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.
 

ESOL Pathways:
Asian American Civic Association, 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 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, 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, Roxbury
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, Allston
ENB funds support four of the seven evening ESOL classes offered at GPA, from survival literacy to high intermediate, with child care, 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, Dorchester
GACC offers six morning ESOL Pathways classes, targeted to newly arrived Haitian immigrants. Classes range

from survival literacy through intermediate. include additional computer class support, and are offered at their

site in in Dorchester.

Haitian Multi-Service Center/Catholic Charities, Dorchester

Grant funds support an in-person survival literacy afternoon class, a virtual high-intermediate evening ESOL next steps class, and career development for an ESOL for Human Services job skills training class, serving primarily Haitians living in the Dorchester-Mattapan-Hyde Park area.

 

​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. ENB supports 6 classes, at 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.  

 

Jamaica Plain Community Centers (JPCC) Adult Learning Program
JPCC provides two beginning ESOL classes with their grant funds, one in-person and one taught virtually.

Jewish Vocational Service, Hyde Park
JVS offers one beginning level ESOL class, taught virtually, and one in-person survival literacy class in Hyde Park, serving primarily Haitian immigrants and refugees.

Maverick Landing Community Services, East Boston
ENB funds support two innovative blended distance learning courses integrating technology best practices,

and an intro to computers course teaching the skills students need to succeed in the distance learning.

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing
ENB supports three ESOL level 1 classes and one ESOL level 2 class, which form part of NOAH’s organizing

and leadership development efforts in East Boston.

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Saint Mark Community Education Program, Dorchester

SMCEP offers both ESOL and Citizenship preparation, through five evening classes, beginner
through intermediate, as well as computer instruction.

 

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.

Vietnamese American Civic Association, Dorchester

VACA offers a morning ESOL class on Wednesdays and Saturdays as part of their mission to

upliftVietnamese individuals and families, promoting their self-sufficiency and well-being.

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Education and Training YMCA, International Learning Center
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. 

ESOL for Parents and Caregivers:
Action for Boston Community Development, Southside HeadStart Adult ESOL Program
ABCD’s grant funds two morning classes at their center in Roslindale, from basic literacy through low

intermediate, for parents of HeadStart children and parents of children at a neighboring elementary school.

Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Chinatown
Grant funds support one intermediate ESOL for Parents and Caregivers morning class serving Cantonese - and Mandarin-speaking immigrant parents of children at the Josiah Quincy Elementary school.

Boston Public Schools Department of Adult Education/Newcomer Assessment Center
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, 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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Gilbert Albert Community Center, Dorchester

GACC offers morning and afternoon ESOL for Parents classes for parents in the surrounding

Dorchester community.

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Jackson-Mann Community Center with Winship Elementary School, Brighton

The ESOL program at the Winship Elementary School in Brighton has offered two levels of in-person classes

with child care since 2022.  Jackson-Mann became the ESOL Provider Partner in 2025.

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Jamaica Plain Community Centers with Hennigan and Curley Elementary Schools

JPCC offers new classes in FY26 onsite at the Hennigan and the Curley Elementary Schools in Jamaica Plain.

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Julie's Family Learning Program, 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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Education and Training YMCA, International Learning Center

The ILC offers two new ESOL for Parents classes in FY26, onsite at the Haynes Early Education Center and they Mattahunt Elementary School.

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English for Immigrant Entrepreneurs:

Gardner Pilot Academy
The GPA offers a spring evening class for owners of a variety of small businesses including cleaning companies, construction, painting, moving, and translation services.

Education and Training YMCA, International Learning Center

ILC offers two evening classes per year for small business owners citywide.