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6080 hours have been dedicated this fiscal year to pro bono representation

Community Grant Recipients
(formerly known as Insight/Foresight Grant)


A total of $60,640 in Community Grants (formerly know as Insight/Foresight Grants) has been awarded by the Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation to date.  The awards have been given to the following organizations:

 

 

ACT Roxbury Consortium


Boston


For the purchase of software and a printer to create and edit the Roxbury Literary Annual - Youth Edition 2003.

 

 

Anthony Perkins Adult Learning Program


Boston


To purchase toys to entertain children in child care at the Perkins Community Center during the time the child's parent or guardian is in class.

 

 

Beethoven Elementary School


Boston


To support the purchase of classroom books.

 

 

BELL Foundation


New York


To be used for all costs incurred in connection with painting a mural for PS 36, a K-2 inner-city school.

 

 

Bird Street Community Center


Boston


To support the transportation of limited income middle school and high school students to college prepartory classes at Bird Street Community Center.

 

 

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center


Boston


To support the English as a Second Language curriculum that is part of the Oak Street Youth Center program offered at the Chinatown Neighborhood Center.

 

 

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center/Oak Street Youth Center


Boston


To suppor the English as a Second Language curriculum that is part of the Oak Street Youth Center program offered at the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center.

 

 

Breakthrough Magnet School


Hartford


For use in support of school educational trip scholarship aid to needy families who have more than one child attending the school who will participate in the trip.

 

 

Breakthrough Magnet School


Hartford


For special events or functions in the community for mentors and mentees to attend together.

 

 

Brown/Fox Point Early Childhood Education Center Inc.


Providence


For the purchase of a sand/water table.

 

 

Catholic Charities/Catholic Family Services


Boston


For educational materials for a classroom of Jumpstart to Kindergarten, a school readiness program that prepares children to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

 

 

Charles Sumner School


Boston


To support the Project Praise anti-bullying program.

 

 

Community Preparatory School


Providence


To support production of an "All School Show".

 

 

Community Preparatory School


Providence


To support the purchase of new fifth grade books on science, health and fitness.

 

 

Crittenton Hastings House


Boston


To contribute to the purchase of child assessment, development and training program support.

 

 

D.C. Haley Elementary School


Boston


To fund a summer reading program.

 

 

Equistrides Therapeutic Riding Center, Inc.


Hartford


For therapeutic horseback riding lessons for special needs students in the Hartford Public Schools and to purchase a digital camera to photograph riders entering the program.

 

 

Excel Academy Charter School


Boston


To support the purchase of a year-long, school-wide subscription access to Discovery Education, which provides streaming video programs on Science and Education.

 

 

First Book


Hartford


For the purchase of books for Hartford school children.

 

 

Friends of the Allston Library, Inc.


Boston


For the purchase of English as a Second Language learning materials.

 

 

Friends of the Children


Boston


To support the work of after-school weekend mentors through the purchase of educational materials for student use including globes, academic games and art supplies.

 

 

George Westinghouse High School


New York


To support the expansion of the school library through the purchase of popular books.

 

 

Girls for Gender Equity, Inc.


New York


To support the purchase of four infant simualtors to be used in the after school middle school program.

 

 

HartBeat Ensemble


Hartford


To pay three actor/educators for three one-hour workshops on conflict resolution.

 

 

HartBeat Ensemble


Hartford


To enable the HartBeat Ensemble to provide four scholarships to low-income Hartford students for their attendance at the February 2006 theatre education workshop.

 

 

HartBeat Ensemble


Hartford


To support a purchase of microphones for an after-school program in six high schools which brings urban and suburban students together for a month-long theatre production program.

 

 

Hartford Education Foundation


Hartford


For the cost of The JASON Project for use in the new Pathway to Technology Program at the Hartford Magnet High School.

 

 

Hartford Jazz Society


Hartford


To enable the Society to provide outreach services to enable Hartford Public School students to attend, free of charge, a two-hour music education program.

 

 

Head Start Providence


Providence


For the cost of the replacement of learning materials destroyed by vandalism.

 

 

High School of Computers and Technology


New York


To support student's refurbishing computers which will be donated for use by community groups or senior citizens.

 

 

Horace Mann School for the Deaf


Boston


To support the use of a color laser printer for educational use in the classroom.

 

 

I.S. 143-Eleanor Roosevelt Junior High School


New York


To be used to support the creation by junior high students for a film about immigration in Washington Heights.

 

 

I.S. 166 George Gershwin School


New York


To purchase an interactive Smartboard for use in the special education classroom.

 

 

I.S. 61 Leonardo DaVinci


New York


To support an educational trip by students studying immigration to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in New York City.

 

 

Imagine Hope Lamond Public Charter School


Washington


To purchase and implement Handwriting without Tears curriculum in three preschool classes.

 

 

James Michael Curley School


Boston


For the costs of producing ceramic tiles painted by the students and to be installed at the entrance to the school.

 

 

John Marshall Elementary School


Boston


To support two educational field trips for first grade students.

 

 

John Winthrop School


Boston


To purchase learning age appropriate reading books for third and fourth grade special education students.

 

 

John Winthrop School


Boston


To support the purchase of high interest reading materials for third and fourth grade special education students.

