Thank you for joining Access Strategies Fund to celebrate our Tenth Anniversary on November 10, 2010 at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. 250 community and philanthropic leaders came out to wish us a very happy birthday! View our anniversary video and event photos
|
2010 STATEWIDE ELECTIONS
 Organizations funded by the Civic Engagement Initiative, a fund supported by Access Strategies Fund, turned out thousands to the polls on Election Day. Unlike most cities around the country, Boston saw impressive voter turn out among low-income people, communities of color, and immigrants. A major ballot initiative that would have decreased state revenues for public education and social services was soundly defeated by these communities. |
|
MASSACHUSETTS CENSUS EQUITY FUND 2010
 The 2010 Census provided a critical opportunity for Access
Strategies Fund and partner
funders to support
nonprofits to enlist their communities to participate in the census. Access created The Massachusetts Census Equity Fund which provided half of a million dollars to 30 nonprofits that increased census participation by up to10%, bringing billions of dollars into communities for the next ten years. Read about the Fund and watch a video of the Massachusetts 2010 Census Experience |
|
ACCESS TO EDUCATION PROGRAM LAUNCH
The Access Strategies Fund launched "Access to Education", a short-term one year project to empower African American parents in Boston to build and exercise their political and electoral power collectively to make changes in public education. Access Strategies Fund selected Boston Parent Organizing Network, Union of Minority Neighborhoods and The Young People's Project to receive funding and technical assistance. |
|
GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
The Merck Family Fund supports work by communities with few resources who are confronting significant social, economic, and environmental challenges. The two areas of focus for the fund are to create green and open space, and support youth as agents of social change.For more info. |
