Capacity Building

Amazing Things Arts Center (atac): $20,000 - Strategic Planning

Big Brothers Big Sisters of CM/MW: $20,000 - Capacity Building through a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Lens

Crossroads Continuum: $20,000 - Creating a High Performing Culture

Girls, Inc.: $11,000 - Quality Improvement Process through Evaluation and Professional Learning

Jeff’s Place, Framingham, MA: $20,000 - Strategic Planning

Jewish Family Service of Metrowest, Framingham, MA: $14,000 - Advancing a JFS Trauma Informed Culture

SPARK Kindness: $20,000 - Evaluating our Impact to Further our Mission

Youth Emotional Well-Being

First Connections/JRI: $20,000 - ParentChild+ Program

Framingham State University Foundation: $20,000 - Bolstering Children's Resilience Both at Home and in Schools

The Guild for Human Services, Concord, MA: $20,000 - Creating Sensory Friendly Spaces to Improve Trauma Informed Care

Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange, Inc.: $15,000 - Weekend Family Connections - Family Matching and Support

Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, MA: $20,000 - Framingham Environmental and Social Literacy Program (FESL)

MetroWest Mediation Services, Natick, MA: $20,000 - Peer Mediation Training and Coordination at Framingham High School

Metrowest YMCA, Framingham, MA: $20,000 - Imbedding Tools for Success - Addressing the Youth Mental Health Crisis

New England Community Services, Inc., Brockton, MA: $20,000 - Performance Advantage Engagement - a sports psychology program for underserved high school student athletes

Samaritans, Boston, MA: $10,000 - Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention in MetroWest

Invitation (Multi-year General Operating Support)

Boys and Girls Club of Assabet Valley: $100,000

Literations: $100,000

Camp Casco: $100,000

Capacity Building

• Danny’s Place Youth Services: $20,000 - Individual Donor Strategy Program

• MetroWest Legal Services: $20,000 - Sharepoint Migration Project

• SPARK Kindness: $20,000 - Accessibility-Centered Website Redesign Project

• ThinkGive, Inc: $20,000 - Improving Communications with Stakeholders

• Wayside Youth & Family Support Network: $14,322 - Enhancing Electronic Health Records Reporting Capabilities

Youth Emotional Well-Being

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of CM/MW: $20,000 - 60 Men (of color) to Mentors in MetroWest

• Boys & Girls Club of Assabet Valley: $20,000 - Summer Field Trips

• Camp Casco: $20,000 - Overnight Camp for Childhood Cancer Patients and Survivors

• Chica Project: $20,000 - Mental Health of Young Women of Color Program Expansion

• Concord Prison Outreach: $10,000 - Program Implementation and Expansion

• First Connections/JRI: $20,000 - ParentChild+ Program

• Framingham State University Foundation /The Chris Walsh Center for Educators and Families of MetroWest: $18,367 - Family Educational Programming and Support Group

• Literations: $20,000 - Framingham Sustained Tutoring Program

• Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program: $10,640 - Klarman Eating Disorders Center Pilot Program

• Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange, Inc.: $20,000 - Weekend Family Connections

• SMILE Mass, Inc.: $20,000 - Club SMILE Mass

Invitation (Multi-year General Operating Support)

• Boys and Girls Club of MetroWest: $200,000

• Discovering Hidden Gems: $50,000

• Hoops and Homework: $50,000

• MetroWest College Planning Collaborative: $150,000

Youth Emotional Well-Being Grants

• Bethany Hill Place, Framingham, MA: $20,000 - To support youth programming for low-income youth facing homelessness.

• Boys & Girls Club of Assabet Valley, Maynard, MA: $20,000 - To support summer programming and the Beyond the Bell after-school programming.

• Chica Project, Quincy, MA: $20,000 - To expand youth development programming in Framingham.

• Danny’s Place, Acton, MA: $16,140 - To expand the Sparks & Me program.

• Discovery Museum, Acton, MA: $11,500 - To expand the Nature Passport Program.

• Jewish Family Service of Metrowest, Framingham, MA: $20,000 - To provide wrap-around assistance to families of immigrant children.

• Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, MA: $20,000 - To fund another year of an environmental and social literacy program at three Framingham after-school programs run by the school department.

