2018 Grants

2018 Competitive Grants

4ward Miami, Inc. d/b/a/ ImpactOUT International Initiative
Miami, FL
$1000 – UN Advocacy Education & Training Program for LGBTQ Youth

Asset Builders of America, Inc.
Madison, WI
$2,000 – General operations

Bay State Performing Arts, Inc.
Boston, MA
$4,000 – 2018-2019 BGMC Season

Berkshire Immigrant Center
Pittsfield, MA
$1,000 – General operating support

Bikes Not Bombs
Jamaica Plain, MA
$1,000 – Cycloville – Nairobi, Kenya and program developments for youth and women

Boston Lyric Opera
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Giving Voice to Victims

Centro del Obrero Fronterizo d/b/a La Mujer Obrera
El Paso, TX
$1,000 – General operating support

Children’s Defense Fund
Washington, DC
$2,000 – CDF Freedom Schools for summer youth programs

Class Action
Jamaica Plain, MA
$1,000 – General operating support

Crotched Mountain Foundation
Greenfield, NH
$3,954 – Classroom Technology for Children with Special Needs

DC SCORES
Washington, DC
$2,000 – General operations for summer education programs by engagement in soccer

Domesticas Unidas
San Antonio, TX
$1,000 – Domestic Worker Training and Education Program

Encircle: LGBTQ Family & Youth Resource Center
Provo, UT
$1,000 – IGNITE 2018: Utah’s Statewide LGBTQ+ Youth Summit

FBO Energy Justice Network
Philadelphia, PA
$1,000 – Divert Baltimore II

Fenway Community Health Center
Boston, MA
$4,000 – Sidney Borum, Jr. Health Center

First Nations Development Institute
Longmont, CO
$2,000 – Native Youth and Culture

Gedakina, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$2,000 – Native LifeWays

Georgia Shift
Augusta, GA
$1,000 – General operations

Gift of Adoption Fund
Techny, IL
$5,000 – Adoption Assistance

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
Boston, MA
$3,000 – Advocacy for Out-Of-Home LGBTQ Youth

Haley House, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Urban Agriculture at Haley House

Harlem Educational Activities Fund
New York, NY
$5,000 – General operations for College Quest

Hilltown Village Inc. d/b/a It Takes a Village
Cummington, MA
$1,000 – General operations support

Homework House, Inc.
Holyoke, MA
$2,000 – General Operations of After School Tutoring & Mentoring

Honor the Earth
Callaway, MN
$2,000 – Young Indigenous Women’s Coming of Age Gathering

Human Rights Watch
New York, NY
$10,000 – Children’s Rights Division for Juvenile Justice in California and migrant and refugee work in the United States and worldwide

International Rescue Committee, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000 – programs for vulnerable refugees: youth without parents, single parents, women at risk; elderly refugees and refugees with social and psychological difficulties including trauma from war and sexual violence; survivors of torture; LGBT refugees who are HIV-positive; and refugees with severe disabilities

La Pinata – the Latin American Cultural Family Network, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$2,000 – General operating support

Mass Humanities
Northampton, MA
$1,000 – Clemente Course in the Humanities for Springfield, Massachusetts

Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE)
Newton, MA
$5,000 – General operating support

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

East Michigan Environmental Action Council
Detroit, MI
$2,000 – Anishanaabe Healing Stories on Racial Justice

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
New York, NY
$1,500 – updating the LA Onda Verde website

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala/NISGUA
Oakland, CA
$1,000 – Guatemala Accompaniment Project (GAP)

New American Pathways
Atlanta, GA
$2,500 – English at Home Program

Unlocking Futures, Inc. AKA New York Youth at Risk, Inc.
New York, NY
$1,000 – It’s About Us family focused mentoring program

OutRight Action International
New York, NY
$5,000 – General operating support

Peace Development Fund
San Francisco, CA
$1,000 – The Sustainability Project

NH Peace Action Education Fund
Concord, NH
$2,000 – Educational Film Project The River Cried, “Mni W’Comi!”

