| About Fresh | To support the Fresh Connect program via the development of retail partnerships, healthcare partnerships, and Fresh Connect technology. | $10,000 |
| Adbar Ethiopian Women's Alliance | To promote and facilitate female-owned and operated cooperative enterprises and the development of economic empowerment as a pathway out of poverty. | $5,000 |
| Adolescent Consultation Services | To support comprehensive diagnostic evaluations, treatment services, and advocacy for high-risk kids and their families at no cost. | $7,500 |
| Agassiz Baldwin Community | To support the scholarship program which helps make afterschool programs (including the arts afterschool) and summer camp accessible to a diverse group of families. | $7,500 |
| Asian American Ballet Project | To support the very first ballet company composed entirely of Asian American artists, which is currently producing its inaugural program at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center in July of this year. | $2,000 |
| Asian American Playwright Collective | To support the 6th annual Playfest, which takes place at Starlight Square and draws not only audiences from the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, but also diverse audiences from Cambridge and the region. | $2,000 |
| beheard.world | To support the development of a performance piece about belonging and "othering" to be performed in two locations in Cambridge. | $5,000 |
| Boston City Singers | To support vocal programs that are holistic, culturally representative and diverse, social-justice oriented, and accessible to children regardless of financial, demographic, or spatial barriers. | $3,000 |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | To support nine High School Open Rehearsals and Youth Concerts where at least 312 Cambridge 4th – 12th-grade students from eight schools will be exposed to world-class orchestral music by subsidizing access barriers. | $2,500 |
| Boston Taekwondo Project | To provide financial support to low and mid-income families for movement arts education through the martial art of Taekwondo. | $1,500 |
| Breakthrough Greater Boston | To support the delivery of Middle School and High School Programs that support 7th-12th grade, low-income, students of color in Cambridge on their path to and through college. | $15,000 |
| Breaktime United, Inc. | To support the launch two cohorts of young adult associates in Cambridge for a 3.5-year supported transitional employment program. | $7,500 |
| Bridge Forward Fund | To scale critical operations and outreach to serve an increased number of individuals and families in Cambridge in 2023. | $2,500 |
| Bridge Over Troubled Waters | To support street outreach, survival aid, and health care services to 300 homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth living on the streets and shelters in Cambridge as part of the Street Outreach/Mobile Medical Van Program. | $7,500 |
| Bridges Homeward | To support general operating costs related to the provision of social services to Cambridge residents, predominantly clients of our Developmental Disabilities program. | $5,000 |
| Cambridge Art Association | To support professional development programs designed to give visual artists the business tools they need to build successful visual arts practices. | $2,500 |
| Cambridge Black History Project | To support general operations and 2023 projects that include production of a third set of Trailblazer bookmarks, 72 oral histories, and an exhibit of historical photographs collected by members and oral history subjects. | $3,500 |
| Cambridge Camping Association | To support two day camps designed to close the summer and Covid learning loss gaps, address equity issues around enrichment programs and summer camps and provide a trauma sensitive, caring and welcoming community. | $20,000 |
| Cambridge Carnival International, Inc | To support general operating in expanding and maintaining staffing and operational capacity to support cultural programs. | $7,500 |
| Cambridge Center for Adult Education | To support hiring new instructors, staff compensation, professional development, and continuing scholarship and community outreach programs. | $5,000 |
| Cambridge College, Inc. | To support the Laptop Loaner Program to keep low-to-moderate income Cambridge students on their educational pathways, despite heightened financial barriers. | $3,500 |
| Cambridge Community Center | To support the ongoing growth and development of the Resilience Hub initiative. | $13,500 |
| Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee | To support regular operating expenses, with a special focus on responding to food insecurity by being responsive to the needs of the communities served at food pantries. | $25,000 |
