Alternative House
Lowell, Massachusetts
Sponsor: Mike Sheehy

To provide emergency shelter and transitional housing programs for women and children experiencing domestic violence.

Asperger's Association of
New England
Watertown, Massachusetts
Sponsors: John Essigman and
Mary Guay

To help people with Asperger's Syndrome and similar autism spectrum profiles build meaningful, connected lives by providing information, education, community, support, and advocacy.

Birthday Wishes
Newton Centre, Massachusetts
Sponsor: Bob Heffernan

To provide birthday parties for homeless children living in shelters, motels, and transitional housing in eastern Massachusetts.

Beverly Bootstraps
Beverly, Massachusetts
Sponsor: Tim Parziale

To support the Food Assistance program, providing critical resources and food for families struggling due to unemployment or underemployment.

Boston Medical Center,
Cancer Care Center
Boston, Massachusetts
Sponsor: Phil Morrissey

To offer cancer screenings, patient navigation services, cancer support groups, complementary and alternative medicine therapies, and cancer treatment.

Christopher's Haven
Boston, Massachusetts
Sponsor: Erica Wright

To sustain eight apartments that provide families with free housing and a community of support when they travel to Boston for advanced medical care.

Heartbeat Ministries
Burlington, Massachusetts
Sponsor: Laurie Glasser

To assist pregnant women and families with young children in need, providing maternity clothing, children’s necessities, occasional utility payments, and food.

Merrimack Valley Hospice
House
Haverhill, Massachusetts
Sponsor: Margie Duggan

To complete a wing expansion project featuring seven additional suites, which will eliminate its waiting list, allowing for comprehensive end-of-life care for all area patients in need.

NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and
Disabled Americans
Massachusetts
Sponsor: Steve Drohosky

To sponsor the training of assistance dogs that help adults and children who are deaf, physically disabled, or on the autism spectrum live more independently.

Wediko Children’s Services
Boston, Massachusetts
Sponsor: David Harriss

To support the Complex Trauma Resolution initiative, developing family-integrated responses to violence, neglect, and loss that meet the needs of victims and their children.

American Islamic Congress
Boston, Massachusetts

To support its efforts of fostering respect for human rights and civil rights, driving genuine relations, and promoting tolerance and the exchange of ideas between people of all faiths.

Angel Flight New England
North Andover, Massachusetts

To provide free scheduled or emergency air transportation, ensuring patients receive the medical care they need without depleting their financial and emotional resources.

Armenian Heritage
Foundation
Belmont, Massachusetts

To enhance the organization’s online presence, and to help provide valuable educational and learning opportunities for visitors to the new Armenian Heritage Park in Boston.

Beverly Hospital
Beverly, Massachusetts

To help expand the operating room of this full-service community hospital to meet the healthcare and surgical needs of its patients from the North Shore and beyond.

Boston Architectural College
Boston, Massachusetts

To establish the Ada Louise Huxtable Fellowship in Civic Engagement and Service Learning in honor of the Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic of The Wall Street Journal.

Bridge Over Troubled
Waters
Boston, Massachusetts

To support its Transitional Day Program, the only 24-hour drop-in center in Greater Boston designed specifically for high-risk homeless youth who need critical survival services.

Brookview House
Dorchester, Massachusetts

To help provide a safe, supportive environment for homeless moms and kids while these families pursue self‐sufficiency through education, job training, and employment.

Catholic Charities, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

To support its nearly 100 programs and services around eastern Massachusetts that provide social services to thousands of our neediest neighbors of all faiths.

Catholic Charities - North
North Shore, Massachusetts

To benefit the nonsectarian programs and services offered throughout the North Shore via the organization’s offices and child care centers in Danvers, Gloucester, Lynn, Peabody, and Salem.

Conversation Project
Cambridge, Massachusetts

To support the Massachusetts launch of this project, founded by Ellen Goodman, that encourages the sharing of end-of-life wishes to create a more humane experience for the dying and their loved ones.

Cure Alzheimer’s Fund
Wellesley, Massachusetts

To support its Stem Cell Consortium through which researchers will develop, study, and maintain Alzheimer’s neurons that will be used to screen for new drugs.

Emmanuel College
Woburn, Massachusetts

To help develop an interdisciplinary program in Middle East Studies and an Arabic Foreign Language Certificate as part of its Global Studies and International Affairs Program.

