Past Grants

EDUCATION

Action for Boston Community Development
Boston, MA
$134,000 in final support for work with Head Start centers in Boston as part of a citywide effort to offer high
quality universal PreK education for Boston families.  (Total support of $570,000, 2011-2017)

Maine Association for the Education of Young Children
Wells, ME
$7,500 in support of the Association’s statewide advocacy campaign for early education.

Nurtury, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 in one-time support for a project  to serve families facing the “cliff effect” of lost child care benefits due to increased household income.

 Subtotal Education: $191,500

Percentage of Total: 16

ENVIRONMENT

Donated Land and Easement Grant Program ($455,000)

Cold Hollow to Canada Incorporated
Montgomery Center, VT
$100,000 for the organization’s land conservation fund, to support transaction costs for donated easements and land trusts in Northern Vermont.

Maine Mountain Collaborative
Phillips, ME
$100,000 in support of the Maine Appalachian Mountain Corridor Conservation Fund, to support project-related costs within the Collaborative’s 5-million-acre focus area.

Nature Conservancy, Inc.,  Massachusetts Chapter
f/b/o Berkshire Wildlife Linkage Partnership
Northampton, MA
$55,000 in continued support for the Berkshire Wildlife Linkage Partnership Due Diligence Fund, supporting key wildlife linkages between the Hudson Highlands in New York and the Green Mountains of Vermont.

Opacum Land Trust
f/b/o MassConn Sustainable Forest Partnership
Sturbridge, MA
$100,000 to support a transaction fund to address a backlog in conservation easement donations of private landowners in the MassConn region in central Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park
f/b/o Downeast Conservation Network
Winter Harbor, ME
$100,000 to support transaction costs for donated easements in Washington and Hancock Counties.

Innovation Grant Program ($60,000)

Highstead Foundation, Inc.
f/b/o Hudson to Housatonic Regional Conservation Partnership
Redding Center, CT
$20,000 for the development of a strategic conservation map and work with local partners for a land conservation campaign in two strategic areas:  the Wilton-Weston Focus Area, and Honey Hill Assemblage Block.

Maine Mountain Collaborative
Phillips, ME
$20,000 for the development of a strategic communications plan targeting foundations and individual donors to contribute to large-scale conservation in the Maine Appalachian Mountain Corridor.

Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance
f/b/o Massachusetts Coastal Pine Barrens Partnership
Plymouth, MA
$20,000 to support a public planning process to guide conservation efforts in the Coastal Pine Barrens.

Unrestricted Final Awards ($90,000)

Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust
f/b/o Maine High Peaks Initiative
Portland, ME
$45,000

Opacum Land Trust
f/b/o MassConn Sustainable Forest Partnership
Sturbridge, MA
$45,000

Subtotal Environment:  $605,000

Percentage of total: 52

HEALTH

Family Health Center of Worcester
Worcester, MA
$75,000 in continued support of a pilot project to elevate medical interpreters at the center to the level of access coordinators, enabling them to facilitate access to care through medical interpretation, patient navigation and insurance enrollment assistance.  (Total support of $400,000, 2014-2016)

Thundermist Health Center
Woonsocket, RI
$25,000 to support implementation and evaluation of eConsults, to provide access to specialty care for Thundermist patients.  This project draws on the work of another grantee, the Community Health Center, Inc. of Connecticut.

Subtotal Health:  $100,000

Percentage of total: 9

FAMILY GRANTS

Newseum, Inc.
Washington, DC
$269,570.80 in continued support for the Bancroft Family Ethics Center at the Newseum. (Total support of $2,337,678.80, 2008-2017

Subtotal Family:  23

Total Grants, January-December 2017:  $1,166,070.80

EDUCATION

Permanent Fund for Vermont’s Children, Inc.
Middlebury, VT
$150,000 in continued support for Vermont Birth to Three and Vermont Community Preschool Collaborative, now known collectively as Vermont Birth to Five, a public-private initiative to establish quality universal pre-K education in the state of Vermont.

$50,000 to advance implementation of Act 166 and support quality improvements, covering project-related grants and technical assistance for 21 communities implementing universal pre-K education in the state of Vermont. (Total support of $550,000 2014-2016)

Subtotal Education: $200,000

Percentage of Total: 17%

ENVIRONMENT

Donated Land and Easement Grant Program
Great Works Regional Land Trust
f/b/o Mt. Agamenticus to the Sea Conservation Initiative
York, ME
$100,000 for a due-diligence/transaction fund in support of a larger campaign to protect an additional 1,500 acres in the group’s six-town focal area by 2018.

The Nature Conservancy
Western Massachusetts
$20,000 to support the Berkshire Wildlife Linkage Partnership due diligence fund.  This project is part of a larger effort to support conservation of key linkages in the 2.4-million-acre wildlife corridor connecting the northern and central Appalachian Mountains.

Innovation Grant Program
Columbia Land Conservancy
f/b/o  Berkshire-Taconic Regional Conservation Partnership
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont
$20,000 to support the planning efforts of 16 regional partners to develop a coordinated plan for land conservation for a combined 3.8 million-acre region.

Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust
Portland, ME
$20,000 in support of the High Peaks Initiative, for the development of printed and electronic map-driven communication tools needed for conservation planning, landowner outreach, and involvement of outdoor recreation organizations in the High Peaks region of Maine.

The Nature Conservancy, Vermont Chapter
Montpelier, VT
$20,000 in support of the Staying Connected Initiative, to help transportation agencies incorporate wildlife connectivity needs into their planning and road maintenance work.

Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park
f/b/o Down East Research and Education Network
Winter Harbor, ME
$19,402 in support of a member development initiative targeting town personnel, educators, business owners, and additional government agencies currently underrepresented in the Down East Research and Education Network.

Vermont Land Trust
Montpelier, VT
$20,000 to support the Shutesville Hill Wildlife Corridor Project of the Staying Connected Initiative, to support ecological connection between Vermont’s Green Mountains and the Worcester Range.

Subtotal Environment:  $219,402

Percentage of total: 19%

HEALTH

Community Health Center, Inc.
Middletown, CT
$90,837 in continued support of the development of an e-consult program, to provide access to specialty care for community health center patients in Connecticut and Maine. Phase III funding to be used for evaluation and to establish a sustainable financial base for the e-consult system.

$35,000 to conduct an economic evaluation for eConsults in Maine. (Total support of $535,000 2014-2016)

Family Health Center of Worcester
Worcester, MA
$180,000 in continued support of a pilot project to elevate medical interpreters at the center to the level of access coordinators, enabling them to facilitate access to care through medical interpretation, patient navigation and insurance enrollment assistance. Includes funds to support evaluation and dissemination. (Total support of $325,000 2014-2016)

Thundermist Health Center
Woonsocket, RI
$90,000 in continued support of Thundermist’s Community Health Access Teams (CHATs), to develop a system for improved and expanded care for high-risk patents in Rhode Island, in collaboration with area hospitals and the Rhode Island Quality Institute. (Total support of $390,000 2014-2016)

Subtotal Health: $395,837

Percentage of total: 34%

FAMILY GRANTS

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$50,000 in support of programming for girls living in Boston public housing developments. (Total support of $350,000 2008-2016)

Newseum
Washington, DC
$300,000 in continued support for the Bancroft Family Ethics Center at the Newseum. (Total support of $2,068,108 2008-2016)

Subtotal Family Grants: $350,000 Percentage of total: 30%

MEMBERSHIPS

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
$1,700

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.  f/b/o Boston Education Funders
Boston, MA
$250

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
$750

Grantmakers for Education
Portland, OR
$500

Grantmakers in Health
Washington, DC
$2,000

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
$350

United Way of Greater Portland
f/b/o Maine Early Childhood Funders
Portland, ME
$1,500

Subtotal Memberships: $7,050

Percentage of total: 1%

Total Grants, January-December 2016:  $1,172,289

EDUCATION

Nurtury
Boston, MA
$60,000 in challenge grant support for the Nurtury Learning Lab in Boston. (Total support of $180,000 in 2012-2015)

Permanent Fund for Vermont’s Children, Inc.
Middlebury, VT
$200,000 in continued support for Vermont Birth to Three and Vermont Community Preschool Collaborative, now known collectively as Vermont Birth to Five, a public-private initiative to establish quality universal pre-K education in the state of Vermont.  This grant includes a $50,000 component to advance implementation of Act 166 and support quality improvements, covering project-related grants and technical assistance for 21 communities implementing universal pre-K education in the state of Vermont. (Total support of $562,500 in 2012-2015, with projected additional support of $150,000 in 2016-2017)

United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
f/b/o Thrive in 5
Boston, MA
$158,000 in continued support for Thrive in Five and its work with Head Start centers in Boston as part of a citywide effort to offer quality universal pre-K education for Boston families. (Total support of 436,000 in 2011-2015, with projected additional support of $134,000 in 2016-2017)

Subtotal Education: $418,000

Percentage of Total: 28%

ENVIRONMENT

Donated Land and Easement Grant Program
Housatonic Valley Association, Inc.
f/b/o Litchfield Hills Greenprint Collaborative
Cornwall Bridge, CT
$100,000 in support of the Greenprint Landowner Incentive Project.

Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
f/b/o Merrimack Conservation Partnership
Concord, NH
$100,000 in support of the Merrimack Conservation Grants Program.

Innovation Grant Program
Audubon Society of New Hampshire
f/b/o Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership
Concord, NH
$20,000 to integrate new conservation planning data and studies with existing information to identify priority conservation lands in an expanded 42-town watershed target area of the Great Bay Estuary region.

Cold Hollow to Canada
Montgomery, VT
$20,000 in support of an all-volunteer coalition serving the seven towns on the western slopes of the Green mountains and adjacent to the US/Canada Border to develop a fundraising plan, expand the organization’s individual membership and donor base, and formalize governance structures and functions.

Great Works Regional Land Trust
f/b/o Mt. Agamenticus to the Sea Conservation Initiative
South Berwick, ME
$20,000 in support of a collaborative strategic communications, marketing, and outreach effort to increase public support of conservation through new individual donors and town conservation bonds.

Maine Association of Conservation Districts
f/b/o Forest Works!
Portland, ME
$20,000 to develop a conservation plan for the 10-town region of York County, Maine, to support the coalition’s first capital campaign.

Opacum Land Trust
f/b/o MassConn Sustainable Forest Partnership
$20,000 to collect parcel-level information, including ecological rankings and landowner data, on priority conservation lands in the Partnership’s target region. Research will support the development of a joint capital campaign.

Subtotal Environment: $300,000

Percentage of Total: 20%

HEALTH

Community Health Center Incorporated
Middletown, CT
$250,000 in continued support of the development of a sustainable e-consult program to provide access to specialty care for community health center patients in Connecticut and Maine. (Total support of 489,663 in 2012-2015, with projected additional support of $90,837 in 2016-2017)

Thundermist Health Center
Woonsocket, RI
$130,000 in continued support of Thundermist’s Community Health Access Teams (CHATs) to develop a system for improved and expanded care for high-risk patents in Rhode Island, in collaboration with area hospitals and the Rhode Island Quality Institute. (Total support of 390,000 2012-2015, with projected additional support of $90,000 in 2016-2017)

Subtotal Health: $355,000

Percentage of Total: 24%

FAMILY GRANTS

Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated
Wallingford, CT
$50,000 in support of the Choate Parents Fund.

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$100,000 in support of programming for girls living in Boston public housing developments.

Newseum
Washington, D.C.
$300,000 in continued support for the Bancroft Family Ethics Center at the Newseum. (Total support of $1,768,108, 2008-2015)

Subtotal Family Grants: $450,000

Percentage of Total: 27%

MEMBERSHIPS

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
$2,500

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
f/b/o Boston Education Funders
Boston, MA
$500

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
$1,100

Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island
Providence, RI
$320

Grantmakers for Education
Portland, OR
$500

Grantmakers in Health
Washington, D.C.
$2,875

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
$350

United Way of Greater Portland
f/b/o Maine Early Childhood Funders
Portland, ME
$2,500

Subtotal Memberships: $10,645

Percentage of total: <1%

Total Grants January 1, 2015 – October 2015: $1,533,645

EDUCATION

Permanent Fund for Vermont’s Children, Inc.
Middlebury, VT
$150,000 in continued support for Vermont Birth to Three and Vermont Community Preschool Collaborative, a public-private initiative to establish universal pre-K education in the state of Vermont. (Projected additional support of $300,000 in 2015-2016).

United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
f/b/o Thrive in 5
Boston, MA
$168,000 in support for Thrive in Five and its work with Head Start centers in Boston, as part of a larger citywide effort to offer pre-K education for all Boston families. (Projected additional support of $292,000 in 2015-2016).
Subtotal Education: $318,000
Percentage of Total: 23

ENVIRONMENT

1% For the Planet
Waitsfield, VT
$89,688 in final support to enable the organization to grow its corporate membership and increase environmental grantmaking in New England. (Total project support of $311,875 2011-2014)

Highstead Foundation
Redding, CT
$6,143 in support to fund a feasibility study to explore options to help thriving regional conservation partnerships assume a more prominent role in large-scale land conservation in New England.

Ipswich River Watershed Association
Ipswich, MA
$50,000 in final support to build a watershed coalition to restore and protect the Ipswich and Parker River watersheds in Massachusetts. (Total project support of $200,000, 2011-2014.)

