Agencies Awarded Grants in Fiscal Year 2010:

2009–2010 investment: $333,466

• Adolescent Consultation Services
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support direct services for court-involved children and their family members from Cambridge. These services include diagnostic, therapeutic, and follow-up services, as well as a broad range of education, advocacy, and treatment services.

• Afterworks
• CCF General Fund

• Funding for operational expenses. Financial support will be used to maintain the scholarship program, which assures that every child in need will have access to after-school programming.

• Agenda for Children: Out-of-School-Time Initiative
• CCF Special Initiative for Children Fund
• Alliance Foundation for Community Health
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to improve Cambridge children's exposure and acceptance of healthy foods. This will be done by improving the health and appeal of school meals, and cooking classes in out-of-school programs in Cambridge.

• Associated Grant Makers—The Summer Fund
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support Cambridge camps as part of AGM's Summer Fund. The Summer Fund is a donor collaborative that generates resources to support and strengthen summer camps serving low and moderate-income neighborhoods.

• Belmont High School: Scholarship Award
• Eleanor Roberta Walker Fund

• Scholarship awarded to student who plans to pursue a career in elementary education.

• Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support Cambridge girls who participate in Big Sister's traditional one-to-one community-based mentoring program.

• Boys and Girls Club of Middlesex County: Windsor Street Clubhouse
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support staff planning, training, and administration, as well as evaluation of programs at the Windsor Street Clubhouse.

• Breakthrough Cambridge
• CCF General Fund, Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund and the Cambridge/Agassiz/Harvard Community, Culture, and Recreation Fund

• Funding to support operational expenses to maintain services at Breakthrough Cambridge (BTC) and to enhance evaluation efforts. BTC is a year-round, tuition-free academic program in Cambridge that serves at-risk and under-resourced middle and high school students.

• Cambridge Camping Association
• Sheila Gamble Fund and Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Funding to support operational expenses.

• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support CCA's two winter programs: Counselor-in-Training (CIT) program, which trains former Cambridge Adventure Day Camp campers to work as CITs at CADC; and Daybreak Day Camp's Winter Program which provides school-year events for previous campers, all of whom have emotional and behavioral difficulties.

• George E. Wilson Fund

• Funding for Cambridge children to attend overnight camp.

• Anonymous Donor Grant

• Funding for two camperships at Daybreak Camp for summer 2010.

• Cambridge Community Services: City Links
• CCF General Fund, Sheila Gamble Fund, and Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Funding for City Links, an innovative program that introduces immigrant youth to public service careers, empowering them to become leaders in their community. Participants receive intensive academic assistance, internship work experiences, assistance in accessing higher education, and one-to-one guidance from adult mentors.

• Cambridge Housing Authority: Work Force
• CCF General Fund, Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund, Sheila Gamble Fund, and Special Fund

• Funding to support The Work Force Program, a multi-disciplinary youth development program serving low-income, in-school, largely minority, adolescents living in Cambridge public housing. The program links students' lives at home, at school, and at work, offering a 5-year sequence of highly structured, paid classroom, service learning, and employment experiences in conjunction with counseling, case management and supports for academic success.

• Cambridge Public Schools: Reading Faculty Award
• Diane Bushner Memorial Teacher Recognition Grant
• Cambridge Rindge and Latin School: Crew Program
• Head of the Charles Regatta ® Fund
• Cambridge Rindge and Latin School: Scholarship
• Diane Bushner Memorial Scholarship
• Cambridge Rindge and Latin School: Scholarship Award, Visual Arts
• Walter Knight Sturges Fund
• Cambridge School Volunteers
• CCF General Fund, Sheila Gamble Fund, and Special Fund

• Funding to support volunteer programs in the Cambridge Public School's 12 elementary and 1 high school, which provide tutoring, mentoring, academic support and encouragement.

• Cambridge Science Festival
• Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Operational support for the Cambridge Science Festival, which is a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). A multifaceted, multicultural event, the Cambridge Science Festival makes science accessible, interactive and fun, highlighting the impact of STEM in all our lives.

