The Boston Foundation announces over $2 million in grants, including focus on social justice organizations
April 22, 2021
Boston – The Boston Foundation today announced its latest round of quarterly grants, including the first series of grants from a strategy supporting organizations that are working to advance social justice in the city and region. In total, the Foundation awarded $2,179,000 in grants to 33 organizations on the quarterly docket.
In addition, the Board of Directors formally thanked Paul Grogan, who was attending his final Board meeting as President and CEO. He will step down on June 1 after 20 years leading the Foundation.
“As I close out my tenure here, I am proud to look at this docket and see the continued level of innovation and creativity in our work as a grantmaker and as an organization that continues to put equity, justice and opportunity at its core,” said Grogan. “Community foundations sit in a unique place in philanthropy and civic life, and I look forward to staying connected to the Foundation and amplifying its work as I move into my next chapter.”
Social Justice Ecology: Movements Strategy
This quarter’s docket marks the first grants from the Movements strategy of the Foundation’s Social Justice Ecology (SJE) framework. The SJE framework, which also helps inform other grantmaking at the Foundation, was conceived as an effort to address persistent racial gaps in nonprofit leadership, as well as the historic exclusion of marginalized people from decision-making that affects their own communities.
The Movements strategy in the SJE framework provides support to resident-led organizing efforts and supports civic engagement on resident-defined issues to amass and sustain power.
Ten organizations are sharing $300,000 in operating support grants in the strategy’s first docket. These nonprofit partners will also play a powerful role in helping the Boston Foundation continue to better understand how to share power and uplift proximate community voices throughout our work, as we strive to more effectively support and contribute to these organizations and their talented leaders.
Support for COVID-19 Recovery Efforts
In addition to millions of dollars in grants made through the COVID-19 Response Fund at the Boston Foundation, the Foundation is also investing its discretionary resources in organizations and leaders working to help communities recover from the economic and health tolls of the pandemic and improve vaccine equity.
A list of the quarterly discretionary grants follows, followed by a selection of other between-cycles grants acknowledged by the Board this quarter. The largest grant in the docket, a $200,000 grant to the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, is being combined with grants from the COVID-19 Response Fund as part of a cooperative philanthropic effort to provide community health centers with more than $4 million to support COVID-19 vaccine response and distribution efforts.
The Foundation is also making a $149,000 grant to Massachusetts General Hospital to support its Community Health Navigation in the Time of COVID-19 project, and supporting several other nonprofit partners across Greater Boston in their efforts to expand outreach and vaccine distribution, and meet the ongoing needs of communities most heavily affected by the health and economic toll of the pandemic.
Arts and Culture
Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Inc.: A $25,000 one-year general operating support grant to Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Inc., a Greater Boston area arts service organization providing a full suite of services to the arts community, including legal aid, fiscal sponsorship, Board training, and cohort-based professional development programs.
The Dance Complex, Inc.: A $25,000 one-year general operating support grant to The Dance Complex, an organization that enables the study, creation, and performance of dance of all kinds through its seven studios, two performing spaces, and reach into neighborhoods, payable to the New Dance Complex, Inc., to continue its work as a home for dance makers, dancers, and the local community.
Now and There, Inc.: A $50,000 one-year general operating support grant to Now and There, a key organization working to build a culture of public art across Greater Boston, for its ongoing, city-wide programming.
The Record Co., Inc.: A $25,000 one-year general operating support grant to the Record Co., Inc., an arts service organization serving music makers with space and professional development, to continue its organizational development and growth in its new rehearsal and recording space.
Education: College Completion
Boston Private Industry Council Inc.: A $172,000 one-year project support grant to The Boston Private Industry Council, which supports community-college-bound BPS graduates as they transition to college through Success Boston.
Boston University-College Advising Corps: A $50,000 one-year general operating support grant payable to Trustees of Boston University, for the College Advising Corps – Boston University, which provides college advising services that increase college enrollment and completion among low-income, first-generation college students from Boston.
Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.: A $92,000 one-year project support grant to Hyde Square Task Force, Inc., which supports Latinx and Black BPS graduates as they transition to college through Success Boston.
Sociedad Latina, Inc.: A $50,000 one-year project support grant to Sociedad Latina, which supports BPS graduates as they transition to college through Success Boston.
