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Four Corners Action Coalition, Inc.

To improve transit in a neighborhood with inadequate public transportation and lacking good options for pedestrians or cyclists.

  • Award Date: 6/12/2013
  • Amount: $100,000
  • Term: 24 months
  • Program: Climate

Georgetown University

To support the Transportation and Climate Initiative convening for Northeast state agency heads and other officials.

  • Award Date: 6/12/2013
  • Amount: $75,000
  • Term: 12 months
  • Program: Climate

Massachusetts Advocates for Children, Inc.

To engage Boston Public Schools families and communities in the selection of a new superintendent, and to monitor the implementation of the district’s new Student Assignment Policy.

  • Award Date: 6/12/2013
  • Amount: $100,000
  • Term: 9 months
  • Program: Education

Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Inc.

To assess education conditions in Massachusetts and implications for future policy direction and structural improvements, in partnership with the U.S. Education Delivery Institute.

  • Award Date: 6/12/2013
  • Amount: $100,000
  • Term: 12 months
  • Program: Education

MASSCreative

To mobilize the creative community and provide public education ahead of the 2013 Boston mayoral election and the 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial election.

  • Award Date: 6/12/2013
  • Amount: $120,000
  • Term: 24 months
  • Program: Arts & Creativity

Museum of Science

To support the “A Greener Museum of Science” campaign, funding environmentally-friendly capital improvements.

  • Award Date: 6/12/2013
  • Amount: $1,500,000
  • Term: 30 months
  • Program: Founding Trustee-directed

Proteus Fund, Inc.

To place a Proteus Fund Diversity Fellow at the Barr Foundation.

  • Award Date: 6/12/2013
  • Amount: $120,000
  • Term: 12 months
  • Program: Sector Effectiveness

RARE

To support Solution Search, a contest designed to accelerate the replication of effective, ecosystem-based adaptations to climate change, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.

  • Award Date: 6/12/2013
  • Amount: $200,000
  • Term: 12 months
  • Program: Global

Root Capital, Inc.

To develop resilient and profitable coffee and cocoa supply chains in Haiti.

  • Award Date: 6/12/2013
  • Amount: $1,288,000
  • Term: 48 months
  • Program: Global

Sociedad Latina, Inc.

To facilitate the Latino Leaders Network.

  • Award Date: 6/12/2013
  • Amount: $300,000
  • Term: 36 months
  • Program: Sector Effectiveness