Empower Peace
Boston, Massachusetts

To support its Stand Up anti-bullying program and fund a delegation of emerging female leaders from New England to attend The Women2Women International Leadership Conference.

Endicott College
Beverly, Massachusetts

To help fund construction of a new, state-of-the-art facility that will support its expanded Entrepreneurship Center and its rapidly growing biotech/life sciences program in Beverly.

Facing History and
Ourselves
Brookline, Massachusetts

To help nurture democracy and combat racism, anti-Semitism, and prejudice through educational programs, including the June 2012 Holocaust Remembrance Project.

Family Service of
Greater Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

To increase its capacity to provide in-house services for children and families with intensive therapeutic needs, who are referred through childcare centers participating in its Strong Start program.

Gay & Lesbian Advocates
& Defenders (GLAD)
Boston, Massachusetts

Supporting the efforts of GLAD to help breakdown homophobic prejudges and bigotry whenever it occurs, and end discrimination of any sort based on sexual orientation.

Germaine Lawrence School
Arlington, Massachusetts

To support its services for girls and young women who have been sexually exploited, including clinical therapy, academic education, support groups, mentoring, and creative activities.

Giving Camp
Medford, Massachusetts

To help provide fun activities and friendship for Woburn area people with physical and mental challenges, as well as a respite for their families and caregivers.

Griffin Museum of
Photography
Winchester, Massachusetts

To support its exhibits and programs that promote an appreciation of photographic art and a broader understanding of its visual, emotional, and social impact. 

Hallmark Health
Stoneham, Massachusetts

To help fund its new, state-of-the-art Comprehensive Breast Center, which will provide residents of Boston’s northern suburbs with ready access to the most advanced care for breast disease.

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

To support the research of Arlan Fuller, Jr., which explores how Roma (Gypsy) youth in Serbia, Romania, and Italy experience exclusion, and also identifies mechanisms for change.

Hebrew SeniorLife
Boston, Massachusetts

To support its Healthy Housing for Seniors program, which seeks to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare for frail elders living in subsidized senior housing.

Home for Little Wanderers
Roxbury, Massachusetts

To support Roxbury Village, a new program that provides former foster youth with safe, stable housing and the necessary support to become self-sufficient adults.

Inner City Scholarship Fund
Boston, Massachusetts

To provide financial assistance to Boston area students of all faiths attending Catholic elementary and secondary schools, helping to ensure the accessibility of a quality education.

Irish International
Immigrant Center
Boston, Massachusetts

To benefit its Inclusion and Integration Project, which will educate its large network of clients, students, partners, and supporters from all countries on the value of diversity and inclusion.

Marlborough Hospital
Marlborough, Massachusetts

To help fund construction of a state-of-the-art Cancer Pavilion, bringing all of the hospital’s cancer services together under one roof to provide comprehensive care and treatment.

Middlesex Canal
Commission
Woburn, Massachusetts

To reconstruct the Middlesex Canal Towpath in Woburn and connect it to pedestrian outlets at Alfred Street and School Street, providing a recreational path for Woburn area residents.

Mission of Deeds
Reading, Massachusetts

To help provide more needy families in Middlesex and Essex counties with beds, furniture, and basic household items, free of charge and with a minimal waiting period.

Montserrat College of Art
Beverly, Massachusetts

To develop a much needed new website and other tools to increase functionality and enhance relations with students and their families, community members, and potential supporters.

Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Massachusetts

To support the exhibition Ori Gersht: History Repeating, a survey of the artist’s work, which serves to promote intercultural understanding and discussions about anti-Semitism in the past and present.

Museum of Science
Boston, Massachusetts

To help underwrite the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition, bringing its ancient artifacts to Boston and helping visitors understand the divisions and inequalities that still echo in modern society.

Mystic Valley Elder Services
Malden, Massachusetts

To support Project Reach, which includes needs identification, outreach, programs, and services targeted to a growing population of diverse and marginalized elders in the region.

National Alliance on Mental
Illness
Woburn, Massachusetts

To help prevent unnecessary arrests of persons with mental illness, diverting them instead to community-based crisis treatment and stabilizing follow-up care.

Nativity Preparatory School
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

To help expand its classroom offerings to include fourth grade, enabling this nonsectarian catholic school to have a more significant effect on each student’s learning experience.

Neighbors Who Care
Waltham, Massachusetts

To help fund outreach services to assist underserved homebound elderly and chronically ill adults without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap.

