Below are examples of recent grants made by the Smith Family Foundation.
Smith Family New Investigator Awards: In collaboration with the Medical Foundation, the Smith Family Foundation provides a total of $1.2 million per year for awards to up to six new investigators.
Recipients for 2007-2009:
Iain Cheeseman, PhD, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, neuroscience; Alexei Degterev, PhD, Tufts University, cancer; Timothy Graham, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, diabetes; Ann Sheehy, PhD, College of the Holy Cross, HIV/AIDs; Naoshige Uchida, PhD, Harvard University, neuroscience; Andreas Hochwagen, PhD, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, cancer.
Recipients for 2006-2008:
Daniel Chase, PhD, UMass-Amherst, neuroscience; Matthew Freedman, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, cancer; Peter Reddien, PhD, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, cancer; Yong-Xu Wang, PhD, UMass Medical School, diabetes; Yong Xiong, PhD, Yale University, HIV/AIDS. Also Marc-Jan Gubbels, PhD, Boston College, cardiovascular disease and HIV/AIDs, funded by the Ludcke Foundation.
Recipients for 2005-2007:
Jeanne Hardy, PhD, UMass-Amherst, cancer, cardiovascular disease and neuroscience; Christopher Passaglia, PhD, Boston University, neuroscience; Sandra Ryeom, PhD, Children's Hospital Boston, cancer; Adrian Salic, PhD, Harvard Medical School, cancer; Shannon Turley, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, cancer. Also Galit Lahav, PhD, Harvard Medical School, cancer, funded by the Smith Family Foundation in collaboration with the Dolphin Trust, and Matthiew J. LaVoie, PhD, Brigham & Women's Hospital, neuroscience, funded by the Ludcke Foundation.
Recipients for 2004-2006:
Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital Boston, leukemia; Marc Freeman, PhD, UMass Medical School, neuroscience; Anthony G. Letai, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, cancer; Amy J. Wagers, PhD, Joslin Diabetes Center, diabetes; Rachel Wilson, PhD, Harvard Medical School, neuroscience.
Smith Family Award for Excellence in Medical Research: In May 2005, Bradford Lowell, MD, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, received an award of $65,000 for his groundbreaking research into the genetics of obesity. He received a Smith Family New Investigator Award in 1994.
Pinnacle Program Project Award: In collaboration with the American Diabetes Association, the Smith Family Foundation provided a grant of $1.5 million over four years beginning in 2003, which was matched by the ADA. In December 2004, the Trustees approved an additional grant of $1.5 million for a second Pinnacle Program Project Award, which will also be matched by the ADA and cover four years of research support beginning in July, 2005. In January 2008, the Trustees approved additional funding of $1,007,222 over three years beginning in 2008, to be matched 1:1 by the ADA.
The first Pinnacle Program Project Award went to the following team of researchers in 2003 (and was renewed for funding in 2005):
Joel Hirschhorn, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Boston, Todd Golub, MD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Mark Daly, BS, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research and David Altshuler, MD, PhD and Gary Ruvkin, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital. This collaborative research uses genetics and genomics to systematically identify pathways contributing to diabetes and obesity in human patients.
The second Pinnacle Program Project Award went to the following team of researchers beginning in 2005:
Anthony Hollenberg, MD, Christian Bjorbaek, PhD, Joel Elmquist, DVM, PhD, and Young-Bum Kim, PhD, all of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and faculty members of Harvard Medical School. These researchers are working together to identify the hormones and brain pathways regulating body weight and glucose metabolism.
The third Pinnacle Program Project Award went to the following team of researchers beginning in 2008:
David Altshuler, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute, Joel Hirschorn, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital and the Broad Institute, Vamsi Mootha, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute and Evan Rosen, MD, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Broad Institute. Dr. Mootha will lead a project to develop new therapies for Type II diabetes targeting newly identified disease-related genes. Dr. Rosen will lead a project to generate humanized mouse models of Type II diabetes. Compounds emerging from Dr. Mootha's study will be tested in the humanized mouse models as well as traditional mouse models for beneficial effects on glucose regulation.
