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Grants 2002

A Different September Foundation
Boston, MA
$5,000 to support the Intergenerational Literacy Project, a family literacy program serving Chelsea elementary school children and their parents.

American Composers Forum - Boston Area Chapter
Boston, MA
$4,000 to support the expansion of the Faith Partners Program.

American Jewish Committee
Boston, MA
$7,000 to support an exhibit portraying diplomats who issued visas during the Holocaust and saved lives.

Arts & Business Council, Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$4,000 for a board development program for small arts organizations.

Arts in Progress
Roxbury, MA
$4,000 for an arts-based program that builds the literacy and language skills of children and youth.

Asian American Civic Association, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000 to support counseling and case management, and ABE, Apprenticeship Preparation, Pre-Vocational Skills Training, Integrate Office Training, and Restaurant Health and Safety Training.

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
$3,000 to support the development and promotion of philanthropy in New England.

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000 to support summer camps for urban youth through the Summer Fund.

BalletRox
Jamaica Plain, MA
$2,000 to support youth dance education programs.

Battered Women's Resources, Inc.
Leominster, MA
*$3,000 to provide outpatient services to substance abusing battered women.

Bikes Not Bombs
Roxbury, MA
*$500 for an after school youth development program.

Black Church Capacity Building Program
Roxbury, MA
$7,500 provide individualized technical assistance to Black churches and faith-based ministries which are developing and implementing human service and community revitalization programs in the African-American neighborhoods.

Boch Center for the Performing Arts
Mashpee, MA
*$1,000 to perform live and original music to classic silent films.

Boston Chamber Music Society
Cambridge, MA
$8,000 to support master classes with the Chamber Music Society's musicians at the Boston Arts Academy.

Boston Institute for Arts Therapy
Boston, MA
$5,000 to support a training program for early childhood educators in child care centers and the Boston Public School's early learning centers.

Boston Jewish Film Festival
West Newton, MA
$5,000 to bring films that celebrates Jewish Culture to Boston and the surrounding areas.

Boston Urban Youth Foundation
Boston, MA
$9,000 to support a truancy intervention program in the Boston Public Schools.

Cambridge Community Chorus
Cambridge, MA
$1,000 to support programs with the Cambridge Ringe and Latin Vocal Ensemble.

Cambridge School Volunteers
Cambridge, MA
$4,000 to coordinate volunteer-led academic enrichment programs for Cambridge Public School students.

Camp JORI
Providence, RI
$2,000 for camp scholarships for Jewish children from the Greater Boston area.

Camp Starfish, Inc.
Boston, MA
*$1,000 to support scholarships for children with significant emotional, behavioral, or learning problems.

Camp Starfish, Inc.
Boston, MA
*$1,000 to support scholarships for seven children with significant emotional, behavioral, or learning problems.

Cantata Singers
Boston, MA
$7,000 to support the Classroom Cantatas program in the Boston Public Schools.

Chelsea Community Fund
Chelsea, MA
$10,000 to support a new summer jobs program for Chelsea youth.

Child Care Careers Institute
Jamaica Plain, MA
$5,000 to promote the professional, career and leadership development of those individuals involved in the care and education of Massachusetts children and youth.

City School
Dorchester, MA
$6,000 to develop and expand service learning-based after-school programs for teens.

Epiphany School, Inc.
Dorchester, MA
$4,000 to a support a tuition-free, middle school for children of low-income families from Boston neighborhoods.

Fenway Community Development Corporation
Boston, MA
$7,000 to support job training and placement services to low-income residents.

Florence Sawyer School
Bolton, MA
$4,500 to support teachers' participation in a summer institute on enrichment learning and teaching at the University of Connecticut.

Florence Sawyer School
Bolton, MA
*$2,500 to support instruction and curriculum development workshops .

Friends of the King Open School, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$3,500 to support and evaluate after-school science club program for girls.

Generations Incorporated
Boston, MA
$5,000 to support a literacy tutorial program for children led by older adults.

Global Habitat Project
Cambridge, MA
$3,500 to support the publication of a quarterly environmental newsletter written by high school students.

Guidance Center, Inc. f/b/o Infant-Toddler Services
Somerville, MA
$6,000 to support the Universal Screening in Child Care program to identify children with developmental needs.

Hyde Square Task Force
Jamaica Plain, MA
$5,000 to support the Youth Literacy Tutors program.

Interseminarian - Project Place, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000 to provide the skills, education, and resources needed to obtain stable employment and housing for homeless individuals.

James D. St. Clair Court Public Education Project
Boston, MA
$3,000 to expand the Arts and the Law program, an educational theatre program for children ages 10-14 dealing with history, law, justice, and the constitution.

Madison Park Development Corporation
Roxbury, MA
$5,000 for a property management training program.

Mission Main Resident Services Corporation
Boston, MA
$5,000 to support a job training and placement program for public housing residents.

New England Citybridge
Concord, MA
$7,000 to support summer and year round academic enrichment programs for Boston and Cambridge middle school students.

Notre Dame Education Center
South Boston, MA
$5,000 to support adult education and job placement programs.

Parents United for Child Care
Boston, MA
$6,000 to support the Boston School Age Child Care Project to enhance to quality of out-of-school time programs.

Performing Artists at Lincoln School
Brookline, MA
$4,000 the support the PALS performing arts training programs.

Prometheus Dance, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$4,000 to support performances, marketing, and after-school programs for hearing-impaired and at-risk youth.

The Rivers School
Weston, MA
*$3,500 scholarship support for needy students, in honor of Priscilla Straus.

Snappy Dance Theatre
Cambridge, MA
$4,000 for children and youth programs.

STRIVE - Boston Employment Service, Inc.
Dorchester, MA
$5,000 for intense attitudinal training workshops focused on soft-skills necessary to obtain employment.

Summerbridge Cambridge
Cambridge, MA
$5,000 to support a summer academic enrichment program for sixth to ninth grade Cambridge Public School students.

Synagogue Council of Massachusetts
Newton, MA
$5,000 to develop a Family Education program as part of the Russian Jewish Community School.

Travis Roy Foundation
Boston, MA
$3,000 to help spinal cord injury survivors and to fund research into a cure.

Uphams Corner Community Center d/b/a Bird Street Community Center
Dorchester, MA
$5,000 for an after-school and summer educational support program for youth.

Vietnamese American Initiative for Development, Inc.
Dorchester, MA
$5,000 to launch a new early childcare and education program in Dorchester's Vietnamese community.

West End House Boys & Girls Club of Allston-Brighton
Allston, MA
$5,000 for general operating support.

Wheelock College
Boston, MA
$2,000 to support a training program for urban teachers.

Women of Means, Inc.
Wellesley, MA
*$1,000 for a volunteer health care program for homeless women.

Writers' Express, Inc.
Lexington, MA
$7,500 to support a summer and after-school writing program for middle school students.

Young People's Project, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
*$1,000 to support the development of math literacy workers in the Boston and Cambridge Public Schools.

Youth pro Musica
West Newton, MA
$4,000 to support the Dorchester Youth Chorus.

 

*Indicates a discretionary grant. Please note that this grants list shows discretionary grants and competitive grants. The discretionary grants do not always reflect the priorities specified in the Foundation’s guidelines.