility Project
New York, NY
$1,000 – Saturday Youth Empowerment Program
The River Center: Family and Community Resource Center
Peterborough, NH
$3,294 – Families in our Forests and Farms Program
The Treehouse Foundation
Easthampton, MA
$1,000 – Intergenerational Treehouse Community – Education and Life Skills
World Connect
New York, NY
$1,000 – For local and global partnerships to create opportunities for women and children
Total Competitive Grants: $150,766
Discretionary Grants
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Massachusetts Education Fund
American Fund for London School of Economics
New York, NY
$1,000 – General operating support
Crotched Mountain Foundation
Greenfield, NH
$2,000 – General operating support
Dallas Foundation f/b/o The Tommy Project
Dallas, TX
$2,089 – The Tommy Project
Dexter Southfield, Inc.
Brookline, MA
$1,000 – Gay student alliance
Emmanuel College
Boston, MA
$10,000 – EmmaEnables Capital Campaign
GALA Choruses
Pittsburgh, PA
$1,000 – General operating support
GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders
Boston, MA
$2,500 – General operating support
Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Human Rights Watch
New York, NY
$10,000 – Children’s Rights Division
Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
Cambridge, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives (Multi-Year Grant)
Meenakshi Foundation
Great Barrington, MA
$9,000 – To support education for young women in South India
Nipponzan Myohoji USA
Leverett, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initaitives (Mult-Year Grant)
Nonviolent Peaceforce
Saint Paul, MN
$1,000 – General operating support
Peace Action Education Fund
Silver Spring, MD
$1,000 – General operating support
Sirius Inc.
Shutesbury, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
South Africa Partners
Boston, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Teens to Trails
Brunswick, ME
$1,000 – General operating support
The Boston Foundation
Boston, MA
$1,383 – Equality Fund
The Safina Center
Satauket, NY
$1,000 – General operations
The Winsor School
Boston, MA
$4,794 – 50th class reunion’s gift to The Annual Fund for scholarships
United Nations Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Model United Nations for Urban Schools
University of Virginia Serpentine Society
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000 – General operating support
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Callaway, MN
$1,000 – General operating support
Women’s Educational Center
Dorchester Center, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Total Discretionary: 132,372