The Foley Hoag Foundation 2008 AnnuAl RepoRT all together …

The Foley Hoag Foundation 2008 AnnuAl RepoRT

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established in December 1980 by the partners of the law firm Foley Hoag, The Foundation awards grants to organizations working to improve the racial climate in Boston by addressing issues of diversity and racism. Grantee organizations achieve their goals through a variety of means, including arts and cultural activities, youth leadership and recreational programs. other grantees provide advocacy assistance, enabling individuals to confront racism through legal or political action. Some grantee organizations work to prepare young children to live in the reality of a multicultural society, others engage teens and a few target a primarily adult constituency.

The Foley Hoag Foundation was the first—and remains the only— foundation to focus exclusively on the improvement of race relations in Boston. The trustees are fortunate to have the unqualified endorsement of Foley Hoag, which has provided an enormous amount of financial, administrative and moral support.

The imagery used in our Annual Report is from Zumix, a program supported by The Foley Hoag Foundation that is dedicated to building community through music and the arts. located in east Boston, Zumix provides top-quality cultural programming as an alternative way for young people to deal with frustration, anger and fear and as a way to build cultural understanding and acceptance in one of Boston’s most diverse neighborhoods.

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The Foley Hoag Foundation is a private foundation that seeks to combat racism, especially among youth, in the city of Boston.

Since 1981, the Foundation has awarded 495 grants totaling $1,489,388 to 256 organizations.

This year the trustees reviewed 55 grant proposals, many from first-time applicants, with the assistance of Grants Management Associates and 14 volunteers from Foley Hoag. They awarded grants totaling $85,000 to 23 organizations. our grantees, typically small in scale, do incredible work on extremely modest budgets. In general, these organizations have not yet achieved access to a broader range of public support and their programs have been disproportionately impacted by the shrinking philanthropic pool. The Foundation invites readers who are interested in offering support to any of our grantee organizations to contact GMA Foundations.

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2008 Grants


Boston Center for Community and Justice Inc. (BCCJ) is committed to developing a diverse community of socially responsible leaders throughout Greater Boston who are committed to advancing issues of social justice and equality. BCCJ received $5,000 in support of the summer retreat component of its leadership Initiative program, which offers high school students leadership skills trainings on diversity and social justice issues.

Boston Educational Development Foundation f/b/o Press Pass TV is a youth-adult partnership nonprofit whose mission is to produce socially responsible video journalism that promotes a more diverse media, empowers communities and increases civic engagement. Started in 2004, press pass TV works with students in the Boston public Schools to create civic-minded video journalism. Students are trained and employed as professional journalists, and work with staff to produce news stories that cover local individuals, organizations and events making a positive impact in the community. All content is featured on local access cable, on the Internet, at public screenings and in classrooms. press pass TV received $4,000 for the purpose of improving educational opportunities for the students in participating Boston public Schools.

Boston Mobilization f/b/o Sub/Urban Justice is a community organization that recruits and empowers suburban and urban youth as peer and community leaders moving their communities toward racial and social justice. It received $3,000 for “Speak up: A personal Stories project,” which compiled students’ individual experiences of racism at local private schools as a platform to educate youth on the causes and impact of racism and encourage them to challenge racism on a systemic level.

Boston Urban Youth Foundation (BuYF) serves more than 500 young people ages 11–18 from the Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods of Boston. With a focus on truant youth, BuYF works with students in middle school and high school to improve school engagement, attendance, graduation rates, and college access. In addition, once students are in college, BuYF provides a support system to ensure college completion. It received $2,500 in support of its “Building Futures” educational initiative, which provides mentoring and academic skills-building for low-income and minority middle school students at risk of dropping out of school.

Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW) is a member-based organization that addresses social justice issues affecting the Asian community and focuses on projects raising awareness of Asian American art and culture, and promoting civic engagement and community activism. The organization received $4,000 in support of the STIRR (Stand-out and Training for Immigrant and Refugee Rights) project, run in partnership with ApI Movement, which focuses on raising awareness and educating the Asian American population on immigrant and refugee rights.

Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC) is committed to serving the Asian American community of Greater Boston, with an emphasis on preserving and revitalizing Boston’s Chinatown. ACDC received $3,000 in support of A-VoYCe (Asian Voice of organized Youth for Community empowerment), a youth development program that trains Asian youth as radio broadcasters and tour guides while raising awareness of critical community issues and Asian-American culture. A-VoYCe provides participants with opportunities to build their self-esteem and sense of identity while developing critical thinking, leadership and community development skills.