• Community Charter School of Cambridge
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to expand the summer school by adding a mandatory three-week program for incoming 7th graders and a two-week college essay writing program for rising 12th graders. CCSC also plans to add two math courses at a 9th and 10th grade level, a science course, and two English classes at the 9th and 10th grade levels.

• Biogen Idec Foundation Micro-Grants for Science Education Fund

• Funding to help CCSC offer a six-week summer school course in life sciences for fifteen students who are rising 7th and 8th graders.

• Fletcher Maynard Academy: Science Department
• Biogen Idec Foundation Micro-Grants for Science Education Fund

• Funding to build a useful library with rich non-fiction science related materials available to students of varying reading levels.

• Guidance Center: Family After-School Program
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support the Family After School Program, a therapeutic after-school program for children whose emotional and behavioral disorders keep them from flourishing in a traditional after-school setting. FASP works collaboratively with both the child's school and family to improve behavior and provide each child with the appropriate educational setting in order for him/her to be successful.

• Haggerty Elementary School: Science Department
• Biogen Idec Foundation Micro-Grants for Science Education Fund

• Funding to introduce students to the Museum of Science, where interactive hands-on activities provide a rich learning experience.

• Harvard University: Scholarship
• Parmenter Fund

• Scholarships awarded to local students in need.

• Just-A-Start
• CCF General Fund and Sheila Gamble Fund

• Funding for: 1) TeenWork, a job placement program that helps Cambridge high school students secure after-school jobs and summer jobs in settings where they do not traditionally have access. Staff provide employment readiness training, job matching and supportive counseling throughout. 2) Career Connection: A year-round, school-to-career support program for 20 low-income, academically at-risk students. And, 3) Biomedical Careers Training Program for adults who are unemployed, underemployed, on welfare or displaced workers.

• LEAP Self-Defense, Inc. (Girl’s LEAP)
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support safety, self-defense, and empowerment programming for girls and women in Cambridge.

• Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House
• Anonymous Donor Grant

• Funding for two camperships at MFNH summer camp for summer 2010.

• Mary Mohrer Peer Counselor Program
• Mary Mohrer Peer Counselor Fund

• Funding for Peer Leaders at the Career Counseling Center of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

• Phillips Brooks House Association: Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support general operating costs of CYEP, which is a 6-week, high-quality, low-cost summer day camp for low-income, minority, and disabled children ages 6-13 living in public housing in Cambridge.

• Somerville High School: Science Department
• Biogen Idec Foundation Micro-Grants for Science Education Fund

• Funding for multiple school projects including:

• - The implementation of a microbiology unit in a biotechnology 2 course;

• - Funding to expose students to the field of green chemistry by having Beyond Benign, a nonprofit green chemistry organization, conduct an outreach visit involving unique lab experiments and techniques;

• - Completion of the AP chemistry virtual lab collection, designed to increase Pre-AP chemistry students' exposure to advance chemistry labs;

• - Funding to acquire a class set of twelve, new microscopes for hands-on and inquiry-based science learning in freshman biology classes;

• - Funding to purchase a Fast Motion ~1000 FPS video camera so students can analyze and document the small time scale motion of impacts or reactions such as chemical reactions or collisions;

• - Funding for an oceanography field trip to Northeastern Marine Science Center to provide students with the opportunity to experience field based research in the areas of oceanography and marine science;

• - Funding to purchase science videos that will improve student literacy, enthusiasm, and interest in science by showing details and processes that would otherwise be difficult for students to envision;

• - And, funding to purchase whiteboards and iClickers to improve students' social and cognitive learning in science.

• Teaching Philanthropy Fund
• Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund
• Tutoring Plus
• CCF General Fund and Sheila Gamble Fund

• Funding for operational support. Tutoring Plus aims to support and encourage the academic, personal, and social growth of children and youth in Cambridge. Students work one-on-one with a tutor, or in small groups, to address educational trouble spots, strengthen study skills, and navigate the academic rigors and social challenges of high school and middle school.

• Watertown High School: Scholarship
• Alfred Della Paolera Fund

• Scholarship to recognize students who demonstrate good citizenship.