University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc.: A $50,000 one-year project support grant payable to the University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc. to support the launch of a pilot chapter of My Brother's Keeper on the University of Massachusetts-Boston campus.
West End House Boys & Girls Club: A $100,000 one-year project support grant to West End House, Inc., which supports BPS graduates as they transition to college through Success Boston.
Education: Structural Reform
Boston Opportunity Agenda: A $75,000 one-year general operating support grant for the Boston Opportunity Agenda, a public/private partnership that works to urgently and strategically transform the Boston education landscape from cradle to career, so that all children have access to the education necessary for upward economic mobility, civic engagement and lifelong learning.
BPE, Inc.: A $166,000 one-year general operating support grant to BPE, Inc., whose mission is to drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools, to continue to leverage school autonomies to provide BPS students with high-quality education through two autonomous Teaching Academies and to prepare outstanding BPS teachers through the Boston Teacher Residency.
Education: Early Childhood
The Basics, Inc.: A $75,000 one-year general operating support grant payable to TSNE MissionWorks for The Basics, an organization that works to help children aged birth-to-3, especially children of color and children in marginalized communities, to achieve their early-learning and brain-building potential to arrive at kindergarten prepared for school and life.
Health and Wellness
Massachusetts General Hospital: A $149,000 one-year project support grant payable to Partners Healthcare System, Inc. for Massachusetts General Hospital for its Community Health Navigation in the Time of COVID-19 project.
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers: A $200,000 one‐year project support grant to Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers to provide support for COVID‐19 vaccine response efforts, including for the elderly and individuals with physical disabilities.
RIZE Massachusetts Foundation, Inc.: A $50,000 one‐year project support grant to RIZE Massachusetts Foundation, an organization that works to invest in meaningful solutions and employ broad perspectives to end the opioid overdose epidemic, for their Innovations in Anti‐Racism program, which will address the overdose crisis with funding and support for community‐based innovations and programs that serve Black, Indigenous, and People of Color with opioid use disorder.
Jobs and Economic Development
English for New Bostonians, Inc.: A $100,000 one-year general operating support grant to English for New Bostonians, Inc. (ENB), to support ENB’s programming, which infuses English instruction into Boston’s workforce ecosystem through customized ESOL services focused on entrepreneurs, job seekers, parents, workers, and employers.
Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation: A $30,000 one-year project support grant to Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation, an agency that promotes equity with affordable housing, asset building and lifting up new leaders, to support its small business services.
Lawyers for Civil Rights, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant to Lawyers for Civil Rights, Inc., an agency that fosters equal opportunity and fights discrimination on behalf of people of color and immigrants by engaging in creative and courageous legal action, education, and advocacy in collaboration with law firms and community partners.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation: A $65,000 one-year general operating support grant to Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), an agency that equips communities with the capital, strategy, and know-how to become places where people can thrive, to support its programming in Boston.
Neighborhoods and Housing
GreenRoots, Inc.: A $50,000 one-year general operating support grant to GreenRoots, Inc., an agency that achieves environmental justice and greater quality of life through collective action, unity, education and youth leadership across neighborhoods and communities.
Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations: A $150,000 one-year general operating support grant to Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, an agency that seeks to build and sustain a high-performing and adaptive community development sector that is supported by private and public investment and sound public policies.
Opportunity Communities, LLC: A $100,000 two-year project support grant to Opportunity Communities LLC, an agency that strengthens the capacity, efficiency, and performance of independent local community developers that join OppCo as organizational members, and that are committed to building equitable communities of opportunity, for their Homes for Equity program.
Social Justice Ecology: Movements Strategy
Asian American Resource Workshop, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year project support grant to Asian American Resource Workshop to provide support for Dorchester Not for Sale, a local Dorchester-centered effort, dedicated to disrupting housing gentrification and working to ensure families in the Dorchester neighborhood are not pushed out by recruiting, training and empowering local residents.
Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity: A $30,000 one-year general operating grant payable to Center for Economic Democracy for Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity, an organization that provides technical, educational and organizational support to groups of people that want to explore the creation of worker-owned cooperatives in East Boston.
Center for Labor Education and Research, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant payable to fiscal sponsor Center for Labor Education and Research, Inc. to support the Massachusetts TPS Committee, an organization representing beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status, independent of community organizations, political parties and religious groups.
