Grant Partners

Tufts University’s Center for Black Maternal Health & Reproductive Justice will create a digital toolkit to assist doulas with the MassHealth enrollment process and improve access to doula services for Black and Brown pregnant people. 

Boston Center for Independent Living (BCIL) advocates with and for people with disabilities. BCIL is an influential leader in the statewide independent living movement. Its delivery of independent living services enables participants to raise issues of personal and systematic interests that BCIL folds into its policy and advocacy agenda.

Martha’s Vineyard Community Services will create a co-responder pilot program to address the lack of behavioral health care access for island residents, who typically engage with mental health and substance use services only through 911 calls to police.  The new program will link a qualified behavioral health clinician with local law enforcement to create a pathway to community-based services, diverting residents from detainment, arrest, or transport to the hospital emergency department.

Propa City Community Outreach will provide its services focused on perinatal health education and peer support to Boston’s communities of color who are dealing with pregnancy loss. 

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.