Social Innovation Forum

Julie's Family Learning Program

• 2017 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Early Childhood Education

  Women & Girls

Julie's Family Learning Program is a stabilization program for mothers and children combining critical wrap-around support services, holistic curriculum, licensed & certified infant and toddler child care, and Montessori preschool to create a supportive environment where mothers can transform themselves and their families.

LEAP for Education

• 2019 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Education & College Access

LEAP for Education empowers under-served and first-generation-to-college students to succeed in college, career, and life. LEAP serves over 500 students in year-round, out-of-school time programs with an innovative approach that focuses in four areas: enhancing academic skills, developing social-emotional maturity, expanding social connections, and college and career readiness.

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.

Literations (Previously Generations Incorporated)

• 2010 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Early Childhood Education

  Healthy Aging

Literations (Previously Generations Incorporated) strives to improve the literacy skills of young children through grade 3. The organization also provides meaningful opportunities to older adults who serve as literacy volunteers in partner schools and after school programs in low-income communities.

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.

Lowell Community Health Center Teen BLOCK

• 2022 Social Innovator

• Social Issue:

  Civic Engagement

  Youth Development

Lowell Community Health Center Teen BLOCK works to support the healthy development of young people and empowers them to become leaders in the community. By building leadership opportunities in the community and providing knowledge on health education and prevention, Teen BLOCK promotes healthy behaviors that will enhance the future prospects for our young people.

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.