Perkins School for the Blind
Watertown, MA
$5,000 – Camp Abilities

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 Springfield

REACH Beyond Domestic Violence
Waltham, MA
$1,000 – Peers Against Violence (PAVE)

River Gallery School of Art
Brattleboro, VT
$2,500 – Ability Arts: Scholarships for Disabled Students

Teens to Trails
Brunswick, ME
$3,000 – scholarship for outings

The Gray House, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – Adult Education

The Northeast Organic Farming Association
Barre, MA
$1,000 – Mass Food Access Program

Warren J. Plant Charitable Trust f/b/o The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice
Granby, MA
$1,454 – General operating support

The River Center: Family and Community Resource Center
Peterborough, NH
$3,000 – Employment Resource Center

The Theater Offensive
Boston, MA
$1,000 – OUT in Your Neighborhood: Art for Social Justice

Trans United
Washington, DC
$1,000 – General operating support for LGBTQIA programs

Veterans Education Project
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – General operating support

WeThrive
New York, NY
$1,000 – Flagship Entrepreneurial Teaching Hub for Boston: Umana Academy

Women’s Educational Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$1,000 – Healing Empowerment through Arts Learning (HEAL)

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$1,000 – Audience Accessibility Programming

Total Competitive Grants: $119,908

 

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 operations

BAGLY, Inc. (Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth)
Boston, MA
$10,000 – General operations

Cities at Peace, Inc d/b/a The Possibility Project
New York, NY
$1,000 – Cities at Peace Programs

Dexter Southfield, Inc.
Brookline, MA
$1,000 – Gay Student Alliance

Families in Transition – New Horizons
Manchester, NH
$2,500 – General operations

Featherstone Center for the Arts, Inc.
Oak Bluffs, MA
$1,000 – General operations

Franklin Pierce University
Rindge, NH
$1,000 – Jaffrey-Rindge Camp QUEST

Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – General operations

Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School District
Jaffrey, NH
$1,000 – Destination Imagination

Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
Cambridge, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives

MassEquality Education Fund
Boston, MA
$2,454 – General purposes

Meenakshi Foundation Inc.
Great Barrington, MA
$9,000 – Foundation’s work with young women in South India providing resources and counseling in education, social support, mentoring, and job training to girls and young women

Miriam’s Kitchen
Washington, DC
$1,000 – General operations

National Education for Assistance Dog Services, Inc.
Princeton, MA
$5,000 – Boston Marathon Bombing Survivors’ Fund

Newton, Wellesley, Weston, Committee for Community Living, Inc.
Newton Centre, MA
$10,000 – Paul T. Babson II Jubilee House

Nipponzan Myohoji-New England Peace Pagoda
Leverett, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives

Nolumbeka Project, Inc.
Greenfield, MA
$2,000 – General operations

Nonviolent Peaceforce
St. Paul, MN
$1,000 – General operations

North Country Center for the Arts, Inc.
Lincoln, NH
$2,000 – Theatre Arts Youth Development

Peace Action Education Fund
Silver Spring, MD
$1,000 – General operations

Point Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000 – General operations

ProjectArt
Brooklyn, NY
$2,500 – Detroit Scholarships

Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
Newtown, Connecticut
$1,454 – General operations

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 Inc.
Shutesbury, MA
$1,000 – General operations

South Africa Partners
Boston, MA
$1,000 – General operations

South Bronx United, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$2,500 – General operations of the soccer club

Spaulding Rehab Hospital Corporation
Charlestown, MA
$5,000 – General operations in Boston

The Boston Foundation
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Equality Fund

The Dallas Foundation
Dallas, TX
$2,000 – Tommy Tranchin “Named Film Project”

The Park Theatre
Jaffrey, NH
$5,000 – General operations for the Park Theatre Restoration

The Safina Center
Setauket, NY
$1,000 – General operations

The Winsor School
Boston, MA
$1,000 – 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 support of the Serpentine Society

White Earth Land Recovery Project
Callaway, MN
$1,000 – general operations

World Connect
Brooklyn, NY
$2,500 – programs that address opportunities to connect with local groups and create global partnerships to improve local communities that also create opportunities for women and children

Total Discretionary: $116,908