2021 Competitive Grants
Arab-American Family Support Center
Brooklyn, NY
$2,000 – General operating support
Arise for Social Justice
Springfield, MA
$2,000 – General operating support
Arms Control Association
Washington, DC
$2,000 – Getting Back on Course: Halting and Reversing Growing Global Nuclear Dangers
Asset Builders of America, Inc.
Madison, WI
$2,000 – Youth POWER Academy of Finance; Youth Entrepreneurship “CLIMB”
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
$12,000 – General operating support
Bay State Performing Arts Inc. aka Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
Boston, MA
$5,000 – General operating support
Bikes Not Bombs, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$1,000 – Cycloville Women’s Bike Project: Empowering Women and Youth Through Bicycles
Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!)
Eugene, OR
$1,000 – CREATE-ing resilience through Sustainable Gardening in Ndiagne Kahone, Senegal
Centro del Obrero Fronterizo
El Paso, TX
$1,000 – General operating support
Children’s Aid Society
New York, NY
$1,000 – General operating support for special programs during COVID-19
Children’s Defense Fund
Washington, DC
$1,500 – CDF Freedom Schools
Crotched Mountain Foundation
Greenfield, NH
$8,500 – General operating support
DC SCORES
Washington, DC
$1,500 – General operating support for special programs during COVID-19
E for All
Holyoke, MA
$3,000 – E for All/E para Todos Holyoke (general operating support)
Fenway Community Health Center
Boston, MA
$5,000 – General operating support
Gedakina
Essex, VT
$3,000 – Wabanaki Coloring Book
Gift of Adoption Fund
Techny, IL
$5,000 – General operating support
The Gray House, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – Kids’ Club Program and Operating Support
Groundswell International
Washington, DC
$1,000 – Improving the Food Security, Incomes, and Nutrition of Women-Led Families in Central Nepal
First Nations Development Institute
Longmont, CO
$3,000 – Native Youth and Culture Fund (NYCF)
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, Inc.
Hattfield, MA
$1,000 – The Food Bank Cookbook—Nutrition Education
GALA Choruses
Pittsburgh, PA
$3,000 – General operating support
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)
Boston, MA
$3,000 – General operating support
Haley House, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Urban Farming at Haley House
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
New York NY
$5,000 – College Quest
Hilltown Village Inc, DBA It Takes a Village
Cummington, MA
$1,000 – Family Resource and Referral Program
Homework House Inc
Holyoke, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Honor the Earth
Callaway, MN
$3,000 – General operating support
International Rescue Committee, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000 – Refugee Resettlement Support Services
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange
Newton, MA
$5,000 – General operating support
MassEquality Education Fund
Boston, MA
$2,500 – General operating support
MIRA Coaltion f/b/o Berkshire Immigrant Center
Pittsfield, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Miriam’s Kitchen
Washington, DC
$2,000 – General operating support
Mothers for Justice and Equality
Roxbury, MA
$1,000 – MJE Civic Leadership: Adult Workforce and Education Programs
Native American Community Board
Lake Andes, SD
$2,500 – Yankton Sioux Language and Heritage Preservation Program
Native Justice Coalition
Manistee, MI
$3,000 – General operating support
Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala/NISGUA
Oakland, CA
$1,000 – Internacionalistas
New American Pathways
Atlanta, GA
$2,000 – Bright Futures Afterschool Programming
New Hampshire Peace Action Education Fund
Concord, NH
$1,634 – Training for Trainers: Keeping Demonstrations Safe
Nipponzan Myohoji – New England Sangha f/b/o Crossing the Waters Institute for Cultural Exchange, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$2,000 – General operating support
Nolumbeka Project
Greenfield, MA
$2,000 – Nolumbeka Project Pollinator Program
Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)/Massachusetts Chapter
Barre, MA
$1,000 – Increasing Production at Tapley Court and Open Pantry Community Gardens in Springfield