Centro Presente, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant to Centro Presente, an organization that is a member-driven, state-wide Latin American immigrant organization dedicated to the self-determination and self-sufficiency of the Latin American immigrant community of Massachusetts.
City Life-Vida Urbana: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant payable to Urban Revival, Inc. for City Life/Vida Urbana, a grassroots community organization committed to fighting for racial, social and economic justice and gender equality by building working-class power.
Families for Justice as Healing, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant to Families for Justice as Healing, an organization that leads advocacy to de-carcerate women and girls in Massachusetts, organizing in the most incarcerated communities in the Commonwealth to transform the way they respond to harm, and develop alternatives to police, courts, and the lasting harms of mass incarceration.
Massachusetts Jobs with Justice: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant to Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, a coalition of labor, faith, and student organizations working together to build unity and support for the struggles of working people. The organization primarily focuses on immigrant rights and workers’ rights.
Resist, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant, payable to fiscal sponsor Resist, Inc., to provide support for Resource Organizing Project, a community-led initiative that seeks to build the capacity of grassroots, organizing groups by building alternative funding systems and creating networks among community groups for shared learning.
Rian Immigrant Center, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant, payable to fiscal sponsor Rian Immigrant Center, to provide support for Massachusetts Immigrant Collaborative, a statewide network of 15 groups dedicated to protecting and expanding the rights of immigrant communities through strong community organizing and fierce legislative advocacy across the Commonwealth.
Transformative Culture Project: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant, payable to fiscal sponsor Transformative Culture Project, to provide support for Women of Color in Solidarity, an organization that provides safer spaces for joy, resistance, and the development of local and global blueprints that center Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, Poor women and femmes.
The Boston Foundation Board of Directors also acknowledged more than $4 million in payments or requests for payment made by special funds at the Foundation in accordance with the specific terms of each fund. These special funds have advisors/advisory committees that make recommendations for the re-granting of these funds. Examples of these grants included:
Massachusetts Voter Education
$25,000: For support of the Safe Elections for All campaign
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.
$17,000: For support of the Fund for Shared Insight's Listen4Good initiative
Circle of Nations, Inc.
$25,000: $As fiscal sponsor for Dunk the Vote, to support COVID-19 vaccination messaging for the elderly
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, Inc.
$25,000: For general operating support
Boston Children's Museum
$25,000: For the Our City: Building Kindness and Empathy Exhibition
Boston Public Market Association
$25,000: For general operating support
Citizen Schools, Inc.
$10,000: For sponsorship of the Elevating Voices for Equity Series
Innovation Network for Communities
$25,000: For support of the Boston Green Ribbon Commission
Inversant
$50,000: For support of leadership development and operations capacity building
Museum of Science
$10,000: For support of Big Data, Systemic Racism & Boston: A Proof of Concept for the Boston Science Common at the Museum of Science
Forward Fund (of King Boston)
Chinese Progressive Association
$15,000: As fiscal sponsor for Right to the City Vote, Boston Chapter, for general operating support*
City Life - Vida Urbana
$15,000: For general operating support*
Families for Justice as Healing, Inc.
$15,000: For general operating support*
Muslim Justice League, Inc.
$15,000: For general operating support*
Student Immigrant Movement
$15,000: For general operating support*
*- via the Forward Fund at King Boston
Boston Women's Fund, Inc.
$25,000: For general operating support
Center for Teen Empowerment, Inc.
$10,000: As fiscal sponsor for the COVID-19 Youth Commission
MassRobotics
$10,000: For program design consulting engagement for paid internships for young women of color
The Partnership, Inc.
$10,000: For support of the Next Generation Executive Program
Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy
$10,000: For support of Open Opportunity - Massachusetts
Roxbury Cultural District
$22,000: To support the establishment of a District Increment Financing district
Civic Action, Inc.
$25,000: For general operating support
WAGE Project, Inc.
$25,000: For the Wage Equity Now project
The acknowledgments also included several other grants announced previously in other Boston Foundation communications, including:
COVID-19 Response Fund: $2,405,800
Next Steps for Boston Dance: $45,800
Live Arts Boston: $118,625
Success Boston: $736,112
Capacity Building Fund: $58,350
Grassroots Fund: $93,000
Food and Fuel Fund: $75,000
Latino Legacy Fund: $25,000
In addition, the Board of Directors formally thanked Paul Grogan, who was attending his final Board meeting as President and CEO. He will step down on June 1 after 20 years leading the Foundation.