| Cambridge Families of Color Coalition | To meet the need for greater financial literacy education by and for caregivers of Color who are navigating family and educational finances. | $7,500 |
| CAMBRIDGE FORUM | To support website redesign and the connected work to reach a new and wider audience. | $2,000 |
| Cambridge Health Alliance Foundation | To support programming, which addresses the mental health of the siblings of children who are admitted to a psychiatric facility. | $2,500 |
| Cambridge Historical Society (History Cambridge) | To support a project to engage American Indian/Indigenous voices of Cambridge and share that history with the entire city. | $2,500 |
| Cambridge Jazz Foundation | To support the production of the Annual Jazz Festival which is now a two-day event that will take place from July 29-30. | $7,500 |
| Cambridge Local First | To support the development of local incubator activities, including specialized business supports, shaped by and for BIPOC and queer business owners, with the goal of growing and supporting both new and young businesses in the area. | $5,000 |
| Cambridge Math Circle, Inc | To support a citywide math festival in person after two years online and to recruit and train new teachers who can teach in-person at various CPS schools. | $3,500 |
| Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center | To support improvements to the development and fundraising process in order to secure necessary resources for parallel goals. | $7,500 |
| Cambridge Neighborhood Apartment Housing Services | To support the Resident Service Department by including robust opportunities for educational support, financial aid counseling, and College Savings Account contributions. | $7,500 |
| Cambridge Neighbors, Inc | To support Scholarships to low- to moderate-income Cambridge elders who live alone and would benefit from critical practical and social supports. | $3,000 |
| Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition | To support CNC in general operating support to advance the organization as it aims to significantly increase its revenue and staff capacity in order to effectively provide resources for member and non-member nonprofits and serve as a unified, influential and authentic voice for Cambridge nonprofits. ? | $50,000 |
| Cambridge Public Access Corp. | To create and deploy a mobile media and storytelling lab while continuing to deepen and expand the work at our hub in Central Square. | $15,000 |
| Cambridge School Volunteers, Inc. | Expanding the Pacesetters Program at the Fletcher-Maynard Academy, adding 5th graders to the Amigos Learning Center, the Fifth Grade Challenge Math Program. | $7,500 |
| Cambridge Symphony Orchestra | To support the organization's annual Family Concert, to be performed on April 23, 2023. | $2,000 |
| Cambridge Volunteer Clearinghouse | To strengthen civic life in Cambridge by championing local volunteer opportunities and supporting an effective and inclusive volunteer corps. | $20,000 |
| Cambridge Women's Center | To provide free emotional support, computer access, refuge, food, supplies, resource referrals, support groups and workshops, and community connection to women, and those who identify with the signifier woman. | $4,000 |
| Cancer Education and Research Institute, Inc. | To support the management of incoming patients inquiries and assist with outreach. | $1,500 |
| Caritas Communities, Inc | The support the CaritasÂ’ Resident Support Services program in Cambridge that provides very low and low-income Cambridge residents the support and resources they need to improve their lives and succeed in permanent affordable housing. | $5,000 |
| Carroll Center for the Blind | To support comprehensive vision services to those who live, learn, and work in Cambridge. | $2,000 |
| Casa Myrna Vazquez, Inc. | To support emergency shelter, housing advocacy and homelessness prevention services, trauma-informed mental health counseling, nutritional assistance, and other basic needs for survivors of domestic violence and their children. | $2,000 |
| CASPAR, Inc. | To support program operating costs of the Emergency Services Center and Shelters, which spans the street outreach program, emergency shelters, and the winter warming center. | $15,000 |
| Center for Women & Enterprise | To support free and low-cost programming to increase access to entrepreneurship training for low-income women in Cambridge, MA. | $5,000 |
| Central Square Business Improvement District | To support the Activating the Edges initiative where BIPOC musicians perform in public spaces not traditionally frequented by buskers. | $2,500 |
| Central Square Theater | To support the organization's productions, community programming, year-long multi-tiered Community & Education Program, and a free community celebration event, Your Town, to launch the season. | $10,000 |