Subtotal Environment: $145,831

Percentage of Total: 11%

HEALTH

Community Health Center Incorporated
Middletown, CT
$184,163 in support of the development of a sustainable e-consult program to provide access to specialty care for community health center patients in Connecticut and Maine. (Projected additional support of $315,837 in 2015-2017).

Family Health Center of Worcester
Worcester, MA
$145,000 in support of a pilot project to elevate medical interpreters at the center to the level of access coordinators, enabling them to facilitate access to care through medical interpretation, patient navigation and insurance enrollment assistance. (Projected additional support of $220,000 in 2015-2016).

Manchester Community Health Center
Manchester, NH
$35,000 to support noncapital expenses associated with the launch of a second health center site in Manchester. (Total project support of $85,000 2013-2014.)

Thundermist Health Center
Woonsocket, RI
$170,000 for a project to develop a system for improved and expanded care for high-risk patents in Rhode Island, to be undertaken in collaboration with area hospitals and the Rhode Island Quality Institute. (Projected additional support of $220,000 in 2015-16).

Subtotal Health: $534,163

Percentage of Total: 39%

FAMILY GRANTS

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support expanded programming and services for girls living in Boston public housing developments. (Projected additional support of $50,000 in 2015.)

Newseum
Washington, D.C.
$300,000
Continued support for The Newseum’s Bancroft Family Ethics Center. (Total support of $1,468,108, 2008-2014.)

Peace Corps
Washington, D.C.
$3,301.48

Subtotal Family Grants: $353,301.48

Percentage of Total: 26%

MEMBERSHIPS

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,450

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
f/b/o Boston Education Funders
Boston, MA
$1,000

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
$1,100

Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island
Providence, RI
$1,270

Grantmakers for Education
Portland, OR
$500

Grantmakers in Health
Washington, D.C.
$2,500

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
$1,400

United Way of Greater Portland
f/b/o Maine Early Childhood Funders
Portland, ME
$5,000

Subtotal Memberships: $18,220

Percentage of total: 1%

Total Grants January-December 2014: $1,369,515.48

EDUCATION

Associated Early Care and Education, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000 in second-year startup support for a new early learning center located at the Bromley-Heath public housing development in Boston, run by the agency in collaboration with Boston University’s School of Education.  (Total project support of $120,000, 2012-2013.)

Early Learning New Hampshire
Concord, NH
$25,000 to assist planning efforts for the state’s Early Learning Council for its application to a federal Race to the Top challenge grant.

Permanent Fund for the Well Being of Vermont’s Children
Middlebury, VT
$50,000 in support of the Vermont Birth to Three initiative to improve the quality of care in home-based childcare settings.

Permanent Fund for the Well Being of Vermont’s Children
Middlebury, VT
$50,000 in support of Vermont Community Preschool Collaborative, dedicated to helping cities/towns establish publicly-funded preschool education in local schools and private childcare settings.

Raising A Reader Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$60,000 for expansion of the organization’s early literacy program in Boston and Springfield.

Regional Employment Board of Hampden County
Springfield, MA
$55,000 in second-year support for a parent outreach and engagement initiative to increase reading proficiency among children living in two public housing developments in Springfield. (Total project support of $100,000, 2012-13.)

Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, Inc.
Providence, RI
$50,000 for the creation of an Access and Quality committee for the state’s federally-supported Early Learning Council, to advocate and plan for significant expansion and improvement of early education programs throughout Rhode Island.

United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
f/b/o Thrive in 5
Boston, MA
$60,000 to support a formal partnership between the Boston Public Schools and community-based preschool classrooms in the city.

Subtotal Education:   $410,000

Percentage of Total:  29%

ENVIRONMENT

1% For the Planet
Waitsfield, VT
$39,687 in continued support to enable the organization to grow its corporate membership and increase environmental grantmaking in New England.  (Projected additional support of $277,813 in 2014-2017.)

Appalachian Mountain Club
$50,000 in second-year support for a three-agency collaborative to preserve land in the Upper Androscoggin Watershed of Northern Maine and New Hampshire. (Total project support of $100,000, 2012-13)

Highstead Foundation
Redding, CT
$50,000 in support of a capital campaign, assessment and fundraising training for member land trusts of three regional conservation partnerships in New England to accelerate access to private capital.

Housatonic Valley Association
Cornwall Bridge, CT
$50,000 in second-year support to facilitate collaboration among volunteer land trusts in Northwestern Connecticut in their effort to conserve 5,000 acres of habitat. (Total project support of $100,000, 2012-2013.)

Ipswich River Watershed Association
Ipswich, MA
$50,000 in continued capacity-building support for a coalition to restore and protect the Ipswich and Parker River watersheds.  (Total project support of $150,000, 2011-2013.)

Monadnock Conservancy
Keene, NH
$50,000 for integration of a “New Hampshire Wildlife Action Plan” into town conservation plans, supporting local conservation projects in eight towns in the Monadnock region.

Penobscot River Restoration Trust
Augusta, ME
$50,000 in final support of a public/private effort to remove dams and restore habitat along the Penobscot River in Maine.  (Total project support of $250,000, 2010-13.)

Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Concord, NH
$50,000 in second-year support of a regional coalition to protect water quality through conservation of large-scale forest land and riparian areas. (Total project support of $120,000, 2012-2013.)

Vermont Natural Resources Council, Inc.
Montpelier, VT
$50,000 in final support of a broad regional effort to protect and restore connectivity among large-scale forested habitats running from New York to Maine.  (Total support of $150,000, including a 2011 grant of $50,000 to the Nature Conservancy, Vermont Chapter.)

Subtotal Environment:  $439,687

Percentage of Total:  31%

HEALTH

Community Catalyst, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000 for state-level advocacy in New England to support and expand health coverage for children and for a mini grants program for local health organizations.

Community Health Center Incorporated
Middletown, CT
$500 discretionary grant in support of the health center’s Weitzman Center for Innovation and annual Weitzman Symposium.

Foundation for Healthy Communities
f/b/o Pay for Prevention: Oral Health for WIC Enrolled Pregnant Women and Young Children
Concord, NH
$50,000 in support of “Pay for Prevention,” to demonstrate that already evidence-based prevention programs at WIC sites can be sustainably established, creating a national model for prevention in early childhood.

Health Law Advocates, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 in second-year support for work to assure implementation and enforcement of state and federal laws requiring that individuals with mental health diagnoses receive treatment equivalent to that provided for physical health conditions. (Total project support of $100,000, 2012-13.)

Kent County Memorial Hospital
Warwick, RI
$50,000 for one-time expenses associated with the establishment of a family residency program with a community practice component, to be implemented in partnership with Thundermist Health Center.

Manchester Community Health Center
Manchester, NH
$50,000 to support noncapital expenses associated with the launch of a second health center site in Manchester. (Projected additional support of $35,000 in 2014.)

Thundermist Health Center
Woonsocket, RI
$40,000 in second-year support for the Quick Care program, a walk-in, care-on-demand service offered in three health center sites in Rhode Island. (Total project support of $90,000, 2012-13.)

Subtotal Health:  $300,500

Percentage of Total:  21%

FAMILY GRANTS

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$35,000

Newseum
Washington, D.C.
$200,000
Continued support for The Newseum’s Bancroft Family Ethics Center.  (Total support of $1,168,108, 2008-14.)

Subtotal Family Grants:  $235,000

Percentage of Total: 17%

MEMBERSHIPS

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,450

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
f/b/o Boston Education Funders
Boston, MA
$500

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
$900

Council on Foundations
Arlington, VA
$1,992

Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island
Providence, RI
$1,270

Grantmakers for Education
Portland, OR
$500

Grantmakers in Health
Washington, D.C.
$2,500

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
$1,400

United Way of Greater Portland
f/b/o Maine Early Childhood Funders
Portland, ME
$7,500

Subtotal Memberships:  $22,012

Percentage of total: 2%

Total Grants:  $1,407,199

EDUCATION

Associated Early Care and Education
Boston, MA
$60,000 toward an executive director’s salary for a new $14 million early learning center located at the Bromley-Heath housing development in Boston.  (Projected additional support of $60,000, 2013.)

Boys and Girls Club of Newport County
Newport, RI
$25,000 in final support for a coordinated system of after-school programming serving middle school students in Newport County. (Total project support of $75,000, 2011-2012.)

Educare Central Maine
Waterville, ME
$50,000 for a model childcare center in rural Central Maine providing wrap-around supports for low-income families and their children, and serving as a ‘lab’ school for college students and current providers.

Inspiring Minds
Providence, RI
$50,000 to implement a summer kindergarten preparation program for five-year olds and serving half of the 21 elementary schools in Providence.

Jumpstart for Young Children, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 in support for the organization’s expansion efforts in six cities in New England, resulting in  the provision of a high-quality literacy and language development curriculum for 2,000-2,500 low-income children.

Parent-Child Home Program
f/b/o Parent-Child Home Program Massachusetts
Newton, MA
$50,000 for expansion of Parent-Child’s home visiting program promoting early literacy for low-income children in Massachusetts.

Regional Employment Board of Hampden County, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$50,000 in support of Talk/Read/Succeed, a funder collaborative to increase the reading proficiency of young children living in Springfield, Massachusetts.

RSU #1 Educational Foundation
Bath, ME
$25,000 as final payment of a two-year grant for a project to offer early education for four-year-olds in the Lower Kennebec or RSU1 school district in Maine. (Total project support of $75,000, 2010-12.)

Strategies for Children, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 as  final payment of a two-year grant for a campaign to increase state investments in Massachusetts in early childhood education and the improvement of systems working to ensure that all children reach reading proficiency by the end of third grade.  (Total project support of $100,000, 2011-12.)

Vermont Community Foundation
f/b/o Vermont Community Preschool Collaborative Fund
Middlebury, VT
$50,000 in continued support for the Vermont Community Preschool Collaborative Fund, a public-private initiative to develop state-supported preschool education programs in towns and cities in Vermont.  The grant will be targeted to expansion efforts in Rutland and Barrington.

Subtotal Education:   $460,000

Percentage of Total:  24%

ENVIRONMENT

1% For the Planet
Waitsfield, VT
$182,500 in second year support of a five-year capacity-building grant to enable the organization to grow its corporate membership and increase environmental grantmaking in New England.  (Projected additional support of $317,500, 2013-2017.)

Appalachian Mountain Club
Boston, MA
$50,000 in support of a three-agency collaborative in the Upper Androscoggin Watershed of Northern Maine and New Hampshire working to preserve land. (Projected additional support of $50,000, 2013.)

Housatonic Valley Association
Cornwall Bridge, CT
$50,000 to support the work of volunteer land trusts for the conservation of 5,000 acres of habitat in several core areas, as identified by the Litchfield Hills Greenprint Collaborative. (Projected additional support of $50,000, 2013.)

Ipswich River Watershed Association
Ipswich, MA
$50,000 in final support of a partnership to restore the Ipswich and Parker Rivers in Essex County, Massachusetts.  (Total project support of $100,000, 2011-2012.)

Penobscot River Restoration Trust
Augusta, ME
$50,000 in continued support of a public/private effort to remove dams and restore habitat along the Penobscot River in Maine. (Total project support of $150,000, 2011-12; projected additional support of $50,000 in 2013.)

President and Fellows of Harvard College
f/b/o Harvard Forest
Petersham, MA
$70,000 in support of the Wildlands and Woodlands regional campaign, which calls for a 50-year conservation effort to retain at least 70 percent of New England in forestland. (Total project support of $120,000, 2010-12.)

Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Concord, NH
$50,000 in support of a regional coalition to implement a conservation plan for the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, with a goal of protecting water quality through the protection of large forest blocks and riparian areas.  (Projected additional support of $50,000, 2013.)

Two Countries, One Forest, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
$50,000 in support of the establishment of a two-country conservation partnership focused on the Three-Borders region of Maine, New Brunswick and Quebec.

Vermont Natural Resources Council, Inc.
Montpelier, VT
$50,000 in support of a broad regional effort to protect and restore connectivity among large-scale forested habitats running from New York to Maine.  (Total support for this project of $100,000, including a 2011 grant of $50,000 to the Nature Conservancy, Vermont Chapter; projected additional support of $50,000 in 2013.)

Subtotal Environment:   $602,500

Percentage of Total:  32%

HEALTH

Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Boston, MA
$25,000 in second-year funding to allow the organization to achieve status as a patient-centered medical home, while improving accessibility of care and health outcomes for its patients.  (Total project support of $75,000, 2011-2012.)

Community Catalyst
Boston, MA
$50,000 in continued support of state-level advocacy in New England to support and expand health coverage for children, including the addition of a mini-grants pool. (Total project support of $90,000, 2011-12.)

Community Health Center, Inc.
Middletown, CT
$80,000 to support the establishment of a videoconference pain management clinic serving 13 separate health center sites throughout Connecticut.

Family Health Center of Worcester, Inc.
Worcester, MA
$75,000 in final support for a residency program for nurse practitioners, to enable them to become highly skilled primary care providers within a community health center setting.  (Total project support of $150,000, 2011-12.)

Health Law Advocates, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 for work to assure implementation and enforcement of state and federal laws requiring treatment for individuals with mental health diagnoses (Projected additional support of $50,000, 2013.)

Joint Committee for Children’s Health Care in Everett
Everett, MA
$25,000 in support of an Affordable Care Outreach Initiative in the demographically diverse city of Everett, Massachusetts, to train residents to make effective use of  the health care system and of online enrollment.

