NS4G Grantees
Northeastern Students4Giving, the Social Impact Lab’s flagship experiential philanthropy education program combining rigorous academic content with real-dollar grant making, exposes students to the ethical and practical implications of controlling resources in a world facing enormous needs. Students are charged with identifying a funding priority and selecting grantees every year based on deep reflection on community needs and their role as grant makers.
2024
Families for Justice as Healing
“Families for Justice as Healing is led by incarcerated women, formerly incarcerated women, and women with incarcerated loved ones. Our mission is to end the incarceration of women and girls.”
St. Stephen’s Youth Programs
“The mission of St. Stephen’s Youth Programs is to promote equity in education, employment and opportunity through long-term relationships with youth and their families and communities.”
2023
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
“The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative’s (DSNI) mission is to empower Dudley residents to organize, plan for, create and control a vibrant, diverse and high-quality neighborhood in collaboration with community partners.”
Reclaim Roxbury
“Reclaim Roxbury is a community organization dedicated to improving the quality of life and economic wealth for Roxbury residents by preventing displacement and supporting economic development.“
2022
My Brother’s Keeper
“MBK617 (My Brother’s Keeper 617) core mission revolves around counteracting youth violence, providing workforce development opportunities, offering mentorship programs, fostering entrepreneurship, and assisting those impacted by the prison and cemetery pipeline.”
Justice 4 Housing
“Justice 4 Housing is a grassroots organization committed to ending housing discrimination and homelessness for individuals impacted by domestic violence and incarceration, as well as ending the incarceration of women and girls.”
2021
Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition
“The Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition (MFFC) is a collaborative organization, bringing together Mattapan residents, organizations and others to work on improving the food and physical activity environments in Mattapan.”
2020
South End Community Health Center
“South End Community Health Center (SECHC) is a comprehensive health care organization for all residents of the South End and surrounding communities. We are committed to providing high-quality, coordinated health care that is culturally and linguistically sensitive to every patient, regardless of ability to pay.”
2019
City Life/Vida Urbana
“City Life/Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization committed to fighting for racial, social and economic justice and gender equality by building working class power. We promote individual empowerment, develop community leaders and build collective power to effect systemic change and transform society.”
2018
Casa Esperanza, Inc.
“For more than three decades, Casa Esperanza has been studying the impact of addiction and mental illness on the Latino community in Massachusetts and examining what motivates a client to get help; what it takes for them to stay engaged in care long enough to meet their treatment goals; and how to support them in building a life in recovery that works for them and their family.”
2017
Center to Support Immigrant Organizing
“The mission of the Center to Support Immigrant Organizing (CSIO) is to support and help develop the work of individuals, groups, organizations and communities dedicated to organizing immigrants around the issues that affect their lives. Our goal is to help immigrants in the forefront of community and workplace struggles to develop their power and leadership not only to succeed in their immediate context, but also to contribute to the broader effort to build a more just and democratic society.”
2016
The Home for Little Wanderers
“The Home for Little Wanderers helps build stable lives and hopeful futures for children who are abused, neglected or at-risk.
Each year, our community-based programs and residences meet the needs of more than 15,000 diverse youngsters and family members.”
The Thrift Shop of Boston
“The Thrift Shop of Boston is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the local community and some of the state’s most vulnerable children and families. All proceeds benefit The Home for Little Wanderers – A family and child service agency whose mission is to ensure the healthy behavioral, emotional, social and educational development and physical well-being of children and families living in at-risk circumstances.”
2015
UTEC
“UTEC’s mission and promise is to ignite and nurture the ambition of our most disconnected young people to trade violence and poverty for social and economic success.
Today we serve Lowell, Lawrence, and Haverhill, MA and are nationally recognized as a model agency serving justice-involved young adults.”
Horizons for Homeless Children
“Horizons for Homeless Children is leading the fight in Massachusetts to help alleviate the trauma and stress of homelessness on both children and their families by providing high-quality early education, vital opportunities for play, support for parents, and crucial advocacy on behalf of some of our most marginalized citizens.”
