2024 Grants
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$25,000 for community-based mentoring programs.
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 for Parenting Journey and Positive Solutions for Families, two evidence-based parenting programs that support Chinese immigrants and their children in Quincy, MA.
Boston Food Forest Coalition
Boston, MA
$25,000 for General Operating support.
Care Dimensions
Danvers, MA
$50,000 to support patients with whole-person care through complementary and alternative therapies.
The Children’s Room
Arlington, MA
$50,000 for peer-based grief support groups for grieving children, teenagers, and parents.
Clarke School for the Deaf dba Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech
Canton, MA
$25,000 for Clarke Boston’s listening and spoken language services.
Crossroads for Kids
Duxbury, MA
$50,000 to CrossRoads Summer 2024 programming that provides access to learning opportunities often denied to young adults from low-income communities and gives them the opportunity to reach their full potential
Economic Mobility Pathways
Boston, MA
$100,000 for Scaling Up with Amp Up, a program where staff support participants in determining their goals and dreams and work alongside them to create a plan that helps them transform their lives to achieve them.
Families First Parenting Programs, Inc
Watertown, MA
$65,000 to the Power of Parenting and Ripple programs that engage 850+ parents through parent leadership training and supports their 1,700+ children.
Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts, Inc.
Dorchester, MA
$50,000 for community-based family support networks.
Family Services of the Merrimack Valley
Lawrence, MA
$50,000 to the Big Friends Little Friends Youth Mentoring Program.
Fathers’ Uplift, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support compensation for one clinical therapist who supports 40-50 fathers and families of color.
FamilyAid
Boston, MA
$25,000 to the FamilyAid Navigation Team that supports parents and children experiencing homelessness by providing resources with their case managers across six social determinants of health.
Friends of the Children – Boston
Roxbury, MA
$50,000 to provide professional mentoring for youth and their caregivers that promotes that two-generation approach for lasting change and supports the whole family with stability and success.
GreenRoots
Chelsea, MA
$25,000 for General Operating support.
John F. Kennedy Family Service Center, Inc.
Charlestown, MA
$25,000 to expand service hours and increase language-capacity at the Charleston Family Engagement Network to better support low-income, Spanish- and Mandarin-speaking families .
Julie’s Family Learning Program, Inc.
Boston, MA
$35,000 for their Family Development and Family Literacy programming that serve single mothers, and their infants aged 0 – 5.
Justice Resource Institute f/b/o First Connections
Acton, MA
$50,000 for family education and support programs.
Mystic River Watershed Association, Inc.
Arlington, MA
$25,000 for General Operating support.
ParentChild+ Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000 to engage caregivers in their children’s early learning to help them prepare for school and ensure they are on the path for long-term educational success.
Pathways for Children, Inc.
Gloucester, MA
$50,000 for the Nurturing Parenting Program that ends child abuse by replacing old habits with new parenting strategies that focus on developing nurturing relationships and safe environments.
Perkins School for the Blind
Watertown, MA
$25,000 for programming that supports infants and toddlers with visual impairments and their families.
Plummer Youth Promise
Salem, MA
$50,000 to address the economic barriers and provide permanent services for youth in foster care.
Roca, Inc.
Chelsea, MA
$50,000 to the Young Mothers Program that provides cognitive behavioral therapy to 300+ young mothers (aged 16-24) in Greater Boston and Springfield, MA.
Silver Lining Mentoring
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support mentoring programs for youth in foster care.
Third Sector New England, Inc. f/b/o First Teacher
Roxbury, MA
$25,000 for General Operating support.
Third Sector New England, Inc. f/b/o The Basics
Boston, MA
$57,000 for General Operating support.
Waypoint
Manchester, NH
$25,000 to the Waypoint Family Support Program in Nashua that targets families with risk factors and creates a safe space for community, support, and positive development for children.
2023 Grants
American Red Cross
Boone, IA
$25,000 to support disaster relief efforts, in recognition of its important work in Turkey and Syria in response to the recent earthquake.
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$25,000 in support of community-based mentoring programming for girls.
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
Boston, MA
$50,000 in support of evidence-based parenting programs.
The Boston Foundation f/b/o Business Equity Fund
Boston, MA
$25,000 to address longstanding barriers to growth financing and technical assistance that have historically limited opportunity for entrepreneurs of color.
Cape Cod Children’s Place
North Eastham, MA
$40,000 to support parent education programs that improve parental resilience, increase social conditions, and improve the social-emotional competence of children.
Care Dimensions
Danvers, MA
$50,000 to support patients with whole-person care, including its slate of compensatory therapies.
The Children’s Room
Arlington, MA
$50,000 for free, peer-based grief support for families suffering loss.
Clarke School for the Deaf d/b/a Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech
Canton, MA
$25,000 in support of Clarke Boston’s listening and spoken language services.
Crossroads
Duxbury, MA
$50,000 in support of summer camp programming that empowers youth to think independently, make informed and healthy choices, set challenging goals, and engage in services of others.
Doctors Without Borders
$10,000 to support disaster relief efforts, in recognition of its important in response to the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
Detroit, MI
$200,000 to support scaling the Economic Mobility Pathways program nationwide.
Families First Parenting Programs
Watertown, MA
$65,000 to support the growth of its Power of Parenting program curriculum and partnerships to serve over 750 parents and benefit over 1,500 children.
Family & Children’s Service of Greater Lynn d/b/a LifeScene
Lynn, MA
$10,000 in support of parenting training, case management services, and programming to support youth in their teens and early twenties.
Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts
Dorchester, MA
$50,000 for its community-based family support networks.
Fathers’ Uplift
Boston, MA
$50,000 in support of ongoing mental health programming to help fathers remain engaged in their children’s lives.