• The Young People’s Project
• Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Operational support for The Young People’s Project, which helps students aged 8-22 from traditionally marginalized populations as learners, teachers, leaders, and organizers through math and media literacy.

2009–2010 investment: $137,457

• Actor’s Shakespeare Project
• CCF General Fund and Tufts Health Plan Foundation - CCF Healthy Aging R.O.C.S. Matching Grant Program

• Funding for the 2010 ASP/Millers River Residency program, which will provide a distinctive and effective arts outreach program for the residents of Cambridge Housing Authority's Millers River Apartments, a lower-income, multi-cultural senior housing center.

• Alliance Foundation for Community Health: Elder Service Plan
• Tufts Health Plan Foundation - CCF Healthy Aging R.O.C.S. Matching Grant Program

• Funding for the Elder Service Plan (ESP) of the Cambridge Health Alliance. Their model of care is called PACE - Program for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly, which evolved from the belief that frail older adults with chronic care needs, and their families as caregivers, are better served by remaining in their homes and communities whenever possible.

• Cambridge Arts Council
• Tufts Health Plan Foundation - CCF Healthy Aging R.O.C.S. Matching Grant Program

• Funding for the Art Through the Ages - the Public Realm, which is a program that offers seniors a series of eight enrichment activities including interactive events with youth that focus on a shared experience of public art in their neighborhoods. In partnership with the Cambridge Council on Aging, the Gately Youth Center, and the Tobin School, the Cambridge Arts Council will coordinate six field trips to public art sites, one opportunity to participate in an interactive community-based public art project created by teens, and one visit to a public art site with a class of kindergarteners.

• Cambridge Community Television
• Tufts Health Plan Foundation - CCF Healthy Aging R.O.C.S. Matching Grant Program

• Funding to develop and implement, "The Stories of Our Lives" a digital storytelling program for seniors. This project aims to help seniors learn media skills and create and share stories about people, events and places that have shaped their lives within the Cambridge community.

• Cambridge Homes for Aged People
• Chamberlain Fund and Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• Operational support for the Cambridge Homes which caters to independent seniors, as well as those who want or require personal care services tailored for their individual needs. CHAP provides supportive services to enhance residents' independence and dignity and provide peace of mind for residents and their families.

• Cambridge Senior Volunteer Clearinghouse
• CCF General Fund, Sheila Gamble Fund, Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund, and Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• Funding to support CSVC as it connects the talents and experiences of volunteers (particularly seniors) with the needs of the Cambridge community. CSVC also trains volunteer supervisors, publishes a directory of volunteer opportunities, hosts a TV show, and organizes volunteer recognition events as well as city-wide forums on aging.

• Catholic Charities
• Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• Catholic Charities offer older adults interaction with other adults, children from our child-care programs, caring volunteers, and health care professionals. Additionally, C.C. has programs to provide counseling, outreach, advocacy, information and referrals, as well as service coordination for families and caregivers.

• The Elizabeth Evarts De Rham Hospice Home
• CCF General Fund and Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• The Elizabeth Evarts de Rham Hospice Home at Chilton Street (originally Chilton House) in Cambridge provides a home-like place for patients to live and receive hospice care services.

• Food For Free Committee: Home Delivery Program
• Tufts Health Plan Foundation - CCF Healthy Aging R.O.C.S. Matching Grant Program

• Funding for the Home Delivery program. Clients of this program are either age 62 or older, or disabled, and are unable to access food pantries or meal programs due to chronic illness or disability. All are low-income and live either alone, with children younger than 18, and/or with other adults qualified to receive Home Delivery.

• MAB Community Services, Inc.
• Tufts Health Plan Foundation - CCF Healthy Aging R.O.C.S. Matching Grant Program

• Funding for the Cambridge Visually Impaired Elders Program: Caregivers Initiative, which offers in-home vision rehabilitation, a low vision support group, and 1:1 volunteer matches to help elders learn adaptive skills and maintain their ability to complete daily activities.

• Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS)
• Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• Funding for the MAPS Elder Services Program, which serves low-income seniors from the Portuguese-speaking communities of Cambridge, Somerville and surrounding towns. The elder program continues to provide free nutritious meals, access to vital services and a variety of social activities designed to ward off the loneliness, depression and illness that often force our elders prematurely into nursing homes.

