2012 Grants
Boston Community Capital
Boston, MA
$100,000 Development of financing programs that support low-income communities.
Alternatives for Community and Environment
Boston, MA
$45,000 Organizing to promote health, environmental justice, transit equity, and increase jobs in communities of color.
Boston Alliance of Gay and Lesbian Youth
Boston, MA
$25,000 Leadership development of GLBTQ youth in Massachusetts.
Boston Children’s Chorus
Boston, MA
$30,000 Develop a new set of board, staff, member, and audience engagement programs that promote conversations about challenging and socially relevant issues in the community
Boston Foundation f/b/o Civic Engagement Initiative
Boston, MA
$90,000 Nonpartisan efforts to increase voter registration and mobilization in communities with low voting rates.
Boston Tenant Coalition f/b/o Coalition of Occupied Homes in Foreclosure
Boston, MA
$40,000 Pilot neighborhood-level intervention to keep residents in foreclosure in their homes, using organizing, outreach, advocacy, legal aid, and financial services.
Boston Tenant Coalition, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 Organizing to increase affordable housing, promote tenant rights and address the foreclosure crisis in Boston.
Boston Workers Alliance
Boston, MA
$35,000 Organizing campaigns of unemployed and low-wage African-American and Caribbean workers related to jobs, criminal justice, electoral politics, and economic justice.
Brazilian Immigrant Center
Boston, MA
$50,000 Organizing for worker rights and economic justice.
Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
$50,000 Increasing connections between professional theater and the community and promote civic engagement among residents
Centro Presente, Inc.
Somerville, MA
$50,000 Organizing for the rights of Latinos and other immigrants.
Chelsea Collaborative
Chelsea, MA
$45,000 Organizing, education, empowerment, and leadership development in Chelsea.
Chelsea Neighborhood Developers
Chelsea, MA
$30,000 Organizing and community planning to revitalize and improve the quality of life in neighborhoods of Revere and Chelsea.
Chinese Progressive Association
Boston, MA
$45,000 Organizing for the rights of Asians and other immigrants.
Chinese Progressive Association f/b/o Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative
Boston, MA
$40,000 Organizing campaigns to promote the rights of immigrant workers in Massachusetts.
Citizen Housing and Planning Association f/b/o Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance
Boston, MA
$50,000 Advocacy for equitable investment in healthy and diverse communities.
City Life/Vida Urbana
Boston, MA
$50,000 Promotion of tenant rights and prevention of housing displacement caused by foreclosure.
City School f/b/o Youth Jobs Coalition
Boston, MA
$35,000 Organizing to increase high-quality job opportunities for youth in Massachusetts.
Community Labor United
Boston, MA
$50,000 Developing alliances and campaigns of community-based organizations and labor unions in on behalf of low and middle-income working families in the Greater Boston area.
Conservation Law Foundation
Boston, MA
$120,000 Revitalize open spaces and neighborhoods in low-income communities.
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation f/b/o Fairmont Collaborative
Boston, MA
$100,000 Participatory community planning and advocacy related to the development of the Indigo Line rail corridor in Boston.
Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
Boston, MA
$65,000 Developing local leadership and organized power to fight for social justice.
Greater Four Corners Action Coalition f/b/o On the Move
Boston, MA
$20,000 Developing a city-wide coalition of transportation advocacy organizations.
Greater Four Corners Action Coalition, Inc.
Boston, MA
$35,000 Organizing to the revitalize and improve quality of life in the neighborhood.
Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
Boston, MA
$45,000 Organizing campaigns to address concerns of young people in Boston.
Join for Justice
Boston, MA
$60,000 Development of young Jewish leaders in community organizing.
Justice at Work
Boston, MA
$35,000 Workplace-related legal services to community-based labor organizations, encouraging low-wage immigrant worker organizing.
Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants
Boston, MA
$40,000 Organizing to preserve and improve at-risk HUD buildings as permanently affordable housing.
Mass Voter Table
Boston, MA
$25,000 Launch a statewide voter registration and education network.
Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporation
Boston, MA
$50,000 Advocacy for sustainable housing, transporatation, economic development, and neighborhood development in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
Boston, MA
$40,000 Research and analysis on effects of state budget and tax policies on low- and moderate-income people in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health
Boston, MA
$40,000 Organizing for safe and healthy working conditions and immigrant and worker rights.
Massachusetts Community Action Network
Boston, MA
$50,000 Strengthening a network of grassroots faith-based social justice advocacy organizations in Eastern Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition
Boston, MA
$65,000 Advocacy for the rights and integration of immigrants and refugees in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition
Boston, MA
$15,000 Greater Boston Citizenship Initiative, a project to help eligible legal permanent residents overcome barriers to naturalization.
Massachusetts Voter Education Network, Inc.
Boston, MA
$105,000 Advocating an improved electoral system and helping traditionally disenfranchised communities organize, register, and educate voters.
Merrimack Valley Project
Lawrence, MA
$30,000 Interfaith organizing to address the housing foreclosure crisis in the Merrimack Valley.
Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Boston, MA
$50,000 Development of a training component of a regional smart growth planning initiative.
Neighbor to Neighbor f/b/o/ Student Immigrant Movement
Boston, MA
$35,000 Organizing for equal access to higher education for the interests of immigrant students.
Neighbor to Neighbor f/b/o/ Student Immigrant Movement
Boston, MA
$10,000 Campaign to inform and support students eligible to apply for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration status.
Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund
Boston, MA
$60,000 Statewide organizing to hold public officials accountable to low-income communities.
Oiste
Boston, MA
$20,000 Leadership development, electoral reform, voter engagement, and advocacy for Latinos in Massachusetts.
Somerville Community Corporation
Somerville, MA
$50,000 Organizing to revitalize and improve the quality of life in Somerville.
South Boston en Accion
Boston, MA
$30,000 Organizing for social, economic, and political development of Latinos in South Boston.
Theater Offensive
Boston, MA
$50,000 Out in Your Neighborhood, a theater-based outreach, performance, and dialogue project designed to promote public understanding and acceptance of differences.
Third Sector New England f/b/o Commonwealth Seminar
Boston, MA
$45,000 Legislative training, networking opportunities and public service job opportunities for diverse leaders in Massachusetts.
United for Teen Equality f/b/o/ Teens Leading the Way
Lowell, MA
$35,000 Teens Leading the Way, a statewide youth-led legislative advocacy network.
United for Teen Equality
Lowell, MA
$35,000 Youth organizing in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Youth On Board
Boston, MA
$25,000 Organizing activities of the the advisory council advocating for student interests in the Boston Public Schools.