Maine Primary Care Association
Augusta, ME
$50,000 in support of a three-year plan to move health centers toward integrated care models, with the aim that three-fourths will commit to achieving an advanced level of integration by 2014.

Thundermist Health Center
Woonsocket, RI
$50,000 to implement the Quick Care program, a walk-in, care-on-demand service located at three of the organization’s major centers in Rhode Island. (Projected additional support of $40,000, 2013.)

University of New Hampshire Foundation
f/b/o New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice
Durham, NH
$70,000 in final support of a tri-state Northern New England network engaged in health systems reform, to develop a unified system for data analysis.  (Total project support $140,000, 2011-12.)

Subtotal Health:    $475,000

Percent of total:  25%

FAMILY GRANTS

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$35,000

Newseum
Washington, D.C.
$200,000

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000

Subtotal Family Grants:  $335,000

Percentage of Total: 18%

MEMBERSHIPS

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,450

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
f/b/o Boston Education Funders
Boston, MA
$500

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
$900

Council on Foundations
Arlington, VA
$1,992

Environmental Grantmakers Association
New York, NY
$915

Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island
Providence, RI
$1,270

Grantmakers for Education
Portland, OR
$500

Grantmakers in Health
Washington, D.C.
$2,500

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
$1,400

United Way of Greater Portland
f/b/o Maine Early Childhood Funders
Portland, ME
$7,500

Subtotal Memberships:  $22,927

Percentage of total: 1%

Total Grants:  $1,895,427

EDUCATION

Boys and Girls Club of Newport County, Inc.
Newport, RI
$50,000 in support of coordinated afterschool programming for middle school students in Newport County.  (Projected additional support of $25,000 in 2011.)

Champlain Valley Educator Development Center, Inc.
f/b/o Vermont Center for Afterschool Excellence
Burlington, VT
$40,000 in support of the Burlington Citywide Afterschool Coalition, a broad-based effort to increase access to out-of-school time programs for youth in the city.

Early Learning New Hampshire
f/b/o Northern New England Early Childhood Network
Concord, NH
$25,000 for the creation of the Northern New England Early Childhood Network, a group of   advocacy coalitions in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine dedicated to increasing the supply and improving quality of early childhood education.

Edward Street Day Care Center, Inc.
Worcester, MA
$50,000 in support of the Early Childhood Matters Initiative, a planning process to increase supply and improve quality of child care throughout the city of Worcester.

Hampshire Educational Collaborative
f/b/o Western Massachusetts Out-of-School Time Network/Hasbro Summer Learning Initiative
Northampton, MA
$25,000 in final support for a program to expand access to quality summer programs for children in rural Franklin County, Massachusetts.  (Total project support of $75,000, 2010-2011.)

Jumpstart for Young Children, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000 in final support for replication in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island of a  mentoring and tutoring program for preschool children.  (Total project support of $150,000, 2010-2011.)

Providence After-School Alliance
Providence, RI
$50,000 in final support for a program to match nonprofit after-school care providers with public middle schools in Providence. (Total project support of $100,000, 2010-2011.)

Raising a Reader MA
Boston, MA
$60,000 for expansion of an early literacy program serving preschool children and their parents in Massachusetts cities, with a focus on Brockton and Lowell.

Rhode Island KIDS COUNT
Providence, RI
$50,000 in support of Rhode Island’s Early Learning Council and its Access and Quality Committee, to develop systems for tracking all children enrolled in early learning programs in six cities, and to exand state Pre-K and Head Start programs.

Strategies for Children
Boston, MA
$50,000 in support of the organization’s advocacy work for early childhood education, focused on having children read proficiently by the end of third grade.  (Projected additional support of $50,000, 2012.)

United Way of Massachusetts Bay, Inc.
d/b/a United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley
Boston, MA
$50,000 in support of Out of School Time Literacy and Learning Initiative, a summer education program serving middle school students in Boston, Lynn, Lawrence, Lowell, Worcester, Holyoke and Springfield.

Subtotal Education:   $525,000

Percentage of Total:  30%

ENVIRONMENT

1% For the Planet
Waitsfield, VT
$50,000 as the first installment of a capacity-building grant to enable the organization to grow its corporate membership and increase environmental grantmaking in New England.  (Projected additional support of $450,000, 2012-2017.)

Appalachian Mountain Club
Boston, MA
$50,000 in final support of a three-agency collaborative to preserve land in the Upper Androscoggin Watershed in Northern Maine and New Hampshire.  (Total project support of $100,000, 2010-2011.)

Conservation Law Foundation
Boston, MA
$50,000 in final support for the organization’s Campaign for the Gulf of Maine project, for the establishment of a network of conservation areas to protect seafloor habitats and ocean wildlife throughout the Gulf of Maine.  (Total project support of $100,000, 2010-2011.)

Ipswich River Watershed Association, Inc.
Ipswich, MA
$50,000 in support of the Parker-Ipswich Rivers Restoration Partnership, a coalition of environmental organizations, government agencies and businesses working to restore fisheries, enforce protection laws and educate the public to become active stewards of the Parker and Ipswich Rivers.  (Projected additional support of $50,000 in 2012.)

Land Trust Alliance
Washington, DC
$40,000 in final support to build the capacity of land trust organizations throughout the state of Connecticut. (Total project support of $110,000, 2009-2011.)

Maine Audubon
Falmouth, ME
$50,000 in support of a model stewardship project of the larger Keeping Maine’s Forests initiative, to engage private landowners in voluntary, large-scale stream restoration projects while allowing them to keep their lands in productive forestry.

The Nature Conservancy, Inc., Vermont Chapter
Montpelier, VT
$50,000 to support Vermont activities of the Staying Connected Initiative in the Northern Appalachians, to remove functional barriers for wildlife movement among  the 80-million-acre region’s many “ecological islands.”

New England Forestry Foundation
Littleton, MA
$50,000 in final support for a collaborative project of local and regional land trusts and landowners to aggregate small parcels of land into larger “bundles,” in an attempt to accelerate and coordinate the preservation of conservation land in New England.  (Total project support of $100,000, 2010-2011.)

Penobscot River Restoration Trust
Augusta, ME
$50,000 in final support for a public/private effort to remove dams and restore habitat along the Penobscot River in Maine.  (Total project support of $100,000, 2010-2011.)

Subtotal Environment:   $440,000

Percentage of Total:  25%

HEALTH

Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000 in support of the Patient Centered Medical Home Pilot Initiative, a program providing ongoing preventive care and management of chronic conditions for homeless patients. (Projected additional support of $25,000 in 2012.)

Community Catalyst, Inc.
Boston, MA
$40,000 in support of the New England Alliance for Children’s Health, an effort to support health insurance coverage for an estimated 150,000 eligible but un-enrolled children in the six-state New England region.

Edward M. Kennedy Health Center
Worcester, MA
$50,000 in final support toward enabling the health center to become certified as a “patient-centered medical home.” (Total project support of $105,000, 2010-2011.)

Family Health Center of Worcester
Worcester, MA
$75,000 in support of aresidency program for family nurse practitioners, to address a shortage of   primary care providers in underserved communities.  (Projected additional support of $75,000 in 2012.)

Maine Equal Justice Partners
Augusta, ME
$25,000 in final support for a public/private effort to remove barriers to enrollment and retention in the state’s Medicaid program.  (Total project support of $65,000, 2010-2011.)

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
Boston,MA
$50,000 for a statewide program to address legal and administrative discrepancies affecting coverage and access for low-income populations.

New England Rural Health Roundtable
West Lebanon, NH
$50,000 to support advocacy for improved access to health services and coverage for low- and moderate-income people in ruralNew England.

Penobscot Community Health Center
Bangor, ME
$55,000 in final support to enable the center to expand pediatric dental services to children inMaine by developing a residency program.  (Total project support of $125,000, 2010-2011.)

Rhode Island Health Center Association Incorporated
Providence, RI
$75,000 for a project to grant to improve access to primary and behavioral health care throughout the state.  (Projected additional support of $30,000 in 2012.)

Southern New Hampshire Services
Manchester, NH
$30,000 in final support of B.R.I.N.G. I.T.!!! Nursing Afterschool, as part of a larger effort to strengthen existing nursing career pathway programs inNew Hampshire.  (Total project support of $60,000, 2010-2011.)

University of New Hampshire Foundation
f/b/o New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice
Durham, NH
$70,000 to in support of a tri-state Northern New England network engaged in health systems reform, to develop a unified system for data analysis.  (Projected additional support of $70,000 in 2012.)

Subtotal Health:    $570,000

Percent of total:  32%

FAMILY GRANTS

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$10,000

Newseum
Washington, D.C.
$200,000 in continuing support of the Bancroft Family Ethics Center at the Newseum.  (Total project support of $768,108, 2008-2011.)

Subtotal Family Grants:  $210,000

Percentage of Total: 12%

MEMBERSHIPS

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,450

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
f/b/o Boston Education Funders
Boston, MA
$500

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
$750

Council on Foundations
Arlington, VA
$1,763

Environmental Grantmakers Association
New York, NY
$720

Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island
Providence, RI
$1,270

Grantmakers for Education
Portland, OR
$500

Grantmakers in Health
Washington, D.C.
$2,000

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
$1,200

Subtotal Memberships:  $14,153

Percentage of total: 1%

Total Grants:  1,759,153

EDUCATION

Bates College
Lewiston, ME
$30,000 as the third installment of a three-year ($132,000) grant to support the Downtown Education Collaborative, a partnership of local colleges and community organizations addressing community needs in Lewiston, Maine

Bradford L. Dunn Institute for Learning Differences
Providence, RI
$33,333 as the second installment of a two-year ($66,666) grant for a demonstration literacy skills project for first-through-third-grade students in Rhode Island

Center for Applied Special Technology, Inc.
Wakefield, MA
$43,096 as the second installment of a two-year ($78,596) grant to improve emergent literacy skills of preschool children in Greater Boston Head Start Centers

Cobscook Community Learning Center
Trescott, ME
$20,000 as the third installment of a three-year ($75,000) grant for the Passages Program, a high school diploma program for teen parents living in Washington County, Maine

Early Learning New Hampshire
Concord, NH
$20,000 in support of the early learning advisory council, a collaborative of five organizations charged with developing an early education plan for New Hampshire

Edward Street Day Care Center, Inc.
Worcester, MA
$50,000 in support of the Early Childhood Matters Initiative, a planning process to increase supply and improve quality of child care throughout the city of Worcester.

Hampshire Education Collaborative
f/b/o Western Massachusetts Out-of-School Time Network/Hasbro Summer Learning Initiative
Northampton, MA
$50,000 for an initiative to expand access to quality summer programming for children in rural Franklin County (a $25,000 challenge grant was also approved)

Jumpstart for Young Children, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($150,000) for replication in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island of a successful mentoring and tutoring program for preschool children

Maine Community Foundation
f/b/o The Maine Children’s Growth Council
Ellsworth, ME
$20,000 in support for the state advisory council as it refines and develops an early education plan for Maine

Permanent Fund for the Well-Being of Vermont Children
Montpelier, VT
$12,500 in support of the Building Bright Futures collaborative, a state advisory council charged with the development of an early education plan for Vermont; and $50,000 for participation in the Vermont Community Preschool Collaborative, a donor collaborative providing seed-funding to municipalities for the establishment of public pre-school programs

Providence After-School Alliance
Providence, RI
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant to support the formal integration of public middle schools in Providence with the city’s network of nonprofit after-school care, to create an extended learning day for hundreds of students in the city

Reach Out and Read
Boston, MA
$40,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($80,000) grant to train medical providers to promote the importance of reading and early literacy to Spanish-speaking parents and their children

United Way of Mid Coast Maine
f/b/o RSU#1 Education Foundation
Bath, ME
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($75,000) grant to support a district-wide plan to provide universal preschool to all four-year-old children residing in the RSU#1 school district comprising five towns in Midcoast Maine

TOTAL EDUCATION:  $543,929

ENVIRONMENT

Appalachian Mountain Club
Boston, MA
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant in support of the work of a three-agency collaborative to preserve land in the Upper Androscoggin Watershed in Northern Maine and New Hampshire

Association of US Delegates to the Gulf of Maine Council on the Maine Environment
Falmouth, ME
$50,000 for a coalition of nongovernmental organizations, state and federal agencies operating in New England and Canada to develop the New England Great Waters Restoration and Conservation Plan, to position the region to be eligible for large-scale federal support.

Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fisherman’s Association, Inc.
North Chatham, MA
$50,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant for development of the Cape Cod Fisheries Trust, which purchases fishing permits for leasing at reduced rates in exchange for better management of fishing stocks

Clean Air-Cool Planet
Portsmouth, NH
$60,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($120,000) grant to create a regional climate action plans in Southwestern New Hampshire and Greater Portland, Maine

Conservation Law Foundation
Boston, MA
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant for the agency’s Campaign for the Gulf of Maine, an initiative to protect the most important seafloor habitats and ocean wildlife in the Gulf of Maine through the design and implementation of a network of ocean conservation areas

The Land Trust Alliance, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000 as the second installment of a three-year ($110,000) grant to provide training and support collaboration among Connecticut’s 124, mostly volunteer land trusts

Maine Community Foundation
Keeping Maine’s Forests Fund
Ellsworth, ME
$25,000 in support of the Keeping Maine’s Forest Fund, to benefit a multi-agency effort to preserve landscape-scale tracts of forest in Maine’s North Woods

New England Forestry Foundation
Littleton, MA
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant for a collaborative project involving local and regional land trusts and landowners to aggregate small parcels of land into larger “bundles,” in an attempt to accelerate and coordinate the preservation of conservation land in New England

Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
Windham, ME
$50,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant to encourage local area management of fishing zones

Penobscot River Restoration Trust
Augusta, ME
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant for a public/private effort to remove dams and restore habitat along the Penobscot River

President and Fellows of Harvard College
f/b/o Harvard Forest
Petersham, MA
$50,000 for the Wildlands and Woodlands Project and its broad-based plan to retain 70 percent of the New England landscape as forest

Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Concord, NH
$50,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant for coordination and implementation of the Quabbin to Cardigan Initiative, a public-private partnership to conserve the Monadnock Highlands of Western New Hampshire and North-Central Massachusetts

The Trust for Public Land
Boston, MA
$100,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($180,000) grant to support the development of a major land protection campaign spanning the entire four-state Connecticut River Watershed

The Trustees of Reservations
Beverly, MA
$50,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($100,000) to reduce sprawl in Western Massachusetts towns through assistance in the enactment of green development bylaws

TOTAL ENVIRONMENT:  $715,000

HEALTH

Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation
Augusta, ME
$37,500 as the second installment of a two-year ($75,000) grant to engage health care providers in the effort to expand insurance coverage to all Mainers

Edward M. Kennedy Health Center
Worcester, MA
$55,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($105,000) grant to support a new data coordinator, to enable the health center to become the first in Massachusetts to be certified as a “patient-centered medical home”

Families in Transition
Manchester, NH
$50,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant in support for The Family Place, a program to support homeless children and their families suffering from co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse problems

Health Law Advocates, Inc.
Boston, MA
$40,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($80,000) grant to expand a successful pilot program to juvenile courts in Boston and Worcester

Maine Equal Justice Partners, Inc.
Augusta, ME
$40,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($65,000) grant for a public/private effort to remove barriers to enrollment and retention in MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program

Naugatuck Valley Project, Inc.
Waterbury, CT
$40,000 to support work with four local hospitals to improve the level of interpretation services for limited English-speaking patients, and to develop career ladders for bilingual staff

Penobscot Community Health Center
Bangor, ME
$70,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($125,000) grant to enable the center to hire a pediatric dentist and an orthodontist to expand service to children in Maine

Southern New Hampshire Services
Manchester, NH
$30,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($60,000) grant in support of B.R.I.N.G. I.T.!!! Nursing Afterschool, part of a larger outreach program to strengthen existing nursing career pathway programs in New Hampshire

Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut
Meriden, CT
$90,000 to support the planning efforts for SustiNet, a state-mandated planning process for universal health care in Connecticut

TOTAL HEALTH:  $452,500

FAMILY GRANTS

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
$35,000 for a mentoring program operated by the agency

Newseum
Washington, DC
$200,000 in continuing support of the Ethics Center at the Newseum (total project support of $568,108, 2008-2010)

TOTAL FAMILY GRANTS:  $235,000

MEMBERSHIP

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,450

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
f/b/o Boston Education Funders
Boston, MA
$500

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
$750

Council on Foundations
Arlington, VA
$1,763

Environmental Grantmakers Association
New York, NY
$720

Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Coral Gables, FL
$500

Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island
Providence, RI
$1,270

Grantmakers for Education
Portland, OR
$500

Grantmakers in Health
Washington, D.C.
$2,000

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
$1,200

TOTAL MEMBERSHIP:  $14,653

Total 2010 Grants:  $1,961,082

EDUCATION

Bates College
Lewiston, ME
David Scobey, Director, Harward Center for Community Partnerships
$45,000 as the second installment of a three-year ($132,000) grant to support the Downtown Education Collaborative, a partnership of local colleges and community organizations addressing community needs in Lewiston, Maine

Bradford L. Dunn Institute for Learning Differences
Providence, RI
Jeanne D’Agostino, Development Director
$33,333 as the first installment of a two-year ($66,666) grant for a demonstration literacy skills project for first-through-third-grade students in Rhode Island

Center for Applied Special Technology, Inc.
Wakefield, MA
Ada Sullivan, President
$35,500 as the first installment of a two-year ($78,596) grant to improve emergent literacy skills of preschool children in Greater Boston Head Start Centers

Lesley University
Cambridge, MA
Susan Cusack, Project Director and Instructor
$40,000 as the final installment of a two-year ($80,000) grant for an online professional training curriculum for Boston Public School teachers working with students with limited English skills

MetroLacrosse
f/b/o Boston TeamWorks
Dorchester, MA
Emily Helm, Executive Director
$35,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($75,000) grant for expansion of Boston TeamWorks, a collective of nonprofit youth sports providers housed in common space in Dorchester

Reach Out and Read
Boston, MA
Perri Klass, Director
$40,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($80,000) grant to train medical providers to promote the importance of reading and early literacy to Spanish-speaking parents and their children

United Way of Southeastern Rhode Island, Inc.
f/b/o Rhode Island After School Alliance
Providence, RI
Sarah Cahill, Executive Director
$37,150 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($74,300) grant for an outreach campaign to promote high-quality after school programs in urban centers in Rhode Island.

University of Maine at Machias, Environmental and Biological Science Division
Machias, ME
Professor Wendy Norden, Assistant Research Professor
$33,377 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($69,604) grant for a collaboration between scientists and high school students to conduct marine ecological research and monitoring in Midcoast and Downeast Maine

VSA Arts of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
Charles J. Washburn, Executive Director
$60,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($120,000) grant for a project to assist teachers and teaching artists in developing arts-based learning activities for students with and without disabilities

Writers’ Express, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
Paula Sinclair, Executive Director
$35,000 to support a demonstration project to improve the writing and reading skills of Springfield Public School students in grades three to eight

TOTAL EDUCATION, $394,360

ENVIRONMENT

Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association
North Chatham, MA
Paul Parker, Executive Director
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant to continue to develop the Cape Cod Fisheries Trust, which purchases fishing permits for leasing at reduced rates in exchange for better management of fishing stocks

Center for Ecological Technology
Pittsfield, MA
Nancy Nylen, Associate Director
$32,000 as the final installment of a two-year ($76,000) grant for the Climate Change Circuit Rider Project, to assist towns in Western Massachusetts with energy efficiency and renewable energy projects

Charles River Watershed Association
Weston, MA
Robert Zimmerman, Executive Director
$50,000 as the final installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant for development of restoration plans to help local communities on the Charles River meet existing and emerging environmental regulatory requirements

Clean Air-Cool Planet
Portsmouth, NH
Adam Markham, Executive Director
$60,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($120,000) grant to create a regional climate action plans in Southwestern New Hampshire and Greater Portland, Maine

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Center Barnstead, NH
Mari Margil, Associate Director
$30,000 to help communities in New England develop local ordinances to regulate commercial water withdrawals from local aquifers

Conservation Law Foundation
Boston, MA
John Kassel, President
$35,000 to support the Campaign for the Gulf of Maine, an effort to establish a network of marine protected areas in the region

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
f/b/o Fairmount/Indigo Line Collaborative
Dorchester, MA
Jeanne DuBois, Executive Director
$60,000 as the final installment of a two-year ($120,000) grant for development of a greenway as part of a collaborative effort taking place in urban Boston neighborhoods along the Fairmount commuter rail line

Infact
d/b/a Corporate Accountability International
Boston, MA
Leslie Samuelrich, Deputy Director
$60,000 in support of “Think Outside the Bottle,” a campaign to promote drinking tap water over bottled water

Land Trust Alliance
Washington, DC
Kevin Case, Northeast Conservation Manager
$40,000 as the first installment of a three-year ($110,000) grant to provide training and support collaboration among Connecticut’s 124, mostly volunteer land trusts

Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust, Inc.
Lowell, MA
Jane Calvin, Executive Director
$25,000 as the final installment of a two-year ($50,000) grant to develop a coalition of urban land trusts in Eastern Massachusetts, one of the first such coalitions in the country

New England Grassroots Environment Fund
Montpelier, VT
Cheryl King Fischer, Executive Director
$10,000 to monitor and disseminate information on water withdrawal/bottling and privatization of public water resources challenges in New England, and to support collaborative strategies to address the challenge

Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
Windham, ME
Niaz Dorry, Coordinating Director
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant to encourage local area management of fishing zones

Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Concord, NH
Jane Difley, President
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant for coordination and implementation of the Quabbin to Cardigan Initiative, a public-private partnership to conserve the Monadnock Highlands of Western New Hampshire and North-Central Massachusetts

Taunton River Watershed Alliance, Inc.
Taunton, MA
Susan Speers, Campaign Coordinator
$33,050 as the second installment of a two-year ($73,050) grant to implement public outreach and advocacy programs and coordinate efforts in land conservation, wildlife habitat preservation and drinking water protection

The Trust for Public Land
Boston, MA
David Queeley, Program Director, Parks for People
$80,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($180,000) grant to support the development of a major land protection campaign spanning the entire four-state Connecticut River Watershed

The Trustees of Reservations
Beverly, MA
Andrew Kendall, Executive Director
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant to reduce sprawl in Western Massachusetts towns through assistance in the enactment of green development bylaws

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Foundation
f/b/o UMD Sustainability Initiative
North Dartmouth, MA
Susan Jennings, Interim Director
$20,000 as the final installment of a three-year ($60,000) grant for a science and community outreach project centered on the restoration of the Atlas Tack Superfund Site, a 20-acre site on Buzzard’s Bay in Fairhaven, Massachusetts

TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, $735,050

HEALTH

AIDS Action Committee
Boston, MA
Sophie Godley, Deputy Director of Programs
$30,000 as the final installment of a three-year ($105,000) grant for a collaboration to provide technical assistance and training for youth-serving organizations promoting related issues of sexual health and the prevention of teen violence and substance abuse

The Boston Foundation
f/b/o SkillWorks
Boston, MA
Loh-Sze Leung, Director
$40,000 as the third and final installment of a three-year ($145,000) grant for SkillWorks, to promote career pathways for community health care workers in Massachusetts

Center for Children’s Advocacy, Inc.
Hartford, CT
Martha Stone, Executive Director
$35,000 in support of the New Arrivals Project, a program for to identify and eliminate barriers to health care for immigrant and refugee children in Hartford

Center for Public Representation
Northampton, MA
Steven Schwartz, Executive Director
$55,000 to implement new standards for emergency room care for persons with psychiatric disabilities

Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation
Augusta, ME
Hilary Schneider, Director of Programs & Policy
$37,500 as the first installment of a two-year ($75,000) grant to engage health care providers in the effort to expand insurance coverage to all Mainers

Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire
Manchester, NH
Marcia Sink, President/CEO
$30,000 for a campaign to recruit and train 150 new volunteer guardians ad litem for abused and neglected children served by the civil courts

Families in Transition
Manchester, NH
Maureen Beauregard, President
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant in support for The Family Place, a program to support homeless children and their families suffering from co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse problems

Health Law Advocates, Inc.
Boston, MA
Matt Selig, Acting Director
$40,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($80,000) grant to expand a successful pilot program to juvenile courts in Boston and Worcester

MAB Community Services, Inc.
Brookline, MA
Barbara Salisbury, Chief Executive Officer
$35,000 as the final installment of a three-year ($130,000) grant for a demonstration project with the Holyoke Health Center to integrate a diabetes self management program and in-home services for Latino elders suffering from vision loss, diabetes and other chronic illnesses

The Medical Foundation, Inc.
Health Resources in Action
Boston, MA
Laurie Stillman, Director of Policy and Advocacy
$50,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant for the Healthy Homes Promotion Project, to improve indoor environments for low-income New England residents living in multi-dwelling housing

Monadnock Family Services
Keene, NH
Kenneth Jue, CEO
$56,275 to fund New England replication of the successful In SHAPE program, to provide exercise and other health improvement opportunities for individuals with mental illness

Mothers’ Milk Bank of New England
Newtonville, MA
Naomi Bar-Yam, Executive Director
$20,250 as the second installment of a two-year ($41,800) grant for a project to educate physicians about research and uses of donor milk and to expand the capacity of the Milk Money Fund, which provides access to banked milk to financially disadvantaged families

New Hampshire Legal Assistance
Manchester, NH
John Tobin, Executive Director
$65,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($130,000) grant to expand the successful Medical-Legal Partnership for Children to the North Country of New Hampshire, to enable physicians to identify and solve legal issues impacting the health of child and adult patients

New Hampshire Public Health Association
Concord, NH
Kristina Diamond, Policy Director
$25,000 as the third installment of a three-year ($75,000) grant to enable the organization to hire a public policy director to promote public health and engage partners statewide

Northern New England States Faith in Action Network
Cabot, VT
William E. Cobb, Executive Director
$40,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($80,000) grant to add to strengthen a volunteer network serving elders and people with disabilities in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont

TOTAL HEALTH, $609,025

PROMOTION OF PHILANTHROPY

Boston Women’s Fund
Boston, MA
Josefina Vasquez, Executive Director
$25,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($50,000) grant for the “Our Public Spirit” project, to increase philanthropy in communities of color

TOTAL PROMOTION OF PHILANTHROPY: $25,000

FAMILY GRANTS

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
Deborah Re, Chief Executive Officer
$25,000 for two mentoring programs operated by the agency

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund
Philadelphia, PA
Daniel Janzen, President
$78,000 as the final installment of a three-year ($234,000) grant for the BioLep Project, to inventory tropical biodiversity within the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica, while training local residents for sustainable conservation employment

Newseum
Washington, DC
Joe Urschel, Executive Director
$200,000 in continuing support of the Ethics Center at the Newseum (total project support of $368,108, 2008-2009)

TOTAL FAMILY GRANTS: $313,000

MEMBERSHIP

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
Miki Akimoto, Acting President
$5,450

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
f/b/o Boston Education Funders
Boston, MA
$500

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
Nancy Roberts, President
$750

Council on Foundations
Arlington, VA
Steve Gunderson, President
$1,763

Environmental Grantmakers Association
New York, NY
Dana Lanza, Executive Director
$720

Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Coral Gables, FL
L. Benjamin Starrett, Executive Director
$500

Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island
Providence, RI
Susan Neupauer, Executive Director
$1,270

Grantmakers for Education
Portland, OR
Chris Tebben, Executive Director
$500

Grantmakers In Health
Washington, D.C.
Lauren LeRoy, President and CEO
$2,000

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
Janet Henry, President
$1,200

TOTAL MEMBERSHIP: $14,653

Total Grants, 2009: $2,091,088

Additional grants of $968,142 were made to The Boston Foundation to support the grantmaking activities of two related donor-advised funds.  The Jessie B. Cox Charitable Lead Trust made total grants of $3,059,230 in calendar year 2009.