• Mount Auburn Hospital
• Chamberlain Fund

• Mount Auburn Hospital is dedicated to delivering healthcare services in a personable, convenient, and compassionate manner, with respect for the dignity of patients and their families.

• Norfolk Street Congregate Housing (New Communities Services, Inc.)
• Tufts Health Plan Foundation - CCF Healthy Aging R.O.C.S. Matching Grant Program

• Funding for 116 Norfolk St Congregate Housing, to educate older adults about common changes associated with the aging process and assist them in finding ways to maintain the maximum independence and to continue living in congregate housing.

• Paine Senior Services
• Chamberlain Fund and Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• Paine Senior Services (PSS) serves Cambridge seniors and caregivers regarding issues related to aging. This includes accessing benefits, healthcare services, housing, and in-home services. PSS also provides counseling and basic bill paying assistance. In addition, PSS assists elders and their families in making transitions to more supportive housing. PSS can coordinate in-home services to maintain elders' safety at home and can provide assistance with the transition home after a hospital stay.

• SCM Community Transportation
• CCF General Fund, Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund, and Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• SCM promotes the independence of seniors and persons with disabilities through community-based transportation.

• Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services
• CCF General Fund and Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• Funding for the evening, weekend, and emergency Meals On Wheels Program. This program serves the most vulnerable and frail elders, those who require more than the hot lunch provided during the week by the regular Meals On Wheels Program. Many of these elders do not have family to help them and are unable to prepare meals for themselves.

• Tufts Health Plan Foundation - CCF Healthy Aging R.O.C.S. Matching Grant Program

• Funding to expand SCES's free medical escort services to include volunteer Medical Advocates to assist low-income elders residing in Cambridge.

• Visiting Nurse Association of Eastern Massachusetts
• Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund and Sheila Gamble Fund

• Funding for operational support of the VNA which provides comprehensive home health care programs and our unique Assisted Living Community, for seniors who need a little help to stay in the comfort and dignity of their own home.

• VNA Care Network and Hospice
• Tufts Health Plan Foundation - CCF Healthy Aging R.O.C.S. Matching Grant Program

• Funding for a new program in collaboration with the Cambridge Council on Aging that will address the area of "Keeping Our Seniors Safe." The falls prevention program will combine group education with individual home safety assessments to increase knowledge on falls and prevention of falls among elders in Cambridge.

• Windsor House Adult Day Health Programs
• CCF General Fund and Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• Funding for Windsor House Adult Day Programs, which keeps seniors where they want to be -- in their own homes and communities. They provide a comprehensive 6 to 8.5 hour day program to help elders thrive and live a high quality of life in their own communities.

2009–2010 investment: $249,620

• Adbar Ethiopian Women’s Alliance
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support Adbar's English as a Second Language literacy level 1 conversation and basic computer literacy project.

• Association of Cambridge Neighborhoods
• Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund
• Agassiz Baldwin Community
• Cambridge/Agassiz/Harvard Community, Culture, and Recreation Fund
• Cambridge Community Center
• Sheila Gamble Fund, J. Jonas Fund, and Cambridge/Agassiz/Harvard Community, Culture, and Recreation Fund
• Cambridge Community Television
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to expand a CCTV program, NeighborMedia, an online community network where Cambridge residents share information and ways for people to participate in civic life, to include non-profit organizations.

• Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support the Building Assets for Life (BAFL) project, which will provide adults for whom CEOC has provided free tax preparation, benefits advocacy and credit or medical debt resolution, two, two-hour group sessions that will focus on budget and savings and credit repair, credit and medical debt resolution, and prevention of identity theft.

• Cambridge Public Library
• Cambridge/Agassiz/Harvard Community, Culture, and Recreation Fund and Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund
• Centro Latino, Inc.
• CCF General Fund and CCF's Immigrant Initiative

• Funding to support general operating expenses. In the second year of merger integration, Centro will focus on building the resources and external relationships to realize increased service delivery for the Latino and immigrant community.

