Grant Partners

It Takes a Village

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Berkshire County
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to translate digital and print resources to languages spoken by their clients: Spanish, Haitian Creole, Russian, Ukrainian, Pashto, Urdu, and Arabic. This investment will strengthen capacity to provide culturally respectful care and create a more welcoming environment.

Gardner CAC (Community Action Committee)

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,298
Worcester
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding for two Instant Language Assistant (ILA) devices as well as software to allow more electronic communications in multiple languages to meet the surge of non-English speaking clients. These devices will provide real-time translation support to serve and provide resources to multilingual clients.

Wakefield Alliance Against Violence

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Middlesex County
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to create a strategic plan to help prepare the organization to grow and expand their capacity to meet the needs of their clients. 

Everyday Boston

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Suffolk County
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

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. 

Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center, Inc.

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Worcester County
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to overhaul the website to make it ADA and mobile compliant to help increase access to services.

The Tomato Fairy

Year: 2024
Amount:$3,800
Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester Counties
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to purchase equipment to print and distribute materials to increase organization’s efficiency and efforts to address food insecurity.

YWCA Southeastern Massachusetts

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Bristol County
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

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. 

Jeff's Place

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester Counties
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

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. 

Waltham Partnership for Youth

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Middlesex County
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

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.

Digger Foods

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Bristol, Plymouth Counties
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to build a new ordering platform that will allow customers to have more options about what fruits and vegetables will be in each delivery, and to decrease food waste.

Asian American Civic Association

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Statewide
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

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. 

2Gether We Eat, Inc.

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Worcester
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to bolster outreach and community engagement to increase awareness of services and to strengthen partnerships. This support will focus on reaching communities of color and community with low-income in Worcester’s urban core.

Pinnacle Partnerships Corp

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,500
Statewide
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding requested to elevate the organization’s digital and social media presence to effectively communicate with the community and break the stigma surrounding mental health conversations for families raising youth with mental health needs by ensuring they have access to care, community, and resources.

Olga’s List, Inc.

Year: 2024
Amount:$7,475
Statewide
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding to start a trauma-informed support group for Ukrainian refugees facing post-traumatic stress disorders. 

Centre Street Food Pantry

Year: 2024
Amount:$5,029
Middlesex, Norfolk
Program Area: Catalyst Fund

Funding requested to upgrade the organization’s technology infrastructure that will enable the pantry to serve more constituents and improve members access to healthy foods.