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Grants 2003

Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation
Allston, MA
$5,000 to support technology-based academic enrichment and job readiness programs.

American Family Child Care Association
Dorchester, MA
$4,500 to support the Massachusetts Family Child Care Providers Organizing Project.

Anchor Literacy Academy
Charlestown, MA
$4,500 to support operating costs for a new alternative middle school.

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

Arts in Progress
Roxbury, MA
$3,000 for an arts-based after-school program that builds the literacy and language skills of children and youth.

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.

Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA
$5,000 to support youth programs.

Boston Chamber Music Society
Cambridge, MA
$8,000 to support master classes at the Boston Arts Academy led by the musicians of the Chamber Music Society.

Boston Jewish Film Festival
West Newton, MA
$4,000 to bring films that celebrate Jewish Culture to Boston and the surrounding areas.

Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
$5,000 to support Sharing Books With Babies, an early literacy program.

Boston Urban Youth Foundation
Boston, MA
$3,500 to support after-school academic enrichment programs.

Camp JORI
Providence, RI
$3,500 to support scholarships for Boston children.

City School
Dorchester, MA
$5,000 to expand after-school and summer academic enrichment programs.

Congregacion Leon de Juda
Boston, MA
$4,500 for the Boston Higher Education Resource Center.

Dana Hall School
Wellesley, MA
*$4,000 for start-up costs of a fitness, health, and wellness program.

A Different September Foundation
Boston, MA
$3,000 to support a family literacy program in Chelsea.

Facing History and Ourselves
Brookline, MA
$4,500 to support the Jewish Education Program.

Florence Sawyer School
Bolton, MA
$3,500 to support teachers' participation in a summer institute on enrichment learning and teaching at the University of Connecticut.

Friends of the King Open School, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$1,000 to support after-school science clubs for girls.

Friends of the Rafael Hernandez School
Roxbury, MA
*$1,000 to support an after-school tutorial and enrichment program.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Boston, MA
$5,000 to support music music education programs.

Guidance Center, Inc. f/b/o Infant-Toddler Services
Somerville, MA
$5,000 to support the Universal Screening in Child Care program that identifies children with developmental needs.

Horizons Initiative
Dorchester, MA
$5,000 to expand the shelter-based educational programs for homeless pre-school children.

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

James D. St. Clair Court Public Education Project
Boston, MA
$3,500 to expand the Children Discovering Justice program in Dorchester and Chelsea elementary schools.

Julie's Family Learning Program
South Boston, MA
$5,000 to support literacy, job readiness, and post-employment services for families in South Boston.

Mission Main Resident Services Corporation
Boston, MA
$4,000 for continued support of a job training, placement, and adult education program for residents of the Mission Main housing development.

MissionSAFE: A New Beginning, Inc.
Roxbury, MA
$5,000 to support academic enrichment programs for youth in the Mission Hill neighborhood.

New England Citybridge
Concord, MA
$5,000 to support academic enrichment programs for youth.

Newton Choral Society
Newtonville, MA
*$1,000 to support the artist-in-residence program.

Notre Dame Education Center
South Boston, MA
$4,500 to support adult education and job placement programs.

Operation A.B.L.E.
Boston, MA
$5,000 to support a computer and office skills training program for older workers.

Project STEP
Boston, MA
$5,000 for operating support to provide music instruction and educational programs.

RAW Art Works, Inc.
Lynn, MA
$6,000 to support the RARE Artists Project, an arts education and youth leadership program.

REACH Prep, Inc.
Greenwich, CT
*$4,000 to prepare motivated and talented rising fifth grade African-American and Latino children from Fairfield County, Connecticut and Westchester County, New York, for independent school placement.

South Boston Neighborhood House
South Boston, MA
$4,000 to support Early Books, a family reading program.

STRIVE - Boston Employment Service, Inc.
Dorchester, MA
$3,000 to provide intense attitudinal training workshops focused on soft-skills required to obtain employment.

Summerbridge Cambridge
Cambridge, MA
*$1,000 to support a summer college preparatory enrichment program for Cambridge Public School students ages 6-9.

Thinking in Music, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
*$7,500 to support the development of a music listening program that promotes critical thinking.

Travis Roy Foundation
Boston, MA
*$5,000 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
$4,000 to support after-school educational programs for youth.

Vietnamese American Initiative for Development, Inc.
Dorchester, MA
$3,000 towards start-up costs for the new Au Co Preschool.

Women of Means, Inc.
Wellesley, MA
*$1,500 to support a training program for volunteer nursing and medical students that provide medical care to homeless women in Boston.

Writers' Express, Inc.
Lexington, MA
$5,000 to support after-school and summer writing programs for Boston youth.

 

*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.