Boston Children's Foundation

Name

Boston Children's Foundation

Legal name

Boston Children's Foundation℠, Inc.

Website

https://bostoncf.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Trauma Intervention and Expressive Arts Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411), Educational Support Services (61171), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Developmental Therapy / Early Childhood Special Instruction (EDACAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Inclusion, Special Needs & Early Intervention Training (IEPs/IFSPs, Neurodiversity) (EDACAIAF), Parenting Education for Special Needs & Developmental Differences (EDACALAK), Family Advocacy, Parent Training & Support Services (EDAJAKAK)

Keywords

• Expressive arts therapy
• Trauma intervention training
• Movement-based therapy
• Childhood bereavement services
• Nonprofit clinical training

Headquarters

HQ city

East Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Training and Credentialing Fees: BCF charges registration fees for Rainbowdance Basic and Advanced credentialing trainings, Duncan workshops, identity workshops, CBI trainings, and PFA/PTSM workshops. Fees are collected via pre-registration. LMHC clinicians may earn CEUs for some trainings.
2. Dance Class Fees: Duncan Dance and Rainbowdance classes for children, toddlers, and adults are offered on a per-term basis (e.g., Summer, Fall, Spring terms) at the Dance Complex in Cambridge and South Boston office locations.
3. Donations and Charitable Contributions: As a 501(c)(3) organization, BCF receives tax-deductible charitable donations. The organization has hosted fundraising events (e.g., Valentine's Fundraiser at The Foundry, Flatbread Benefit Nights) and receives donations through its website.
4. Book Sales: BCF serves as a distribution channel for publications authored by its director Dicki Johnson Macy, PhD, including 'I Am Beautiful, ELDER' and 'Silenced by the WEIGHT of the Matriarchal Crown,' sold through the foundation and major retailers.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Boston Children's Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that delivers the proprietary Rainbowdance® intervention — a music, movement, and storytelling program for children ages 1–7 — together with traditional Isadora Duncan children's dance classes. It also provides credentialed clinical training programs (Childhood Bereavement Intervention and Psychological First Aid/PTSM), identity workshops, and refresher courses for licensed clinicians, educators, and parents working with traumatized children.

Product overview

Boston Children's Foundation (BCF) is a non-profit organization committed to ending trauma that perpetuates a culture of fear, maladaptation, and violence by channeling youth's natural energy toward healing activities, social empathy, and positive relationships. The organization offers a portfolio of programs including Rainbowdance® (a music, movement, and storytelling intervention for children), The Art & Technique of Isadora Duncan (dance classes), trauma intervention programs (CBI, PFA/PTSM), Identity Workshops, and published works. BCF provides training programs for professionals including Basic and Advanced Rainbowdance Credentialing Training, Duncan Workshops, and various trauma intervention trainings. The organization also publishes books by its founder Dicki Johnson Macy, including 'I Am Beautiful, ELDER' and 'Silenced by the WEIGHT of the Matriarchal Crown'. Programs are delivered through partnerships with key allies locally and internationally, and regular classes are held at The Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA and the BCF office in South Boston.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Rainbowdance®: A caregiver/teacher friendly intervention that encourages self esteem, self regulation, and social empathy through repetitive gesture, song, and movement for children.
• Rainbowdance® Basic Training
• Rainbowdance® Endorsed Practitioner Training
• The Art & Technique of Isadora Duncan
• Duncan Workshops
• CBI (Classroom-Community-Culture Based Intervention)
• PFA/PTSM (Psychological First Aid/Post Traumatic Stress Management)
• Guardians of Isadora
• Identity Workshops

Products and services

• Rainbowdance® Intervention Program A proprietary music, movement, and storytelling intervention for children ages 1–7 that requires active participation from a parent or caregiver. Designed as a developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed program to support young children's emotional and behavioral growth.
• Isadora Duncan Children's Dance Classes Traditional Isadora Duncan classical dance instruction for children, delivered in a structured class format. Offered at the foundation's South Boston studio and at the Cambridge Dance Complex.
• Childhood Bereavement Intervention (CBI) Training A 10-session credentialed training program delivered over 5 days, teaching clinicians the CBI model for intervening with bereaved and traumatized children. Targeted at licensed mental-health professionals seeking evidence-based post-disaster and bereavement intervention training.
• Psychological First Aid / PTSM (PFA/PTSM) Training Credentialed training in Psychological First Aid and Psychological Trauma in Service Members & their Families (PFA/PTSM). Designed for clinicians and responders supporting military families and disaster-affected populations with evidence-based psychological first aid techniques.
• Identity Workshops Workshops designed to help young people develop a healthy self-identity, integrated into the foundation's programming for children and available to partner organizations.
• Refresher Training Courses Refresher training courses for previously credentialed clinicians and teachers, offered at a 50% discount relative to initial training to support continued competence in the foundation's methodologies.
• Free Discovery Call A complimentary 60-minute introductory call for prospective participants (parents, clinicians, educators) to learn about Rainbowdance®, dance classes, and clinical training before committing to registration.
• Book: "Invisible Boys" (Robert Macy) A published book authored by founder Robert Macy addressing childhood trauma, sold to the public with proceeds supporting the foundation's nonprofit mission.

