2022 Grants

Asian American Resource Workshop
Boston, MA
$35,000 Organizing and advocacy for the social, economic, and political development of pan-Asian community.

Boston Area Research Initiative
Fiscal Sponsor: Northeastern University Office of Research Administration and Finance
$55,972 Working to make municipal data accessible and engaging for community organizations.

Boston Affordable Housing Coalition, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$45,000 Save our Homes Campaign

Boston Neighborhood Community Land Trust (Formerly COHIF)
Roxbury, MA
$40,000 Resident-led planning and long-term, collective control of land for permanently affordable housing, economic development, urban agriculture, and open space.

Boston Tenant Coalition
Boston, MA
$50,000 Organizing to increase affordable housing and promote tenant rights.

Brazilian Worker Center
Allston, MA
$50,000 Organizing and supporting immigrant workers’ rights through training, advocacy, education and policy change.

Brockton Interfaith Coalition
Brockton, MA
$50,000 Faith-based organizing campaigns for social justice in Brockton, MA.

Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
$50,000 Increasing connections between professional theater and the community and promoting civic engagement among residents.

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

Chinatown Community Land Trust
Boston, MA
$40,000 Resident-led planning and long-term, collective control of land for permanently affordable housing, economic development, urban agriculture, and open space.

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
$65,000 Housing organizing in Boston to promote tenant rights and prevent housing displacement caused by foreclosure.

Community Labor United
Boston, MA
$25,000 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.

Community Safety Campaign
Jamaica Plain, MA
$40,000 to reconceptualize the concept of safety in Jewish congregational spaces and promote alternatives to policing and surveillance.

Essex County Community Organization
Lynn, MA
$65,000 Faith-based organizing campaigns for social justice in North Shore communities.

Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
Roxbury, MA
$50,000 Developing local leadership and organized power to fight for social justice.

GreenRoots
Chelsea, MA
$50,000 Environmental justice organizing in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

I Have a Future Fiscal Sponsor: Massachusetts Communities Action Network
Dorchester, MA
$35,000 Youth organizing and advocacy.

Jewish Alliance for Law & Social Action
Boston, MA
$40,000 to support Jewish organizing and advocacy in solidarity with other social justice advocacy organizations.

JCC Harlem
New York, NY
$40,000 to support the JCC Harlem community initiatives.

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

Justice at Work
Boston, MA
$60,000 Providing workplace-related legal services to community-based labor organizations and encouraging low-wage immigrant worker organizing.

La Collaborativa
Chelsea, MA
$60,000 Member-driven organizing to engage a diverse community and promote education, empowerment, worker rights, and leadership development in Chelsea.

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice
Boston, MA
$55,000 Providing advocacy, support, and community education to support justice in minority and immigrant communities.

Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance
Dorchester, MA
$50,000 Advocating for policies that increase home ownership and housing affordability.

Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
Boston, MA
$140,000 Conducting research and analysis on the effects of state budget and tax policies on low- and moderate-income people.

Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health
Dorchester, MA
$60,000 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 and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
Boston, MA
$50,000 No Recovery Without Immigrants Program

Massachusetts Voter Table
Boston, MA
$100,000 Developing voter engagement campaigns to amplify the voices of low-income people and people of color in Massachusetts.

Muslim Justice League
Boston, MA
$35,000 Organizing and advocacy for human and civil rights that are violated or threatened under national security pretexts.

The Neighborhood Developers
Chelsea, MA
$30,000 Advocacy to stop residential displacement and involve residents in land use planning.

Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund
Boston, MA
$50,000 Building power in low-income communities through an economic justice agenda.

Never Again Action
Tuscan, AZ
$25,000 to support Jewish-led mobilization against the persecution, detention, and deportment of immigrants in the United States.

Philanthropy Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$7,000 Membership.

Political Research Associates
Somerville, MA
$60,000 Advance strategies and partnerships with movement leaders fighting White nationalism and the Christian Right and racial inequities, and police brutality.

Student Immigrant Movement
Fiscal Sponsor: Massachusetts Jobs with Justice
Boston, MA $35,000 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.

T’ruah
New York, NY
$35,000 to support the organizing and empowerment of rabbis and cantors as moral voices leading Jewish communities in advancing democracy and human rights in the United States, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories. 

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