Environment

ARTS AND CULTURE

Boston Center for the Arts

Boston MA
Libbie Shufro, President & CEO

Operating support in the amount of $175,000.00 payable over two years to implement a five-year strategic plan for its campus of visual and performing arts.

Center for Cultural Exchange

Portland ME
Phyllis O'Neill, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over two years for educational programs focused on preserving cultural heritage of immigrant populations in Maine.

Concord Community Music School

Concord NH
Peggy Senter, President

Project support in the amount of $175,000.00 payable over two years for the Music in the Community Initiative, including scholarships and financial aid for students, and community partnership programs.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.

Boston MA
Michael Maso, Managing Director

Project support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over two years to meet a challenge from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to establish an endowment fund to permanently support youth outreach and education programs.

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)

Boston MA
Jill Medvedow, James Sachs Plaut Director

Capital support in the amount of $1,000,000.00 payable over four years for the Campaign for the New ICA, to build a new museum on Fan Pier in Boston.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Boston MA
Ann Hawley, Norma Jean Calderwood Director

Capital and endowment support in the amount of $450,000.00 payable over two years to upgrade gallery lighting and wiring and to grow the endowment fund.

Jose Mateo's Ballet Theatre

Cambridge MA
Scott Fraser, Managing Director

Capital support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year to create two additional studio spaces as part of long-term facility renovations of the historic Old Cambridge Baptist Church.

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor, Inc.

Vergennes VT
Arthur B. Cohn, Executive Director

Trustee discretionary grant for project support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over one year for the Lake Champlain Sloop project, to research, explore and document three shipwrecked sloops under Lake Champlain, and for the Longboats Program, a boat building and rowing program for at-risk youth.

Longy School of Music

Cambridge MA
Kwang-Wu Kim, President

Project support in the amount of $175,000.00 payable over two years to integrate community outreach into Longy's conservatory curriculum, and to redesign scholarship and financial aid programs.

Madison Park Development Corporation

Boston MA
Candelaria Silva, Director, ACT Roxbury

Capital support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over two years to create the Roxbury Center for Arts, Culture and Trade, in the renovated historic Hibernian Hall, including rehearsal, performance, studio, office and exhibit space for local artists, cultural organizations and community members.

Maine Cultural Affairs Council

Augusta ME
Alden Wilson, Director, Maine Arts Commission

Project support in the amount of $60,000.00 payable over one year to implement creative economy initiatives in three pilot communities in Maine, focused on downtown revitalization through the arts.

Maine Historical Society

Portland ME
Steve Bromage, Director of Education

Project support in the amount of $150,000.00 payable over two years for the Maine Community Heritage Project, to develop teams of schools and local historical societies in five communities to use the Maine Memory Network, a statewide digital museum, to promote community history.

MYTOWN, Inc. (Multicultural Youth Tour Of What's Now)

Boston MA
Marinell Rousmaniere, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over two years to expand outreach, curriculum and training for community groups interested in using neighborhood-based history to engage youth.

Museum of Afro-American History

Boston MA
Beverly Morgan-Welch, Executive Director

Capital support in the amount of $150,000.00 payable over two years to purchase a building adjacent to the Meeting House to house the new Museum Archives and Library.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Boston MA
Malcolm Rogers, Ann & Graham Gund Director

Project support in the amount of $150,000.00 payable over one year for the conservation of a mosaic excavated in the ancient city of Antioch.

Peabody Essex Museum

Salem MA
Dan Monroe, Executive Director

Capital support in the amount of $200,000.00 payable over two years for the construction and renovation of Museum facilities, including new exhibition space, an auditorium and the rebuilding of a 200 year old historic Chinese house.

Shakespeare & Company

Lenox MA
Tina Packer, Artistic Director

Capital support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over one year to restore buildings on the Lenox campus, to bring all rehearsal, training, and education programs on site.

Vermont Arts Exchange (VAE)

North Bennington VT
Patricia Pedreira, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over one year for a collaborative project with the Massachusetts Cultural Council to use the arts as a treatment for patients with chronic disease at health care facilities in Massachusetts and Vermont.

Vermont Council on Rural Development

Montpelier VT
Paul Costello, Director

Project support in the amount of $75,000.00 payable over one year for the Vermont Program in Culture and Innovation, to conduct public outreach and education in support of Vermont's Creative Economy efforts.

The Vermont Folklife Center

Middlebury VT
Jane Beck
Executive Director

Trustee discretionary grant for operating support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over one year to document and preserve the cultural heritage and traditions of Vermont.

EDUCATION

Antioch New England Institute

Keene NH
Delia Clark, Director, Project CO-SEED

Project support in the amount of $640,000.00 payable over four years to expand Project CO-SEED, a place-based education program, to three additional sites in Maine.

