| Grants and other charitable distributions FY 2016 | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Adbar Ethiopian Women’s Alliance | $ 5,000 | For two literacy programs seeking to close language and learning gaps between children in low- and high-income households and to help families gain the same skills. |
| Afterworks | $ 4,000 | For operational support to maintain the scholarship program ensuring that children in need will have access to after-school programming. |
| Agassiz Baldwin Community | $ 22,000 | For the Living Well Network that supports aging in place and for the scholarship program at the Agassiz Baldwin after-school program. |
| Agenda for Children: Out-of-School Time | $ 40,000 | To support building quality in out-of-school time programs through professional development, citywide network facilitation, and advocacy for equity and access. |
| AIDS Action: Youth on Fire | $ 9,000 | For the Youth on Fire Drop-In Center for homeless youth. |
| Algebra Project: Math Talk | $ 4,000 | A pilot program to support parents & teachers to engage children ages 2-5 to develop a basic understanding of math concepts, build vocabulary, and accelerate language development. |
| American Friends Service Committee | $ 5,000 | For the Material Assistance Program to provide clothing and household goods to those in need. |
| American Repertory Theater | $ 5,000 | To help support program expenses for 220 CRLS students to attend a matinee and interactive discussion addressing the “school-to-prison pipeline” that affects disadvantaged youth. |
| Art Connection | $ 3,000 | To help place 25 works of art in each of three or more Cambridge social service agencies. |
| Baby University | $ 20,000 | To support the 16-week course, which includes workshops, playgroups, and home visits and the alumni programming which creates a network for parents where they support one another. |
| Belmont High School Scholarship Award | $ 500 | Funding for a scholarship for a Belmont High School student who plans to pursue a career in elementary education. |
| Beyond the 4th Wall Expression Theater | $ 5,000 | To cover operating expenses for an organization that develops musical theater programming for Cambridge students of various ages, socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds. |
| Big Sister of Greater Boston Association | $ 5,000 | For one-to-one mentoring through community-based and site-based programs in Cambridge. |
| Boston Area Rape Crisis Center | $ 6,000 | To help fund operating expenses and to hire a contracts manager to support BARCC’s services. |
| Boston Minstrel Company | $ 1,700 | To support programming costs for three Minstrel appearances at CASPAR’s shelter for homeless people. |
| Boston Mobilization | $ 5,550 | To support a program that seeks to strengthen teen civic participation in Cambridge by taking advantage of a change in law that allows 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register. |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | $ 2,500 | The grant will enable Cambridge students to take part in Days in the Arts, a residential program near Tanglewood that gives middle school students a high-quality arts immersion experience. |
| Breakthrough Greater Boston | $ 10,000 | Helps Cambridge students in 7th through 12th grades make the transition to high school and pursue careers in education. |
| Bridge Fund | $ 5,000 | A homelessness prevention program helping those in arrears with rent or mortgage payments as well as comprehensive support and financial counseling. |
| Bridge Over Troubled Waters | $ 6,000 | For street outreach to connect with homeless youth. |
| BSA Foundation | $ 2,500 | To support the Boston Society of Architects outreach program to engage Cambridge children in community-based, hands-on architecture and design activity using STEAM practices. |
| Cambridge Art Association | $ 33,590 | To support Creativity Lab, introducing middle school students to making art with Cambridge Creativity Commons and Gately Youth Center. And distribution from CAA's endowment held at CCF. |
| Cambridge Arts Council | $ 10,000 | For the Summer in the City program that provides free diverse arts programming for the public in parks and community spaces and the Commons. |
| Cambridge Camping | $ 25,000 | Cambridge Camping programs make camping experience possible for underserved Cambridge children and children with special needs. And for overnight camperships. |
| Cambridge Children’s Chorus | $ 4,000 | Funding for a sequential music and youth development training program for children ages 4 to 18. |
| Cambridge Community Center | $ 25,000 | For services offered to low-income families, including Coast Kitchen and Teen Hip Hop Transformations - with Cambridge Health Alliance and Cambridge Police. |
| Cambridge Community Services | $ 20,000 | For CityLinks to expand workforce development programming, career exploration and financial literacy for students who have limited English proficiency at CRLS. |
| Cambridge Community Television | $ 3,974 | For a six-week media institute to enable two high school seniors to join the staff as youth trainers. |
| Cambridge Connects | $ 20,000 | Partnerships in 4 neighborhoods around Central Square will raise awareness of the value of inclusion by pairing Arts organizations with resident youth to articulate what neighborhoods value. |
| Cambridge Creativity Commons | $ 27,500 | To enrich teaching and learning through the arts in Cambridge schools. |
| Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee | $ 5,000 | To expand its FAFSA application assistance so low-income households who complete the college financial aid process can strengthen their financial literacy around higher education costs. |
| Cambridge Family & Children Service | $ 6,000 | To help pay for parent-support and safety training workshops for foster and adoptive homes. Also for respite care for families in the Developmental Disabilities Program. |
| Cambridge Family YMCA | $ 3,000 | A grant to help support a boxing program offered by the Y in partnership with the Cambridge Police Department to at-risk Cambridge youth. |
| Cambridge Health Alliance Foundation | $ 5,910 | To support the health integration program in outpatient psychiatry and medical expense support. |
| Cambridge Homes for Aged People | $ 2,018 | To support services for Cambridge's seniors, such as independent senior living, assisted living, and Alzheimer's and dementia care. |
| Cambridge Housing Authority | $ 15,000 | For Workforce which works with residents in 8th through 12th grades and beyond, providing employment training to more than 250 youth. |
| Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition | $ 50,000 | Support for CNC Coordinator. |
| Cambridge Performance Project | $ 3,000 | To support in-school opportunities to learn from participation in performing arts in Cambridge public schools. |
| Cambridge Rindge and Latin School: Arts | $ 1,000 | Funding for a scholarship to recognize and reward CRLS students who have demonstrated talent and commitment in the field of Visual Arts. |
| Cambridge Rindge and Latin School: Reading | $ 2,000 | Funding of scholarships for CRLS students who have succeeded in school after being assisted by reading recovery programs in elementary school. |
| Cambridge School Volunteers | $ 15,200 | Funding for recruitment, screening, training and supervising tutors, mentors and other volunteers in Cambridge Public Schools and #STEAMinspiration. |
| Cambridge Senior Volunteer Clearinghouse | $ 25,250 | Support for the recruitment of volunteers for a broad range of nonprofits through one-to-one in-person help with making good volunteer matches. |
| Cambridge SNAP Match Coalition | $ 5,000 | To help double the buying power of low-income residents by matching what consumers spend in SNAP at local farmer’s markets, to make healthy local produce more affordable. |
| Cambridge Symphony Orchestra | $ 2,000 | For a free Pops on the Lawn Concert in Sennott Park. |
| Care Dimensions | $ 2,000 | Support for end-of-life care for patients in Cambridge. |
| Caritas Communities | $ 5,000 | Funding for healthy food, cooking classes, and Y membership for residents of Central House which serves previously homeless men. |
| CASPAR | $ 12,000 | This grant provides support to FirstStep OutReach and Emergency Services Center and Shelter for Cambridge homeless people. |
| Central Square Theatre | $ 5,000 | For the Community Connectivity Program and resident youth ensemble in Central Square and across neighborhoods. |
| Charles River Conservancy | $ 5,000 | To help support the activities devoted to the stewardship and enhancement of the Charles River urban parklands. |
| City Sprouts | $ 3,500 | A garden-based program that supports a school curriculum about healthy food choices for young people. |
| Community Action Agency of Somerville | $ 5,000 | For early childhood teacher training. |
| Community Art Center | $ 15,250 | To support the Center as it grows in response to the closing of the Middlesex Boys and Girls Club while serving Cambridge youth with creative programs; DIYDS!!; and the Home Port Art Trailer. |
| Community Central Meeting Room | $ 12,962 | Funding to support shared infrastructure -- a meeting room-- for use by nonprofits serving the Cambridge community. |
| Community Conversations | $ 15,000 | Funding to bring together key community and provider stakeholders for conversations focused on health topics for underserved residents through Sister to Sister Women's Health Initiative. |
| Community Dispute Settlement Center | $ 10,000 | To help provide affordable and accessible mediation services, including programs that address Spanish-speaking residents. |
| Community Learning Center | $ 15,000 | This grant will help support the Life Transitions Program, connecting low-income Cambridge immigrants to services, further education and careers. |
| Community Legal Services & Counseling Ctr | $ 12,000 | To support counseling and legal services to low-income and vulnerable individuals and families, as well as technical assistance to staff from Cambridge community based agencies. |
| Community Servings | $ 9,000 | Funding for the nutrition program for Cambridge residents affected by an acute life threatening illness. |
| Compass Working Capital | $ 10,000 | For financial education and coaching to help residents of Cambridge public housing increase earnings, strengthen financial capabilities, build savings and achieve personal goals. |
| Cradles to Crayons | $ 2,500 | To support their year-round program to provide children living in low-income and homeless situations items to help them thrive at home, at school and at play. |
| Dance in the Schools | $ 3,000 | Support for dance to promote social and emotional development; teach science and math concepts; and appreciation of the art of dance, in elementary school classrooms. |
