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.
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