Cathedral High School

Boston MA
Christol Murch, Principal

Operating support in the amount of $150,000.00 payable over one year to build school's development capacity as it transitions from Archdiocese support and continues to serve inner-city youth.

The Children's Museum

Boston MA
Lou Casagrande, President

Project support in the amount of $200,000.00 payable over two years to develop programs for underserved Boston parents and their preschool children in collaboration with Head Start and the Boston Public Schools.

The Community School

Camden ME
Emanuel Pariser, Co-Director

Operating support in the amount of $75,000.00 payable over one year to build development capacity and meet operational needs while continuing to serve its population of low income adolescent high school dropouts.

Compass Project

Portland ME
Patricia Ryan, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over two years for an experiential learning program using boatbuilding, rowing and sailing to capture the interest of at-risk youth struggling to stay in school.

Crossroads Academy

Lyme NH
Jean Behnke, Head of School

Trustee discretionary grant for capital support in the amount of $200,000.00 payable over one year to add 20,000 square feet of flexible auditorium and classroom space to the campus.

DePauw University

Greencastle IN
Robert Bottoms, President

Trustee discretionary grant for project support in the amount of $200,000.00 payable over one year to support operations, start up costs, and programming for the newly opened Nature Park.

Epiphany School

Dorchester MA
John Finley, Head of School

Operating support in the amount of $75,000.00 payable over one year for an alternative middle school that provides comprehensive services for at-risk Boston youth, during completion of a major endowment and capacity- building campaign.

Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Portland ME
John Terry, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $75,000.00 payable over one year to develop the Gulf of Maine Research Laboratory's Public Interface, a digital learning environment program that connects students with locally relevant marine science and research.

Just for Girls

Bradenton FL
Becky Canesse, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year to serve disadvantaged girls in Manatee County with out-of-school educational and developmental programs.

Maine Equal Justice Partners, Inc.

Augusta ME
Mary T. Henderson, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $116,500.00 payable over two years to develop strategies to improve access to higher education for low-wage workers and to effect changes in programs and policies to maximize opportunities in education.

Merrimack College

North Andover MA
Richard J. Santagati, President

Project support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year for the Lawrence Math and Science Partnership, providing summer and after- school science and math tutoring for middle school Latino and Asian students.

Montshire Museum of Science

Norwich VT
David Goudy, Director

Trustee discretionary grant for capital support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year for The Access Project to expand access and parking at the Museum for visitors and staff.

Partakers, Inc.

Cambridge MA
Jeannette Hanlon, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over two years for the College Beyond Bars program, to support prisoners as they pursue a college education.

The Posse Foundation, Inc.

New York NY
Deborah Bial, President

Trustee discretionary grant for operating support of the Boston office in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year to recruit and train teams of students from urban high schools to attend top colleges and universities.

The Project for Supported Living (PSL)

Portland ME
Peter Brown, Program Manager, STRIVE U

Capital support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year for residential facilities at STRIVE U, a post-secondary program for young adults with developmental disabilities.

Snelling Center for Government, Inc.

Burlington VT
Jan Eastman, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over one year to strengthen the leadership capacities of educators while creating a network of educators, schools and communities to improve the quality of education delivered to Vermont's children.

The Right Question Project, Inc.

Cambridge MA
Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, Co-Directors

Project support in the amount of $525,000.00 payable over three years for a collaborative project to build skills for self-sufficiency among adult learners in northern New England using Right Question Project's self-advocacy educational methods.

The Steppingstone Foundation

Boston MA
Michael Danzinger, President

Operating support in the amount of $150,000.00 payable over two years to increase the capacity of The Steppingstone Academy, a program which prepares underprivileged schoolchildren to succeed at the top independent and public exam schools in Boston.

Vermont Center for the Book

Chester VT
Sally Anderson, Executive Director

Program support in the amount of $400,000.00 payable over two years to expand the training of early childhood educators in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts through the Mother Goose Cares curriculum.

Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS)

Woodstock VT
Sherman Kent, Executive Director

Capital support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year to help build an environmental education center at its new location in Quechee, Vermont.

ENVIRONMENT

1000 Friends of Florida

Tallahassee FL
Charles Pattison, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $175,000.00 payable over three years for the Florida Panhandle Initiative, to improve land use planning through communications, outreach, and community support.

Alternatives for Community and Environment, Inc. (ACE)

Roxbury MA
Penn Loh, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over two years to assist low income communities and communities of color in improving health, environment and quality of life in greater Boston.