2014
Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center
“The Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center (RIAC) is a community-based, non-profit, grassroots human service agency dedicated to promoting educational and socio-economic development in Massachusetts refugee and immigrant communities. We provide comprehensive support to refugees, asylees, and immigrants as well as the larger community.“
VISIONS
“Our mission is to empower the creation of environments where differences are recognized, understood, appreciated, and utilized for the benefit of all through both time-tested and innovative training and tools, public advocacy, and consulting models addressing the personal, interpersonal, cultural, and institutional levels.”
2013
NS4G Funding Priority: Post-Incarceration Integration & Community Mental Health
NS4G Funding Grantee: Project Place
“Project Place promotes a community of hope and opportunity for individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty by providing the skills, education and resources needed to obtain and sustain employment and housing.”
NS4G Funding Grantee: Bridge Over Troubled Waters
“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.”
2012
NS4G Funding Priority: Intimate Partner Violence & Thriving Families
NS4G Funding Grantee: Brookview House
“Founded in 1990, Brookview is a Black- and Latinx women-led organization that works for justice, equity and systemic change for mothers and children experiencing and at risk of homelessness, many with histories of domestic violence. Our mission is to help these families develop the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty. Through a two-generation, culturally-responsive approach, Brookview provides housing and a broad range of supportive programs to improve educational achievement, health and well-being, and economic independence.”
2011
NS4G Funding Priority: Positive Youth Development
NS4G Funding Grantee: InnerCity Weightlifting
“ICW’s mission is to amplify the voice and agency of people who have been most impacted by systemic racism and mass incarceration.
We partner with program participants through case management and careers in and beyond personal training. Individuals are elevated as experts in fitness and the social issues they’ve lived. ICW is a culture and community in which power dynamics are flipped, social capital is bridged, and new leaders emerge in the fight to combat long-standing inequities.”
NS4G Funding Grantee: Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción
“IBA empowers individuals and families to improve their lives and achieve socio-economic mobility through high-quality affordable housing, education, financial and resident empowerment and arts programs.”
2010
NS4G Funding Priority: Families at Risk Due to Financial Instability
NS4G Funding Grantee: Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries
“Goodwill’s mission services focus on helping people secure employment, which is critical for economic self-sufficiency and mobility. Program participants are typically individuals with significant barriers including developmental and physical disabilities, reliance on government benefits, histories of domestic violence and incarceration, limited English, and more.”
NS4G Funding Grantee: Victory Programs
“We open the door to hope, recovery, and community for individuals and families facing homelessness, addiction, or other chronic health conditions.”
2009
NS4G Funding Priority: Youth Violence
NS4G Funding Grantee: Urban Edge
“Urban Edge is dedicated to strengthening communities and families. Together, we build affordable housing and vibrant, prosperous neighborhoods.”
NS4G Funding Grantee: Hyde Square Task Force
“We amplify the power, creativity, and voices of youth, connecting them to Afro-Latin culture and heritage so they can create a diverse, vibrant Latin Quarter and build a just, equitable Boston.”
NS4G Funding Grantee: Haley House
“Haley House uses food with purpose and the power of community to break down barriers between people, empower individuals, and strengthen neighborhoods. We believe in radical solutions: solving problems at their root by challenging attitudes that perpetuate suffering and building alternative models.”
2020 Social Impact-athon Mumbai
Funding Priority: Women’s Empowerment
Grantee: Vacha
“Vacha is committed to empower adolescents with special focus on girls from marginalized communities by equipping them with 21st-century life skills, leadership, and social action. Through perspective building and capacity building training, we support them navigate their journey from adolescence to adulthood with purpose, resilience, and confidence.”
2019 Social Impact-athon
Funding Priority: Environmental Justice
Primary Grantee: Alternatives for Community and Environment
“ACE has been involved in the community for over 25 years, working on environmental justice issues. Our staff, has over one hundred years of combined experience in community organizing, policy advocacy, and regulatory development. Our areas of expertise are community organizing, real estate development, economic and environmental justice, public transit and youth empowerment.“
Primary Grantee: Chinese Progressive Association
“The Chinese Progressive Association is a grassroots community organization working for full equality and empowerment of the Chinese community in the Greater Boston area and beyond.”
