Grant Partners

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.

Community Nurse Home Care

Year: 2021
Amount:$4,200
Fairhaven
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for training sessions to support home hospice nurses manage pandemic-related stress, which has resulted in compassion fatigue and burn out. The session will help nurses continue to be strong caregivers.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just Roots, Inc.

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Greenfield
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to hire a consultant to help transform its work culture and service delivery model with an enhanced focus on racial equity, inclusion, and cultural competency to better serve its clients.

DeeDee's Cry Suicide Prevention and Family Support

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Roxbury
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to support a 24-week health and wellness initiative for people with low-income. The initiative includes group sessions, nutrition, exercise, and relationship building to address depression, stress, isolation, anxiety, and suicidal ideation in communities of color.

Respond, Inc.

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Somerville
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to hire a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging consultant to audit its staff training model, using a racial and gender equity lens, to ensure that staff deliver inclusive, equitable services to victims of domestic violence.

Ellie Fund

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Needham
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to translate outreach materials into languages other than English for women at risk of inequities in access to cancer care, including: women of color, women with language and cultural barriers, older women living alone, and women hesitant to seek help due to immigration status.

Shattuck Partners, Inc.

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Jamaica Plain
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to update its seven-year-old strategic plan to better serve the complex medical and socioeconomic needs of its clients in a changing public health landscape.

The Open Door / Cape Ann Food Pantry, Inc.

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Gloucester
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for an online food delivery system and fulfillment center that will enhance capacity to meet increased need due to the pandemic. This effort will connect more people to healthy foods of their choosing through safe, socially distanced curbside pick-up or home delivery.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Africano Cultural Services

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Waltham
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for a consultant to create a program for 30 youth to discuss mental health issues and to reduce mental health stigma in the community.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

St. Anthony Shrine

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Boston
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for an electric examination table for the health clinic, which serves women experiencing homelessness.

Breathing Space, Inc.

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Easthampton
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to train trauma-informed yoga instructors to become more specialized in serving specific populations including veterans who are incarcerated or in recovery and youth who are in detention or in recovery.

Louis D. Brown Peace Institute

Year: 2021
Amount:$5,000
Dorchester
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for kits to connect individuals released from incarceration with the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute’s healing reentry programs. The kits will contain program information, COVID-19 protective equipment, food gift cards, and clothing vouchers.

This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.