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Boston Foundation gives $28 million in grants

Email|Print| Text size – + By the Boston Globe City & Region Desk
June 22, 07 09:23 AM

By John Guilfoil, Globe Correspondent

The Boston Foundation announced nearly $28 million in grants Thursday to dozens of local nonprofit organizations to fund causes that include education, the arts, elder care, and youth-oriented programming.

The largest grant, $225,000, went to the Citi Performing Arts Center to build efficiency, increase audiences, and "introduce a more strategic approach to aligning the performing arts and current potential audiences in Greater Boston," according to a press release.

The following is a list of the grants:

ARTS AND CULTURE
Arsenal Center for the Arts – $50,000
Boston center for the Arts, Inc. – $75,000
Citi Performing Arts Center – $225,000
First Night, Inc. – $100,000
Freedom Trail Foundation, Inc. – $35,000
Huntington Theatre Company, Inc. – $100,000
Jose Mateo’s Ballet Theatre of Boston – $40,000
Museum of African American History – $50,000
Opera Boston – $40,000

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, Inc. – $30,000
Organizing and leadership training Center – $40,000
The Boston Foundation – $25,000
Boston Indicators Project (The Boston Foundation) – $30,000
Centro Presente, Inc – $50,000
Chinese Progressive Association – $35,000
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Inc. – $50,000
Massachusetts Senior Action Council, Inc. – $75,000
Associates Grant makers – $30,000
Public Policy Institute – $50,000

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
IDEAS Boston/Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth – $50,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – $100,000

EDUCATION
Bessie Tartt Wilson Children’s Foundation, Inc. – $75,000
Family Nurturing Center – $125,000
The Boston Foundation – $10,000
Center for Collaborative Education – $125,000
Harvard Law School – $100,000
Massachusetts Center for Charter Public School Excellence – $75,000
Boston Parent Organizing Network – $125,000
Efficacy Institute Incorporated – $150,000
Massachusetts Advocates For Children – $30,000
Mass Insight Education and Research Institute – $75,000
ACCESS – $70,000
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology – $60,000
Boston Higher Education Partnership – $35,000

OUT OF SCHOOL TIME
Boston After School and Beyond – $30,000
Building Educated leaders for Life (B.E.L.L.) – $50,000
Citizen Schools – $50,000
Girls’ Leap Self Defense, Inc. – $35,000
Patriots’ Trail Girl Scout Council – $30,000
TechMission, Inc. – $30,000
West End House Boys & Girls Club – $50,000
Young people’s project, Inc. – $38,000
Artists For Humanity – $35,000
Fund For Parks and Recreation In the City of Boston Youth Fund – $50,000
Mass Mentoring Partnership, Inc. – $35,000
MissionSafe: A New Beginning, Inc. – $35,000

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Alzheimer’s Association, Massachusetts Chapter – $50,000
ARC Massachusetts – $60,000
Project Bread – The Walk for Hunger, Inc. – $50,000
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc. – $50,000
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, Inc. – $30,000
Boston Partnership for Older Adults – $50,000
Boston University – $50,000
Ethos – $45,000
Fitness Forward – $40,000
Greater Boston Food Bank, Inc. – $50,000
Julie’s Family Learning Program, Inc. – $44,000
Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project – $50,000
La Alianza Hispana, Inc. – $100,000
Massachusetts Association of Older Americans – $40,000
Massachusetts Public Health Association – $40,000
Partners In Health – $40,000
Rogerson Communities – $50,000
SCM Community Transportation Inc. – $35,000
University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Sustainable production – $40,000

HOUSING ANJD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Northeastern University – Center for Urban and Regional Policy Commonwealth Housing Task Force – $100,000
AIDS Housing Corporation – $40,000
Fairmont/Indigo Line CDC Collaborative – $100,000
Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation – $100,000
New Ecology, Inc. – $40,000
Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants – $55,000
Somerville Community Corporation – $30,000
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) – $200,000
The Boston Police Department – $15,538
Boston Police Department – $165,000
Center for Teen Empowerment, Inc. – $40,000
Massachusetts Communities Action network – $30,000
Project R.I.G.H.T, Inc. – $75,000

NONPROFIT SECTOR
The Boston Foundation – $20,000
Executive Service Corps of New England, Inc. – $100,000
Nonprofit Finance Fund – $100,000

URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Island Alliance, Inc. – $65,000
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Inc. – $125,000
Conservation law Foundation – $50,000
Historic Boston Incorporated – $50,000
Save The Harbor, Save The Bay, Inc. – $100,000

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation – $50,000
Community Work Services – $50,000
Morgan memorial Goodwill Industries, Inc. – $50,000
Year Up, Inc. – $75,000
My Turn, Inc. – $50,000
St. Francis House, Inc. – $50,000
STRIVE/Boston Employment Service, Inc. – $50,000
Boston Adult Literacy Fund, Inc. – $32,500
Educational Development Group – $30,000
Massachusetts Coalition for Adult Education – $50,000
YMCA of Greater Boston Education and Training Branch – $40,000

OUT OF THE BLUE GRANT
Charles River Conservancy – $75,000