• MetroWest Mediation Services, Natick, MA: $15,000 - To develop a Peer Mediation program at Natick and Wayland High School.

• One Love Foundation, Boston, MA: $7,000 - To expand the relational health program into Framingham High School and Framingham State University.

• OUT MetroWest, Framingham, MA: $20,000 - To provide mental health services to youth participants.

• The NAN Project, Lexington, MA: $18,000 - To expand peer-to-peer mental health programming in Framingham, Sudbury, and Acton-Boxborough.

• Wayside Youth & Family Support Network, Framingham, MA: $20,000 - To expand services to youth identifying as members of the LGBTQ+ community in their Framingham residential programs.

• Wildflower, Inc., Lexington, MA: $10,000 - To expand supportive services and camp scholarships in MetroWest community in collaboration with Jeff’s Place.

Capacity Building Grants

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass/MetroWest, Worcester, MA: $25,000 - For a donor database conversion.

• Family Promise Metrowest, Natick, MA: $10,000 - For online case management software.

• The Food Project, Lincoln, MA: $15,000 - For a website design consultation.

• The Guild for Human Services, Concord, MA: $25,000 - For staff training.

• Hoops and Homework, Framingham, MA: $16,000 - For staff training and development tools upgrade.

• Jeff’s Place, Framingham, MA: $25,000 - For a communications plan consultation.

• Metrowest YMCA, Framingham, MA: $19,500 - To hire consultants for group mental health meetings for staff.

• SPARK Kindness, Natick, MA: $25,000 - For a communications planning consultation.

• ThinkGive, Inc., Concord, MA: $22,000 - For a leadership training consultation.

Discretionary Grants

• Discovering Hidden Gems, Hudson, MA: $5,000 - For general operating support.

• Hoops and Homework, Framingham, MA: $5,000 - For general operating support.

For General Operating Support during the COVID-19 crisis, as part of the Foundation’s special 2021 Proactive Grantmaking Initiative.

• Bethany Hill Place, Framingham, MA: $25,000

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass/MetroWest, Worcester, MA: $25,000

• Boys & Girls Club of Assabet Valley, Maynard, MA: $25,000

• Employment Options, Inc., Marlborough, MA: $25,000

• Family Promise Metrowest, Natick, MA: $25,000

• Hoops and Homework, Framingham, MA: $15,000

• Jeff’s Place, Framingham, MA: $25,000

• Jewish Family Service of Metrowest, Framingham, MA: $25,000

• Metrowest YMCA, Framingham, MA: $25,000

• One Can Help, Inc., Newton, MA: $10,000

• Thrive Support and Advocacy, Inc., Marlborough, MA: $25,000

Invitation and Discretionary Grants

• Discovering Hidden Gems, Hudson, MA: $20,000 - A two-year grant for general operating support.

• Boys & Girls Clubs of MetroWest, Marlborough, MA: $200,000 - A two-year grant for general operating support.

• Doc Wayne Youth Services, Inc., Boston, MA: $150,000 - A three-year grant for general operating support.

CY&F Emotional-Well Being Grants

• Bethany Hill Place, Framingham, MA: $20,000 - For a teen Emerging Leaders Program.

• Chica Project, Quincy, MA: $20,000 - For a leadership/mentoring program at the Fuller Middle School in Framingham.

• Discovery Museum, Acton, MA: $18,000 - For a Nature Passport Program.

• Framingham State University Foundation, Framingham, MA: $18,360 - For a high school STEM Mentorship program in Framingham, Marlborough and Milford schools.

• Hoops and Homework, Framingham, MA: $17,920 - For emotional wellness-related enrichment programs.

• Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, MA: $20,000 - For an environmental and social literacy program at three Framingham after-school programs.

• REACH Beyond Domestic Violence, Waltham, MA: $20,000 - Training and support for Wayland public school staff on teen trauma, healthy relationships, and well-being.

• SPARK Kindness, Natick, MA: $15,930 - For prevention programs that target parents and caregivers experiencing homelessness and other inequities.

• The Guild for Human Services, Concord, MA: $19,130 - For an expressive arts therapy program.