Quantifiable outcome

• 37 educators and clinicians trained in a single session (Enfield, CT, April 2019)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• International Trauma CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBCF partners with the International Trauma Center (ITC) as a collaborator in the S2S (Supporting Staff to Support Students) professional development initiative alongside the Massachusetts School Mental Health Consortium (MASMHC), the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH).
• Survive TraumaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSurvive Trauma is listed as a partner organization with mutual cross-promotion of resources and community support on BCF's website.
• Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDMH partnered with MASMHC, ITC, BCF, and NCTSN on the S2S professional development initiative offering free evidence-based trauma training sessions to schools and districts throughout the 2023-24 school year. BCF contributed its expertise in trauma-informed expressive arts interventions to this consortium.
• Word Dance Theater (Washington D.C.)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBCF partnered with Word Dance Theater (WDT), led by Executive Director Cynthia Word, to bring Isadora Duncan and Rainbowdance programming to youth in Washington D.C. WDT teaching artists are trained and supervised by BCF's Dicki Johnson Macy in the curricula for children ages 5-7 and 8-11.
• Inner City Inner Child (Washington D.C.)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBCF partnered with Inner City Inner Child (ICIC), a 25-year-old nonprofit bringing art programs to inner-city children, to implement Rainbowdance programming in Educare infant, toddler, and preschool classrooms in D.C. ICIC hired BCF-trained teaching artists to deliver the 20-week program.
• Dance Complex (Cambridge, MA)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThe Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA serves as the primary venue for BCF's ongoing Rainbowdance and Duncan Dance classes for the community. BCF holds its classes at this dance studio on a per-term basis.
• Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumminorGTM or Marketing PartnerBCF's Guardians of Isadora dance troupe performed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in August 2018, bookending a curator's talk and performing for museum visitors.
• Revels (Cambridge, MA)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerBCF participated in Revels' Spring Sing and Harvard Summer Solstice Night events, performing with the Guardians of Isadora dance troupe, building community visibility.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Zero to Three: Zero to Three is a leading national organization focused on early childhood development (0–3), paralleling BCF's age 1–5 focus on attunement, self-regulation, and developmental intervention.
• Erikson Institute: Erikson Institute is a graduate school and research center dedicated to early childhood education, with professional development programs for educators that overlap BCF's credentialing trainings for teachers and clinicians.
• National Center for PTSD (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs): The VA's National Center for PTSD is the largest U.S. organization for trauma research, education, and clinician training, comparable to BCF's trauma intervention training offerings (CBI, PFA/PTSM) at vastly greater scale.
• Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network: An NEA initiative funding creative arts therapies (including dance/movement) for military and veteran populations with trauma. It shares BCF's expressive-arts trauma intervention philosophy at much larger federal scale.
• T. Berry Brazelton Touchpoints Center: The Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Boston Children's Hospital provides training in early childhood developmental relationships, sharing BCF's Boston base and focus on caregiver/educator attunement training.

Direct peers

• International Trauma Center (ITC): ITC is a BCF strategic partner and shares Robert Macy as a co-founder. It delivers disaster-response trauma training and PFA/PTSM programs internationally, directly overlapping BCF's CBI and disaster-deployment offerings.
• Trauma Center at JRI (Justice Resource Institute): The Trauma Center at JRI is the Boston-based outpatient trauma treatment clinic co-founded by Robert Macy and Bessel van der Kolk. It is the most direct peer to BCF in trauma intervention methodology, clinician training, and the Boston institutional ecosystem.
• Kinections: Kinections is a dance/movement therapy practice and training center offering credentialed programs for clinicians and educators — directly parallel to BCF's Rainbowdance and Duncan dance training model.

Emerging players

• Center for Trauma & Resilience: Center for Trauma & Resilience (formerly Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault) delivers trauma training and intervention services comparable to BCF's community-based trauma programming.
• ChildTrauma Academy: Founded by Dr. Bruce Perry, ChildTrauma Academy offers the Neurosequential Model and trains clinicians and educators in trauma-informed care for children — directly comparable to BCF's CBI credentialing and Rainbowdance teacher training.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/bostonchildren
• Facebookfacebook.com/pages/Boston-Childrens-Foundation/319067845168
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/boston-children's-foundation

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

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