Workforce Development Grantmaking

Organization Name

Description 

African Bridge Network*

The Immigrant Professionals Fellowship (Fellowship) addresses the “lack of U.S. working experience” barrier that prevents many skilled immigrants from accessing mid-level jobs. It is a learn-and-earn program that combines training, a subsidized work placement, and support to transition to full-time employment.

Artists for Humanity, Inc. 

Provide creative employment, marketable professional skills, educational support, and attainment services, and pathways to industry careers to Boston’s low-income teens, with a specific focus on our cohort of participants in their senior year of HS. 

Boston Asian Youth 

Essential Service (Boston Asian YES)

This funding will service 20 low-income youth and young adults, ages 16-26, Boston residents, primarily from Asian immigrant families, who are struggling in school and at risk of dropping out/getting pushed out; are youth with disabilities, youth no longer in school and are under/unemployed, and may need alternative education, job training, economic security services.

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC)

BCNC's Customer Focused Industry Recognized Sales Training (CustomerFIRST) empowers low-income, unemployed, or underemployed adult immigrants with limited English proficiency to secure gainful employment in the customer service industry and gain a Direct Contact Service Professional Certification from the National Customer Service Association, a certification that is recognized by the US Department of Labor.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester (BGCD)

Destination U, BGCD’s innovative career pathways program,  creates a high-impact journey for low-income Bostonians ages 14-24 to identify, pursue, and ultimately transition into their own unique post-secondary “destinations.”

Brighter Boston*

This program will offer communities historically excluded from the entertainment industry a direct path to a career in live entertainment. Participants will be prepared to enter the freelance creative workforce upon completion of the 48 week program making an average rate of $25/hr. Participants under this initiative, the “Career Program,” will select a career pathway of their choice, Lighting, Audio, Video, or Set Construction for live events, be offered paid technical training and internship placement, professional mentorship, and coaching for career and life.

Casa Myrna Vazquez, Inc.

Casa Myrna’s Economic Stability Program, with a focus on our Empowerment through Employment activities, provides survivors of domestic violence with financial literacy education and coaching; individual career, educational and financial counseling; access to a workforce development partnership; comprehensive income maximization services and support; and matched savings and debt reduction. 

Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc. DBA Haitian Multi-Service Center 

HMSC will support adult education, job training, and workforce development programming with a focus on providing workforce development ESOL classes during the academic calendar. 

Community Servings 

Community Servings’ Teaching Kitchen (TK) program is a free, twelve-week job training program that helps trainees launch full-time careers in the culinary industry through a continuum of services, including food service, job readiness, and life skills training, case management and job placement supports, digital and financial literacy education, subsidized training/work opportunities, and connections to a network of employment and referral partners.

Development Evaluation and Adjustment Facilities, Inc. (DEAF Inc.)

DEAF Inc. will provide Boston residents 18 and older who are Deaf, DeafBlind, Hard of Hearing or Late Deafened (“Deaf”) with support to maximize their economic security including assessment of their current economic situation, identifying gaps, and case management support. 

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation 

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (DBEDC) was founded in 1979 by local civic associations to address the problems resulting from the chronic disinvestment undermining Roxbury and Dorchester neighborhoods. They will provide 1:1 pre-to-post employment case management services, including culturally and linguistically appropriate employment, opportunities, economic security workshops/training sessions, and connections to wraparound service providers and resources.

East Boston Social Centers

Eastie Achievers is a place-based career readiness program exposing East Boston youth to the early education career path through their work as associates in their four early education centers. 

Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)

This funding will support the Mobility Action Plan (MAP). MAP is a comprehensive program designed to assist individuals with low incomes in the City of Boston who are interested in enhancing their career and educational prospects in order to achieve self-sufficiency. Through MAP, participants receive a range of services including career development guidance, assistance in acquiring educational credentials, and support for their families.

Fenway Community Development Corporation 

Fenway CDC serves 18–64-year-old unemployed or low-income Boston residents. They will provide counseling, service referrals, case management, and programs. They aim to place more residents into jobs in diverse sectors with robust career paths including health care and Information Technology.

Friends of St. Stephen's Youth Programs* 

The long-term goal of their Ladders of Opportunity project is that participants achieve economic mobility for themselves and their families, by creating a talent pipeline that develops parents into educators who represent students’ cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, and are trained in culturally relevant methodology.

Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center 

This program is a need-based and one-on-one case management type of social services program. The target population is Boston’s Asian senior residents aged 60 and over.  The program’s goal is to empower the target population to overcome linguistic and cultural barriers to access mainstream services so that they can secure and stabilize their financial, housing and health insurance situations and can continue to live independently at home in the community.

Hyde Square Task Force

Jovenes en Accion and Caminos will provide a multi-year mentoring continuum of year-round high school, college, and career development support services to primarily Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) youth from low-income Boston households.

International Institute of New England* 

IINE’s Bridge to IT Proficiency program will provide participants with a culturally and linguistically accommodating career counseling and education continuum, that includes at least 60 hours of digital literacy training on essential computer and software skills, including Salesforce, C++, and Cybersecurity, that lead to job placements in Boston.

Interseminarian - Project Place, Inc. 

Project Place’s Career Tracks program is a comprehensive workforce development initiative tailored to adults experiencing homelessness and/or poverty in Boston. The Career Tracks program provides a continuum of care, including education/training, transitional employment, career services, and wraparound case management, aimed at fostering economic mobility and stability.

Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation 

The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC) provides integrated Family Prosperity Services to help primarily Latinx adults in Boston move step by step toward living income and financial security.

Justice Resource Institute, Inc. DBA STRIVE Boston

STRIVE Boston (STRIVE), a program of Justice Resource Institute, Inc. (JRI), proposes to provide its internationally renowned workforce development training and placement model to 33 low-income Boston residents ages 18 and up, with a focus on BIPOC individuals, re-entry and/or court-involved individuals; and long-term underemployed or unemployed individuals. 

La Allianza Hispana 

La Allianza Hispana will extend its services to 150 participants who are seniors and persons with disabilities, low income, with limited English proficiency, Boston residents in need of individually customized wrap-around program design services to maximize and manage their own finances and increase their access to services, opportunities for jobs, knowledge of computers, and economic security that support their independence.

MAB Community Services, Inc.  

MAB Community Services and the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (MAB/MABVI) have operated the Boston Visually Impaired Elder’s Program for more than 30 years. The program helps participants gain digital literacy, maintain economic security, and age in peace. Their emphasis is on serving diverse and underserved communities through community partnerships. 

Madison Park Development Corporation 

Madison Park Development Corporation’s (MPDC) Opportunity Employment Program (OEP) serves opportunity youth of color primarily from the Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods of Boston, some of whom are currently or have previously been court-involved.  Piloted in 2016, OEP provides comprehensive work readiness, career exploration, mentoring, mental health support, case management, and, among youth without a high school diploma, in-house HiSET classes that prepare participants for high school equivalency credential. 

Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers

MAPS’ Boston Immigrant Integration Services (IIS) expands career and economic security services for Portuguese speakers, especially in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Allston-Brighton. IIS has provided culturally/ linguistically competent services for low-income Brazilians, Cabo Verdeans, and others in Boston for over 20 years.

Mothers for Justice and Equality 

Founded in 2010, MJE provides trauma-informed workforce development training to support single mothers, and low-income individuals with employment outcomes, promoting economic stability and mobility.

Mujeres Unidas Avanzando (MUA)

MUA’s mission is to provide the low-income Latinx community and other immigrants the tools and resources needed to empower themselves and effect liberating changes in their lives, those of their families, and society at large.

New England Culinary Arts Training - NECAT

NECAT requests grant funding for our Culinary Arts Job Training Program, which trains and supports low-income and very low-income adults facing barriers to employment at our Boston Training Center, ESOL program at the East Boston YMCA, and Behind the Walls program at the Suffolk County House of Correction (SCHC).

Partners for Youth with Disabilities 

Partners for Youth with Disabilities (PYD)’s Career Readiness program is an inclusive career readiness program for low-income youth with disabilities. For over 25 years, PYD has partnered with Boston Public Schools (BPS) to address employment barriers for youth with disabilities by preparing participants for employment, post-secondary education, and independent living.

Rian Immigrant Center 

Rian will assist 30-40 Boston immigrants in the next year as they take steps toward stable employment and living wages. Their Education team provides:

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes, 

Digital Literacy Courses, and

Citizenship Tutoring among other services.

Roxbury Stone House Inc.

This program will assist clients with employment readiness and financial training, as well as support employment opportunities and an economic security program that will guide low and very low-income Boston domestic violence survivors.

Saint Francis House* 

St. Francis House (SFH) is the largest daytime shelter in Massachusetts, helping adults experiencing or vulnerable to homelessness on a pathway to stability in housing, income, and behavioral health.

Somali Development Center 

The Somali Development Center (SDC) is working to expand and strengthen employment assistance and career development services and supports for those individuals using services provided by SDC, especially those enrolled in the Road to Economic Self-Sufficiency (RESS) and the English for Adult Learners of Other Languages (ESOL) programs.

Southwest Boston Senior Services DBA Ethos 

The Boston Money Management Program (BMMP) is a free service that assists low-income, vulnerable elderly and disabled adults throughout Boston who have difficulty with the routine tasks of money management. 

The Boston Higher Education Resource Center 

Boston HERC’s Passport to College and Alumni Success Programs provide a continuum of services propelling hundreds of low-income, first-generation Boston Public School youth onto post-secondary education, into 21st-century careers, and out of the grip of poverty. 

West End House 

College and Career Pathways Program (Pathways) provides a continuum of college and career readiness programming for youth and young adults ages 12 to 24.

X-Cel Education

The X-Cel Post-Secondary Transition Program's primary focus is on career exploration, academic preparation, and supportive services designed to bolster post-secondary credential completion.

YMCA of Greater Boston DBA Training Inc. 

Training, Inc. offers comprehensive career pathways in Medical Administration or Property Management. The core components of the Training, Inc program include 10-16 weeks of job training in core professional skills; specialized skills training; job simulation; internships; and mentorship and advising.  

ZUMIX

ZUMIX provides low-income, underserved, and at-risk Boston-area youth ages 12-18 with opportunities for increased academic achievement, workforce development training, and paid employment. Their mission is to empower young people to build successful futures for themselves - transforming lives and communities through music, technology, and creative employment.  

East Boston Neighborhood Health Center

EBNHC will recruit and train East Boston residents as pharmacy technicians. Upon certification, students will be eligible for living-wage employment at EBNHC.