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The Lalor Foundation’s Anna Lalor Burdick Program hosted representatives of fifteen grantee organizations from as far away as Hawaii and close as Boston for a November conference. A group of Boston teens from the Hyde Square Task Force got the event under way by presenting their new video, “Sex in School, Does Ignorance Keep Us Safe?” promoting comprehensive sex education in the Boston public schools. Continue Reading »
The Herman and Frieda Miller Foundation recently awarded its first round of grants for its new Innovation Fund.
The Innovation Fund is broadly conceived as a resource that supports innovations, tools, and practices that help social justice organizations and their allies improve conditions and institutions in pursuit of an involved, informed, and active public.
The Fund is a program designed to complement the core grantmaking program of the foundation which supports civic engagement, advocacy, and community organizing in Greater Boston and Eastern Massachusetts.
The six grantees represented a diverse set of organizations that were very experienced at community organizing and advancing public policy.
Most of the projects supported by the fund were developed by strong coalitions of organizations grappling with urgent public policy issues such as the foreclosure crisis, the rights of workers, and health care reform. Continue Reading »
Courtesy Boston Family Boatbuilding
This fall, the A.C. Ratshesky Foundation made its first set of grant awards under its new guidelines. The new guidelines refined the existing interests of the foundation to help low income individuals and families.
The new program areas include family partnering in early education, employment and self-sufficiency, and active learning for preteens and teens. The trustees have also agreed to increase grant sizes and consider requests from communities outside of Boston within the I-495 region.
The following grants list includes new grants as well as several multi-year grants made under the foundation’s prior guidelines: Continue Reading »
