2020 Competitive Grants
Arab-American Family Support Center
Brooklyn, NY
$1,606 – General operating support during the COVID-19 pandemic
Arms Control Association
Washington, DC
$2,000 – General operating support
Asset Builders of America, Inc.
Madison, WI
$2,000 – Go4it! Youth Entrepreneurship Education and Training Program
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
New York, NY
$2,000 – General operating support
BAGLY, Inc. (Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth)
Boston, MA
$10,000 – General operating support
Bay State Performing Arts Inc. aka Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
Boston, MA
$5,000 – General operating support
Berkshire Immigrant Center
Pittsfield, MA
$1,106 – General operating support
Bikes Not Bombs, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$2,000 – Learn-2-Ride program for women
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Washington, DC
$1,000 – General Operating Support and any special programs during the COVID-19 pandemic
Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!)
Eugene, OR
$1,000 – Sustainable Gardening and Poultry Raising Activities to Improve lives in Boustane Lo, Senegal
Children’s Aid Society
New York, NY
$1,000 – Community health clinics
Children’s Defense Fund
Washington, DC
$1,000 – CDF Freedom Schools Program and CDF’s COVID-19 fund – Children in Crisis fund
Crossing the Waters Institute for Cultural Exchange, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$2,000 – General operating support to continue web design and program development
Crotched Mountain Foundation
Greenfield, NH
$5,000 – General operating support
Dallas Foundation
Dallas, TX
$1,000 – The Tommy Project
DC SCORES
Washington, DC
$1,000 – General operating support to help youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
Fenway Community Health Center
Boston, MA
$5,000 – General operating support
First Nations Development Institute
Longmont, CO
$2,000 – Native Youth and Culture Fund
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, Inc.
Hattfield, MA
$2,000 – SNAP Outreach and Enrollment Assistance Program
GALA Choruses
Pittsburgh, PA
$2,000 – General operating support
Gift of Adoption Fund
Techny, IL
$4,500 – General operating support
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
Boston, MA
$2,500 – General operating support
The Gray House, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – Adult Education Program
Groundswell International
Washington, DC
$2,000 Improving the Food Security, Incomes and Nutrition of Women-Led Families in Central Nepal
Haley House, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Urban Farming at Haley House
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
New York NY
$4,000 – College Quest and other learning support and college prep and any special programs during the COVID-19 pandemic
Homework House Inc
Holyoke, MA
$2,000 – General operating support
Honor the Earth
Callaway, MN
$2,000 – General operating support
International Rescue Committee, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000 – Refugee Resettlement Support Services and any special programs during the COVID-19 pandemic
Magical Bridge Foundation
Palo Alto, CA
$3,106 – General operating support
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange
Newton, MA
$6,000 – General operating support
Miriam’s Kitchen
Washington, DC
$1,500 – General operating support
Mothers for Justice and Equality
Roxbury, MA
$2,000 – Civic Leadership: Adult Workforce and Education programs
Native American Community Board
Lake Andes, SD
$2,000 – Yankton Sioux Language and Heritage Preservation Program
Native Justice Coalition
Manistee, MI
$1,000 – General operating support
NEADS INC.
Princeton, MA
$1,500 – General operating support
Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala/NISGUA
Oakland, CA
$1,000 – Internacionalistas program
New American Pathways
Atlanta, GA
$2,000 – Bright Futures Out of School Programming and any special programs during the
COVID-19 pandemic
New Hampshire Peace Action Education Fund
Concord, NH
$1,000 – Iran Connection Project
Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)/Massachusetts Chapter
Barre, MA
$1,000 – Regenerative Community Gardens
Open Pantry Community Services, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$2,000 – Loaves & Fishes Community Kitchen
OutRight Action International
New York NY
$5,000 – General operating support
Peace Project
Concord, NH
$2,000 – Peace Project Education Fund
Performance Project, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – General support (First Generation & Ubuntu)
Perkins School for the Blind
Watertown, MA
$5,000 – General operating support
Point Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000 – General operating support
Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Access to Justice for Asylum Seekers
The Possibility Project
New York NY
$1,000 – Saturday Youth Empowerment Program and any special programs during the COVID-19 pandemic
Raising a Reader MA
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Raising a Reader Pioneer Valley
Resistance Center for Peace and Justice
Northampton, MA
$2,000 – Divest from War, Invest in Human Needs
Safina Center
Setauket, NY
$2,500 – General operating support
Sandy Hook Promise
Newtown, CT
$1,000 – Know the Sign (KTS) Expansion Initiative and an special programs during the COVID-19 pandemic
Share Our Strength
Washington, DC
$8,500 – No Kid Hungry – Massachusetts
Shelter from the Storm
Jaffrey, NH
$1,000 – General operating support
Silver Lining Mentoring
Boston, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
South Bronx United, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$2,000 – The SBU Academy Youth Development Program and any special programs during the
COVID-19 pandemic
Women’s Refugee Commission
New York, NY
$1,000 – Migrant Rights and Justice (MRJ) and any special programs during the COVID-19 pandemic
World Connect
Brooklyn, NY
$1,000 – General operating support and any special programs during the COVID-19 pandemic
Total Competitive Grants: 143,818
2020 Discretionary Grants
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Massachusetts Education Fund
American Fund for Emmanuel
Salisbury, MD
$10,000 – EmmaEnables Capital Campaign and to help Emmanuel College students during the COVID-19 pandemic
American Fund for LSE
New York, NY
$1,000 – General operating support
The Boston Foundation
Boston , MA
$1,106 – General operating support of the Equality Fund
Dexter Southfield, Inc.
Brookline, MA
$1,000 – Gay Student Alliance
Feeding America
Chicago, IL
$10,000 – Generating operating support
GiveDirectly, Inc.
New York NY
$1,000 – To help individuals and families in the COVID-19 pandemic
Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Human Rights Watch
New York, NY
$10,000 – Children’s Rights Division
Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
Cambridge, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives
MassEquality Education Fund
Boston, MA
$2,500 – General operating support
Meenakshi Foundation Inc.
Great Barrington, MA
$10,000 – Education for young women in South India – and any other support needed in the COVID-19 pandemic
Nipponzan Myohoji-New England Peace Pagoda
Leverett, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives
Nonviolent Peaceforce
Minneapolis, MN
$1,000 – General operating support
Pathway to Possible
Newton-Wellesley, MA
$10,000 – Paul T. Babson II Jubilee House
Peace Action Education Fund
Silver Spring, MD
$1,000 – General operating support
Person to Person, Inc.
Darien, CT
$1,000 – To help provide emergency assistance, food, and scholarships for residents of lower Fairfield County during the COVID-19 pandemic
School Year Abroad
North Andover, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Sirius, Inc.
Shutesbury, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
South Africa Partners
Boston, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
United Nations Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Model United Nations for Urban Schools
United Nations Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000 – World Health Organization COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund
University of Virginia – Serpentine Society
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000 – General operating support
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Callaway, MN
$1,000 – General operating support
The Winsor School
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Annual Fund’s Special Hardship Relief Fund to help students in the COVID-19 pandemic
Total Discretionary: $232,424