2gether We Eat
NCF Piller: Health Equality
Geographic Focus: Worcester
Website: https://2getherweeat.com
2Gether We Eat is a 501(c)3 that teaches young people community and hydroponics farming. 2gether We Eat provides is actively fighting the food insecurity across communities providing fresh fruits and vegetables to those that do not have access to them.
Abilities Dance Incorporated
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Brookline
Website:https://www.abilitiesdanceboston.org/
Abilities Dance uses dance as a way to spotlight disability rights by fighting ableist serotypes and showing divers representation of people with disabilities and the intersectionality of disability rights.
Accelerated College Experiences, Inc.
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://acecoaches.org
ACE Uplifts and empowers youth by having them set their own educational goals as well as also supporting them in achieving that goal with tutoring. Giving youth confidence that they can succeed in academic spaces gives them the push they need to achieve great educational milestones.
Amplify POC Cape Cod
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Hyannis
Website: https://www.amplifypoccapecod.com
Amplify POC Cape Cod is a Nonprofit that seeks to uplift and amplify POC-owned businesses. Amplify POC works to dismantle the financial disparity between black and brown people in Cape Cod and beyond by giving resources for black and brown business to grow and thrive.
Anna Myer/beheard.world
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Cambridge
Website:https://www.beheard.world/
Behear.world works with young people to build community and healing through creative exasperation. Using all different forms of visual and performance art to tell powerful stories and process emotion through art.
Art Resource Collaborative for Kids
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://www.arckboston.org
ARK uses art and creativity to promote education and academic success as well as engaging social and emotional learning though art-based workshops.
BAMS Fest, Inc.
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://www.bamsfest.org/
BAMS Fest cultivates a network of black artists and creatives with goal of amplifying black creatives and create opportunities to highlight black art.
Beat The Odds
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.btoboston.org/
Beat The Odds Boston works with youth in low-income communities with creative youth development programs. Beat the Odds fills in the gaps where public schools art programs fall short.
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology
NCF Pillar: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://franklincummings.edu/
Desc: Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology is a private college of engineering and industrial technologies. We empower you to achieve your career goals and attain economic advancement through accessible, flexible, and hands-on technical and trade education.
Berklee College of Music
NCF Pillar: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.berklee.edu/
Desc: Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Our leading contemporary conservatory for dance, music, and theater offers undergraduate and graduate programs that combine focused, individualized training with an innovative curriculum that empowers students to create the future they imagine.
Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, Inc.
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://www.becma.org/
The Black Economic Council works to close the gap between the wealth disparity of people of color in Massachusetts. Using financial literacy to empower community of color to support each other and gain access to financial freedom.
Blue Hill Ave Muse
NCF Pillar: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: N/A
Desc: N/A
Boston Arts Academy
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://bostonartsacademy.org/
The Boston Art Academy is Boston’s only public high school for visual and performing artists. Serving divers youth that acridly reflect Boston hiding kids to have successful creative careers after high school.
Boston Bridges Initiative
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://bostonbridgesinitiative.org/
Boston Bridges Initiative wants to bridge the gap between urban and suburban communities to create a fruitful cultural exchange. Bringing Boston together to create a more equitable and accepting Boston.
Boston Debate League
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.bostondebate.org/our-impact/
Desc: Through the three anchor programs, After-School Debate, Debate-Inspired Classrooms, and now, Resolved. Each initiative creates inclusive learning communities that support all participants in achieving the transformative, lifelong benefits of debate, including developing academic abilities, confidence, leadership, and other 21st century skills.
Boston Educational Development Foundation
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.bedf.org/overview/
The Boston Educational Development Foundation is a K-12 fund that also serves as a 501c (3) and a fundraising partner to the Boston Public schools. Providing a platform and home for equitable public education programs. Working with educators and school leaders as well as providing student lead opportunity.
Boston Higher Education Resource Center
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.bostonherc.org/
Desc: The Boston Higher Education Resource Center (HERC) functions to equip first-generation youth of color to access and thrive in higher education, to break the cycle of poverty, and to become agents of change in our communities.
Boston Home Inc.
NCF Piller: Health Equity
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://www.thebostonhome.org
Boston Home is a community for adults with advanced neurological disorders of various backgrounds. State-of-the-art services enable members of our community to lead creative and purposeful lives.