“As I close out my tenure here, I am proud to look at this docket and see the continued level of innovation and creativity in our work as a grantmaker and as an organization that continues to put equity, justice and opportunity at its core,” said Grogan. “Community foundations sit in a unique place in philanthropy and civic life, and I look forward to staying connected to the Foundation and amplifying its work as I move into my next chapter.”
Social Justice Ecology: Movements Strategy
This quarter’s docket marks the first grants from the Movements strategy of the Foundation’s Social Justice Ecology (SJE) framework. The SJE framework, which also helps inform other grantmaking at the Foundation, was conceived as an effort to address persistent racial gaps in nonprofit leadership, as well as the historic exclusion of marginalized people from decision-making that affects their own communities.
The Movements strategy in the SJE framework provides support to resident-led organizing efforts and supports civic engagement on resident-defined issues to amass and sustain power.
Ten organizations are sharing $300,000 in operating support grants in the strategy’s first docket. These nonprofit partners will also play a powerful role in helping the Boston Foundation continue to better understand how to share power and uplift proximate community voices throughout our work, as we strive to more effectively support and contribute to these organizations and their talented leaders.
Support for COVID-19 Recovery Efforts
In addition to millions of dollars in grants made through the COVID-19 Response Fund at the Boston Foundation, the Foundation is also investing its discretionary resources in organizations and leaders working to help communities recover from the economic and health tolls of the pandemic and improve vaccine equity.
A list of the quarterly discretionary grants follows, followed by a selection of other between-cycles grants acknowledged by the Board this quarter. The largest grant in the docket, a $200,000 grant to the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, is being combined with grants from the COVID-19 Response Fund as part of a cooperative philanthropic effort to provide community health centers with more than $4 million to support COVID-19 vaccine response and distribution efforts.
The Foundation is also making a $149,000 grant to Massachusetts General Hospital to support its Community Health Navigation in the Time of COVID-19 project, and supporting several other nonprofit partners across Greater Boston in their efforts to expand outreach and vaccine distribution, and meet the ongoing needs of communities most heavily affected by the health and economic toll of the pandemic.
DISCRETIONARY GRANTS:
Arts and Culture
Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Inc.: A $25,000 one-year general operating support grant to Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Inc., a Greater Boston area arts service organization providing a full suite of services to the arts community, including legal aid, fiscal sponsorship, Board training, and cohort-based professional development programs.
The Dance Complex, Inc.: A $25,000 one-year general operating support grant to The Dance Complex, an organization that enables the study, creation, and performance of dance of all kinds through its seven studios, two performing spaces, and reach into neighborhoods, payable to the New Dance Complex, Inc., to continue its work as a home for dance makers, dancers, and the local community.
Now and There, Inc.: A $50,000 one-year general operating support grant to Now and There, a key organization working to build a culture of public art across Greater Boston, for its ongoing, city-wide programming.
The Record Co., Inc.: A $25,000 one-year general operating support grant to the Record Co., Inc., an arts service organization serving music makers with space and professional development, to continue its organizational development and growth in its new rehearsal and recording space.
Education: College Completion
Boston Private Industry Council Inc.: A $172,000 one-year project support grant to The Boston Private Industry Council, which supports community-college-bound BPS graduates as they transition to college through Success Boston.
Boston University-College Advising Corps: A $50,000 one-year general operating support grant payable to Trustees of Boston University, for the College Advising Corps – Boston University, which provides college advising services that increase college enrollment and completion among low-income, first-generation college students from Boston.
Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.: A $92,000 one-year project support grant to Hyde Square Task Force, Inc., which supports Latinx and Black BPS graduates as they transition to college through Success Boston.
Sociedad Latina, Inc.: A $50,000 one-year project support grant to Sociedad Latina, which supports BPS graduates as they transition to college through Success Boston.
University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc.: A $50,000 one-year project support grant payable to the University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc. to support the launch of a pilot chapter of My Brother's Keeper on the University of Massachusetts-Boston campus.
