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Youth & Amateur Athletics Support is sponsored by Yawkey Foundation. This opportunity supports mission-aligned projects and measurable outcomes.
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Youth & Amateur Athletics - Yawkey Foundation Yawkey Foundation Youth & Amateur Athletics Support Youth & Amateur Athletics Tom and Jean Yawkey loved baseball. Tom grew up around the game, played while at Yale University, and understood its value in bringing players, fans and communities together.
He purchased the Boston Red Sox in 1933 and as much as being the team owner, he also took great joy in participating in batting practice at Fenway Park and sitting alongside fans in the bleachers to watch a game. Tom and Jean Yawkey were committed to supporting youth athletics so that all young people had the opportunity to play and enjoy the game of baseball.
The Yawkeys recognized that team sports, particularly baseball and softball, build important skills that would benefit players off the field – such as cooperation, respect, sharing, and discipline. This tradition of supporting quality youth recreation programs, particularly baseball and softball programs, continues today through the work of the Yawkey Foundation.
In many instances, funding from the Yawkey Foundation supports the very things Tom and Jean Yawkey provided many years ago – quality fields, new equipment, and programs providing ample opportunities for teamwork, sportsmanship and play. Please be advised that the Yawkey Foundation is currently focusing its Youth & Amateur Athletics category Program & Small Capital on baseball and softball.
The Foundation does not support any athletic programs specific to individual towns, districts, or counties. Perpetuating Tom and Jean Yawkey’s love for baseball, the Yawkey Foundation provided a series of grants to the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) in order to improve the game experience for players, fans and the host communities.
These Small Capital Grants enabled CCBL teams across the Cape to upgrade or replace their fields for safer playing, and depending upon the specific team needs, provided the funding for state-of-the-art field lighting, outfield renovations, safety netting to protect spectators, and drainage improvements for improved playing surfaces.
Boys & Girls Club of Boston In 2018, the Yawkey Foundation was approached by longstanding partner, the Boys & Girls Club of Boston’s Yawkey Club in Roxbury, to support a Small Capital project of installing lights around the athletic field. The Yawkey Club serves thousands of youth each year, and the field hosts softball and baseball practices, drills, and league games.
The addition of field lights allows the Yawkey Club members to participate in evening softball and baseball games, as well as other outdoor activities after dusk, while providing more flexibility in scheduling and accommodating a wider variety of health-promoting Sports, Fitness, & Recreation activities.
Youth Enrichment Services (YES) Youth Enrichment Services (YES) inspires and challenges Boston youth with physical and mental activities that foster life-long respect for self, others, and the environment through enriching programming for thousands of children and teens, primarily from Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan.
The Yawkey Foundation has provided Program Support to help YES deliver on its mission of offering unique, active outdoor experiences essential for healthy development, in addition to the soft skills, academic support, and careers exploration necessary to succeed in school, work, and life.
YES youth are faced with many systemic disparities that directly contribute to poorer outcomes, including less access to health-promoting resources, and the Yawkey Foundation is proud to support YES’s out-of-school-time programming and safe outdoor spaces for the youth they serve.
Special Olympics of Massachusetts Special Olympics of Massachusetts provides year-round sports training and competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, prepare for entry into school and community programs, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills and friendships with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
Tom and Jean Yawkey valued the role athletics played in the lives of young people, and particularly for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities. In honor of the couple’s commitment, in October 2009 the Yawkey Foundation made a Transformational Capital grant of $2. 5 million to Special Olympics Massachusetts for construction of a new headquarters building in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
The Yawkey Sport Training Center provides training and meeting space for the 1,600 coaches and 11,000 volunteers who work with more than 11,000 athletes in 26 team and individual sport programs and 126 organized competitions across the state.
This relationship continues to this day and in 2022, Yawkey Foundation awarded Special Olympics of Massachusetts a $300,000 Strategic Investment grant to support technological upgrades throughout the organization in order to improve program accessibility. The Yawkey Foundation is the presenting sponsor of the PMC Kids Rides Program.
The Yawkey Foundation is committed to helping the PMC develop the next generation of riders while instilling a sense of community service and athletic fitness in young people. Since 2010, the Yawkey Foundation has supported the PMC Kids Rides program with grants totaling $1. 3 million.
A longtime supporter of athletics at Boston College, Yawkey Foundation committed $15 million to fund construction of the Yawkey Athletics Center and other athletics-related improvements. Opened in 2005, the Yawkey Athletics Center serves as the home of the BC football staff and players, as well as the Office of Learning Resources for Student-Athletes.
