EVENTS OF NOTE

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 »

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: Outside Magazine

Outside Magazine ranks Health In Harmony on of the top 30 charities for citizen philanthropy.

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Featuring, Health In Harmony, a grantee of the Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation.