Our Grantees

This an event organized by justice impacted individuals to bring together various local organizations, businesses, and service providers in one location to showcase the resources available to the formerly incarcerated community.

To foster independence and agency in women and girls in the Grove Hall community by providing them with their own hardware set which can be used to assemble furniture and make small household repairs.

This an opportunity for the community to come together under the issue of Public Safety whereby the BPD and BFD are invited to engage with Grove Hall residents, where food, resources and entertainment are provided.

Elevate Boston distributed food and provided critical supplies (masks, gloves, and hand sanitizers) to Grove Hall residents.

Violence In Boston partnered with Food for the Soul, a black-owned restaurant located in the heart of Grove Hall, to provide meals to families during the pandemic. With the support of 25 volunteers, Violence in Boston provided thousands of meals to families in the area and and increased awareness around disparities in food access.

Fresh Food Generation provided emergency food relief to families affiliated with Friends of the Children. This included prepared meals, grocery bags and toiletries. Fresh Food Generation delivered 150 meal packages to families using the grant provided by the Grove Hall Trust.

The anticipated outcome is to identify the issues that impact residents.
To organize the residents around one issue.
To get residents to actively engage with one another.
To celebrate our findings at National Night event on August 8th.

Amplify the voices of the people that the Grove Hall community itself wants to celebrate. In doing so, the project will seek to represent, in a small but powerful way, the richness of a community that is too often overlooked or misrepresented in mainstream media coverage.

This grant allowed an opportunity for outreach and networking with neighbors, organizations, businesses through multi language flyer distribution and inter generational family movie viewing with discussion and breaking bread and drink together. The grant allowed Masjid Al-Qur'an to set up the infrastructure for movie viewing and cultural events for the neighborhood.

Grove Hall Network Nights are an opportunity to come together, build relationships & trust, engage in meaningful conversations about issues & action, and exchange favors and resources.

The funds provided by the Grove Hall community were very useful for ordering the supplies needed for the workshop such as sewing machines, sewing kits, fabrics food and beverages for every workshop. During these 10 weeks they trainees learned how to be a better human being in our community by assisting those in need and be a role model. This grant supported this project by providing the funds to buy the materials needed for a successful completion of the workshops.

Not Your Average Yoga provided free trauma-informed yoga classes to help Grove Hall residents realize their spirit and impact self worth. These classes introduced coping skills along with relaxation techniques.