2013 Grants

  1. Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
  2. Culture, Education and Leadership Development
  3. Environment and Community Building
  4. The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists
  5. Memberships
  6. Discretionary Grants

 

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

ACCION
$9,000 – The Brazilian Business Initiative

Artists For Humanity
$8,000 – Youth Arts Enterprise Program

Center for Women and Enterprise
$10,000 – Scholarships for Low Income Women

Crittenton Women’s Union
$10,000 – Economic Mobility Initiative

More Than Words
$7,500 – General Operating Support

Year Up
$9,000 – General Operating Support

SUBTOTAL $53,500

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Culture, Education, and Leadership Development

America Scores New England
$6,000 – Youth Development Program

American Indian College Fund (Nebraska)
$10,000 – Tribal Scholarship Program

Associated Grant Makers
$20,000 – Summer Fund

Babson College
$10,000 – The Posse Program Scholarship Fund

Bell Foundation
$10,000 – General Program Support

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
$10,000 – Support of the Early Access to College Program

Bird Street Community Center
$10,000 – Boys Glass Arts Entrepreneurship Program

Boston Partners in Education
$10,000 – Math Rules! Coaching/Mentoring Program

Bottom Line
$5,000 – Program costs, student workbooks, care packages, and occupancy expenses

Build – Greater Boston
$10,000 – Program Expenses

Cristo Rey Boston High School, Inc.
$7,000 – To fund one student work study position at a non-profit organization

Fund for Wellesley
$5,000 – Second of Five-Year Grant totaling $25,000

Generations, Inc.
$10,000 – General Operating Support

Let’s Get Ready
$10,000 – Program support to work with Boston Public Schools to raise SAT scores

Playworks Metro Boston
$10,000 – General Operating Support

South End Technology Center
$12,000 – Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Program

Summer Search
$7,000 – Support of the summer 3 week wilderness exploration program

Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center
$10,000 – Expanding and Refining the Connections Program

uAspire
$10,000 – Support of the College Advising Program

University of Massachusetts Foundation
$10,000 – Urban Scholars Program

Wellesley Historical Society
$25,000 – Capital Campaign

YMCA of Greater Boston
$15,000 – Summer programs

SUBTOTAL $222,000

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Environment and Community Building

Boston Natural Areas Network
$10,000 – Youth Conservation Corps

Franklin Park Coalition
$15,000 – Summer programs

SUBTOTAL $25,000

TOTAL COMPETITIVE $250,500

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The Susan A. Babson Opera Fund for Emerging Artists (recipients mandated by donor)

Boston Lyric Opera
Boston, MA
$11,435

Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$4,714 – Northeastern Regional Auditions

Metropolitan Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$11,714 – Lindemann Young Artist Development Program

TOTAL SOBOFEA $27,863

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Memberships

Associated Grant Makers
Boston, MA
$3,150 – 2013 Membership

Association of Small Foundations
Washington, DC
$625 – 2013 Membership

Council on Foundations
Washington, DC
$1,230 – 2013 Membership

TOTAL MEMBERSHIPS $5,005

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Discretionary Grants

350.ORG
$1,000 – Strategic campaigns to force politicians to rise to the challenge of our time.

American Friends of Christ Church
$10,000 – Operating Support

American Friends Service Committee
$1,000 – Operating support

Alzheimer’s Association
$1,000 – For Research

American Cancer Society
$1,000 – Operating Support

Arlington Street Church
$5,000 – Repairs and Maintenance of the buildings and grounds.

Babson College
$1,000 – Operating Support of the Archive
$2,500 – Out Network
$2,500 – Prism Program

Bay State Performing Arts
$10,000 – General Operating Support
$10,000 – Endowment

Boston Arts Academy
$1,000 – Youth Scholarship “General Fund”

The Boston Foundation
$2,000 – For the Equality Fund

Boston Healthcare for the Homeless
$2,000 – Provision of essential resources to homeless families

Boston Public Library Foundation
$1,000 – Homework Programs at Branch Libraries

Boston Symphony Orchestra
$1,000 – Youth Programs

British Schools and Universities Foundation
$2,500 – The Uppingham School

Charles River Watershed Association
$1,000 – Clean-up of the river and kids programs

Children’s Aid Society
$1,000 – For the New York Time’s Neediest Families

The Children’s Defense Fund
$2,000 – Advocacy to End Child Poverty, and for the 40th Anniversary of CDF

Corporate Angel Network
$1,000 – Provide children with cancer with transportation to and from treatment facilities

Crittenton Women’s Union
$1,000 – Horizon’s Transitional Housing Program

Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center
$2,000 – CMARS Program & Operating Support