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK) operates new england’s only multilingual emergency shelter and provides services for Asian victims and survivors of domestic violence and their children. The shelter program has served as a model for programs in Massachusetts, throughout the u.S. and internationally. The Task Force was awarded $5,000 in support of the work of the Multicultural Immigrant Coalition Against Violence, a collaboration between several service providers across the state working to compile domestic violence resources for the refugee and immigrant communities in Massachusetts.

Associated Grant Makers (AGM) received a membership renewal at the $1,000 level. AGM provides a resource library and a Massachusetts Grantmaker’s Directory that is available online. The organization also offers numerous skills-building and issues-related seminars for donors and nonprofit organizations. AGM serves as the regional association of grant makers in Massachusetts and new Hampshire, and is a leader in promoting effective and informed philanthropic giving in new england.


Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston (FHCGB) is the only private nonprofit organization focused solely on ending illegal housing discrimination in the Greater Boston area. The Center provides case advocacy, community outreach and educational trainings, and policy advocacy and research. It received $5,000 in support of the Race and place dialogue series, which explores and addresses the underlying cause of historical housing discrimination and racial segregation.

Greater Boston Legal Services (GBlS) provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in Boston and 31 additional cities and towns, ranging from legal advice to full case representation, depending on client need. GBlS received $4,000 for the Racial Justice CoRI (Criminal offender Record Information) project, a comprehensive program dedicated to addressing the negative and discriminatory effects that criminal records can pose in obtaining education, housing and employment. The project offers related community outreach and education, policy research and analysis, and individual client advocacy and legal representation.

Muslim American Society (MAS) Boston, Inc. is a grassroots community organization that works to educate and empower members of the diverse local Muslim community who play a significant role in positive social and spiritual change. It received $4,000 in support of its teen programs, which work with 200 Muslim young people in a variety of cultural and interfaith settings to promote the healthy development of spiritual and cultural identity and to improve intergroup and interracial relations between Muslim and non-Muslim youth.

Medicine Wheel Productions uses the creation of public art as an engagement tool to unite diverse community members across racial and economic barriers. The Medicine Wheel Youth program, which employs young people as interns in the design and creation of various art projects, received $3,500 in support of the youth-led paper project, which culminated in a public art installation at the Boston Center for the Arts’ World AIDS Day exhibit.

Northnode Inc. f/b/o Encuentro Diaspora Afro is a grassroots organization anchored in the community of Boston and dedicated to dismantling racism. northnode was awarded $5,000 in general operating support for encuentro Diaspora Afro, which creates bridges of understanding between Afro-latino and African-American communities to develop mutual respect and forge common political agendas for racial and social justice. Funds were specifically used to expand the Hermanas exchanging Roots (HeR) program, a leadership program that provides space for young women of color to explore their social and cultural identities in contemporary and historical contexts.

The Chelsea Collaborative, Inc., works to empower Chelsea’s residents and organizations to enhance the social, environmental, and economic health of the community. It received $4,000 in operating support of the Shanbaro Community Association, a new initiative to provide translation, advocacy, social services and referrals to the Somali Bantu immigrant population in Chelsea.

The Child Care Resource Center, Inc. (CCRC) promotes the healthy development and well-being of young children in Cambridge, Somerville and surrounding communities. CCRC provides access to services and resources for families, offers training and professional development for early childhood educators and caregivers, and builds community initiatives that benefit children and their families. It received $5,000 in support of the Multilingual Action Council, a cross-agency collaboration intended to build alliances among multilingual communities through the use of cross-cultural leadership, as a way of promoting the healthy development of children and strength the larger community for families. The Council conducts community outreach and education forums, and provides training and resources to multilingual child care workers, partner agencies and families.

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation received $4,000 in support of its Youth Force community organizing and leadership development program. Members of Youth Force tackle anti-racism and oppression issues by identifying and addressing social challenges, such as poverty, violence, economic marginalization, that are part of larger structural and systemic issues. Corporation also runs programs centered on affordable housing and commercial development, resident technology training, job linkage and youth development.

East Boston Ecumenical Community Council (eBeCC) has helped immigrants establish a new life in east Boston for more than 30 years. eBeCC operates an array of programs in family services, youth, eSol, citizenship and voter education, and housing and immigration assistance.. It received $4,000 in support of the nuestra Voz Cuenta/our Voice Counts program, which offers voter education and registration activities targeted at the latino community of east Boston. Through this program, eBeCC continues to promote active civic participation as a means for achieving positive social change.


Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc. (pBHA), is a student-run community service organization based at Harvard that strives for social justice. From intensive summer youth programs to transitional assistance for the homeless, more than 1,600 student volunteers participate in over 70 pBHA programs each year. pBHA received $2,000 in support for its Franklin I-o Summer program, an affordable summer camp that brings together African American and Vietnamese American youth primarily from the Franklin Hill and Franklin Field housing developments in Dorchester.

Roca, Inc., is a youth development organization committed to serving disenfranchised and disengaged young people ages 14–24 in Chelsea and surrounding communities. RoCA received $2,500 in support of its essencia latina dance troupe, which provides dance instruction and performing opportunities to approximately 25 young people and teens annually.

Social Capital, Inc., (SCI) works to strengthen communities by connecting diverse individuals and organizations through civic engagement initiatives. SCI received $4,000 in support of its engaging Youth programs, which engage members of the organization’s diverse youth councils in lynn, Woburn and Dorchester in leadership development training and joint community service projects.

Theatre Espresso uses theater to intellectually engage young people with history, issues of human rights and the concept of justice. The organization received $4,000 in support of the production and performance of “The nine Who Dared: Crisis in little Rock” play at the John Adams Courthouse, which investigates the background and circumstances surrounding the desegregation of a little Rock high school following Brown v. Board of Education.

Union of Minority Neighborhoods received $4,000 in continued support of the work of the Massachusetts Alliance to Reform CoRI (MARC), a statewide coalition of organizations and individuals committed to reforming discriminatory Criminal offender Record Information (CoRI) laws and policies. Recognizing that the CoRI system affects people from every walk of life and from every part of the Commonwealth, MARC is committed to making legislative and policy changes related to CoRI laws and specifically to how organizations and agencies apply the CoRI reports.

Zumix is a cultural organization dedicated to building community through music and the arts. located in east Boston, Zumix provides top-quality cultural programming as an alternative way for young people to deal with frustration, anger and fear, as well as a way to build cultural understanding and acceptance in one of Boston’s most diverse neighborhoods. It received $2,500 in support of its song writing and performance program, which provides instruction, support and opportunities for local youth and young adults to create and perform original music and songs.

2008 Financial StatementAt the close of the year 2008, the Foundation had assets with a market value of $157,835. In 2008, the Foundation awarded 23 grants totaling $85,000.

Respectfully submitted by Mossik Hacobian, Michael B. Keating, and Jeanne pinado, Trustees

Statements of Revenues, Grants paid, expenses and Fund BalancesFor the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2008 2007 2008

Revenues Investment Income $ 10,625 $ 6,926 Gifts, Grants and Bequests 35,770 34,411 net Realized Gains on Sale of Investments 14,762 (5,405) Total Revenue $ 61,157 $ 35,932

Charitable Expenses Grants Awarded $ 85,000 $ 85,000Total Charitable Gifts $ 85,000 $ 85,000

Other Expenses Administrative expenses $ 18,520 $ 20,893 Taxes and Filing Fees 480 — Investment expenses 424 315Total other expenses $ 19,424 $ 20,893

Total Charitable Gifts and expenses $ 104,424 $ 105,893

excess (deficit) of Revenues over Charitable Gifts and other expenses $ (43,267) $ (69,961)Change in unrealized Appreciation of Investments (4,431) (58,012)Increase in Fund Balance $ (47,698) $ (127,973)

Fund Balance at Beginning of Year $ 333,506 $ 285,808

Fund Balance at end of Year $ 285,808 $ 157,835

Statements of Assets, liabilities and Fund BalancesAs of December 31, 2007 and 2008 2007 2008

Assets Cash $ 32,534 $ 4,256 Investments (at Market Value) Short-term Investments $ 30,200 $ 33,700 Mutual Funds, Stocks and Bonds 223,074 119,879 Total Investments $ 253, 274 $ 153,579 Total Assets $ 285,808 $ 157,835 liabilities Grants outstanding $ — $ — Total liabilities $ — $ — Fund Balance $ 285,808 $ 157,835 liabilities plus Fund Balance $ 285,808 $ 157,835


Action for Boston Community Development

Advent School

Alternatives for Community & environment

American Anti-Slavery Group

American Baptist Churches of the u.S.A.

