Grant Partners

The Salem Pantry's (TSP) mission is to work collaboratively to empower Salem’s diverse local and regional communities by ensuring the essential right to convenient and reliable access to healthy food. Funding will help sustain and strengthen TSP's ability to deliver food equitably and efficiently across all programs. It will support staffing, transportation, food procurement, logistics, community engagement, and facilities, ensuring the organization remains responsive, adaptable, and centered on the voices and needs of the communities it serves.

Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, Inc. received a general operating grant to continue its mission of advancing mental health and well-being by promoting prevention, early intervention, effective treatment, and research to address social, emotional, and mental health challenges. It also works to eliminate stigma and discrimination and ensure full social, economic, and political inclusion in all aspects of community life. 

The mission of the Brazilian Women's Group (BWG) is to promote the empowerment of Brazilian women and the Brazilian community in the Boston area. BWG will offer a wide range of virtual and in-person services that address social determinants of health, including vaccination clinics, MassHealth enrollment, Instagram Live information sessions, support with medical appointments, and mental health resources.

Ecu-Health Care is a local non-profit organization whose mission is to help the uninsured and underinsured residents in Northern Berkshire County access affordable health care. Ecu-Health Care will address access to health and health care for immigrant communities by providing extensive outreach and education, with a focus on upcoming changes to MassHealth and the Massachusetts Health Connector.

True Alliance Center Inc.'s (TAC) mission is to advocate for just and fair policies related to immigration, education, housing, health, and economic development. TAC will continue to integrate wellness clinics with food security and health care navigation. It will host weekly wellness clinics in Mattapan in partnership with the Mass General Hospital Mobile Health Van and provide one-on-one health insurance enrollment assistance at each clinic, ensuring that attendees can complete new enrollments or renewals on-site.

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) received a general operating grant to convene, serve, and organize, together with its members, community leaders, and allies for the advancement of all immigrants across the Commonwealth. The MIRA Coalition places immigrant and refugee voices at the forefront to advocate for the well-being of their constituent communities.

Metrowest Worker Center – Casa is an immigrant worker-led organization based in the Metrowest area of Greater Boston, which organizes to defend and expand the labor, civil, and human rights of all workers. Metrowest Worker Center – Casa will provide culturally appropriate food to families, reducing hunger and improving health and well-being. This assistance will reach families who face barriers to traditional food bank programs, ensuring that the most vulnerable have reliable access to nutritious meals.

Health Imperatives' mission is to improve the health and well-being of low-income or vulnerable families and individuals in Southeastern Massachusetts. This grant will expand Health Imperatives’ Partnering for Progress work with immigrant families - assessing their needs, connecting them with resources, providing care, and supporting their integration into their new community.

Project Bread connects people and communities in Massachusetts to reliable sources of food while advocating for policies that make food more accessible—so that no one goes hungry. Project Bread will advocate for state policies and procedures that mitigate the negative impacts on families resulting from federal-level changes. Grant funds will support changing the narrative on hunger, broadening and deepening coalition membership, and developing a member engagement platform.

Massachusetts Law Reform Institute received a general operating grant to continue to provide statewide advocacy and leadership in advancing laws, policies, and practices that secure economic, racial, and social justice for low-income people and communities.

Neighbor to Neighbor builds community well-being by connecting people across race, class, and origin to improve the conditions that shape the quality of life. Its mission is to make democracy work for their communities, instead of just the wealthy few. Neighbor to Neighbor will expand its community-based healing and emotional wellness work across its four-chapter cities in Worcester, Lynn, Springfield, and Holyoke. These funds will strengthen practices that promote behavioral health, emotional support, and collective healing among immigrant communities.

The Boston Center for Independent Living received a general operating grant to continue its mission as a frontline civil rights organization led by people with disabilities that advocates for eliminating discrimination, isolation, and segregation by providing advocacy, information and referral, peer support, skills training, personal care attendant services, and transitional services to enhance the independence of people with disabilities. 

Agencia ALPHA, an immigrant-led, grassroots organization in Boston, plans to add Certified Application Counselors to its team and expand its member outreach around MassHealth redeterminations and enrollment in health coverage.

Insurance Resource Center for Autism and Behavioral Health, a program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester,  will expand their Certified Application Counselor capacity to meet the needs of the families and communities they serve with a special emphasis on adding services in Vietnamese.

Ecu-Health Care, a nonprofit based in North Adams, will provide extensive outreach, education and application enrollment assistance to uninsured and underinsured individuals across Northern Berkshire County.