Boston Impact Initiatives Foundation
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://bostonimpact.org/what-we-do/
Boston Impact Initiative Is dedicated to building economic, social, and political power for black and brown entrepreneurs. As communities of colors become the new majority, we must start investing in people, places and enterprises creating a sustainable, equitable economy.
Boston University Center for Anti Racist Research
NCF Pillar: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/the-center/
Desc: The mission of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research is to convene researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice. We foster exhaustive racial research, research-based policy innovation, data-driven educational and advocacy campaigns, and narrative-change initiatives.
Breakthrough Greater Boston
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Cambridge
Website:https://breakthroughgreaterboston.org
Breakthrough gives a number of diverse high-achieving students access to tools and resources to further their education and have the option for higher levels of education beyond high school.
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
NCF Pillar: Health Equity
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://bridgeotw.org/about-us/our-mission/
Desc: Bridge Over Troubled Waters provides effective and innovative services to runaway, homeless and high-risk youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to transform their lives and build fulfilling, meaningful futures.
Calculus Project
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Brookline
Website: https://thecalculusproject.org/what-we-do/
Desc: The Calculus Project schools offer math preparatory courses in the summer with tutoring and support during the school year for rising 8th graders through grade 12 students.
Castel Of Our Skins
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.castleskins.org/
Castel Of Our Skins focuses on cultural exploration through black artistry and music. With a spotlight both told and untold stories.
Center for Teen Empowerment, Inc.
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://teenempowerment.org/
Center for Teen Empowerment works to lead a new generation of social activists by employing and training youth and young people in social advocacy to promote equity and equality.
Collective Power for Reproductive Justice
NCF Piller: Health Equality
Geographic Focus: Amherst
Website: https://collectivepowerrj.org
The Collective Power for Reproductive Justice works to lead a new generation of activists to fight for reproductive health and other social justices. fighting towards the goal of collective liberation.
Community Art Collaborative
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Plymouth
Website:https://communityartcollaborative.org/
Community Art Collaborative is a nonprofit focused on promoting public art to help communities across the country. Offering communities a way to create vibrant public art.
Company One, Inc.
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://companyone.org/
Company One uses theater to fight for social justice by developing new plays and playwriters and telling the untold stories of marginalized communities highlighting divers people and stories on stage.
Compass Working Capital
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.compassworkingcapital.org/
Compass Working Capital works with low-income families to build assets to help them gain the ability to climb out of poverty.
Cristo Rey Boston High School
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.cristoreyboston.org/
Cristo Rey is a catholic high school that focuses on serving families with limited economic recourses. Providing young people with tools they need to succeed in college and beyond.
Enroot, Inc.
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.enrooteducation.org/
Enroot uses one on one mentorship to help students by establishing a relationship-based learning environment.
Epiphany School
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.epiphanyschool.com/
Desc: Epiphany is an independent school for children of economically disadvantaged families in Boston, with scholarships for all. We admit children of diverse faiths, races, cultures, and cognitive profiles, believing in the Episcopal tradition that we find God in and through each other. In close partnership with families and community partners, we are an innovative learning community.
Esperanza Academy
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Lawrence
Website: https://esperanzaacademy.org/
Desc: We are a tuition-free independent school because we believe that everyone deserves the right to high-quality independent school education. By creating a culture of achievement in which academic success and self-discovery are paramount, we protect and nurture the innate confidence that each of our girls possesses. We accomplish this by being a restorative justice school that believes that relationships must come first.
Fathers’ Uplift, Inc.
NCF Piller: Health Equality
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.fathersuplift.org
Fathers Uplift provides men who have broken relationships with their children counseling to repair and strengthen their relationships with their child and themselves.
Fortaleza
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Lowell
Website: https://fortaleza-inc.org/
Desc: Fortaleza’s mission is to catalyze collective action among parents, educators, community members, and faith leaders to ensure educational equity, and to remove systemic barriers impacting the education outcomes of Latino students.
Freedom House, Inc.
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Cambridge
Website: https://www.freedomhouse.com/about-us/
Freedom House works with communities in high need of support and help transform these communities with youth development and leadership programs. Helping young people of color graduate and give back to their communities.
