Museum of African American History
To provide capacity-building support in the form of multi-year operating support, training, and technical assistance through the Barr-Klarman Arts Capacity Building Initiative.
- Award Date: 3/2/2015
- Amount: $200,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Arts & Creativity
NECEC Institute, Inc.
To engage in clean-energy policy analysis, education, and strategic communications in the New England region.
- Award Date: 3/2/2015
- Amount: $300,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Climate
New World Foundation
To select and award grants to community-based organizations that are active and effective members of the Green Justice Coalition.
- Award Date: 3/2/2015
- Amount: $400,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Climate
RARE
To create a portfolio of climate-compatible development projects and use it to significantly expand funding for climate adaptation and mitigation work that also advances conservation.
- Award Date: 3/2/2015
- Amount: $500,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Global
RAR-MA Inc.
To support Raising A Reader expansion in high-need Boston neighborhoods, focusing on low-income families and English language learners.
- Award Date: 3/2/2015
- Amount: $200,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Education
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy
To support the continuation and expansion of the Condition of Education in the Commonwealth research project through printed materials, digital media, and convenings.
- Award Date: 3/2/2015
- Amount: $130,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Education
Root Capital, Inc.
To strengthen and expand Root Capital's capacity to plan, implement, and measure its efforts to increase smallholder farmer resilience to climate change and related environmental shocks.
- Award Date: 3/2/2015
- Amount: $400,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Global
Smart Growth America
To support LOCUS’s efforts to increase low-emission, affordable, transit-oriented development projects by conducting research that identifies potential walkable urban neighborhoods (WalkUPS) and ideas to make them more appealing to developers.
- Award Date: 3/2/2015
- Amount: $500,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Climate
University of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc.
To develop a robust and innovative model for managing Indian East Himalayan forest ecosystem services and societal interactions in the face of global climate and economic change.
- Award Date: 3/2/2015
- Amount: $450,000
- Term: 36 months
- Program: Global
University of Wisconsin Foundation, Inc.
To support the State Smart Transportation Initiative’s (SSTI) community of practice among change-oriented state departments of transportation (DOTs), produce research and educational materials to inform DOTs across the country, and provide technical assistance to the Massachusetts DOT.
- Award Date: 3/2/2015
- Amount: $600,000
- Term: 24 months
- Program: Climate