• Community Dispute Settlement Center, Inc.
• CCF General Fund and Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• The Community Dispute Settlement Center Inc. (CDSC) provides mediation and training services to organizations and individuals. The mission of CDSC is to provide and promote effective, cost-efficient and participatory approaches for resolving conflict, and to make them accessible to all members of the community.

• Community Farms Outreach, Inc.
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support the Hunger Relief and Education programs targeted to Cambridge organizations and residents. The Waltham Fields Community Farm has long-term partnerships with Food for Free and Cambridge Camping Association. Throughout the growing season they make weekly donations of fresh vegetables to Food For Free and also offer kids in the Cambridge Adventure Day Camp, offered by CCA, the opportunity to participate in multi-session programs in their Children's Learning Garden.

• Cambridge Health Alliance: Haitian Mental Health Unit
• Cambridge/Agassiz/Harvard Community, Culture, and Recreation Fund
• Community Learning Center
• CCF General Fund, Sheila Gamble Fund, and CCF's Immigrant Initiative

• Funding to support The Next Steps program, which will provide adult students enrolled in CLC's English and GED preparation classes additional courses and counseling to help them transition to further education or training and a career.

• Community Legal Services and Counseling Center
• CCF General Fund and Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• Funding to support CLSCC's legal aid and mental health programs for FY2011. These programs will provide free legal assistance and affordable individual, group, and couples counseling; recruit, train, and support volunteer professionals to assist in the delivery of services; conduct community legal education trainings; provide technical assistance to member organizations of the Cambridge Domestic Violence Task Force and to staff at other Cambridge agencies; and distribute self-help legal rights materials.

• Community Servings
• CCF General Fund, Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund, and Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• Funding to provide lunches, dinners, and snacks to Cambridge residents homebound with acute, life-threatening illnesses and to their dependents and caregivers.

• East End House
• CCF General Fund, Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund, and Sheila Gamble Fund

• Funding to support general operating costs of the East End House. They currently offer nationally accredited child care and school age programs, an out of school time program for middle school youth, an emergency food program, senior outreach programs, youth development activities and have recently expanded youth science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programming.

• Americo J. Francisco Elder’s Fund

• Funding to sustain and grow programming for seniors and the Emergency Food Program.

• Cambridge/Agassiz/Harvard Community, Culture, and Recreation Fund
• Executive Service Corps
• Special Fund
• Guidance Center: Meeting Place
• CCF General Fund and RBS04 Fund

• Support for core program services that have special emphasis on children and parents in homes with a history of domestic violence. MP provides safe, supervised visitation services for at-risk children in families referred by the court; trains adults from the community as Child Access Supervisors; and consults to other programs.

• Homeowner’s Rehab, Inc.
• CCF General Fund and Sheila Gamble Fund

• Funding for the Home Improvement Program (HIP), which provides free technical assistance, construction management, and below market rate loans to low-income individuals or families.

• Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House
• CCF General Fund

• The MFNH provides critical information and services to immigrants to successfully assimilate into the community. Today the MFNH provides services to over 1,500 children, youth, families and individuals each year. Its mission is to help strengthen and empower youth, families and community residents. MFNH focuses on building relationships and connecting people with opportunities that address basic human service and educational needs and help build a strong community.

• Sheila Gamble Fund

• Funding to support 1) MFNH's new literacy initiative for 15-20 immigrant women, 2) strengthening MFNH's computer classes, and 3) maintaining daily access to technology for over 230 Area IV residents.

• Cambridge/Agassiz/Harvard Community, Culture, and Recreation Fund
• Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS)
• CCF General Fund and Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Funding to provide health and social services to Portuguese-speaking Cambridge residents including: immigrants social services, elder services, domestic violence prevention, ESOL and citizenship classes, HIV/AIDS services, and more.

• Reaching Out About Depression
• CCF General Fund and Sheila Gamble Fund

• Funding to support ROAD, a community program created by and for low-income women who are struggling with depression. ROAD creates a network of support to reduce isolation, improve quality of life and increase individual and community empowerment. The main program areas are: a workshop series providing women with peer support, networking and social action opportunities; an Advocacy Resource Team of law and counseling students; and a Leadership Development Program to help women become change agents in their communities.

