Grant Recipients

Asian Community Development Corporation
$5,000
To connect Chinatown community members to housing, job training, public health and education services.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Lawrence
$10,000
To empower children to develop positive self-esteem and pursue enriched life opportunities.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay
$50,000
To help disadvantaged youth make good choices and avoid common pitfalls (such as substance abuse, dropping out of school and gang involvement).

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
$25,000
To help sustain community- and school-based mentoring that creates lasting and supportive friendships between Little Sisters, ages 7–15, and their Big Sisters.

Camp Harbor View Foundation
$1,000,000 over four years
(second-year installment)
To provide a summer camp experience for low-income, inner-city children ages 11–14 that includes three meals a day and activities such as athletics, arts, leadership development and environmental education.

Child & Family Services
$7,500
To provide children with tools to choose healthy and productive life paths through the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Each at-risk child is paired with a mentor.

Children’s Friend and Family Services
$12,500
To improve the lives of children and promote strong families by facilitating high-quality mentoring relationships through which children can experience a safe, trusting, supportive and fun friendship.

Everybody Wins Metro Boston
$7,500
To support the Power Lunch Literacy and Mentoring Program, which works to instill a love of reading and learning, improve literacy skills and foster increased self-esteem in elementary school students.

Greater Zion Church of God
$5,000
To support the Choices for Teen Girls and Men to Be programs, which match low-income youth who attend the church or live in the surrounding community with adult mentors.

Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA)
$10,000
To improve safety for the more than 13,000 people who attend Casa de la Cultura/Center for Latino Arts (CLA) programs yearly by installing an automatic sprinkler system.

Kids Voting USA of Wisconsin
$5,000
To educate kids on the rights and responsibilities of citizens to vote and to be active participants in the political process.

Mass Mentoring Partnership
$15,000
To underwrite the KELLY Awards, educational grants bestowed upon mentees (nominated by their mentors) who have overcome and persevered through adversity.

Old Colony Council—Boy Scouts of America
$15,000
To offer camping experiences to scouts, leaders and community groups in an outdoor educational environment. The Boy Scouts aim to teach self-reliance, leadership, teamwork and respect.

Partners for Youth with Disabilities
$20,000
To empower young people with disabilities to reach their full potential through mentoring relationships.

Rodman Ride For Kids
$140,000
An umbrella matching gift fundraiser, Roadman Ride for Kids, and its 25 charities, raise funds via a non-competitive cycling tour held each fall.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
$500,000 over five years
(third-year installment)
To pave the way for nearly one mile of parks and green space through Boston’s Chinatown, Wharf District and North End neighborhoods.

Sociedad Latina
$7,500
To sustain the Viva la Cultura! Program, which is dedicated to developing the self-esteem and leadership skills of Latina girls ages 10–14 through one-on-one mentoring, arts exploration and healthy lifestyle activities.

Special Olympics Wisconsin
$1,000
To provide sports training and competition in 18 different sports year round for nearly 10,000 athletes with cognitive disabilities.

YMCA of Greater Boston
$350,000 over five years
(fifth-year installment)
To support construction of a new YMCA in East Boston and renovation of the West Roxbury/Roslindale YMCA, through the YMCA’s Healthy Families, Healthy Communities Campaign.

YMCA of Greater Springfield
$10,000
To support the YMCA’s youth and teen drop-in centers in the Greater Springfield area, which provide quality programs to promote lifelong personal growth.