The Herman and Frieda L. Miller Foundation

2023 Grants

All Our Kids
South Hadley, MA
$50,000 to develop a coordinated care and support coalition that helps new foster parents navigate the child welfare system.

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
Boston, MA
$35,000 to pilot programs that address problem gambling in the Asian community.

De Novo Center for Justice and Healing
Cambridge, MA
$35,000 to formalize and replicate program that integrates behavioral-health with legal services for immigrants.

Doc Wayne Youth Services
Boston, MA
$35,000 to expand and refine an integrated medical-legal services system to increase access to health care for immigrants. 

Health Law Advocates
Boston, MA
$50,000 to refine and expand an integrated medical-legal services system to increase access to health care for immigrants.

HopeWell, Inc
Dedham, MA
$50,000 to pilot a tutorial, case-management, and policy advocacy program that increases academic success of children in foster care in Massachusetts.

International Institute of New England
Boston, MA
$35,000 to redesign the voluntary community sponsorship model of immigrant resettlement in New England.

Lawyers Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing and Homelessness
Boston, MA
$33,000 to create a Tax Lien Land Court Program and identify creative solutions for self-represented homeowners facing tax foreclosure on their properties and identify policy solutions to stop unjust tax liens.

MAB Community Services
Brookline, MA
$43,325 to develop a community-based recovery and support center to help people with acquired brain injuries. 

Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women Foundation
$50,000 to strengthen a network of organizations advocating for better reproductive health education and public policies increasing access to menstrual related resources in schools, shelters, and jails.

Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support planning and advocacy that ensures that prisoners have access to substance abuse treatment.

Resilient Coders
Boston, MA
$50,000 to integrate artificial intelligence tools into the curriculum and instruction of a software coding technical education program.

Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice
Waltham, MA
$50,000 to organize a network of private immigration attorneys and their clients to support legal innovation and advocacy.

TOTAL: $566,325

2022 Grants

All Our Kids
South Hadley, MA
$50,000 to develop a coordinated care and support coalition that helps new foster parents navigate the child welfare system.

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
Boston, MA
$50,000 to pilot programs that address problem gambling in the Asian community.

Boston CASA
Boston, MA
$50,000 to change the trajectory of youth exiting the foster care system away from homelessness and into a supportive network of services.

Carroll Center for the Blind
Newton, MA
$45,000 to refine a training program that helps the blind and visually impaired become usability testers for technology companies.

De Novo Center for Justice and Healing
Cambridge, MA
$35,000 to formalize and replicate program that integrates behavioral-health with legal services for immigrants.

Doc Wayne Youth Services
Boston, MA
$35,000 to expand and refine a program that helps youth sports programs support the behavioral health of the players.

Health Law Advocates
Boston, MA
$50,000 to refine and expand an integrated medical-legal services system to increase access to health care for immigrants.

HopeWell, Inc
Dedham, MA
$50,000 to pilot a tutorial, case-management, and policy advocacy program that increases academic success of children in foster care in Massachusetts.

Housing Navigator Massachusetts, Inc
Boston, MA
$50,000 to develop a website that helps people find affordable housing in Massachusetts.

International Institute of New England
Boston, MA
$35,000 to redesign the voluntary community sponsorship model of immigrant resettlement in New England.

Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support planning and advocacy that ensures that people in prison have access to substance abuse treatment.

TOTAL: $500,000

2021 Grants

Re-imagining Service Networks for the Most Vulnerable

Boston CASA
Boston, MA
$50,000 Year 2 to design a program that encourages youth aging out of foster care to negotiate and accept voluntary extensions of state care.

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
Boston, MA
$50,000 to pilot a set of public health interventions that address gambling problems in the Asian community.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Boston, MA
$50,000 Year 3 to pilot an early intervention that encourages young people experiencing homelessness to consider substance misuse treatment options.

Community Cooperative / Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
Washington, DC
$50,000 Year 3 to replicate a cooperative group purchasing organization for religious institutions and nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts.

De Novo Center for Justice and Healing
Cambridge, MA
$50,000 to formalize a model of mental health care integrated with legal services.

Doc Wayne
Dedham, MA
$50,000 to replicate a sports-based mental health curriculum for youth through a national network.

