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BMA and its Partners distribute $955,000 to youth serving organizations in Boston

The Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston (BMA), is working with its partners, United Way of Massachusetts Bay, Emmanuel Gospel Center, and Boston TenPoint Coalition, to address the needs of high-risk and at-risk youth in the City of Boston, with program expansion grants totaling $720,000 made to 23 community-based and faith-based organizations. The ultimate goal of these grants is to develop a stronger network of organizations to improve the landscape of services available to youth in Boston. The Partners also announce 23 capacity building grants totaling $235,000, which are intended to strengthen the management practices of youth-serving organizations.

The grants are made through the Boston Capacity Tank, a program of the BMA established with the Partners to build the capacity of faith-based organizations (FBOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs) which serve at-risk youth in Boston. The Partners seek to increase the scale and effectiveness of community services to at-risk youth and families, leading to better lives for our youth and to more vital communities.

The program grantees will use the funds to expand best-practice youth programs, among those including mentoring, street outreach, educational support, college preparation, parenting training, teen jobs, counseling, case management, and legal advocacy. The new grant funds will create 57 new teen jobs and will allow these programs to serve an additional 1,841 youth. Overall, the funded programs will serve 4,372 youth, and provide jobs for 121 teens. Please see below a list of the new grantees.

Over the three-year project period, the Tank and its Partners have made 55 capacity-building grants totaling $665,000 to 42 organizations. The Tank has also made 87 program expansion grants totaling $2,502,565 to 44 faith-based and 43 community-based organizations, which together impact 26,372 youth, and have created 353 new youth jobs.

The Boston Capacity Tank and its partner services are funded by a $2 million Compassion Capital Fund grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services. For more information, please visit our website at www.bmaboston.org.

Program Expansion Grantees:

Dorchester
Tieng Xanh-Voice, Inc.
Bruce Wall Ministries
The Ella J. Baker House
Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Church
Dorchester Nazarene Compassionate Center
Boston Learning Center, Inc.
Brookview House, Inc.

Roxbury
Sociedad Latina
Family Service of Greater Boston
Straight Ahead Ministries, Inc.
The Roxbury Presbyterian Church Social Impact Center
Children's Services of Roxbury
Boston Urban Youth Foundation
YMCA of Greater Boston, Inc., Roxbury Branch

East Boston
Roca, Inc.

Jamaica Plain
Bottom Line, Inc.
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

South End
Peoples Baptist Church of Boston
The Pastoral Counseling Center of Trinity Church
Congregacion Leon de Juda
Multicultural Youth Tour Of What's Now, Inc.

Boston
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
Children's Law Center of Massachusetts, Inc.

Customized Technical Assistance Grantees:

Dorchester
Boston Learning Center, Inc.
Boston Project Ministries
Dorchester Nazarene Compassionate Center
Bruce Wall Ministries
Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Church
Tieng Xanh-Voice, Inc.
Urban Outreach, Inc.
Brookview House, Inc.

Roxbury
Holy Temple Church (Higher Ground Comm. Services)
Islamic Multi-Service Center
Roxbury Presbyterian. Social Impact Center
Saint James Educational Center
Children Services of Roxbury (YPP)
Boston Urban Youth Foundation

Jamaica Plain
Boston Ten Point Coalition

South End
Congregacion Leon de Juda
Emmanuel Gospel Center
Inquilinos-Boricuas En Accion (IBA)
Peoples Baptist Church

Mattapan
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church in Mattapan

Boston
City Mission Society
Parents Alliance For Catholic Education
Boston Center for Youth and Families