Building Materials Resource Center

Roxbury MA
Matthew St. Onge, Executive Director

Capital support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year for the Building Materials Resource Center Expansion Project.

Chelsea Creek Action Partnership

East Boston MA
Stacey Chacker, Director of Community Building and Environment, NOAH

Project support in the amount of $185,000.00 payable over three years to transform the contaminated Chelsea Creek into a recreational, environmental, educational and economic resource for residents of East Boston and Chelsea.

Cobscook Bay Resource Center

Eastport ME
Will Hopkins, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over two years to monitor and understand the Cobscook Bay ecosystem and to promote the economic health of the region.

Friends of Casco Bay

South Portland ME
Cathy Ramsdell, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over two years to fund staff expansion, strategic planning, and program development.

Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association, Inc.

Boca Grande FL
Misty Nabers, Executive Director

Trustee discretionary grant for capital support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over one year to support land acquisition for conservation on Gasparilla Island, and to help establish an endowment for maintenance of a bike path used by Gasparilla Island residents, guests, and workers.

The Intervale Foundation

Burlington VT
Kit Perkins, Executive Director

Trustee discretionary grant for capital and project support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over one year to expand the Farm Ventures Program, restore a 1920s dairy barn on the Calkins Farmstead site and incubate the dairy under the auspices of the Farm Venture Program.

Lake Champlain Land Trust

Burlington VT
Peter Espenshade, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $150,000.00 payable over three years for its Underserved Communities Project, to promote collaboration between the Lake Champlain Land Trust and conservation organizations in each of 17 underserved Vermont towns on Lake Champlain.

National Wildlife Federation, Northeast Natural Resource Center

Montpelier VT
Eric Palola, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $70,511.62 payable over one year to integrate wildlife and habitat considerations into transportation planning through pilot projects in Vermont and Florida.

New England Grassroots Environment Fund (NEGEF)

Montpelier VT
Cheryl King Fischer, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $25,000.00 payable over one year to expand training programs for grantees and partners.

Nuestras Raices, Inc.

Holyoke MA
Daniel Ross, Executive Director

Capital support in the amount of $300,000.00 payable over two years for the Tierra de Oportuniades Project, to purchase farm land on the outskirts of Holyoke for micro-enterprise, youth development and environmental activities.

Open Space Institute Inc.

New York NY
Peter Howell, Director of Conservation Finance

Capital support in the amount of $150,000.00 payable over one year for theNorthern Forest Protection Fund, which provides grants and loans to land trusts working to protect the large forests of northern New England.

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Florida Chapter

Tallahassee FL
Ken Bryan, State Director

Operating support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year to provide technical assistance to local communities working to develop regional trail and greenway systems in Florida.

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay

Boston MA
Patricia Foley, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $150,000.00 payable over two years to pursue improvements to water quality and access to Boston Harbor through policy, advocacy and education.

Shelburne Farms

Shelburne VT
Alec Webb, President

Trustee discretionary grant for capital support in the amount of $125,000.00 payable over one year for Phase I of the Land Stewardship Project.

Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests

Concord NH
Jane Dilfey, President

Project support in the amount of $150,000.00 payable over two years for the Quabbin to Cardigan Conservation Collaborative, to promote collaborative approaches to land conservation in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Vermont Land Trust

Montpelier VT
Darby Bradley, President

Trustee discretionary grant for operating support in the amount of $75,000.00 payable over one year for land conservation, stewardship activities and local community engagement.

Vermont Youth Conservation Corps

Waterbury VT
Thomas Hark, President

Operating and capital support in the amount of $225,000.00 payable over three years to renovate and preserve a historically significant barn and adjacent land parcel, to house the Corps' training, education and administration functions, and to support general operations.

HEALTH AND WELFARE

The Abortion Access Project

Cambridge MA
Susan Yanow
Director, New Abortion Provider Training Initiative

Project support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year for the Family Practice Initiative to build capacity and train family practice physicians in Massachusetts and Maine in abortion care, and to promote inclusion of abortion services at community health centers and other local primary care sites.

Androscoggin Valley Partnership Project

Gorham NH
Catherine McDowell, Executive Director, Family Resource Center

Project support in the amount of $200,000.00 payable over two years for the Androscoggin Valley Partnership Project to strengthen a community/employer collaboration focused on community health and welfare by expanding workforce development, educational opportunities, and family and health support services.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation

Boston MA
Larry Tye, Director, Health Coverage Fellowship

Staff discretionary grant in the amount of $7,500.00 payable over one year to expand the New England Health Coverage Fellowship program that encourages stronger reporting and that improves contact with target audiences by supporting the participation of a journalist from Vermont.

