Recent CY&F Grants

Grants Awarded in 2023

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

Grants Awarded in 2022

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.

Grants Awarded in 2021

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

CY&F Emotional-Well Being Grants

Grants Awarded in 2020

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.