2025 BHCF Grant Award Winners
From ABCD North Ed/West EndNeighborhood Service Center:
"The Beacon Hill Community Fund grant is enabling ABCD’s North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center to offer 10 yoga classes at the new West End Neighborhood Center at 75 Blossom Court, with approximately 20 older adults regularly participating. The welcoming, multi-level classes bring a diverse group of seniors together in the Center’s vibrant community room to build strength, balance, flexibility, and mobility while staying active and engaged. ABCD is grateful to the Beacon Hill Civic Association for supporting the health, well-being, and connection of neighborhood seniors."
From The Friday Night Supper Program:
"The Friday Night Supper Program is incredibly grateful to the Beacon Hill Community Fund for its generous
support. In 2025, a $2,000 grant helped us continue providing warm, nutritious meals and a welcoming
space for anyone who walks through our doors.
With support from the Beacon Hill Community Fund, we continued working toward our mission of providing
warm, nutritious meals and essential resources to our neighbors in need. Throughout the year, FNSP
served over 5,000 meals to individuals experiencing homelessness and food insecurity throughout Boston.
We also distributed thousands of clothing and toiletry items, including waterproof winter boots, helping our
guests stay warm and dry during the winter months.
We are so thankful to the Beacon Hill Community Fund for believing in our mission and helping make this
work possible. Their support allows us to continue showing up for our community with compassion, dignity,
and consistency."
From Rogerson Communities:
"Rogerson is grateful to our longstanding supporters at the Beacon Hill Civic Association for their contribution to improvements made on behalf of our residents at the Joy Street Residence. With assistance from the BHCA, we are updating the building’s exercise room, from replacing carpet with rubber flooring to replacing outdated workout equipment, which is currently residential-grade, with new, commercial-grade machines. As a community for people disabled by HIV/AIDS, the Joy Street Residence's ability to support tenants' health and well-being is mission-critical. Having partners like the BHCA in this effort means the difference between meeting the need and falling short. Their support tangibly improves the lives of our residents on Beacon Hill!"
From the West End Museum:
"The West End Museum's 2025 BHCF grant supported a performing arts event that combined the works of abstract impressionist Hyman Bloom, considered to be one of the last great impressionists, and contemporary composers. Bloom's work, now held at institutions including the MFA and MoMA, was heavily influenced by his early life as part of the West End (inc. North Slope) Jewish community. This event, The Body Revealed, the Spirit Unbound, focused on his celebrated cadavers. Music by Alan Hovhaness and Jean Sibelius was performed by students from the New England Conservatory of Music. Prior to the performance, Mass Eye and Ear archivist Vanessa Formato gave a short lecture contextualizing Bloom's cadaver paintings within the larger historical context of anatomical art. Guests noted the event as a stand-out in WEM's 4-year-old performing arts series."
From the Congregational Library & Archives:
"The Congregational Library & Archives joined the BHCA in 2022. As a small, independent library located directly across from the State House but somewhat hidden on the second floor of our building, we value the partnerships introduced to us through our BHCA membership. We are also grateful recipients of a Beacon Hill Community Fund grant, which currently sponsors a series of collection-based programs offered at no cost to the Beacon Hill community and the general public. A community thrives when residents, businesses and non-profits advocate for each other and together celebrate the uniqueness of its locale. Although our library has international reach, our BHCA membership helps makes our 14 Beacon Street location part of the neighborhood."
From Friends of the Public Garden:
"We’re so grateful for the support of the Beacon Hill Civic Association, which has allowed us to begin work on a Tree Management and Succession Plan for the Boston Common. This plan will assess the existing 584 trees on the Common and will guide the preservation and renewal of the tree canopy by mapping canopy health, identifying species diversity needs and outlining phased planting and maintenance strategies. We look forward to continuing to care for the park’s existing trees and utilizing the forthcoming Plan to ensure a sustained canopy for future generations."
From Community Boating:
"CBI’s mission is to provide sailing and other water-based activities to people of all ages, abilities, and means. During the summer, our Junior Program gives young people, ages 10-17, the opportunity to learn to sail, build confidence, develop independence, and become part of a welcoming community on the Charles River. Our Universal Access Program provides adaptive sailing opportunities and individualized support for people with disabilities.