Front Porch Arts Collective of Boston
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://www.frontporcharts.org/
Front Porch Art Collective of Boston is a threader comity with a focus on showcasing stories of races, class, gender, and sexuality through the point of view of POC. Telling black and brown stories with the hope of fostering care and racial understanding.
Garden of Eden & Associates, Inc.
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.gardenofedenandassociates.com/
Garden of Eden & Associates, Inc. is a privately funded 501(c)(3) non‑profit that works to provide Leadership development, organizational development, and professional skills training. With the goal of helping people find opportunity by giving them the skills to develop their own path to success.
Hopewell Inc
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Dedham
Website: https://hopewellinc.org/
Desc: HopeWell is the largest nonprofit provider of comprehensive foster care in Massachusetts. We also support children experiencing foster care as they grow their early literacy skills; youth who are “aging out” of foster care and transitioning into adulthood; families involved with the child welfare system; and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Indigenous Peoples Day Newton
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Newton
Website:https://www.ipdnewton.org/
The Indigenous Peoples Day Newton is a Indigenous led annual ceremonial event organized by the IDP Newton planning committee.
Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, Inc.
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://ibaboston.org/
IBA works to provide adorable housing in a safe and inclusive space for low-income to moderate-income families to live.
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, Inc.
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment, Policing and policy
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.jalsa.org
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action strives to advocate for socially equitable policy and the Jewish community by creating connections with thousands of activists across the state. Utilizing community organizing, advocacy, legal strategies, and educational workshops to achieve impactful and sustainable social and legislative change.
Justice for Housing Inc
NCF Pillar: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://justice4housing.org/
Desc: Justice 4 Housing (J4H) is a grassroots organization that provides housing and family reunification to Justice Involved Individuals (JIIs) through policy, advocacy and service.
Leadership Brainery
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.leadershipbrainery.org
Leadership Brainery was founded to address inequitable access to master’s and doctoral degrees and workforce leadership opportunities for underrepresented talent, including people of color, individuals from a lower socioeconomic status, and other demographics who face systemic barriers to attaining advanced degrees.
Living in Freedom Together (LIFT), Inc.
NCF Piller: Health Equity
Geographic Focus: Worcester
Website:https://www.liftworcester.org
LIFT works to end the sex trade. Lead by survivors for survivor’s LIFT has an empathetic approach were survivors’ voices and decisions are respected with the ultimate goal to end systems of prostitution.
Living Stones Church
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://lstones.org/youth-ministry/
The Living Stones Church youth group fosters a strong community of young people they can relate to and confide in.
Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
NCF Piller: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://ldbpeaceinstitute.org/about/
The Louis d. Brown Peace Institute has a goal of teaching the value for peace with a focus on supporting and building a community for those who are victims of homicide. Spreading a message of peace and helping young people deal with Murder, trauma grief and loss.
Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice Corp
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.mabelcenter.org/what-we-do
Mabel Center Provides free legal services for asylum-seekers with complex cases that other legal organizations are not equipped to handle. Many asylum-seekers are unable to find pro bono attorneys willing to work on cases with unset president. Mabel Center has attorneys who successfully fought and won these complex cases for their clients.
Mandela Yoga Project Inc
NCF Piller: Health Equity
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.mandelayogaproject.org
Mandela Yoga envisions a world where all those effected by racism become embolden to help heal their own community’s emotion and physical health with assessable yoga.
Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center
NCF Piller: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Oak Bluffs
Website: https://www.mariposamuseum.org
The Museum & World Cultural Center is an American history and African diaspora museum through artistic exploration. The Museum seeks to Invite local creatives to help tell these stories.
Massachusetts League of Community Health Center
NCF Pillar: Health Equity
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.massleague.org/
Desc: The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (League) was founded in 1972 as one of the first state Primary Care Associations (PCAs) in the country with the mission of To promote population health equity for all through leadership and programs supporting community health centers and members in achieving their goals of accessible, quality, comprehensive, and community responsive health care.
Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition
NCF Piller: Health Equality
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://www.mattapanfoodandfit.org
Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition offers access to food, physical activities, and community building by utilizing community gardens and local parks.
