Grant Partners

Resilient Sisterhood Project, Inc.

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,500
Middlesex, Suffolk
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding requested for laptops, software, and IT support to improve cyber security and virtual work to increase the capacity of the organization.

Greater Boston Veteran’s Collaborative

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,000
Statewide
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to provide resources to service members, veterans and their families to assist in purchasing food and groceries.

Gratis Healthcare

Year: 2022
Amount:$3,000
Franklin
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for technology needs to facilitate applications for MassHealth and ongoing contact with patients seeking mental health services.

The Home for Little Wanderers

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,500
Bristol, Dukes
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to purchase modular furniture to promote community meal services to help their young clients enhance their social and developmental skills during mealtimes.

Hilltown Youth Recovery Theatre

Year: 2022
Amount:$6,799
Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to expand the organization’s digital presence to generate creative and economic opportunities for youth, including new ways to connect young people to one another by sharing their stories and art. This will also include a web-based charity subscription platform that supports both the members of the Recovery Theatre community, as well as the Theatre itself.

Wayside Youth and Family Support Network, Inc.

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,500
Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Worcester
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to purchase new software that can help manage client data and improve system analytics with the purpose of helping improve capacity and the provision of services.

Lowell Transitional Living Center

Year: 2022
Amount:$6,500
MetroWest
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for technology to enable clients to join telehealth appointments, explore healthcare options, conduct job searches, and participate in continuing education and skills training.

De Novo

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,500
Cambridge
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

$7500

Funding to support the expansion of teletherapy services through the purchase of new equipment – including laptops and teleworking software for the counseling program.

Roots

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,500
Essex
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to purchase a food labeling system and equipment that increase efficiency, and helps provide clients with more information about ingredients, allergens, and safe food handling.

Love Your Menses, Inc.

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,000
Boston
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for software engineer to design and code additional features focused on health education for its educational menstrual wellness app, Our Flow. 

Trinity Boston Connects

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,500
Suffolk
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for marketing and communications efforts to increase the counseling center’s visibility to youth workers that are facing hardships and streamline new client registration projects that can allow them to have access to mental health services.

Nigerian American Multi-Service Association

Year: 2022
Amount:$5,000
Suffolk
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to launch the Chop and Connect program – a weekly meal and event for the elderly African immigrant community in Boston to reduce the impact of social isolation.

West Suburban YMCA

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,500
Middlesex, Norfolk
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to support and train staff to address mental and emotional health and the wellbeing of children in the WSYMCA’s programs. The funding will also support a toolkit of resources for staff.

The Mustard Seed

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,500
Worcester
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for a new “Food Security for the City of Worcester” website. The website will centralize city food resources – including information about food pantries, farmers markets, summer school meal locations, SNAP information, and more.

Girls Inc. of the Valley

Year: 2022
Amount:$7,500
Hampden
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to launch an inclusive strategic planning process that will result in  a comprehensive plan to direct the  growth and strengthen the impact of the organization.