2024 Grants
A Place to Start
Kennebunk, ME
$25,000 in General Operating support.
Adolescent Consultation Services, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$30,000 for mental health services for court-involved youth and their families.
All Our Kids, Inc.
South Hadley, MA
$30,000 to develop a store where foster and adoptive families can shop for clothing and household goods at no cost and participate in supportive programs.
Berkshire Grown, Inc
Great Barrington, MA
$35,000 for the Farm to Food Access Program.
Boston Area Gleaners Inc.
Acton, MA
$75,000 to improve food security in the region.
Boston CASA
Boston, MA
$60,000 for Boston CASA’s strategic Plan for Growth.
Bread and Roses Community Kitchen
Lawrence, MA
$25,000 for meals, food, and supportive services for for individuals in need.
BUILD – Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$50,000 for an entrepreneurship-based academic enrichment and support program for youth.
But Still I Am One
Belfast, ME
$25,000 for helping unhoused youth aged 16-21 transition into becoming successful adults in Waldo County.
Care Center
Holyoke, MA
$50,000 to expand Bard Microcollege Holyoke, a tuition-free, high-quality college education with built-in support for young mothers.
CASA Project
Worcester, MA
$50,000 to support CASA’s Child Court Support Program.
Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support a coordinated, multi-disciplinary response to at-risk and sexually exploited youth.
Coastal Foodshed
New Bedford, MA
$30,000 to increase the HIP utilization rate in Bristol County to support food security.
Community Harvest Project
North Grafton, MA
$50,000 to expand a volunteer farming program that supports hunger relief organizations.
Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire
Manchester, NH
$50,000 for an outreach campaign to increase volunteer advocates for children and youth affected by abuse and neglect.
Digger Foods
Sharon, MA
$35,000 to expand the emergency home food delivery program.
Doc Wayne Youth Services, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000 to formalize a new outpatient therapy program for youth and families.
Ellie Fund
Needham, MA
$50,000 to expand referral pathways and services for people with breast cancer.
Exponent Philanthropy
Washington, DC
$815 for annual membership dues.
Fair Tide
Kittery, ME
$35,000 to support their housing and homelessness services.
Family Health Project
Manchester, MA
$30,000 to expand a guaranteed income program for young mothers at the Lynn Community Health Center.
Family Promise of Greater Concord
Concord, NH
$35,000 to support the prevention and eradication of homelessness for families with children in Greater Concord.
Food for Free Committee, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$40,000 in General Operating support.
Foundation for Portland Public Schools
Portland, ME
$30,000 to pay for basic necessities for vulnerable migrant families so their children can focus on school.
Friends of Children, Inc.
Northampton, MA
$50,000 for mental health training support and enhanced educational advocacy.
Gaining Ground
Concord, MA
$50,000 to expand capacity for hunger relief in Eastern Massachusetts.
Genesis Club House, Inc.
Worcester, MA
$30,000 to provide job skills training, workforce readiness, career counseling/coaching, and job placement for people recovering from the life disrupting effects of living with serious mental illness.
Granite State Children’s Alliance
Bedford, NH
$35,000 to increase mental health services at Child Advocacy Centers in New Hampshire.
Grow Food Northampton, Inc.
Florence, MA
$50,000 to nourish the community with free mobile farmers markets and community gardens for Northampton’s food-insecure residents.
Healing Abuse Working for Change
Salem, MA
$40,000 for programs that provide age-appropriate supports for children and their primary caregiver who are engaged with HAWC as a result of Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence.
Joe Andruzzi Foundation
North Attleboro, MA
$30,000 to increase the capacity of its Food Security Assistance Program for cancer patients and their families.
Jonnycake Center of Westerly
Westerly, RI
$25,000 for the Social Services Office, which provides basic goods and services to families experiencing financial crisis.
Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice
Boston, MA
$40,000 for legal services for families seeking asylum.
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange, Inc.
