Grant Category: Education
New Bedford Research and Robotics
New Bedford, MA
Amount granted: $44,500
Grant year: 2024
Grant category: Education
$44,500 to support the Women Artists and Technologists in Residence Program (WATiR).
New Bedford Research & Robotics (NBRR) is an inclusive innovation, education, and entrepreneurship laboratory located in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It was founded in 2021 to empower creatives and entrepreneurs by granting them access to extraordinary tools and to foster a community where diverse interests thrive and contribute. The pilot Women Artists and Technologists in Residence Program (WATiR) program aims to provide a supportive environment for artists who want access to industrial robotics and digital manufacturing technology, fostering critical dialog, creativity and collaboration.
Anseye Pou Ayiti (APA)
Haiti
Amount granted: $35,000
Grant year: 2024
Grant categories: Education, Human Services
$35,000 grant to support the Coaching Institute’s inaugural cohort.
Anseye Pou Ayiti (APA) was launched in 2014 to build a movement of local civic leaders to create a Haitian education system fueled by collective leadership and community development. Through its fellowship programming, APA is equipping civic leaders with the knowledge and skills necessary for transformational teaching and local leadership. Program activities include immersion training, professional development workshops, individualized coaching, and community activities. Teacher leaders learn student-centered, context-specific teaching techniques and ways to amplify student success beyond classroom instruction.
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.
Deerfield Academy
Deerfield, MA
Amount granted: $15,000
Grant year: 2024
Grant category: Education
$15,000 to provide supplemental financial aid to qualifying Deerfield students through the Katy Textor Farmer Fund.
Deerfield Academy is an independent, co-educational academic institution founded in 1797, and recognized today as a leader, both nationally and internationally, in secondary school education.
Boston Collegiate Charter School
Boston, MA
Amount granted: $20,000
Grant year: 2024
Grant category: Education
$20,000 to allow the school to purchase the LLI reading systems for all grades.
Founded in 1998, BCCS serves 700 students from Boston in grades five through 12. Its mission is to prepare each student for college by providing high quality differentiated instruction to all students.
Mesa Global Academy
Washington, DC
Amount granted: $37,500
Grant year: 2022
Grant category: Education
$37,500 to support the research and travel expenses of 5 new scholars participating in the Global Academy.
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) represents the largest network of Middle Eastern, European, and North American scholars – across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences – specialized in the study of this region. MESA promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications, and services that enhance education, further intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic freedom. MESA has launched the MESA Global Academy, in conjunction with the SUNY Graduate Center in New York to harness the strengths of its network of institutional and individual members to sustain research collaborations and knowledge production between scholars from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and their counterparts outside the region.
Neighborhood House Charter School
Dorchester, MA
Amount granted: $20,000
Grant year: 2021
Grant category: Education
$20,000 to support the Kevin Andrews Leadership Institute which is designed to attract, support, and retain highly qualified teachers, particularly those from historically under-represented minority groups, by offering dynamic opportunities for classroom educators to grow their leadership skills while contributing to NHCS’ development as an anti-racist organization.
Neighborhood House Charter School (NHCS) is a tuition-free open enrollment charter school for grades K1-12 in Dorchester, MA that is a public alternative to traditional district schools. Neighborhood House Charter School serves a diverse population of learners: of its more than 800 students, 84% of students are Black, Latinx, or of multi-racial backgrounds, with 9% considered English Language Learners, 67% high needs, and 52% economically disadvantaged by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It offers a full spectrum of programs including general education and full-inclusion as well as partial-inclusion and substantially-separate programs for small groups of students with significant disabilities.
Ms. JD
Walnut, CA
Amount granted: $25,000
Grant year: 2021
Grant category: Education
$25,000 to launch its Women of Color Initiative with a specific focus on disrupting barriers to the advancement of women of color through law school and into their early careers. As a result of this initiative, the experiences of these women of color in law school will improve and they will be more likely to complete their education and launch sustaining careers in the profession.
Ms. JD seeks to support and improve the experiences of women law students and lawyers through its blog, programming, virtual course library, resources and online community of thousands of women in the profession. Its goal is to expand and retain, while eliminating barriers to, a robust, diverse pipeline of women in the legal profession in the U.S. by providing an accessible network of training, mentoring and support from pre-law through early career.
Karuna Center for Peace Building
Amherst, MA
Amount granted: $10,000
Grant year: 2020
Grant category: Education
$10,000 to support the Erasure and Restoration lecture series, a community dialogue and lecture series on ‘Erasure and Restoration: An Exploration of Past and Present in the “Kwinitekw” River Valley’s Indigenous Communities’.
Karuna Center has 25 years of international experience in post-conflict healing and reconciliation in over 30 countries. Its mission is to empower people divided by conflict to develop mutual understanding and create sustainable peace and work where violent conflict has pitted ethnic or religious groups against each other, often examining the historical legacies left behind. Karuna Center leads initiatives to bridge damaging social and political divides and trains local leaders in conflict mitigation techniques.
Boston Collegiate Charter School
Boston, MA
Amount granted: $25,550`
Grant year: 2020
Grant category: Education
$25,550 to allow the school to purchase literacy intervention reading systems for all grades that will be available to all students who are learning remotely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Founded in 1998, BCCS serves a diverse student body of 700 students from Boston in grades five through 12 and maintains a waitlist of over 1,700 students. Its mission is to prepare each student for college by providing high quality differentiated instruction to all students. All BCCS students receive challenging college-preparatory and career exploration programming, which begins in fifth grade and extends beyond graduation to include robust alumni support.