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: Forbes

A blue-ribbon panel of experts selected social entrepreneurs who are tackling the world’s most intractable problems.  The magazine named One Acre Fund founder, Andrew Youn as one of the world’s top 30 on its list.

To read the article, click here.

Featuring One Acre Fund, a grantee of the Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation

GRANTEES IN THE NEWS

Source: CBS Evening News

CBS News chief business correspondent Anthony Mason highlights the foreclosure prevention work of Boston Community Capital, CityLife/Vida Urbana, and the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

The program buys foreclosed homes and sells them back to the original owners.

SUN has helped over 125 families stay in their homes, and avoid foreclosure and / or eviction. Now, they have affordable monthly payments for the long term.

Featuring Boston Community Capital and City Life/Vida Urbana, grantees of the Herman and Frieda Miller Foundation

To watch the report, click here.