Emergency Response
Barr has awarded overÂ
$19.7 million in COVID-19 grants as of April 2021.
COVID-19
The reality that some communities suffered far more than others guided Barr’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Covid-19 laid bare the inequities in our modern world. Everyone has been impacted by the virus and its implications. The reality that some communities suffered far more than others guided Barr’s response to the pandemic.
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Our first grantmaking in response to COVID-19 focused on urgent needs in communities in Massachusetts, especially immigrant and Black communities that were disproportionately impacted. We invested in organizations closest to those communities and most in touch with their needs.Â
Since April 2020, our emergency-response grantmaking has included:
- $2.6 million in grants to community foundations and pooled funds that had been established in response to the pandemic.
- $2 million to immigrant-serving organizations.
- $1.36 million to organizations serving Black communities.
- $2.675 million in augmented and extended support to 31 organizations principally focused on supporting immigrant and Black communities in response to the pandemic.
- Over $2 million for vaccine equity efforts.
In addition to emergency grantmaking conducted in response to the pandemic, Barr remained committed to our existing partners within the core programs of Arts & Creativity, Climate, and Education.Â
The bulk of our resources continue to focus on the needs of those partners–extending the flexibility and supports we committed to provide, even as the Foundation shifted to all-remote operations in March 2020.
African Community Economic Development Organization of New England
To provide general operating support (EXIT GRANT)
Award Date
08/02/2016
Amount
$250,000.00
Program(s)
- Education
Boston Medical Center Corporation
To support evaluation and capacity building for Vital Village Network?Ă„Ă´s Certificate for Leadership and Advocacy with Urban College of Boston
Award Date
05/29/2019
Amount
$115,000.00
Program(s)
- Sector Effectiveness
Strategies
- Leadership
American Farmland Trust
To inform the advancement of smart solar siting policies and programs in New England states
Award Date
02/28/2019
Amount
$100,000.00
Program(s)
- Climate
Strategies
- Clean Energy
The Nature Conservancy
To support sustainable and equitable climate change funding
Award Date
03/31/2021
Amount
$110,000.00
Program(s)
- Climate
Strategies
- Climate Resilience
Massachusetts Housing Partnership Fund Board
To support implementation of new zoning in MBTA communities
Award Date
06/15/2022
Amount
$1,000,000.00
Program(s)
- Climate
Strategies
- Mobility
Brookings Institution
To address environmental sustainability and access to economic opportunity
Award Date
08/02/2016
Amount
$50,000.00
Program(s)
- Climate
Strategies
- Mobility
The Friends of the East Boston Greenway, Inc.
to support The Friends of the East Boston Greenway
Award Date
07/01/2019
Amount
$200,000.00
Program(s)
- Special Initiatives
Strategies
- Waterfront Initiative
Maine Department of Education
To support essential COVID-19 student and school health and safety efforts in Maine public schools
Award Date
11/30/2020
Amount
$50,000.00
Program(s)
- Education
Strategies
- Catalyze New Models
Springpoint
To support Springpoint in the implementation of one cohort of a Teacher to Leader Fellowship
Award Date
12/08/2021
Amount
$2,800,000.00
Program(s)
- Education
Strategies
- Invest in Educators
Commonwealth Seminar
To provide core support to Commonwealth Seminar and to build the Seminar's fundraising capacity
Award Date
03/01/2017
Amount
$100,000.00
Program(s)
- Sector Effectiveness
Strategies
- Leadership
Greater Boston Immigrant Defense Fund
to support the Greater Boston Immigrant Defense Fund
Award Date
05/30/2018
Amount
$200,000.00
Program(s)
- Special Initiatives
Strategies
- Civil Rights & Healthy Democracy
Milford Public Schools
To plan for a reimagined high school experience as part of the Meeting the Moment cohort
Award Date
06/13/2023
Amount
$100,000.00
Term
12 mo.
Program(s)
- Education
Strategies
- Catalyze New Models