2017 Competitive Grants
American Indian Institute
Bozeman, MT
$1,500 – Special 40th Anniversary Indian Elders & Youth Council, Flathead Indian Reservation
Arise for Social Justice
Springfield, MA
$2,000 – General Operations
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
New York, NY
$1,500 – General Operations
Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
Boston, MA
$3,500 – 2016-2017 BGMC Season
Boston Mobilization
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Sub/Urban Justice Program
Camp Lightbulb
Hollywood, CA
$1,000 – Summer Camp 2017
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 Rural Senegal
Children’s Rights
New York, NY
$1,000 – Promoting well-being for transgender youth in out-of-home care
Cities at Peace, Inc.
New York, NY
$4,000 – Saturday Youth Empowerment Program
Class Action
Jamaica Plain, MA
$1,000 – General Operating Support
Crossing the Waters Institute for Cultural Exchange
Amherst, MA
$2,500 – General operations
First Nations Development Institute
Longmont, CO
$2,000 – Native Youth and Culture Programs
Fund for Global Human Rights
Washington, DC
$3,000 – Cross-border collaboration to fight child trafficking in West Africa
FXB USA, Inc.
New York, NY
$1,000 – FXB Village model in Las Flores, Colombia
Gedakina, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$2,000 – General Operations
Gift of Adoption
Techny, IL
$5,000 – General Operations
Gray House, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – Adult Education Programs
Groundswell International
Washington, DC
$1,124 – Boudha Bahunupati Pariwar Community Seed Savers Pilot Project
Haley House, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Urban Agriculture at Haley House
Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF)
New York, NY
$5,000 – College Quest Program
Homework House Inc.
Holyoke, MA
$2,000 – Summer Readers & Leaders Program
Honor the Earth
Callaway, MN
$2,000 – How We Envision the Future Program
International Rescue Committee, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000 – Refugee Resettlement Support Services
Mass Humanities
Northampton, MA
$1,000 – Open and Honest Dialogues & City Event
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE)
Boston, MA
$5,000 – General Operations
Mothers for Justice and Equality
Roxbury, MA
$2,000 – Civic Leadership Academy
Native American Community Board
Lake Andes, SD
$2,000 – Yankton Sioux Preservation Program
Natural Resources Defense Council
New York, NY
$3,500 – La Onda Verde Program
New Hampshire Peace Action Education Fund
Concord, NH
$2,500 – The Peace Project 2017
North Country Center for the Arts, Inc
Lincoln, NH
$2,500 – Theatre Arts Youth Development
Northeast Organic Farming Association, MA Chapter
Barre, MA
$1,000- Food Access
Peace Development Fund
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – The Sustainability Project
Perkins School for the Blind
Watertown, MA
$5,000 – Camp Abilities
Raising a Reader MA
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Raising a Reader for Springfield, MA
REACH Beyond Domestic Violence
Waltham, MA
$2,000 – Peers Against Violence (PAVE)
River Center: Family and Community Resource Center
Peterborough, NH
$3,750 – General Operations
River Gallery School of Art
Brattleboro, VT
$2,500 – Scholarships for Disabled Adults
Teens to Trails
Brunswick, ME
$4,500 – Scholarships for attendance at High School Outing Clubs
Theater Offensive
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Out in Your Neighborhood: Art for Social Justice
Thin Air Community Radio
Spokane, WA
$1,000 – The Science of Poverty
Veterans Education Project
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – Sharing Stories of War and Recovery
Women’s Educational Center
Cambridge, MA
$2,000 – Healing Empowerment through Arts Learning Program
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$1,000 – Audience Accessibility Programming
Zidisha
Sterling, VA
$1,000 – Zidisha Online Microfinance Loans
Total Competitive Grants: $97,374
2017 Discretionary Grants
American Civil Union Foundation of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Massachusetts Education Fund
American Fund for the London School of Economics
New York, NY
$1,000 – General Operations
BAGLY
Boston, MA
$10,000 – General Operations
Bikes Not Bombs
Boston, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
Boston Foundation, The
Boston, MA
$1,624 – Equality Fund
Children’s Defense Fund, The
Washington DC
$3,000 – Haley Farm Programs and Freedom Schools
Dallas Foundation
Dallas, TX
$2,000 – Tommy Tranchin Fund
Dexter Southfield School
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Gay Student Alliance
EcoVillage Network of Americas (ENA)
Moffat, CO
$1,000 – General Operations
Featherstone Center for the Arts
Oak Bluffs, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
Fenway Community Health
Boston, MA
$4,500 – General Operations
Franklin Pierce University
Rindge, NH
$1,000 – Jaffrey-Rindge Camp QUEST
GLAD Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
Boston, MA
$3,000 – General Operations
Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
Human Rights Watch
New York, NY
$10,000 – General Operations
Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School District
Rindge, NH
$1,000 – Destination Imagination
Mass Equality Education Fund
Boston, MA
$2,500 – General Operations
Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
Cambridge, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives
Meenakshi Foundation, The
Great Barrington, MA
$9,000 – Girl’s Education in South India
Miriam’s Kitchen
Washington, DC
$1,000 – General Operations
Natural Resources Defense Council
New York, NY
$10,000 – 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
Nolumbeka Project
Greenfield, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
Nonviolent Peaceforce
Minneapolis, MN
$1,000 – General Operations
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
Safina Center at Stony Brook, The
Setauket, NY
$1,000 – Equality Fund
School Year Abroad
North Andover, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
Share Our Strength
Washington, DC
$1,000 – General Operations
Shelter from the Storm
Jaffrey, NH
$1,000 – General Operations
Sirius Community
Shutesbury, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
South Africa Partners
Boston, MA
$1,000 – General Operations
South Bronx United
Bronx, NY
$1,124 – General Operations
Spaulding Rehab Hospitals
Boston, MA
$5,000 – General Operations – Boston
United Nations Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Model United Nations for Urban Schools
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000 – General Operations, Serpentine Society
Voices Against Violence
Plymouth, NH
$1,374 – General Operations
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Callaway, MN
$1,000 – General Operations
Winsor School
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Student Scholarships
Total Discretionary: $135,122