• Supervised Visitation Network
• RBS04 Fund

• The Supervised Visitation Network is an international membership network that establishes standards, promotes education and advances professionalism in the field of supervised visitation.

• Temporary Care Services
• Alice Morris Sturges Fund and Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• TCS Family Support (TCS) is a family support program serving children with developmental disabilities who live at home with their families in the Cambridge and Somerville areas. TCS provides respite care, child development, behavioral consultation, parent training, service coordination, and educational advocacy.

• WBUR
• Sheila Gamble Fund
• Wellmet Project
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to provide counseling, housing, and food as well as amenities to aid individuals during their period of recovery from mental illness.

• WGBH
• Sheila Gamble Fund
• Women’s Educational Center, Inc.
• CCF General Fund

• Funding for Moving On: Support for Abused Women. This program offers a safe and confidential drop-in space; over 125 peer support groups; skill-building workshops; a helpline; resource information; Internet access and training; and financial literacy training -- all free of charge -- and counseling for very low-income women with inadequate health insurance for a token fee.

• Sheila Gamble Fund

• Funding to expand the Computer/Internet Access and Learning Program, which provides free computer and internet access to homeless and low-to-moderate income women, with informal hands-on assistance 55 hours per week, and formal training, including drop-in hours twice a week, one-to-one tutoring by appointment, and self-paced tutorials.

• YWCA Cambridge
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to help pay the salary of a full-time residence service coordinator to produce support and advocacy for the women living at tanner residence, 100+ units of sleeping room occupancy housing for hard-to-house women.

2009–2010 investment: $133,416

• American Friends Service Committee
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support the Material Assistance Program (MAP), which provides critical assistance to needy families and individuals in the Greater Cambridge/Boston area.

• Boston Area Rape Crisis Center [BARCC]
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to maintain and expand the existing programs of the Self Advocacy Center, which provides daytime services, Monday through Friday, for an average of 60 homeless and economically disadvantaged people. The Center provides case management and assistance with: temporary housing, permanent housing, legal issues, education, health, and quality of life issues. The homeless client is provided with food, clothing, counseling, mail box, voice mail, email, employment training, and telephone access. A number of Cambridge Continuum organizations provide valuable professional services at the Center, including a Clinical Social Worker visits three days a week.

• The Bridge Fund of Massachusetts
• CCF General Fund

• Funding for rental and mortgage arrearage loans and grant funds to prevent evictions for Cambridge residents. Clients who accept a loan understand that s/he is partnering with TBFM to help prevent another family or individual from becoming homeless since every payment they make on their loan serves another family or individual in need.

• Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Bridge Street Outreach Program
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to the support the Bridge Street Outreach Program that targets homeless and high-risk youth up to age 25. Each weeknight, the "Bridge Van" makes scheduled stops throughout Boston and Cambridge to reach out to young homeless people on the streets and in adult shelters to provide a supportive, knowledgeable, and trusted presence in order to help them explore options/alternatives to street life.

• Cambridge Cares About AIDS: Youth on Fire
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support the Youth On Fire program which provides a safe space, hot meals, clothing, referrals to primary and mental health care, HIV/STD/Hepatitis counseling and testing, support groups, computer access, employment resources and housing advocacy to homeless youth at high risk for HIV infection.

• CASPAR
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support the FirstStep Street Outreach program, which provides outreach, case management, and referral to unsheltered homeless individuals.

• Catholic Charities’ St. Patrick’s Shelter for Homeless Women
• Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• St. Patrick’s Shelter for Homeless Women houses 30 women in emergency beds on a night-by-night basis as well as 10 transitional program participants each night. In addition to breakfast and dinner, the women are provided with referrals for health care, mental health services, and housing. A host of supportive and educational services are available to help families move toward a better future.

• Emerge, Inc. (Counseling and Education to Stop Domestic Violence)
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support the Counseling Scholarship Fund, which enables unemployed, under-employed, or indigent men who reside in Cambridge to attend Emerge's 40-week counseling program in order to address their abusive behavior.

