2023 grant recipients
All Newton Music School: To provide private lessons and group classes to girls and young women to allow them the opportunity to explore their passion for music and the arts.
Charles River Center: To support an innovative enrichment project, offering a Percussion Circle instrumental experience for children and youth with social and communication disorders who attend existing programs.
Citizens for Affordable Housing: To assist low-income women and their children to complete applications for housing, healthcare, food, and utility assistance.
Dreamfar High School Marathon: To support a non-competitive running and mentorship program that promotes health and wellness, instills the value of hard work, and improves students’ self-confidence and positive attitudes toward school.
Families for Depression Awareness: To support coordination of the Teen Depression Program, which offers trainings, workshops, and resources to students, parents, school staff, youth workers, and other caring adults to recognize and address depression in teens.
Family Access of Newton: To support the Strengthening Young Families Project, which provides multilingual services to at-risk families with young children in Newton through Counseling and Consultation programs, Early Literacy Services, Child Assault Prevention Education, and its Early Learning Center child care.
Girls on the Run: To expand the Girls on the Run after school programming for Newton Public Schools, focusing on increasing physical activity among girls to increase overall well-being and mental health.
Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston: To support comprehensive mentoring programs for girls, boys, and adults with mild to moderate disabilities.
New Art Center: To support a culture of wellness in all programming including creating a community space for creative self-expression, providing teen and tween girls with expressive art therapy, and providing women survivors of domestic abuse with opportunities for healing self-expression.
Newton at Home: To offer a reduced fee membership program for elderly women who live alone, often with disabilities and modest incomes, for programs and services such as grocery shopping, home repairs, rides to appointments, help with technology, and access to support groups.
Newton Athletes Unlimited: To support Therapeutic Recreation Programs that serve children and adults with disabilities.
Newton Community Development Foundation: To support programming for young residents of NCDF properties and their families, providing safe, structured and enriching after-school activities.
Newton Community Education: To provide need-based scholarships to girls for educational and recreational summer camp or school-year extracurricular activities.
Newton Community Farm: To support provision of fresh, healthy produce to local nonprofits that provide food to community members in need, and educational programs related to sustainable farming for kids, families, and adults.
Newton Theatre Company: To provide scholarships for elementary students to participate in Newton Theatre Kids where young actors sing, act, dance, and make scenery, all culminating in a musical production.
Pathway to Possible: To support direct mental health programming for adults with cognitive and/or developmental disabilities, their families, and the organization’s staff.
Service Stars: To provide hands-on, educational community service programs for children in grades K-8, supporting local charities while empowering youth to create change in the community.
Suzuki School of Newton: To support music scholarships for female students and financial assistance for preschool students from economically disadvantaged, single-parent households.
The Second Step: To support the Steps to Justice Program, which provides trauma-informed, free legal services to women who are survivors of domestic violence.
West Suburban YMCA: To provide financial assistance for preschool-aged participants from low-income households enrolled in the summer day camp.
Additional previous recipients:
- Asperger’s Association of New England
- Barry L. Price Rehabilitation Center
- Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
- Birthday Wishes
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
- Bridge Fund of Massachusetts
- Camp Lightbulb
- “CAN-DO” (Citizens for Affordable Housing Development Organization)
- Caring and Sharing Telephone
- Charles River ARC
- Child Care Resource Center
- The Children’s Room
- Communities United
- Family Life Support Center, Inc.
- Freedman Center at William James College
- GWARC, Inc.
- Hospice of the Good Shepherd
- Improbable Players
- Interfaith Social Services
- Irving K. Zola Center for Persons with Disabilities at Brigham House
- The Literacy Connection
- Middlesex Human Service Agency
- Multi-Service Center/Riverside
- Newton At Home
- Newton Child Care Fund
- Newton Community Service Center – Capital Campaign
- Newton Food Pantry
- The Newton Partnership
- One With One
- Parent Child Home Program
- Parents Helping Parents of Massachusetts
- Science Club for Girls
- SOAR/RSVP
- Suzuki School of Newton
- Understanding Handicaps
- Web of Benefit
