Grant Partners

Mass Senior Action Council (MSAC) is a member-led organization and is the only organization in Massachusetts that informs, engages, and empowers low-income seniors from diverse communities to have direct input in shaping the Commonwealth's health policy decisions. Through its structure and programs, diverse communities of seniors with lower income are empowered with information, skills, and organizational capacity to have a strong voice on key healthcare and other public policy issues that affect their lives.

Quincy Asian Resources, Inc’s (QARI) mission is to foster and improve the social, cultural, economic, and civic lives of immigrants and their families in order to benefit their communities. QARI will provide the Life Balance program (the organization’s PM+ intervention program); increase staff members' knowledge, comfort, and confidence in discussing mental health and delivering Life Balance to members of the community and hold events to educate community members about the availability of the program.

Funding to improve and enhance technology capabilities, increase staff capacity to use electronic medical records, and share and capture information during client visits at various locations.

Funding to explore possibilities of making Everyday Boston’s Curiosity and Connections Workshop into a tool to address medical mistrust and enhance health equity in healthcare settings. This will include funding for development and creation of a planning committee and facilitator to lead the process. 

Insurance Resource Center for Autism and Behavioral Health, a program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester,  will expand their Certified Application Counselor capacity to meet the needs of the families and communities they serve with a special emphasis on adding services in Vietnamese.

Health Law Advocates is a leading advocacy organization that combines legal expertise with community outreach, education, and policy reform to advance healthcare access. It identifies trends and policy opportunities by handling individual cases, which they translate into statewide policy development and advocacy.

This grant funded the development and implementation of CHIA's 2025 Massachusetts Health Information Survey (MHIS). The funding provided to this organization enabled them to maintain the same survey design and sample size targets as in prior years, enabling continued longitudinal analysis of the health insurance coverage and care experience in Massachusetts.  

Family Health Center of Worcester will continue its “OB Advocate” program that provides an advocate, who is trained as a doula, to a patient from pregnancy to two years following birth. 

Funding for technology upgrades to improve interpretation services to better meet the needs of clients who speak an array of languages and to improve the quality of service. 

Funding to launch the Menstrual Access Advocacy Project, which promotes menstrual equity by increasing access to menstrual hygiene products, breaking down barriers for menstruating people, and raising awareness about ‘Period Poverty’ within the community. 

Funding for training manuals and supplies adapt and implement teen Mental Health First Aid at Waltham’s alternative high school, increasing mental health capacity resources at the school.

Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts will support newly arrived Haitian migrant families with babies and young children living in emergency shelters in Boston, connecting them to vital resources such as well-child visits, diapers, playgroups, and developmental screenings. 

Partners In Health (PIH)’s mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. PIH strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair. PIH has significant experience implementing Problem Management Plus (PM+), a psychological intervention developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that non-specialists can deliver to address common mental health conditions in people affected by adversity. PIH adapted PM+ through a cross-site process and piloted it in Rwanda, Peru, Mexico, and Malawi from 2016 to 2021, and it continues to be delivered across all these settings. As part of Advancing Community-Driven Mental Health grant program, PIH will provide technical assistance to the grant partners and will provide project management for the three-year grant program.

Funding for the organization to work with UpMetrics to build better programmatic outcomes by collecting and using data to measure, improve, and report on their impact.

Funding to build the organization’s fundraising capacity to support the long-term growth of the organization to support hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families, and individuals.