(a Charitable Foundation)

Our Organizational Purpose

The Greater Boston Council on Alcoholism provides financial support in the form of grants to non-profit organizations. Its goals are to support professionals in the continuing education and research to support creative and innovative programs for children, adults and families to diminish the affects of substance abuse and addiction. The board meets on a regular basis to review grant requests.

Elizabeth Whitney Post, the founder of the Boston Committee for education on alcoholism in 1945, established what was then the first community health organization in the field of alcoholism in the country and took an active role in educating the public to the fact that alcoholism was a treatable disease. This organization under her leadership evolved into the GBCA in 1985. She continued to facilitate its expanding role in the Boston committee. After several years of retirement Mrs. Post died in her 91st year in 1997.

It's crucial that we have programs that effectively address addiction in either preventing its development or minimizing its destructive effects. We have not had great success thus far in stemming the tide of adolescent and young adults use, losing children to the effects of out of control and lethal use. Theirs is a growing concern as well with abuse and addiction in older people, often retired, with an affluent lifestyle that sustains overuse of alcohol.

Administering financial support in the form of grants to impact and hopefully stem the tide of addictions is the primary focus of our organization.