The grant supported the first summer of JPxUAP, a new crossover between these two programs. A young sailor participating in JPxUAP may begin the day with a private chalk talk, receive help transferring into a boat using a Hoyer lift, sail with a sighted guide, or work one-on-one with an instructor. From there, the experience becomes much like that of any other Junior Program participant: learning, taking on challenges, spending time with peers, and becoming part of the CBI community.
That is what makes JPxUAP so important. The accommodations are individualized, but the experience is shared.
For young people who are still learning to navigate the world, sailing can become a powerful place to explore independence and possibility. Participants make progress at their own pace, build skills they may not have known they could develop, and experience the freedom that comes from moving across the water.
The grant helped us remove barriers without creating separation, allowing more young people to participate fully and see themselves as capable members of the sailing community.
We are deeply grateful for that support."
From Tunefoolery Music, Inc.:
"With the generous grant from the Beacon Hill Civic Association, Tunefoolery Music, Inc. brought two programs to the Lindemann Inn homeless shelter, which serves individuals living with mental health conditions.
One is a weekly Music and Mindfulness Session, led by two Tunefoolery musicians in mental health recovery, one of whom is a professionally trained meditation leader and the other of whom provides live music to support the meditative experience. For individuals dealing with housing insecurity and a severe mental health condition, these sessions bring a sense of peace, harmony, and well-being, as well as practical mental and spiritual tools to help them navigate their complex inner experience and disrupted outer lives more effectively, and to lead them toward more congenial conditions in their lives.
The other program Tunefoolery hosts at the shelter is a twice-monthly open mic. With a Tunefoolery musician featured, it offers shelter residents the opportunity to take the stage and share their musical gifts with their peers. Coming from lives of powerlessness and a sense of being out of control of their fates, residents can, in a safe, supportive environment, access their creative voice, confidence, and power during a tough period of their lives, a vital turning point in rebuilding their lives.
We are deeply grateful for the Beacon Hill Civic Association’s generous support, which enables our low-income Musicians for Mental Health to spread joy and hope among homeless individuals in the mental health community at Lindemann."
"The Beacon Hill Community Fund grant is enabling ABCD’s North End/West End Neighborhood Service Center to offer 10 yoga classes at the new West End Neighborhood Center at 75 Blossom Court, with approximately 20 older adults regularly participating. The welcoming, multi-level classes bring a diverse group of seniors together in the Center’s vibrant community room to build strength, balance, flexibility, and mobility while staying active and engaged. ABCD is grateful to the Beacon Hill Civic Association for supporting the health, well-being, and connection of neighborhood seniors."
From The Friday Night Supper Program:
"The Friday Night Supper Program is incredibly grateful to the Beacon Hill Community Fund for its generous
support. In 2025, a $2,000 grant helped us continue providing warm, nutritious meals and a welcoming
space for anyone who walks through our doors.
With support from the Beacon Hill Community Fund, we continued working toward our mission of providing
warm, nutritious meals and essential resources to our neighbors in need. Throughout the year, FNSP
served over 5,000 meals to individuals experiencing homelessness and food insecurity throughout Boston.
We also distributed thousands of clothing and toiletry items, including waterproof winter boots, helping our
guests stay warm and dry during the winter months.
We are so thankful to the Beacon Hill Community Fund for believing in our mission and helping make this
work possible. Their support allows us to continue showing up for our community with compassion, dignity,
and consistency."
From Rogerson Communities:
"Rogerson is grateful to our longstanding supporters at the Beacon Hill Civic Association for their contribution to improvements made on behalf of our residents at the Joy Street Residence. With assistance from the BHCA, we are updating the building’s exercise room, from replacing carpet with rubber flooring to replacing outdated workout equipment, which is currently residential-grade, with new, commercial-grade machines. As a community for people disabled by HIV/AIDS, the Joy Street Residence's ability to support tenants' health and well-being is mission-critical. Having partners like the BHCA in this effort means the difference between meeting the need and falling short. Their support tangibly improves the lives of our residents on Beacon Hill!"
