Fall 2023 Foley Hoag Foundation Grant Round

The Trustees of the Foley Hoag Foundation are pleased to announce that the Foundation awarded grants totaling $170,000 to 27 organizations in December as part of its 2023 Fall grant cycle.

The organizations that the Foundation has funded are based in Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C. and are all dedicated to working to improve social equity by increasing access to the arts, stimulating community engagement, providing legal services, improving access to health services, offering educational programming and assistance, or running youth development programs.

The fall 2023 grantees are as follows:

BOSTON

Abilities Dance Incorporated: $10,000 to provide support for the organization’s two major productions of the year, one of which is titled “Intersections v3” and honors past and present BIPOC artists and activists who are deaf or have other disabilities.
All Dorchester Sports and Leadership: $5,500 to support its on-site, drop-in, free summer program for children of families for whom traditional, less flexible summer programs are often inaccessible.
Alray Taylor Second Chance Scholarship Fund: $4,400 to career services programming for youth who have started college and left prior to graduation.
Anaya Tipnis Foundation: $4,000 to provide students from historically marginalized communities with personalized and consistent support throughout their college career.
ANIKAYA/Akhra: $7,000 to support performing arts workshops and performances with local youth and community members to explore cultural differences and gender stereotypes.
BalletRox: $6,000 to provide afterschool dance instruction programming to youth from low-income families.
Boston City Lights Foundation: $5,000 to provide arts programming of all forms to students who want to enter the arts economy.
Boston Dance Theater: $4,000 for its Trainee Program, which helps youth and young adults understand and jumpstart their careers in a professional contemporary dance company.
City Strings United: $10,000 to support string instrument lessons and performance opportunities for BIPOC children residing in Roxbury and the surrounding communities.
Elevate Youth: $10,000 to support the organization’s work with the Edison School located in Brighton, which connects youth with nature and engages them in outdoor physical activity.
Girls’ LEAP: $7,500 to provide self-defense and empowerment programs to girls and non-binary youth between the ages of 8 and 22.
He is Me Institute: $2,500 for the He is Me Fellowship, which trains and supports Black male college students who are interested in becoming, or aspire to become, teachers.
Latino STEM Alliance: $7,500 to support age-appropriate robotics equipment, curricula, and technical support to teachers and out-of-school-time providers in schools and community organizations in Boston.
Rebuilding Together Boston: $10,000 to assist home and building renovation projects for low-income and older adults.
Resist f/b/o Boston Education Justice Alliance: $5,000 to support the organization’s campaign organization work among Boston Public School families with the goal of increasing equity in local education policy.
Sarita and Claire Wright Lucas Foundation: $5,000 to support its summer fellowship program that awards Black female law students with an internship at a district attorney’s office.
Strong Women, Strong Girls: $5,000 for a mentoring program where college women mentors provide mentoring to elementary school aged girls.
Theatrezone d/b/a Apollinaire Theatre Company: $8,000 for the Apollinaire Play Lab program, which provides arts education in dance, visual arts, and theatre to youth between the ages of 4 and 16.
The Valedictorian Project: $5,000 to provide mentoring, college counseling, and other college support services to high-achieving public-school students from low-income communities.

NEW YORK CITY

LGBT Center Intercultural Collective: $5,000 to the Flourish Project, which conducts outreach to increase awareness of the organization’s services and improve understanding of the needs of the migrant TransGNB, QBIPOC, and sex worker community.
Pioneers Go East Collective: $5,000 to present the second annual Out-FRONT! Festival, which features a diverse range of art works focused on themes of identity, social justice and equity, as well as artmaking.
The WomanHOOD Project: $10,000 to support its school-year and summer leadership program directed towards girls and non-binary youth that uses art-making, hands-on and nature-based learning, and community engagement to empower youth to be involved in social justice.
Tides Center f/b/o New York City Coalition for Educational Justice: $5,000 to purchase upgraded translation and interpretation equipment for the Liberation School, a leadership development project providing political education to and by community members.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

College Tribe: $8,600 for STREAM, an afterschool mentoring program for students of color.
Community Mediation DC: $5,000 to support re-entry mediation work with formerly and currently incarcerated individuals and members of their support systems as those individuals transition back into their communities.
DC KinCare Alliance: $5,000 to provide legal, financial, and similar services to relative caregivers of children in often informal “kinship care” arrangements.
East of the River Boys & Girls Steelband: $5,000 to the Leadership and Life Skills Academy, a program which teaches life skills, discipline, and teamwork through music education.

Fall 2023 Foley Hoag Foundation Grant Round

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