• Family-to-Family Project
• CCF General Fund

• Funding provides direct, flexible grants to at-risk and homeless families referred from affiliated agencies in Cambridge and Boston. FTFP provides access to resources during times of crisis for mortgages, rent, security deposits, and utilities.

• Food for Free Committee
• CCF General Fund and Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Funding to support the Produce Rescue program and the Home Delivery program. The Produce Rescue program delivers fresh foods, primarily fruits and vegetables, to pantries, meal programs, youth programs, and shelters. The Home Delivery program brings food directly to homes of elderly and disabled people who are unable to access other food programs.

• Greater Boston Food Bank
• Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Funding to end hunger in eastern Massachusetts. CCF support will help ensure that 26 hunger-relief agencies in Cambridge will continue to receive highly nutritious food that reaches over 10,000 individuals in need each month.

• Heading Home
• CCF General Fund and Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Funding to support case management services for Heading Home's Cambridge Shelter Plus Care Program, which is designed to assist homeless people who suffer from a variety of serious disabilities that make finding and maintaining long term housing difficult.

• Homeless Empowerment Project/Spare Change
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support the Writer's Fund, which pays homeless and low-income writers for each article published in Spare Change News. The program provides income to homeless and low-income individuals and also provides a forum for stories often unheard or ignored.

• HomeStart, Inc.
• CCF General Fund and Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Funding to support Cambridge Housing Services for homeless and previously homeless adults. These services include: housing search, case management, information and referrals, housing retention services, money management assistance, and long-term housing vouchers for people with disabilities provided in combination with supportive services.

• Massachusetts Avenue Baptist Church: Project Manna
• CCF General Fund

• Funding for Project Manna, which performs outreach to the homeless and hungry. They serve an average of 200 meals-per-week on site and through home delivery to persons with AIDS and HIV infection.

• On the Rise
• CCF General Fund

• Funding for general operating support to continue operating the day-time safe haven for chronically homeless women and provide the relationships, resources, and advocacy they need to move out of homelessness.

• Outdoor Church of Cambridge
• Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• The Outdoor Church/Cambridge is a ministry to homeless men and women in Cambridge. All are welcome to attend these services. Following services, lay and ordained ministers carry sandwiches, juice and socks around Porter, Harvard, and Central Squares where a meal and communion are offered to any homeless person encountered.

• Pine Street Inn
• Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• The mission of Pine Street Inn is to be a community of respect and hope for each guest it serves; to be a resource through which neighbors and friends can help to meet the basic needs of others; and to serve as a national leader in the fight to end homelessness.

• Project Bread
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support Food Drive for the Hungry, which is a free transportation program to pick up and deliver donated and low-cost food to soup kitchens and food pantries throughout Cambridge.

• Shelter Legal Services Foundation
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to increase access to legal services to homeless and low-income families in Cambridge. This effort is designed to remove barriers that homeless and near-homeless individuals face, which prevent them from securing and maintaining housing, jobs, and independent living.

• Solutions at Work: Children’s Clothing Exchange
• Sheila Gamble Fund and Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• The Children's Clothing Exchange assists more than 2,000 children each year through a unique barter service that allows families to exchange out-grown children's clothing for newer clothing. Families can also obtain free books, shoes, toys, formula, diapers, car seats, strollers, and occasionally baby furniture.

• Transition House: Dating Violence Intervention Program
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support the Dating Violence Intervention Program (DVIP), which delivers violence prevention education, counseling intervention, and youth empowerment through classroom education and peer leadership training to local youth.

• Web of Benefit, Inc.
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to be used for Self-Sufficiency Grants, which will help women leaving temporary shelter to remain violence free, find permanent housing and decrease her need for agency funding.

2009–2010 investment: $98,711

• Boston Minstrel Company
• CCF General Fund

• Funding for BMC to provide musical therapy to the clients at the shelter of CASPAR (Cambridge and Somerville Program for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Rehabilitation).

