La Colaborativa: Building Futures

La Colaborativa: Building Futures is sponsored by The Paul & Edith Babson Foundation. Supports programs that provide entrepreneurship and career pathways for immigrant youth, aiming to build futures through education and skill development.

2025 Grants | The Paul & Edith Babson Foundation $5,000- Building Futures: Entrepreneurship and Career Pathways for Immigrant Youth Madison Park Development Corporation $5,000- 2026 Roxbury Community Garden Initiative Mothers for Justice and Equality $5,000- MJE Youth Education Programs $5,000- Expanding Our Impact: Building a More Equitable Local Food System Through the Backyard Growcery Boston Food Forest Coalition $5,000- Expansion

of BFFC Food Forests across disadvantaged Boston neighborhoods Carroll Center for the Blind $5,000- Comprehensive Vision Services for Children and Youth with Blindness or Low Vision Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation $5,000- Oasis at Ballou – Urban Agriculture and Community Engagement Emerald Necklace Conservatory $5,000- Nurturing the Emerald Necklace’s Canopy and Community $5,000- Entrepreneurship for All: Expanding Inclusive Business Education

in Greater Boston $5,000- College Credentialing and Economic Mobility for Boston Single Mothers and Their Children Partners for Youth with Disabilities $5,000- Emergency Shelter Program $5,000- Culinary Training & Alumni Employment Programs East Boston Social Centers $5,000- Green Cambridge Youth Career Pathways Programming Save the Harbor/Save the Bay $5,000- 2026 Youth Jobs and Leadership Training Program Waltham Fields Community Farm

$5,000- Youth Education and Teen Corps Programs on an Urban Farm $5,000- After-school Debate $5,000- Enroot FY26 Success Labs Programming for Immigrant Students $5,000- Community Connections: Skills-based Mentoring for Underserved Boston Youth $5,000- NeighborHealth Wellness Garden $5,000- Demakes Family YMCA Hunger Prevention Program $2,000- Improving the Lives of High-Need Families Affected by Breast Cancer in Greater Boston A Better City

Initiative, Inc. $4,000 – Engaging Businesses in Supporting Heat and Other Climate Resilience Solutions in Greater Boston Boston Partners in Education $3,000 – Academic Mentoring Support for Students in Boston Public Schools $5,000 – NextGen Explorers $5,000 – Building Economic Stability for Youth Survivors of Domestic, Dating, and Family Violence $3,000 – Community Center Resilience Hubs and Clean Energy Education

Codman Square Health Center $5,000 – Promoting Equity, Economic Empowerment & Healthcare Careers in Codman Youth Summer Intern Program College for Social Innovation $3,000 – CFSI Gap Semester & Bridge College Initiative $5,000 – Greater Boston Youth Development Programs Friends of the Children-Boston $5,000 – Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship Incentive-Based Savings Program $5,000 – Cultivate and Connect: A Community Garden

Initiative $5,000 – Haley House Urban Agriculture $4,000 – General Operations in Support of Domestic Violence Survivors International Institute of New England $5,000 – IINE-Boston’s Comprehensive Career Services for Refugees and Immigrants $5,000 – More Than Words General Operating Support Neighborhood of Affordable Housing $5,000- NOAH Youth Leadership Development Crew (N-Yo) Pathways for Children, Inc. $3,000 – School Age Care

Program $5,000 – Arts-Based Teen Employment and Workforce Readiness Training for Underserved Youth Southwest Boston Community Development Corporatio n $4,000 – Green Team Youth Job Readiness & Environmental Stewardship Program $5,000 – Summer 2025 Teen Urban Tree Corps (TUTC) $3,000 – Building Union Capital’s Grassroots Community Leadership Training Program $5,000 – Urban Farming Institute General Operations $5,000 – Ramping Up

our Demonstrated Model of Educational and Career Advising for GHS Students $5,000 – Teens in Print: Catalyzing Teen Voices in Journalism $5,000 – Hands On Creative Youth Development Program TOTAL 2025 COMPETITIVE GRANTS: $229,000 Beginning in 2024, the Foundation approved three-year grants to the following organizations: American Indian College Fund $10,000 – The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation Tribal Scholarship

Program Center for Women & Enterprise $10,000 – General Operating Support $5,000 – General Operating Support English for New Bostonians $5,000 – Workforce Training $10,000 – General Operating Support $10,000 – Jóvenes en Acción/Youth in Action (JEA) Mystic River Watershed Association $10,000 – General Operating Support $5,000 – Jaime Memorial Grant Perkins School for the Blind $5,000 – General Operating

Support Philanthropy M assachusetts $10,000 – The Summer Fund $10,000 – General Operating Support $10,000 – Boston Police Department/YMCA Campership Program TOTAL 2025 ANNUAL GRANTS: $100,000