Open Pantry Community Services, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$2,000 – Emergency Food Pantry (EFP)
OutRight Action International
New York NY
$8,500 – General operating support
Peace First, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Peace First Challenge
Performance Project, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$1,000 – First Generation & Ubuntu Arts Community
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
Prader-Willi Syndrome Association | USA
Sarasota, FL
$5,500 – PWSA | USA School Success Toolkit (SSTK); A Comprehensive Guide to Optimize Educational Outcomes
Raising a Reader MA
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Raising a Reader Pioneer Valley
REACH Beyond Domestic Violence
Waltham, MA
$4,500 – REACH’s Peers Against Violence Educators (PAVE) program
Resistance Center for Peace and Justice
Northampton, MA
$2,000 – General operating support
Safina Center
Setauket, NY
$2,500 – General operating support and any special programs to help during the COVID-19 pandemic
Share Our Strength
Washington, DC
$7,500 – No Kid Hungry – Massachusetts
Silver Lining Mentoring
Boston, MA
$1,500 – SLM Institute
The Dallas Foundation f/b/o The Tommy Project
Dallas, TX
$2,000 – The Tommy Project
The Treehouse Foundation
Easthampton, MA
$1,000 – Intergenerational Treehouse Community – Education and Life Skills
Unlocking Futures
Teaneck, NJ
$1,000 – Step Up Sweet Teens
Women’s Refugee Commission
New York, NY
$1,000 – General operating support for Migrant Rights and Justice (MRJ)
World Connect
Brooklyn, NY
$1,000 – No Sex for Fish
Total Competitive: $235,402
2021 Discretionary Grants
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$2,000 – Massachusetts Education Fund
American Fund for Emmanuel
Salisbury, MD
$19,134 – A recommended grant to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in order to fund a post doc
American Fund for LSE
New York, NY
$1,500 – General operating support
The Boston Foundation
Boston , MA
$2,134 – General operating support of the Equality Fund
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Washington, DC
$2,000 – General operating support and support to stop gun violence in schools and in acts against ethnic and minority groups
Center of Khmer Studies
New York, NY
$1,500 – General operating support
Charles River Center (ARC)
Needham, MA
$1,500 – General operating support
Cities at Peace Inc.
New York, NY
$1,000 – Saturday Youth Empowerment Program and any special programs during the COVID-19 pandemic
Community Volunteer Transportation Company (CVTC)
$2,000 – General operating support
Dexter Southfield, Inc.
Brookline, MA
$1,500 – Gay Student Alliance
Feeding America
Chicago, IL
$7,500 – Generating operating support
Hitchcock Center for the Environment
Amherst, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
Human Rights Watch
New York, NY
$10,000 – Children’s Rights Division – working with disabled, immigrant, and refugee communities and in Children’s Digital Rights during the COVID-19 pandemic
InnerCity Weightlifting
Boston, MA
$1,500 – General operating support
Magical Bridge Foundation
Palo Alto, CA
$1,000 – General operating support
Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
Cambridge, MA
$5,000 – New Development Initiatives
Me2 Orchestra
Boston, MA
$2,000 – 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
Monadnock at Home
Jaffrey, NH
$1,000 – Scholarship Fund
NEADS INC
Princeton, MA
$1,634 – Service Dog Training – General Operating Support
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
Sandy Hook Promise
Newton, CT
$1,000 – KTS – Know the Signs and any special project during the COVID-19 pandemic
School Year Abroad
North Andover, MA
$1,500 – General operating support
Sirius, Inc.
Shutesbury, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
South Africa Partners
Boston, MA
$1,000 – General operating support
South Bronx United
New York, NY
$3,000 – The SBU Academy Youth Development Program and any special programs during the COVID-19 pandemic
United Nations Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$1,000 – Model United Nations for Urban Schools
United Nations Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$7,500 – 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 during the COVID-19 pandemic
Total Discretionary: $241,536