• The Learning Center for the Deaf, Framingham, MA: $14,300 - For DEI training for guidance counselors and mental health clinicians.

• ThinkGive, Inc., Concord, MA: $15,000 - For a Social Emotional Learning program expansion.

• Wayside Youth & Family Support Network, Framingham, MA: $20,000 - To expand a substance use intervention initiative in Framingham.

• Wildflower, Inc., Lexington, MA: $10,000 - For a program to provide additional family supports to clients.

For general operating support during the COVID-19 crisis, as part of the Foundation’s special 2020 Proactive Grantmaking Initiative.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of CM/MW, Worcester, MA: $20,000

• Discovery Museum, Acton, MA: $20,000

• Employment Options, Inc., Marlborough, MA: $20,000

• Family Promise Metrowest, Natick, MA: $10,000

• Hoops and Homework, Framingham, MA: $5,000

• Jeff’s Place, Framingham, MA: $20,000

• Jewish Family Service of Metrowest, Framingham, MA: $15,000

• Metrowest YMCA, Framingham, MA: $10,000

• One Can Help, Inc., Newton, MA: $5,000

• Thrive Support and Advocacy, Inc., Marlborough, MA: $20,000

• Wayside Youth & Family Support Network, Framingham, MA: $10,000

Invitation and Discretionary Grants

• Boys & Girls Clubs of MetroWest, Marlborough, MA: $100,000 / For general operating support.

• Doc Wayne Youth Services, Inc., Boston, MA: $150,000 / For a two-year grant to develop and pilot a therapeutic mentoring program.

• John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation, Worcester, MA: $50,000 / For a two-year grant for general operating support for the new Mazie Mentoring Program at Marlborough High School.

• OUT MetroWest, Framingham, MA: $150,000 / For a three-year grant to support the agency’s move to a new office/drop-in space.

• Jeff’s Place, Framingham, MA: $20,000 / For capital support for costs related to handicapped accessibility at their new property.

• MetroWest Legal Services, Framingham, MA: $25,000 / For the Juvenile Immigrant Relief Program.

• One Can Help, Inc., Newton, MA: $2,500 / For general operating support.

• SPARK Kindness, Natick, MA: $1,000 / For general operating support.

CY&F Emotional Well-Being Grants

• Advocates, Inc., Framingham, MA: $20,000 / For technology to support virtual therapy sessions.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of CM/MW, Worcester, MA: $20,000 / For a Diversity in Action training program for board, staff and volunteers.

• Camp Casco, Sudbury, MA: $16,700 / For a resource database to connect childhood cancer survivors to emotional support services.

• Doc Wayne Youth Services, Inc., Boston, MA: $20,000 / To update activities-based curriculum for a virtual platform.

• Hoops and Homework, Framingham, MA: $15,300 / To upgrade technology for remote learning and other programming.

• The Learning Center for the Deaf, Framingham, MA: $20,000 / To expand culturally-responsive education.

• Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA: $9,060 / For a Dialectic Behavior Therapy program for families.

• Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA: $8,500 / For a Dialectic Behavior Therapy staff training program.

• SMILE Mass, Inc., Sudbury, MA: $19,400 / For outdoor recreation area activities for children and young adults with disabilities.

• South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Framingham, MA: $12,000 / For a pre-K mentoring program at the Framingham Community and Cultural Center.

• SPARK Kindness, Natick, MA: $8,035 / For an Emotional Well Being and Resilience program/support group for Portuguese-speaking families.

• ThinkGive, Inc., Concord, MA: $18,000 / To revise the grades 4-8 curriculum to deepen the examination of social justice and racial equity.

CY&F Capacity Building Grants

• The Guild for Human Services, Concord, MA: $20,000 / For a training program for immigrant workers integrating English instruction with career coaching.

• SPARK Kindness, Natick, MA: $24,000 / For strategic and business planning, and marketing materials development.

CY&F Capacity Building Grants

• Bethany Hill Place, Framingham, MA: $5,000 - For a website update.

• Discovery Museum, Acton MA: $15,000 - For a fundraising consultation.

• Employment Options, Marlborough, MA: $20,000 - For a marketing consultation.

