America SCORES New England
Jamaica Plain, MA
$10,000 in support of the Leadership in Action program for middle school girls.
Apprentice Learning
Jamaica Plain, MA
$10,000 to support City Summer Internship, a STEAM career internship program for girls in grades 8 and 9 who are interested in STEM career fields.
Artists For Humanity, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000 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 Program, which provides emergency shelter and culturally competent support services to Asian survivors of domestic violence, as well as prevention-focused community education and outreach.
Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
$16,500 in support of the Summer Fund and 2017 membership dues
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: Pathways to Leadership, an athletic and academic enrichment program.
Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston
f/b/o The Resilient Sisterhood Project
Roxbury, MA
$20,000 in general operating support for the Resilient Sisterhood Project.
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$20,000 in support of the Youth Leadership Corps, an initiative to engage youth in sexual violence prevention work in their communities.
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
Boston, MA
$10,000 for the Family Child Care program, a workforce development program that supports low-income Chinese-speaking immigrant women in Greater Boston in becoming licensed Early Childhood Education and Care (ECE) providers.
Boston Debate League
Boston, MA
$3,000 to send up to six girls to the annual Women’s Debate Institute (WDI) in Minnesota in August 2017.
Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000 in support of the Single Parent House and services for homeless mothers.
Brookview House, Inc.
Dorchester, MA
$20,000 in support of STEM programs for homeless and at-risk girls
Budget Buddies
Chelmsford, MA
$15,000 to support expansion of the program, which offers financial education and personalized coaching to women in shelters and other community agencies, into Boston.
Casa Myrna Vasquez
Boston, MA
$15,000 in support of the statewide SafeLink domestic violence hotline.
Chelsea Collaborative, Inc.
Chelsea, MA
$10,000 in support of the Boston Bantu Girls program, a weekly empowerment group for Somali Bantu middle and high school girls to provide a safe and secure social environment for academic, leadership, personal, and community development.
Chelsea Education Foundation Inc
f/b/o Intergenerational Literacy Project
Chelsea, MA
$15,000 in support of providing free English literacy instruction to immigrant parents and free, literacy-focused instruction to their children.
The City School
f/b/o Chica Project
Dorchester, MA
$10,000 in general operating support for the Chica Project, a one-to-one mentoring program for Latina young women in Boston, Lawrence, and Lynn.
College for Social Innovation Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000 in support of the organization’s work to develop a more diverse talent pipeline for girl-serving organizations in Boston
CommonWheels Inc.
Allston, MA
$10,000 in support of the Earn a Bike program for girls
Community Art Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$15,000 in support of girls-only groups in the organization’s School Age Child Care and Teen Media programs, which provide leadership opportunities and promote healthy social and emotional development through the arts.
Community Rowing, Inc.
Brighton MA
$15,000 in support of G-ROW Boston, a rowing leadership and academic support program for girls in the Boston Public School (BPS) system.
East Boston Ecumenical Community Council
East Boston, MA
$20,000 in support of the Familiar Apoyo program, which provides English language instruction, counseling, health education, continuing education assistance, and referrals to pregnant and parenting Latina immigrant women.
Economic Mobility Pathways
Boston, MA
$15,000 in support of providing assessment, counseling, and short-term training to low-income women at the Cambridge-based Mobility Mentoring Center.
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’ LEAP
Dorchester, MA
$15,000 in support of the peer-led sexual health education component of its empowerment and self-defense programming in Dorchester and Roxbury.
Girls Rock Campaign Boston
Jamaica Plain, MA
$10,000 in operating support for the organization, which aims to empower girls through music education and performance.
Girls Rock Campaign Boston
Jamaica Plain, MA
$10,000 for the 2017 Sylvia Simmons Best Practices Award
HarborCOV
Chelsea, MA
$20,000 in support of the Self Determination Project, which provides education, healing and self-sufficiency opportunities for women affected by domestic violence.
Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$15,000 in support of WEPA! (Women Empowered for Progress and Action), which provides dance, fitness and sports instruction to middle and high school girls.
Interseminarian – Project Place, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000 in support of Working Opportunities for Women (WOW), a work skills and employment training program for homeless individuals.