| Charles River Conservancy, Inc. | To support the advancement of strategic plan goals: Cultivate active engagement with the river; Define the parks as a platform for community and cultural life; Advocate using research and placemaking; and Ensure long term organizational and environmental sustainability. | $4,000 |
| CitySprouts Inc | To support after school and summer Young Leaders Program (YLP), prioritizing the engagement of Cambridge youth ages 11-14 from historically marginalized and low income communities. | $5,000 |
| Community Action Agency of Somerville | To support training parent volunteers as substitutes in the classroom and to introduce them to early education and care as a viable career path. | $6,000 |
| Community Art Center | To support teaching salaries for child care providers. | $12,500 |
| Community Boating | To support the Environmental Science Program (ESP), which uses the banks of the Charles River as a hands-on classroom to teach children about the ecology of an urban river, the physics of sailing, and weather. | $3,000 |
| Community Conversations: Sister to Sister | To support programming that provides a community of Black women with culturally relevant, equity focused health strategies. | $7,500 |
| Community Dispute Settlement Center | To support mediating with consumers and merchants, and landlord and tenants, in the Cambridge District Court with small claims and summary process disputants; work with youth related to their Harassment Protection Orders in the Cambridge Juvenile Court; conflict coaching with Cambridge residents; provision of conflict skills workshops to at least 4 Cambridge-based groups and work with Cambridge schools and youth groups. | $10,000 |
| Community Servings | To support the Nutrition Program for Cambridge Residents Affected by Critical & Chronic Illnesses. | $5,500 |
| Compass Working Capital | To support the expansion of current programming and service to families with financial coaching services. | $12,500 |
| Cradles to Crayons | To support Everyday Essentials, a mission-based program that provides customized packages to children (birth-12) living at or below 200% of the FPL in Cambridge, through local service partners to mitigate clothing insecurity. | $3,000 |
| CultureHouse | To support transforming the Harvard Square Kiosk into a space that welcomes diverse visitors, responds to social needs, and acknowledges and celebrates historic iterations of the Kiosk and Plaza. | $2,000 |
| Dance in the Schools | To provide excellent dance and arts programming in the Cambridge Public Elementary Schools with the goals of increasing the number of participating classrooms, adding new dance teaching artists, and enhancing the scheduling system. | $4,500 |
| De Novo Center for Justice and Healing | To support the provision of free civil legal assistance and affordable psychological counseling to low-income people, with services helping the homeless and imminently homeless, victims of domestic violence and their children living in poverty, immigrant and refugee survivors of torture and persecution, and people living with disabilities. | $12,000 |
| dynaMIT | To support 2 week-long summer STEM programs reaching 80 underserved students in the Cambridge/Boston area, allowing them to explore science and engineering through hands-on challenges. | $1,500 |
| East End House | To support hiring more staff to provide high-quality, affordable childcare and afterschool care, food assistance, and community involvement to under-resourced populations in Cambridge. | $25,000 |
| Emerge | To support the Counseling Scholarship Fund, which enables the organization to increase its capacity to serve unemployed and low-income men and women and to help them to address trauma related to domestic violence. | $4,000 |
| Enroot, Inc. | To support wraparound programming for immigrant high school and college students which includes mentorship, academic tutoring, leadership development, job readiness, post-secondary preparation and access, college success, STEM exposure, and mental health and well-being support. | $15,000 |
| Family Opera, Inc. (North Cambridge Family Opera) | To lead 30 to 35 science songwriting workshops in the K-5 Cambridge public schools. | $2,500 |
| Fenway Community Health Center, Inc. | to support the ongoing programmatic needs of the Youth on Fire (YOF) drop in center, located in Harvard Square. | $7,000 |
| First Parish-Paine Fund | To support payment for services for clients who cannot pay a fee and would otherwise refuse needed help. | $7,000 |
| Fletcher Maynard Academy Parent Teacher Organization | To offset the impact of COVID on teachers and families by offering monthly teacher appreciation events, a school-wide barbeque, a moving-on ceremony for 5th graders, and other celebrations of students and their families. | $3,000 |
