Grant Partners
Community Nurse Home Care
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
Funding for an electric examination table for the health clinic, which serves women experiencing homelessness.
Breathing Space, Inc.
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
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.
Genesis Club House, Inc.
Funding to translate the Club’s new website and outreach brochure into the four languages of the largest immigrant communities in Worcester: Spanish, Vietnamese, Akan, and French.
Addiction Referral Center
Funding to start a transportation service for 5-10 individuals in recovery to increase access to referrals to treatment centers in Worcester, Brockton, and Falmouth, using Uber and other ride services.
Community Health Programs, Inc.
Funding for iPads to ease outdoor patient registration at its mobile health unit and to provide hygiene items (including masks, sanitizer, and COVID education materials) to ensure safe access to care.
This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute, Inc.
Funding to hire a consultant to develop a dedicated Spanish Language eLearning Center to ensure Spanish speaking residents can access its stress management and mental health supports during and after the pandemic.
This grant was made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.