In October 2004, the American Diabetes Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International were jointly awarded a grant of $62,000 to organize a scientific conference focusing on the similarities and differences in complications resulting from Type I and Type II diabetes. The conference took place in the fall of 2005.
Children's Hospital Trust: A commitment of $1.5 million over four years for capital purposes beginning in 2001, made by the Foundation in association with Robert and Dana Smith.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute: Various grants from the Foundation and Richard and Susan Smith of more than $12.5 million from 1980 to 2006. The Trustees also approved in October 2004 a grant of $575,325 over three years to fund "patient navigators" as part of a collaboration between Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital. The role of patient navigators is to guide at-risk patients through the complexities of the cancer care process and to facilitate access to quality care in a culturally appropriate manner. The ultimate aims of the project are to improve patient outcomes and reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in cancer.
The following projects are being funded by the Smith Family Foundation:
Dotwell (a collaboration between the Codman Square Health Center and Dorchester House Multi-Service Center, both located in Dorchester, MA): A contingent grant of $1.45 million over 5 years beginning in 2006 to to improve health outcomes for the centers' 2,000+ diabetic patients by providing intensive case management, diabetes self-management education and support, medical group visits, nutrition education classes, fitness groups, home visits and other interventions.
Mattapan Community Health Center (located in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood): A contingent grant of $1.2 million over 5 years beginning in 2006 to improve health outcomes for the center's 600+ diabetic patients by providing intensive case management, by offering nutrition and physical activity sessions at community partner sites, and by training, deploying and supervising successfully managing diabetics as lay health workers to provide culturally relevant patient support and diabetes self-management education.
Whittier Street Health Center (located in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood): A contingent grant of $1.2 million over 5 years beginning in 2006 to improve health outcomes for the center's 350+ diabetic patients by expanding group medical visits, diabetes self-management education and support, and community outreach.
The following project is being funded by the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation:
Bowdoin Street Health Center (located in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood): A contingent grant of $1.2 million over 5 years beginning in 2006 to improve health outcomes for the center's approximately 800 diabetic patients by expanding case management, group medical visits, diabetes self-management education and support, individual behavioral health counseling and community outreach.
The following contracts are being funded jointly by the Smith Family Foundation and the Fireman Charitable Foundation in support of the Diabetes Initiative:
Joslin Diabetes Center: A 2-year contract to provide services to the five community health center grantees. Services include professional development opportunities and consultation for clinical and non-clinical diabetes team staff, plus a variety of diabetes patient education materials (including some to be translated or developed for cultures/languages other than English and Spanish to meet the needs of health center patients).
RTI International: A six-year contract to evaluate the effectiveness of the five health centers' diabetes programs in improving health outcomes for their diabetic patients and to assess whether such interventions may be considered cost effective over time.
ACCION USA: Provides microenterprise loans and business education to low- and moderate-income small business owners. A contingent grant of $1,000,000 over five years beginning in 2005 to expand lending activities in the Greater Boston area.
The B.E.L.L. Foundation (Building Educated Leaders for Life): Provides after-school tutoring and cultural enrichment for academically at-risk, elementary school-age children from low-income families. A grant of $1,000,000 over five years (2003-2007).
Boston Children's Chorus: Brings together youth from urban Boston and the surrounding communities for choral instruction and performance aimed at bridging cultural divides and achieving musical excellence. Grants totaling $350,000 from 2004-2008.
Boston Teacher Residency: Provides teacher recruitment, preparation and induction for the Boston Public Schools to meet the goals of increasing teacher quality, improving job retention and alleviating critical teacher shortages in math, science and special education. A contingent grant of $1,000,000 over five years beginning in 2008.
