The IMPACT Awards provide fans in the surrounding New England states with the opportunity to support their favorite non-profits by nominating organizations to win a grant from a Red Sox Foundation.
Each year the theme of the IMPACT Awards will change to respond to the evolving need of our communities while staying alighted to the Red Sox Foundation mission. This year (2019), the IMPACT Award will focus on organizations that have demonstrated an impact on improving health and wellness outcomes in their community. Fans can nominate their favorite nonprofit charity that satisfies this year’s theme and vote!
2019 IMPACT AWARDS NOMINATION & VOTING INFORMATION
Nomination Period: Friday, April 26 to Friday, May 24, 2019
IMPACT Award Finalist Named: Friday, June 7, 2019
Voting Period: Friday, June 7 to Sunday, July 28, 2019
To Nominate or Vote for your favorite nonprofit organization, click here
The three eligible charitable organizations in each of the five New England states surrounding Massachusetts (CT, ME, NH, RI, VT) that receive the most votes will receive an IMPACT Award. In total, fifteen organizations will share a contribution of $75,000. Please contact redsoxfoundation@redsox.com with any further questions.
July 9, 2018, Boston, MA:
Vermont Center for Independent Living receives the Vermont Day IMPACT Award before the game against the Texas Rangers in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday, July 9, 2018. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Boston Red Sox)
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2018 IMPACT Winners
VERMONT
- Vermont Center for Independent Living focuses to empower those living with all types of disabilities in VT and to tear down the physical, communication, and attitudinal barriers that keeps them from realizing their full human potential.
- 2nd Place: St. Johnsbury Academy
- 3rd Place: Brattleboro Time Trade
RHODE ISLAND
- Family Service of Rhode Island manages, through thoughtful coordination and a shared vision, programs across Rhode Island, providing essential resources for underserved individuals, families and communities.
- 2nd Place: Women’s Fund of Rhode Island
- 3rd Place: San Miguel School of Providence
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Play Among the Stars Theater Groupe serves individuals with developmental disability by enhancing social skills and knowledge of performing arts, dance and music ability to further develop skills, build self esteem, confidence and ultimately have a sense of being involved in their community.
- 2nd Place: Raymond Coalition for Youth
- 3rd Place: Liberty House
MAINE
- Camp Sunshine provides retreats combining respite, recreation and support while enabling hope and promoting joy for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families through the various stages of child’s illness or getting them through bereavement.
- 2nd Place: Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine
- 3rd Place: Greater Portland Family Promise
CONNECTICUT
- Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut delivers a variety of social service programs ranging from early childcare to elderly fuel assistance in order to help low-income families and individuals with their ever-changing needs to reduce poverty and support to stabilize and improve their lives and ultimately achieve self-sufficiency.
- 2nd Place: River House Adult Day Center
- 3rd Place: Boys and Girls Club of Stamford
