Grant Partners
Lowell Transitional Living Center
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
$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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
The Gray House
Funding to improve security measures that includes additional surveillance equipment to ensure the organization can safely provide food and other services to the community.
Seven Hill/Children's Friend, Inc.
Funding to broaden capacity to provide a continuum of treatment for inpatient children and youth clients by training additional clinicians across its treatment teams.
Urban Farming Institute of Boston
Funding for new computer equipment to expand organizational capacity and infrastructure.
Mass Farmers Market
Funding to increase statewide outreach, with a priority focus on Gateway cities. Mass Farmers Market will develop and distribute multi-lingual guides in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Haitian Creole as well as implement year-round education and outreach to improve use of SNAP nutrition incentives.
South Middlesex Opportunity Council - Greater Worcester Housing Connection
Funding to purchase two defibrillators for Greater Worcester Housing Connection homeless shelters.
Mandela Yoga Project
Funding to produce Spanish and English recovery-based reentry yoga videos specifically to reach men in Lawrence. The Mandela Yoga Project will adapt and record its signature integrative health program to address the unique and specific needs of Black and Latino men who are at risk of fatal overdose upon release from incarceration.