2015 Competitive Grants
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
New York, NY
$2,500 – General Operations
Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
Boston, MA
$4,000 – General Operations
Bikes Not Bombs
Jamaica Plain, MA
$1,000 – Ability Bikes Cooperative: Empowerment for People for the Physically Challenged
Career Collaborative, Inc.
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Ending Poverty with Good Jobs
Cities at Peace, Inc. (DBA The Possibility Project)
New York, NY
$3,000 – Saturday Youth Empowerment Program
Crossing the Waters Institute for Cultural Exchange, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$2,000 – Youth Ambassadors Program
EcoLogic Development Fund
Cambridge, MA
$1,000 – Building Capacity for Improved Food Production for Maya Communities in Sarst
Engineers Without Borders Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
$1,000 – Uganda Water Supply Project
Ex-prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement
Worcester, MA
$1,000 – Jobs NOT Jails
Fenway Community Health Center
Boston, MA
$4,500 – General Operations
First Nations Development Institute
Longmont, CO
$2,000 – Native Youth and Culture Fund (NYCF)
Gay Men’s Domestic Violence Project
Cambridge, MA
$2,500 – General Operations
Gedakina, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$2,000 -Keepers of the Earth
Gift of Adoption Fund
Techny, IL
$3,000 – Adoption Assistance Grant
GLAD
Boston, MA
$3,000 – General Operations
Global Visionaries
Seattle, WA
$1,000 – 2nd Year Youth Board Program
Haley House, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Thornton Farm : Urban Agriculture Learning Lab
Homework House Inc.
Holyoke, MA
$2,000 – Club Friday
Hope Stone, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$1,000 – Hope Stone Kids Summer Arts Camp
Human Rights Watch
New York, NY
$10,000 – Defending the Rights of Children Worldwide
International Rescue Committee – New York
New York, NY
$8,000 – Meeting the Need for Interpretations services for Refugees and Immigrants
LA PINATA – the Latin American Cultural Family Network, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$2,000 – Performing Troupe Development
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE)
Boston, MA
$4,000 – General Operations to Find Adoptive Families for Children in Foster Care
Mothers for Justice and Equality
Roxbury, MA
$2,000 – Civic Leadership Academy
National Priorities Project
Northampton, MA
$2,000 – General Operating Support
Native American Community Board
Lake Andes, SD
$2,000 – Yankton Sioux Language and Heritage Preservation Program
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
New York, NY
$2,000 – La Onda Verde – Latino Outreach and Advocacy
NC Field
Kinston, NC
$1,000 – Planting Field Project
New York Youth at Risk, Inc.
New York, NY
$1,000 – Sweet Teen Program
Open Pantry
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – Loaves & Fishes Community Kitchen
Peace Development Fund
Boston, MA
$1,000 – 2015-2016 Strategic Planing
Peace First
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Peace Project
Perkins School for the Blind
Watertown, MA
$5,000 – Camp Abilities
Providence CityArts for Youth
Providence, RI
$3,000 – CityArts Community Youth Arts Program
Raising a Reader
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Springfield
REACH Beyond Domestic Violence
Waltham, MA
$3,000 – Child and Adolescent Therapy Program
TEAM Jaffrey
Jaffrey, NH
$3,392 – Free Community Concerts on the Common
The Children’s Aid Society
New York, NY
$1,000 – Go! Healthy Youth Food Justice Program at Curtis High School
The Petey Greene Program
Princeton, NJ
$1,000 – General Operations
The Theater Offensive
Boston, MA
$2,000 – General Operations
The Treehouse Foundation
Easthampton, MA
$1,000 – Education and Life Skills for Children and Youth in Foster Care
Veterans Education Project
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – Learning from War and Violence : Empowering Recovery and Prevention
Women’s Educational Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$2,000 – Healing Empowerment through Arts Learning (HEAL)
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$1,000 – Audience Accessibility Programming
World Beyond War
Charlottesville, VA
$2,000 – Alternative Global Security System
Total Competitive: $105,284
2015 Discretionary Grants
American Civil Union Foundation of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Massachusetts Education Fund
American Indian Institute, Inc.
Bozeman, MT
$1,000 – 2015 Elders & Youth Council
American Red Cross
Keene, NH
$1,000 – Keene, NH Rides Program
BAGLY
Boston, MA
$9,000 – General Operations
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
Brattleboro, VT
$2,500 – Youth and Education Programs
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
Forestdale
Queens, NY
$1,000 – Foster Care Programs
Franklin Pierce University
Rindge, NH
$1,000 – Jaffrey-Rindge Camp QUEST
Freedom for All Americans
Washington, DC
$3,200 – General Operations
Friends of the Public Garden
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Restoration of White Memorial
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
New York, NY
$1,000 – College Prep Programs
Helen Keller International
New York, NY
$1,000 – HKI’s 100th Anniversary for Eye Health
Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
New York, NY
$2,250 – General Operations
Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School District
Rindge, NH
$1,000 – Destination Imagination
Let’s Get Ready – Boston
Boston, MA
$2,000 – General Operations
Mass Equality
Boston, MA
$2,250 – General Operations
Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
Cambridge, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives
Meenakski Foundation
Great Barrington, MA
$9,000 – Girls’ Education in South India and Outreach in United States
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
$2,000 – General Operations
Peace Action Education Fund
Silver Spring, MD
$2,000 – General Operations
Point Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$8,000 – General Operations
Share our Strength
Baltimore, MD
$3,000 – 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
$1,192 – General Operations
Spaulding Rehab Hospitals
Boston, MA
$5,000 – General Operations – Boston
The Boston Foundation
Boston, MA
$3,192 – Equality Fund
The Juvenile Law Center
Philadelphia, PA
$1,000 – General Operations to 40th Year
The River Community: Family and Community Resource Center
Peterborough, NH
$1,000 – Employment Resource Center – Job Search and Interview Assistance
The Safina Center
Stony Brook, NY
$1,000 – Nature and Human Welfare Programs to Commemorate Sylvia Earle
The Winsor School
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Student Scholarships
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
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Callaway, MN
$2,000 – General Operations
Women’s Refugee Commission
New York, NY
$1,700 – Detention and Asylum Programs
Total Discretionary: $128,284