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
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
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
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