EDUCATION

Action for Boston Community Development, Inc.
Boston, MA
Robert Coard, President & CEO
$51,179 one-year grant for implementation of The Math Remediation Model, a tutoring program for students in two alternative high schools in Boston

Center for Collaborative Education – Metro Boston Inc.
Boston, MA
Dan French, Executive Director
$40,000 as the third and final installment of a three-year ($150,000) grant in support of the “Time for Growth” project, to launch and replicate pilot schools in urban centers in Massachusetts

Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence
Portland, ME
Susan, Geismar, Coordinator of Development
$25,000 as the third and final installment of a three-year ($106,000) grant in support of the Unity Project, a hate violence prevention program serving schools in Maine

Cobscook Community Learning Center
Trescott, ME
Alan Furth, Director
$25,000 as the second installment of a three-year ($75,000) grant for the Passages Program, Cobscook’s high school diploma program for teen parents, in Washington County, Maine

Gulf of Maine Institute
Dayton, ME
John Terry, President
$30,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($70,000) grant for a Teacher Training Institute, to incorporate environmental experiential learning in New England public schools

Hartford Youth Scholars Foundation
Hartford, CT
Timothy Goodwin, Executive Director
$25,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($60,000) grant for Steppingstone Academy Hartford

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc.
Boston, MA
Anne Hawley, Executive Director
$30,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($60,000) grant for expansion of the museum’s school partnership program, to include arts education in an interdisciplinary way in the public school curriculum

Lesley University
Cambridge, MA
Susan Cusack, Project Director and Instructor
$40,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($80,000) grant for an online professional development tool for Boston public school teachers working with students with limited English skills

Merrimack Valley Project, Inc.
Lawrence, MA
Kenneth Galdston, Interim Executive Director
$25,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($50,000) grant in support of the Career Ladders Program, a corporate/community partnership serving the immigrant workforce in the Merrimack Valley

MetroLacrosse, Inc.
f/b/o Boston TeamWorks
Dorchester, MA
Emily Helm, Executive Director
$40,000 as the first installment for a two-year ($75,000) grant to expand Boston TeamWorks, a collaborative housing youth sports organizations in Boston

United Way of Rhode Island
f/b/o Rhode Island After School Plus Alliance
Providence, RI
Sarah Cahill, Executive Director
$37,150 to support an outreach campaign to promote quality after-school programming in urban school districts in Rhode Island

University of Maine at Machias
Machias, ME
Wendy Norden, Assistant Research Professor
$36,227 as the first installment of a two-year ($69,604) grant in support of collaboration between scientists and students to conduct long-term marine ecological research and monitoring in Midcoast and Downeast Maine

Very Special Arts of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
Charles J. Washburn, Executive Director
$60,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($120,000 ) grant in support of VSA’s project to assist teachers and teaching artists in developing arts-based learning activities as a means of promoting academic success for disabled and nondisabled students

Women Express Inc.
d/b/a Teen Voices
Boston, MA
Jenny Amory, Executive Director
$35,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($70,000) grant for a training initiative introducing adults and teens to the successful writing strategies modeled by the organization through its Teen Voices magazine

SUBTOTAL EDUCATION: $499,556

ENVIRONMENT

1000 Friends of Connecticut, Inc.
Hartford, CT
Heidi Green, President
$35,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($70,000) grant for policy, education, and outreach activities to promote smart growth in Connecticut

Association to Preserve Cape Cod, Inc.
Barnstable, MA
Margaret Geist, Executive Director
$30,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($81,806) grant for the study of agriculture on Cape Cod, including historical information and policy recommendations

Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association, Inc.
North Chatham, MA
Paul Parker, Executive Director
$50,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant for the New England Sustainable Fisheries Trust project, to purchase and hold commercial fishing permits and licenses on behalf of New England fishermen

Center for Ecological Technology, Inc.
Pittsfield, MA
Laura Dubester, Director
$44,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($76,000) grant for the Climate Change Circuit Rider Project in Western Massachusetts, to assist local municipalities in adopting energy efficiency and renewable energy projects to address climate change at the local level

Charles River Watershed Association, Inc.
Weston, MA
Robert L. Zimmerman, Jr., Executive Director
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant to implement stormwater resource management solutions and restore water function in Franklin and Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Coalition for Buzzards Bay, Inc.
New Bedford, MA
Mark Rasmussen, Executive Director
$20,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($40,000) grant for a community outreach and education project to reduce nitrogen pollution in three rivers in Southeastern Massachusetts

Cobscook Bay Resource Center
Eastport, ME
Will Hopkins, Executive Director
$30,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($70,000) grant for the development of a marketing cooperative and shared-use commercial kitchen program in Eastport, Maine

Community Teamwork, Inc.
f/b/o New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
Lowell, MA
Jennifer Hashley, Director, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
$23,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($48,000) grant for a land inventory project documenting available farmland for the benefit of immigrant and other “new entry” farmers

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
f/b/o Fairmount/Indigo Line CDC Collaborative
Dorchester, MA
Jeanne DuBois, Executive Director
$60,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($120,000) grant for development of a greenway as part of a collaborative effort to promote green development in urban Boston neighborhoods along the Fairmount commuter rail line

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland, Inc.
Portland, ME
Stephen Bolton, Executive Director
$30,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($60,000) grant to establish a building materials recycling program and retail store

Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, Inc.
Hanover, NH
David Sleeper, Executive Director
$35,000 as the second and final payment of a two-year ($75,000) grant in support of the Science Links Carbon project, to provide scientific information on carbon dioxide emissions to public policy makers in New England

Lake Champlain Islands Trust, Inc.
Burlington, VT
Chris Boget, Director of Land Protection
$31,709 for the Water Quality Project, to identify key undeveloped parcels of land critical to protecting Lake Champlain’s water quality

Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust, Inc.
Lowell, MA
Jane Calvin, Executive Director
$25,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($50,000) grant to assist in the development of a coalition of urban land trusts in Eastern Massachusetts

Maine Coast Heritage Trust
Topsham, ME
Megan Shore, Maine Land Trust Network Coordinator
$20,000 as the third and final installment of a three-year ($65,000) grant to the Maine Coast Heritage Trust to provide tailored consulting services for small land trusts in Maine

Maine Farmland Trust, Inc.
Belfast, ME
John Piotti, Executive Director
$35,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($75,000) grant to increase the amount of preserved farmland in Maine

Manomet, Inc.
Manomet, MA
John M. Hagan, Ph.D., Director, Division of Conservation Forestry
$50,000 one-year grant to support research to determine how New England forests best sequester carbon, weighing the benefits of preserving old forests against a managed approach of sustainable forestry

Monadnock Conservancy
Keene, NH
Rick Church, Interim Director
$30,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($60,000) grant to develop a Community Conservation Partnership project to assist towns in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire with planning for land conservation and open space

Neighborhood Development Corporation of Jamaica Plain
f/b/o Jackson Square Partners LLC
Roxbury, MA
Noah Maslan, Director of Real Estate Development, Urban Edge Housing Corporation
$23,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($68,000) grant in support of costs related to the green design elements of the Jackson Square redevelopment project in Boston

Quebec-Labrador Foundation, Inc.
Ipswich, MA
Jennifer Atkinson, Director, Marine Programs
$45,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($95,000) grant to develop community-based near-shore regional management in Muscongus Bay, Maine

Southside Community Land Trust
Providence, RI
Katherine H. Brown, Ph.D., Executive Director
$30,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($60,853) grant to coordinate and support coalition members of the Urban Agricultural Task Force, to implement projects encouraging food production and consumption of locally grown food by low-income residents in Greater Providence

Taunton River Watershed Alliance, Inc.
Taunton, MA
Susan Speers, Campaign Coordinator
$40,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($80,000) grant to implement public outreach and advocacy programs and to coordinate efforts in land conservation and wildlife habitat preservation in the Taunton River watershed

Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands
Fort Kent, ME
Sandra Brawders, Executive Director
$20,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($55,000) grant to revise the guidelines of the Maine Master Logger Certification Program, to promote sustainable logging practices in the state of Maine

University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc.
f/b/o University of Massachusetts Dartmouth – Sustainability Initiative
North Dartmouth, MA
Susan Jennings, Acting Director
$20,000 as the second installment of a three-year ($60,000) grant to support the environmental science and community outreach components of the new Office of Campus and Community Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

SUBTOTAL ENVIRONMENT: $776,709

HEALTH

AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc.
Boston, MA
Sophie Godley, Deputy Director of Programs
$35,000 as the second installment of a three-year ($105,000) grant in support of a collaboration to provide technical assistance and training for youth organizations

The Boston Foundation
f/b/o SkillWorks
Boston, MA
Loh-Sze Leung, Director
$50,000 as the second installment of a three-year ($145,000) grant in support of SkillWorks Community Health Worker Initiative policy and advocacy project, a program to establish recognition and career paths for community health workers employed in Massachusetts

Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire
Concord, NH
Steven D. Wade, Executive Director
$20,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($40,000) grant for the expansion of an adolescent health and injury prevention program focused on teen drivers and their parents

Childhood Lead Action Project
Providence, RI
Roberta Hazen Aaronson, Executive Director
$30,000 as the second installment of a two-year ($60,853) grant to monitor the implementation and enforcement of a recent corporate settlement agreement for lead abatement to eliminate childhood lead poisoning in Rhode Island

Community Catalyst/New England Alliance for Children’s Health
Boston, MA
Amy Rosenthal, Program Leader
$50,000 as a one-year grant in continued support for the New England Alliance’s Healthy Children project, to engage business leaders in New England in an effort to address problems of quality of care and access to health services for children throughout the six-state region

Dorcas Place Adult and Family Learning Center, Inc.
Providence, RI
Brenda Dann-Messier, President/CEO
$50,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant for the Rhode Island Welcome Back Center project, to increase the number of internationally trained health workers who can provide linguistically and culturally competent health services to underserved residents

Homefront Health Care
Providence, RI
Robert Caffrey, President/CEO
$25,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($53,500) grant for a demonstration project to use innovative technology and community-based care to improve prescription drug management so that medication errors and associated health problems are reduced for frail elders and people living with chronic illness

Libraries for the Future
New York, NY
Bruce Astrein, Executive Director
$40,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($80,000) grant for the establishment of six “Health Access Libraries” in Massachusetts to serve as information resources for low-income communities

MAB Community Services
Brookline, MA
Barbara Salisbury, Chief Executive Officer
$45,000 as the second installment of a three-year ($130,000) grant for a demonstration project with the Holyoke Health Center to integrate vision rehabilitation into a diabetes self-management program, reducing risks to patients with vision loss, and improving the control of diabetes

Maine Center for Public Health
Augusta, ME
Joan Orr, Project Director
$40,000 as the third and final installment of a three-year ($145,000) grant for the Maine Youth Overweight Collaborative, a program to train physicians, reorganize primary care practices, and build community partnerships with physicians to help prevent youth obesity

The Medical Foundation, Inc.
Boston, MA
Raymond Considine, President
$50,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant for the Healthy Homes Promotion Project, to improve indoor environments for low-income New England residents living in multi-dwelling housing

MMBNE, Inc.
d/b/a Mothers’ Milk Bank of New England
Newtonville, MA
Naomi Bar-Yam, Ph.D., Executive Director
$21,550 as the first installment of a two-year ($41,800) grant in startup support for this new milk bank, for the benefit of sick and underweight babies

New Hampshire Public Health Association
Concord, NH
Maureen Quinn, President
$25,000 as the second installment of a three-year ($75,000) grant to create a new public policy initiative by hiring a policy director to promote public health and engage partners statewide

Northern New England States Faith in Action Network
Cabot, VT
William Cobb, Executive Director
$40,000 as the first installment of a two-year ($80,000) grant in support of a multi-state volunteer network for elders and people with disabilities who need access to health and other services and activities to remain independent and live in their own homes in rural communities in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine

Parent/Professional Advocacy League, Inc.
Boston, MA
Lisa Lambert, Executive Director
$67,000 one-year grant to support training of Family Mentors for families with children who have mental health problems

Partners in Health
Boston, MA
Ophelia Dahl, Executive Director
$50,000 as a one-time grant for the clean needle exchange program, in cooperation with the City of Boston, to combat the disproportionate burden of HIV infection and AIDS mortality in the Greater Boston area

Pathways to Wellness, Inc.
Boston, MA
Kristen Porter, Executive Director
$20,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($70,000) grant for a pilot project to expand access to acupuncture treatment for low and moderate income people, in partnership with the South End Community Health Center and the Neighborhood Health Plan

Prevent Child Abuse Rhode Island
Pawtucket, RI
Katherine Begin, Executive Director
$65,000 as a one-time grant for the expansion of Strengthening Families RI, a parent-training program engaging early childhood programs in two regions of Rhode Island

Southern New Hampshire University
School of Economic Development
Manchester, NH
Michael Swack, Director
$25,000 as the third and final payment of a three-year ($100,000) grant for the Center for Community Economic Development and Disability and its work to promote financial independence and improved health for people living with disabilities

SUBTOTAL HEALTH: $748,550

MEMBERSHIPS

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
Boston, MA
Ron Ancrum, President
$6,150 over one year for General level membership in the regional association of grantmakers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Associated Grant Makers, Inc.
f/b/o Boston Education Funders Group
Boston, MA
Ron Ancrum, President
$1,000 over one year for membership in a group of corporate and foundation trustees and staff interested in the Boston Public Schools, who meet regularly to learn more about education issues and needs in the schools

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
Nancy Roberts, President
$1,500 over one year for membership in the regional association of grantmakers in Connecticut

Council on Foundations, Inc.
Arlington, VA
Steve Gunderson, President
$3,090 over one year for membership in a network of grantmakers working to improve philanthropy at the national level

Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities Inc.
Coral Gables, FL
L. Benjamin Starrett, Executive Director
$1,000 over one year for membership in a network of funders working to promote smart growth, livable communities and regional equity on a national and regional basis

The Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island
Providence, RI
Susan Neupauer, Executive Director
$1,210 over one year for membership in the regional association of grantmakers for Rhode Island

Grantmakers for Education
Portland, OR
William Porter, Executive Director
$1,000 over one year for membership in a national group of funders interested in education issues

Grantmakers in Health
Washington, D.C.
Lauren LeRoy, President and CEO
$2,500 over one year for membership in the national organization of health funders

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
Janet Henry, President
$2,450 over one year for membership in a regional association of grantmakers and to support a collaboration of the Maine Environmental Funders Network, a collaboration of Maine environmental funders

Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc.
f/b/o Environmental Grantmakers Association
New York, NY
Dana Lanza, Executive Director
$1,020 over one year for membership in this national association of environmental funders

SUBTOTAL MEMBERSHIPS: $20,920

FAMILY

Chestnut Hill Academy
Philadelphia, PA
Matthew Goetting, Director of Capital Planning
$72,000 as a one-time grant for a new science and technology center and arboretum

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund
Philadelphia, PA
Daniel Janzen, President
$78,000 as the second installment of a three-year ($234,000) grant to support an inventory of moth and butterfly fauna of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in Costa Rica

The Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Eden Evins, Director
$50,000 as the second and final installment of a two-year ($100,000) grant to support a fellow at the new Center for Addiction Medicine

Newseum, Inc.
Washington, DC
Joe Urschel, Executive Director
$168,108 to support the Ethics Center at the Newseum

SUBTOTAL FAMILY GRANTS: $368,108

PROMOTION OF PHILANTHROPY

GreenLight Fund, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
Margaret Hall, Executive Director
$50,000 as a one-time challenge grant to support the Greenlight Seed Fund providing early stage funding to replicate five national programs in Boston

SUBTOTAL PROMOTION OF PHILANTHROPY: $50,000

Total Grants, 2008, $2,463,843

Note: In 2008, the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Lead Trust made grants of $3,059,230.  At year end, a total of $2,463,840 was distributed to the nonprofit organizations listed above.  Starting in September, the Trust established The Jessie B. Cox Charitable Fund as a donor-advised fund of The Boston Foundation.  The unexpended balance was retained for future-year grants payments and for charitable administrative expenses.

EDUCATION

Bates College
Lewiston, ME
Robert Pallone, Director of Corportate and Foundation Relations
$132,000 over three years to support the Downtown Education Collaborative, a partnership among local colleges and community organizations focused on addressing community needs in Lewiston, Maine.

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Boston, MA
Deborah Re, Chief Executive Officer
$22,808 over one year to pilot the High School Mentoring Academy pairing high school mentors with elementary school students.

Cobscook Community Learning Center
Trescott, ME
Alan Furth, Director
$75,000 over three years to replicate the Passages Program, a home-based, self-paced high school degree program for teen parents in Washington County, Maine.

Cooperative Economics for Women
Revere, MA
Fatour Fatty, Program Organizer
$25,000 over one year for the Partnership for Progressive Participation, to expand training of teachers of English for Speakers of Other Languages from immigrant communities in greater Boston.

English for New Bostonians
Boston, MA
Caludia Green, Director
$50,000 over one year for a public-private-community partnership to meet the need for English for Speakers of Other Languages services in Boston by expanding training and capacity of community based organizations.

Gulf of Maine Institute
Dayton, ME
John Terry, President
$70,000 over two years to develop the Teacher Training Initiative Partnership, which will train current and future teachers to use GOMI’s experiential education model.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
Anne Hawley, Norma Jean Claderwood Director
$60,000 over two years to expand the School Partnership Program to develop a comprehensive teacher training program.

Merrimack Valley Project, Inc.
Lawrence, MA
Loren McArthur, Lead Organizer/Staff Director
$50,000 over two years to expand the Career Ladders Program.

Out-of-School Matters! Regional Cluster
Boston, MA
Steven Ridini, Vice President of Program, The Medical Foundation
$60,000 over one year for the OSM! (Out-of-School Matters!) Regional Cluster to develop a centralized tutor recruitment and training function for after school programs.

The Steppingstone Academy Hartford
Hartford, CT
Tim Goodwin, Executive Director, Hartford Youth Scholars Foundation
$60,000 over two years to support the Steppingstone Academy Hartford.

Teen Voices
Boston, MA
Jenny Amory, Executive Director
$70,000 over two years for the Pens of Power initiative, to train adults and teens in Teen Voices Magazine’s strategies and tools.

World Education, Inc.
Boston, MA
Silja Kallenbach, Director
$80,000 over 15 months for the New England Learner Persistance Project.

ENVIRONMENT

1000 Friends of Connecticut
Hartford, CT
Heidi Green, President
$70,000 over two years for policy, education, and outreach activities to promote smart growth in Connecticut.

Alliance for Climate Action
Burlington, VT
Debra Sachs, Executive Director
$30,000 over one year for the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network, in collaboration with the Vermont Natural Resources Council and Sustainable Energy Resource Group, to promote local climate action initiatives in Vermont.

Association to Preserve Cape Cod, Inc.
Barnstable, MA
Margaret Geist, Executive Director
$81,806 over two years to document the history of agriculture on Cape Cod, analyze impediments to agriculture and recommend policy improvements, in collaboration with the Woods Hole Research Center.

Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association, Inc.
North Chatham, MA
Paul Parker, Executive Director
$100,000 over two years for the New England Sustainable Fisheries Trust project, to develop a mechanism to purchase and disseminate commercial fishing permits and licenses on behalf of New England fishermen.

The Coalition for Buzzards Bay
New Bedford, MA
Mark Rasmussen, Executive Director
$40,000 over two years to reduce nitrogen pollution in three rivers in Southeastern Massachusetts through community outreach and education.

Cobscook Bay Resource Center
Eastport, ME
Will Hopkins, Executive Director
$70,000 over two years to develop a marketing co-operative and shared-use commercial kitchen program in Eastport, Maine.

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland
Portland, ME
Stephen Bolton, Executive Director
$60,000 over two years to establish a building materials recycling program and retail store.

Hubbard Brook Research Foundation
Hanover, NH
David Sleeper, Executive Director
$75,000 over two years for the Science Links Carbon project, to provide scientific information about carbon dioxide emissions and their impact on local land use to public policy makers in New England.

Jackson Square Partners, LLC
Jamaica Plain, MA
Richard Thal, Executive Director, Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation
$68,000 over two years to coordinate and develop a public education campaign around the green deseign elements of the redevelopment of formerly contaminated land in Jackson Square in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Kids First, Inc.
Providence, RI
Dorothy Brayley, Executive Director
$40,000 over one year for the Rhode Island Farm to School program, to develop purchasing relationships between Rhode Island schools, outside Providence and local farms.

Maine Farmland Trust, Inc.
Belfast, ME
John Piotti, Executive Director
$75,000 over two years for a pilot project in three rural regions in Maine to increase the amount of preserved farm land use for agricultural production, and to connect agricultural production to food provision for low-income residents.

Mondanock Conservancy
Keene, NH
Richard Ober, Executive Director
$60,000 over two years to develop a Community Conservation Partnership project, to assist towns in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire with Planning for land conservation and open space.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund
Montpelier, VT
Cherly Fischer, Executive Director
$30,000 over one year to support grantmaking, education and training for grassroots enviornmental groups across New England.

Open Space Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
Christopher Elliman, CEO
$40,000 over one year for an economic analysis of the Plum Creek Timber Company’s proposed development plan for Maine’s Moosehead Lake region, and to disseminate the results through the Maine Policy Review and a regional symposium.

Quebec-Labrador Foundation, Inc.
Ipswich, MA
Lawrence Morris, President
$90,000 over two years to assist local communities and state and federal agencies in developing regional resource management strategies to conserve the ecology and local economies of Mid-coast marine and land systems of Muscongus Bay.

Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands
Fort Kent, ME
Sandra Brawders, Executive Director
$55,000 over two years to revise the guidelines for the Maine Master Logger Certification Program.

UMD Sustainability Initiative
(Program of University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Foundation Inc.)
North Dartmouth, MA
Jeffrey Wolfman, Director
$60,000 over three years for a science and community outreach project, related to the restoration of the Atlas Track Superfund Site, and new methods of cleanup.

Urban Agriculture Task Force
(Fiscal Agent: Southside Community Land Trust)
Providence, RI
Katherine Brown, Executive Director
$60,853 over two years to coordinate and support coalition members who are implementing urban agriculture projects that encourage food production and consumption of locally grown food by low-income residents in Greater Providence.

HEALTH

AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc.
Boston, MA
Rebecca Haag, Executive Director
$105,000 over three years for a new collaboration to provide technical assistance to and training for youth serving organizations to address interconnected issues of sexual health, substance abuse and youth violence prevention in out-of-school time programs.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Boston, MA
Nancy Turnbull, Executive Director
$2,000 over one year for the Health Coverage Fellowship by partially supporting a Rhode Island fellow to strengthen media effectiveness in reporting on health issues in new England. D.F.

Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire
Concord, NH
Steven Wade, Executive Director
$40,000 over two years to expand the New Hampshrie Safe Young Drivers Project, a pilot to revitalize and refocus teen driver safety programming by educating parents and involving teen drivers as leaders in promoting driving safety and responsibility.

Childhood Lead Action Program
Providence, RI
Roberta Aaronson, Executive Director
$60,853 over two years to monitor the implementation and enforcement of a recent corporate settlement agreement for lead abatement to eliminate childhood lead poisoning in Rhode Island.

Dorcas Place Adult and Family Learning Center, Inc.
Providence, RI
Brenda Dann-Messier, President/CEO
$100,000 over two years for the Rhode Island Welcome Back Center Pilot Project, to help support internationally trained health workers to enter the domestic health sector workforce and provide linguistically and culturally competent health services to underserved residents.

The Home for Little Wanderers
Boston, MA
Joan Wallace-Benjamin, President and CEO
$30,000 over one year for a nutrition project to train cooking staff to purchase food and prepare nutritious meals for children living in group homes and residential treatment centers who are at risk for obesity and diabetes.

Homefront Health Care
Providence, RI
Robert Caffrey, President/CEO
$53,500 over two years for a demonstration project to improve prescription drug management and reduce medication errors and health problems for frail elders and the chronically ill.

Judge Baker Children’s Center
Boston, MA
Kevin Hepner, Vice President
$50,000 over one year to support the advisory council and planning activities for new Institute for Children’s Mental Health offering training, demonstration, monitoring and evaluation of mental health services for children in Massachusetts.

Libraries for the Future
New York, NY
Bruce Astrein, Executive Director
$80,000 over two years for “Health Access Libraries,” a pilot initiative, in partnership with the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, engaging six under served communities to expand access to health information-related programming and professional development for librarians in the Commonwealth.

MAB Community Services
Brookline, MA
Barbara Salisbury, Chief Executive Officer
$130,000 over three years for a demonstration project with the Holyoke Health Center to integrate a diabetes self-management program and in-home services for Latino elders with low vision eye services for elders with vision loss, diabetes and other chronic illnesses.

New England Alliance for Children’s Health
(Program of Community Catalyst, Inc.)
Boston, MA
Robert Restuccia, Executive Director
$40,000 over one year to launch a pilot project, in collaboration with the New England Council, to enhance children’s health advocacy by strengthening the relationships among the business community, advocates and healthcare providers in three New England states.

New Hampshire Legal Assistance
Manchester, NH
John Tobin, Executive Director
$130,000 over two years to expand the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children into rural Coos Country to serve adults, elders and people with disabilities, as well as children.

