City awards $400K in grants to 32 Boston nonprofits for capital upgrades

By Boston.com Staff

The city awarded a total of $400,000 in grant funding to 32 human service nonprofits across Boston that city officials say will be used for public facility upgrades and on-site physical improvements that are projected to leverage a total of about $3.1 million in capital improvements.

The “City’s Partners with Non-Profits” program distributed the funding to social service organizations, youth and recreation centers, several YMCA and Boys and Girls Clubs neighborhood branches, neighborhood health centers, and other non-profits, officials said following a ceremony to celebrate the grant giving last week.

The program provides funding of up to $25,000 for capital improvements, such as handicap accessibility upgrades, code repairs, or other infrastructure renovations, to neighborhood-based nonprofits through a competitive process.

“For almost 25 years, ‘Partners with Non-Profits’ has directly invested in organizations that offer so much to the people of Boston. Their commitment to our neighborhoods helps make our city so strong,” Mayor Thomas M. Menino said in a statement. “This program is a small but important tool we use to ensure that these organizations can provide their services in our city for years to come.”

Since 1995, the city program, run by the neighborhood development department, has has awarded more than $10 million in grants to neighborhood non-profits.

Grants are made possible by the City’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

The following groups were awarded grants:

• Asian American Civic Association
• Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
• Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester
• Casa Nueva Vida, Inc.
• Center for Community Health, Education and Research
• Center Makor
• Codman Square Health Center, Inc.
• COMPASS, Inc.
• Crittenton Women's Union, Inc.
• CrossRoads
• Dorchester House Multi-Service Center
• East Boston Social Center, Inc.
• Edgar P Benjamin Health Care Center
• Hyde Park Art Association
• Italian Home for Children
• Kwong Kow Chinese School
• Mujeres Unidas Avanzando (MUA)
• Mission Hill Health Movement
• Paraclete Foundation, Inc.
• South Boston Neighborhood House
• Sportsmen's Tennis Club PNP
• St. Francis House
• St. Mary's Women and Children's Center
• Vietnamese American Initiative for Development, Inc.
• Wesley Child Care Center, Inc.
• WORK, Inc.
• YMCA Dorchester/Codman
• YMCA Roxbury
• YMCA Chinatown/Wang
• Youth Enrichment Services (YES)
• Future Chefs
• West End Boys & Girls

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