Past Grants

2023 Grants

About Fresh
Boston MA
$50,000 to support Fresh Truck – a mobile market program using retrofitted school buses to drive fresh, affordable produce into communities that need it.

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 community closet – a retail space where foster and adoptive families can shop for clothing and household goods at no cost and participate in supportive programs.

Boston Area Gleaners Inc.
Acton, MA
$50,000 to support a farm-gleaning program that supplies produce to food distribution programs.

Boston CASA
Boston, MA
$60,000 to increase access to supportive services for youth aging out of foster care.

Boston’s Higher Ground
Boston, MA
$50,000 to rapidly house homeless families with children in the Boston Public Schools.

Boston’s Higher Ground
Boston, MA
$100,000 to rapidly house homeless families with children in the Boston Public Schools.

Bread and Roses Community Kitchen
Lawrence, MA
$25,000 for meals, food, and supportive services for low-income people.

Breaktime United, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 to expand a program that provides transitional employment, vocational, and other supportive services to housing insecure young adults

Casa Myrna Vasquez
Boston, MA
$50,000 to help young adults fleeing domestic violence, sexual assault, or sex trafficking obtain and maintain permanent housing.

CASA Project, Inc
Worcester, MA
$50,000 to support citizen volunteers who advocate for the interests of abused and neglected children in foster care in Worcester County.

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 of children and youth affected by abuse and neglect.

Daily Table
Boston, MA
$50,000 to expand a food recovery program that supplies discount grocery stores in Boston, Cambridge, and Salem, Massachusetts.

Exponent Philanthropy
Washington, DC
$815 for annual membership.

Family Promise of Greater Concord
Concord, NH
$25,000 for a temporary shelter and transitional housing program for families experiencing homelessness.

Family Promise of MidCoast Maine
Belfast, ME
$25,000 to launch a new temporary shelter and transitional housing program for families experiencing homelessness.

Food For Free Committee, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$35,000 to increase access to home and school food security programs in Eastern Massachusetts.

Foundation for Portland Public Schools
Portland, ME
$30,000 to provide emergency rent, utility, medical, or transportation assistance to families of students in the Portland Public Schools.

Gaining Ground
Concord, MA
$50,000 to expand a farming system that grows food for hunger relief in Boston, Lowell, and the MetroWest.

Genesis Club House, Inc.
Worcester, MA
$30,000 or supportive services for young adults with mental illness.

Granite State Children’s Alliance
Bedford, NH
$35,000 to increase on-site mental health services at Child Advocacy Centers in New Hampshire.

Healing Abuse Working For Change
Salem, MA
$40,000 for programs that help children affected by domestic violence.

Hospitality Homes
Boston, MA
$50,000 for free to low-cost medical lodging for low-income families of patients traveling to Boston for care.

Household Goods, Inc.
Acton, MA
$35,000 to provide furniture and household goods to low-income families.

Jonnycake Center of Westerly
Westerly, RI
$25,000 for social services to help families in crisis.

Just-A-Start
Cambridge, MA
$50,000 to train adults for technology, biotechnology, and animal care careers in the life sciences.

Knox County Homeless Coalition
Rockland, ME
$50,000 for transitional housing programs and supportive services for families experiencing homelessness.

Lydia’s House of Hope
Somersworth, NH
$20,000 to support a nurse advocacy program that helps family shelter guests care for their physical and mental health needs.

Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice
Boston, MA
$25,000 for legal services for families seeking asylum.

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 to provide supplemental food to students in the Lowell Public Schools.

Mission of Deeds, Inc.
Reading, MA
$30,000 to provide furniture and household goods to low-income families.

MissionSAFE
Boston, MA
$50,000 for vocational and educational programs for gang-violence-, court-involved youth.

MLMDJ/ Food for The World Inc.
Lawrence, MA
$35,000 to distribute food to people experiencing food insecurity.

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.

My Place Teen Center
Westbrook, ME
$50,000 to provide a safe haven for youth.

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.
Waltham, MA
$50,000 to provide scholarships, coaching, and support to single parents in college

Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen
Taunton, MA
$30,000 to support a soup kitchen and services for people experiencing homelessness.

Philanthropy Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$6,275 for annual membership.

Piscataquis Regional Food Bank
Dover Foxcroft, ME
$35,000 to support projects that increase the capacity of the organization to serve more people and improve programs.

Project Citizenship
Boston, MA
$30,000 to help immigrants become U.S. citizens.

Saheli, Inc.
Burlington, MA
$25,000 To expand supportive services for Southeast Asian and Arab domestic violence survivors.

Salem Pantry
Salem, MA
$36,000 to refine grocery market and home-based food delivery systems.

Second Step
Newtonville, MA
$40,000 to help survivors of domestic violence move from homelessness to safe, affordable housing and economic independence.

Stepping Stones
Nashua, NH
$25,000 to support a drop-in center for homeless youth.

Strong Women, Strong Girls
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support a mentoring program for girls in elementary school.

Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$25,000 to train college students to provide free legal representation to asylum seekers and advocate for immigrant justice.

Tedford Housing
Brunswick, ME
$25,000 to support the construction of a new emergency housing facility.

Transition House, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$25,000 to support transitional housing and support services for families affected by domestic violence.

Treehouse Foundation
Easthampton, MA
$35,000 to continue to develop and expand intergenerational communities that support children and youth in foster care.

Tree Street Youth
Lewiston, ME
$25,000 to support vocational and educational programs for low-income and immigrant youth in Lewiston, Maine.

Waltham Partnership for Youth
Waltham, MA
$50,000 to help Latinx English language learners graduate from high school.

Wellspring House, Inc.
Gloucester, MA
$45,000 to help families experiencing housing insecurity maintain or find stable housing.

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.