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.