American Civil liberties union Foundation of Massachusetts

American Composers Forum Boston Area Chapter

American Friends Service Committee

American Jewish Congress

American Repertory Theatre

Anti-Defamation league of B’nai B’rith

Artists for Humanity

ARTS/Boston

Arts Company

Arts in progress

Asian-American Resource Workshop

Asian Community Development Corporation

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence

Associated Grant Makers

Association of Haitian Women in Boston

BeA Institute for educational Success

Big Brother Association of Boston

Big Brother/Big Sister program (Harvard law School)

Big Sister Association of Boston

Bikes not Bombs

Boston Area educators for Social Responsibility

Boston Area Rape Crisis Center

Boston Center for Community and Justice, Inc.

Boston Chamber ensemble

Boston City Singers, Inc.

Boston Day and evening Academy

Boston educational Development Foundation f/b/o press pass TV

The Boston Foundation

Boston Girls Tennis Challenge

Boston landmarks orchestra

Boston latin School Association

Boston Medical Center Corporation

Boston Mobilization f/b/o Sub/urban Justice

Boston neighborhood Ventures/Boston Youth network

Boston Women’s Fund

Boston panel of Agency executives

Boston partners in education

Boston police Alliance

Boston Tradeswomen’s network

Boston university

Boston urban Youth Foundation

Boston Youth Theatre

Boston YWCA

Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston

Bridges program d/b/a Discover Roxbury

Brookline Association for Mental Health

Cambridge Community Services

Cambridge Friends School

Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center

Cantata Singers

Caribbean u-Turn

Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston

Celebrity Series of Boston

Center for Community Change, Inc.

Center for the Development of Teen empowerment

Center for Independent Documentary Corporation

Center for the Study of public policy

Centro presente

Chelsea Collaborative

Child Care Resource Center, Inc.

Children for uniting nations

Children’s Museum

Chinese Culture Institute

City Mission Society

The City School

City-Wide educational Coalition

City Year

Citizen School

Company one

Codman Square Health Center

Comin’ Atcha Foundation

Committee for Boston public Housing

Commonwealth education project

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company

Community Change

Community Foundation for Greater new Haven

Community Music Center

Community Training and Assistance Center

Conflict Management Group

Congregación león de Judá

Consensus Building Institute

Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries

Creative education Associates

Dance Collective/Mass Movement

Development leadership network

Dorchester Bay economic Development Corporation

Dorchester Community Center for the Visual Arts

Dorchester Youth Collaborative

Dorchester Youth Council

Dudley Street neighborhood Initiative

Dunya, Inc.

east Boston ecumenical Community Council

education and Resources Group

education/Instruction

educational Development Group

el pueblo nuevo

ellis Memorial Center and eldridge House

emerald Isle Immigration Center

emerson College

environmental Diversity Forum

episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

Facing History and ourselves

Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston

Federated Dorchester neighborhood Houses

Fenway Community Development organization f/b/o Mission SAFe A new Beginning

Fenway High School

Fenway Middle College High School

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund f/b/o The lenney Fund

First night Boston Summer Beat 2007

Food project

Four Corners Action Coalition

Freedom House

Freelance players

Friends of the King open School f/b/o The King/King open Arts Committee

Greater Boston Indian Council

Greater Boston Interfaith organization

Greater Boston legal Services

Greater Boston Regional Youth Council

Greater Boston Youth Symphony orchestra

Grub Street, Inc.

Haley House, Inc.

Harvard university Civil Rights project

Hattie B. Cooper Community Center

Haymarket people’s Fund

Here-in our Motives evolve

Hispanic office of planning and evaluation (Hope)

Historic neighborhoods Foundation

Holden School

HoMe Inc.

Gifts and BequestsThe Foley Hoag Foundation gratefully acknowledges gifts from:

Alexander J. Aber and livia Quan Aber Michele Adelman and Steven eichel Michael and Kathryn Boudett Sarah and patrick J. Cooleybeck Holly evers H. Kenneth Fish Michael n. and Anne M. Glanz Julie Hackett Vickie l. Henry Christian M. and Donna Hoffman elinore C. Kagan Michael B. Keating Brooke e. lierman Hans F. and Herta loeser Jenevieve Maerker and Manish Shah Anthony D. Mirenda, Jr., and Tracey M. Cornogg John D. patterson, Jr., and Michele F. Demarest Jerome preston Dean Richlin James A. and Darien Smith Donald and Susan Ware Barry B. and eleanor G. White Michele A. Whitham and Jesse A. Keefe

Investment and financial services and publication of the Annual Report were provided by Foley Hoag and coordinated by elinore Kagan. The Foley Hoag Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation and all gifts are tax deductible. please contact philip Hall at Grants Management Associates for more information about supporting the goals of The Foley Hoag Foundation.

