Charity Grants for 2009
Boston Public Library HomeWork Assistance Program
The Boston Public Library Homework Assistance Program (“HAP”) offers homework help to students in grades kindergarten through eight, focusing on the ages in which they develop the habits and study skills that will empower them to successful complete the upper grades and graduate from high school on time. Last year, the HAP mentors, accomplished high school juniors and seniors, provided 16,528 in-library mentoring sessions.
Courageous Sailing Center
The Courageous Sailing Center inspires hundreds of Boston kids to learn about sailing, the environment and leadership and helps them develop life-skills that give them courage to lead a life of possibilities and hope.
Everybody Wins
Everybody Wins! Metro Boston (EWMB) is the Boston-based affiliate of Everybody Wins! USA; a national literacy and mentoring nonprofit organization that increases children’s opportunities for success in school and in life through one-to-one reading experiences with caring adults.
John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation
To fulfill the legacy of John Andrew Mazie by recruiting and training adult volunteers to Mentor and act as role models for vulnerable high school students. To provide young people with the support they need to take control of their lives, set and achieve goals, prepare to apply to college or other post-secondary training, and experience success.
Margaret Fuller House
The Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House (MFNH) is located in Area IV, one of the most densely populated and diverse neighborhoods of Cambridge. The organization was founded is 1902 and is the 11th oldest settlement house in the United States. As a Settlement House for over a century, it has provided critical information and services to immigrants to successfully assimilate into the American culture. The facility was built in 1807 and is a designated National Historic Landmark. Margaret Fuller, a famed author, feminist, transcendentalist, and social critic was born in the house. Today the MFNH provides services to over 1,500 children, youth, families and individuals each year.
Pass It On
This is an eleven year-old organization that recycles used pediatric medical equipment for use by families with little or no insurance or who otherwise cannot afford such equipment. Our grant will help to provide children's medical equipment to more than 600 individuals and families.
Safe Studio
S.A.F.E. Studio is a studio based educational and therapeutic program which treats child, adolescent and adult survivors of trauma, domestic violence and abuse. It is designed to meet the needs of survivors who would benefit from a non-traditional therapeutic and educational milieu; to provide a safe atmosphere to visually explore, process and heal aspects of abuse and trauma which are difficult to verbalize; to provide a safe environment to share and discuss the visual product; to increase survivor's self esteem through the education of artistic techniques and the achievement of the artistic product; and to prevent violence from occurring in their lives.
Salem Cyberspace
The mission of Salem CyberSpace is to help low-income and unemployed people, as well as the organizations that serve them, to learn new computer skills to effect positive change for themselves, their families and their communities.
Single Parent Outreach
Improving the quality of life for lower income single parents.
Strong Women, Strong Girls
The mission of Strong Women, Strong Girls is to build upon the lessons learned from strong women throughout history to help girls and young women become strong women themselves. By building communities of women committed to supporting positive social change, Strong Women, Strong Girls works to create cycles of mutual empowerment for women and girls.
The Family Self Sufficiency Center
Works with low income families to help them reach self-sufficiency
Tutoring Plus
For 46 years Tutoring Plus has been forging relationships between Cambridge students and tutors to inspire academic and personal growth. They provide free services to needy families, a structured environment for volunteers, and a highly personalized approach that produces results.
Charity Grants for 2008
Adoption and Foster Care Mentoring
AFC Mentoring is dedicated to building positive and consistent relationships among adults and youth with experiences in out of home care, such as kinship or residential care, foster care, or adoption. Our goal is to create long-lasting, consistent relationships which encourage youth to define and achieve their own personal success.
Androscoggin Children's Advocacy Center
ACAC is a child-focused, community oriented facility where professionals from many different disciplines meet to discuss the investigation, treatment and prosecution of child abuse cases. Our Mission is to promote the healing of victims of child abuse by providing a strong community response to investigation, treatment and prevention of child abuse.
Boston Scholars Program
The Boston Scholars Program opens the door to new educational opportunities for Boston's underprivileged youth and through volunteer mentors and educational services provides the positive influences necessary to guide our scholars through the challenges of high school and open up a world of opportunities previously not thought possible.