| Food For Free | to support program staff and expenses for hunger relief programs: Food Rescue, Just Eats Grocery Boxes, Healthy Eats (formerly known as Home Delivery), Weekend Eats (formerly the Cambridge and Somerville Weekend Backpack Program), and School Markets. | $11,000 |
| Found in Translation | To support 357 low-income and/or homeless, bilingual women on their path to entering, building, and sustaining careers in medical interpreting. | $5,000 |
| Friday Night Hype | To programming that provides safe spaces for our most vulnerable students to participate in educational and therapeutic activities with positive role models/mentors. | $5,000 |
| Friends of the Community Learning Center | To support the College Success Initiative (CSI) Campus-Based Coaching Program which provides individualized coaching to advance the six-year college completion rate of students from groups underrepresented in higher education. | $15,000 |
| FriendshipWorks Inc. | To support an on-going partnership with Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES) to connect isolated, older residents to volunteers of all ages, faiths, and backgrounds for the Friendly Visiting program. | $5,000 |
| Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts | To provide all families and youth referred by Cambridge agency partners with furniture, home goods, moving, and set-up services to create a safe and comfortable home as they transition from homelessness into stable housing. | $2,500 |
| Global Arts Live | To conduct community research and develop a plan for Community Programs at 585 Arts, which will offer affordable rental rates to artists and arts organizations to create, share, and gather. | $12,500 |
| Greater Boston Legal Services | To support the prevention evictions and to provide housing and financial stability for low-income families and individuals living in Cambridge and Somerville. | $10,000 |
| Green Cambridge | To support two main summer programs: Fly, Buzz, & Hop Festival and the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (MSYEP). | $2,500 |
| Harvard Square Churches Meal Program | To support the basic daily needs of guests through a Marketplace and toiletries distribution that would supplement the existing weekly evening meal. | $4,000 |
| Heading Home | To strengthen and deepen the organization's mission and support delivery for 200+ Cambridge-based residents experiencing homelessness. | $5,000 |
| Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center | To support ongoing impact on children and parents experiencing homelessness by providing emergency shelter, supportive programs, community connections and resources, and stabilization services for two years post-shelter. | $5,000 |
| Homeowners Rehab Inc. | To support the stabilization neighborhoods by offering Cambridge eligible owners low interest rate financial and technical resources to maintain their home. | $10,000 |
| HomeStart, Inc. | To support people experiencing homelessness and housing crisis in Cambridge find and keep safe, permanent, affordable housing. | $10,000 |
| Horizons for Homeless Children | To support the Playspace program, which provides consistent, high-quality play opportunities with trained, caring volunteers away from the stresses of homelessness. | $3,000 |
| Innovators for Purpose | To support capacity-building for iFp through the development of two program expansion initiatives: New Futures Lab and Computer Science Integration into iFp Studios. | $10,000 |
| JazzBoston, Inc | To bring live, world-class music programming to Cambridge residents in a safe, affordable, and welcoming environmment in the heart of the City's designated Cultural District. | $2,500 |
| Jean Appolon Expressions | To support building an intergenerational global dance community via performances, classes, and education. | $12,500 |
| José Mateo Ballet Theatre | To support general operating expenses. | $5,000 |
| Just A Start Corporation | To support Career Connect, which provides Cambridge area residents with an educational pathway to sustainable careers in the Biomedical and Information Technology fields. | $14,000 |
| Just A Start Corporation | To support Just A Start in its capital campaign and the development and furnishing of Rindge Commons, a new Economic Mobility Hub, to help Cambridge residents have access to stable housing and pathways to financial stability. | $30,000 |
| Kendall Square Orchestra | To produce two concerts at a venue in Cambridge to provide cultural experiences for both our players as well as the Cambridge community. | $1,000 |
| Longy School of Music of Bard College | To ensure that community members can access LongyÂ’s programming at little or no cost. | $6,000 |
| Lovin’ Spoonfuls | To support diverting perfectly good food from the waste stream and providing it, at no cost, to nonprofits that support community members struggling to obtain enough to eat. | $7,800 |
| Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House | To support the development of Margaret Fuller's programs and program strategy. | $5,000 |
| Mass Farmers Markets | To support year-round management of the Central Square Farmers Market, the establishment of a new market site in Kendall Square, and increased educational outreach and engagement. | $11,000 |
| Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers | To support Cambridge-based Immigrant Integration Services (IIS) and Elder Services Programs (Cambridge Senior Center). These programs increase access and remove barriers to health, education and social services, and a better life, for our ethnically/racially diverse, low-income, mainly monolingual Portuguese-speaking communities. | $9,000 |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society | To support free interpretive nature exhibits and nature-based programs out of Magazine Beach Park to engage the community in protecting the wildlife and habitats of the Charles River. | $5,000 |
| Material Aid and Advocacy Program | To support meeting unhoused community membersÂ’ self-identified immediate needs while working towards long-term solutions. | $2,000 |
| Metro Housing|Boston | To support staffing costs for the Mount Auburn Hospital colocation site in FY23 (July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023), which provides a direct access point to the organization's portfolio of programs and services for Cambridge residents. | $10,000 |
| Midday Movement Series | To operationalize equitable practices into programs, administration, and future dance leaders in light of new broad and sector-specific knowledge in tangible racial equity practices exposed during the pandemic. | $3,000 |
| New England Bangladeshi American Foundation (NEBAF) | To support ongoing and new programming which includes work with new immigrants, senior services, and mental health services for families and young adults. | $2,500 |
| On The Rise | To support work that cultivates relationships, assists/advocates for housing, mental/physical health, addiction, poverty, safety, and well-being, for women/trans/nonbinary individuals, currently and formerly chronically homeless. | $6,500 |
| Philanthropy Massachusetts | To support the Summer Fund, which aims to positively impact the lives of thousands of underserved youth in Greater Boston through summer enrichment activities provided by direct service nonprofit partners. | $20,000 |
| Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) | To support the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program (CYEP), a six-week, full-day summer camp that provides academic instruction and summer recreation to low-income children ages 6-13. | $3,500 |
| Playworks New England | To deliver safe and healthy play during the school day to students, helping improve physical activity and to develop key social-emotional skills that are proven to help children thrive socially and academically. | $4,500 |
| Project Citizenship, Inc. | To assist permanent residents achieve citizenship with free, high quality legal services. | $4,500 |
| PROJECT MANNA | To provide meals from the soup kitchen and supply groceries during the month via the organization's food pantry. | $5,000 |
| Prospect Hill Academy Charter School | To support the STEAM Saturday program that provides tuition-free, fun and engaging, out-of-school-time, enrichment classes to K-8 students. | $2,000 |
| Reach Out and Read | To provide books, training, quality assurance, technical support, and evaluation to 5 sites operated by this organization in Cambridge. | $4,000 |
| Rescuing Leftover Cuisine Massachusetts | To support feeding people instead of landfills, by propelling the expansion of this organization's mission and impact to support Cambridge residents by meeting their nutritional needs and breaking the cycle of poverty. | $5,000 |
| Rian Immigrant Center | To support the Legal Aid for Immigrant Youth project, which works with Cambridge immigrant youth to significantly increase their potential for success and stability through immigration legal advice and representation. | $10,000 |
| Riverside Community Care, Inc. | To support critical family services led by the Riverside Community Services Agency (CSA) helping children and families in crisis in Cambridge. | $7,500 |
| Science Club for Girls, Inc. | To support program expansion to reach more underrepresented girls and gender-expansive youth with impactful, high-quality STEM programming in a combination of virtual and in-person formats. | $8,000 |
| Second Chances | To support organizational capacity to deliver free and empowering clothing, shoes, accessories, and gift cards to homeless and low-income community members. | $2,500 |
| Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute, Inc. | To support programs at the Caspar/Baycove Womanplace transitional residential recovery program in Cambridge. | $3,000 |
