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Boston After School & Beyond

Boston After School & Beyond seeks to catalyze a partnership of the City of Boston, the local philanthropic community and the city’s business and civic leadership to design and implement a successful youth development strategy for the children of Boston. Visit Boston After School & Beyond to learn more.

Boston Learning Center

The mission of the Boston Learning Center is to transform motivation in order to promote ownership of the learning process in middle and high school students so that they can realize their full potential in school and in life. Visit the Boston Learning Center to learn more.

Boston Pride

The Boston Pride Committee, serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and ally community, works to enhance the visibility of Boston’s LGBT community through a week of events each June, in conjunction with year long activities, to promote LGBT awareness, dignity and understanding. Visit Boston Pride to learn more.

Boston Scholars Program

The mission of the Boston Scholars Program is to open doors for disadvantaged youths through educational opportunity. We achieve our mission by granting scholarships to meritorious Boston-area students who have demonstrated a pressing financial need, and by pairing these "Boston Scholars" with mentors from the Boston professional community who share similar academic and professional interests.

The Boston Scholars Program opens the door to new educational opportunities and provides the positive influences necessary to guide our scholars through the challenges of high school and the help they need to open up a world of opportunities previously not thought possible. Visit the Boston Scholars Program to learn more.

Boston Senior Home Care

Boston Senior Home Care is dedicated to ensuring that elders and others from culturally diverse backgrounds, particularly those of limited means, can remain in their homes or in other supportive settings with dignity and independence. Visit Boston Senior Home Care to learn more.

Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood

CCFC advocates for the adoption of government policies that limit corporate marketers’ access to children. We mobilize parents, educators, and health care providers to stop the commercial exploitation of children. Visit the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood to learn more.

Cape Eleuthera Foundation and The Island School

The Cape Eleuthera Foundation supports the activities of The Island School, which takes students away from traditional high school curriculum to confront authentic challenges. Classes are designed to help student develop leadership and teamwork skills, as they allow first-hand engagement with the people and environment of The Bahamas.  Visit CEF/The Island School to learn more.   

The Center for Legal Aid Education

The mission of the Center for Legal Aid Education (CLAE), is to provide equal justice advocates, through high quality, accessible continuing education and training, with the tools they need to obtain justice for their clients. Visit CLAE to learn more.

Center for Nonprofits and Voting

Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network (NVEN) is dedicated to expanding the role of America’s nonprofits in voting and elections. NVEN works with state nonprofit VOTE initiatives and its national website to provide resources and tools for 501(c)(3) nonprofits to help their communities participate and vote. Visit the Center for Nonprofits and Voting to learn more.

Center to Support Immigrant Organizing

The mission of the Center to Support Immigrant Organizing (CSIO) is to support and help develop the work of individuals, groups, organizations and communities dedicated to organizing immigrants around the issues that affect their lives. Visit CSIO to learn more.

Centering Healthcare Institute

The mission of Centering Healthcare Institute, Inc. (CHI) is to change the paradigm of health services to a group care model in order to improve the overall health outcomes of mothers, babies, new families and all individuals across the life cycle.

CHI promotes the Centering model to the general public and provides education, training, and support for individuals and organizations throughout the world. Visit CHI to learn more.

Chefs Collaborative

Chefs Collaborative works with chefs and the greater food community to celebrate local foods and foster a more sustainable food supply. The Collaborative inspires action by translating information about our food into tools for making knowledgeable purchasing decisions. Through these actions, our members embrace seasonality, preserve diversity and traditional practices and support local economies. Visit Chefs Collaborative to learn more.

The Civic Ed Project

The Civic Ed Project improves and expands civic education through the design and implementation of innovative civics programs and curricula. We achieve this goal through collaboration with institutional partners, including high schools, school districts, colleges, law schools, libraries, historical societies,  courthouses, community-based organizations, and other educational nonprofits. Visit the Civic Ed Project to learn more.

Compass Working Capital

Compass Working Capital promotes economic security for working, low-income families by providing comprehensive money management training, matched savings products and access to other financial services. Visit Compass Working Capital to learn more.

Diploma Plus

Diploma Plus small high schools incorporate a supportive school culture, a performance-based approach, future focus and effective supports in order to increase opportunities for students so that they graduate college- and career-ready. Visit Diploma Plus to learn more.