The completion of the Yawkey Athletics Center marked the first of several facility improvements across the campus. Yawkey Foundation’s commitment to this capital project builds upon the Yawkey’s legacy - in 1986, Jean Yawkey established the Thomas A. Yawkey Scholarship Fund to provide tuition support for racial and ethnic minority student-athlete baseball players from Greater Boston.
Perpetuating Tom and Jean Yawkey’s love for baseball, the Yawkey Foundation provided a series of grants to the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) in order to improve the game experience for players, fans and the host communities.
These Small Capital Grants enabled CCBL teams across the Cape to upgrade or replace their fields for safer playing, and depending upon the specific team needs, provided the funding for state-of-the-art field lighting, outfield renovations, safety netting to protect spectators, and drainage improvements for improved playing surfaces.
Boys & Girls Club of Boston In 2018, the Yawkey Foundation was approached by longstanding partner, the Boys & Girls Club of Boston’s Yawkey Club in Roxbury, to support a Small Capital project of installing lights around the athletic field. The Yawkey Club serves thousands of youth each year, and the field hosts softball and baseball practices, drills, and league games.
The addition of field lights allows the Yawkey Club members to participate in evening softball and baseball games, as well as other outdoor activities after dusk, while providing more flexibility in scheduling and accommodating a wider variety of health-promoting Sports, Fitness, & Recreation activities.
Youth Enrichment Services (YES) Youth Enrichment Services (YES) inspires and challenges Boston youth with physical and mental activities that foster life-long respect for self, others, and the environment through enriching programming for thousands of children and teens, primarily from Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan.
The Yawkey Foundation has provided Program Support to help YES deliver on its mission of offering unique, active outdoor experiences essential for healthy development, in addition to the soft skills, academic support, and careers exploration necessary to succeed in school, work, and life.
YES youth are faced with many systemic disparities that directly contribute to poorer outcomes, including less access to health-promoting resources, and the Yawkey Foundation is proud to support YES’s out-of-school-time programming and safe outdoor spaces for the youth they serve.
Special Olympics of Massachusetts Special Olympics of Massachusetts provides year-round sports training and competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, prepare for entry into school and community programs, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills and friendships with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
Tom and Jean Yawkey valued the role athletics played in the lives of young people, and particularly for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities. In honor of the couple’s commitment, in October 2009 the Yawkey Foundation made a Transformational Capital grant of $2. 5 million to Special Olympics Massachusetts for construction of a new headquarters building in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
The Yawkey Sport Training Center provides training and meeting space for the 1,600 coaches and 11,000 volunteers who work with more than 11,000 athletes in 26 team and individual sport programs and 126 organized competitions across the state.
This relationship continues to this day and in 2022, Yawkey Foundation awarded Special Olympics of Massachusetts a $300,000 Strategic Investment grant to support technological upgrades throughout the organization in order to improve program accessibility. The Yawkey Foundation is the presenting sponsor of the PMC Kids Rides Program.
The Yawkey Foundation is committed to helping the PMC develop the next generation of riders while instilling a sense of community service and athletic fitness in young people. Since 2010, the Yawkey Foundation has supported the PMC Kids Rides program with grants totaling $1. 3 million.
A longtime supporter of athletics at Boston College, Yawkey Foundation committed $15 million to fund construction of the Yawkey Athletics Center and other athletics-related improvements. Opened in 2005, the Yawkey Athletics Center serves as the home of the BC football staff and players, as well as the Office of Learning Resources for Student-Athletes.
The completion of the Yawkey Athletics Center marked the first of several facility improvements across the campus. Yawkey Foundation’s commitment to this capital project builds upon the Yawkey’s legacy - in 1986, Jean Yawkey established the Thomas A. Yawkey Scholarship Fund to provide tuition support for racial and ethnic minority student-athlete baseball players from Greater Boston.
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The Fund for Women & Girls Grant Program is sponsored by The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC). The Fund for Women & Girls, an initiative of TFEC, makes grants to local nonprofit organizations in specific South Central PA counties. The grants support projects that advance the lives of women and girls by providing opportunities to address basic needs, develop economic self-sufficiency, and strengthen health and safety needs.
VGF grants will be used to develop and/or support community-based entities to recruit, manage, and support volunteers. CNCS seeks to fund effective approaches that expand volunteering, strengthen the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit and retain skill-based volunteers, and develop strategies to use volunteers effectively to solve problems. Specifically, the VGF grants will support efforts that expand the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit, manage, support and retain individuals to serve in high quality volunteer assignments.Applicants that receive funding under this Notice may directly carry out the activities supported under the award, or may carry out the activities by making sub-grants to community-based entities, supporting volunteer generation at these entities.). Funding Opportunity Number: AC-05-25-21. Assistance Listing: 94.021. Funding Instrument: G. Category: O. Award Amount: $6.1M total program funding.