A collection of photos from our 2026 Community Fund grant recipients.
CAMBRIDGE, MA | April 28, 2026
The Cambridge Community Foundation has awarded a total of $1,371,500 to 157 nonprofits working across Cambridge through its annual Community Fund grants. This broad investment is possible thanks to CCF’s endowment, which is fueled by generations of philanthropy in Cambridge, and the organization’s deep partnership with its donor-advised fund holders and other local funders, whose co-investments increased the dollars distributed by 46 percent.
CCF’s largest pool of grants each year, the Community Fund demonstrates the diverse array of nonprofit services that underpin life and community across Cambridge. The Community Fund is the Foundation’s broadest investment in Cambridge’s nonprofit sector, supporting organizations across child and youth development, arts and culture, education, community building and engagement, food, economic security, health and wellbeing, and housing.
“The Community Fund is what enables all of our other grantmaking programs, and it’s where we get the real pulse of what’s happening across Cambridge’s nonprofit sector,” said Christina Turner, vice president of programs and grantmaking at CCF. “By the time we’re investing in multi-year, strategic partnerships with an organization, it’s almost always built on years of being a Community Fund grantee first. This is where the relationship starts.”
Among the 157 organizations funded this year is Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center, which has provided emergency shelter and housing services to Cambridge families for decades.
“Hildebrand is deeply grateful for Cambridge Community Foundation’s ongoing support and partnership,” said Hildebrand’s CEO Hadaryah T. Morgan. “With funding from CCF, Hildebrand works with families to transition out of homelessness—for good. Our vision is that every family has a home, and CCF’s support helps us drive toward that goal by providing high-quality services and innovative programs that lead to families finding safe, affordable permanent homes.”
This year, 46 Cambridge community members served as community reviewers, reading applications and deliberating across 14 review sessions to make funding recommendations. Reviewers brought knowledge of the local issues that the nonprofit applicants address and familiarity with the city’s neighborhoods, programs, and institutions, including in many cases experience as participants, volunteers, or neighbors of the services they evaluated.
Josefine Wendel moved to Cambridge in the 90’s, worked at the Cambridge Public Health Department, and has reviewed grants in the health and wellbeing category for several cycles. “Part of what brings me back is curiosity,” she said. “I’m always interested in finding out what new things are happening in the city. And the discussions are always engaging. Someone reads an application in a way you never would have thought of.”
Thirty-three of this year’s funded organizations received Renewal Grants, which enabled organizations with a track record of community impact and partnership with the Foundation to renew their funding without submitting a full application, a process designed to ease the administrative burden on nonprofits trying to keep up with rising demand for services.
Potencia, a newer Cambridge organization co-founded by Amanda Wang, is also among this year’s grantees. The organization works one-on-one with adult immigrants on English language learning, matching each person with a tutor and building instruction around their individual goals.
“CCF has helped us translate possibility into opportunity by expanding access to personalized English tutoring for adult immigrants, opening pathways to confidence and economic mobility,” said Wang. “As a newer organization serving Cambridge, this partnership has been instrumental in deepening our connection to and understanding of the community we serve.”
Year after year, CCF donor-advised fund (DAF) holders and other local funders expand both the dollars and the reach of the Community Fund, making possible a scope of support that reaches all corners of the city. The Foundation expresses its deepfelt gratitude to every supporter who contributed to this pool. They are:
Arrow Street Arts Fund, Beberts Fund, Brady-Dall Family Fund, Cosulich Family Charitable Fund, Sy Danberg, Gail Roberts Fund, Gardiner Family Fund, Gilbert Fund, Abram and Debbie Klein, Kowalski Loveall Fund, Lander Family, Laskin Fund for Cambridge, Lauterbach-Sturges Charitable Fund, Sue Lonoff de Cuevas, Daniel Raizen, Ralph W. Chapman Jr. Memorial Fund, St. Onge Family Fund, Upland Gardens Fund, Henry and Janet Vaillant, Viney Wallach DAF, and Wernick-Hansman Family Fund.
In addition, the Foundation is honored to welcome the A.O. Wilson Donor Advised Fund and to continue the A.O. Wilson Foundation’s longstanding commitment to supporting Cambridge serving nonprofits.
“People tend to think of the Community Fund as a grant cycle: Applications open, money goes out, and then it’s done. But the work doesn’t stop there,” said Geeta Pradhan, president of the Cambridge Community Foundation. “The relationships, the follow-up, the connecting organizations to additional supports. That runs through the whole year. The Community Fund is one important way that we stay close to what’s happening in Cambridge.”
