Photo Collaborative
Project Image is a summer photography/employment program for urban teens whose participants are drawn from Boston neighborhoods. By communicating about themselves, their peers, families and the environment through photographs, Project Image participants give voice to their personal and social concerns while strengthening their role in the community.
$3,726

Newton South Tennis Teams
Linda  volunteered as assistant coach for the girl's team for eleven years to ensure the continued success of the program when the coaching position was cut from the school budget. To continue her legacy the fund will contribute the cost necessary for a coach for both the girl's and boy's teams.
$3,000

Ballet Rox
Ballet Rox is an intensive dance training program in which racially diverse Boston children, ages 8 to 16, from low-income households study and perform ballet, tap, hip-hop, flamenco, dance history, and music appreciation. A highlight of the year is their performance, Urban Nutcracker.   The grant this year will subsidize tickets so more more children can attend the performance.
$3,000

Camp Avoda Alumni Association
This grant will be used to provide a scholarship for a young boy to attend Camp Avoda for one month in the summer of 2003.  For over 75 years Camp Avoda has provided Jewish boys a safe and fun filled camping experience. Located on Lake Tispaquin, Camp Avoda offers a wide range of activities catered to a boy's individual interests.
$2,750

VSA Arts
VSA Arts’ program, Putting Creativity to Work, allows middle and high school students with disabilities from the Boston area to fulfill their interest in the arts by providing them with concrete job skills and studio experience.  This program will help them jumpstart their career in the art field.  Students will also take part in the Extreme Week program at Massachusetts College of Art, an intensive week long studio art program offered during the April vacation week.
$2,500

Make-A-Wish Foundation
Our donation will help a Massachusetts child with a life-threatening illness wish come true.  The wish of each child is different and reflects the unique and personal sense of their dreams.  The Make-A-Wish foundation ensures that they will do everything possible to make each wish a reality and one which the family will remember and cherish. 
$2,500

Artists for Humanity
Our donation to Artists For Humanity’s Web Design will engage and empower inner-city teens through website development and its numerous career opportunities.  It will provide the youth participants with the opportunity to combine their artistic talents with newly acquired information technology skills.  The program gives hands on experience in the methods or art and business. 
$2,500

Bring Back the Music
This in school program provides 4th and 5th graders instrumental music instruction at two Boston Public Elementary Schools.  This program began after funding was eliminated from the school budget. A group of individuals realized that the school stilled owned the instruments, so they set out to find funds to pay for instructors.
$2,500

Project Parents
Our grant will allow Project Parents to bring 5 reading parties to a Community Center in Boston. A reading party is Project Parents’ innovative way of helping to make reading and writing fun by creating a festive environment to deliver reading games. At every party, each family attending receives a free book, and prizes are awarded.  
$2,500

Island Alliance
Island Alliance’s BEAN (Boston’s Environmental Ambassadors to the National Park Service) is an after school program for youths ages 14-18 from the Boston area.  It is an environmental internship and mentoring program that is in conjunction with the new Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area.  This program provides a hands-on approach to teaching the children respect and stewardship for the harbor and islands by getting them out on the water and on the islands.
$2,500

Roxbury Presbyterian
Our grant went to the Roxbury Presbyterian Social Impact Center to fund the further development and expansion of their after school program.  The program is for low income children and their families and provides both educational and enrichment activities.  This grant will also enable Roxbury Presbyterian increase the number of children it serves in the after school program.
$2,500

Tenacity
The goal of this intensive program is to uplift children’s lives by providing tennis, academic tutoring, and life-skill development for urban youth.
$2,500

Special Olympics Tennis
This grant is two-fold.  The first part it to pay for the court time necessary for the  season so that the "Shamrocks" will be able to practice and be ready to participate in matches.   The second is to buy uniforms so the team will look unified for the matches.  Each player is dedicated to the sport of tennis and continues to improve, while having fun.
$2,000

Carter School
Our donation to the Carter School was to help fund their new Sensory Garden Outdoor Classroom.  This garden is for mentally and physically challenged children so that they may be able to experience the outdoors in a comfortable environment.  An important aspect of the garden is that the children use all five of their senses to learn and understand how beautiful nature is.
$2,000

Kids Karate
Kids' Karate facilitates the development of self-esteem, self-confidence and self-discipline through top-quality martial arts instruction by highly skilled and experienced instructors. In addition, the program fosters the development of courtesy and mutual respect in ethnically diverse and co-educational classes. Our grant to Kids' Karate will help to sustain and develop their Roxbury branch .
$2,000

Medicine Wheel
Medicine Wheel Productions brings teenagers from South Boston through the transition from adolescence to adulthood by involving them in community service public art projects.   Under the guidance of artists and volunteers, the youths participate in the design and construction, as well as manage the continued development of the art project.
$2,000

Social Capital Inc.
This organization is dedicated to building social capital and increasing civic engagement.  It is a relatively new program which helps 225 youths in Woburn, MA.  SCI’s top priority is the promotion of active citizenship among young people.  The organization believes that teaching citizenship is one of the core aspects of education. 
$2,000

Jewish Big Brother & Big Sister Association
The Jewish Big Brother & Big Sister Association plays an important role in: Helping children and parents who have experienced loss; Ensuring the continuity of Jewish life for single parent families; Working with new American families to succeed in an unfamiliar culture; and Aiding children facing unprecedented complexities and stress in their lives.
$3,600

Children's Hospital Seder Fund
Many patients that are in the Hospital during Passover are unable to leave their rooms to attend a Seder.  This grant allowed each patient to get a "Passover survival kit", which included a Seder plate and a kosher for Passover meal to share with their family.
$1,572

Peace Drum Project
This project uses visual and performing arts to help teens develop valuable life and social skills while learning how to express themselves. The at-risk Boston Youth meet after school and are partnered with a senior citizen from their community.  This grant provides for 10 stipends.
$1,500

City Stage
We are excited to support City Stage’s South End After School Performing Art’s Program.  This program is a theater education program serving 60 youths between the ages of 9 and 18.  The youths are from 4 South End public housing communities.  The goals of the program are to provide urban children from low income families with safe, organized, productive activities for after school.  The also offer the opportunity for children to participate in the Arts who would otherwise not be able to do so.
$1,492

Zumix
Zumix is a non-profit organization that provides life skills to youths ages 8-18 from many diverse backgrounds through the arts.  Music is the main focus, and it is through learning to play an instrument that youths gain self worth and the confidence to try other new things that will enrich them for life.   
$1,000

Somerville Arts Council
The Arts Council works on a grass roots level to create imaginative and resourceful programming that is accessible to all to the City's residents--with a focus on reaching youth and families who typically have little access to arts and culture. This grant supports the Art in a Garden free summer outdoor arts and environmental program.
$1,000

Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay
Our grant will enable Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay to make a new Big Brother/ Little Brother match. Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay’s mission is to promote the healthy development of children through the nurturing of continuing, one-to-one friendships with caring responsible adults, supported by trained professional staff.
$1,000

Hospital Clown Troupe
The Hospital Clown Troupe has volunteers who visit the Boston Hospitals to bring love and laughter to children who are carrying the heavy burden of illness.  Last year, the clowns brought smiles to over 3600 children.  Our donation will enable them to continue to touch the lives of these children along with many more.
$500