| Early Intervention, TGC/RCC | $ 5,500 | For outreach to families of newborns in their primary language to link them to resources; conduct risk assessments; and provide developmental evaluations and therapeutic services. |
| Early Years Project, TGC/RCC | $ 7,500 | To provide professional development to all providers of childcare in Cambridge at no cost to them. The focus is on supporting mental and behavioral health. |
| East End House | $ 36,000 | To support a wide range of services to low-income families including senior support services. |
| EMERGE | $ 3,000 | For scholarship support of the Abuser Intervention Program. |
| Families First | $ 4,000 | To support research-based parenting workshops for Cambridge parents and community partners. |
| Family After School, TGC/RCC | $ 4,000 | To help children 6 to 12 with serious emotional and behavioral challenges. |
| Family Independence Initiative (FII) | $ 30,000 | To support ending poverty by cultivating connections, choice, and capital in very low income communities. Families set goals, track their progress, and meet monthly to share resources. |
| Family-to Family Project | $ 5,000 | FTF Project works with direct service providers to prevent or reverse homelessness through timely financial help. |
| Food For Free | $ 18,000 | To support the Food Rescue and Distribution program that helps feed more than 25,000 people in partnership with more than 100 local food programs. |
| Gallery 263 | $ 2,500 | To support operations for the nonprofit arts space on Pearl Street. |
| Girl’s Leap | $ 2,000 | Helps provide a 20-hour curriculum teaching physical safety skills and activities to develop conflict resolution. |
| Greater Boston Food Bank | $ 10,000 | To provide meals for individuals in need through relief agencies in Cambridge. |
| Green Streets Initiative | $ 7,500 | Support for Cambridge Walk/Ride Day Programs including collaborations with Cambridge public agencies, schools, working places, retail stores and the general public. |
| Grow Native | $ 3,000 | For the Evenings with Experts lecture series in collaboration with the Cambridge Public Library to support ecologically sound landscapes and gardens. |
| Habitat Education Center | $ 1,500 | To support programs for Cambridge third grade students studying a meadow habitat at Fresh Pond’s Maynard Ecology Center. |
| Harvard Square Churches Meal Program | $ 4,000 | A grant to hire additional homeless or formerly homeless people to help serve meals. |
| Harvard University: Scholarship | $ 83,569 | Funding of scholarships for local low-income students. |
| Heading Home | $ 5,000 | To help chronically homeless individuals with disabilities in Cambridge. |
| Homeless Empowerment Project/Spare Change | $ 11,000 | To help support the production of a newspaper for poor and homeless people to sell to showcase their talents and earn money. |
| Homeowners Rehab | $ 15,000 | For free technical assistance and loan programs to assist low-income homeowners in Cambridge. |
| HomeStart | $ 17,500 | To support programs that help marginalized and vulnerable people obtain and keep housing. |
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $ 3,000 | For Playspaces in family shelters in Cambridge and to recruit and train playspace activities leaders to help staff them. |
| Innovators 4 Purpose | $ 10,000 | To help youth develop skills as innovators, preparing them to participate in today’s innovation economy while ensuring the STEM education pipeline reflects America’s demographics. |
| Jean Appolon Expressions | $ 5,000 | To support reduced tuition for the after-school Teen Program at the Dance Complex, focused on Caribbean and African cultures. |
| José Mateo Ballet Theatre | $ 5,000 | To help support Dance for the CommonWealth, an outreach program that gives Cambridge residents of all ages access to the arts. |
| Just-A-Start Corporation | $ 20,000 | Funding to support education and training services for 250 teens and adults through YouthBuild and Biomedical Careers programs. |
| Longy School of Music at Bard College | $ 22,500 | To support the use of Longy students as teachers and performers in local shelters, hospitals, elder facilities and schools, and to help underwrite free concerts. Also for operations. |
| MA Alliance of Portuguese Speakers | $ 13,000 | A grant to support MAPS work to enable Portuguese-speaking seniors receiving critical services to live independently at home. |
| Many Helping Hands | $ 7,500 | To support: 6th Cambridge MLK Day of Service; www.ManyHelpingHands365.org; and Gift Cards for Guns, a Safer Homes, Safer Community Initiative to reduce the number of guns. |
| Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House | $ 16,000 | General support for one of the key community institutions serving local residents in need. |
| Meeting Place, TGC/RCC | $ 19,000 | To provide safe settings for parents and children to meet in when supervised visits are necessary. |
| Metamovements Latin Dance Company | $ 3,500 | Funding for a Youth Arts Ambassadors residency at Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House and Cambridge Senior Center. |
| Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership | $ 4,500 | To build providers’ capacity for effective case management of low-income elders with hoarding disorder. |
| Mount Auburn Hospital | $ 2,018 | Funding for operations and special needs, especially as they apply to elderly and low-income patients. |
| Multicultural Arts Center | $ 4,000 | To support the presentation of multicultural visual and performing arts programs that educate people about diversity. |