Bottom Line: Provides college admissions and financial aid counseling to disadvantaged high school seniors to help them get into college, plus ongoing support and counseling during their college years to help them graduate. A contingent grant of $695,500 over five years beginning in 2008.
Citizen Schools: Provides after-school academic support and apprenticeships for low-income middle school students. A continent grant of $500,000 over five years beginning in 2005 to enable Citizen Schools to expand its 8th Grade Academy Program and Alumni Services in Boston.
Community Servings: Provides free, home-delivered meals throughout MA to people homebound with HIV/AIDS and other acute, life-threatening illnesses who are unable to shop or cook for themselves. A contingent grant of $1,000,000 over five years beginning in 2007.
Cradles to Crayons: Provides homeless and needy children with essentials such as clothes, books, toys and school supplies, and provides families and youth with service learning and volunteer opportunities. A contingent grant of $340,000 over three years beginning in 2008.
FIRST: Partners high school and middle school students with education and industry mentors to engage in robotics programs aimed at developing technological skills and career interest in science, technology and engineering among participating youth. A contingent grant of $400,000 over four years beginning in 2005 to launch and expand programming in underserved Boston schools.
Hyde Square Task Force: Provides neighborhood-based educational programs and community-building initiatives for urban youth and their families. A contingent grant of $620,770 over 5 years beginning in 2007.
InnerCity Entrepreneurs: Provides management training, technical assistance and peer support to entrepreneurs of existing small businesses in Boston and Worcester, MA that are ready to expand. A contingent grant of $300,000 over 3 years beginning in 2007.
Jumpstart: Provides tutoring and mentoring to at-risk preschool children aimed at getting them ready to succeed in school. A contingent grant of $1,000,000 over five years beginning in 2004 to launch a program in Boston's Roxbury community.
MY TURN: Provides education, job training, job placement and post-employment support services to in- and out-of-school youth in small urban communities in Eastern MA and Southern NH. A contingent grant of $1,000,000 over five years beginning in 2006.
One Family Scholars: Provides financial assistance of up to $12,000 annually to formerly homeless women and their families to enable the women to attend post secondary education and achieve permanent economic self-sufficiency. Grants totaling $500,000 over five years (2003-2008).
Raising a Reader-Massachusetts: Provides childcare professionals and parents with books and training in interactive book sharing, with the goal of increasing reading readiness among low-income children and children of immigrant families. A contingent grant of $256,235 over three years beginning in 2008.
Roca: Provides educational, employment and life-skills programming for at-risk youth, young adults and young parents in Chelsea with the goal of helping them achieve self-sufficiency and live out of harm's way. A contingent grant of $1,000,000 over five years beginning in 2008.
The Steppingstone Foundation: Provides academic preparation and support for academically at-risk children
grades four through high school, with the goal of placing them in exam or independent
schools and seeing them through to successful high school graduation and college
matriculation. A grant of $1,000,000 over five years (2003-2007).
Summer Search Boston: Provides year-round mentoring, summer experiential education, college advising and support services to low-income Boston high school students and program graduates. A contingent grant of $701,721 over five years beginning in 2006.
Year Up: Provides non-college
bound high school graduates with skills training and internship placements in
the information technology field. The ultimate goal is to help graduates land
well-paying jobs or go on to college upon completion of the program. A
grant of $1,000,000 over five years (2003-2007).
2008 Grants:
Boys and Girls Clubs of Middlesex County: A grant of $40,500 for oil tank removal, security equipment and security-related facility improvements at the agency's Cambridge, Somerville and Medford Clubhouses.
The Children's Room: A grant of $39,000 for structural repair of an historic retaining wall on the grounds of the agency's facility in Arlington. The agency provides a safe haven and programming for children and families who have lost a parent or sibling.
Crossroads for Kids: A grant of $50,000 for the purchase of two multi-passenger buses for use in the agency's summer camp and year-round programs headquartered in Duxbury, MA and serving Easter MA.
