English For New Bostonians provides funding, training and technical assistance to organizations that serve diverse limited English speakers across the City of Boston. The organizations are located in Roslindale, Chinatown, South End, Roxbury, East Boston, Allston-Brighton, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and Hyde Park.
We currently support three types of programs across multiple levels of English instruction:

    • ESOL Pathways

    • ESOL For Parents and Caregivers

    • English for Immigrant Entrepreneurs

 ENB welcomes collaborations among programs, especially those that provide innovative, intensive, or comprehensive services for students.  For information about our grants and the grantmaking process, please contact programs@englishfornewbostonians.org

The following is a list of our Grantees by program.
 

Organizations offering ESOL Pathways:
Asian American Civic Association (AACA), Chinatown
AACA Career Advancement for Professionals (CAP) is an advanced ESOL program that includes English instruction with job search readiness and job search activities designed to meet the educational and employment needs of immigrants with college degrees and professional backgrounds from their
native countries so that they can reclaim their careers. 

 

Brazilian Worker Center, Allston

ENB supports one offers one evening class, as part of BWC’s services empowering immigrants
with knowledge and skills to promote economic, social, political and racial justice for all.

East Boston Community Council (EBCC), East Boston
EBCC offers two classes, low and high intermediate. The ESOL classes are combined with on-site
babysitting for pre-school aged children, parent education, community resources, social services
and individual counseling.

Educational Development Group (EDG), Roxbury/South End
EDG offers three levels of intensive English Innovations™, in EDG’s Accelerated English program designed to address learners’ goal of faster English acquisition. EDG offers access to computers, as well as GED, literacy and citizenship classes for diverse immigrant subpopulations.

Gardner Pilot Academy (ESOL) Adult Education Program, Allston-Brighton
ENB funds support five of the eight evening ESOL classes offered at GPA, from survival literacy to English for entrepreneurs, for parents of Gardner Elementary School students and other Allston-Brighton residents. The program builds skills for independence and life-long learning, honoring experiences that each student brings to the program.

Gilbert Albert Community Center (GACC), Dorchester
GACC offers six morning classes, targeted to newly arrived Haitian immigrants. Classes range from survival literacy through intermediate.

Haitian Multi-Service Center/Catholic Charities (HMSC), DorchesterThe HMSC offers a survival literacy afternoon class, a high-intermediate evening ESOL next steps class, and ESOL for Human Services skills training, serving primarily Haitians living in the Dorchester-Mattapan-Hyde Park area. ENB support enhances the quality of instruction and support for this underserved population.

 

​Immigrant Family Services Institute (IFSI), Mattapan

IFSI's ESOL program has grown leaps and bounds since its inception in 2019 to serve over 2000 students. Classes offer a range of levels serving newly arrived immigrants.

 

International Institute of New England, Boston
IINE-Boston offers five levels of ESOL instruction to prepare non-native English speakers to
navigate their communities, maximize opportunities, and advocate for themselves and their
families. ENB funds enable IINE to reach more beginning-level English learners to advance their
language, digital literacy, and job readiness skills.  

 

Jackson-Mann Community Center, Allston
ENB supports one advanced-level ESOL class at JMCC, which offers seven levels of ESOL classes,
two levels of HiSET Prep classes, weekly ESOL Conversation Groups, and seasonal Tech Goes
Home sessions. All programming is in the evenings.

Jamaica Plain Community Centers (JPCC) Adult Learning Program, Jamaica Plain
JPCC offers adult learners morning and evening beginning ESOL classes at the community center.

Jewish Vocational Service (JVS), Hyde Park
ENB supports one beginning level ESOL class and one survival literacy class at JVS Hyde Park, serving primarily Haitian immigrants and refugees who hail from Hyde Park and Mattapan.

Maverick Landing Community Services (MLCS),  East Boston
MLCS offers three levels of English classes using English Innovations™, which integrates ESOL best practices with technology, job readiness and placement.

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH), East Boston
NOAH offers four classes/three levels of evening ESOL, as part of organizing and leadership development efforts in East Boston.

 

Somali Development Center, Roxbury
The SDC offers beginner and intermediate-level morning ESOL classes to newcomer adult students at the Madison Park Dewitt Center. The SDC, a comprehensive post-resettlement social service agency, teaches refugees and immigrants the English language and skills needed for everyday life, career readiness and civic engagement.

St. Mark Community Education Program, Dorchester
SMCEP offers both ESOL and Citizenship preparation, through five evening classes, beginner
through intermediate, as well as computer instruction.

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Vietnamese America Civic Association, Dorchester
VACA offers a morning ESOL class on Wednesdays and Saturdays as part of their mission to uplift
Vietnamese individuals and families, promoting their self-sufficiency and well-being.

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YMCA of Greater Boston, International Learning Center (ILC), Boston
The ILC offers afternoon and evening high intermediate ESOL Bridge to Opportunity classes.
The 7.5-hour/week classes helps advanced ESOL learners strengthen English skills to meet
employment and/or education goals. An Academic Coach/Career Counselor meets one on one
with Bridge students to create and update an action plan based on students’ self-assessment,
career exploration and plan for next steps.

Organizations offering ESOL for Parents and Caregivers:
Action for Boston Community Development, Southside HeadStart Adult ESOL Program 
(ABCD), Roslindale
ABCD Southside offers two morning classes for parents of Head Start children and children at a neighboring elementary school.

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC), Chinatown
BCNC offers one intermediate ESOL for Parents and Caregivers morning class serving Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking immigrant parents of children at the Josiah Quincy Elementary school and other Boston Public Schools.

Boston Public Schools Department of Adult Education/Newcomer Assessment
Center, Roxbury
BPS Adult Education offers one low-level class for parents in Dorchester, Roxbury, and around
Boston at the Newcomers Assessment and Counseling Center in Madison Park High School.

East Boston Harborside Community School (EBHCS), East Boston
EBHCS offers two afternoon classes, low and high beginner, for parents of children at the Umana, Otis,
and other schools in East Boston.

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Julie's Family Learning Program (JFLP), Dorchester
JFLP offers two classes for families at the Boston International Newcomers Academy (BINCA), a Boston Public School in Dorchester that embraces new immigrant adolescent English language learners and their families.

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Winship Elementary School, Brighton

ENB supports two levels (beginner and intermediate) of ESOL classes, with childcare provided, for parents of students at the Winship Elementary School as well as neighboring Edison and Baldwin schools.

Organizations offering English for Immigrant Entrepreneurs:
Gardner Pilot Academy (GPA) Adult Education Program, Allston-Brighton
The GPA offers a spring evening class for owners of a variety of small businesses including cleaning companies, construction, painting, moving, and translation services.

YMCA of Greater Boston, International Learning Center (ILC), Boston
ILC offers two evening classes per year for small business owners citywide.