2005 BCF Annual Report (PDF) - Brookline Community Foundation

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■ ■ Identify Collaborate Commit Thrive Education Driscoll School PTO for expansion of the Urban Improv project on adolescent issues of bullying and intolerance. $9,000 Steps to Success for Work Connections for Youth, a summer internship program for 100 low-income Brookline youth, ages 13 to 18. $23,750 Lincoln School PTO for Respect for All training for teachers and staff at Lincoln and Driscoll Schools to foster a comfortable school environment for families of gays and lesbians. $3,954 Brookline Schools Staff Children’s Center to produce Storytelling for Infants and Toddlers, a handbook for parents and teachers on how to improve fundamental pre-literacy skills. $4,500 MAB Community Services to support a music education program for brain-injured adolescents in residential Ivy Street School, in collaboration with Brookline Music School. $3,000 Devotion School PTO for Tune Into Language, a kindergarten program using music to teach literacy skills in classrooms with many children whose first language is not English. $4,475 Driscoll School PTO for a project that involves 8th graders as photographers who will illustrate a forthcoming book, American Adolescents in the 21st Century. $1,000 The Arts Artbarn Community Theatre for the after school Rafters Theatre Program for teens in grades 7 to 9. $10,000 Brookline Arts Center to support the event for the Gadsby Awards honoring artistic achievement for Brookline Public School students in grades 4 to 7. $1,828 Company One, Inc. for the Stage One summer theatrical program for 13-17 year-olds. $3,500 Coolidge Corner Community Chorus for scholarships for low income elders and students to participate in the community chorus. $2,400 Environment Brookline Department of Public Works for restoration of the historic landscape between the lagoon and community gardens at Larz Anderson Park, a designated historic landmark. This grant was matched by municipal funds. $5,300 (Note: BCF awarded an additional $9,700 grant for this project from the Environmental Stewardship Fund.)
■ ■ Language / Ethnicity 29% of Brookline’s 57,000 residents speak a language other than English at home. Historically welcoming to immigrants, Brookline has one of the largest percentage of foreign-born residents among Massachusetts towns. Income 32% of Brookline’s households have incomes exceeding $100,000; 19.4% of Brookline’s households have incomes under $25,000. 4.3% of Brookline’s families live below the federal poverty level. Gadsby Art Award Winners. Photo courtesy of Brookline Arts Center. The following grants were made from Brookline Community Foundation Designated Funds and Field of Interest Funds: BHRYT Designated Fund Brookline Community Mental Health Center for the Brookline High Risk Youth Task Force program to provide tutoring, counseling, and coordination of academic and social services for high school students who suffer chronic or serious illness or other conditions that put them at risk for failure at the high school. This fund was created for the local funders who help to provide a one-to-one match for a four-year grant for this program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Initiative Partners Program. $41,968
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