Julie’s Family Learning Program
South Boston, MA
$15,000 in general operating support of the agency’s core adult and children’s education and supportive services.
Justice Resource Institute
f/b/o My Life My Choice
Needham, MA
$15,000 in support of the continued success and growth of the Survivor Mentoring Program, which pairs each girl served with an adult female mentor who is herself a survivor of exploitation.
Justice Resource Institute
f/b/o YouthHarbors
Needham, MA
$10,000 in general operating support for YouthHarbors, which provides support for unaccompanied and homeless youth age 17 to 21.
Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy
Boston, MA
$15,000 in support of the Promise Project, which works to ensure that pregnant and parenting teens receive the appropriate support and resources they need to succeed academically, graduate, and pursue further educational and professional goals.
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety & Health, Inc.
Dorchester, MA
$15,000 in support of Teens Lead at Work, a leadership development program in which teens lead workplace safety and harassment prevention training.
MEDIAGIRLS
Brookline, MA
$10,000 to support the organization’s expansion in three low-income Boston schools and its preparations for scaling.
Expansion in Boston
Mujeres Unidas Avanzando
Dorchester, MA
$10,000 in support of the Reproductive Health Community Leadership Project, which provides comprehensive reproductive health education and leadership development opportunities to Latina immigrant women.
The Nature Conservancy
Concord, NH
$20,000 to support the organization’s conservation work at the Green Hills, in the Mount Washington Valley, and across northern New Hampshire.
New England Grassroots Environment Fund, Inc.
Newmarket, NH
$15,000 in support of the environmental work of women, children, and youth in greater Boston.
On The Rise, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000 in support of its two core programs: Safe Haven, which provides homeless women with basic daily essentials and an array of supportive services; and Keep the Keys, which supports women through the process of searching for an apartment, moving in, and developing independent living skills.
On with Living and Learning, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000 in support of Pathways to Hope, a workshop series for teens to create and perform a production on the topic of gender-specific violence.
Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$20,000 in general support for the organization’s youth and parent sexual health education programs.
Project Hope
Roxbury, MA
$15,000 in support of Adult Educational Services, which provides basic adult education, ESOL instruction, HiSET preparation, and career counseling to low-income women.
Shooting Touch Inc.
Medfield MA
$10,000 in support of the G3 (Getting Girls in the Game) program, in which girls ages 10–15 can participate in safe, female-friendly afterschool basketball leagues coupled with off-court mentoring, career and health education.
Silver Lining Mentoring
Boston, MA
$15,000 in support of a Learn & Earn cohort at the Youth Villages Germaine Lawrence program, which cares for young women ages 12–18 with serious emotional and behavioral issues
Soccer Without Borders Boston
Cambridge, MA
$10,000 in support of the soccer program for middle school girls.
Sociedad Latina
Roxbury MA
$17,500 in support of Mentores en Acción, its STEM mentoring program for girls.
South Boston en Accion
South Boston, MA
$12,500 in support of the Leadership Academy program, an expansion of the organization’s ESOL programming, targeting Latinas living in South Boston’s public housing developments.
St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children
Dorchester, MA
$20,000 in support of GRLZradio.org, a media literacy and youth development program for at-risk girls.
Strong Women, Strong Girls
Jamaica Plain, MA
$10,000 in support of the organization’s group mentoring program for girls in Boston.
West End House Inc.
Allston, MA
$15,000 for the Girls Life Skills Initiative, an array of girl-specific programming including individual academic support, STEM classes, group discussions, fitness clubs and teams, and a dance program.
Women’s Educational Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$5,000 in support of Moving On: Support for Abused Women, which offers free services to survivors of domestic and sexual violence, including support in overcoming trauma, building self-esteem, developing parenting and other life skills, and achieving independence from abusive relationships.
Women’s Lunch Place Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000 in general operating support of the daytime shelter, which offers meals and essential services for women in need.
YWCA Boston Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000 in support of health and wellness educational programming for girls.
ZUMIX
East Boston, MA
$10,000 in support of Z-Tech, a year-round technical training program that introduces young people to audio and computer technologies.