Special Honors2007 legal Marketing Association, new england Chapter

Your Honor Award for “Community Relations”

1992 Foundation news: Feature Story, “Small Wonders,” March/April 1992

1989 The Boston phoenix Corporate Citizen Award

1987 Council on Foundations: Wilmer Shields Rich Award for 1986 Annual Report

1986 Historic neighborhoods Foundation Award

1985 Kellogg Foundation: one of 22 foundations featured in Increasing the Impact: 1980s

TrusteesMossik Hacobian Michael B. Keating Jeanne pinado

Trustees Emeriti J. elizabeth Harris Hubert e. Jones Robert R. Kiley

Foundation Manager elinore C. Kagan

Funding requests should be sent to:

The Foley Hoag Foundation c/o Grants Management Associates 77 Summer Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110

philip Hall, Administrator 617 426 7080 ext. 309


List of Grantees 1980–2008

Hostelling International uSA, eastern new england Council

Huntington Theatre Company

Hyde Square Task Force

Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción

International House of Blues Foundation

International Institute of Boston

International Rescue Committee

Irish Immigration Center

Jefferson park Writing Center

Jewish Alliance for law and Social Action

Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston

Judge Baker Children’s Center

The Justice George lewis Ruffin Society

KMHMu Family Association of Massachusetts

la Alianza Hispana

la piñata – latin American Cultural Family network

latino parents Association

lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under law

lesson one Associates

loon and Heron Theatre

M. Harriet McCormack Center for the Arts (The Strand Theatre)

Mandela Town Hall Health Spot

Massachusetts Advocacy Center

Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death penalty

Massachusetts Civil liberties union Foundation

Massachusetts Conference of the united Church of Christ

Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & public policy

Massachusetts Health Research

Massachusetts Historical Society

Massachusetts Human Services Coalition

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition

Massachusetts Squash Racquet Foundation

Massachusetts Voter education network

Medicine Wheel productions

Milton Academy f/b/o The City School

MJT Dance Company

Mosaic

Mother Caroline Academy and education Center

Mrs. Bee’s Gardens

Multicultural project for Communication and education

Museum of African American History

Museum of Fine Arts

Music and Art Development, Inc., d/b/a Cooperative Artists Institute

Muslim American Society, Inc.

Mystic learning Center

national Coalition Building Institute

national Conference of Christians and Jews

national Conference for Community and Justice

neighborhood of Affordable Housing

newbury Film Series

new england Home for little Wanderers d/b/a The Home for little Wanderers

new philharmonic orchestra

new Repertory Theatre

northeastern university

northnode Inc. f/b/o encuentro Diaspora Afro

nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation

odaiko new england

organization for a new equality

oxfam

patriot’s Trail Girl Scout Council

peace Games

people’s Task Force

performer’s ensemble

phillips Brooks House

pingree School

political Asylum/Immigration Representation project

pridelights Foundation

primary Source Center for Social Studies and Curriculum Development

program for Young negotiators

project Concern

project HIp-Hop

project leo (leadership education & employment opportunities)

project: Think Different

publick Theatre

Roca, Inc.

Self-esteem Boston educational Institute

Shelter, Inc.

Social Capital

Sociedad latina

Somerville Media Action Report

South end Community Health Center

Southwest Corridor Community Farm

Sportsmen’s Tennis Club

SquashBusters

St. Stephen’s episcopal Church

Suffolk university

Teens as Community Resources

Theaterworks/Theatre espresso

Third Sector new england f/b/o Commonwealth Seminar

Thomas I. Atkins Social Scholarships at northeastern

Thompson Island outward Bound education Center

Tieng Xanh-Voice Inc.

Tri Ad Veterans league

Troubadour

True Story, Inc., d/b/a True Story Theater

The Trust for public land

Trusteeship Institute Inc.

uMASS Boston

underground Railway Theatre

union of Minority neighborhoods

unitarian universalist urban Ministry

united Community planning Corp.

united Homes for Children

united Methodist Church

united States Catholic Conference

university of Massachusetts Foundation f/b/o Coalition for Asian pacific American Youth

university of Massachusetts Foundation Institute for Asian American Studies

The urban league of eastern Massachusetts

urban Revival, Inc.

