2016 Grants

Allston Brighton CDC
Boston, MA
$40,000 Supporting community leadership and increasing neighborhood stability in the Radnor Road area and North Allston.

Alternatives for Community and Environment
Boston, MA
$25,000 Organizing to promote health, environmental justice and transit equity, and to increase jobs in communities of color.

BAGLY
Boston, MA
$25,000 Strengthening and expanding leadership development services for LGBTQ youth in Massachusetts.

Boston Area Research Initiative
(Fiscal Sponsor: Northeastern University Office of Research Administration and Finance)
Boston, MA
$49,745 Working to make municipal data accessible and engaging for community organizations.

Boston Children’s Chorus
Boston, MA
$40,000 Uniting Boston area youth across racial and socioeconomic differences through intensive choral training and community and personal development.

Boston Community Capital
Boston, MA
$100,000 Developing financing programs that support low-income communities.

Boston Tenant Coalition
Boston, MA
$50,000 Organizing to increase affordable housing, promote tenant rights and address the foreclosure crisis in Boston.

Brazilian Worker Center (formerly Brazilian Immigrant Center)
Boston, MA
$50,000 Organizing and supporting immigrant workers’ rights through training, advocacy, education and policy change.

Central Square Theater
Boston, MA
$125,000 Increasing connections between professional theater and the community and promoting civic engagement among residents. Includes matching challenge grant in support of the Catalyst Collaborative C2 Commission Program.

Centro Presente, Inc.
Somerville, MA
$50,000 Organizing for the rights of Latino and other immigrants with a focus on immigrants’ rights, workers’ rights and civic engagement.

Chelsea Collaborative
Boston, MA
$50,000 Member-driven organizing to engage a diverse community and promote education, empowerment, environmental justice and leadership development in Chelsea.

Chinese Progressive Association
Boston, MA
$50,000 Improving the living and working conditions of the Chinese community in the Greater Boston area and beyond.

City Life/ Vida Urbana
Boston, MA
$60,000 Housing organizing in Boston to promote tenant rights and prevent housing displacement caused by foreclosure.

Civic Engagement Initiative Fund
(Fiscal Sponsor: The Boston Foundation)
Boston, MA
$45,000 Supporting nonpartisan voter outreach, education, and mobilization in communities with low voting rates.

Community Labor United
Boston, MA
$50,000 Developing alliances and campaigns of community-based organizations and labor unions on behalf of low and middle-income working families in the Greater Boston area.

The Commonwealth Legislative Seminar
(Fiscal Sponsor: Third Sector New England)
Boston, MA
$25,000 Providing legislative training, networking opportunities and public service job opportunities for diverse leaders in Massachusetts.

Company One
Boston, MA
$50,000 Supporting community engagement efforts to involve a diverse audience in Boston theater and the arts community.

Conservation Law Foundation
Boston, MA
$90,000 Revitalizing open spaces and neighborhoods in low-income communities.

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Boston, MA
$20,000 Creating a network of land trust organizers to increase support for land trust approaches to land use in Boston.

Essex County Community Organization
Lynn, MA
$50,000 Faith-based organizing campaigns for social justice in North Shore communities.

Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
Boston, MA
$65,000 Developing local leadership and organized power to fight for social justice.

Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative
(Fiscal Sponsor: Chinese Progressive Association)
Boston, MA
$50,000 Bringing together local immigrant worker centers for campaigns that promote the rights of immigrant workers in Massachusetts.

JOIN for Justice
Boston, MA
$65,000 Developing young Jewish leaders in community organizing.

Justice At Work
Boston, MA
$40,000 Providing workplace-related legal services to community-based labor organizations and encouraging low-wage immigrant worker organizing.

Lawrence Community Works
Lawrence, MA
$30,000 Supporting community development and revitalization through educational and economic advancement of families in Lawrence Public Schools.

Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants
Boston, MA
$45,000 Organizing to preserve and improve at-risk HUD buildings as permanently affordable housing through the Save Our Homes Campaign.

Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations
Boston, MA
$50,000 Advocating for sustainable housing, transportation, economic development, and neighborhood development in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
Boston, MA
$80,000 Conducting accessible and transparent research and analysis on the effects of state budget and tax policies on low- and moderate-income people.

Massachusetts Coalition for Domestic Workers
(Fiscal Sponsor: Greater Boston Legal Services)
Boston, MA
$50,000 Empowering domestic workers in Massachusetts to improve their working conditions and raise their standard of living through organizing, education and developing alliances.

Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health
Boston, MA
$50,000 Member-led organizing for safe and healthy working conditions through educational training, engaging disenfranchised workers, and facilitating alliances among institutional partners.

Massachusetts Communities Action Network
Boston, MA
$75,000 Strengthening a network of grassroots faith-based social justice advocacy organizations.

Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition
Boston, MA
$65,000 For Building Power Together: Educating, organizing and mobilizing for immigrant rights and civic participation.

Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance
(Fiscal Sponsor: Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association)
Boston, MA
$50,000 Addressing inequitable land use in Massachusetts through work on zoning, policy, development and network building.

Massachusetts Voter Education Network, Inc.
Boston, MA
$52,500 Advocating for an improved electoral system for traditionally disenfranchised communities inform and mobilize voters.

Massachusetts Voter Table
(Fiscal Sponsor: Third Sector New England)
Boston, MA
$35,000 Developing voter engagement campaigns to amplify the voices of low-income people and people of color in Massachusetts.

Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians
Boston, MA
$25,000 One-time matching grant support for DACA/DAPA outreach and education.

Merrimack Valley Project
Lawrence, MA
$35,000 Organizing the working poor and their allies in Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill for an Opioid Abuse Treatment Campaign and affordable housing.

The Neighborhood Developers
Boston, MA
$30,000 Organizing and community planning to revitalize and improve the quality of life in the neighborhoods of Revere and Chelsea.

Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund
Boston, MA
$70,000 Building power in low-income communities through an economic justice agenda.

New Lynn Coalition
(Fiscal Sponsor: North Shore Workers Community Fund)
Lynn, MA
$50,000 Supporting the Community Benefits Campaign to organize working class people into a unified permanent political and economic force.

Right to the City – Boston
Boston, MA
$40,000 Organizing and advocating to expand housing solutions for the city of Boston.

Scholars Strategy Network
Boston, MA
$40,000 Supporting research and communications for civic groups, policymakers, and journalists to improve public policy and strengthen democracy.

Somerville Community Corporation *
Somerville, MA
$90,000 Supporting low- and moderate-income Somerville residents in their efforts to achieve economic sustainability and increase civic participation.

South Boston en Accion
Boston, MA
$35,000 Organizing for social, economic, and political development of Latinos in South Boston.

Student Immigrant Movement
(Fiscal Sponsor: Center for Labor and Education Research)
Boston, MA
$50,000 Statewide immigrant youth-led organizing to transform communities, develop leadership, and improve the lives of undocumented youth.

The Theater Offensive
Boston, MA
$50,000 Supporting Out in Your Neighborhood, a theater-based outreach, performance, and dialogue project designed to promote public understanding and acceptance of differences.

United Teen Equality Center
Lowell, MA
$40,000 Organizing youth in Lowell, Massachusetts.

WalkBoston
Boston, MA
$30,000 Providing technical assistance to neighborhood groups seeking to improve walkability and the built environment.

Women’s Institute for Leadership Development
Dorchester, MA
$35,000 Supporting the WILD mentoring project organizing working women to bring real and lasting change for justice.

Youth Jobs Coalition
(Fiscal Sponsor: Massachusetts Communities Action Network)
Dorchester, MA
$50,000 Organizing to increase high-quality job opportunities for youth in Massachusetts.

Youth on Board
(Fiscal Sponsor: YouthBuild USA)
Somerville, MA
$50,000 Youth-led organizing and education reform through the Boston Student Advisory Council.

2016 Total Grants = $2,567,245

 

* Grant made utilizing the Massachusetts Community Investment Tax Credit.