Friends of the Children-Boston: A grant of $48,595 for the purchase of evaluation software, computers and audiovisual equipment for use in the agency's mentoring program for disadvantaged children in Greater Boston.
Girl's LEAP: A grant of $9,100 for the purchase of computers and audiovisual equipment for use in the agency's program offering self-defense and leadership development training for teen girls in Cambridge and Boston.
United South End Settlements: A grant of $50,000 for renovation and safety improvements to the children's play area at the agency's historic settlement house in Boston's South End. They currently offer child care and adult education programs to South End residents.
2007 Grants:
ACORN Boston: A grant of $22,372 to purchase computers for use in the agency's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance site in Dorchester, MA.
Adoption and Foster Care Mentoring: A grant of $25,973 to purchase computers and audio-visual equipment for use in the agency's mentoring programs serving adopted and foster care youth in Greater Boston.
Agassiz Village: A grant of $33,000 to construct an adaptive lakefront that permits campers in wheelchairs to access the swimming area and boat dock independently. The agency runs summer camp facilities in ME and MA serving disadvantaged children.
Boston Center for the Arts: A grant of $45,000 for accessibility modifications to the historic Cyclorama, including automatic doors, signage and a bell system.
Boston Center for Independent Living: A grant of $14,000 to rebuild the agency's website to improve access to the agency's services, which include advocacy, referral and skills training for persons with disabilities.
Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence: A grant of $47,000 to purchase a 14-passenger van for transporting youth enrolled in the after-school program to and from activities at the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence.
CitySprouts: A grant of $36,000 to construct school gardens at 3 public K-8 schools in Cambridge, MA.
Community Rowing: A grant of $17,000 to purchase a van for use in transporting teen girls to and from rowing and academic activities based in Watertown and serving Greater Boston.
Families for Depression Awareness: A grant of $5,200 for audio-visual and computer equipment for use in the agency's education and outreach programs aimed at helping individuals and families cope with depressive disorders.
The Family Van: A grant of $29,155 for the purchase of wireless capability and PC tablets to improve record keeping and the coordination of patient care on the agency's mobile health care van. The van provides health screening and prevention education in low-income communities in urban Boston.
Father Bill's Place: A grant of $12,000 for repairs to the agency's emergency shelter where teens from troubled families stay before being placed in foster care or returning to their homes. Located in Quincy, MA, the agency provides housing and support services to homeless individuals from Greater Boston and the South Shore.
Franklin Park Coalition: A grant of $36,000 for materials and professional landscaping work to restore paths in the Long Crouch Woods area of Franklin Park. The project will be completed with labor from summer youth crews comprised of at-risk teens from the surrounding area.
Hale Reservation: A grant of $28,090 to expand and add fully accessible elements to a ropes course for use in the agency's recreational and educational programs for youth and adults at this nature preserve located in Westwood, MA. Programming for people with disabilities will be done in partnership with Outdoor Explorations.
More Than Words: A grant of $28,400 for improvements to the agency's office space and the purchase of evaluation software for use in the agency's employment programs (including a youth-run bookstore and cafe in Waltham, MA) for teens aging out of foster care.
Nuestra Culinary Ventures: A grant of $30,000 for the purchase of commercial kitchen equipment for this project of Nuestra Communidad Development Corporation which helps low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs launch food service businesses. The shared kitchen is located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood.
Raw Art Works: A grant of $35,360 to purchase and install an indoor-outdoor projection system that will allow the agency to showcase student films at its newly renovated storefront gallery and cafe in Lynn, or project them to outdoor crowds in Lynn's Central Square.
Roxbury Youth Program: A grant of $42,500 to purchase a multi-function student activity bus for use in the agency's afterschool, weekend and summer academic and enrichment programs for urban youth. A non-sectarian program of the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry based in Roxbury, MA.
Transition House: A grant of $32,000 for cellar renovations at the agency's shelter for survivors of domestic violence and their children. Based in Cambridge and serving Greater Boston.