Melanin Mass Moms
NCF Piller: Health Equity
Geographic Focus: Middleboro
Website:https://www.melaninmassmoms.com
Melanin Mass Moms focus on moms of color building a supportive community working towards filling the gap between mothers of color and healthcare resources. Providing things like mental health care and postpartum support focusing on increasing access to community resources.
Mill Cities Community Investments
NCF Pillar: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Lawrence
Website: https://www.mccinvest.org/
Desc: MCCI is a community development financial institution (CDFI). CDFIs are private-sector financial organizations with community development as their primary goal. We work closely with our customers and community leaders to develop innovative ways to deliver loans, investments, and financial services.
My Life My Choice
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.mylifemychoice.org/
Desc: We provide intensive, consistent support with a multidisciplinary, survivor-led team to provide community and stability for our mentees. Our nationally-acclaimed, research-based curriculum and prevention solutions protect young people from predators. We work closely with service providers, law enforcement and community members to build a strong network of responsive and informed providers and community leaders. We advocate for legislative change that codifies safety, rights, and resources for minor and adult survivors of commercial sexual exploitation.
NAACP Springfield
NCF Piller: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Springfield
Website: https://springfieldnaacp.org/
Springfield’s NAACP works to address issues of racial discrimination through working with lawmakers and activists to create equitable policies.
Neighborhood Birth Center
NCF Pillar: Health Equity
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://neighborhoodbirthcenter.org/
Desc: We believe that people living in and around Boston should have access to a full range of pregnancy care and birthing options. Our mission is to offer comprehensive full scope midwifery care rooted in reproductive justice. Neighborhood Birth Center plans to offer essential services including education, psycho-social support, and referrals for non-medical services.
New Beginnings Reentry Services, Inc.
NCF Pillar: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://nbreentry.org/
Desc: We work to build alliances, collaborations, and networks to create positive changes in policies that negatively impact women involved in the criminal justice system.
New England Justice for Our Neighbors
NCF Piller: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Belmont
Website: https://newenglandjfon.org/
New England Justice for Our Neighbors provides free legal services to low-income and no-income individuals with a focus on humanitarian cases.
Northeastern University
NCF Pillar: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.northeastern.edu
Desc: Founded in 1898, we’re renowned for our experiential learning model, high-impact research, deep partnerships, and worldwide reach. From day one, we’ve pursued innovative ways of teaching and research that place a premium on experience and engagement with the world. Today, our signature approach erases traditional boundaries, empowering not only students, but faculty, alumni, partners, and innovators to solve problems and pursue impact.
On the Rise, Inc.
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Cambridge
Website:https://www.ontherise.org/
On the rise works with women and gender nonconforming individuals who are experiencing homelessness. By building long-term relationships to help guide them in achieving their goals towards sustainable housing.
OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.originationinc.org
OrigNation is a 501c(3) organization that promotes youth focused art programs that are meant to challenge and empower youth to better themselves through education and self-expiration. From the ages of 2 – 18 young people are introduced to many different forms of contemporary art.
Phoenix Charter Academy
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.phoenixcharteracademy.org/
Desc: Phoenix schools combine the rigorous academics needed for lifelong success with the best practices of leading youth development organizations, providing relentless support for every student. We do this by offering a longer school day and school year, combined with flexible scheduling to accommodate our students’ lives. We also provide our students with meaningful college and career pathways, as well as individualized social-emotional supports for each and every student.
Pine Street Inn, Inc.
NCF Piller: Health Equity
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://www.pinestreetinn.org
The Pine Street Inn is an serves Homeless individuals helping them transition into homes and stable housing. Pine Street Inn provides emergency services, street outreach and job concealing with the goal that everyone will have access to permanent housing and a supportive community.
Problak Art
NCF Pillar: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.problak.com/
Desc: Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs is a visual artist and organizer who has transformed the cultural landscape of Boston through graffiti art since 1991.
Project Smile Inc.
NCF Piller: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Hopedale
Website: https://www.projectsmile.org/about\
Project smile works with police officers to help confer children who have survived great trauma by providing them with something as simple a stuffed animal to hold on to. Project smiles partners with homeless shelters and DCF to provide free coloring books, crayons, and books for children in need.
Project STEP
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Newton
Website:https://www.projectstep.org/
Project STEP is a program that provides underrepresented youths with classical music training in order to make classical music more accessible.