• Boston Symphony Orchestra: Cambridge Youth Project
• CCF General Fund

• Funding for the Cambridge Youth Project, which helps Cambridge students access and explore the arts through two programs: BSO's Youth and Family concert series where CCF funding will provide concert tickets to 150 Cambridge students and the Days in the Arts program, an interdisciplinary arts camp for middle school youth, where CCF funding will provide enrollment to 25 Cambridge students and professional development workshops to 15 Cambridge Public School teachers.

• Cambridge Art Association
• CCF General Fund and Cambridge Art Association Fund

• Funding to support "The Art of Love," which allows special need students from area schools create art and exhibit it in a professional setting in Harvard Square.

• Cambridge Arts Council
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support CAC's Summer in the City program, which provides culturally diverse arts programming for the people of Cambridge with specific focuses on children ages 4 to 11. These performances take place in public parks and community spaces throughout Cambridge and are free and open to the public.

• Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
• CCF General Fund and Special Fund

• Funding to support general operating costs for the multicultural visual and performing arts programs that educate the community about diversity.

• Cambridge Performance Project
• CCF General Fund

• Funding will go toward teacher salaries, artistic direction, and CPP's end of year event at the Peabody School. CPP provides high quality instruction and performance experience in dance, music, circus arts and theater for Cambridge children.

• Charles River Conservancy
• Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Funding to support the Conservancy Volunteers program, which brings 2,500 volunteers out each year to improve the landscape and ecological sustainability of 400 acres of urban, waterfront Parklands along the Charles River in the heart of Cambridge and Greater Boston.

• CitySprouts, Inc.
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support CitySprouts' summer youth intern program in 2010. This unique program for urban youth (ages 11-14) provides a critical service to our next generation by building environmental and food literacy through hands-on experiences in growing and preparing fresh food.

• The Community Art Center, Inc.
• CCF General Fund and Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Funding to support general operating costs of CAC. CAC is a neighborhood institution committed to its mission: nurturing children and young adults with limited access to financial resources so they achieve personal and cultural growth, and have a positive impact on their world through joyful experiences in the arts.

• Green Streets Initiative: Walk/Ride Days Program
• CCF General Fund and Americo J. Francisco Charity Fund

• Funding to support targeted outreach to underserved neighborhoods within Cambridge to promote environmental sustainability and healthy living through the Walk/Ride Days program.

• Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET)
• Cambridge/Agassiz/Harvard Community, Culture, and Recreation Fund
• Jose Mateo’s Ballet Theatre
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to support the Dance for the CommonWealth, a unique outreach program that makes high quality dance and dance education accessible to audiences and students of all ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds of Cambridge and the surrounding areas.

• Longy School of Music
• CCF General Fund and RBS04 Fund

• Funding to support Music by Design: Community Programs for Youth and Seniors, which provides community venues with ongoing classes, lessons, and wellness programs taught by Longy Teaching Artists.

• North Cambridge Family Opera Company
• CCF General Fund

• Funding to present two educational programs: 1. Shakespeare's Clowns, a workshop conducted in CRLS will teach students about the great comics of Shakespeare. 2. Sparking Enthusiasm for Science through Song where David Haines will conduct science based singing and songwriting workshops as conduit for learning about science and the natural world in the Cambridge Elementary Schools.

• Passim Folk Music and Cultural Center: Culture for Kids Program
• CCF General Fund

• Funding for Culture for Kids, which targets low-income children engaging them in the arts while teaching tolerance and understanding for other cultures.

• Tunefoolery Concert Ensembles/North Charles, Inc.
• CCF General Fund

• Funding for music lessons and musical goals group meeting for Cambridge residents with psychiatric disabilities. Tunefoolery's purpose is to enable people affected by mental illness to build identities as musicians rather than mental patients.

• Underground Railway Theater
• CCF General Fund and Cambridge/Agassiz/Harvard Community, Culture, and Recreation Fund

• Funding to support the Company's Community and Education Program during Season 2010-2011. Three interrelated components of URT's community education initiative that reach youth in underserved neighborhoods in Cambridge and Boston are: Youth Underground, Science Theater Education Project, and the School Matinee Program.

• Youth Theater Project
• Cambridge/Agassiz/Harvard Community, Culture, and Recreation Fund