| Nature Connection | $ 4,000 | To support therapeutic and animal-assisted programs for a diverse population of senior citizens at the Cambridge Health Alliance Elder Service Plan. |
| New Communities Services | $ 5,000 | To support holistic day services for frail elders, including specialized care for adults with Alzheimer’s disease and other kinds of cognitive impairment. |
| North Cambridge Family Opera Company | $ 3,000 | To support science songwriting workshops conducted by composer David Haines in Cambridge public schools, grades K-5, and help support the science festival chorus. |
| Nurtury | $ 4,362 | For a new language and literacy curriculum and to provide three teacher coaching sessions for the Harvard Street center in Cambridge. |
| On the Rise | $ 3,000 | To help support Safe Haven & Keep the Keys programs for homeless women as they move beyond crisis. |
| Paine Senior Services | $ 9,464 | To provide consistent support and services to Cambridge seniors regardless of their ability to pay. |
| Parenting Journey | $ 4,000 | To support parenting programs that help at-risk parents create stronger, more resilient families. |
| Pine Street Inn | $ 5,000 | To provide shelter food clothing and healthcare to more than 1,600 homeless people a day with a range of services. |
| Poets’ Theater | $ 2,200 | To fund tickets for low-income residents and children from Cambridge to see Beowulf at the Muticultural Arts Center in East Cambridge. |
| Possible Project | $ 20,000 | To support Youth Entrepreneurship Program which uses entrepreneurial, experiential, innovative learning to promote positive youth development for low-income students. |
| Preschool Team, TGC/RCC | $ 5,000 | To help fill a persistent gap in services for children with mental health and developmental problems. |
| Project Manna | $ 4,000 | To support nutritious meals served twice a week at a soup kitchen and the operation of a food pantry. |
| Project Prakash | $ 2,000 | For Unruly Arts, quality-of-life programing for children with autism and their families. |
| Revels, Inc. | $ 2,000 | For the 18th Annual RiverSing event. |
| Self Esteem Boston | $ 3,000 | To provide self-esteem training to low-income, at-risk people, with a focus on women in shelters and transitional programs. |
| Shelter Legal Services | $ 5,000 | Funding will help provide matching funds for a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grant to provide free civil legal services for homeless people in Cambridge. |
| Small Can Be Big Inc. | $ 10,000 | To help support Cambridge families at risk of becoming homeless through this program which provides modest supports by raising public donations. |
| Solutions At Work | $ 10,000 | For the Children’s Clothing Exchange and Solutions Wear - which provides homeless or low-income individuals with business attire as they seek to re-enter the workforce. |
| Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services | $ 3,000 | For weekend home-delivered meals for isolated elders. |
| St. Patrick Shelter | $ 7,500 | SPS serves homeless women primarily from Cambridge and Somerville with shelter, advocacy and meals. |
| Summer Fund | $ 20,000 | To support Summer Fund which ensures camps are available for underserved, low-income and homeless youth. Funds go to camps that serve Cambridge and address summer learning loss. |
| Transition House | $ 11,325 | For Solutions to Domestic Violence, a pilot partnership (Transition House, Cambridge Council on Aging, Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services) and to support children at the shelter. |
| Tunefoolery Music Inc. | $ 1,000 | For the Music Scholarship Program that helps people living with mental illness build identities as musicians. |
| Tutoring Plus | $ 19,000 | For academic support and enrichment to students in grades 4 to 12 and gender specific programs. |
| uAspire | $ 5,000 | To help support their college affordability programs for Cambridge students. |
| Union Partnership for a Whole Community | $ 7,500 | To support the effort to develop a pipeline of highly trained nonprofit leaders of color. |
| Visiting Nurse Association | $ 13,000 | To help provide supportive housing and services for extremely low-income seniors and disabled people from Cambridge. |
| VNA Care Network & Hospice | $ 5,910 | To defray costs at the Elizabeth Evarts de Rham Hospice and care provided in patients’ homes in Cambridge. |
| Watertown High School: Scholarships | $ 3,000 | Funding of scholarships for Watertown High School seniors who have shown good citizenship and academic potential. |
| Wellmet Project | $ 3,000 | To support transitional housing services for individuals with mental illness. |
| Wheelock Family Theatre | $ 4,000 | To help Cambridge teens participate in a technical theatre training program aimed to foster interest in STEM plus arts (STEAM) through a hands-on immersion in theatre crafts. |
| Women’s Educational Center | $ 5,000 | To support services to low-income, homeless, and abused women. |
| Young People’s Project | $ 7,500 | To launch a new math literacy program in partnership with Cambridge Youth Programs for students in Moses Youth Center and Fletcher Maynard Academy. |
| Youth Enrichment Services | $ 2,500 | For Operation SnowSports & Outdoor Adventure which serves a diverse population of low-to-mid-income Cambridge youth. |
Grants
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