Visions, Inc.

Walk for Freedom

Watermelon Studio

WeAToC, Inc.

West Broadway Task Force

WGBH educational Foundation

Women express

Women’s Institute for leadership Development, Inc.

Women’s Theological Center

Young Audiences of Massachusetts

Youth Advocacy project

Zumix, Inc.


BackgroundThe Foley Hoag Foundation was established in the aftermath of Boston’s school busing crisis, a period of profound racial tension. The racial and ethnic climate and makeup of the city have changed dramatically since 1980, and in the 2000 census, Boston emerged as a “majority-minority” city. Racism, once a black/white issue, now has broader cultural, as well as racial, overtones.

Recent immigration of significant populations from Brazil, Cape Verde, Central America, Haiti, Ireland and Vietnam has enriched the Boston community and contributed to a dramatically improved racial climate. However, this more complex makeup of the city sometimes results in misunderstanding, mistrust and antipathy, turning one group against another and contributing to a disturbing rise in youth violence.

More than 30 years after the court-ordered desegregation of Boston’s public schools, structural racism persists and inequity in the areas of housing, education and employment endures. A 2002 study by the Civil Rights project at Harvard university, commissioned by The Foley Hoag Foundation, demonstrated that patterns of residential segregation in metropolitan Boston have an adverse impact on the quality of public education for minority children, on opportunities for employment for their parents and on their chances for economic advancement.

using this report as a guideline when reviewing applications for 2008 funding, the trustees made several grants that span the Greater Boston area, pairing urban students of color with suburban white students, giving each an opportunity to see, understand and discuss inequity in housing and education. other grants supported projects that enable Boston students to break the cycle of poverty and underachievement by offering tutoring, mentoring and enhancement of self-esteem. The trustees also made grants that increase the visibility and participation of groups that are underrepresented in the political process. There also were grants awarded to organizations that confront racism as experienced by specific immigrant populations.

TrusteeshipMossik Hacobian, executive Director of urban edge Housing Corporation and urban edge property Management, has been a trustee since 2007.

J. elizabeth Harris, Vice president of unC partners, Inc., served as a trustee from 1984 to 2007.

Michael B. Keating, partner at Foley Hoag, has been a trustee of the Foundation since 1980.

Robert R. Kiley, former Deputy Mayor of Boston and Commissioner of Transport for london, england, served as a trustee from 1981 until 1983.

Hubert e. Jones, Dean emeritus of the Boston university School of Social Work, served as a trustee from 1981 to 2006.

Jeanne pinado, Ceo at Madison park Development Corporation, has been a trustee of the Foundation since 2008.

Foley Hoag Attorneys Advisory program In order to maintain the independence of the Foundation, its bylaws require that the majority of trustees be unaffiliated with Foley Hoag. Foundation staff is provided by Grants Management Associates, a full-time grants advisory and administration service, which reviews and investigates all grant applications and provides applicants with ready access to the Foundation. In response to a request from several of the firm’s newer attorneys interested in The Foley Hoag Foundation, an Associates Advisory program was created in 2003. Input from participating associates has been enormously helpful to the trustees in grant deliberations, and the trustees thank these individuals for their efforts and insights. This year 14 attorneys at Foley Hoag volunteered their time to review grant applications and conduct site visits. The trustees appreciate the significant contribution to the Foundation of:

The trustees hope that these attorneys will sustain an interest in philanthropy as their careers advance.

Grant-making policiesFrom the outset, the goal of The Foley Hoag Foundation has been the elimination of racism in the city of Boston, especially among youth. Although the racial makeup of the city has become more complex and manifestations of racism are more covert, the focus is unchanged.

Guidelines emphasize a preference for:

• Projects that constructively engage youth of different races and backgrounds

• Projects with a geographic focus on the city of Boston

• Organizations with integrated boards and staff leadership or with positive plans to do so

• Project-related grants, rather than requests for capital expenditures or general operating funds

• Small or start-up organizations for which a small grant is likely to have a greater impact

• Grants for programs that collaborate with other agencies

• Leveraging support by awarding conditional or challenge grants requiring grantees to raise matching funds

The Foundation is unable to support any organization on an ongoing basis.

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