New Hampshire Public Health Association
Concord, NH
Kevin Flanagan, Board President
$75,000 over three years to support a new, collaborative public health policy initiative to advocate for specific policies to improve public health.

Pathways to Wellness, Inc.
Boston, MA
Kristen Porter, Executive Director
$70,000 over two years for a pilot project to expand access to acupuncture treatment for low- and moderate-income people, in partnership with the South End Community Health Center and the Neighborhood Health Plan.

Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security Education Fund
Montpelier, VT
Peter Sterling, Executive Director
$60,000 over two years to pilot a statewide Faith-Based Outreach Initiative, to engage religious communities in educating uninsured and underinsured low-income residents about the new opportunity for health coverage under the state-sponsored Catamount Health program in Vermont.

MEMBERSHIPS

Associated Grant Makers
Boston, MA
Ron Ancrum, President
$5,750 over one year for General level membership in the regional association of grantmakers in Massachusetts. D.F.

Boston Education Funders Group
Boston, MA
Mary Phillips, Administrator
$1,000 over one year for membership in a group of corporate and foundation trustees and staff interested in the Boston Public Schools, who meet regularly to learn more about education issues and needs in the schools. D.F.

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
Nancy Roberts, President
$1,500 over one year for membership in the regional association of grantmakers in Connecticut. D.F.

Council on Foundations
Washington, D.C.
Dorothy Ridings, President and CEO
$3,090 over one year for membership in a network of grantmakers working to improve philanthropy at the national level. An additional $500 will be paid as an administrative expense for total yearly dues of $3,520. D.F.

Environmental Grantmakers Association
New York, NY
Dana Lanza, Executive Director
$1,020 over one year for membership in this national association of environmental funders. D.F.

Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Coral Gables, FL
L. Benjamin Starrett, Executive Director
$1,000 over one year for membership in a network of funders working to promote smart growth, livable communities and regional equity on a national and regional basis. D.F.

Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island
Providence, RI
Susan Neupauer, Executive Director
$1,100 over one year for membership in the regional association of grantmakers for Rhode Island. D.F.

Grantmakers for Education
Portland, OR
William Porter, Executive Director
$1,000 over one year for membership in a national group of funders interested in education issues. D.F.

Grantmakers in Health
Washington, D.C.
Lauren LeRoy, President and CEO
$2,500 over one year for membership in the national organization of health funders. D.F.

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
Janet Henry, President
$2,450 over one year for membership in a regional association of grantmakers and to support the Maine Environmental Funders Network. D.F.

FAMILY

The Chestnut Hill School
Chestnut Hill, MA
Steve Tobolsky, Head of School
$72,000 over one year to design and build an Outdoor Discovery Center. Michael Hill family grant.

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund
Philidelphia, PA
Daniel Janzen, President
$234,000 over three years for the BioLep Project, an enviornmental conservation project that is inventorying tropical biodiversity focused on protecting the moth and butterfly fauna of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in Costa Rica while training local residents for sustainable conservation employment. Jessie Hill family grant.

Snappy Dance Theater
Cambridge, MA
Jurgen Weiss, Executive Director
$25,000 over one year to support artist and management salaries as the Company fully professionalizes its artistic staff. Heidi Cox family grant.

Westminister School
Simsbury, CT
W. Graham Cole, Headmaster
$25,000 over one year to support the school’s campaign to build a new academic center. Heidi Cox family grant.

PROMOTION OF PHILANTHROPY

The Boston Women’s Fund
Boston, MA
Ranae Gray, Executive Director
$50,000 over two years for the Our Public Spirit project to increase philanthropy in communities of color.

GreenLight Fund, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
Margaret Hall, Executive Director
$50,000 challenge grant over one year to support the GreenLight Seed Fund providing early stage funding to replicate five national programs in Boston.

Total Grants, 2007: $2,169,924

D.F. = Discretionary Fund

EDUCATION

Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools
Boston, MA
Ellen Guiney, Executive Director
$75,000 over one year to develop and retain new teachers through the Boston Teacher Residency, the teacher preparation program for the Boston Public Schools.

Cambridge College
Cambridge, MA
Tracy Thompson, Development Director
$80,000 over two years for Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers, a project to increase the number of qualified minority teachers in public schools in New England.

The Care Center
Holyoke MA
Anne Teschner, Executive Director
$75,000 over two years for Opening Doors to Higher Education, a program that supports and connects students to various types of educational opportunities.

Center for Collaborative Education
Boston, MA
Dan French, Executive Director
$150,000 over three years for Replicating Pilot Schools: A Time for Growth, the launch of a new generation of pilot schools in Massachusetts urban districts beyond Boston.

Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence
Portland, ME
Stephen Wessler, Executive Director
$106,000 over three years to bring the Unity Project, a hate violence prevention program, to new schools in rural areas, and to expand the project in existing school districts in Maine.

The City School
Dorchester MA
Miriam Messinger, Executive Director
$70,000 over two years to create the Social Justice Teacher Institute for teachers and youth workers.

Institute for Responsive Education
Cambridge, MA
Jorge Cardoso, Executive Director
$24,000 over one year to expand the Parent Leadership Exchange Program to provide training and technical assistance in six new languages for linguistically isolated parents to engage with urban schools.

International Rescue Committee
Boston, MA
Rita Kanarowski, Regional Director
$50,000 over one year to create the Program for Alternative Refugee Education (PARE), which provides refugee youth with the opportunity to receive alternative education in English, math and science.

Jumpstart for Young Children
Boston MA
Erin Cox, Executive Director, Northeast Region
$50,000 over one year for expansion of the JumpStart early childhood literacy program to Providence, Rhode Island

The Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy
Cambridge, MA
S. Paul Reville, President
$22,304 over one year for dissemination of lessons learned in Transforming Labor Management Relations in Public Education.

Stern Center for Language and Learning
Williston, VT
Blanche Podhajski, Executive Director
$55,000 over one year to develop a new program to provide basic literacy skills to African refugee families in Vermont, in collaboration with the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program and Vermont Adult Learning.

Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center
Boston, MA
Rebekka Olsen, Director of Public and Private Partnerships
$17,808 over one year to link the Choices program to the Boston Public Schools’ middle school learning standards.

ENVIRONMENT

Coalition for Water Security
Providence, RI
Harold Ward, Policy Director
$30,000 over one year for a collaboration of Rhode Island conservation organizations working to promote improved state water policies.

Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
Wiscasset, ME
Ronald Phillips, President
$60,000 over one year to develop a pilot community wind project in collaboration with a public school in Thorndike, Maine

Community Teamwork, Inc.
Lowell, MA
Karen Frederick, Executive Director
$48,000 over two years for the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project to identify available farmland for immigrant farmers to use in establishing independent farming operations.

Devens Enterprise Commission
Devens, MA
Peter Lowitt, AICP Executive Director
$40,000 over two years to establish the Devens Eco-Efficiency Center to support environmental stewardship among the 80 businesses at Devens.

The Food Project-North Shore
Lynn MA
Melissa Dimond, Director
$42,500 over two years for the Food Project’s expansion to Lynn, Massachusetts.

Forests and Parks Partnership
Boston MA
Julie Wormser, Director of Policy, Appalachian Mountain Club
$100,000 over two years for a collaborative project to increase stewardship, management, funding and citizen support for state forests and parks.

The Jordan Institute
Concord NH
Patrick Miller, Executive Director
$50,000 over one year to work with three communities in southern New Hampshire to focus on land use planning and conservation.

Maine Caucus of the Northern Forest Alliance
Augusta, ME
George Gay, Executive Director
$60,000 over one year for the Plum Creek and Beyond campaign, to advocate for responsible development and permanent conservation in Maine’s Moosehead Lake region.

Maine Coast Heritage Trust
Topsham, ME
Jay Espy, President
$65,000 over three years to launch a direct support program as part of the Maine Land Trust Network to provide individual consulting services for land trusts.

New Haven Urban Resources Initiative, Inc.
New Haven, CT
Colleen Murphy-Dunning, Director
$19,806 over one year for the Healthy Yards project, to test for and remove contaminants in soils in low-income neighborhoods in New Haven, Connecticut.

Open Space Institute Inc.
New York NY
Peter Howell, Director of Conservation Finance
$20,000 over one year to conduct an economic analysis of a proposed development and conservation project in northern Maine.

Penobscot East Resource Center
Stonington ME
Robin Alden, Executive Director
$80,000 over two years to hire a community coordinator to work with fishermen and community members to support community-based marine stewardship in Eastern Maine.

Toxics Action Center
Boston MA
Alyssa Schuren, Executive Director
$27,304 over one year to support local community groups fighting toxics and pollution in Rhode Island.

HEALTH

Center for Public Representation
Northampton, MA
Steven Schwartz, Executive Director
$65,000 over one year to assist with the design of a new state-administered system of homebased mental health services for children with psychiatric and emotional disabilities in Massachusetts, in response to the federal court decision Rosie D. v. Romney.

Community Partners, Inc.
Amherst MA
Michael DeChiara, Executive Director
$65,000 over two years for a pilot project using wireless computer technology to enroll clients in publicly-funded health care insurance programs in six rural communities in Western Massachusetts.

Maine Center for Public Health
Augusta, ME
Meredith Tipton, Interim President/CEO
$145,000 over three years for the Maine Youth Outweight Collaborative, an expanded program to train physicians, reorganize primary care practices and build community partnerships with physicians to help prevent youth obesity.

Maine Migrant Health Program, Inc.
Augusta, ME
Barbara Ginley, Executive Director
$95,000 over two years for the Camp Health Aide Program, to train, support and mentor farmworkers as health educators, to increase health access and to prevent mental health and behavioral health problems affecting migrant farmworkers and their families.

Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC)
Boston MA
Marylou Sudders, President/CEO
$40,000 over one year for the Connecting Families pilot program, which provides family advocacy and clinical services to prevent child abuse and neglect in six communities in Massachusetts.

Naugatuck Valley Project, Inc.
Waterbury, CT
Carol Burkhart-Lyons, Director
$50,000 over one year for a pilot project to expand the availability of medical interpretation services in the Naugatuck Valley, to secure public insurance for such services, and to encourage employment for immigrants as medical interpreters.

New England Adolescent Research Institute, Inc.
Holyoke, MA
Joan Tabachnick, Project Director
$80,000 over two years for a pilot project to design and implement an online distance learning initiative focusing on sexual abuse by youth in New England to train parents and professionals.

Parents Opening Doors, Inc.
Hartford, CT
Serafin Mendez-Mendez, Executive Director
$23,348 over one year for a comprehensive training program for Latino parents interested in becoming effective advocates for mental health and educational services for children in the Hartford Public Schools.

SkillWorks
Boston, MA
Loh-Sze Leung, Director
$145,000 over three years for policy and advocacy activities to support community health workers in Massachusetts, reduce health disparities, improve access to culturally competent health care, and improve public health for underserved and vulnerable populations.

Southern New Hampshire University,
School of Community Economic Development
Manchester, NH
Michael Swack, Dean
$100,000 over two years to expand and replicate a pilot project that strengthens the financial independence and improves the health of people living with disabilities by linking financial counseling and asset building strategies with access health and social services.

Vermont CARES (Committee for AIDS Resources, Education & Services)
Burlington, VT
Peter Jacobsen, Executive Director
$60,000 over two years for a pilot project offering the rapid-result oral HIV testing program in Vermont.

FAMILY

Each year the Trust allocates a portion of the total grant dollars to support projects of interest to the Trustees who are members of Jessie Cox’s family. These grants are not subject to the Trust’s guidelines, and unsolicited applications for this program are not considered.

Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Anne Eden Evins, M.D., Director of Addiction Research Program
$100,000 over two years to support a fellow at the new Center for Addiction Medicine. Heidi Cox family grant.

Millbrook School
Millbrook, NY
Drew Casertano, Headmaster
$25,000 over one year to support renovations to the student center. Heidi Cox family grant.

Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA
Melissa von Stade, Director of Development, Morris Arboretum
$25,000 over one year for planning for the Morris Arboretum’s Tree Adventure Exhibit. Jessie Hill family grant.

Penikese Island School
Woods Hole MA
Toby Lineaweaver, Executive Director
$25,000 over one year to support the aftercare program. Heidi Cox family grant.

DEVELOPMENT OF PHILANTHROPY

Associated Grant Makers
Boston MA
Ron Ancrum, President
$5,750 over one year for general level membership in the regional association of grantmakers in Massachusetts.

Boston Education Funders Group
Boston, MA
Mary Phillips, Administrator
$1,500 over one year for the Boston Education Funders Group, a group of corporate and foundation trustees and staff interested in the Boston Public Schools, who meet regularly to learn more about education issues and needs in the schools.

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
Nancy Roberts, President
$1,200 over one year for membership in the regional association of grantmakers in Connecticut.

Council on Foundations
Washington D.C.
Robert Wiggans, Director of Membership
$3,120 over one year for membership in a network of grantmakers working to improve philanthropy at the national level. An additional $400 will be paid as an administrative expense for total yearly dues of $3,520.

Environmental Grantmakers Association
New York NY
Dana Lanza, Executive Director
$1,390 over one year for membership in this national association of environmental funders.

Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
Washington D.C.
Ellen Barclay, President
$5,000 over one year for the facilitation of the Giving Data Collaborative conference call and dissemination of the results. D.F.

Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Coral Gables FL
L. Benjamin Starrett, Executive Director
$1,000 over one year for membership in a network of funders working to promote smart growth, livable communities and regional equity on a national and regional basis.

Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island
Providence RI
Susan Neupauer, Executive Director
$1,000 over one year for membership in the regional association of grantmakers for Rhode Island.

Grantmakers for Education
Portland OR
William Porter, Executive Director
$1,000 over one year for membership in a national organization of funders interested in education.

Grantmakers In Health
Washington D.C.
Lauren LeRoy, President and CEO
$2,500 over one year for membership in a national organization designed to facilitate and improve communications, information-sharing, collaborative program planning and funding among grantmakers.

Haymarket People’s Fund
Boston, MA
Patricia Maher, Co-Director
$70,000 over two years to create the Expanding Philanthropy Project, to provide outreach and education to engage new givers interested in social justice philanthropy in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts.

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland ME
Janet Henry, President
$1,200 over one year for membership dues in the regional association of grantmakers in Maine.

Vermont Community Foundation
Middlebury, VT
Brian Byrnes, President/CEO
$50,000 over one year to develop a new business model to have a greater community impact and ensure long-term financial stability.

Total Grants, 2006: $1,616,896,65

D.F. = Discretionary Fund

EDUCATION

A Different September Foundation
Boston, MA
Michael Dettelbach, Associate Director
$35,000 over one year to implement the Core Knowledge curriculum district wide for pre-K through grade 8 in the Chelsea public schools.

Boston Education Funders Group
Boston, MA
Mary Phillips, Administrator
$1,500 over one year for continued support of the Boston Education Funders Group, a group of corporate and foundation trustees and staff interested in the Boston Public Schools, who meet regularly to learn more about education issues and needs in the schools. D.F.

Connecticut Humanities Council
Middletown, CT
Bruce Fraser, Executive Director
$143,000 over three years to expand Motheread/Fatheread and Book Voyagers family literacy programs statewide and to begin implementation of a complete Family Reading Continuum.

Grantmakers for Education
Portland, OR
William Porter, Executive Director
$1,000 over one year for membership in national organization for funders interested in education. D.F.

Maine Humanities Council
Portland, ME
Diane Magras, Director of Development
$70,000 over two years to expand the Born to Read program into three economically disadvantaged counties in Maine.

Massachusetts Charter School Association
Boston, MA
Mark Kenen, Executive Director
$20,000 over one year for a professional development program for charter school educators to document and share best practices with their peers.

Montshire Museum of Science
Norwich, VT
David Goudy, Director
$210,000 over three years to create a new model for collaboration between a science museum and its constituent schools to produce large, long-term changes in student learning.

MY TURN, Inc.
Brockton, MA
Barbara Duffy, Executive Director
$45,000 over two years to expand the Connecting to College program into Fall River and New Bedford.

The Open School
Lowell, MA
Gregg Croteau, Planning Committee Member
and Executive Director, UTEC
$40,000 over one year for a collaboration between United Teen Equality Center, Lowell Public Schools and Lowell Adult Education to plan and develop a diploma-based program called the Open School.

PlusTime NH
Chichester, NH
Cynthia Billings, CEO
$127,808 over three years for expansion of the Out of School Matters! program model in middle schools in New Hampshire.

Rhode Island ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
Providence, RI
Aimee Olin, Head Organizer
$40,000 over one year for the Providence Parents for Quality Schools Project, to conduct outreach, distribute information, and provide leadership training to parents and community members working on public school issues.

Sara Holbrook Community Center
Burlington, VT
Leisa Pollander, Executive Director
$72,000 over three years for the addition of an experiential component to the New Arrivals summer program for immigrant and refugee children with limited English language skills.

Summerbridge Cambridge, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
Hilary Mead, Director
$60,000 over one year for four New England Summerbridge sites to work together to strengthen the year-round teacher training program for talented, diverse high school and college students considering careers in education.

Urban Collaborative
Providence, RI
Robert DeBlois, Director
$85,000 over two years to conduct and disseminate an evaluation that will enable the creation of more alternative schools in Rhode Island.

Wellspring Multi-Service Center
Hull, MA
Janna Oddleifson, Coordinator
$45,000 over two years to finish, publish, and present a professional guidebook designed to meet the needs of Adult Basic Education (ABE) students with learning disabilities.

ENVIRONMENT

Center for Rural Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA
Glenn Garber, Associate Director
$92,000 over two years for the Five Town Innovation Project, to develop new planning models linking land use planning, natural resource conservation, and agricultural and forestry preservation in rural communities in Western Massachusetts.

Clean Air – Cool Planet
Portsmouth, NH
Adam Markham, Executive Director
$120,000 over two years to coordinate the development of the Connecticut Science Center Collaborative, a partnership of science museums and nature centers focused on educating audiences about climate change problems and solutions.

Connecticut Fund for the Environment
New Haven, CT
Donald Strait, Executive Director
$208,000 over three years to support citizen involvement, community programs and habitat restoration focused on the protection of Long Island Sound

Emerald Necklace Conservancy
Brookline, MA
Simone Auster, President
$70,000 over two years to support a senior project manager to oversee the Parks Overseers and work to increase parks stewardship, improve parks maintenance, and facilitate collaborative parks programming on the Emerald Necklace park system.

Environmental Grantmakers Association
New York, NY
Sarah Hansen, Executive Director
$1,165 over one year for membership in this national association of environmental funders. An additional $75 was paid as an administrative expense for total yearly dues of $1,240.

Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Coral Gables, FL
L. Benjamin Starrett, Executive Director
$1,500 over one year to support two New England regional training workshops for nonprofit organizations interested in strengthening their communications and skills relating to smart growth. D.F.

Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Coral Gables FL
L. Benjamin Starrett, Executive Director
$1,000 over one year for membership in a network of funders working to promote smart growth, livable communities and regional equity on a national and regional basis. D.F.

Maine Environmental Funders Network
Portland, ME
Janet Henry, Co-Chair
$1,000 over one year to support a collaboration of Maine environmental funders. D.F.

Maine Rivers
Hallowell, ME
Naomi Schalit, Executive Director
$35,000 over one year to conduct community organizing, education and advcacy for river clean up and protection in communities along the Androscoggin River in Maine.

Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance
Boston, MA
Kristina Egan, Director
$50,000 over one year for a partnership of housing, conservation, and land use planning organizations working to advance smart growth in Massachusetts.

MetroFutures, Inc.
Boston, MA
Marc Draisen, Executive Director
$150,000 over two years for the MetroFuture Project, a regional planning effort in metropolitan Boston.

Pioneer Valley Regional Ventures Center, Inc.
West Springfield, MA
Timothy Brennan, Executive Director
$75,000 over two years to work with municipalities and citizens to create a regional plan to promote compact growth and protect open spaces in the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts.

Southside Community Land Trust
Providence, RI
Katherine Brown, Executive Director
$25,000 over one year for the Urban Agriculture Task Force, to promote economic development, research, education and community outreach around sustainable agriculture in Greater Providence.

Toxics Action Center
Boston, MA
Alyssa Schuren, Executive Director
$35,000 over one year to support local community groups fighting toxics and pollution in Rhode Island.

The Trust for Public Land
Boston, MA
Nancy Kafka, Parks for People Program Director
$71,823 over two years for the Urban Conservation and Open Space Pilot Initiative, to identify and prioritize urban open space resources for ecological and recreational protection in Fall River, Holyoke, Lawrence, Somerville and Worcester, Massachusetts.

Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network (VECAN)
Montpelier, VT
Elizabeth Courtney, Executive Director, Vermont Natural Resources Council
$29,711.94 over one year for the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network, a collaboration of the Vermont Natural Resources Council, the Alliance for Climate Action and Sustainable Energy Resource Group.

Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council
Providence, RI
Jennifer Pereira, Executive Director
$70,000 over two years to expand greenspace and recreational opportunities in North Providence and Johnston, Rhode Island, and to improve water quality and river habitat throughout the watershed.

HEALTH

Boston Public Health Commission
Boston, MA
John Auerbach, Executive Director
$20,808 over one year for the Neighborhoods Organizing Against Drugs (NOdrugs), to address Boston’s substance abuse problem by supporting neighborhood coalitions and grassroots advocacy.

Child Health Services
Manchester, NH
Robert Nordgren, Executive Director
$110,000 over two years for the Manchester Child Health Law Program, a medical-legal collaboration program designed to combine the skills of health providers who provide health services to poor children with attorneys from New Hampshire Legal Assistance who can help solve civil legal issues that directly impact child health and welfare.

Family Advocacy Program, Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
Ellen Lawton, Director, Family Advocacy Program
$135,000 over two years for the New England Regional Medical-Legal Network, a collaboration of health providers and lawyers working to improve health access for poor through technical assistance and capacity building support for individual sites in New England.

Georgetown University, Institute for Health Care Research and Policy
Washington, D.C.
Cindy Mann, Research Professor
$2,500 over one year for the “Medicaid Matters” Campaign to work with Rhode Island and Maine state and community leaders to develop educational materials to encourage citizen engagement about the future of the federal-state Medicaid program. D.F.

Grantmakers In Health
Washington, D.C.
Lauren LeRoy, President and CEO
$1,000 over one year to support Grantmakers In Health Art & Science of Health Grantmaking, a two-day program, designed to help health-related philanthropy and corporate giving programs focus on fundamental operational challenges. D.F.

Grantmakers In Health
Washington, D.C.
Lauren LeRoy, President and CEO
$2,500 over one year for membership in national organization designed to facilitate communications, information-sharing, collaborative program planning, and funding among corporations/foundations. D.F.

Health Care Without Harm
Jamaica Plain, MA
Peter Diamond, Grants Manager
$50,000 over one year to promote green design, construction and operations in health care, focusing on green certification of hospitals and research facilities, and to promote green certification in the long-term care field.

Boston College f/b/o Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project
Newton, MA
Francine Sherman, Director
$105,000 over two years for the Girls’ Health Passport Project phase II, which will expand a new and unique health access model for health care for girls in Boston who have been committed to the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services for juvenile justice supervision.

MaineHealth
Portland, ME
William L. Carron, President
$50,000 over one year for a pilot project to increase access to free or low cost medications from pharmaceutical companies’ programs for uninsured and underinsured people in Maine.

Massachusetts Mental Health Diversion & Integration Program
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester MA
Maurice Richardson, Program Director
$80,000 over one year for a pilot project to provide case management for people with mental illness who are involved with the criminal justice system to access mental health and social services in Boston.

NAMI Maine
Augusta, ME
Carol Carothers, Executive Director
$70,000 over two years to expand the Crisis Intervention Team program, a collaboration between Maine’s law enforcement/corrections agencies and mental health providers to improve identification and treatment of individuals with serious mental and behavioral health problems.

Naugatuck Valley Project, Inc.
Waterbury, CT
Carol Burkhart-Lyons, Director
$40,000 over one year to improve access to health care by providing medical interpretation services at area hospitals and training for health care workers.

Rhode Island KIDS COUNT
Providence, RI
Elizabeth Bryant, Executive Director
$119,000 over three years to convene and staff a Children’s Mental Health Group, to make significant improvements in children’s access to the full range of mental health services that are necessary for an effective children’s mental health system in Rhode Island.

DEVELOPMENT OF PHILANTHROPY

Associated Grant Makers
Boston, MA
Ron Ancrum, President
$10,500 over one year for Plus level membership in the regional association of grantmakers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. D.F.

Connecticut Council for Philanthropy
Hartford, CT
Nancy Roberts, President
$1,200 over one year for membership in the regional association of grantmakers in Connecticut. D.F.

Council on Foundations
Washington, D.C.
Robert Wiggans, Director of Membership
$3,120 over one year for membership in the Council on Foundations to improve philanthropy at the national level. An additional $400 will be paid as an administrative expense for total yearly dues of $3,520. D.F.

Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island
Providence, RI
Susan Neupauer, Executive Director
$1,000 over one year for membership in regional association of grantmakers for Rhode Island. D.F.

Maine Philanthropy Center
Portland, ME
Janet Henry, President
$1,000 over one year for membership in regional association of Maine grantmakers. D.F.

FAMILY

Each year the Trust allocates a portion of the total grant dollars to support projects of interest to the trustees who are members of Jessie Cox’s family. These grants are not subject to the Trust’s guidelines, and unsolicited applications for this program are not considered.

Cotting Connection
Newton, MA
Diane Cotting, Executive Director
$25,000 over one year to develop a resource guide and host a series of seminars, to expand access to information, referrals and services for breast cancer survivors. Heidi Cox family grant.

Gardner Carney Leadership Institute
Colorado Springs, CO
Jeremy LaCasse, Acting Executive Director
$100,000 over two years for endowment support for the Institute, focused on training teachers in leadership development. Heidi Cox family grant.

Georgetown Day School
Washington, D.C.
Wes Gibson, Assistant Head of School
$100,000 over two years for the Georgetown Day School Ahead Capital Campaign to construct new and renovated upper school facilities and to continue to increase the school’s endowment. Jessie Hill family grant.

Nantucket Conservation Foundation, Inc.
Nantucket, MA
James Lentowski, Executive Director
$150,000 over three years to support the acquisition of the University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Station. Heidi Cox family grant.

Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Inc.
Boston, MA
Claudia Luck, Vice President for Development
$25,000 over one year for Let’s Be Honest!, a pilot parent education program to promote effective communication about sexuality between parents, other caregivers and middle-school aged children in Dorchester and Roxbury. Jessie Hill family grant.

Total Grants, 2005: $1,7157,685.75

D.F. = discretionary fund