Friends of the Children – Boston
Roxbury, MA
$50,000 in support of one-on-one professional mentoring for children and youth facing the highest barriers, as well as the expansion of its 2-Generation services.
JRI f/b/o First Connections
Needham, MA
$35,000 to support programming that fosters healthy parenting and guides families through the first years of their parenting journey through support groups, home visiting, and resources and referrals.
New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund
Boston, MA
$25,000 to provide grants and other essential support to community groups and coalitions working to fight racism in Massachusetts.
Perkins School for the Blind
Watertown, MA
$25,000 to support the comprehensive needs of infants and toddlers with visual impairments.
Plummer Youth Promise
Salem, MA
$50,000 for its permanency services for youth in foster care to help ensure they enter adulthood prepared and with a family unconditionally committed to them.
Program for Early Parent Support
Seattle, WA
$35,000 to continue growing back its in-person services, including its parent peer support groups, to support and strengthen families’ resilience.
Roca, Inc.
Chelsea, MA
$50,000 in support of the organization’s young mothers program in Greater Boston and Springfield, providing critical resources to 250 families.
Room to Grow
Boston, MA
$50,000 to provide parent education programs to over 600 families, including structured coaching, material goods, community connections, and other parenting tools and resources.
Silver Lining Mentoring, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support its Community Based Mentoring and Learn & Earn programs for 250 youth in Greater Boston foster care.
Summer Search
Boston, MA
$25,000 in support of its year-round mentoring program, which includes one-on-one and group mentoring and serves over 100 high school students.
Third Sector New England (TSNE) f/b/o First Teacher
Roxbury, MA
$25,000 to support programming that empowers Black and Brown parents to become their children’s first teacher.
Third Sector New England f/b/o The Basics
Boston, MA
$57,000 to support programming focused on decreasing the racial learning disparities that emerge from an early age and continue through elementary school and beyond.
United Nations Foundation/Central Emergency Response Fund
Washington, DC
$15,000 in support of the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.
2022 Grants
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
Boston, MA
$50,000 in support of two evidence-based parenting programs, Parenting Journey and Strengthening Families Program, offered through its Family Services program in Quincy, Massachusetts.
The Boston Foundation
Boston, MA
$25,000 in support of the Business Equity Fund, which works to address longstanding barriers to growth financing and technical assistance that have historically limited opportunity for entrepreneurs of color.
The Boston Foundation
Boston, MA
$25,000 in support of the New Commonwealth Fund, a funding and support resource for Black, Latino, and Indigenous entrepreneurs, innovators, and non-profits.
Cape Cod Children’s Place
North Eastham, MA
$40,000 to support parent education programs using a replicable and evidence-based approach that improves parental resilience and the social-emotional competence of children.
Care Dimensions
Danvers, MA
$50,000 to support patients with whole-person care, including its slate of compensatory therapies.
The Children’s Room
Arlington, MA
$50,000 for free, peer-based grief support for families suffering loss.
Crossroads
Duxbury, MA
$25,000 in support of summer camp programming that empowers youth to think independently, make informed and healthy choices, set challenging goals, and engage in services of others.
EMPath
Boston, MA
$200,000 to support its work with a cohort of large (statewide) early childhood organizations to develop more implementation expertise and evidence of its intergenerational Mobility Mentoring model’s effectiveness in early childhood programs.
Epiphany School
Dorchester, MA
$30,000 in support of parent education programming at the school’s Early Learning Center.
Families First Parenting Programs
Watertown, MA
$65,000 to support the growth of its Power of Parenting program curriculum and partnerships to serve over 750 parents and benefit over 1,500 children.
Family & Children’s Service of Greater Lynn
Lynn, MA
$20,000 in support of hybrid (in-person and virtual) Parenting Journey classes.
Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts
Dorchester, MA
$50,000 for its community-based family support networks.
Fathers’ Uplift
Boston, MA
$50,000 in support of ongoing mental health programming to help fathers remain engaged in their children’s lives.
First Connections, a JRI Program
Needham, MA
$25,000 to support the program’s core services: support groups, home visits, resources, and referrals that foster healthy parenting and guide families through the first years of their parenting journey.
Friends of the Children – Boston
Roxbury, MA
$35,000 in support of one-on-one professional mentoring for children and youth facing the highest barriers, as well as the expansion of its 2-Generation services.
La Alianza Hispana
Boston, MA
$25,000 in support of the organization’s Mothers and Children in the Making program, a comprehensive and culturally competent home-visiting program for low-income Latino immigrant families with children ages birth to five.
Philanthropy Massachusetts
Child Behavioral Health Fund of the GMA Funder Community
$30,000 in support of a funder learning and grantmaking collaborative focused on private philanthropic response to the increase in concern over child behavioral health.
Plummer Youth Promise
Salem, MA
$25,000 for its permanency services for youth in foster care to help ensure they enter adulthood prepared and with a family unconditionally committed to them.
Program for Early Parent Support
Seattle, WA
$35,000 to continue growing back its in-person services, including its parent peer support groups, to support and strengthen families’ resilience.
Roca, Inc.
Chelsea, MA
$50,000 in support of the organization’s Young Mothers Program, which provides critical resources to 250 families across eight Massachusetts cities.
Room to Grow
Boston, MA
$50,000 in support of parent education programs for up to 600 families, including structured coaching, material goods, community connections, and other parenting tools and resources.
Silver Lining Mentoring, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000 to support its Community Based Mentoring and Learn & Earn programs for 250 youth in Greater Boston foster care.
Summer Search
Boston, MA
$25,000 in support of its year-round mentoring program, which includes one-on-one and group mentoring and serves over 100 high school students.