Dana Hall School
$6,000 – Annual Fund

Deerfield Academy
$1,000 – Native American Alliance

Defenders of the Black Hills
$1,000 – Operating Support

Elizabeth Stone House
$1,000 – Parent and Child Center

Emmanuel College
$10,000 – General Operating and Academic Support in Memory of Dr. Davies

Environmental Defense Fund
$5,000 – For the Land, Water, and Wildlife Program at the Catalyst Level

Esplanade Association
$1,000 – Planning and Support

Five College Program on Peace and World Security Studies
$2,500 – Operating support

Fonkoze USA
$2,000 – Haiti Relief

Friends of Copley Square
$1,000 – Operating Support

Friends of the Public Garden, Inc.
$1,000 – Operating Support

Friendship Home
$1,000 – General Operating Support

From the Top
$2,000 – Radio Program

Fund for Southern Communities
$1,500 – For the Grant Fund Pool

Grassroots International
$2,000 – Operating Support

Haymarket People’s Fund
$5,000 – Grant fund pool

Helen Keller International
$1,000 – Leadership Work to Prevent Blindness

Historic Deerfield/SAB Fund
$3,000 – Children’s Programs

Human Rights Watch
$1,000 – For the Lois Whitman Fund at the Children’s Rights Division

Human Rights First
$1,000 – New Project: Trafficking

InnerCity Weightlifting
$1,000 – General Operating Support

International Buddhist Center (Maryland)
$3,000 – To support educational work in the USA and Sri Lanka

International Rescue Committee – New York
$2,000 – For IRC relief work in the Philippines

International Rescue Committee – United Kingdom
$1,000 – For work with Syrian Refugees

La Piñata
$1,500 – Operating support

Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
$2,000 – Operating Support

Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness
$5,000 – Youth enrichment and empowerment program “2020” Focus

Massachusetts General Hospital
$1,000 – For the Alan D. Hilgenberg, MD, Lecture in Thoracic Aortic Disease

Miami University Foundation
$5,000 – For the Ann Louise Wilkinson Scholarship

Mt. Toby Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends
$1,000 – Operating support

Museum of Fine Arts
$1,000 – Youth Programs

Museum of Science
$1,000 – Camp-in Program

Mystic Seaport
$1,000 – Children’s Education Programs

National Resources Defense Council, Inc.
$5,000 – For work on Water Issues and Climate Change

New England Buddhist Vihara & Meditation Center
$1,000 – General Support
$1,000 – The Meditation Building Fund

New England Disabled Sports
$1,000 – N.E. General Operations (as needed)

New Hampshire Public Television
$2,000 – Operating Support

Nipponzan Myohoji USA
$2,000 – Operating support
$1,000 – Peace Pagoda, Leverett
$500 – Peace Pagoda, London
$500 – Peace Pagoda, Sri Lanka

Nonviolent Peace Force
$1,000 – Protection of children in South Sudan

One Fund Boston
$10,000 – To aid the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings

Partners Homecare & Hospice
$1,000 – In Home Hospice Programs

Peace Action Education Fund
$2,500 – Support of the student network S.P.A.N.

Perkins School for the Blind
$1,000 – Early Intervention and Guide Dog Programs

Phillips Academy
$5,000 – Richard Babson ’76 Fund

Purple Hearts Homes
$1,000 – Veterans Home Ownership Program

Reach Out and Read
$1,000 – Boston Programs

Red Tomato
$1,000 – Operating support

Rosie’s Place
$1,000 – Shelter/Job Training

Sarvodaya USA (projects in Sri Lanka)
$500 – Sponsor a child
$500 – Permanent Housing
$500 – Playgrounds
$500 – Sarvodaya Orphanage
$1,500 – Sarvodaya Children’s Orphanage

School Year Abroad
$1,000 – General Operating Support

South Hadley Public Library
$2,500 – The Building Fund

Special Olympics
$1,000 – General Operations for programs in NE and NH

Sri Lanka Association of New England
$1,000 – Sri Lankan Dance & Drum tradition among Sri Lankan origin children

Stanford University
$10,000 – Stanford Endowment Fund, Undergraduate Scholarships, and the President’s Fund

Trustees of Phillips Academy
$3,000 – To the Addison Gallery of Art for the purchase of work by Martin Wong

UVA Fund
$1,000 – Jefferson Literary & Debating Society’s Room #7 Endowment Fund

UVA Law School
$2,500 – Operating Support

Veteran’s Education Project
$5,000 – Operating support

WGBH
$2,000 – Children’s Programming

Wellesley Free Library
$10,000 – Unrestricted Portion of the Centennial Fund

Wellesley Scholarship Foundation
$3,000 – P&E, S&D, & J. Michael Harding Scholarships Endowment

Zing Foundation
$2,000 – Operating Support

TOTAL DISCRETIONARY $223,000

 

2013 GRAND TOTAL $556,368

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