Grant Partners

Everyday Boston

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Suffolk County
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to explore possibilities of making Everyday Boston’s Curiosity and Connections Workshop into a tool to address medical mistrust and enhance health equity in healthcare settings. This will include funding for development and creation of a planning committee and facilitator to lead the process. 

Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center, Inc.

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Worcester County
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to overhaul the website to make it ADA and mobile compliant to help increase access to services.

The Tomato Fairy

Year: 2024
Amount:$3,800
Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester Counties
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to purchase equipment to print and distribute materials to increase organization’s efficiency and efforts to address food insecurity.

YWCA Southeastern Massachusetts

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Bristol County
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to launch the Menstrual Access Advocacy Project, which promotes menstrual equity by increasing access to menstrual hygiene products, breaking down barriers for menstruating people, and raising awareness about ‘Period Poverty’ within the community. 

Jeff's Place

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester Counties
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to build the organization’s fundraising capacity to support the long-term growth of the organization to support hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families, and individuals. 

Waltham Partnership for Youth

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Middlesex County
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for training manuals and supplies adapt and implement teen Mental Health First Aid at Waltham’s alternative high school, increasing mental health capacity resources at the school.

Digger Foods

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Bristol, Plymouth Counties
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to build a new ordering platform that will allow customers to have more options about what fruits and vegetables will be in each delivery, and to decrease food waste.

Asian American Civic Association

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Statewide
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for technology upgrades to improve interpretation services to better meet the needs of clients who speak an array of languages and to improve the quality of service. 

Warrior Within Yoga Project

Year: 2023
Amount:$6,154
Barnstable, Middlesex, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to expand geographical reach and to purchase yoga equipment for free programs that serve veterans, service members and their families to improve their overall health and well-being. 

Ginny’s Helping Hand, Inc.

Year: 2023
Amount:$7,500
Worcester
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to purchase software to help streamline processes and provide data collection at the food pantry and includes a multilingual client portal.

Berkshire Bounty

Year: 2023
Amount:$7,500
Berkshire County
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for a Constituent Resource Management (CRM) system that will increase the organization’s capacity to address food insecurity in Western MA. The CRM will allow them to expand their outreach and better engage and manage volunteers and donors.

Grow Food Northampton

Year: 2023
Amount:$7,500
Hampshire
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to conduct a racial justice audit of internal policies and practices, and programming. The assessment will include a set of recommendations for changes and improvements. The organization will then implement five practices and/or policies that reflect the organization’s commitment to being more anti-racist.  

Marie Droste Counseling Services, Inc.

Year: 2023
Amount:$7,500
Norfolk
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for new technology equipment that will be used in expanded office space to serve the growing need of mental health services for youth 5-18 years old.  

Hope Floats Healing and Wellness Center, Inc.

Year: 2023
Amount:$7,500
Barnstable, Bristol, Norfolk, and Plymouth
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to build the organization’s capacity to expand the reach of their programs in partnership with school districts primarily south of Boston.

South Shore Support Services Inc.

Year: 2023
Amount:$6,860
Plymouth and Suffolk
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to purchase equipment that will enhance participant’s experience at virtual trainings, resulting in better understanding of the needs of clients as well as increasing the capacity and skill of staff.