Center for Women and Enterprise

$50,000

To provide ongoing technical assistance to 700 women (50 percent low-income) to grow their businesses to scale; and to create an outlet for experienced business women and entrepreneurs to share their expertise with their low-income counterparts.

Maine Centers for Women, Work, and Community

$50,000

To support First Markets and Beyond: Expanding Markets for Rural Entrepreneurs, which will bring new resources and strategies to small rural business owners in their attempts to establish or expand markets or increase sales, and to overcome their isolation.

Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations

$20,000

To gather data to document workforce development accomplishments by community development corporations and to facilitate peer learning and collaboration.

New York City Employment and Training Coalition

$20,000

To provide trainings and technical assistance to community-based providers, helping them to align services with the requirements of the federal One Stop system and to build relationships with One Stop centers both for referring and receiving clients.

Common Ground Community HDFC, Inc.

$40,000

To reduce the risk of young adults (18- to 24-year-olds) becoming homeless by providing solid employment and specialized skills training in an expanding field; and to ensure self-sufficiency of participants through continued financial literacy education and housing assistance.

Greyston Foundation

$50,000

To assess 150-200 long-term welfare recipients and hard-to-employ individuals for job readiness and placement with Greyston-affiliated companies and local employers; and to place 58 from this group in full-time jobs earning at least $7.00/hour.

Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation

$50,000

To support the Boston Health Care and Research Training Institute, which will improve the ability of neighborhood residents and entry-level workers to obtain jobs in the health care sector; improve the efficiency of health care employers by improving retention and filling vacancies; build career ladder models that will be replicable among other employers in the sector; and develop a system that facilitates the hiring of neighborhood residents.

Jewish Vocational Service

$35,000

To extend services beyond initial job placements to help clients move from entry-level to more skilled, higher-paying positions; and to share findings with policymakers and providers to improve workforce development systems locally and nationally.

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House

$25,000

To expand Lenox Hill's alternative welfare-to-work program to serve a broader population of harder-to-serve individuals.

Naugatuck Valley Project

$35,000

To identify, recruit, pre-screen, and support 150 low-income trainees in safe remediation of brownfield sites; and with other partners, establish a Naugatuck Valley Environmental Remediation Training Center at Naugatuck Valley Community College.

Northern New England Tradeswomen

$50,000

To revise the Step Up program to respond to significant changes in policies governing public funding of job training programs; and to expand WomenBuild to train women in additional trades for which for there is significant demand, such as tiling, painting and masonry related to building renovations and restoration.

Northern New England Tradeswomen

$1,750

To join Preservation Vermont in an exploratory trip to Cuba to discuss possible educational exchanges aimed at developing WomenBuild's capacity to participate in Vermont's historic preservation projects and encouraging the participation of Cuban women in similar work.

Organizing and Leadership Training Center

$35,000

To work with Massachusetts health care institutions to create career ladders for health care workers; expand resources for job training programs for health care workers; and conduct outreach to 3,000 health care workers.

Stone Soup

$50,000

To expand the range of culinary-based training opportunities for poor, homeless, and at-risk youth and adults; expand job placement options through linkage with professional and business organizations in the hospitality industry; and manage the community meals programs for homeless youth, adults, and families in Portland, Maine.

STRIVE Boston Employment Service

$100,000

To develop a STRIVE program for individuals convicted of crimes and on probation or parole.

Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation

$40,000

To support Innovations at Work, which will help participants construct long-term employment strategies, including increasing retention and wage gains and build capacity to improve program delivery and inform public policy.

Independent Sector

$12,800

To provide an annual contribution.

New York Community Trust

$260,000

To contribute to JMF's donor-advised fund.

Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council

$50,000

To foster international cooperation in stabilizing and downsizing Russia's nuclear weapons complex. Final installment of a two-year, $100,000 grant.