Our fy26 grant recipients
Action for Boston Community Development, Inc
Active Social Communities DBA Volo Kids Foundation
Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Adam Theater Inc
Adolescent Consultation Services
All Court Enrichment (ACE)
All Things Dance Boston
ANIKAYA/Akhra, Inc.
Asian American Resource Workshop
Beat The Streets New England
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc
Boston City Singers
Boston Comic Arts Foundation Limited
Boston Dance Alliance
Boston Festival Orchestra
Breakthrough Greater Boston
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Bridges Homeward
Buildingways LLC
Cambridge Art Association
Cambridge Basketball Lab
Cambridge Black History Project
Cambridge Camping Association
Cambridge Center for Adult Education
Cambridge Community Center
Cambridge Community Land Trust
Cambridge Community Television (CCTV)
Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee
Cambridge Hip-Hop Collective
Cambridge Holistic Emergency Alternative Response Team (Cambridge HEART)
Cambridge Local First
Cambridge Neighbors
Cambridge School Volunteers, Inc.
Cambridge Symphony Orchestra
Caritas Communities
Casa Myrna Vazquez, Inc.
CASPAR, Inc.
Castle of our Skins
Center for Women & Enterprise
Central Square Business Improvement District
Central Square Theater
Charles River Conservancy, Inc.
Chinese American Association of Cambridge Inc
Circle of Hope, Inc.
Citizens of the World, Inc.
CitySprouts
CoDesign Collaborative
Community Action Agency of Somerville, Inc.
Community Boating, Inc.
Community Conversations: Sister to Sister, Inc.
Community Cooks
Community Dispute Settlement Center, Inc.
Community Servings
Compass Working Capital, Inc.
Cradles to Crayons
CultureHouse
CW Taekwondo at Boston (Boston Taekwondo Project)
Dance in the Schools
De Novo Center for Justice and Healing Inc.
Dignity Matters Inc
Discovering Justice
East End House
Economic Mobility Pathways
Emerge
Enroot, Inc.
Eureka Ensemble Corporation
Everybody Gotta Eat Projects Inc
Food Link, Inc.
Found In Translation
FriendshipWorks Inc.
Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts, Inc.
Gallery 263
Girls Envisioning More, Inc
Global Arts Live
Green Cambridge, Inc.
Harvard Square Churches Meal Program
Heading Home
Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center
History Cambridge
Homeowners Rehab, Inc.
HomeStart, Inc.
Hope and Comfort Inc.
Horizons for Homeless Children
Innovators for Purpose
Jean Appolon Expressions
Joint Family
Jose Mateo’s Ballet Theatre
JOYweavers Inc
Just A Start
Juventas New Music Ensemble
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
Lawyers Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing and Homelessness, Inc.
Liars and Believers
Majestic Community Wellness
Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS)
MASSCreative, Inc.
Material Aid and Advocacy Program, Inc.
MetaMovements
Metro Housing Boston
My Brother’s Keeper Task Force Inc
Navigation Games
Neighborhood Counseling and Community Services, Inc.
New England Bangladeshi American Foundation
New England Jazz Collaborative
New School of Music
Newtowne School
Nurtury Early Education
Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company
On the Rise, Inc.
Outdoor Church of Cambridge
Paine Senior Services
Passim
Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA)
Pink Sunday
Potencia Inc.
Project Citizenship
Project Manna [Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church]
Prospect Hill Academy Charter School
Province of St. Mary of the Capuchin Order
Queenality Cares
Reach Out and Read
Read to a Child
Rescuing Leftover Cuisine Massachusetts
Revels, Inc.
Riverside Community Care
School of HONK
Science Club for Girls, Inc.
Second Chances, Inc.
Self Esteem Boston
Shelter Music Boston
Slave Legacy History Coalition
Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services
Spoonfuls
St James Helping Hand Pantry
St. Paul’s Parish food pantry
Street Theory Collective
Sustainable Business Network of MA
Sustainable Food and Culture
Swim Freedom
TC Squared Theatre
The Beautiful Stuff Project
The Black Response
The Boston Camerata Inc
The Click
The Home For Little Wanderers
The Loop Lab
The Salvation Army (Massachusetts Division – Cambridge Corps)
Transition House
Tutoring Plus of Cambridge, Inc.
uAspire
Upstander Project
Urbanity Dance
VLA DANCE
We Heal Ourselves with Love & Empowerment (WHOLE)
Women of Color Entrepreneurs (WOCE)
Work Force Program [Cambridge Housing Authority]
Young People’s Project
YWCA Cambridge