Newton, MA
$50,000 for Permanency Planning Programs for teens and young adults in foster care.
Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
Lynn, MA
$50,000 to promote housing stability and reduce infant mortality among low-income mothers in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Merrimack Valley Food Bank
Lowell, MA
$25,000 for Operation Nourish, which provides and delivers food at no cost to all Lowell public schools, PK-12, throughout the school year.
Mid-Coast Health Net, d.b.a The Knox County Health Clinic
Rockland, ME
$50,000 for Project Liftoff, a strategic plan to sustainably increase local affordable medical, dental, mental health care and wrap-around services to the uninsured and underinsured in Knox County.
Mission of Deeds, Inc.
Reading, MA
$30,000 to provide furniture and household goods to families in need.
MissionSAFE
Boston, MA
$50,000 for violence prevention and positive transformation.
MLMDJ/ Food for The World Inc.
Lawrence, MA
$35,000 to distribute food to low-income people in Lawrence.
More Than Words
Waltham, MA
$50,000 to develop a single-room-occupancy transitional housing and support program for young adults experiencing homelessness or involved in the state’s care or criminal justice systems.
Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter
Nashua, NH
$50,000 for food, emergency shelter, and case management services for the Greater Nashua region’s low-income population who are experiencing food insecurity and/or homelessness.
Needlepoint Sanctuary of Maine
Bangor, ME
$25,000 for program growth and consolidation projects.
New England Center for Arts & Technology
Boston, MA
$30,000 for the Culinary Arts Job Training Program.
North Star Family Services
Leominster, MA
$60,000 to increase the capacity of the organization to provide shelter and services to homeless families.
One Family, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 to provide academic and career coaching, flexible financial aid, and technology to single parents enrolled in colleges across Massachusetts.
Piscataquis Regional Food Bank
Dover Foxcroft, ME
$30,000 to support projects that increase the capacity of the organization to serve more people and improve programs.
Project Kompass, Inc.
North Chelmsford, MA
$25,000 to increase the capacity of shelter programs and hire an additional case manager.
Rachel’s Table of Western Massachusetts
Springfield, MA
$25,000 to provide local solutions to a global problem by alleviating hunger in Western Massachusetts.
Room to Grow
New York, NY
$30,000 to provide resources and support for families with children aged 0-3 in Boston communities.
Salem Pantry
Salem, MA
$36,000 to refine grocery market and home-based food delivery systems.
School on Wheels of Massachusetts
East Bridgewater, MA
$25,000 to expand a mobile tutoring program for homeless Boston students.
Second Step
Newtonville, MA
$40,000 for programming that supports the housing and stabilization of survivors of domestic violence.
Strong Women, Strong Girls
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support a mentoring program for girls in elementary school.
Supportive Living, Inc.
Woburn, MA
$50,000 to expand the Neuro-Fit program – assisted exercise to individuals with traumatic brain injury, stroke, Parkinson’s, and other neurological disorders.
Tedford Housing
Brunswick, ME
$25,000 to start a new emergency housing facility case management program.
Transition House, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$30,000 to support transitional housing and support services for families affected by domestic violence.
Tree Street Youth
Lewiston, ME
$25,000 to support vocational and educational programs for low-income and immigrant youth in Lewiston, Maine.
Treehouse Foundation
Easthampton, MA
$35,000 to develop and expand intergenerational communities supporting foster care children and youth.
Waltham Partnership for Youth
Waltham, MA
$50,000 to help Latinx English language learners graduate from high school.
Wellspring House, Inc.
Gloucester, MA
$55,000 to help families experiencing housing insecurity maintain or find stable housing and establish financial security.
Wish Project
Lowell, MA
$30,000 to provide low-income families with furniture, household goods, clothing, and baby needs.
Women’s Bar Foundation of Massachusetts, Inc.
Boston, MA
$35,000 for the Family Law Project for Domestic Abuse Survivors.