Our Grants

Funding Stream

Social Determinants of Health

Region

South Asian Worker’s Center-Boston

Cultivating Cultural Roots for Healthy Aging Through Community-Led Social Sanctuary Gardens

South Asian Workers Center is funded for five years to enact systems-level intervention that rethinks how Greater Boston
delivers mental health support, aging services, and community care to the women who need it most. The gardens are the entry point. The goal is permanent structural change—in policies, in institutions, and in whose voice shapes the decisions.

2026-2031

Southeast

Groundwork Southcoast

Advancing Maternal Health Equity Through Integrated Community Care

Groundwork Southcoast is funded for two years to develop a comprehensive five-year strategic plan for the North End Resilience District in New Bedford that advances public health through equitable district-wide food access via community-led and supported systems and environmental change placemaking. This project will create a district-wide roadmap that integrates food systems into addressing heat island impacts and other environmental factors that lead to greater health disparities.

2026-2028

Northeast

Worcester RISE for Health

Advancing Maternal Health Equity Through Integrated Community Care

Worcester Refugee and Immigrant Support and Empowerment for Health (RISE) is funded for five years to implement Advancing Maternal Health Equity Through Integrated Community Care, advancing policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes addressing structural barriers to maternal healthcare among refugee and immigrant communities in Worcester, Massachusetts.

2026-2031

Central

The Marion Institute, Inc.

Supporting Collaborative Action to Build Food Security in Southeastern MA

The Marion Institute is funded for five years to transform the Southcoast Food Policy Council into a regional, community-driven Food Policy Council that empowers residents and partner organizations across Southeastern MA to build equitable, resilient food systems and advance food and nutrition security. This initiative will address health inequities driven by unequal access to nutritious food that disproportionately impacts low-income communities, communities of color, older adults, and rural residents.

2026-2031

Southeast

Old Colony Planning Council

Healthy Housing, Healthy Aging: A Regional Housing Policy and Zoning Initiative

Old Colony Planning Council (OCPC) is funded for three years to launch Healthy Housing, Healthy Aging: A Regional Housing Policy and Zoning Initiative. Through coordinated regional planning, resident-driven engagement, zoning reform, and municipal systems change, the initiative will address housing instability, exclusionary land use, displacement risk, and barriers to aging in place as core public health issues.

2026-2029

MetroWest, Southeast, Boston

Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund

Building Tenant Power for Equitable Housing Systems in Massachusetts Gateway Cities

Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N) is funded for five years to build tenant power and win four local community-driven housing justice policy campaigns in strategic Massachusetts Gateway Cities and one statewide policy. Through deep canvassing, leadership development, and strategic organizing, this initiative will build the political power of working-class residents, communities of color, and immigrant communities to transform local housing systems and advance equitable housing policy.

2026-2031

Southeast

Merrimack Valley Project

Building Intergenerational Organizing for Health Equity in the Merrimack Valley

Merrimack Valley Project (MVP) is funded for five years to expand our grassroots relational organizing, leadership development, and policy advocacy across Greater Lawrence, Lowell, and Haverhill with the goal of winning concrete policy, systems, and environmental changes that address the root causes of racial and health inequity for workingclass and immigrant families in the Merrimack Valley.

2026-2031

Northeast, Western, Central

Massachusetts Public Health Association

Public Health Not Corporate Wealth: Strengthening BIPOC Community Power to Defeat Toxic Infrastructure in Western Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Public Health Alliance (MPHA), alongside established grassroots partners Springfield No One Leaves (SNOL) and ARISE for Social Justice (ASJ), is funded for five years to strengthen the Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) leadership in the Springfield Climate Justice Coalition (SCJC), to grow connections between urban and rural communities across Western Massachusetts to build power for environmental justice (EJ), and to ensure Western Massachusetts EJ priorities are centered in statewide policy.

2026-2031

Northeast

Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance (MHSA)

Supportive Housing is Health Care

The Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance (MHSA) is funded for five years for a new initiative – Supportive Housing is Health Care (SHHC). SHHC seeks to drive innovative policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes that reimagine how supportive housing is integrated with health care to end chronic homelessness.

2026-2031

Western

Massachusetts Food System Collaborative

Shifting Power and Facilitating Community-Driven PSE Change Statewide with Local Food Policy Councils

The Massachusetts Food System Collaborative (MAFSC) facilitates collective action to build an equitable, sustainable, resilient, and connected local food system. In partnership with the Local Food Policy Council Network, MAFSC is funded for 5 years to strengthen statewide capacity to facilitate community-driven PSE change that promotes food access and health equity. We will implement 3 interconnected activities; Storytelling/Community Leadership Projects, LFPC Network Capacity Building, Coordinated State and Local Organizing and Advocacy.

2026-2031

Statewide