Social Innovation Forum

LGBT Aging Project

• 2012 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Healthy Aging

  LGBTQ

The LGBT Aging Project is dedicated to ensuring that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older adults have equal access to the life-prolonging benefits, protections, services and institutions that their heterosexual neighbors take for granted.

Louis D. Brown Peace Institute

• 2016 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Civic Engagement

  Mental Health

  Youth Development

The Louis D. Brown Peace Institute serves as a center of healing, teaching, and learning for families and communities impacted by murder, trauma, grief and loss.

Madison Park Development Corporation/ACT Roxbury

• 2003 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Civic Engagement

  Housing & Homelessness

Madison Park Development Corporation's mission is to develop and preserve quality, mixed-income housing in Roxbury, and to promote the renaissance of Dudley Square as a thriving neighborhood business district, recognized as a center of commerce and culture that anchors the economic revitalization of Roxbury.

Maritime Apprentice Program

(formerly a program of Hull Lifesaving Museum)

• 2009 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Education & College Access

  Health & Nutrition

  Youth Development

The Maritime Apprentice Program (MAP) is an intensive, multi-year program that prepares Boston’s most high-risk, Department of Youth Services (DYS)-committed youth for adult responsibilities and careers in the technical trades. Working out of its Seaport boat shop, MAP provides hands-on, skills-based training, in combination with counseling and work readiness preparation. Originally a program of the Hull LIfesaving Museum, MAP was acquired by College Bound Dorchester in 2015.

Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety & Health (MassCOSH)

• 2016 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Civic Engagement

  Financial Empowerment

MassCOSH engages youth and adults as leaders in promoting jobs that pay family sustaining wages and allow workers to return home safe and well.

Massachusetts Public Health Association

• 2015 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Environmental Sustainability

  Civic Engagement

  Health & Nutrition

Massachusetts Public Health Association (MPHA) builds local leaders, drives policy change, and engages a network of activists across the state to take action for healthy communities. MPHA seeks to eliminate health inequities and create healthy communities for all.

Massachusetts Senior Action Council

• 2011 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Civic Engagement

  Healthy Aging

Massachusetts Senior Action Council is a statewide, grassroots, senior-led organization that empowers its members to use their own voices to address key public policy and community issues that affect their health and well-being.

MathPOWER

• 2011 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Youth Development

  Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)

  Education & College Access

MathPOWER’s mission is to transform the lives of urban youth by developing proficiency in advanced mathematics and personal resiliency. MathPOWER envisions a world in which all students achieve competency in advanced mathematics, which serves as a gateway to lifelong learning and a productive career.

Medicine Wheel Productions

• 2010 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Arts

  Civic Engagement

  Youth Development

Medicine Wheel Productions engages young people and adults in constructive dialogue through public art to help them build awareness of self, community, and the human condition.

Mill City Grows

• 2014 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Environmental Sustainability

  Food Insecurity

  Gateway Cities

  Health & Nutrition

Mill City Grows fosters food justice by improving physical health, economic independence and environmental sustainability in Lowell through increased access to land, locally-grown food and education.