Women's Lunch Place: A grant of $31,200 for a commercial range, commercial refrigerators and other equipment for use at the agency's daytime shelter and meal program for homeless women. Located on Newbury Street in downtown Boston.
2006 Grants:
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence: A grant of $34,000 for renovation of the administrative space at the agency's emergency shelter. Services target Asian women and children in Greater Boston affected by domestic violence.
Boston Area Rape Crisis Center: A grant of $40,000 for technology improvements in support of the agency's program of support and advocacy for Boston-area rape survivors and community education, outreach and training.
Boston Natural Areas Network: A grant of $28,000 for greenhouse improvements at a Mattapan facility and for the purchase of canoes for use in the agency's environmental education programs serving Greater Boston.
Community Servings: A grant of $46,456 to purchase 2 cargo vans to be used by the agency to deliver meals to house-bound persons with life-threatening illnesses throughout Greater Boston.
Everybody Wins: A grant of $6,400 to purchase computers and office equipment for use in the agency's literacy promotion programs serving Greater Boston-area elementary students.
Families First: A grant of $11,000 for computers and audiovisual equipment for use in the agency's parenting education programs based in Cambridge, MA.
Federation for Children With Special Needs: A grant of $15,000 for the purchase of audiovisual equipment for use in the agency's training programs serving families and caregivers of children with special needs in Greater Boston.
Helping Hands Monkey Helpers: A grant of $50,000 for replacement of flooring at the agency's Brighton facility and for the purchase of monkey cages for use in the agency's programs serving persons with disabilities.
hopeFound (formerly Friends of the Shattuck Shelter): A grant of $35,387 for renovations to the entrance of the agency's shelter, located in Jamaica Plain, MA, serving homeless adults from the Greater Boston area.
Inquilinos Borricuas en Accion: A grant of $26,300 for the installation of an external wheelchair lift at the agency's Center for Latino Arts facility in Boston's South End.
KIPP Academy Lynn: A grant of $50,000 for the construction of a foundation for modular classrooms. The addition will allow this charter public middle school located in Lynn, MA to enroll more students.
Mytown: A grant of $39,630 to purchase information technology, audiovisual and office equipment for use in the agency's programs serving Greater Boston youth.
Rosie's Place: A grant of $17,100 for floor replacement, equipment purchase and other improvements to the agency's facility serving homeless women from the Greater Boston area.
SquashBusters: A grant of $20,000 to purchase a passenger van for use in the agency's afterschool programs serving Greater Boston youth.
United Teen Equality Center: A grant of $50,000 to purchase fitness equipment for a fitness center to be established in the agency's new teen center, which will open in September 2006 in Lowell, MA.
United Way of New Bedford's Hunger Commission: A grant of $40,000 toward the purchase of a refrigerated truck for use in the agency's emergency food delivery programs serving New Bedford and Fall River.
Wellspring House: A grant of $21,000 for roof replacement at the agency's Gloucester, MA facility serving low-income and homeless persons from the North Shore.
2005 Grants:
Boston Ronald McDonald House: A grant of $50,000 to renovate 6 bathrooms, including for ADA compliance. The agency provides temporary housing and services to children with cancer and their families.
Casa Nueva Vida: A grant of $40,000 for the construction of an outdoor play area at the agency's Jamaica Plain, MA transitional housing facility serving homeless Latina women and children.
Codman Academy Foundation: A grant of $47,000 for purchase of laptop computers, software and other technology for use at the Codman Academy Charter Public High School in Dorchester, MA.
Courageous Sailing Center: A grant of $23,095 to purchase a motorboat and fuel storage system for use in the agency's recreational and educational programs serving children and adults, with harbor sites in Charlestown and Dorchester, MA.
Generations, Inc.: A grant of $24,714 for technology improvements in support of the agency's program in which retirees provide mentoring and academic support to struggling students in Boston's urban schools.