Health Care Without Walls
Boston, MA
$50,000 Year 2 to evaluate a case management, medical referral, and social support program for homeless and housing insecure pregnant women and new mothers.

HopeWell
Dedham, MA
$50,000 to pilot a tutorial, case-management, and policy advocacy program that increases academic success of an initial cohort of 225 children in foster care.

Housing Navigator Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$50,000 Year 2 to build a public database of income-restricted housing rentals in Massachusetts.

Prisoners Legal Services
Cambridge, MA
$50,000 to launch a legislative advocacy campaign to ensure access to substance abuse disorder treatment for Massachusetts Prisoners.

2020 Grants

Boston CASA
Boston, MA
$50,000 to change the trajectory of youth exiting the foster care system away from homelessness and into a supportive network of services.  

Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Boston, MA
$50,000 Year 2 to pilot an early intervention to encourage that encourages young people experiencing homelessness to consider substance misuse treatment options.

Community Cooperative

Boston, MA
$50,000 Year 2 to replicate a cooperative group purchasing organization for religious institutions and nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts.

Greater Boston Legal Services
Boston, MA
$40,000 to develop automation in protecting consumer rights against debt collectors.

Health Care Without Walls

Boston, MA
$35,000 to develop a community-based services for pregnant women experiencing homelessness.

Higher Ground Boston
Boston, MA
$50,000 Year 3 to develop a rapid housing initiative for families of students in the Boston Public Schools experiencing homelessness.

Housing Navigator Massachusetts, Inc

Boston, MA
$50,000 to develop an affordable housing database and software to for individuals experiencing housing instability to use.

Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Lexington, MA
$50,000 Year 3 to develop strategies and tools that reduce opioid dependency and substance misuse among workers at-risk for chronic pain.

South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Inc.
Framingham, MA
$50,000 Year 3 to prototype a new model of Single Room Occupancy housing using prefabricated micro-apartments in Framingham, Worcester, and Boston as an approach to eliminate chronic homelessness.

United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
Boston, MA
$35,000 Year 3 to pilot a large scale, multi-organization, workforce development program targeting young adults living in state subsidized housing.

2019 Grants

Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Boston, MA
$50,000 to pilot an early intervention to encourage that encourages young people experiencing homelessness to consider substance misuse treatment options.

Greater Boston Legal Services
Boston, MA
$40,000 to work with community partners and test a web-based application that helps tenants prevent unnecessary eviction.

Higher Ground Boston
Boston, MA
$50,000 Year 2 to develop a rapid housing initiative for families of students in the Boston Public Schools experiencing homelessness.

Housing Partnership Network
Boston, MA
$50,000 pilot a system for large nonprofit housing developers that increases health care coordination between resident services and community health care organizations.

Justice Resource Institute f/b/o Boston Youth Action Board 
Boston, MA
$20,000 to develop a framework for participation by young adults in efforts to address homelessness in Boston.

MassCOSH
Boston, MA
$50,000 to develop strategies and tools that reduce opioid dependency and substance misuse among workers at-risk for chronic pain.

South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Inc.
Framingham, MA
$50,000 Year 2 to prototype a new model of Single Room Occupancy housing using prefabricated micro-apartments in Framingham, Worcester, and Boston as an approach to eliminate chronic homelessness.

United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
Boston, MA
$50,000 Year 2 to pilot a large scale, multi-organization, workforce development program targeting young adults living in state subsidized housing.

Developing and Proving New Community-Based Economic Models

Community Cooperative / Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
Washington, DC
$50,000 to replicate a cooperative group purchasing organization for religious institutions and nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts.

Lawrence Partnership
Lawrence, MA
$50,000 to help local manufacturing companies develop strategies that recruit, train, retain, and advance local workers including low-income immigrant residents.

TSNE MissionWorks f/b/o Real Food Challenge
Boston, MA
$50,000  Final grant to make the food service contracts between three corporations and a cohort of colleges more socially and environmentally sustainable.

2018 Grants

Compass Working Capital, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 Year 3 of a 3 year grant to test a major enrollment expansion method for a program working with public housing residents in Cambridge, Massachusetts to increase income and establish personal savings.