Disability Rights Fund

The Disability Rights Fund is dedicated to building community capacity to achieve the human rights of all persons with physical, sensory, psycho-social and intellectual disabilities. The fund is a unique partnership between funders and the disability community to enlarge the resources available for realization of rights in the Global South and in Eastern Europe/former Soviet Union at country level. Visit Disability Rights Fund to learn more.

Easter Seals Massachusetts

Easter Seals provides services to ensure that children and adults with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play. Our vision is to ensure that all people with disabilities are empowered to reach their full potential. Visit Easter Seals Massachusetts to learn more.

Edvance Foundation

The Edvance Foundation is a nonprofit organization that strengthens partnerships between public and private institutions of higher education, develops programs that foster greater access and choice for college-bound students, and promotes best practices in institutional operations, management and governance. Visit the Edvance Foundation to learn more.

Ethical Investment Research Services

EIRIS is the leading global provider of independent research into the social, environmental and ethical performance of companies. Visit EIRIS to learn more.

FrameWorks Institute

The mission of the FrameWorks Institute is to advance the nonprofit sector's communications capacity by identifying, translating and modeling relevant scholarly research for framing and re-framing the public discourse about social problems. FrameWorks conducts communications research to aid nonprofit organizations in expanding their constituency base, build public will, and further public understanding of specific social issues. Visit FrameWorks Institute to learn more.

Frederick E. Weber Charities

Frederick E. Weber Charities provides financial grants to social and human service organizations serving low-income and disadvantaged families and individuals.

Generation Citizen

Generation Citizen’s mission is to expand democratic participation among youth populations that have been historically under-represented or actively excluded from the political process. Visit Generation Citizen to learn more.

The Green Restaurant Association

The Green Restaurant Association is an international nonprofit organization committed to helping restaurants achieve environmental sustainability by helping them proceed through 11 environmental guidelines, including energy, water, food, recycling and green building. Using a collaborative service-oriented style, the GRA provides consulting, education, certification and public relations services. Visit Green Restaurant Association to learn more.

Kaya Children International

Kaya Children International is committed to seeking, securing and promoting social justice for children on the streets of Bolivia and around the world. Visit Kaya Children International to learn more.

The Lend a Hand Society

The Lend a Hand Society provides emergency and other financial assistance to low-income families, individuals, elderly and disabled people primarily in Massachusetts. Working with advocates at nonprofit and governmental social service agencies who make requests on behalf of their clients, Lend a Hand Society helps them meet their basic needs in a timely, dignified way. Visit the Lend a Hand Society to learn more.

Let’s Get Ready

Let's Get Ready (LGR) is the nation’s largest network of student-run college access programs. Through LGR, deserving high school students get to college and college students gain experience teaching in urban schools. Visit Let’s Get Ready to learn more.

Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The Massachusetts Nonprofit Network strengthens the nonprofit sector statewide through advocacy, capacity-building, and public awareness. Visit the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network to learn more.

Massachusetts Ocean Partnership

The Massachusetts Ocean Partnership works to foster resilient ocean ecosystems so they can provide the goods, services and sustainable economies we all want and need. Visit the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership to learn more.

More Than Wheels

More Than Wheels is an award-winning nonprofit organization that helps people get the best deal on a reliable and fuel-efficient car. Since its establishment in 2001, More Than Wheels has helped nearly 1,200 New England residents get the best deal on a new or nearly new car by negotiating with dealers to secure the lowest price and providing the lowest interest rate available. They provide personal financial education by giving people the tools and knowledge they need to improve and maintain their financial stability-now and in the future. As a result of the new car and empowered with the knowledge and skills, many are able to improve their job prospects, their family’s health and well-being, their credit and overall financial stability. Visit More Than Wheels to learn more.

Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights

Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights  is an international, non-governmental organization of family members of murder victims and family members of the executed, all of whom oppose the death penalty in all cases. MVFHR views the death penalty as a profound violation of human rights. Visit MVFHR to learn more.

Nelson Mandela Children's Fund – USA

The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund strives to change the way society treats its children and youth. Our mission is to give voice and dignity to the African child by building a child rights movement. Visit the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund to learn more.

Northeast States Center for a Clean Air Future

Through innovative collaborations involving business, academic, government, and grassroots organizations, NESCCAF works to create effective solutions to critical clean air issues that harmonize environmental, public heath, economic and other societal goals. Visit NESCCAF to learn more.

Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management

NESCAUM is a nonprofit association of air quality agencies in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Jersey and New York. NESCAUM provides scientific, technical, analytical and policy support to the air quality and climate programs of the eight states. Visit NESCAUM to learn more.

Nonprofit Finance Fund

With seven offices throughout the United States, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is a national leader in improving the financial health of nonprofit organizations, helping them to sustain and expand their ability to serve their communities. NFF strives to bring about fundamental change across the nonprofit sector in the form of broader capital access, better financial practices and improved business knowledge. Since its inception, NFF has helped more than 10,000 nonprofits implement sustainable growth. The organization has lent $150 million and leveraged more than $750 million of capital investment on behalf of nonprofit clients. Visit NFF to learn more.

Primary Care Progress

Primary Care Progress is engaging communities to transform our primary healthcare system. Primary Care Progress engages trainees in exciting efforts to reinvent health care delivery and reform training, trains and supports groups working to promote primary healthcare and fosters primary care community at local and national levels. Visit Primary Care Progress to learn more.

Roots & Shoots, a Program of the Jane Goodall Institute

Roots & Shoots engages and inspires youth about the environment, animals and the human community through community service and service learning. Founded by Dr. Jane Goodall, this global program emphasizes the principle that knowledge leads to compassion, which inspires action. Roots & Shoots has 8,000 youth groups worldwide and 250 here in New England. Visit Roots & Shoots to learn more.

Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence

Safe Havens Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence's mission is to empower faith communities and leaders through education, advocacy and resources to respond to victims of abuse and their families. Safe Havens builds bridges between faith communities and domestic violence service providers to support a coherent community-wide response, and works to build an interfaith movement to end violence in the home. Visit Safe Havens to learn more.

The SAMFund

The broad mission of Surviving And Moving Forward: The SAMFund for Young Adult Survivors of Cancer is to assist cancer survivors in the United States between the ages of 17 and 35 with their transition into a successful post-treatment life. The foundation will distribute grants and scholarships in an effort to enable survivors to pursue their educational or professional goals, as well as offer outreach and information about the post-recovery transition to those approaching the end of treatment.

The SAMFund seeks to provide the most extensive support possible, and to help young adult survivors move forward with their lives after cancer. Visit the SAMFund to learn more.

Shalupe Foundation

The foundation's mission is to play a key role in supporting a vital and vibrant integrated framework for the underserved Congolese population. They address every critical need by providing services, projects, information and education to meet every challenge. Visit the Shalupe Foundation to learn more.

South Africa Partners

South Africa Partners is a nonprofit organization that connects people in the United States with their counterparts in South Africa to share the skills, talent and resources required to build the New South Africa. Visit South Africa Partners to learn more.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Susan G. Komen for the Cure is a global leader in the fight against breast cancer, supporting innovative research as well as education, screening and treatment projects in communities around the world. Visit the Susan G. Komen Foundation to learn more.

Third Sector New England

Third Sector New England provides management support to strengthen individual nonprofits and help the sector advance social justice. Visit TSNE to learn more.

Tutors for All

Tutors for All bridges the achievement gap one student at a time. Through the creation of partnerships between colleges, public schools, and community agencies, they offer underserved urban adolescents the systematic one-on-one instruction they need in order to thrive. Students in the Tutors for All programs have shown dramatically improved MCAS scores, significantly higher grades in their high school classes, and renewed and deeper confidence in their academic abilities. Tutors for All is committed to helping all Boston area youth excel in high school, graduate from college, and thrive in life. Visit Tutors for All to learn more.

VSA Massachusetts

VSA Massachusetts develops arts-based teaching strategies so students with and without disabilities can learn together more effectively. The organization promotes the inclusion of people with disabilities into the cultural life of communities and develops ways to incorporate arts-based teaching strategies in schools, opening new windows onto the general curriculum for all students. Visit VSA Massachusetts to learn more.

World Society for the Protection of Animals

The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) is the world’s largest network for animal welfare. It brings together over 800 Member Societies in more than 147 countries and a whole community of individuals around the world who care about animal welfare. Visit the WSPA to learn more.

Young Audiences of Massachusetts

Young Audiences of Massachusetts focuses on providing students with access to quality arts programs by offering programs in music, theater, dance, storytelling and visual arts in the form of on-location performance assemblies, workshops, residencies and professional development seminars. Visit Young Audiences of Massachusetts to learn more.