all-years Grant Recipients

Community Boat Building

Boston, MA

Amount granted: $20,000

Grant year: 2024

Grant categories: Education, Human Services

 

$20,000 to cover the videographer’s services, video production, and the creation of educational resources for teacher training.

Community Boat Building’s (CBB) mission is to bring real world experience and academic skills together to stimulate excitement for learning among low-income students in public schools in Boston and the surrounding areas through boat building and coastal experiences. CBB introduces approximately 160 5th graders each year to the accessibility and wonders of Boston Harbor, its islands, rivers, and history, while developing spatial thinking skills and reinforcing core academic subjects–math, geometry, science, social studies, and literacy. For most of its students, The core concept of the program revolves around wooden rowboats, which are built with teams of 5-6 students each. The process uses high-quality materials, limited student group size, and a cadre of volunteers to ensure each boat, and student, reaches its potential.

Wooden Boat Cover

communityboatbuilding.org

Community Cooks

Somerville, MA

Amount granted: $10,000

Grant year: 2014

Grant category: Human Services

 

To expand its food delivery capacity by supporting its corporate initiative, “Serving Circle.”

Community Cooks

Somerville, MA

Amount granted: $25,000

Grant year: 2017

Grant category: Human Services

 

To be used for increased program development activities and boosting effectiveness and efficacy via improved use of technology.

Community Cooks offers free, home-cooked meals to vulnerable populations seeking assistance from direct-service programs. In contributing nutritious and much-needed food, Community Cooks aim to: feed hungry neighbors who might otherwise go without; build a bridge of caring between volunteers and community members in need; and support conditions for program participants to achieve success by alleviating their hunger needs.  Community Cooks is a diverse network of 900 volunteers who prepare and deliver 142 home-cooked group meals each month to 43 Greater Boston direct-service organizations, working on a range of social issues including homelessness, domestic violence, substance abuse and issues affecting at-risk youth and low-income seniors.  

www.communitycooks.org