Horizons for Homeless Children: A grant of $50,000 to construct a playground at the agency's new daycare center in Roxbury, MA, serving homeless children.
Housing Families Inc. (formerly Tri-City Family Housing): A grant of $49,886 for the purchase of furniture and equipment for use in family shelters serving primarily families from Everett, Malden and Medford, MA.
Paraclete Center: A grant of $7,000 for audiovisual equipment for use in the agency's after school program serving children in South Boston.
Raw Art Works: A grant of $40,000 for computers, cameras and film editing equipment for use in the agency's Real to Reel Film School, serving teens from Lynn, MA and the surrounding area.
St. Mary's Women and Children's Center/GRLZ Radio: A grant of $30,000 to purchase furniture, audio recording and production equipment, technology and other expenses associated with expansion of the GRLZ radio station, operated by teen girls from the Bowdoin/Geneva neighborhood of Dorchester, MA under the auspices of St. Mary's Women and Children's Center.
STRIVE: A grant of $35,000 for the purchase of a van for use in the agency's programs aimed at helping ex-offenders find employment and avoid recidivism.
Urban Ecology Institute: A grant of $35,000 to purchase equipment for use in the agency's field-based science education programs serving students in urban Boston public middle and high schools.
Wheelock Family Theatre: A grant of $14,700 for the purchase of equipment, including LED caption display system and audio description headsets, to increase the accessibility of Wheelock's productions for vision- and hearing-impaired patrons.
Women Express/Teen Voices: A grant of $35,885 for the purchase and installation of computers and software for use in the agency's journalism and mentoring programs for teen girls from Greater Boston.
Youth Enrichment Services: A grant of $35,000 for replacement of the roof at the agency's headquarters. YES enables youth from urban Boston to participate in winter sports.
2004 Grants:
Agassiz Village: A grant of $50,000 to renovate five camp cabins, making them accessible to persons with disabilities. The camp, located in Poland, ME, serves economically disadvantaged children from urban Boston.
Cambridge Family and Children's Services: A grant of $20,000 for the purchase and installation of a media center for use in training prospective foster families and agency staff.
Chelsea Green Space and Recreation Committee: A grant of $27,960 for the purchase of field study and other equipment for use in after school programs targeted to youth from East Boston and Chelsea.
Children's Room Center for Grieving Children and Teenagers: A grant of $50,000 to renovate two rooms and make other necessary improvements to the agency's new facility in Arlington, MA, where it offers support programs for grieving children, teens and families from throughout greater Boston.
Crittenton Women's Union: A grant of $39,300 for the purchase of new mattresses and furniture for use in the agency's newly renovated transitional housing facility serving homeless women and children.
Cultural Access Consortium: A grant of $25,173 for the purchase of a portable audio description booth to be used by Boston-area theatres to provide audio description of live theatre performances for blind and low-vision persons.
East Boston Ecumenical Community Council: A grant of $26,230 to expand and upgrade the agency's computer lab in East Boston, permitting new and expanded computer learning programs for Latino youth and adults.
The Food Project: A grant of $25,000 for the purchase of a passenger van to be used in the agency's urban agriculture, hunger relief and youth development programs which take place in Lincoln and Dorchester, MA.
Handi Kids Therapeutic Riding: A grant of $42,800 to purchase and install a circular riding pen for use in the agency's therapeutic horseback riding program, located in Bridgewater, MA and serving children with disabilities.
Lena Park Community Development Corporation: A grant of $30,000 to renovate two bathrooms in the agency's early childhood education facility, which serves children from Boston 's Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan neighborhoods.
Madison Park Development Corporation: A grant of $50,000 to complete the construction of a community park adjacent to the Hibernian Hall historic renovation project located in Roxbury's Dudley Square.
Metro Lacrosse: A grant of $27,500 to purchase a truck, utility cart and related equipment needed to transport sports equipment and supplies as needed in support of its Boston youth athletic programs.