• Family Promise Metrowest, Natick, MA: $14,500 - For staff training.

• Jeff’s Place, Framingham, MA: $19,500 - For a strategic planning consultation.

• Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program, Lincoln, MA: $15,560 - To develop an internship program.

• Minute Man Arc, Concord, MA: S10,000 - For a strategic planning consultation.

• SPARK Kindness, Natick, MA: $24,310 - For a communications consultation.

• The Food Project, Lincoln, MA: $25,000 - For a strategic planning consultation.

• The Learning Center for the Deaf, Framingham, MA: $19,360 - For a series of consultations and activities to improve the visitor experience at TLC.

• Thrive Support and Advocacy, Marlborough, MA: $25,000 - For a fundraising consultation.

• Wayside Youth & Family Support Network, Framingham, MA: $24,900 - For a data management consultation.

• Wildflower, Inc., Lexington, MA: $20,500 - For a board development and succession planning consultation.

CY&F Invitation Grants

• Doc Wayne Youth Services, Framingham, MA: $150,000 - Over two years, to develop and pilot a Therapeutic Mentoring program.

• OUT MetroWest, Framingham, MA: $150,000 - Over three years, to locate, renovate and move to a new headquarters.

• Boys & Girls Clubs of MetroWest, Marlborough, MA: $100,000 - For general operating support.

• John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation, Worcester, MA: $50,000 - Over two years, to support the new Mazie Mentoring Program at Marlborough High School.

CY&F Discretionary Grants

• Metrowest YMCA, Framingham, MA: $30,000 - To support the Heart of the CommUNITY Capital Campaign at the Framingham location.

• One Can Help, Newton, MA: $5,000 - A gift to recognize Sudbury Foundation Trustee Susan Iuliano upon her retirement.

Capacity Building Grants

• Assabet Valley Collaborative, Marlborough, MA: $25,000 - For staff training on “Service Design Thinking.”

• Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund, Acton, MA: $11,000 - For a strategic planning consultation.

• Doc Wayne Youth Services, Inc., Boston, MA: $25,000 - To continue a program evaluation consultation.

• Employment Options, Inc., Marlborough, MA: $16,000 - For an IT consultation and related staff training.

• Jeff’s Place Children’s Bereavement Center, Framingham, MA: $21,000 - For a fundraising consultation.

• Jewish Family Service of Metrowest, Framingham, MA: $20,000 - To continue a board development consultation.

• Wayside Youth & Family Support Network, Framingham, MA: $24,000 - For staff training on new mobile technology.

• Advocates, Inc / Autism Alliance of MetroWest, Framingham, MA: $24,500 - To develop an outreach program that identifies and trains students and adults to provide respite services to caregivers responsible for family members with autism.

• Bethany Hill Place, Framingham, MA: $6,000 - For a combination training and consultation to enhance staff’s use of the agency’s donor management and fundraising software.

• Birthday Wishes, Newton, MA: $8,000 - For a strategic planning consultation.

• Communities for Restorative Justice, Concord, MA: $24,500 - For a communications/coaching consultation.

• Discovery Museum, Acton, MA: $14,000 - For a strategic review of the Museum’s educational, programmatic and operational philosophy.

• Hoops and Homework, Framingham, MA: $16,280 - For a fundraising consultation.

Invitation & Discretionary Grants

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of CM/MW, Worcester/Framingham, MA: $25,000 - For general support.

• Boys & Girls Clubs of MetroWest, Marlborough, MA: $100,000 - For general support.

• John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation, Worcester/Framingham, MA: $25,000 - For general support.

• Nashoba Learning Group, Bedford, MA: $11,250 - A special grant for staff development.

• MetroWest Legal Services, Framingham, MA: $50,000 over 2 years - Continued support for the Juvenile Immigration Relief Project.

Small Capital Grants

Grants for equipment, furnishings or repairs totaling $64,625, to the following CY&F grant partners:

• Boys & Girls Club of Assabet Valley

• Doc Wayne Youth Services

• Family Promise Metrowest

• MetroWest College Planning Center

• Jewish Family Service of Metrowest

• OUT MetroWest

• REACH Beyond Domestic Violence

• SPARK Kindness

• Thrive Support and Advocacy