Primary Grantee: GreenRoots, Inc.
“GreenRoots engages and empowers residents in the frontline communities of Chelsea and East Boston in campaigns and projects to achieve environmental justice, improved public health, and quality of life. We work on a broad range of issues, from food justice to climate resiliency, waterfront access, and much more. Our work positively impacts the Greater Boston area and beyond.”
Primary Grantee: City Life/Vida Urbana
“City Life/Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization committed to fighting for racial, social and economic justice and gender equality by building working class power. We promote individual empowerment, develop community leaders and build collective power to effect systemic change and transform society.”
Team Grantee: COGdesign
“COGdesign connects underserved communities with the technical design assistance they need to create master plans, gardens, parks, and historic sites.”
Team Grantee: The New Garden Society
“Since 2013, The New Garden Society has trained over 600 incarcerated and detained students in the art and science of plants. In prisons, prison hospitals and youth facilities, our students are 13- 80 years old. Every week in prison classrooms, we teach core horticulture concepts. In prison gardens and greenhouses, students apply these concepts, find healing and build job skills.”
Co-educator Grantee: Clean Water Fund
“Clean Water Action’s programs reach and involve tens of thousands of Massachusetts residents every year, building a clean water and clean energy future through outreach, education, organizing, advocacy and policy action at the local, state and national levels.“
Co-educator Grantee: Climable
“Climable is a woman-led nonprofit in Cambridge, MA, with a mission to make climate science and clean energy understandable and actionable for everyone. Climable’s end goals are energy democracy (public participation in the energy transition) and climate resilience (improved avenues for anticipating, preparing for, and responding to climate disasters).“
Co-educator Grantee: Climate Xchange
“WE ARE STRENGTHENING THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT BY Building actionable research tools, facilitating cross-state collaboration, and designing tailored policy solutions WHICH EMPOWERS State policymakers and advocates to implement solutions that meet the urgency of the climate crisis WHICH WILL DRIVE STATES TO Rapidly and equitably reduce greenhouse gas emissions.“
Co-educator Grantee: Green Energy Consumers Alliance
“Our Non-Profit Mission: Empower consumers and communities to speed a just transition to a zero-carbon world through green energy education, programming, and climate advocacy.”
Co-educator Grantee: The American City Coalition
“The American City Coalition (TACC) is a Roxbury-based nonprofit founded in 1994. We tackle community-identified barriers through research, policy, and economic and workforce development strategies that expand pathways to meaningful opportunities in communities of color.“
2020/2021
COVID Response Grants
NS4G Funding Grantee: Boston Area Gleaners
“Boston Area Gleaners is committed to supporting an equitable, just, and sustainable local food system. We fulfill our mission by building innovative partnerships with local organizations and businesses in order to bridge food distribution gaps, improve healthy food access, prevent on-farm food waste, and create new markets for locally grown produce. Our vision is to sustain a permanent agricultural supply chain that will improve the viability of local farms and the health of communities who have historically suffered from inequity in the food system.”
NS4G Funding Grantee: GreenRoots
“GreenRoots works to achieve environmental justice and greater quality of life through collective action, unity, education and youth leadership across neighborhoods and communities.”
NS4G Funding Grantee: Sociedad Latina
“Sociedad Latina works in partnership with Latine youth and families to create the next generation of Latine leaders who are confident, competent, self-sustaining, and proud of their cultural heritage.“
NS4G Funding Grantee: Boston Centers for Youth and Families
“The Mission of BCYF: Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of Boston’s residents by partnering with various organizations to offer a wide range of comprehensive programs and activities according to neighborhood needs and interests.”
NS4G Funding Grantee: Bridge Over Troubled Waters
“For youth who need help, Bridge can provide more than just shelter and a warm meal. Bridge helps youth find pathways to education, mental health counseling, career development, transitional living solutions, community support, and more.”