Outdoor Explorations: A grant of $35,822 for the purchase of youth kayaks and related equipment to facilitate kayaking programs for disabled and non-disabled youth from greater Boston.
Salvation Army: A grant of $50,000 to complete the construction of a park and playground adjacent to the agency's Children's Learning Center in Dorchester, MA.
South End Community Health Center: A grant of $25,000 to redesign a medical waiting area in the agency's community health center serving the South End.
Boston Medical Center's Children's AIDS Program/SPARK ("Supporting Parents and Resilient Kids") Center: A grant of $664,458 over two years beginning in 2005 for the expansion and renovation of the program's Mattapan facility, allowing the agency to double the number of children served. The program provides day care and afterschool programs for HIV/AIDS-affected children and teens as well as seriously troubled children in the foster care system.
Chelsea Creek Restoration Partnership's "Creekside Commons:" A challenge grant, approved in June 2006, of $700,000 toward the construction of an intergenerational park in Chelsea, MA featuring active recreational opportunities and waterfront access to Mill Creek. The challenge was met in October, 2007, and the park is expected to be completed in July, 2009.
Seven Hills Pediatric Center at Groton: A grant of $250,000 for the construction of a dental clinic at this residential care facility for the state's most profoundly disabled children (ages 0-22 years, under the cognitive age of 12 months) located in Groton, MA. In addition to serving Pediatric Center residents, the clinic will provide dental care to any developmentally disabled patient in the region and will serve as a training ground for special needs dental care.
Artists for Humanity: A challenge grant that provided, in January 2007, the final $150,000 needed to retire the agency's mortgage on its Fort Point facility.
Boston Children's Museum: A commitment of $3 million toward the construction of a waterfront park and plaza in front of the Boston Children's Museum.
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program: A challenge grant of $1 million toward the agency's capital campaign to acquire and renovate the Mallory Building (across from Boston Medical Center) to house its programs providing medical care, mental health services and oral health care to Boston's homeless population. The grant was contingent on the agency raising by April 2007 the remaining funds needed to complete the campaign, a challenge it met in July 2006.
Greater Boston Food Bank: A gift of $500,000 in support of the agency's capital campaign to build a larger food distribution warehouse on land adjacent to its current facility.
Temple Israel: A pledge of $1.5 million toward the capital campaign for renovation of the synagogue.
Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston: Various grants and/or commitments of approximately $5.4 million from 1989 through 2009, made by the Foundation in association with Brian and Debra Knez and Robert and Dana Smith.
Enterprise Corporation of the Delta/HOPE Community Credit Union, Jackson, MS: A one-time grant of $250,000 in December 2005 for operating assistance and capital reserves in support of the agency's development finance services, targeted to individuals, businesses and nonprofits seeking to recover from Hurricane Katrina.
Facing History and Ourselves: Grants and/or commitments of $2.5 million from 1999 through 2009.
Museum of Fine Arts: A grant of $150,000 over five years beginning in 2003 for operating support, and a grant of $500,000 over five years beginning in 1999 to endow an arts education program for children.
The Foundation provides annual support to a few Boston non-profits with which it has longstanding ties. Due to these and other outstanding commitments, the Foundation does not anticipate extending this type of support to additional organizations at the present time.
Associated Grant Makers Summer Fund: A grant of $26,250 in annual support.
Boston Symphony Orchestra: A grant of $25,000 in annual support.
Combined Jewish Philanthropies: A grant of $750,000 in annual support. A portion of these funds supports disabilities housing in Boston, education programs for Ethiopian Jews in Haifa, Israel, and health and social services for vulnerable people in the former Soviet Union.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute: A grant of $25,000 in annual support.
Inner City Scholarship Fund: A grant of $5,000 in annual support.
United Way of Massachusetts Bay: A grant of $50,000 in annual support.
Citi Performing Arts Center : A grant of $20,000 in annual support.
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