Grant Recipients

American Heart Association
$5,000
To provide training materials and services on the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay
$30,000 over two years
(first-year installment)
To provide shelter, food, clothing, medication, mental health services and direct financial assistance for victims of disasters.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
$75,000 over three years
(first-year installment)
To support the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Safe Patient Handling Program.

Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP)
$500,000 over five years
(third-year installment)
To support the Mallory Building Project so that BHCHP can continue to provide and ensure access to the highest quality healthcare for Boston’s homeless men, women and children.

Boston Living Center (BLC)
$10,000
To provide a warm, welcoming, safe haven during the day for homeless individuals affected by HIV/AIDS, where they are offered hot meals, personal care items, gift cards for groceries, warm clothing and other vital support.

Camp Starfish
$7,500
To provide one-on-one relationships between staff and campers to enable success, build social skills, teach coping mechanisms and help children who have difficulty finding success in traditional settings.

Children’s Hospital Boston
$25,000
To support the Injury Prevention Program at Children’s Hospital Boston, which is a multifaceted program dedicated to decreasing and preventing injuries to children and adolescents.

Cradles to Crayons
$10,000
To support the Baby Safe Initiative, which provides essential safety items, such as car seats, to families in need.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
$500,000 over five years
(fifth-year installment)
To support the capital campaign to dramatically boost the Center for Community-Based Research’s capacity to advance life-saving cancer-prevention initiatives.

Easter Seals Massachusetts
$25,000
To support the Assistive Technology Regional Center (ATRC), which that helps people with disabilities make informed decisions about assistive technology they can use to increase their independence at home, on the job and in school.

Greater Boston Guild for the Blind
$10,000
To provide visually impaired and blind adults with health services, rehabilitation, education and training in adaptive devices to help them improve their independence and quality of life.

Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled
$20,000
To support the Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program, which informs and educates young people about safety and how to prevent injuries during biking, diving and other recreational activities.

Horizons for Homeless Children
$15,000
To support the Community Children’s Centers (CCC), whose purpose is to provide comprehensive early education services for homeless children, while providing parents with support services and resources to break the cycle of homelessness and become self-sufficient.

House of Possibilities
$10,000
To provide sustained relief through consistent programs and services for families of special-needs children on an as-needed basis.

King Solomon Humanitarian Foundation for Handicapped Children
$7,500
To provide therapeutic recreation for children and young adults with physical and cognitive disabilities through positive camping experiences.

Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly
$10,000
To provide essential social support by trained volunteers and staff to assist elders with daily tasks and help maintain a sense of security, independence and quality of life.

Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance
$100,000 over four years
(third-year installment)
To help fund the construction of a permanent home that will accommodate growth so they can continue to serve low- and moderate-income families in need of affordable housing.

Massachusetts General Hospital
$250,000 over five years
(fourth-year installment)
To support Vincent Memorial Hospital’s Visiting Moms Program. This program helps low-income families who are expecting children to achieve stability at home for healthy, long-term family outcomes.

MATCH-UP Interfaith Volunteers
$7,500
To match volunteers with elders or disabled adults to provide friendship, socialization and vital assistance in meeting various needs.

Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership
$15,000
To aid the Housing Supports initiative so it can continue to help at-risk, low-income people remain in their homes and avoid homelessness.

Operation A.B.L.E. of Greater Boston
$7,500
To support Operation EmployABLE, a training program that provides unemployed and underemployed mature workers with the skills needed to attain employment and earn a living wage.

Outdoor Explorations
$5,000
To provide inclusive outdoor adventure opportunities for people with disabilities.

Piers Park Sailing Center
$7,500
To support the Youth Adaptive Sailing Program, which provides recreational, educational and personal growth opportunities for cognitively and physically disabled children.

Project Bread
$25,000
To alleviate, prevent and ultimately end hunger in Massachusetts.

Rosie’s Place
$250,000 over five years
(first-year installment)
To support the organization’s capital campaign to create a new Women’s Education Center.

Samaritans
$7,500
To provide programming and outreach for youth in distress, teach suicide prevention to young people, and foster teen leadership.

St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center
$4,000
To support the Emergency Department renovation and expansion project.

Salvation Army
$500,000 over three years
(third-year installment)
To support the development and ongoing operation of a new Kroc Corps Community Center near Uphams Corner in Dorchester.

The Springfield Rescue Mission
$5,000
To meet the physical needs of the homeless by providing them with emergency shelter.

United Way of Massachusetts Bay
$100,000
(first installment of a $250,000 challenge grant)
To increase the United Way’s investment in basic human needs throughout eastern Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

Vinfen Corporation
$10,000
To provide a comprehensive array of services for children, youth and adults with psychiatric, developmental and behavioral disabilities.

West End House
$30,000 over two years
(second-year installment)
To expand the Kids Café in order to double the number of meals served to children who are at risk of hunger—from 40,000 to 80,000.

Women of Means
$10,000
To send teams of volunteer doctors and staff nurses into shelters in and around Boston to
cut through red tape and provide free, patient-centered medical care for women and children.

Woodson YMCA
$100,000 over two years
(second-year installment)
To support the Aspirus YMCA Expansion Project, which will build two licensed child-care classrooms for infants and toddlers and a day camp facility with a tornado shelter.

WORK Incorporated
$75,000 over two years
(first-year installment)
To provide rehabilitation services and develop community-based employment and other programs for individuals with disabilities.