Center for Grieving Children
Since 1988, The Center for Grieving Children has been committed to providing loving support to grieving children, teens, families and the community through peer support, outreach, and education.
Center for Therapeutic Recreation
A non-profit organization providing professional community-based therapeutic swim programs and recreational opportunities for children & adults with disabilities in Southern Maine since 1974.
Charity Guild
The Charity Guild is a small charity located in Brockton, Massachusetts. Our mission is "to provide basic and necessary services to those unable to meet their primary needs of food, clothing and household goods."
City Mission Society of Boston
The City Mission Society is a social justice organization that promotes a just society for all people by uniting communities and transforming individuals through service, education, and advocacy. Our programs help youth and adults achieve their full potential while providing opportunities for congregations and communities to engage in social action and change. This work is supported by the Metropolitan Boston Association of the United Church of Christ, congregations, individuals, and foundations.
Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF)
The Children`s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to nurture a love of reading and writing among children throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. Since 1998 CLiF has served more than 75,000 children in more than 320 communities across every region of the Twin States.
Everybody Wins
Everybody Wins! Metro Boston (EWMB) is the Boston-based affiliate of Everybody Wins! USA; a national literacy and mentoring nonprofit organization that increases children’s opportunities for success in school and in life through one-to-one reading experiences with caring adults.
John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation
To fulfill the legacy of John Andrew Mazie by recruiting and training adult volunteers to Mentor and act as role models for vulnerable high school students. To provide young people with the support they need to take control of their lives, set and achieve goals, prepare to apply to college or other post-secondary training, and experience success.
Margaret Fuller House
The Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House (MFNH) is located in Area IV, one of the most densely populated and diverse neighborhoods of Cambridge. The organization was founded is 1902 and is the 11th oldest settlement house in the United States. As a Settlement House for over a century, it has provided critical information and services to immigrants to successfully assimilate into the American culture. The facility was built in 1807 and is a designated National Historic Landmark. Margaret Fuller, a famed author, feminist, transcendentalist, and social critic was born in the house. Today the MFNH provides services to over 1,500 children, youth, families and individuals each year.
Pass It On
This is an eleven year-old organization that recycles used pediatric medical equipment for use by families with little or no insurance or who otherwise cannot afford such equipment. Our grant will help to provide children's medical equipment to more than 600 individuals and families.
Safe Studio
S.A.F.E. Studio is a studio based educational and therapeutic program which treats child, adolescent and adult survivors of trauma, domestic violence and abuse. It is designed to meet the needs of survivors who would benefit from a non-traditional therapeutic and educational milieu; to provide a safe atmosphere to visually explore, process and heal aspects of abuse and trauma which are difficult to verbalize; to provide a safe environment to share and discuss the visual product; to increase survivor's self esteem through the education of artistic techniques and the achievement of the artistic product; and to prevent violence from occurring in their lives.
Salem Cyberspace
The mission of Salem CyberSpace is to help low-income and unemployed people, as well as the organizations that serve them, to learn new computer skills to effect positive change for themselves, their families and their communities.
Single Parent Outreach
Improving the quality of life for lower income single parents.
Strong Women, Strong Girls
The mission of Strong Women, Strong Girls is to build upon the lessons learned from strong women throughout history to help girls and young women become strong women themselves. By building communities of women committed to supporting positive social change, Strong Women, Strong Girls works to create cycles of mutual empowerment for women and girls.
The Family Self Sufficiency Center
Works with low income families to help them reach self-sufficiency
Third Sector
Supporting family member of those suffering from substance abuse problems.
Tutoring Plus
Windrush Farms
Windrush Farms is a non-profit, working horse farm that has been successfully helping children and adults with physical, emotional, and learning disabilities since 1964. Located on 200 acres of woods and fields in Boxford and North Andover Massachusetts, Windrush offers equine assisted activities founded on the principle that all of us, disabled or not, are capable of more than we think. Our mission is to use the horse to expand the personal, emotional, and physical boundaries of all who ride and work with us.
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