| Shelter Music Boston | To support the performance, recording, and production costs of classical music concert programming for men, women, and children who are homeless or affected by substance misuse in Greater Boston. | $3,000 |
| Soca Fusion LLC | To support ongoing recovery from the impacts of Covid-19. | $2,500 |
| Steps in Time® | To support a student internship | $1,500 |
| Survivor Theatre Project | To support the Healing Through Creative Arts workshop series which promotes public awareness and provides healing resources for survivors of sexual violence. | $2,000 |
| Tech Goes Home | To provide computers, internet, and digital skills training to students, families, workers, and older adults who have been systematically excluded from the digital world, increasing access to critical resources to meet their basic needs. | $5,000 |
| The Click | To support the Dance For All program, which invites adult movers of all identities, economic statuses, and experience levels to explore their creative voices through ballet, contemporary and improvisational dance. | $2,500 |
| The Dance Complex | To support creative, effective programs for participant communities, and the deepening of the organization's EDI framework. | $15,200 |
| The Loop Lab | To support serving young people of color in Cambridge through Media Arts apprenticeship opportunities and the pipeline through the Media Arts Youth Program for high school students. | $10,000 |
| The Outdoor Church of Cambridge | To support the purchase, production, and distribution of sandwiches, drinks, snacks, socks, and other sundry items at least four times per week, reaching 250 unhoused, homeless, and street-involved community people weekly. | $1,000 |
| The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts | To bolster DEI efforts, build the capacity of CSBBN (Cambridge-Somerville Black Business Network) and to develop the Equity Fund. | $5,000 |
| The Young People's Project | To expand programs offered to Cambridge students including Flagway League, Math & Computational Thinking Lab, Student-Designed Math Playbook, and Organizing and Building Capacity for Math Literacy Work. | $10,000 |
| Transition House | To support high-quality housing continuum services and community partnership programming for as many as 1,000 survivors of domestic violence and service providers. | $10,000 |
| Tunefoolery Music, Inc. | To support monthly live music performances at the Sancta Maria Nursing Facility. | $3,000 |
| Tutoring Plus of Cambridge | To support the operations of elementary, middle, and high school out of school time tutoring programming. | $12,500 |
| uAspire | To support the Cambridge financial aid advising program that connects College Affordability Advisors to students virtually and in person in schools to educate and advise high school juniors, seniors and their families on the financial aid process. | $5,000 |
| Urban Food Initiative, Inc. (Daily Table) | To support marketing associated with getting the word out to shoppers who need Daily Table. | $6,000 |
| Urbanity Dance | To support a free weekly class for assisted living residents with Parkinson’s Disease to engage in the joy of movement through live music, storytelling, and a variety of dance styles. | $1,500 |
| Veterans Legal Services | To support access to effective legal assistance for economically disadvantaged veterans in Cambridge when they are facing challenging legal issues. | $2,500 |
| VLA DANCE | To provide consistent opportunities for professional dancers, build youth’s art skills, and push creativity in the adult community via classes, performances, shows, and publications. | $5,000 |
| VNA Care Network | To support the Removing Barriers to Health program, which addresses characteristics among vulnerable Cambridge home-based health care patients that result in a disproportionately high disease burden to improve health outcomes. | $3,000 |
| Women of Color Entrepreneurs, Inc. | To widen the circle of entrepreneurship by supporting women of color entrepreneurs who are building great businesses and want help to scale. We onboard our fourth cohort in 2023. | $5,000 |
| Y2Y Network, Inc | To support program operations and salaries related to Y2Y Network's Harvard Square shelter. | $6,500 |
| YWCA Cambridge | To support and expand internal HR and Finance department capacity. | $10,000 |
| My Brother's Keeper | To support strategic planning efforts that will expand and operationalize the Empowerment Program for high school-aged youth. | $50,000 |
| Museum of Science | To support the Museum’s Community Use Strategy, an effort to annually engage and welcome community organizations seeking complementary programming to help further their work with populations typically underserved in STEM. | $20,000 |