Raw Art Works
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Lynn
Website:https://www.rawartworks.org/
RAW is a youth organization that provides art therapy empowering kids to tell their stories. Offering a variety of different art-based programing for kids k-12.
Resource Organizing Project
NCF Piller: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://sustainmovements.org/resource-organizing-project/
Resource Organizing Project works to change the fundraising landscape by supporting community organizers and partnerships with potential funders to back equitable movements and policies.
Roxbury Action Program
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://roxburyactionprogram.com/about/
Roxbury Action Program works to grow and support Roxbury and its community by advancing the social and economic health of Roxbury with a focus on Highland Park. As well as community-building with black and brown residents to strengthen the culture of Roxbury.
Roxbury Main Streets
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.roxburymainstreets.org
Roxbury Main Street strives to promote local businesses in Roxbury to positively revitalize Roxbury’s economy. As well as preserving Roxbury’s existing cultural significance and community by providing the community with businesses owned by residents for residents.
Sarepta Women and Children Empowerment Center, Inc
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.sareptawcec.org/
Sarepta Women and Children Empowerment Center is serving more than 200 families providing housing assistance, mental and behavioral health, and civic education and engagement services.
Share Our Strength
NCF Piller: Health Equity
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://shareourstrength.org
Share Our Strength wants to end childhood hunger by working with the local community and schools to provide access to health meal programs.
Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://sportsmenstennis.org
Sportsmen’s Tennis & Entertainment Center provides tennis instruction, academic support, and life skills.
Street Theory Collective
NCF Pillar: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.street-theory.com/
Desc: STREET THEORY is an award-winning creative agency that activates communities, spaces, and global brands through street art, experiential marketing, cultural placemaking, branding and design. With over 20 years of experience in large scale public art production, artist management, art and design direction, exhibitions and special events, we use our expertise to implement and execute our client’s goals at the highest levels of strategic planning and creative expression in the areas of lifestyle, hospitality, retail, real estate, urban planning and community development.
Talented and Gifted Association Inc.
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://massgifted.org/
The Talented and Gifted Association works to support and challenge students that excel in school.
The American City Coalition, Inc.
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://tamcc.org/
TACC provides leadership and technical assistance to help advance the community of Roxbury by accumulating funders and investors to finance community projects.
The Artist Initiative for Revolution
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.facebook.com/air.boston/
The Artist Initiative for Revolution props up artists and amplifies their stories by putting on shows and exhibitions that boost both the cultural and personal narratives of local artists.
The BASE
NCF Piller: Health Equality
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://thebase.org
The Base works with urban youth using sports to empower and encourage young people. Providing both high quality sports training and programs for collage access, career development as well as promoting health and wellness.
The Boston Foundation
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.tbf.org
The Boston Foundation works on closing the gap between Boston greatest disparities by providing rescores and relationships. Working on creating pathways for equitable communities and sustainable values.
The Boston Women’s Fund
NCF Pillar: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.bostonwomensfund.org/
Desc: Boston Women’s Fund uplifts, advocates for, and invests in women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals who are leading grassroots organizations and systems change.
The English High School Association
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Dedham
Website:https://englishhighalumni.org/
English High School Association works to break down educational barriers for kids no matter their economic income. With the goal of giving them the tools they need to live a fulfilling life.
The New England Innocence project
NCF Pillar: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Cambridge
Website: https://www.newenglandinnocence.org/who-we-are
Desc: New England Innocence Project (NEIP) fights to correct and prevent wrongful convictions and ensure justice within the criminal legal system for innocent people throughout New England who are imprisoned for a crime they did not commit.
We provide free forensic testing, investigation, experts, and an experienced legal team to exonerate the innocent and bring them home to their loved ones.
The Resilient Sisterhood Project (RSP)
NCF Piller: Health Equality
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://rsphealth.org
The Resilient Sisterhood Projects fights to empower and educate women of African descent about reputative health.
The Young Peoples Project
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Cambridge
Website: https://www.typp.org/
Desc: YPP uses Math Literacy Work to develop the abilities of elementary through high school students to succeed in school and in life, and in doing so involves them in efforts to eliminate institutional obstacles to their success.
Transformational Prison Project
NCF Piller: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://www.transformprison.org/
TPP provides spaces where those who have been harmed and those who have done the harm can come together and engage in dialogue—to build understanding and empathy toward those who have been victims of violent crime.
