2018 Competitive Grants
4ward Miami, Inc. d/b/a/ ImpactOUT International Initiative
Miami, FL
$1000 – UN Advocacy Education & Training Program for LGBTQ Youth
Asset Builders of America, Inc.
Madison, WI
$2,000 – General operations
Bay State Performing Arts, Inc.
Boston, MA
$4,000 – 2018-2019 BGMC Season
Berkshire Immigrant Center
Pittsfield, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Bikes Not Bombs
Jamaica Plain, MA
$1,000 – Cycloville – Nairobi, Kenya and program developments for youth and women
Boston Lyric Opera
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Giving Voice to Victims
Centro del Obrero Fronterizo d/b/a La Mujer Obrera
El Paso, TX
$1,000 – General operating support
Children’s Defense Fund
Washington, DC
$2,000 – CDF Freedom Schools for summer youth programs
Class Action
Jamaica Plain, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Crotched Mountain Foundation
Greenfield, NH
$3,954 – Classroom Technology for Children with Special Needs
DC SCORES
Washington, DC
$2,000 – General operations for summer education programs by engagement in soccer
Domesticas Unidas
San Antonio, TX
$1,000 – Domestic Worker Training and Education Program
Encircle: LGBTQ Family & Youth Resource Center
Provo, UT
$1,000 – IGNITE 2018: Utah’s Statewide LGBTQ+ Youth Summit
FBO Energy Justice Network
Philadelphia, PA
$1,000 – Divert Baltimore II
Fenway Community Health Center
Boston, MA
$4,000 – Sidney Borum, Jr. Health Center
First Nations Development Institute
Longmont, CO
$2,000 – Native Youth and Culture
Gedakina, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$2,000 – Native LifeWays
Georgia Shift
Augusta, GA
$1,000 – General operations
Gift of Adoption Fund
Techny, IL
$5,000 – Adoption Assistance
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
Boston, MA
$3,000 – Advocacy for Out-Of-Home LGBTQ Youth
Haley House, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Urban Agriculture at Haley House
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
New York, NY
$5,000 – General operations for College Quest
Hilltown Village Inc. d/b/a It Takes a Village
Cummington, MA
$1,000 – General operations support
Homework House, Inc.
Holyoke, MA
$2,000 – General Operations of After School Tutoring & Mentoring
Honor the Earth
Callaway, MN
$2,000 – Young Indigenous Women’s Coming of Age Gathering
Human Rights Watch
New York, NY
$10,000 – Children’s Rights Division for Juvenile Justice in California and migrant and refugee work in the United States and worldwide
International Rescue Committee, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000 – programs for vulnerable refugees: youth without parents, single parents, women at risk; elderly refugees and refugees with social and psychological difficulties including trauma from war and sexual violence; survivors of torture; LGBT refugees who are HIV-positive; and refugees with severe disabilities
La Pinata – the Latin American Cultural Family Network, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$2,000 – General operating support
Mass Humanities
Northampton, MA
$1,000 – Clemente Course in the Humanities for Springfield, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE)
Newton, MA
$5,000 – General operating support
Mothers for Justice and Equality
Roxbury, MA
$2,000 – Civic Leadership Academy
Native American Community Board
Lake Andes, SD
$2,000 – Yankton Sioux Preservation Program
East Michigan Environmental Action Council
Detroit, MI
$2,000 – Anishanaabe Healing Stories on Racial Justice
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
New York, NY
$1,500 – updating the LA Onda Verde website
Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala/NISGUA
Oakland, CA
$1,000 – Guatemala Accompaniment Project (GAP)
New American Pathways
Atlanta, GA
$2,500 – English at Home Program
Unlocking Futures, Inc. AKA New York Youth at Risk, Inc.
New York, NY
$1,000 – It’s About Us family focused mentoring program
OutRight Action International
New York, NY
$5,000 – General operating support
Peace Development Fund
San Francisco, CA
$1,000 – The Sustainability Project
NH Peace Action Education Fund
Concord, NH
$2,000 – Educational Film Project The River Cried, “Mni W’Comi!”
