Our Grants
Explore a selection of our current and past grants across giving areas.
2021
Massachusetts Alliance for Early College
Multi-year grant to build capacity to build a broad coalition in support of high-quality Early College.
Amount
$200,000
Giving Area
Education
Initiative
Early College
2021
Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education
Grant to advance research, policy, and public awareness in support of Early College.
Amount
$150,000
Giving Area
Education
Initiative
Early College
2021
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Grant to evaluate the Commonwealth’s Early College initiative.
Amount
$300,000
Giving Area
Education
Initiative
Early College
2021
Massachusetts General Hospital
Multi-year grant for Smith Family Odyssey Award grantee.
Amount
$300,000
Giving Area
Medical Research
Initiative
Odyssey Award
2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Multi-year grant for Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research grantee.
Amount
$300,000
Giving Area
Medical Research
Initiative
Excellence Award
2021
MassINC
Grant to research the potential for Early College across the Commonwealth.
2021
Merrimack Valley Food Bank
Capital grant to purchase a refrigeration unit and a loading platform for a delivery truck that will enable the agency to provide more perishable, healthy foods to over 60,000 individuals each month facing food insecurity.
Amount
$50,000
Giving Area
Community Giving
Initiative
Small Capital Grants
2021
Middlesex Community College
Grant to offer summer courses to hundreds of Lowell high School Early College students.
Amount
$27,000
Giving Area
Education
Initiative
Early College
Amount
$15,000
Giving Area
Community Giving
Initiative
Annual Gifts
Amount
$10,000
Giving Area
Community Giving
Initiative
Annual Gifts
2021
My Life My Choice
Capital grant to build out a new home for the agency to increase capacity at a critical inflection point in the growth of agency’s work to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Amount
$400,000
Giving Area
Community Giving
Initiative
Community Capital Grants
2021
New Heights Charter School of Brockton
Grant to develop and launch an Early College model that enables students to graduate from high school with a full Associate’s degree or sixty transferable credits toward a Bachelor’s degree.
Amount
$216,000
Giving Area
Education
Initiative
Early College