 

 

Lee Academy Pilot School


Boston


To pay stipends for guest speakers on topics such as "Being a Nuturing Father", "How to talk to your child about difficult things, e.g. community violence, loss and divorce, money management", and to pay for childcare during these sessions.

 

 

Love Heals


New York


To support the translation of an educational booklet, "Talking With Your Daughters About Sex and HIV Prevention" into Spanish for use.

 

 

Midtown West P.S. 212


New York


To support the purchase of supplementary library materials regarding Central Park in conjunction with a two-year focus on 2nd and 3rd grade classes on studying and visiting the park.

 

 

Mozart Elementary School


Boston


To enable Mozart Elementary School to purchase science videos and to supplement the science program and for funding the associated home reading program.

 

 

Muscular Dystrophy Association


Boston


To enable the Muscular Dystrophy Association to send three children to the MDA Summer Camp and to purchase life preservers for the waterfront.

 

 

Nativity Preparatory School


Boston


For the costs associated with the building of a portable stage in support of the theatre arts program of the School.

 

 

Neighborhood House Charter School


Boston


For the cost of production of poetry books.

 

 

New Community for Children


Washington


To support the creation of an intergenerational community art garden.

 

 

Nickerson Community Center


Providence


To support the purchase of essential camera equipment needed for the day care program National Association for the Education of Young Children certification.

 

 

Noah Webster Elementary School


Hartford


For the development of a Micro Society Program at the school.

 

 

Old North Foundation


Boston


To support educational field trip to the historic Old North Church.

 

 

Operation P.E.A.C.E.


Boston


To support the renovation of an after-school classroom used by children in subsidized housing.

 

 

P.S. 168


New York


To support the purchase of multi-sensory learning materials (Preventing Academic Failure) for K-2 South Bronx students.

 

 

Paul Public Charter School


Washington


To support a reading intervention program for special needs students.

 

 

Perkins Community Center


Boston


To support the adult learning program by providing funds to purchase toys to entertain by children in child care at the Perkins Community Center during the the time the child's parent or guardian is in class.

 

 

Perry School Community Services Center, Inc.


Washington


To support the program Home Instruction to Parents of Pre-School Youngsters ("HIPPY").

 

 

PS 213 New Lots Elementary School


New York


To support the purchase of supplementary technology equipment to enhance educational use of the school's Smart Board.

 

 

Rhode Island Foster Parents Association


Providence


To support the costs of a training on advocacy for youth in state care that are members of OSSUM.

 

 

Roxbury Preparatory Charter School


Boston


To support the purchase of books to expand the Drop Everything and Read, Read Aloud Program.

 

 

Roxbury Preparatory Charter School


Boston


For the purchase of books to complete its Literacy Center Collection.

 

 

Roxbury Youth Initiative


Boston


For supplies for collaborations through the summer; for a field trip to the Museum of African American History and for supplies for an education forum.

 

 

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay


Boston


To support the hiring of an additional Program Assistant for the 2007 Youth Environmental Education Programs.

 

 

School for Arts in Learning


Washington


To be used to enable SAIL to build a resource library for students by purchasing content area books (science and social studies) from Harcourt publishers.

 

 

School for Young Children on Asylum Hill


Hartford


To enable the school to purchase necessary sensory integration equipment for children with special needs (mentally and physically).

 

 

Sophia Academy


Providence


For support of sustaining a girl's start-up basketball team.

 

 

The Children's Health Fund


New York


For the purchase of a Young Explorer's computer system.

 

 

The Children's Room Center for Grieving Children and Teenagers, Inc.


Boston


To make a one-time purchase of art supplies which will enable The Children's Room to increase and improve the educational services it provides to children in Boston, in particular.

 

 

The Massachusetts Future Problem Solving Program


Boston


For costs associated with the hosting and programming of The Massachusetts Future Problem Solving Program Web Application.

 

 

The McMichael School


Providence


For the purchase of cassette players and copies of the Children's Literature Listening Library.

 

 

The School of the Future


New York


To support the purchase of a microphone and four computers as part of a differentiated English curriculum for 11th and 12th grade students.

 

 

The William Monroe Trotter Elementary School


Boston


For the purchase of a high speed scanner for KURZWEIL text-to-speech equipment.

 

 

Trinity Repertory Company


Providence


To enable Trinity Repertory Company to allow students enrolled in the Hope Arts English class to attend the production of Our Town at Trinity Repertory and participate in pre-and-post performance workshops led by members of Trinity Repertory's resident acting company.

 

 

Urban Institute of Mathematics


New York


To support the painting of old classrooms in the middle school area.

 

 

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art


Hartford


To enable the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art to fund the 2006 Free Bus and Admisson Program.

 

 

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art


Hartford


For the cost of training sessions for docents in program on African Art.

 

 

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art


Hartford


For the cost of training sessions by outside experts in the docent training program.

 

 

Watkinson School


Hartford


To enable the Watkinson School to fund SPHERE (Supplementary Program for Hartford Educational and Reinforcement Enrichment), a day-long five week summer program for Hartford elementary students that operates at the Watkinson School.

 

 

William Blackstone Elementary School


Boston


To support the home literacy program in conjunction with the local library.

 

 

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