West End House Boys & Girls Club: A $100,000 one-year project support grant to West End House, Inc., which supports BPS graduates as they transition to college through Success Boston.
Education: Structural Reform
Boston Opportunity Agenda: A $75,000 one-year general operating support grant for the Boston Opportunity Agenda, a public/private partnership that works to urgently and strategically transform the Boston education landscape from cradle to career, so that all children have access to the education necessary for upward economic mobility, civic engagement and lifelong learning.
BPE, Inc.: A $166,000 one-year general operating support grant to BPE, Inc., whose mission is to drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools, to continue to leverage school autonomies to provide BPS students with high-quality education through two autonomous Teaching Academies and to prepare outstanding BPS teachers through the Boston Teacher Residency.
Education: Early Childhood
The Basics, Inc.: A $75,000 one-year general operating support grant payable to TSNE MissionWorks for The Basics, an organization that works to help children aged birth-to-3, especially children of color and children in marginalized communities, to achieve their early-learning and brain-building potential to arrive at kindergarten prepared for school and life.
Health and Wellness
Massachusetts General Hospital: A $149,000 one-year project support grant payable to Partners Healthcare System, Inc. for Massachusetts General Hospital for its Community Health Navigation in the Time of COVID-19 project.
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers: A $200,000 one‐year project support grant to Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers to provide support for COVID‐19 vaccine response efforts, including for the elderly and individuals with physical disabilities.
RIZE Massachusetts Foundation, Inc.: A $50,000 one‐year project support grant to RIZE Massachusetts Foundation, an organization that works to invest in meaningful solutions and employ broad perspectives to end the opioid overdose epidemic, for their Innovations in Anti‐Racism program, which will address the overdose crisis with funding and support for community‐based innovations and programs that serve Black, Indigenous, and People of Color with opioid use disorder.
Jobs and Economic Development
English for New Bostonians, Inc.: A $100,000 one-year general operating support grant to English for New Bostonians, Inc. (ENB), to support ENB’s programming, which infuses English instruction into Boston’s workforce ecosystem through customized ESOL services focused on entrepreneurs, job seekers, parents, workers, and employers.
Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation: A $30,000 one-year project support grant to Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation, an agency that promotes equity with affordable housing, asset building and lifting up new leaders, to support its small business services.
Lawyers for Civil Rights, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant to Lawyers for Civil Rights, Inc., an agency that fosters equal opportunity and fights discrimination on behalf of people of color and immigrants by engaging in creative and courageous legal action, education, and advocacy in collaboration with law firms and community partners.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation: A $65,000 one-year general operating support grant to Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), an agency that equips communities with the capital, strategy, and know-how to become places where people can thrive, to support its programming in Boston.
Neighborhoods and Housing
GreenRoots, Inc.: A $50,000 one-year general operating support grant to GreenRoots, Inc., an agency that achieves environmental justice and greater quality of life through collective action, unity, education and youth leadership across neighborhoods and communities.
Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations: A $150,000 one-year general operating support grant to Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, an agency that seeks to build and sustain a high-performing and adaptive community development sector that is supported by private and public investment and sound public policies.
Opportunity Communities, LLC: A $100,000 two-year project support grant to Opportunity Communities LLC, an agency that strengthens the capacity, efficiency, and performance of independent local community developers that join OppCo as organizational members, and that are committed to building equitable communities of opportunity, for their Homes for Equity program.
Social Justice Ecology: Movements Strategy
Asian American Resource Workshop, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year project support grant to Asian American Resource Workshop to provide support for Dorchester Not for Sale, a local Dorchester-centered effort, dedicated to disrupting housing gentrification and working to ensure families in the Dorchester neighborhood are not pushed out by recruiting, training and empowering local residents.
Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity: A $30,000 one-year general operating grant payable to Center for Economic Democracy for Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity, an organization that provides technical, educational and organizational support to groups of people that want to explore the creation of worker-owned cooperatives in East Boston.
Center for Labor Education and Research, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant payable to fiscal sponsor Center for Labor Education and Research, Inc. to support the Massachusetts TPS Committee, an organization representing beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status, independent of community organizations, political parties and religious groups.