North Shore
Community College
Beverly, Massachusetts

To support the most urgent needs of this two-year, public college, offering programs leading to Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degrees as well as one-year certificates.

OpenAirBoston
Boston, Massachusetts

To support Tech Goes Home, providing low-income families with a new netbook or mobile device, classroom training, and access to low-cost home Internet.

Our Place Daycare
Center for the Homeless
Cambridge, Massachusetts

To support a one-time building expansion project to expand the children’s daycare facility by 25 percent and increase the program’s enrollment capacity.

Pine Street Inn
Boston, Massachusetts

To help homeless US Veterans and low-income individuals who have served in any branch of the U.S. armed forces access resources for housing, employment, and community services.

Salem State University
Salem, Massachusetts

To help establish the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which will increase access to related educational resources and connect with area survivors of genocide.

Social Capital Inc.
Woburn, Massachusetts

To help train teen leaders, expand the WorldFest Multicultural Leadership Program, develop an online guide and training program, and pilot a Social Capitalist Fellows program.

Solutions for Living
Medford, Massachusetts

To support a pilot program that helps its students explore their multicultural roots and discuss with their families issues of prejudice, discrimination, and racism.

Spaulding Hospital Salem
Salem, Massachusetts

To help fund its adaptive sports and recreation program, enhancing the independence, physical health, and emotional well-being of people with disabilities.

Tufts Cummings School
of Veterinary Medicine
North Grafton, Massachusetts

To help fund a recognized leader for the school’s signature International Veterinary Medicine program, part of a comprehensive global health network across Tufts University.

Tufts University: Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute
Medford, Massachusetts

To increase the size of the office staff, upgrade computer and A/V equipment, develop a comprehensive membership, course planning, and registration database, and introduce new audiences to the program.

Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts

To support the Cummings/Hillel Program for Holocaust and Genocide Education, which hopes to teach a new generation the importance of moral action in the face of persecution and oppression.

United Way of Mass Bay
Boston, Massachusetts

To support Project BOOST, which works with struggling youth in four specially identified underperforming middle schools to create emotionally safe environments and increase graduation rates.

Wilmington Youth Soccer
Wilmington, Massachusetts

To help fund TOPSoccer, a special athletic program helping Wilmington area kids with physical, emotional, and intellectual challenges develop social and gross motor skills.

Winchester Field
Development
Winchester, Massachusetts

To support a capital program to renovate and restore Winchester’s athletic fields, providing the community and its athletic teams with safe, adequate, and accessible facilities.

Winchester Hospital
Winchester, Massachusetts

To benefit a variety of areas, including its new Ambulatory Services Center, patient services at its Center for Cancer Care, and nursing education and scholarships.

Winchester
Multicultural Network
Winchester, Massachusetts

To help fund a new executive director position, which will enable the organization to sustain and expand its programming, which promotes the recognition, understanding, and appreciation of diversity. 

Woburn (North Suburban)
YMCA
Woburn, Massachusetts

To further its mission to connect people of all backgrounds, and to provide scholarships, childcare, and programs for healthy living, social responsibility, and youth development.

Woburn Boys & Girls Club
Woburn, Massachusetts

To support its strategy to deepen program impact and promote capacity building at this organization that welcomes boys and girls of all races, religions, and ethnic cultures.

Woburn Council of
Social Concern
Woburn, Massachusetts

To help serve those in need through its food pantry, children’s center, family childcare system, parenting education program, and supervised visitation program.

Woburn Historical Society
Woburn, Massachusetts

To support the planning, production, and promotion of programs and exhibits that inform and educate the citizens of Woburn about their city’s history and rich heritage.

Woburn Supportive Living
Woburn, Massachusetts

To help fund individualized support services and professional care at Warren House, allowing survivors of brain injury to live more independently in a home-like atmosphere.

Woburn VNA Hospice Care
Woburn, Massachusetts

To help further its mission to provide comprehensive care and support to patients and families facing the challenges of life-limiting illness and loss, regardless of acuity, cost, or ability to pay.

Youth Villages
Woburn, Massachusetts

To support Transitional Living, a program designed to help young adults who are aging out of state custody learn skills to transition into independent and productive lives.

Zoo New England
Boston and Stoneham,
Massachusetts

To help expand cultural participation in its zoos with free and discounted days, community pass programs, cultural activities, and more user-friendly signage and promotional materials.