The Carsey Institute for Families and Children

Durham NH
Mil Duncan, Director

Operating support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year for outreach, training and research programs in the human services, health and community development areas serving northern New England's working poor families, rural communities, and small cities and towns.

CHAIN (Community Health Action Information Network)

Plantation FL
Lisa Margulis, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year to expand health access education and outreach to underserved communities in Florida.

Charlotte County Habitat for Humanity

Port Charlotte FL
Ronald Thomas, Executive Director

Trustee discretionary grant for operating support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over one year to help increase production of affordable housing in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley, and to construct a center for housing volunteers.

Community Catalyst

Boston MA
Robert Restuccia, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $350,000.00 payable over one year for the RealBenefits Initiative, using innovative technology to improve the health and welfare of low and moderate income families by accessing work support and other public benefits, such as health insurance, food stamps and child care.

Crotched Mountain Foundation

Greenfield NH
Donald L. Shumway, President

Capital support in the amount of $200,000.00 payable over two years to improve the lives of people living with disabilities and the workforce by supporting the physical transformation of Crotched Mountain into a unique residential, education and treatment community, showcasing co-housing development, green design, accessible recreation and land conservation.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon NH
Suellen Peluso, Director of Foundation & Corporate Relations

Trustee discretionary grant for capital support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over one year for the Project for Progress, a capital campaign to expand health and health-related facilities.

Genesis Community Loan Fund

Damariscotta ME
Garrett Martin, Director of Development & Special Projects

Capital support in the amount of $220,000.00 payable over two years to launch the Island Challenge Fund based at the Maine Community Foundation to assist Maine's year-round, residential islands develop affordable housing and health, social services and community facilities, and operating support for technical assistance to local organizations.

Health Care For All

Boston MA
John E. McDonough, Executive Director

Staff discretionary grant in the amount for $5,000.00 payable over one year to support the second annual Health Action Conference in late winter 2005, to focus a broad constituency on local and statewide goals and strategies for policy change in Massachusetts.

Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled

Boston MA
Judi Zazula, Outreach and Education Officer

Capital support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over one year for a new monkey training center designed to improve the lives of severely disabled people by providing highly skilled monkey helpers to quadraplegic individuals.

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute

Boston MA
Allan Rodgers, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year for the Food Stamp Advocacy Project to focus on policy and administrative advocacy for systemic changes in the food stamp program in Massachusetts.

National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF)

Amherst MA
Stephanie Poggi, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year for capacity-building of Florida's Funds, providing financial support, counseling, referral services, training, organizational development, grassroots organizing and fundraising support for poor women seeking abortion/reproductive health services.

North Country Health Consortium

Littleton NH
Martha Mcleod, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $225,000.00 payable over two years to support North Country Cares, a community care coordination initiative to improve access to health care and human services in New Hampshire's North Country communities.

One Family, Inc.

Boston MA
Marjorie Clapprood, Executive Director

Project support in the amount of $240,000.00 payable over two years to expand the One Family Scholars program to end family homelessness by providing educational scholarships and comprehensive social supports to motivated homeless or at-risk mothers seeking to improve their lives and create self-sufficiency for themselves and their families in Massachusetts.

Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute

Bronx NY
Steven Dawson, President

Operating support in the amount of $900,000.00 payable over two years to create the northern New England LEADS Institute (Leadership, Education and Advocacy for Direct care/Support), a collaboration of partners that will offer training and support for front-line caregivers providing long-term care services and that will encourage health care access for health workers in the region.

Treehouse Foundation

Medfield MA
Judith Cockerton, Executive Director

Operating support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year for an intergenerational initiative that provides permanent families and community supports for foster and adopted children and their families.

Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine

North Grafton MA
Mark Pokras, D.V.M., Director, Wildlife Clinic and Tufts Center for
Conservation Medicine

Project support in the amount of $100,000.00 payable over two years for veterinary student training in conservation medicine focused on linking human and animal health and welfare, and ecological health in New England, while building institutional collaboration.

University of Maine System

Augusta ME
Patricia Tanski, Smith Center, Senior Policy Analyst

Staff discretionary grant in the amount of $5,000.00 payable over one year to support Tough Choices in Health Care: MaineSpeaks, the first statewide, large-scale public engagement process, to help inform development of an innovative state health plan in Maine.

Youth Alternatives, Inc.

Portland ME
Lucky Hollander, Vice President of Advocacy & Prevention Services

Project support in the amount of $50,000.00 payable over one year for the Linkage Project, to develop statewide training, community education and advocacy to develop policies and practices that prevent child and animal abuse, by connecting the causes and experience of animal abuse and family violence, and by providing tools for prevention of abuse to children and animals.

Jane's Trust