Trinity Boston Connects, Inc.
NCF Piller: Health Equity
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://trinityconnects.org
Trinity Boston Connects works with young people of color and the adults who work with them to help heal form the trauma and harm caused by systematic racism they experience in and out of the classroom.
United South End Settlements
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.uses.org/
The United South End Settlement works with families to decrease the cases and effects of poverty with a nuanced approach by serving both youth and caregivers. By providing both parties with engaging opportunities that help families grow together.
Uptima Entrepreneur Cooperative
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://uptimacoop.com
Uptima Entrepreneur Cooperative provides culturally relevant education and advice to young enterons to create striving businesses to provide back to their own business.
Urban Achievers SAFE School
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.uasafeschools.org/
Desc: At our core lies a firm conviction in the transformative power of sports and a vision of our students as unique human beings. We will offer our students an unparalleled platform to cultivate values like perseverance, compassion, and agency, which are essential to personal development and success in any domain. Our goal is to nurture a new generation of exceptional leaders who will excel, not only in athletics, but also in their ability to positively impact their communities and society at large.
Urban Farming Institute
NCF Piller: Health Equality
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://www.urbanfarminginstitute.org
UFI’s goal is to promote urban farming and encourage people to grow their own food and build a healthy community.
Venture Café Foundation
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://venturecafecambridge.org/
The Venture Café Foundation works to build a network of investors and small businesses in and around the Boston area.
Venture Café Foundation
NCF Piller: Economic Empowerment
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://venturecafeglobal.org/
Vital CxNs
NCF Pillar: Health Equity
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.vitalcxns.org/
Desc: We are a team of community organizers, medical professionals, and public health practitioners, bridging gaps and forging partnerships between health and wellbeing, healthcare and community, and individuals and institutions. Vital CxNs takes a grassroots approach to improving Boston’s community health ecosystem through tackling the city’s persistent and pervasive health inequities.
We Are Better Together Warren Daniel Hairston Project Inc
NCF Pillar: Policing and Criminal Justice Reform
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.wab2g.org/
Desc: We Are Better Together Warren Daniel Hairston Project (WAB2G) connects and heals women and girls affected by homicide and incarceration to prevent the cycles of violence and victimization
We Move In Color
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.wemoveincolor.com/
We Move In Color is and 501(c(3) is a national collaboration that works on bridging divides with performers and visual arts. live performances share relevant historical narratives and as a tool for deeper social engagement.
Words as Worlds
NCF Piller: Identity and Culture Narrative
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website:https://wordsasworlds.org/
Word as Words seeks to host a community of creatives by hosting many different events with local and national artists and writers that often challenge different political systems.
Y2Y Network
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.y2ynetwork.org/
Desc: Y2Y Network is building student-led programming to interrupt the cycle of homelessness for a generation of young adults. Y2Y Network employs a youth-to-youth model to provide a safe and affirming environment for young adults 18-24 experiencing homelessness.
YMCA of Metro North
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Lynn
Website: https://www.ymcametronorth.org/
YMCA Metro North provides quality affordable childcare, youth programs, and health and wellness classes. Giving everyone access to these resources regardless of the ability to pay.
Young Man With a Plan
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.youngmanwithaplan.org/
Desc: Young Man with a Plan (YMWAP) delivers a program of holistic mentoring sustained over 4+ years that helps over 200 young Black and Latino men in Boston build brotherhood, make academic and social emotional gains, and access sustainable futures. They do this through Connecting youth to caring adults, strengthening youth academic, social emotional, critical thinking, wellness, and financial literacy skills.
Young People’s Project, Inc.
NCF Piller: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Dedham
Website: https://www.typp.org/
The Young Peoples project works with elementary through high school aged youth. Using math literacy to help build academic skills with the goal that every young person has access to high quality education.
Youth Guidance(BAM)
NCF Pillar: Youth Development
Geographic Focus: Boston
Website: https://www.youth-guidance.org/about-us/
Desc: Becoming A Man® program (BAM®) is a school-based group counseling program that guides young men in 6th-12th grades to learn, internalize and practice social cognitive skills, make responsible decisions for their future and become positive members of their school and community.