From the West End Museum:
"The West End Museum's 2025 BHCF grant supported a performing arts event that combined the works of abstract impressionist Hyman Bloom, considered to be one of the last great impressionists, and contemporary composers. Bloom's work, now held at institutions including the MFA and MoMA, was heavily influenced by his early life as part of the West End (inc. North Slope) Jewish community. This event, The Body Revealed, the Spirit Unbound, focused on his celebrated cadavers. Music by Alan Hovhaness and Jean Sibelius was performed by students from the New England Conservatory of Music. Prior to the performance, Mass Eye and Ear archivist Vanessa Formato gave a short lecture contextualizing Bloom's cadaver paintings within the larger historical context of anatomical art. Guests noted the event as a stand-out in WEM's 4-year-old performing arts series."
From the Congregational Library & Archives:
"The Congregational Library & Archives joined the BHCA in 2022. As a small, independent library located directly across from the State House but somewhat hidden on the second floor of our building, we value the partnerships introduced to us through our BHCA membership. We are also grateful recipients of a Beacon Hill Community Fund grant, which currently sponsors a series of collection-based programs offered at no cost to the Beacon Hill community and the general public. A community thrives when residents, businesses and non-profits advocate for each other and together celebrate the uniqueness of its locale. Although our library has international reach, our BHCA membership helps makes our 14 Beacon Street location part of the neighborhood."
From Friends of the Public Garden:
"We’re so grateful for the support of the Beacon Hill Civic Association, which has allowed us to begin work on a Tree Management and Succession Plan for the Boston Common. This plan will assess the existing 584 trees on the Common and will guide the preservation and renewal of the tree canopy by mapping canopy health, identifying species diversity needs and outlining phased planting and maintenance strategies. We look forward to continuing to care for the park’s existing trees and utilizing the forthcoming Plan to ensure a sustained canopy for future generations."
From Community Boating:
"CBI’s mission is to provide sailing and other water-based activities to people of all ages, abilities, and means. During the summer, our Junior Program gives young people, ages 10-17, the opportunity to learn to sail, build confidence, develop independence, and become part of a welcoming community on the Charles River. Our Universal Access Program provides adaptive sailing opportunities and individualized support for people with disabilities.
The grant supported the first summer of JPxUAP, a new crossover between these two programs. A young sailor participating in JPxUAP may begin the day with a private chalk talk, receive help transferring into a boat using a Hoyer lift, sail with a sighted guide, or work one-on-one with an instructor. From there, the experience becomes much like that of any other Junior Program participant: learning, taking on challenges, spending time with peers, and becoming part of the CBI community.
That is what makes JPxUAP so important. The accommodations are individualized, but the experience is shared.
For young people who are still learning to navigate the world, sailing can become a powerful place to explore independence and possibility. Participants make progress at their own pace, build skills they may not have known they could develop, and experience the freedom that comes from moving across the water.
The grant helped us remove barriers without creating separation, allowing more young people to participate fully and see themselves as capable members of the sailing community.
We are deeply grateful for that support."
From Tunefoolery Music, Inc.:
"With the generous grant from the Beacon Hill Civic Association, Tunefoolery Music, Inc. brought two programs to the Lindemann Inn homeless shelter, which serves individuals living with mental health conditions.
One is a weekly Music and Mindfulness Session, led by two Tunefoolery musicians in mental health recovery, one of whom is a professionally trained meditation leader and the other of whom provides live music to support the meditative experience. For individuals dealing with housing insecurity and a severe mental health condition, these sessions bring a sense of peace, harmony, and well-being, as well as practical mental and spiritual tools to help them navigate their complex inner experience and disrupted outer lives more effectively, and to lead them toward more congenial conditions in their lives.
The other program Tunefoolery hosts at the shelter is a twice-monthly open mic. With a Tunefoolery musician featured, it offers shelter residents the opportunity to take the stage and share their musical gifts with their peers. Coming from lives of powerlessness and a sense of being out of control of their fates, residents can, in a safe, supportive environment, access their creative voice, confidence, and power during a tough period of their lives, a vital turning point in rebuilding their lives.
We are deeply grateful for the Beacon Hill Civic Association’s generous support, which enables our low-income Musicians for Mental Health to spread joy and hope among homeless individuals in the mental health community at Lindemann."
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