Our Grants
Funding Stream
Social Determinants of Health
Region
LifePath
Healthy Aging for All: Supporting Older Adult Networks to Build Age-Friendly Systems and Policy
LifePath will support existing networks of older people, professionals, and community members who care about healthy aging to build capacity to tackle major barriers around housing, transportation, social isolation, and access to services in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region.
2020-2023
Western
Franklin Regional Council of Governments
Franklin County/North Quabbin Community Health Improvement Plan Network
FRCOG is facilitating a broad Community Health Improvement Plan Network in the 30-town Franklin County and North Quabbin region. CHIP infrastructure includes convening a Steering Committee and working groups which will guide the CHIP 2.0 spanning 2021-2023.
2020-2024
Western
Town of Ware
Working Together for a Healthier Quaboag Hills Region
The Town of Ware is implementing a multi-sector partnership comprised of individuals with lived experience, community agencies/service providers, and a cluster of municipalities to plan and conduct a CHIP process in the Quaboag Hills region of central and western Massachusetts, spanning 17 municipalities in three counties. The purpose is to provide data that reflect this unique region comprised of outlying communities in three counties. The CHIP process and data will better describe the needs of the Quaboag region.
2020-2025
Western
Town of Randolph
Randolph Community Wellness Plan Implementation
Randolph Health Department and Planning Departments are partnering with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council to implement the Randolph Community Wellness which is focused on social, built and environmental determinants of Health. The implementation work will also include sustaining the plan's Steering Committee, facilitation and actions by a set of working groups, monitoring and evaluation of implementation tasks, and ongoing engagement with town residents and community-based organizations.
2020-2025
Metro West
Outer Cape Community Solutions
Addressing Rural Health Inequities through Collaborative Networking Solutions
Outer Cape Community Solutions(OCCS) rural health network addresses root causes of health inequities across the Outer Cape towns of Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, and Eastham. The network collectively and actively identifies health needs in the four Outer Cape towns and work to address these needs through an upstream collaborative process. OCCS will utilize its cross-sector rural health network structure to support various initiatives across the full network and within its work groups—including Transportation, Food Access, Opioid Remediation, and Local Health Department Collaboration to implement strategies that address community—identified challenges and goals.
2024-2029
Southeast
UTEC
Chipping Away at Barriers to Health Faced by Young Adults Involved with Gangs or Returning from Incarceration
UTEC will look to expand its efforts to break down structural and institutional barriers to health, faced by young adults who are involved with gangs or returning from incarceration. Specifically, they will pursue changes that provide a clean slate for young adults with a past criminal record; advocate for changes in the distribution of resources that are necessary to form a viable financial path from incarceration to stable employment; and foster community organizing and leadership skills so that young adults can create change in their own communities.
2022-2027
Northeast
Community Health Network for North Central Mass (CHNA 9)
North Central Mass CHIP 2025: Planning for Sustained Growth
CHNA 9 is in the process of planning its next CHIP to begin in 2021. The coalition will undergo sustainability and infrastructure planning to support the CHIP, in addition to developing a communication plan, community engagement strategies, fundraising/development strategies, a policy and legislative action plan, and CHIP leadership development.
2020-2025
Central
United Way of Massachusetts Bay
United Way's DRIVE: Advancing Equitable Developmental Screening and Referral Practices Across Communities
United Way's DRIVE works for equitable access to developmental screening and indicated referrals by providing training, technical assistance, and access to aggregate data, built on the inclusion of community partner and parent leader voices to ensure responsivitity to the needs of community. DRIVE seeks to ensure that all resources are available to all families of young children—for all children to grow and thrive developmentally to enter school ready to learn and grow, and for all families to thrive as well.
2024-2027
Northeast
City of New Bedford Health Department
Health Equity for ALl THroughout New Bedford (HEALTH NB)
The City of New Bedford Health Department is building a diverse and equitable collaborative with the purpose of closely examining the city's Community Health Improvement Plan to ensure all populations are represented in an equitable manner. Through the review of archival and actively collected data the collaborative will be working to create a report of recommendations and action steps to improve the CHIP.
2020-2025
Southeast
City of Lawrence & The Mayor’s Health Task Force
Building and Inclusive and Effective Community Health Improvement Plan
The City of Lawrence participates in the triennial Community Health Needs Assessment done by the hospital and community Health Center. In an effort to deepen community engagement in the implementation process, the City of Lawrence in partnership with UMass Lowell and other community-based partners, will embark on a CHIP, focused on race and health equity, to strategically complement partner efforts to affect change in the health and well-being of those most significantly impacted by compromised social determinants of health.
2022-2027
Northeast