2013 Grants

Artists for Humanity, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000 in support of the Youth Arts Enterprise, a year-round entrepreneurship program offering urban youth paid employment in the arts.

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
Boston, MA

$15,000 in support of the Asian Shelter and Advocacy Project, which provides emergency shelter and culturally competent support services to Asian victims and survivors of domestic violence, as well as prevention-focused community education and outreach.

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA

$3,900 in support of 2013 membership dues.

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA

$12,600 in support of the AGM Summer Fund, a donor collaborative that seeks to provide enriching summer experiences for the urban youth of Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea and Somerville.

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA

$20,000 in support of one-to-one and group mentoring for Boston-area girls.

Bikes Not Bombs
Jamaica Plain, MA

$15,000 in support of Girls in Action, an athletic and academic enrichment program.

Bikes Not Bombs
Jamaica Plain, MA

$10,000 as part of the Sylvia Simmons Best Practice Award to the Girls in Action program.

Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

$15,000 in support of BARCC’s youth-serving community awareness and prevention services.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Inc.
Boston, MA

$15,000 in support of the Maternal Group Home, and services for homeless mothers.

Casa Myrna Vazquez, Inc.
Boston, MA

$15,000 in support of the statewide SafeLink domestic violence hotline.

The Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County
Boston, MA
$15,000 in support of the Support to End Exploitation Now (SEEN), a coalition created to increase safety and access to services for sexually exploited girls.

Community Art Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

$10,000 in support of its School Age Child Care Program and Teen Media Program Girls’ Groups, which provide social, emotional and leadership development within a creative arts curriculum.

Crittenton Women’s Union, Inc.
Boston, MA

$15,000 in support of the Economic Mobility Initiative, an education and workforce development program.

Families United in Educational Leadership (FUEL)
Boston, MA
$10,000 in support of engaging girls in Chelsea’s soccer teams, and their parents, in a program that helps propel the children through high school and into higher education.

Found in Translation
Medford, MA
$10,000 in support of a medical interpreter certificate course designed to increase employment opportunities for bilingual women.

Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
Boston, MA

$10,000 in support of Fab Factor, a diversity initiative to increase membership recruitment and retention of urban girls.

Girls Leadership Institute
Oakland, CA
$2,138 in sponsorship of three grantees attending the Girl Meets World professional leadership development workshop held at Simmons College.

HarborCOV
Chelsea, MA
$10,000 in support of HarborCOV’s Self Determination Project, which provides education, healing and self-sufficiency opportunities for women affected by domestic violence.

HomeStart
Boston, MA
$10,000 in support of promoting housing stability and self-sufficiency for women.

Hyde Square Task Force
Jamaica Plain, MA

$15,000 in support of WEPA! (Women Engaged in Physical Activity), which provides dance, fitness and sports instruction to middle and high school girls.

Interseminarian – Project Place, Inc.
Boston, MA

$12,500 in support of a works skills and employment training program for homeless individuals.

Justice Resource Institute
Boston, MA

$15,000 in support of the My Life My Choice Project, which focuses on the prevention of commercial sexual exploitation of girls.

LEAP Self-Defense, Inc.
Boston, MA

$15,000 in general operating support of LEAP’s personal safety training program.

Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Services of Massachusetts
d/b/a Project Hope
Roxbury, MA

$15,000 in support of Adult Educational Services, which provides basic adult education, ESOL instruction, GED preparation and career counseling to low-income women.

Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy, Inc.
Boston, MA

$18,000 in support of the Boston-area Promise Project’s report and policy recommendations to assist schools in better serving pregnant and parenting high school students.

Mothers for Justice and Equality
Roxbury, MA
$12,000 in support of You Matter: Personal Development and Leadership Training for Women and Girls.

Mujeres Unidas Avanzando
Dorchester, MA

$7,500 in support of the Reproductive Health Community Leadership Project, which provides comprehensive reproductive health education and leadership development opportunities to Latina immigrant women.

Nature Conservancy – New Hampshire Chapter
Concord, NH

$33,000 of a total $100,000, three-year pledge to support the Nature Conservancy’s expansion of the Green Hills Preserve, through the acquisition of adjacent natural forest land.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund
Montpelier, VT

$15,000 in support of providing small grants, technical assistance and leadership training to grassroots community-based groups working on environmental stewardship and/or justice issues in the Boston area.

One Hen
Needham, MA
$10,000 in support of One Hen Academy‘s after school financial literacy and leadership program.

Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Inc.
Boston, MA

$12,500 in support of the League’s sexual health education programs in Massachusetts.

Project HIP-HOP
Roxbury, MA
$10,000 in support of Project HIP-HOP’s gender-specific programming, which includes group mentoring and spoken word poetry workshops.

Red Auerbach Youth Foundation
f/b/o Beantown Jumpers Double Dutch Team
Milton, MA

$5,000 in support of Beantown Jumpers Double Dutch Team, which seeks to promote physical activity and teamwork.

Rediscovery at JRI
Waltham, MA
$10,000 in support of the YouthHarbors program, which provides support for unaccompanied and homeless youth age 17 to 21.

Science Club for Girls, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

$15,000 in support of the Career Exploration, Leadership and Life Skills (CELLS) Program, a youth development program for adolescent girls.

Smart from the Start, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000 in support of a continuum of programs designed to prevent the achievement gap while providing support to caregivers for improved self-sufficiency.

Sociedad Latina
Roxbury, MA

$15,000 in support of the Viva La Cultura arts enrichment and mentoring girls’ program.

South Boston en Accion
South Boston, MA
$12,500 in support of the Weekday ESOL Program, which offers English language classes for Latinas in South Boston.

Sportsmen’s Tennis Club, Inc.
Dorchester, MA

$25,000 in support of the HEY Sister tennis and academic enrichment program for girls ages 10-17.

Upham’s Corner Community Center, Inc.
d/b/a Bird Street Community Center
Dorchester, MA

$12,500 in support of the agency’s gender-specific and gender-sensitive girls’ programs, including arts entrepreneurship and group mentoring.

Web of Benefit, Inc.
Wellesley, MA

$10,000 in support of the Transition to Self-Sufficiency Program, which provides domestic violence survivors with mini-grants designed to help them achieve economic self-sufficiency.

West End House Boys & Girls Club of Allston-Brighton
Allston, MA
$15,000 in support of the Sisters with Attributes mentoring, academic enrichment and youth development program for girls at the Club.

YMCA of East Boston
Boston, MA
$10,000 in support of health and wellness educational programming for girls.

2013 Total Grants: $554,138