2023 Foley Hoag Foundation Spring Grant Round Awards

The Trustees of the Foley Hoag Foundation are pleased to announce the awarding of grants totaling totaling $99,000 to 20 organizations this Spring as part of the 2023 Spring grant cycle. The organizations that the Foundation has funded are all dedicated to working to improve social equality by increasing access to the arts, stimulating community engagement, providing legal services, improving access to health services, offering educational programming and assistance, or running youth development programs.

BOSTON NEW YORK CITY
  • The Black Institute — to assess and address the inequities preventing minority and women owned business enterprises from accessing capital and contracts from New York City.
  • Sunset Spark — for supplies for its free STEM summer programming, which focuses on kids from working class and/or immigrant families
WASHINGTON, D.C.
  • Amara Legal Center — to support the provision of free legal services to survivors of sex trafficking and sex workers in the DC-metro area.
  • Girls on the Run, DC — to support its after-school enrichment program for girls that integrates social-emotional learning, mentoring and running-based physical activities.
  • HER Resiliency Center — to support it Roadmap to Success program, which supports women in accomplishing their self-identified goals for empowerment.
  • Urban Ed — to support its STEMAcad program that trains and recruits underemployed women and people of color for jobs in the IT industry.