Community Labor United
Boston, MA
$40,000 Develop a feasibility study for community microgrids that generate renewable energy in Chelsea and Boston that identifies scenarios for public ownership.

Health Equity Research Lab/Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge, MA
$50,000 Final grant to evaluate and disseminate lessons from the Safety Net Collaborative, an interagency program designed to divert youth from the criminal justice system.

Higher Ground Boston
Boston, MA
$50,000 Develop a rapid housing initiative for families of students in the Boston public experiencing homelessness.

Real Food Challenge
Boston, MA
$50,000  Year 3 of a 3 year grant to advocate to make the food service contracts between three corporations and a cohort of colleges support more socially and environmentally sustainable food systems.

South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Inc.
Framingham, MA
$50,000 Prototype a new model of Single Room Occupancy housing using prefabricated micro-apartments in Framingham, Worcester, and Boston as an approach to eliminate chronic homelessness.

Southwest Boston Elder Services d/b/a Ethos
Boston, MA
$25,000 Develop a coordinated network of culturally competent elderly service providers and new outreach tools and tactics that increase access to services for LGBTQ seniors in Boston.

2017 Grants

CommonWealth Kitchen
Boston, MA
$50,000  Provide food-manufacturing services that help entrepreneurs supply products to contract buyers that sell to big grocery stores, institutions, or restaurants.

 Courageous Parents Network
Newton, MA
$31,000 Developing online resources for of families with children who have life-limiting diseases and educate providers nationwide about the perspective of such families and make early access to pediatric palliative care the norm.

Compass Working Capital, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 Test a major enrollment expansion method for a program working with public housing residents in Cambridge, Massachusetts to increase income and establish personal savings.

Criminal Justice Policy Coalition
Boston, MA
$48,000 Pilot re-entry program for formerly incarcerated adults.

Health Equity Research Lab/Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge, MA
$49,909 Evaluate and disseminate lessons from the Safety Net Collaborative, an interagency program designed to divert youth from the criminal justice system.

Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Boston, MA
$50,000 Advocate for the adoption of a behavioral health urgent care model in Massachusetts.

National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$50,000 to develop a Diversion Center to prevent people with behavioral health symptoms who encounter the police from going to one of two inappropriate settings: jail or emergency room.

Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
Gloucester, MA
$50,000 Developing a fishing cooperative in Chatham, Massachusetts to process and market new products that have a high standard of sustainability.

Real Food Challenge
Boston, MA
$50,000  Advocacy to improve the food contracting process between three corporations and a cohort of colleges.

Western Mass Training Consortium
Holyoke, MA
$50,000 Developing training programs, a handbook, and training curriculum to train other organizations how to run peer-based supportive housing programs.

 

2016 Grants

Boston Education, Skills & Training (BEST) Corp.
Boston, MA
$29,438 to develop a workforce recruitment, training, placement, and retention program for young African American adults underrepresented in the growing hospitality industry.

Compass Working Capital, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$50,000 to test a major enrollment expansion method for a program working with public housing residents in Cambridge, MA to increase income and establish personal savings.

Courageous Parents Network
Newton, MA
$35,800 to reach large numbers of families with children who have life-limiting diseases with appropriate, online family-focused support for facing their situations and to educate providers nationwide about the perspective of such families and make early access to pediatric palliative care the norm.

National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$50,000 to develop a Diversion Center to prevent people with behavioral health symptoms who encounter the police from going to one of two inappropriate settings: jail or emergency room.

Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
Gloucester, MA
$50,000 to create a set of values-based standards and principles defining what sustainable fishing is to help producers and consumers of fish support fisheries that are better for people and the planet.

TeensConnect, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support the TeensConnect Site Coordination position and program to create a Jobs-to-Career-and-College pathway in Boston high schools for underperforming but high-potential students.

United Teen Equality Center
Lowell, MA
$50,000 to formalize the Regional Streetworker Learning Network  and create a professional development network of streetworkers and support street outreach organizations to develop a policy advocacy agenda.

The Miller Innovation Fund shifted its grantmaking to these two focus areas beginning in 2016. To view grants made in the first five years of the Fund’s grantmaking, please see 2011-2015 Miller Innovation Fund Grants by Purpose of Innovation.