Perkins School for the Blind
Watertown, MA
$5,000 – Camp Abilities
Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Access to Justice for Asylum Seekers
Raising a Reader MA
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Raising a Reader Springfield
REACH Beyond Domestic Violence
Waltham, MA
$1,000 – Peers Against Violence (PAVE)
River Gallery School of Art
Brattleboro, VT
$2,500 – Ability Arts: Scholarships for Disabled Students
Teens to Trails
Brunswick, ME
$3,000 – scholarship for outings
The Gray House, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – Adult Education
The Northeast Organic Farming Association
Barre, MA
$1,000 – Mass Food Access Program
Warren J. Plant Charitable Trust f/b/o The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice
Granby, MA
$1,454 – General operating support
The River Center: Family and Community Resource Center
Peterborough, NH
$3,000 – Employment Resource Center
The Theater Offensive
Boston, MA
$1,000 – OUT in Your Neighborhood: Art for Social Justice
Trans United
Washington, DC
$1,000 – General operating support for LGBTQIA programs
Veterans Education Project
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
WeThrive
New York, NY
$1,000 – Flagship Entrepreneurial Teaching Hub for Boston: Umana Academy
Women’s Educational Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$1,000 – Healing Empowerment through Arts Learning (HEAL)
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$1,000 – Audience Accessibility Programming
Total Competitive Grants: $119,908
Discretionary Grants
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Massachusetts Education Fund
American Fund for London School of Economics
New York, NY
$1,000 – General operations
BAGLY, Inc. (Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth)
Boston, MA
$10,000 – General operations
Cities at Peace, Inc d/b/a The Possibility Project
New York, NY
$1,000 – Cities at Peace Programs
Dexter Southfield, Inc.
Brookline, MA
$1,000 – Gay Student Alliance
Families in Transition – New Horizons
Manchester, NH
$2,500 – General operations
Featherstone Center for the Arts, Inc.
Oak Bluffs, MA
$1,000 – General operations
Franklin Pierce University
Rindge, NH
$1,000 – Jaffrey-Rindge Camp QUEST
Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – General operations
Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School District
Jaffrey, NH
$1,000 – Destination Imagination
Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
Cambridge, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives
MassEquality Education Fund
Boston, MA
$2,454 – General purposes
Meenakshi Foundation Inc.
Great Barrington, MA
$9,000 – Foundation’s work with young women in South India providing resources and counseling in education, social support, mentoring, and job training to girls and young women
Miriam’s Kitchen
Washington, DC
$1,000 – General operations
National Education for Assistance Dog Services, Inc.
Princeton, MA
$5,000 – Boston Marathon Bombing Survivors’ Fund
Newton, Wellesley, Weston, Committee for Community Living, Inc.
Newton Centre, MA
$10,000 – Paul T. Babson II Jubilee House
Nipponzan Myohoji-New England Peace Pagoda
Leverett, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives
Nolumbeka Project, Inc.
Greenfield, MA
$2,000 – General operations
Nonviolent Peaceforce
St. Paul, MN
$1,000 – General operations
North Country Center for the Arts, Inc.
Lincoln, NH
$2,000 – Theatre Arts Youth Development
Peace Action Education Fund
Silver Spring, MD
$1,000 – General operations
Point Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000 – General operations
ProjectArt
Brooklyn, NY
$2,500 – Detroit Scholarships
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
Newtown, Connecticut
$1,454 – General operations
School Year Abroad
North Andover, MA
$1,000 – General operations
Share Our Strength
Washington, DC
$1,000 – General operations
Shelter from the Storm
Jaffrey, NH
$1,000 – General operations
Sirius Inc.
Shutesbury, MA
$1,000 – General operations
South Africa Partners
Boston, MA
$1,000 – General operations
South Bronx United, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$2,500 – General operations of the soccer club
Spaulding Rehab Hospital Corporation
Charlestown, MA
$5,000 – General operations in Boston
The Boston Foundation
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Equality Fund
The Dallas Foundation
Dallas, TX
$2,000 – Tommy Tranchin “Named Film Project”
The Park Theatre
Jaffrey, NH
$5,000 – General operations for the Park Theatre Restoration
The Safina Center
Setauket, NY
$1,000 – General operations
The Winsor School
Boston, MA
$1,000 – scholarships
United Nations Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Model United Nations for Urban Schools
University of Virginia Serpentine Society
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000 – general support of the Serpentine Society
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Callaway, MN
$1,000 – general operations
World Connect
Brooklyn, NY
$2,500 – programs that address opportunities to connect with local groups and create global partnerships to improve local communities that also create opportunities for women and children
Total Discretionary: $116,908