Centro Presente, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant to Centro Presente, an organization that is a member-driven, state-wide Latin American immigrant organization dedicated to the self-determination and self-sufficiency of the Latin American immigrant community of Massachusetts.
City Life-Vida Urbana: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant payable to Urban Revival, Inc. for City Life/Vida Urbana, a grassroots community organization committed to fighting for racial, social and economic justice and gender equality by building working-class power.
Families for Justice as Healing, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant to Families for Justice as Healing, an organization that leads advocacy to de-carcerate women and girls in Massachusetts, organizing in the most incarcerated communities in the Commonwealth to transform the way they respond to harm, and develop alternatives to police, courts, and the lasting harms of mass incarceration.
Massachusetts Jobs with Justice: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant to Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, a coalition of labor, faith, and student organizations working together to build unity and support for the struggles of working people. The organization primarily focuses on immigrant rights and workers’ rights.
Resist, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant, payable to fiscal sponsor Resist, Inc., to provide support for Resource Organizing Project, a community-led initiative that seeks to build the capacity of grassroots, organizing groups by building alternative funding systems and creating networks among community groups for shared learning.
Rian Immigrant Center, Inc.: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant, payable to fiscal sponsor Rian Immigrant Center, to provide support for Massachusetts Immigrant Collaborative, a statewide network of 15 groups dedicated to protecting and expanding the rights of immigrant communities through strong community organizing and fierce legislative advocacy across the Commonwealth.
Transformative Culture Project: A $30,000 one-year general operating support grant, payable to fiscal sponsor Transformative Culture Project, to provide support for Women of Color in Solidarity, an organization that provides safer spaces for joy, resistance, and the development of local and global blueprints that center Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, Poor women and femmes.
The Boston Foundation Board of Directors also acknowledged more than $4 million in payments or requests for payment made by special funds at the Foundation in accordance with the specific terms of each fund. These special funds have advisors/advisory committees that make recommendations for the re-granting of these funds. Examples of these grants included:
Massachusetts Voter Education
$25,000: For support of the Safe Elections for All campaign
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.
$17,000: For support of the Fund for Shared Insight's Listen4Good initiative
Circle of Nations, Inc.
$25,000: $As fiscal sponsor for Dunk the Vote, to support COVID-19 vaccination messaging for the elderly
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, Inc.
$25,000: For general operating support
Boston Children's Museum
$25,000: For the Our City: Building Kindness and Empathy Exhibition
Boston Public Market Association
$25,000: For general operating support
Citizen Schools, Inc.
$10,000: For sponsorship of the Elevating Voices for Equity Series
Innovation Network for Communities
$25,000: For support of the Boston Green Ribbon Commission
Inversant
$50,000: For support of leadership development and operations capacity building
Museum of Science
$10,000: For support of Big Data, Systemic Racism & Boston: A Proof of Concept for the Boston Science Common at the Museum of Science
Forward Fund (of King Boston)
Chinese Progressive Association
$15,000: As fiscal sponsor for Right to the City Vote, Boston Chapter, for general operating support*
City Life - Vida Urbana
$15,000: For general operating support*
Families for Justice as Healing, Inc.
$15,000: For general operating support*
Muslim Justice League, Inc.
$15,000: For general operating support*
Student Immigrant Movement
$15,000: For general operating support*
*- via the Forward Fund at King Boston
Boston Women's Fund, Inc.
$25,000: For general operating support
Center for Teen Empowerment, Inc.
$10,000: As fiscal sponsor for the COVID-19 Youth Commission
MassRobotics
$10,000: For program design consulting engagement for paid internships for young women of color
The Partnership, Inc.
$10,000: For support of the Next Generation Executive Program
Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy
$10,000: For support of Open Opportunity - Massachusetts
Roxbury Cultural District
$22,000: To support the establishment of a District Increment Financing district
Civic Action, Inc.
$25,000: For general operating support
WAGE Project, Inc.
$25,000: For the Wage Equity Now project
The acknowledgments also included several other grants announced previously in other Boston Foundation communications, including:
COVID-19 Response Fund: $2,405,800
Next Steps for Boston Dance: $45,800
Live Arts Boston: $118,625
Success Boston: $736,112
Capacity Building Fund: $58,350
Grassroots Fund: $93,000
Food and Fuel Fund: $75,000
Latino Legacy Fund: $25,000