Local groups win grants from Boston Foundation – Dorchester Reporter

The Boston Foundation announced nearly $6 million in grants to a collection of Greater Boston organizations, including eight from Dorchester.

The Record Company, a recording studio and arts service organization based in Newmarket Square, received a $50,000 one-year general operating support grant. College Bound Dorchester received a $75,000 one-year project support grant for its Boston Uncornered program, which provides education access for gang-involved youth.

Freedom House, a Grove Hall organization that works to remove barriers to education for first-generation and low-income students of color, received a $75,000 one-year general operating support grant.

The University of Massachusetts Foundation received a $50,000 one-year project support grant for Success Boston, a college completion initiative.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health received a $100,000 one-year project support grant for Mass in Motion, an initiative designed to build capacity at the municipal level to create a sustained approach for healthy eating and active living in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Malden.

The Four Corners Action Coalition received a $45,000 one-year project support grant for its work as fiscal sponsor of Action for Equity and for its Creating Fairmount Corridor Special Protection Zones project, which will develop a new zoning overlay district for residents in the Fairmount Corridor to protect residents from displacement.

BAMS Fest, a Franklin Park-based music and arts festival, received $10,000 for general operating support, and The Guild, a Bowdoin-Geneva social enterprise focused on sustainability, received $5,000 for general operating support.

This quarters grants provide a continuation in our support of workforce development through SkillWorks and new investments in entrepreneurship through our support of EforAlls Roxbury expansion, said Paul S. Grogan, President and CEO of the Boston Foundation, in a press release. In addition, we are excited to target a series of grants toward strengthening programs and services designed to help lower-income Boston residents build their assets and find affordable, sustainable housing.

The largest grant--funds totaling $350,000--went to SkillWorks, an initiative that seeks to close skill gaps and provide employment opportunities by supporting training and engaging employers in industries such as health care, information technology and hospitality.

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